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[mai-col]

Hey hey, long time no see !

Since I was working on "Les Songes du Roi Griffu", these pages have been on the back burner for a while (and the english version for even longer). They're done now.

If you want to read the rest of Molly-l'Iris, here it is. New pages should come in the near-ish future. It's about a big city, magic, and some other stuff like, for example, the power of friendship (ew gross yeah I know)

[squidsquadlove]

You may or may not remember this from the week leading up to Pride Night in Coachella Valley, but I sure do.

When it's just two guys like that? You have to figure they asked for volunteers. And our boys Ryker and Tye stood up.

[thatgirl4815]

don’t mind me I’ll just be crying in the corner over RaySand’s heart eyes

[nesonkin]

It would be so funny if multimouse returned with the reversed love square dynamic I think

[motionjames]

let me shill you japanese columbo

Do you like Columbo? Do you like police procedurals starring grumbly, slightly eccentric ossans? Do you believe in the power of shoujo manga?! Well, do I have the show for you!

Introducing....Furuhata Ninzaburō!

Written by genius playwright Koki Mitani and starring the extremely charismatic jidaigeki star Masakazu Tamura, Furuhata Ninzaburo is a detective drama directly inspired by Columbo (not to be confused with...Shinano no Columbo, which yes, exists). Its got the murders, its got the mystery, its got an unreasonably good theme song, and there's middle aged man with the mannerisms you love to see. The formula usually goes as follows:

Furuhata-san stands in the dark void, talking about riding bicycles or something or another to setup the theme of the story.

You see the baddie do the murder and try to cover it up. Yesiree, you see the murder-- because the fun comes from watching it all unravel!

Furuhata-san appears (possibly struggling with a vending machine, or bicycling with some half-price daikon) and catches a whiff of something funny ahead of time.

Cue the game of psychological cat-n-mouse as Furuhata-san slowly deconstructs the whole thing.

Furuhata-san looks directly into the camera like it's the office to ask the audience what the final piece of the mystery is (this is briefly addressed)

The killer spirals ace attorney style as the audience screams GOT THE BITCH! and Furuhata-san escorts them off screen to purgatory... or, you know, prison.

Yup, it's pretty standard fair detective drama stuff, but the writer Mitani is able to construct some seriously compelling, twisty mysteries that keep you on the edge of your seat. By the end of first season, the direction finds its style and you'll get plenty of jaw-dropping musical cues and camera cuts that make you feel like you're full immersed in some deluxe, spicy juicy awesome mystery fiction action!

Okay... but who is the man of the hour? A good mystery needs a good detective, and there is hardly anyone as wonderful to watch as the black-clad oyajisan.

Tamura aces the role of Furuhata. It's just too good. As he's based off of Columbo he's of course a disarmingly scrungly genius with terrible posture and a grumbling-mumbling way or speaking, but he was plenty of other traits to set him apart. He's a fan of shoujo manga; he's an excellent chef but only knows how to prepare three mismatched dishes; he loves konbinis but is cursed by vending machines; he's terrible at baseball and is totally unsportmanlike; he is often seen on his beloved bike CELINE (since he was in the area anyhow)... I could go on, but the character is well realized and so fun to watch. His head tilts, forehead taps, and drawn out ええと。。。are perfectly captured, and all do a great job at annoying his victims. A stand out trait of Columbo is his unique relationship to the culprits; he's described as being very buddy-buddy or even respectful, using his friendly ho-hum manner to weedle his way to the truth. Furuhata-san is similar, but more... salty? Bitchy? The man frequently makes underhanded remarks towards the culprit or acts offensively relaxed until he find a contradiction in their words, in which he will then pursue to the ends of the earth. It gives a kind of "c'mon, can't you do better?" attitude reminiscent of a disappointed teacher.

But even with all his sass (which he has in spades), Furuhata-san will always sit down with the killer and offer a smile and a bit of light conversation before the credits roll. The killers are usually afforded a bit of dignity. Most famously a radio show host tells the detective "the funniest joke there ever was"-- but as a small revenge, she refuses to tell him the punchline. Credits roll, theme plays, it's just another day on the job.

Oh, there's also Imaizumi. Imaizumi is a big dummy and always falls for the red herrings the killers leave behind. Because of this, Furuhata-san is relentlessly mean to him and slaps him on the forehead as punishment. He forces the guy to do menial tasks and be victim to his many tests. Imaizumi, however, is just happy to be here. His special skills include knitting, flower arrangement, not reading the room, and having hemorrhoids.

Okay, now have some Furuhata-san crying and reading shoujo manga.

Truly the guy of all time.

You're probably totally in love with this show because I've described it so beautifully, right? Right? So you wanna watch it, riiiiight? Well lucky for you it's all totally subbed on internet archive!

Watch this awesome show ENGLISH SUBBED and FOR FREE you won't regret it! This link is so full of oyajisans! Please! Join me in Japanese crime fiction hell!

(Personally speaking, the first episode pilot thingy is a bit slow and does not represent the rest of the show very well, I would suggest skipping to the second episode "The Kabuki Murder" to get a real taste and then maybe return to the previous one later. Just my thoughts!)

Also, there was a really awesome remix of the main theme made for DDR. Here's that, but with Haruka Amami from the idolm@ster dancing over it.

Ah yes.... I have spilled my love... I suppose I should go now. Please enjoy this wonderful show, and remember: Don't you ever fuck up ever or else Furuhata-san WILL get you and you WILL go to super hell! Bye!

[phoenix-sayz-thingz]

I had this really weird dream a few days ago where there was this new life series and i have no clue what it was called

But in my dream, I played as Scar for some reason

And I had just been getting chased around by everyone but I kept replacing certain blocks with moss and calling it grass because Scar absolutely would wouldn't he

Anyway, it got to the point where we were at a cliffs edge, I think Grian was the last one to chase me down or something??? And I placed my final moss block (reminder that I'm still playing as Scar here, so all of this is literally just Scar)

And I started jumping so excitedly, yelling "YES! I AM THE GRASS MAN!!!" And as soon as I said that I accidentally jumped a bit too close to the sun and fell off the cliff and died

And everyone laughed at me in the chat

I woke up after that 😭

[ominashii]

If they made a Final Fantasy cooking game, would it be Final Flantasy or Final Fantasty?

[cursed-princess-club]

you know. isolde could've been the burnt out, alcoholic parent trope that drinks to cope with her problems. but i realized she's that but with desserts and sweets lmao

[felixcosm]

MIKEY:

We were going to find Anne, and we were going to return to our timeline. Mike Walters was back.

This is mike.beback

[TOILET FLUSHING]

Wrong sound effect

[THEME MUSIC STARTS]

MIKEY (OVERLAPPING):

There we go

[sandervansunshine]

Beauty

Lavender/Pansy For @microficmay 2023 Day 6: Shatter

She’s not what she once was, because he left her marred and monstrous.

“But I’m alive,” she’s supposed to say gratefully - the words taste sour.

She can’t look at flowers, or the sea, or the stars.

Then she runs into Pansy Parkinson.

And finally Lavender sees beauty she doesn’t resent.

[hatchetation]

you see the vision 🛩️✈️ hope your week gets better!

thank you! It’s actually already a bit better. and hell yeah I do!! I can 1000% imagine Lucy saying “I feel the need, the need for speed.” Also # I need to stop watching military propaganda is so so real 😂 😭

[network-decay]

[professorsta]

Always talking about busting ghosts instead of befriending them

[buckttommy]

Coma Eddie makes so much sense and also could be the reason we haven’t seen Ryan on set 👀 plus the timing of buck having Chris during this time with the whole sperm donor of it all is 👀

Honestly, coma!Eddie makes absolutely no sense to me at all, like, talk about plotlines that just come straight out of left field LOL. Even coma!Buck I found to be a little ridiculous because, honestly, all coma storylines are a little ridiculous but you know what? This is the same show that put a shark on the freeway so maybe 9-1-1 has always been a little bit ridiculous 🤷🏾‍♀️

[donutdrawsthings]

The edge my friends write for their OCs is better and more nerve wrecking than any horror movie released in the past few years

[yeyq]

Can't wait for Tim to be happily hopping in his Robin series absolutely oblivious that his dare I say YOUNGER BROTHER gets owned by his currently-sorry-excuse-of-a-father, a devil and absolutely worst- DC.