#late muse commentary

[bursterasure]

"Gran?"

[grayfxce]

❝ I’m ready to fight ! Let’s DO THI- ❞

❝ Oh. Tournament is already full. Darn. Next time then. ❞

[alchemistdetective]

PLEASE wait a moment, Flandre is busy destroying things and the TV because she's getting 999 ping in her video games.

... Then realize she went overboard.

WOOPS.

[muses-inn]

[⭐]  "Kissing day? Heck yeah! Everyone knows that I am the best kisser out of the Battletoads!"

[🚀]  "Oh come on, not this again! Everyone calm down, he's only the best at kissing his own hand. Which is disgusting by the way, don't try it."

[alchemistdefective]

Even if Eri impersonates Reimu in Gensokyo, beast Youkai would know it's him anyway, having a good sense of smell and all, so they are FAR less likely to attack him for a fight, much less be interested

So it's kind of like a blessing in disguise (ha)

[ravarui]

But he wants to be the favorite redhead....

[general-kalani]

He's staring at the fact his sign, once again, is blown up.

This time he's not emotional about it.

He's just drinking.

[ladyseidr]

anyway, on that note. spins rory around in my mind.

[a-hell-of-a-time]

"Has everyone finished being weird for tonight?"

[muninnhuginn]

kinda neat how media can be used as a jumping off point to learn about new things. there are the obvious things like documentaries, but then there are all sorts of other things. when 'hamilton' first got big, you ended up with people learning about aaron burr and the new york water system and various trivia from usa history around that era which wasn't even featured in the musical itself.

when 'mr bates vs the post office' came out recently over here (UK), a whole lot of people were able to appreciate the impact the whole horizon/post office affair had on its victims. sure, the story has been in the news for a few years now, but it's the first time it's been a story actively discussed in daily life. and people learning more about it has actively pushed the government to consider speeding up compensation or mass exonerations.

and even aside from these obvious instances, there are a lot that don't tell you up front and you realise as you're watching. when shows and films and books reference real life events through the veneer of fiction. suzume, referencing the tohoku earthquake of 2011 (something I imagine pretty much every japanese citizen is aware of - suzume's own age is very deliberate in how she lost her mother to the quake. she was very young at the time it happened, but it still had a huge impact on her and many others). link click, referencing the 2008 sichuan earthquake (and deliberately having the arc revolve around school-age children in a run-down old building when irl one of the reasons the casualties were so high was because of poor construction of school buildings). various kdramas referencing generational SK disasters: imf financial crisis (explored in 'reborn rich', but I imagine many other shows), sampoong department store collapse (referenced in 'move to heaven', but again, once I knew the history, it made a lot of sense why so many corrupt villains in kdramas were specifically involved in construction).

it's a mix of how, if you know the events being referenced, they'll impact you more. but if you don't know the events, then it gives you a reason to learn. I personally had very very vague memories of the 2008 earthquake, just in terms of some clips on the news at the time. I had no idea about the various factors that made the disaster so much worse until I realised what was being referenced when watching the show and decided to read up on it.

I have somewhat conflicted feelings on how fictional (or dramatised in the case of mr bates) media approaches specifically *disasters*, as opposed to other historical events, but I think the shows I've mentioned here at least take a victim-first approach.

[itsumoegao]

📗 As someone with no rizz whatsoever, he's just casually writing down all these pick up lines.

[halfbakedsinner]

"Hmm... if I swapped body with someone I'd probably cause some chaos. Like flipping people's skirts up!"

[helluva-hazbins]

[alchemistdetective]

"I knew Seiga's tastes in women are bad, but Yoshika's is just terrible."

[mountainofhistory]

This is Momoyo. She has the properties of "hungry monster" and "good friend".

[takethejourney]

"Some've y'all need some've that divine innervention I've been hearin' so much about."