#really fuckin edgy

[ievadog]

In a lot of art pieces my sona looks very tidy and pretty and all that, here's a biblically accurate Ieva who looks more like a goth hag than a goth queen with more piercings than was last drawn because fuck you I like them and also shiny stuff I grab that on first sight I just decided to go brain off with this piece to relax but will use it to grab your attention (it's mine now) and tell you to watch me play the Baltic Trackmania League ELITE DIVISION group stage, essentially, that owl you see there got among the top 16 best players of the Baltic Region (wow!!!!! and wtf how???) Match happens at 12:00 Eastern European Summer Time on the 3rd of Pride month and will be livestreamed @ https://www.twitch.tv/fastpointgg (I think)

Be there or else.

[good-wine-and-cheese]

Gambling Apocalypse Tenma AU

As I rewatch Kaiji I inevitably end up wanting to combine show I like with other show I like and stuffing fav characters into show. So here we are.

This was uh going to be a short summary type thing but I accidentally wrote a novella about it sorry

This AU starts off with a much more depressive Tenma. After Tobio's death, rather than immediately pour his grief into developing a robot version of his son, he recedes into himself, psychologically paralyzed, likely turning to alcohol to drown out his anguish.

His mental state is taken as an opportunity within the Ministry of Science to have him ejected from his position; Tenma was never the most well-liked director, and there were those with ambition to usurp him that would jump at the chance. Not that he especially cares in his state.

He's eventually dragged out of his stagnation by Ochanomizu - who, inadvertently, becomes the very catalyst pushing Tenma to develop a robot replacement to his child. This was not what he meant by encouraging Tenma to fill the void left by his son.

...But, well, he is no longer the director of the Ministry of Science. His access to limitless government funds and resources for "scientific research" has been cut off, and this is a project he cannot finance on his own. He can't ask Ochanomizu for help, but...interestingly...a representative of a certain shady organization known as the Teiai Corporation reaches out to him, offering to finance and support his project. A sane and well-minded Tenma might think better of it, but grieving and desperate, Tenma accepts their offer and is able to create a robot in the image of his beloved Tobio. For a while, there's joy in his life.

But the bill, as ever, comes due: Tenma must pay up, and the very resources that had been at his disposal will certainly ensure that he will, or else. Of course, he doesn't have the money; instead, he is given a choice. He can relinquish the robot Tobio in order to wipe out his debt - the child is a sophisticated and powerful robot, after all - or he can participate in a certain illicit event hosted by the Teiai Corporation.

It's nothing major...just a four-hour gambling cruise with a collection of desperate, damned souls that were also swept into debt with Teiai. The conditions are simple: Those who choose to participate are given a chance to clear their debts wholesale should they win. And should they lose...?

Well...no one really knows what happens to the losers seized by Teiai. It's said that they labour away their debts under Teiai's watchful eye and are freed once their work has covered their debts, though it's rumoured that most perish before they reclaim freedom.

There's only one answer Tenma can give, of course; he's not willing to lose Tobio again.

Thus is Tenma's debut into the Gambling Apocalypse, where he must become cutthroat in order to survive; if he wants to see his son again, he must make choices that will doom the hapless to miserable servitude, with a nonzero chance it ends in their death.

He survives the cruise, but of course, it was hardly enough to clear his debt; the cruise was never going to be the end of it. Teiai doesn't let go of its victims that easily. He will be called on again: this is a weight that hangs over him, all while he returns to his son Tobio. The same hands that have pushed innocents into hell must now be the hands that can embrace his child.

He wants to protect Tobio from the truth and enjoy what peaceful moments he's allowed with his son, but it's difficult. It's difficult to be the parent of a child who cannot understand the danger that looms ahead; this "happy" home is not to last. Tenma angers quickly and easily. He turns that anger onto Tobio.

As Teiai's games become more and more vicious and unrelenting, as his conscience holds onto the last vestiges of thread that remain, Tenma even threatens, once, to give the boy in: it would all end, then; the debt would be clear and no longer would he have to endure Tobio's childish annoyances, his ungratefulness.

The next time that Tenma is beckoned, Tobio takes matters into his own hands. He does understand, now; and he would have, if only Tenma had bothered to explain sooner. If it's a debt that needs clearing, he will work. He will help his father clear his debts however he can. Of course, it's difficult to find work as a child; but a circus troupe finds amusement in the idea of a child robot, and takes him in. He is whisked into a certainly unpleasant working situation, but he remembers his father, and what he must be enduring. Tobio, also, will endure.

When Tenma returns, Tobio is gone.

All that held Tenma back from becoming something monstrous has disappeared. All that kept him going has disappeared. When he is called upon by Teiai, there is no knowing what sort of person might come out the other end; whether a monster clawing his way to freedom regardless of what actions he must take, or a desolate husk surrendering defeat.

There is still a light, however dim: Found by Professor Ochanomizu and rescued from the circus, Tobio - now Atom - is able to shed light on the situation which Tenma took great pains to keep hidden from his old friend. With time running out, Ochanomizu and Atom must do what they can to save Tenma - from Teiai, and from himself.

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UHHH and that's a wrap!!!! I couldn't quite decide which way Tenma would go after hitting Rock Bottom in this AU, and tbh it would really depend on the kind of mental state he's in at the time. On the one hand I like the narrative of Ochanomizu and Tobio racing to prevent Tenma from crossing a line (actual outright murder probably) - or having to pull him back into humanity (and yknow, his ensuing penance)

But on the other hand having him get sent to Teiai Evil Hell Prison would be interesting because a) there's a lot of narrative potential having Tenma faced with what Teiai is doing with the people that lose the games and b) need him to decimate the foreman at chinchirorin Kaiji style

Tenma's whole character is definitely a much different guy in this AU, he starts off pretty sympathetic, the guy you wanna root for, he just ends up having an inverse character arc where he gets worse instead of better. His conflict with "Tobio" is also kind of reversed, less about being unsatisfied with Tobio as a son and more not being able to handle the fact that he probably has intense PTSD now and isnt capable of coping with it in a way conducive to being a parent (or like, coping at all)

Anyway that's gambling apocalypse tenma!!!

[peppermintpegis]

netflix one piece live action feels a little like fanfic in that it makes sure it hits all the important notes but doesnt do all the work to make them hit which works in fic where the reader is supposed to bring all the emotional story investment from the original but doesnt work in a multi million adaptation that is supposed to be able to stand on its own or even serve as an intro to the series. it even does this in service to have more koby and helmeppo gay moments in this essay i w

[thatgoddamngingerundercut]

I love the original mv for I need u cuz like it’s got everything. Substance abuse, self harm, suicidal ideation, depression, violence, domestic assault, arson, general mayhem, fucking murder, finding solace in friendship, the freedom of unsupervised youth, and homoerotic subtext all set to an early 2010s pop ballad about missing the girl they broke up with and being upset about it

[youssefguedira]

look i haven't seen deadpool and wolverine and won't for another month if i see it at all (i'm not paying for it) so this is all conjecture but i find the fact that its marketing has been heavily focused on implying that deadpool and wolverine are/will be in a relationship, which is like clearly not going to happen this is the mcu lmao, and the fact that it has been pushing this so hard for a character whose queerness has entirely been reduced to essentially making gay jokes for extra edginess points while refusing to ever engage with it more deeply (i admit i haven't seen the first two deadpool movies in several years but he is in a long running relationship with a woman and just like. makes jokes about finding colossus hot to my memory) than that, Not A Good Look, you could say. and like come on it's 2024 this is textbook queerbaiting and for a movie that seems to be pushing its supposed potential queer relationship in all of its marketing all of the jokes have always just felt vaguely homophobic to me. maybe the movie will make me feel differently but like. i highly doubt that

[giantkillerjack]

Me, 4 years ago: Boy, I sure love the song "Guitar Hero" by Amanda Palmer! But I can never clearly hear what it is she shouts in this one segment - I'll just look it up real quick!

...

[it was the n-word]

[swiftscion]

"Larcei?!" The address rings loud and surprised, a bit off from the side. "Hey, Larcei!"

One, two, step-clomp, and Edward's already flung himself onto the edge of her cot, grinning from ear to ear. "You come here often?" he asks, clearly teasing, before stifling a laugh and pulling his good leg up.

"For real though, I saw you were up against Tormod! I bet he was using fire magic, but he's good at wrestling, too, sooo..." His thumb wipes at his nose as he hums. "I'm not surprised you lost, but I'm not surprised you didn't win either, you know? He's no pushover!"

Finally, he flaps a hand, sticks out his tongue. "Just, you know. Mages." His voice goes a bit mock-disgust-nasally on the last one. He's sure she empathises.

That plucky voice, could it be?

"Edward?!"

Cry out screaming, but he's already there. That's just how the bugger works! Larcei doesn't have much time to spit out his name before her one-person cot has become a double, her frostbitten body bouncing from the great crash of his weight onto the elastic material. If there's anything in the world that's going to get her to sit up, it's that.

"Oh, put a lid on it, would ya'? If we were both fightin' by ourselves, things would've been different." Less errant (and icy) flies buzzing about the enemy side, and less allies for the guardian to have to protect. Her sword is sworn to those that stand beside her--those who reach out and are called sister or brother--but where there are two, it grows heavy. It's not as easy when she can't swing with reckless abandon, looking after nothing but herself.

Still, Tormod's skill is undeniable. And Edward's word is something she trusts, so she looks at him with fire in her eyes. Her pupils are coals, her irises clouds of smog, and the sclera around a misty haze of white smoke. The scars of today have already been forgotten.

"But you seem to know the guy pretty well... If I'm beatin' him, I'll need practice." No warning, no hesitation, as she springs from her cot. Now on the opposite side of the med tent (and alerting the attention of some very concerned physicians) her eyes glisten a glaze of green. The air around her is stardust, the path to the freedom fighter a trail for her comet to blaze. At warp speed, she surges forth for their first round of wrestling.

"Heads up, Eddie!!"

[umiokami]

It's about fucking time this bitch got in the game! Jfc!

[soudakuwunmoment]

ok that ones not that edgy but i shoved it in here cuz blood

sad anime boy karkat

[waywardsalt]

dont enjoy that im having self doubt and second thoughts abt my humanoid bellum design. begone. he’s probably fine. so is damien

[lecliss]

Since I had to go back to the main menu to reset the Azul situation I decided to do the tutorial cuz I forgot it doesn't happen automatically at the beginning of the game and it's the only place you can play as Turk Vincent. I'm always so amused by the fact that the uniform makes it easier to see how stupidly long his legs are cuz he's ridiculously tall. He's like a human stick bug it's fucking hilarious cidnxkdj

[xx-rememberthepast-xx]

[gooseworx]

What was your favorite murder drones episode??

If we're going off single episodes, probably 6. But if we're cheating and making our own rules, I like thinking of 7 and 8 as one big two-parter episode. Because that would be my favorite.

I actually really loved the finale, and think it had some of the most hype visual+audio moments I've seen in a thing in a long time. It made me feel like an edgy teenager again and I love it for that. I really love these characters, and...

...I do kinda want a season two... BUT!

We need to show the man some respect and let him REST. I'm gonna take this moment to gush and say how proud I am of Liam for not only sticking through and making his crazy vision a reality, but sticking through and keeping that bar of quality up for 8 whole episodes and three fuckin' years!

As someone who's only fully directed two episodes of a show so far, I can say without a doubt that directing these shows is a LOT of hard fucking work! And my show doesn't even have 10% of the crazy action and cinematography Murder Drones has. Not to mention Murder Drones started with a MUCH smaller team than Digital Circus. Liam is a legend. Please show him all the love and support you can, because he's earned it.

...

Anyways, yeah. That's my favorite Murder Drones episode...

[astrangeghost]

i want to have a lyric status sometimes, but I can only confine myself to shitposts/otherwise funny lyrics because im discord friends with my brother and a friends mom. so like. nooo

[roaringheat]

I forgot to post about it cause ive been sick but I legit got this note slapped on to my table while eating out with family on sunday I am still in SHOCK