#is htis a meta

[420technoblazeit]

You're like a clone of Roxy Lalonde, but specifically a clone of Roxy Lalonde that had Karkat and Dave as their parents. Like, they obviously picked up a lot of mannerisms from their folks but are slightly more chill.

htis is the second time someone's kin assigned me davekat lovechild. is it the the general over the top shenanigans interspersed wiht wildly specific curses adn supernatural meta posts??? probably. i havent even met roxy lalonde yet

[444namesplus]

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[secondhoekage]

Ignore this long rant I’m high as shit but I... can’t take the hero commission oR HONESTLY THE HEROES THEMSELVES, seriously anymore

They’re BRAINLESS they all share one (1) brain cell and it belonged to Crust. THESE GUYS had MONTHS to strategize this attack and what did they do? They fucked it up. They want me to believe this was planned and not written on a chalk board the night before? Sent out to all heroes the next morning at 8am in a CHAIN EMAIL?

Unpopular opinion(?): they sent the worst possible, ill-suited heroes to each location for this PLF raid and I’m mad at them for it and I’m mad at Hori for making me be mad at it even tho he had to do it beCauSe oF pLot but I’m mad.

The MLA’s plans to take on The League of Villains? Spotless. Chef’s kiss. The detail. The one-on-one counters they planned out. Accounting for each enemy’s quirk. Yeah there were like 6 of them to account for but?? Heroes, yall had enough info and enough time to think of ways to go about this raid and I’m supposed to believe that you did, BUT DID YOU REALLY? MONTHS TO PLAN, and saw one electric Sir Crocodile rip-off and immediately threw Kaminari on his ass. Good move. Kinda. But the rest of the PLF? Heroes just gonna make shit up as they go I guess?? 

To make myself feel better here’s a long ass useless rant on what could’ve damn happened and which heroes should’ve gone where and to make this an epic ass rumble. ugh. Even just doing some of these things would’ve made this arc (imo) feel more... convincing and delicious

under the cut tho bc damn this is too long

In this essay I will—

Edgeshot??? EDGESHOT??    EDGESHOT?? i’M GOING TO GO OFF. 

I swear to shit Edgeshot could’ve soloed the hospital but they had him at the PLF mansion for Some Reason like... like they didn’t make him run up on the League’s bar instead of the Nomu factory bc they knew he would take care of shit immediately. Make it make sense. If he was at the hospital eye just—Nomu in the way?? Doctor running off? Say less. Electric slide all the way in there Shinya. DID NO ONE SEE HOW EASILY HE HANDLED KUROGIRI? Did everyone just forget this man can pull a K.O in .3 seconds flat? Heroes didn’t think it might be a good idea to have him there, ready to give Shigaraki the paper cut of his life the second he woke up (if he even did bc my mans likely could’ve prevented the ‘doctor getting away>high-end awaken>rush to get shiggy out of the tank>shiggy wakes up’ chain of events)? Didn’t think to send him instead of this guy X Less just sitting there with That Look on his face? 

I get they needed heroes like Edgeshot at the mansion to take out a handful of enemies in one go but COME ON NOW. There were more than enough long-range AOE heroes there. And even if you don’t wanna believe he could solo then STILL, EDGESHOT DUOING WITH MIRUKO, ANYBODY? If anyone was gonna keep up with her happy ass zooming into the lab it could’ve been him. We were robbed of an Edgeshot/Miruko teamup and I’m not okay. Could’ve had a sexy ass panel of the hospital-team hyping up Miruko and Edgeshot as they dashed to Ujiko’s lab, two fast as shit bad bitches, zooming through these Nomu, absolutely obliterating them at lightning speed, watching each other’s backs too, PROBABLY SAVING MIRUKO FROM BECOMING THE PRE-DEATH ORGAN DONOR THAT SHE IS NOW. I know it was hot watching Miruko take on these high-ends but I’d have rather Edgeshot share the spotlight if it meant Miruko was in one piece rn. Hori played her

Anyways the literal dumb bitch energy that went into not sending Edgeshot to the hospital is sending me. Could’ve at least let him just be on the team and on standby while Shigaraki was waking up. With those sharp as shit reflexes of his we’ve seen? Shigaraki would’ve been out like a fucking light the second Edgeshot saw him sit up. X-Less you had a nice thicc upper lip that lip was too shaded for you to die, but F in the chat bitch. Useless plot fodder I’m sorry X-Less. There isn’t a hero there right now (besides Aizawa but like... idk, plot is nerfing him) that could’ve incapacitated Shiggy so quickly and prevented the mess they’re in now like my guy Edgeshot could’ve. Feels like a cop out

In conclusion: Edgeshot sweety I’m sorry they did this. I’m sorry you were nerfed. I’m sorry they didn’t let you deliver Kamino Pizza to this hospital. I’m sorry they ignored you and now everyone’s gonna die bc they didn’t they respect your Ninpo rights

CEMENTOSS??? y’all sent him to fuck up the mansion FOR WHAT??? If I were the hero commission and thought :

“Dang we need to completely ass blast this huge PLF resort to make room for our heroes to run in... but it would also be good if we had someone to do that at the hospital too just in case things get tricky and we need to pave a quick way to Ujiko’s secret hideout... but I’m single-celled and can’t weigh my options logically so ok. Cementoss, to the mansion.”

...................... Ok but can I in interest you in PIXIE BOB? I get the mansion is huge but going by the shit we’ve seen her do?? I’m not about to underestimate ol’ girl. I know she could’ve fucked that place up if they let her, switched her out for Cementoss, who could’ve made THE EASIEST route for the hospital team to get into the secret lab, trapped Ujiko, also trapped a couple nomu/high-ends in cement while he was at it, rearranged some tunnels for optimal tactical movement, probably could’ve done a decent-fucking-job at slowing the onslaught of Decay too if it got to that point (AND IT MIGHT NOT HAVE BC THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS RANT IS TO INSIST THAT A BETTER SELECTION OF HEROES WOULDN’T HAVE RESULTED IN SHIGGY’S CURRENT THANOS SNAP ORdEAL)

I know Pixie’s mostly on rescue operations and that’s what she’s doing at the hospital/surrounding city but WHY?? EVEN IF THEY REALLY NEEDED CEMENTOSS AT THE MANSION—WHY NOT HAVE PIXIE BOB DOING SOMETHING IN THE ACTUAL HOSPITAL BATTLE? JUST A LITTLE? The hospital is built on uh.. oh yeah... EARTH? And considering in the Forest Training arc she was using her quirk from a remote location (to make that Earth golem, or whatever) she wouldn’t even HAVE to be IN Ujiko’s lab to be useful

Can y’all PLEASE put at least ONE of your terraforming heroes at the place where y’all REALLY need them?? And not after-the-fact like y’all just did with Pixie Bob? Because clearly she didn’t do shit this last chapter trying to stop Decay. I’m sorry girl. You may be dead. Terrible.

I would have legitimately sent Snipe to get Ujiko before I sent Miruko and that’s that on that. Where is he even? He was there during the briefing but he’s gone? MIA? Idk. No way Ujiko is getting away from those bullets. Target locked: Ujiko’s hand. Fire. High-end Nomu remote goes bye bye. Then another bullet in the leg. No need to worry about him escaping and waking up high-ends/Shiggy when he doesn’t have kneecaps. Problem solved. No way it would’ve taken that long to break Shiggy’s tank either with a few well-placed pew pews zigging around some Nomu (not that we really wanna break him outta his tank bc look what happened). Snipe’s 6/5 technique stat deserves better!!!!!

Gang Orca did not go off and give a bunch of kids brain damage during the License arc to be so thoroughly ignored here. He’s clearly about to get his shit rocked by some gauged-out ex-Hot Topic employee in the next few chapters and ugh you’re TOO GOOD FOR THAT ORCA. COULD’VE BEEN OF USE AT THE HOSPITAL. PARALYZING SONIC WAVES? WE’LL TAKE IT. Who knows if any of the high-end Nomu would’ve been affected by paralysis but the small fry? Probably. Shiggy’s little twink ass? I would bet on it. Not that it would really stop him from using Decay but still

At the risk of sounding like someone I know who endorses child labor (the hero commission) here me out: CAN I GET A UHHH JUZO HONENUKI??? AGAIN YEAH good that he was at the mansion to do some long-range AOE action but if y’all are gonna force kids to join in on this war anyways, put your strongest and most useful ones at the place you need them. Shit it would’ve been real nice if Honenuki was there to trap some Nomu—uncertain if it would work against the high-ends that show some pretty flexible quirks but who knows—and even at the risk of reaching, maybe in some universe where Shiggy and Honenuki face off, it would be interesting to see Decay against Softening, since Decay’s one big weakness is that it can only work on solid objects sooOooOo? Idk. Would’ve been a cool match up but I hate that the kids are fighting anyways so we’re gonna ignore this Juzo rant. Just know it would’ve been cool

And as for the mess that’s going to be this fucking mansion soon... .. We’re just gonna ignore a whole ass Geten, big destructive power, big fucking threat, and not gonna throw Endeavor’s ass in there? Makes sense. They’re leaving it to Shoto I guess. They said time for you to fucking shine kid. Get in there. I mean really trading Endeavor for Edgeshot would’ve been top tier strategy but...

I MEAN THEY?? Made up a whole ass plan to counter ONE greasy-looking PLF guy by throwing Kaminari in there, but they couldn’t make up a plan to counter Geten? Are they just?? Pulling names out of a hat to see who gets to fight who? Did they spin a bottle to see who it landed on? Did Mt. Lady pull the short stick? I swear on shit when Geten starts going feral soon I’m not gonna feel sorry about it. Unless heroes got a plan and someone’s gonna make a sexy ass top 10 anime entrances to counter his ice then I’m disappointed. We went ape shit over Kaminari countering one of the commanders but are we not gonna get anymore ‘I’m your perfect counter and I’m here to stop you’ moments? No? I’M PISSED. 

I would have also settled for my kween Nejire being there to blast away some ice because who tf else is gonna do it? But eh. 

Dabi will also be trouble depending on what he decides to do. He only has about 3 good ideas a month and he’s used them all up by now so he’s in dumb slut territory as we speak. But you’d think that a villain as widely recognized as Dabi with such a destructive quirk would urge the heroes to have some plan to take him on but?? So far I don’t really see anyone quick to take on the role. Not that it’d be that hard bc he’s dangerous but also dangerously dumb. Where is Inasa. Maybe he can just blast the flames back in Dabi’s face. I love him but at this point he deserves to have some of his rights taken away

Don’t even get me start on Gigantomachia. I get the heroes had little choice except to attack before Shiggy was full-power but just?? NOT having a plan in case by some little chance Gigantomachia DID wake up? You stupid bastards. You absolute fools. I guess there’s not much you CAN do but FUCK y’all just gonna let him SIT THERE? No counter measures? No ‘Let’s execute this incredibly thorough and thought-out plan we’ve spent months formulating to restrain Gigantomachia in case he does end up waking up, because better safe than sorry’? When he tramples like 50 students I bet that shit gonna hurt

I hate it all. I was really happy about seeing Shiggy go off 272 bc he’s a king but after rereading from like, 258 I feel... weird. Maybe this will be resolved with more chapters but. eh. Now that I’ve thought of this, I can’t go back. I miss the brain power that was behind the MLA fight

[cupcraft]

I think looking back on it (even me when I first saw it) people misunderstood why c!Wilbur made c!tommy dig for rocks.

c!Wilbur never had any intention of using those rocks, doing really anything at all, sure he felt great to be alive and not in Limbo but he had no plans in life. His life was supposed to end the 16th. Here's a man who never wanted to lead, who felt like the only reason people stuck around him was because of his leadership and plans and words and etc which couldn't be further from the truth, esp c!tommy. So he gave c!tommy tasks, plans, conflict, he did a grand gesture to "defeat cdream for his tyranny and taking of freedom" via the discs once more. None of which is what c!tommy wanted, or why he stuck by cwilbur or loved him. And none of which c!wilbur enjoyed, because he hates leading and being this Figure, and he also had no intentions of any plans other than to leave the SMP. The rocks went to no builds/no true nation against Las Nevadas because it was never meant to. c!Wilbur probably also did the rock task/plus other things to keep c!Tommy as distracted and far away from him as possible, because as you recall c!Wilbur didn't have the courage to ever say goodbye to c!Tommy or give him that closure. There's a reason he apologized to everyone else before c!Tommy and why he avoided it so long. And why there were times c!tommy would say "i haven't seen him in a while" while he was on the same ddamn server with like 0 surival skills or tools (so he couldn't have gone far!). There's a reason c!Wilbur said he never cared about LManberg and he was just using people, the greatest lie he ever told.

People used to see that rock task as "proof" cwilbur was "using" tommy, that he never cared about him, and that can't be further from the truth. c!Wilbur did wht he thought people wanted of him, including c!tommy, and he avoided admitting for a long time since his revival that he wanted to leave. And that's what makes the goodbye so much more narratively beautiful. It's what makes c!wilbur and c!tommy having time apart that much more important, with the promise this time they'll see each other again.

(With the idea c!wilbur will forgive himself too.)

[abluescarfonwaston]

I think Miles may also have a slight co-dependency issue. He clung so tightly to his father, imitated his actions, wanted the same career. Once he lost his father, he reached toward von Karma the same way. When he lost von Karma, he was lost entirely, which is why I believe he left.

*Presents Adrien Andrews on a pedestal* YEP. YEP ANON. CANT GET MORE NARRATIVELY EXPLICIT THAN EDGEWORTH SAYING 'she co-dependent on her mentor and when she lost her mentor she lost herself. Also I hate her. I'm Definitely not projecting. Nope.'

I can't speak to co-dependency as an actual issue (i'm not versed in it at all) but the story is pretty explicit that that's what happened with Miles and Von Karma. I mean you lose everything and everyone you knew and get dropped in a country that doesn't even speak your language and he purposefully manipulates you into relying on him completely? Makes sure to cut off your support and turn them against you as best he can? (no forwarding address for Phoenix. Manipulating Franziska into seeing him as a rival first)

And maybe Miles was a bit co-dependent on his father. (although to some degree that sounds like being a kid when you've got one really great parent.) I think he would have grown out of it with the support of Larry and Phoenix. Because he had other people. Friends!

It's the paper crane story all over again isn't it? Miles suffered from perfectionism before. Von Karma made no new fault lines in Miles Edgeworth. Only widened the ones that already existed. Preyed on the weakness in his heart.

Which is why, ultimately, Von Karma fails. He could only prey on weakness that already existed. Spin him round until he couldn't tell up from down. But he couldn't change him. Not really.

'Miles Edgeworth always admits his guilt.' (preyed on it yes. But couldn't undo it.) Couldn't change his desire for justice. (Twisted it yes. He needed to be guided back to the light.) His love for his father. (Always second rate. Just like his Father.)

So yes. Miles was co-dependent on Von Karma. Perhaps he was with Gregory too. Isn't that what aai2 is all about? It provides such a stunning example of how Edgeworth has grown in the last few years. Raymond wants him to be Gregory. Everyone is haunted by their parents legacy. And Edgeworth says no. I am not Gregory and I am not Von Karma.

I am not my father or the man that raised me. I am me. And I am here because I want to be. Because I choose to be. I choose this path. (And I will discard it if it no longer suits me.)

That would have made Gregory happiest of all.

[phantomthiefjeanne]

Hot Meta Take: For all its flaws, you can’t deny that The Gentlemen’s Alliance Cross/Shinshi Doumei Cross is really well-plotted and -paced.

The 1st chapter is WEIRD. You’re immediately thrown into this high school setting that’s so out there it’s practically otherworldly; they make the hierarchies in Hana Yori Dango seem tame and realistic. The main character randomly yells ‘you should fall in love with me!’ to the male lead before these few introductory pages are even over, and though her feelings have been pretty clear thus far, it’s a pretty high emotional jumping point to start a 12 volume romance at. How did we get here, for the little details that we’re given about her and Shizumasa’s history to mean so much to her? The immediate answers that we’re given in these first chapters seem shallow at best and nonsensical at worse amidst all of Haine’s screentone-heavy monologuing over her immediate, fluttery feeeeelings rather than the rationales justifying them.

But then!!!

But then, more complex answers are drawn out, and these answers always come at a strategically impactful time. A point that still stays with me after all this time is Haine later explaining that her out of the blue confession in that first chapter was spurned out of a ‘wager’ she’d made with herself: if she found ‘Shizumasa’ in the hanging gardens after all, as the closest match around to the magical garden he’d written about as a child, it meant that he was still the boy whose writing she fell in love with way back when. Her desperate-seeming confession morphs into the second line of a reciprocal couplet, the answer to the riddle Takanari had inadvertently sent out to the world when he’d mentioned the Garden (as if he was waiting there for this response, like a princess in a tower), so that her boldness no longer comes off as one-sided as it originally did. Obviously, it was never one-sided on actual-Shizumasa’s part, since he did explicitly tell her to come find him after all. But now we have Takanari, being returned feelings that he didn’t realize he’d had in the first place.

(And I can write a whole book on how, while Haine is presented as the Cinderella of the story, we see here that it’s actually Takanari who’s put on a disguise to charm a prince(ss) before the clock strikes midnight. The picture book and the garden are his glass slippers, letting Haine trace her feelings back to him, so that she can see past the evil stepbrother twin, Shizumasa, trying to step into Takanari’s shoes. Through the picture book, and the garden wager, she’s able to find the right one after all; it just took a few extra years of searching after the ball.)

Through elaborations like this one, or the “Can I fall in love with you?” flashback to Shizumasa we get elsewhere too, Haine’s cutesy confession becomes deeper, and less of a throwaway line, strengthening Haine as a character. Before, you really think she’s just silly/impulsive enough to blurt out her feelings like this, which might be true, but this ‘wager’ really is complex and matches the high EQ Haine herself explicitly states she has. It’s also a huge sucker punch to Takanari at just the right time: for him to realize it was truly HIM, the boy who wrote the storybook, Haine was confessing to all along.

“You should fall in love with me,” Haine said in that first chapter, but it’s only as him AND us readers reflect back on this way later in volume 3 that we actually do fall in love with her: her feelings and even her general personality actually run deeper than this line would initially suggest. A lesser series would have revealed its hand too early and bogged this first chapter down by including Haine’s way convoluted reasoning for this wager, or ultimately explained her original train of thought at a less resonant point in the story.

Withholding information and dramatic flashbacks aren’t necessarily rare occurrences in shoujo or the Asian dramas SDC shares so many of its tropes with a lot of the times these devices are used for evil rather than good, but I think it IS a rare treat to see such an affecting and satisfying payoff, like we do here. No line goes to waste over here at SDC; everything is essential, no matter how ridiculous it all is, and unlike, say, Sakura Hime, it actually pays off later.

[antibadnik-a]

she was all bad - bad nevertheless ------

[heistgoda]

anyway i hope you know that when u write back to my own replies w similar structure it feels like our writing is having an actual conversation and it . .. this is just a post telling u to read serens reply to me goodnight

[latinx-files]

life update: i barely engage in my hobbies its been about 7 years since i started this block i was 14, doing the same way of living except [poorer executive dysfunction, less useful anxiety and some minor chemical dependencies, i dont go on here anymore but i remmeber i used to write these 3 page long meta analysis quicker than my papers and i would just freeze up and for htis magazine i cant even fathom finishing my article

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Hi! Sorry if I'm missing the obvious here, but can you expand more on this piece from your 6x12 costume meta? "this jumper has been put on over the navy blue tee - we can see a slither of the tee in the picture below - between the jumper and the sweats (costume department for the win on little details like these!)" why it's significant the navy tee is under the gray long-sleeved versus if it was just the gray long-sleeved tee?

Hey Nonnie

Sorry this took so long for me to get round to answering.

in answer to your question - you're not necessarily missing the obvious, I live in a costume world so see things like this and it makes me happy - but it might pass over the heads of most people!

Basically what I was trying to say was that this shows the attention to detail that the costume department goes to - keeping that navy tee on Buck - underneath the grey sweater is a piece of continuity work that gives the show depth - it hints at the fact that Buck literally just threw on whatever sweater was nearest, and his shoes and escaped his apartment. It also means that the relevance of the blue shirt remains in play - underneath everything Buck is still feeling like he did when he was just in the blue tee - even if he's hiding it - it plays into everything we've seen since 6x12 as well!

I hope htis makes a bit more sense nonnie but feel fee to come back if you need more info 😎

[popculturebuffet]

Uncle Scrooge by Don Rosa:  The Isle at the Edge of Time (Thank You Comission For Rosie Isla)

Hello all you happy people! Today’s review is a bit special as it’s the result of another review. See I had trouble finding a translation of the subject of last weeks’ mother’s day special, Family Ties. 

No not that one. I have Paramount+. I can watch all the Family Ties I want and that’s a fact that i’m pleased as punch about. 

No it was the story 80 is Prachtig, called Family Ties in the copy used, Della’s first major comics appearance and one that explains what happened to her in the classic continuity, one that clearly served as the foundation for her far more fleshed out 2017 versions personality and backstory. It also had Pinocchio in it for some reason, and spent most of it’s large run time on a meta comedy plot that had nothing to do with the reason anyone wanted to read this story in the first place.

But despite being a vitally important story, it never got an english translation, something that baffled me till I read the story and found cameos of the racist indigenous stereotypes from Peter Pan. In 2014. You may commence booing. Even with how weird the story was I simply couldn’t find the story googling it and the Della tag is too vast and deep to go spelunking in.

So what’s all this have to do? Simple I put out a post last month when neither I nor Kev, who wanted to comission it as part of Moons, Millionares and Mothers, my coverage of all three season 2 Ducktales story arcs, could find a copy and offered a review to whoever found it.  Weeks passed I got nothing.. then in the 11th hour I got a break as the lovely @rosieisla​ found a translation that was on this very site, one she seemed to have helped with. As a result I could do the review and as a man of my word, offered it up despite her clearly having not seen that part of the post and simply having done this to be nice. Still she gladly took up the offer and offered me my pick of two stories: The Carl Barks Story Back to Long Ago or this one. 

As for WHY I picked this one Back To Long Ago didn’t seem bad, i’m just not a fan of “The Cast is put in the past as their own ancestors” type deals. Or in some cases put the cast as people from that time period. It’s just not for me and is most often done in TV where it can get really goofy, Beverly Hills 90210 being a prime example of this, though Girl Meets World was no slouch in being embarassing... that being said I really need to finish that show and miss it. 

So yeah when put up against a story with two intresting hooks and FLINTHEART GLOMGOLD, even if i’ts not the version that’s my boy, it was no contest. So what are these hooks you ask? Well join me under the cut and find out. 

We open with a weird stylistic choice: This story has a narrator complete with caption boxes. Now for those of you familiar with comics or pastiches of comics in tv and film, this probably dosen’t seem like a big deal. It was a common thing in comics from their inception to 90′s to have caption boxes, big boxes of text narrating the action to help move things along faster. It did start to fade out by the 80′s and was gone by the end of the 90′s for the most part, replaced instead with first person narration. It’s the kind of thing you’d see most often in the Golden and Silver Ages, with stuff like tihs

It’s not a BAD device, it’s good old cheesy and bombastic fun and some writers did get clever with it.. like that time Chris Claremont used the narration to yell at a greiving cyclops after he lost a teammate early in his long and storied run on the uncanny x-men. 

This is a objectively weird scene that’s still somehow effective by the by. On the one hand it does come off as Chris Claremont essentally bullying Cyclops who already feels guilty for a death that was not in fact his fault as Thunderbird was told the plane he was attacking with fleeing villian Count Nefaria was about to explode and refused to listen.. and that they needed to get rid of either him or Wolverine as both served the same purpose and chose the non-white guy. 

On the other htough it comes off just as much as Scott beating himself up in his grief and anger over the event and his perceived failings as a leader. It’s good stuff and shows why this run caught on as this was only three issues in. Also the rest of the issue features the X-Men fighting a giant cyclopian demon that Cyclops accidently freed in his rage by destroying the stone thing keeping him imprisoned. No really here’s the cover

Huh so tha’ts what Nifty’s dad looks like. Neat. Also I REALLY hope we get the X-Men fighting aliens or demons in the MCU. Unlike the XCU the MCU isn’t alergic to getting batshit.. and for the record Deadpool and New Mutants are the exception, not the rule.

My point that I swear I do have is that this was common practice for most comics.. but never really for Disney Duck comics. It popped up ocasionally, like with Scrooge’s introduction, but Barks and those after him never really used them that much. Sure they’d have caption boxes for flasbacks and what not but Barks and Co geninely only used this sort of thing to set up a story. The most i’ve seen it in a duck comic is life and times and even then i’ts usually only used for gags or to set up the passage of time, as the story IS covering decades and thus often needed to have montages to show time passing, and in the case of chapter 11, had to cover decades in the span of a single chapter, so it’s not like they had many other options. So even Rosa as a personal quirk didn’t really use these often. 

Rosa used this specifically because he felt the plot was complicated by the use of the international date line. As for what it is, it’s essentially a line marking calender dates from one side of the hemisphere to the others. To use the offical defentition from the National Ocean Service I found via a quick google:

“The International Date Line, established in 1884, passes through the mid-Pacific Ocean and roughly follows a 180 degrees longitude north-south line on the Earth. It is located halfway round the world from the prime meridian—the zero degrees longitude established in Greenwich, England, in 1852.

The International Date Line functions as a “line of demarcation” separating two consecutive calendar dates. When you cross the date line, you become a time traveler of sorts! Cross to the west and it’s one day later; cross back and you’ve “gone back in time."

Despite its name, the International Date Line has no legal international status and countries are free to choose the dates that they observe. While the date line generally runs north to south from pole to pole, it zigzags around political borders such as eastern Russia and Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.”

Rosa felt this made the story complicated.... and that... really isn’t remotely true. The narration is mostly used for gagas and really dosen’t clarify anything. it’s mostly used well in the opening.. but the actual explinations for the date line are clear enough in the story that even if I hadn’t looked the thing up, I still would’ve got it and i’m sure a kid would’ve too. It just feels like a weird thing to ruminate on, especially because he’s got actual things to make up for: while to his credit the native american characters he cribbed from carl barks are sympathetic, their culture respected and treated decently and used for a green aseop, their dialouge is stitled and sterotypical something he dosen’t even comment on (And these trades ewren’t THAT long ago) 

And of course it dosen’t help that he dosen’t even comment on using a common device in american superhero boooks.. in the same volume where he ONCE again makes an unwanted and outdated diatribe about superhero comics. I’ll probably cover the Super Snooper Strikes again so I can throughly tear this apart but higlights include: Calling superhero comics “Unwanted” just because he dosen’t like them personally, when people like me would disagree and they’ve lasted through a LOT of highs and lows, outdately saying they took over the American market as the only suitable comics which while true for a TIME,but by 2015 when this book was printed is laughably out of date, as non superhero works like The Walking Dead, Saga, and Scott Pilgrim were massively popular, one of my faviorite comics that is entirely slice of life and would go on to bea huge hit, Giant Days, re-debuted that very year. He also has the fucking gal to insult The Uncanny X-Men by name and I swear to god I did not know this when I made those references earlier, but as you probably guessed REALLY god me livid. 

And this is just on his COMMENTS on the story I can’t imagine just how bad the content itself is and having read the first few pages which come off as Rosa using Donald to essentially do an “old man yells at cloud rant” about superhero comics, I really don’t want to. Might make htis a patreon exclusive or again would do it on comissoin. You all make the call.... the point is I don’t likes his elitist bullshit about superhero comics, and this is clearly something that gets my hackles up as I just spent a good two paragraphs of an entirely unrealted review yelling at the guy for it. I don’t like when he does this and this authors notes entirley felt like an excuse. I GET the dark age of comics were bad, they REALLY were that bad, but I will NEVER accept painting an enitre genre as bad just because one work in it is bad. And I wont accept it from someone who himself writes about an often throughly unlikeable anti-hero for a living.  Scrooge may not have a gun on his gun on his gun or get to stabbing or have pouches, but he DOES finacially abuse his nephew, scoff at people’s personal troubles, and often refuse to use his wealth to help others in general. So yeah in conclusion Rosa really needs to say less about this subject. 

Okay so where were we.. right the story hadn’t even started yet. Jesus. 

Okay so our story begins with the narrator. Whose going on about time and what not. The main point of this speech about time is that it’s night in Duckburg and Scrooge is going to bed as, even being the workhorse that he is, he can’t keep going 24 hours. While he’s snoozing though something major happens and it’s the hook that made me pick this story along with the international dateline one.. an island rises thanks to volcanic erruption.. and the lava is GOLD. That’s just pure unabashed classic Duck Stuff: a mysterious treasure or phenominon of gold bound to bring scrooge in. 

But Scrooge isn’t stupid: the sun comes up and the world still spins while he sleeps, so he set up a satalite to monitor for this sort of thing. The thing naturally goes nuts.. and even more naturally breaks down becasue Scrooge bought cheap parts. A nice gag and a fully in character way to bring our antagonist into the picture, as the Satellite of Loaded falls in the middle of South Africa... right on the property of my boy Flintheart Glomgold. 

This is something Rosa brought up in his commentary for the story i’d never thought about. It turns out Glomgold being a citzen of Duckburg WASN’T an invention of the original Ducktales but the comics: some overseas had understandably moved him from his home country of South Africa. Him bieing in the same town as Scrooge instead of half a world away allows for easier setups and more intresting ones.

Rosa however being obdient to Barks Version of things, ketp Glomgold in South Africa like barks did, which was an .. ifffy decision given Apartheid had JUST ended at the time of this story. Not so much in the reboot as not only had apartheid been long gone by the time of the reboot, but that’s more fair. Still we do get some gorgeous vistas as a result as Glomgold’s minon goes to look at it and finds it’s from McDuck Mining company... Glomgold’s reaction is obvious. 

So on that note we cut to Scrooge rushing to Donalds house and forcing him awake and not telling him anything at first. Look his Ducktales Counterpart straight up kidnapped his donald in my last review, I’d call this a win. He also tries to dress Donald while explaning both his panic to find the crashed satlitle and what it found: the golden island. The end result of him dressing donald is worth a chuckle

So after Donald puts his shirt and little hat on our heroes get rollin rollin rollin what keep rollin rollin rollin who to Manilla. On the plane we get the scene I mentioned: The boys make a quip about Scrooge having lost a day and the group go over the international date line. It’s a fun little scene especially Donald trying to get paid early at the end. Classic scrooge and donald stuff without the abusive undertones some of their classic stuff has. 

Meanwhile Glomgold works out the data and finds out about the gold island, and his excitement accidently wakes a giraffe outside.. welll it was nice knowing him, Giraffes are the deadliest species known to man.. here’s an educational video t back that up....

So at Manilla Airport, Scrooge finds out abotu the south african crash, figuring he’ll get a laugh out of glomgold being there ... only for Donald to spot the Jet. Scrooge figures this can’t be anything good... now come on man maybe he’s just promoting his energy drink. 

As super sayin god super sayian as my witness, I will never get tired of Ultra Instinct Glomgold here. 

Scrooge isn’t so nice about that though and figures he better find out if Glomgold knows about the island and bribes one of the fueling crew for his uniform. He sucesssfully eavesdrops on Glomgold talking to his pilot, finding out from him exactly WHERE the island is. He ends up hilariously botching the mission though: when getting ready to leave Glomgold complains abotu the price of gas and that naturally causes Scrooge, just as cheap, to join in... and Glomgold to find out it’s Scrooge. The two wrestle outside the plane but before this can progress to a game of Naked Robber an airport security guy comes up and Scrooge cleverly claims that Glomgold’s plane has an infestiation, requring it to be quanrantined and allowing Scrooge to jet on.. thoguh not with an actual jet. With Glomgold seemingly dispatched, he can afford to save some money and take his time with a seaplane and I know just the man for the job. 

Oh nope looks like he’s busy. So one time related rambles later we meet Keoki, their asian pilot from the tiny island of Wookawooka.. and no that’s not a real place i checked... and no Fozzy dosen’t own it his check bounced. That being said it is a very well done represntation of someone from a smaller country: he’s doing this job to try and bring money back home, but being a seaplane captain just isn’t enough and his island is dying. Scrooge naturally is about as sympathetic as you’d expect, having apparently never even heard of the idea of a bonus when Huey, Dewey or Louie suggests it. 

Even less suprising is that Glomgold streaks by in his Jet:turns out Manilla was already overun with the bugs Scrooge claimed and Donald rubs it in that had Scrooge got a JET this wouldn’t of been an issue. 

So Glomgold easily beats them there, and to add insult and actualy injury to a cash based one, our heroes get blasted by golden lava on the way in and crash. Should’ve gotten launchpad... got the crashing professional. Keoki is dispondent as this means his people are doomed. He also dosen’t know waht staking a claim is when Scrooge mentions it and the boys bring him up to speed with the poor guy saying he wish he could for WookaWooka. Donald also makes a valid point about how greedy and heartlress scrooge can be.. and really billiionares in general.

No no YOUR the Grouch who refuses to have one drop of emapthy. Donald’s just pissed at your general selfish and terrible behavior. 

Glomgold glomgloats and has seemingly won... but naturally that rant that seemed extranious at the time about the date line comes into play: turns out the Island is on it, and since glomgold put his marker int he west, Scrooge simply puts his in the east which is a whole day before. Now GRANTED there’s nor eal legal prescendice for the intetaoinal date line itself , as noted above... but there’s enough witnesses in Scrooge’s favor that it simply does not matter anyway. Scrooge SEEMINGLY wins.

But Huey, Dewey Or Louie instead backs another claim: Keoki’s from earlier. While it was made in gest, he and the others along with Donald back it as witnsses instad. WookaWooka is saved and SCrogoe ends the story yelling at the narrator.

Final Thoughts: Don Rosa.. did not like this story, feeling it wasn’t one of his best and apologizing for it. I however.. really loved it. It’s not PERFECT: the narration feels not entirely necessary and the gag isn’t as funny as he thinks, though the payoff of scrooge saying “it’s time for this story to end” is fucking hilarous. I also feel it’s a bit too compressed: the story is only 16 pages and was only THAT long because Rosa added a few for exposition, a worthy addition. This feels like one of his 30 page adventure stories but slightly crammed into half the length. I also feel the golden island bit was BADLY underused as it’s such a cool setting but barely shows up in the story. 

But despite that.. it’s still a fun story: as is standard for Rosa the art is gorgeous and the humor is great. And unlike some stories where Rosa casually ignores how terrible scrooge is, here it’s his own greed and hubris that do him in: had he actually agreed to help Keoki, the boys likey would’ve let him keep the island but his own cold refusual to be a human being does him in, just as his cheapness nearly did. Flintheart is also decent here.. not the deepest foe but frankly most classical duck antagonists really aren’t all that fleshed out, and we still get some good bits with him. The dateline bit, while telegraphing that it will be important, as I said REALLY isn’t that hard to understand. All in all while i’ll agree with Rosa this isn’t his BEST, it’s still a really damn good story and one he shoudln’t be ashamed of. 

Tommorow: Green Eggs and ham is back for some train shenanigans! Kay. 

Saturday: The Tom Retrospective returns for it’s last detour! Eclipsa and Moon team up to stop meteora but grapple with diffrent wants: One to save her daughter.. the other to stop waht she clearly sees as an out of control monster. The result.. will only lead to tragedy and a hell of a two parter. 

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[nd43taags]

AU I thought of and have no idea if it’s good or not...

Magnus and Taako are the RP characters of two people on an old BBS forum that are like, their idealized versions of who they want to be and they fall in love through their game and AIM chatting with each other. 

Bonus points if player!Magnus and Taako are both trans men using roleplaying as a way to safely express their masculinity in their lives through character!Magnus and Taako, and they eventually meet irl and are like “Oh, you too?”

If someone likes this idea they can have it.  I can NOT start another WIP.

[cupcraft]

waiitt thats something i never noticed. im going to read too much into something but it is so wow you know that in inconsolable differences and boundless sands they both had that moment on the beach. We had in inconsolable differences ccrime dancing, though it was sweet and full of love, it was clear not much was said to the matter of full apologies nor has cwilbur clarified what lmanberg really meant to him, on the shore of which ctommy looked out over in hopes he could return to lmanberg to home, but mostly to his memory and legacy of cwilbur.

And then in boundless sands we have ctommy left on the shore once again, cwilbur in the water. ctommy looks out over that shore wanting to return to cwilbur, but this time there's hope. This time he really knows what cwilbur thinks. he's been reconciled with. the way he looks over that sea thinking of cwilbur is different. its hopeful.

[kanohivolitakk]

Reblogging this because I abosolutely agree with your statement. No one in 3h is right or wrong, no one is the hero or villain. Everyone is FLAWED and that’s the beauty of it all. The only side that you can really blame on or paint as the ultimate evil is the Agarthans who at the end of the day are just plotdevices. (I say as I am in middle of writing a meta post of why Thales is geniuniely cool/interesting and should’ve been a full on tragic villain lmao)  They don’t matter to the story as much as the lords or Rhea do. The Agarthans are just a means to an end, an inuniverse reasoning for why the events happen. The lords (and Rhea) are the heart of the story and what we should focus on not the generic evil dubstep cult (I say as I love said evil dubstep cult but still).

And yeah I feel that people are too harsh on morally grey storytelling in general (not just w 3h) because of its overabundance as well as people having htis idea that in thse dark times we are living we need simpler narratives as opposite to morally grey but like...a m I the only one who thinks that morally grey narratives can’t be just as compelling and encouraging if not moreso than black or white. I just am tired that there is onlyo ne correct narrative.

Also 3H may be a patchquilt but honestly... I LOVE 3hs plot being a patchquilt. Stories that represent its narrative and world in a way that forces its audience to engage actively rather than passively is what I personally live for (I mean my main fandom falls to patchquilt format as well except in this case the patchquilt is made out of Legos) and 3h fits this perfectly.

And the last one YES YES. We need more positive/nuanced meta in this community rather than people having shouting matches which interpretation is “canon” and who was correct or wrong

Friendly reminder that none of the four sides are completely morally justified. Even though I hate the Church, I can't comfortably say they're indiscriminate evil. It undermines these very complicated characters to force them into black and white morality just to satiate your own ego. I really enjoy having a story where every faction has features and flaws, and your heart picks your choices for you.

Like, it's hard for me to not pick CF bc a) I dislike the church's totalitarian influence, b) I find Edelgard to be the most personally engaging, b+) I can relate to a queer woman struggling to change a religious world while struggling also with very bad influences, and c) I feel like playing whole routes where everyone drives in what a bitch my pet favorite is? That's kiiiiinda hard. Those are personal opinions to the core and I enjoy every shift in thinking the game gives me. And that's the engaging part of 3h.

I think the condemnation of its morally grey storytelling is a) a denial of very harsh events your fave commits, b) sucking all of the intrigue out of it, and c) missing out on the kind of great storytelling we ask for. We all get this idea that morally grey stories celebrate immorality because they're not defined as good vs evil as Awakening was (no one's misunderstanding Gangrel let's be real).

And sure, 3H's plot feels like a patchquilt hastily put together. But it's so much more powerful seeing these sides as similarly flawed yet easy to get on board with, then choosing your favorite AND your identity as a player. Maybe it's me still leaving a traumatic part of life, but honestly with little in my brain due to disease this game has helped me kind of establish myself against this fascinating freedom of choice, and I think it should be appreciated for what it is rather than being derided as a bad (disobedient) influence on players.

I'm not saying never question it. But don't deny people the right to question things in a positive or productive way instead of gaining morality points

[turnways]

ragnorak spoilers kind of

nothing major though

i love loki meta ngl but i do love that they showed us thor can just plain be an asshole and isn’t always endearing and noble. he can be childish and petty,granted the best he can muster is calling hulk stupid but it was still fun to see that side of himfun. im sure it’s been shown in other movies with him but htis is just the first ive noticed.

also highlisghts for me how tcap could stand to have more visible flaws, if they haven’t been explored but from what im remembering he doesnt have any, or at least any memorable ones

[oldcurrencyexchange]

Irish Coin Daily: Hiberno-Norse Silver Penny, Phase I, Class B – Long Cross type (BIRHTIOTH of Winchester)

Irish Coin Daily: Hiberno-Norse Silver Penny, Phase I, Class B – Long Cross type (BIRHTIOTH of Winchester)

Date: c. 1000-1010

Description:

Hiberno-Norse, Phase I Silver Penny in the name of ‘Sihtric, King of Dublin’, Silver Penny in imitation of the English, Aethelred II Long Cross type. English mint signature: Winchester. Moneyer: Birhtioth.

Diameter: 20 mm

Weight: 1.35g

Extremely Fine (EF), nicely toned

Extremely rare

References:

O’S –; SCBI 37 (Polish), 323 (same dies); SCBC 6104

Obverse:

Bare…