my new circle of spores druid willow!! she's going to be in a campaign my friend is running and i'm very excited to play her and meet all my friends characters :33
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so i finally caught up w/ recent news about winx reboot and decided to art dump all winx (or black circle) drawings i did. all of them r like... 8 months old? maybe more.
i have more but the rest r unfinished. prob gonna finish them just in time for 1st episode of the reboot lmao
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Dethvanity is really funny to me conceptually as an episode because you can see how little they had to make the characters insecure about for the bit. They swing for obvious lowblow choices with Pickle' baldness and Nathan's weight and even those require some suspension of disbelief because ok. Sure. Nathan '(said extremely proudly) never skipped a meal in my life!' Explosion is insecure about being a big man now. Nathan *guy who everyone thinks is smoking hot 99% of the time* Explosion is a tiny bit larger than usual and is insecure about it now. Lol. Lmao even.
But anyway then we hit Skwisgaar and Toki and there's like NOTHING to swing for, you can see them going uhhh ok Skwis doesn't sleep he probably drinks a lot of coffee, and Toki? Shit, what does Toki have to be insecure about with his looks. He's perfect, he's adorable, he's ripped. Um. FUCK IT, HE'S DOING NOTHING BUT EATING LEMONS. WE GOT NOTHING, WE GOT NOTHING, JUST GIVE THE BOY CITRUS FRUITS.
WOE 🍋 BE UPON YE
I'm sure i could make some smarter points about the attempts at applying vanity in this ep and how outside of this and a few other moments i do actually like that the show rarely takes pot shots at things like Nathan's weight, but you see Nathan has shirtless scenes in this one and so my intelligence is impeded when all the blood rushes out of my head and into my-
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crowley and aziraphale bond through humanity. they are -- should be -- fundamentally, diametrically opposed on all things relating to the divine plan. (they aren’t, really, though aziraphale would say they are.) the drinking, the bookshop, arguing about what’s moral or holy, are all things that demons and angels do as affectations of human life. but crowley and aziraphale live the experiences of humanity. and so there is nothing ambiguous about what they share, as long as what they share is human. a brunch at the ritz can’t be dressed up as something else -- sharing food between two divine beings is collaboration, plain and simple, whether it is beelzebub and gabriel or crowley and aziraphale. demons, angels, all these beings don’t have to feel things in the way that humans do. they don’t have to express love as humans do. it doesn’t have to come down to getting wet and staring into each other’s eyes and vavoom, kiss, all done. love can be something different, divine, unutterable. but in a last-ditch moment, a pure act of desperation, crowley kisses aziraphale. the devotion is not new, the partnership is not new, but it is a declaration all the same, a statement that aziraphale cannot misinterpret: there is nothing ineffable between us. we don’t need to do this the way humans do, crass and tactile and unmistakable. but i will. if you won’t listen to me on divine grounds i will declare it to you on human ones. a kiss is undeniable. it shifts the tone from theoretical, theological, to something intimate. they could have been partners. they could have been a team. this, this romance -- this is what they could have, as plain as it appears.
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honestly, episodes like this that are so stellar in almost every way just make it all the more frustrating when bones fucks up so bad other times. Like the quality of season 4 has probably been the most consistently good the anime has been since season 2, and yet the entire series still on average just reeks of tonal issues, pacing issues, wonky expressions that don’t do Harukawa’s art justice, cutting of crucial scenes or internal dialogue, and straight-up just completely missing the point and nuances of so many moments in the manga/light novels.
BSD has always been dark and gritty to an extent, but the anime has always been too “fluffy” (for lack of a better word, or I guess shounen-y) to truly understand and capture that, and it’s so frustrating when episodes like this one and Mushitarou’s episodes clearly DID have a lot of love and understanding and attention to detail put into them. Even the Dark Era episodes, which is my favorite and what I consider to be the best story content in the entire franchise, are imo honestly outclassed by the aforementioned episodes purely in terms of adaptation. But then episode 6 this season was incredibly rushed, and Dazai’s arrest scene completely butchered (and Nikolai’s bird speech, to an extent). Atsushi hallucinating Dazai in episode 8 was mediocre as well. Kunikida always has his core character moments shafted. Dazai is never allowed to be vulnerable or “uncool”. Season 3 had “Portrait of a Father” aka arguably one of the most important and most powerful chapters in the entire manga up there with Yosano’s backstory chapters, and yet it’s absolutely the most pathetic, hollow shell of an “adaptation” I’ve ever seen in my life and yes I WILL forever be salty about it.
But then they pull an episode like this out of their asses, where they actually tried. It’s so frustrating. </3
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do u only use mal, or are there others?
I basically only use mal for anime+manga so I can keep all my schtuff in one place. I don't really interact with the userbase on there though cause it's notoriously stupid (though there are exceptions) I also haven't written much reviews on there yet but I plan to change that
For other stuff besides that I use letterboxd, backloggd, mydramalist and myfigurecollection :)
EDIT; probably should've mentioned this immediately but I'm NyanFishy on mal & mdl and applescabs on mfc, lbd & bld :)
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omg omg omg your first winter, im so interested to hear your thoughts. also im so excited to hear about your fall in new england since i heard fall is pretty there. i feel like my kindergator kindergarden kindergaden kindergarden how do you spell it. ok i looked it up kindergarten. i feel like my kindergartner is going on a field trip for the first time and im second hand excited for them
road i love you so much but this ask made me feel like i was having a stroke hsfdjssk
fall so far has been gorgeous!!! apparently the leaves aren’t as impressive as they usually are which is mind boggling bc this is already so incredible to me. the weather is a bit chillier than I’d like, mainly bc i brought like two jackets with me and it’s getting awkward wearing them every day. but i do like this weather rn. im just not excited for more rain and for it to get colder than this. it’s funny how new england fall weather is straight up california winter weather
i wish i had photos of the leaves but all the pretty trees i see are when i’m driving :/ i had to drive 30-40 mins today to a clinical site for school and i was on a sizable highway but it felt like i was driving through a forest and the trees were absolutely stunning. i miss being a passenger princess and taking car photos :(
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