#the crows could also potentially sense something and not like it. but idk. i cant think of any particular religious connotation w/ crows

[sundial-girl]

would hiki be a friends with the crows person or a friends with the crabs person

more inclined to say the crows b/c aside from a sense of bird favoritism, i feel like its easier for him to actually encounter crows?? like crabs live near the sea man (and/or some large bodies of freshwater ig but lets ignore that for these purposes)... when/where is lil ghost boy gonna pull up to the ocean 😭😭😭

given crows' intelligence now you're just giving me the mental image of him trying (and failing) to convert crows to religion and ahkhskjhakjhskjghkjh 😂😂😭😭😭

[sherry-l]

Why YGO Vrains is such an immeasurable disappointment: a list

First of all, I need to make it abundantly clear that Im a big fan of Vrains – I love Yusaku, Ryoken, Ai, Kusanagi... you see them very often on my dash. I fantasize about the ideal version of Vrains that’s written well, the Vrains that’s fully exploited its potentials, every night in my sleep. I wrote this list PRECISELY because I love Vrains. That’s why I got so frustrated with its cardinal writing issues (and production issues). It physically pains me to hear people calling Vrains the worst and most boring series of YGO – but the fact that I couldn’t argue against that because it’s true pains me more.

And now, an incomprehensive list of the faults of Yugioh Vrains.  

1.      What the fuck is wrong with the character designs (beside that of Yusaku and Ryoken???) Everyone looks aesthetically displeasing – characters in real life look incredibly boring they could easily drown in a crowd of background characters, but their avatars are OSTENTATIOUS. Seems like the character designer had no clue what “less is more” means – blue angel, soulburner, and Bohemann for example, look like they were immersed in a bucket of glue and then dumped into another bucket filled with random accessories.

(from a fan artist’s perspective…Im especially salty about takeru, akira, Kusanagi, and the Knights of Hanois’ designs…like, their designs don’t inspire me to draw. Their personalities might be interesting, but their looks lack the vibrant, enthusiastic energy that the 5Ds, Zexal, and Arc-V characters possess)

(imagine how many fanfics and fanarts of Kusanagi x Yusaku there would be had Kusanagi looked HALF as hot as Ryoken)

And don’t even get me started on the colour palette – whoever decided on the colours just cant make up their goddamn mind! Colour saturation is way off the charts, the range of colour is too wide the audience simply dont know where to focus.

2.      Forgotten plotlines. Yusaku’s link sense? Hanoi’s spy in SOL? The Queen and the rest of the chess pieces? Yusaku’s forgotten memories? The rest of the victims of the Lost Incident? Just to name a few. 

3.      Character relationships are weak to minimal to none. Bonds and friendships – the vital element in all previous YGO series – is practically non-existent in Vrains. Where’s the camaraderie between our main casts (Yusaku, Aoi, Soulburner, Ema, Onizuka, etc…)? They don’t feel like a team fighting the evil together. They’re completely separate individuals who don’t give a single fuck if one of their…acquaintance…dies in a battle. We don’t have heartwarming moments of friendship blossoming and consolidating. It’s honestly such a let down.

4.      Interesting and debatable topics thrown away. The conflict between artificial intelligence and humans could spark so many in-depth discussions, but then the writer just decided its all Lightening’s fault. No morally gray situations, no ambiguity between the line of good and evil. It’s just all Lightening and his petty jealousy… yeah.

Oh and if Ai lives on the world will blow up. Why? Do we have a concrete reason to back that statement? eh...

5.      Overall quality of the animation. I don’t know if its because the animation staff was short on time or low on budget, but for a megacorporation (konami cough cough) that makes billions every year, they certainly are capable of investing more in this anime series. I can count the number of episodes in which the characters don’t look wacky with a single hand.

6.      Character development, wasted potentials. Ryoken is the only character who received decent treatment. The rest of the Vrains cast are all disappointments. Original concepts are cool and promising – Yusaku, a victim of child abuse with PTSD, embarking on a journey to overcome his reclusiveness and learn to open up to people around him? HELL YEAH. Aoi, a teenage idol with depression developing into a more mature and responsible heroine who saves Link Vrains? IM ALL FOR IT.  Soulburner’s character arc is fine overall but personally I don’t feel like it’s expanded enough. Also, there’s the mistreatment of side characters like Onizuka, Ema, Akira, the list goes on. I got so furious just looking at these characters and remembering that they’re all wasted and sidelined.

7.      Incoherent/ random plotlines. IDK all episodes in season 1 (Hanoi’s arc) felt pretty consistent, focusing on a linear theme – Yusaku’s revenge on the Knights of Hanoi. But after that it felt like the writers gave up writing outlines and just wrote whatever he pleased/ considered more convenient for the sake of…a plot…that he had no idea which direction it was headed for. This is reflected in the amount of forgotten plotlines we listed previously.

8.      Weak villains. Kinda related to point 4. Bohemann, Lightening, Windy, and Haru are all one-dimensional, flat, predictable villains with the cliché goal of “destroying humanity cuz humans are dumb and Ais are superior”. Not likeable, not fun to watch, not morally gray (something I expect from well-written antagonists), they are just there to serve as symbol of evil for the protags to defeat.

Honourable mentions - what I personally want to see in Vrains, really. Very biased.

-        The familial interaction between Yusaku and Kusanagi? Brotherhood, perhaps? Without any mention of Yusaku’s parents, Kusanagi is the closest Yusaku has to a brother figure. I crave for some wholesome brotherly moments between these two.

-        More slice of life episodes please.

-        The friendship between Yusaku and Takeru. Please. Please. PLEASE. From the second opening we can see the animation staff CLEARLY intended for there to be a strong bond between Yusaku and Takeru – Takeru probably was written to serve as a Jounouchi/ Johan/ Crow sort of character. Yusaku and Takeru could bond over their trauma and overcome their PTSD together. AND IT WAS SO HEAVILY HINTED AT IN THE 2ND OP!!! fam what the fuck happened to that friendship, Im so robbed.

-        Yusaku and Ryoken’s duel or tag duel. These two haven’t duelled AT ALL since the first season ended. Isn’t Ryoken Yusaku’s official rival? Isn’t it Yugioh tradition for the protag and the rival to duel like, a trillion times? AND ISNT IT ALSO A YUGIOH TRADITION FOR THE PROTAG AND THE RIVAL TO TAG DUEL?????? The fact that Yusaku and Ryoken never had a tag duel haunts me every night in my worst nightmares afjw4ot9wgrk

-        Topologina Nabee

Thanks for coming to my ted talk, this marks the end of my rant on YGO VRAINS DISAPPOINTMENTS. Again, I harboured no malicious intent when I compiled the list – its more like a vent of frustration than actual criticism. I would pay billions to see a Vrains reboot or, if there exists an alternate universe where none of the writing/production issues above are present in Vrains, I would do a Kaiba and build a dimension travelling machine and immigrate there.

TLDR: wasted potentials. wAsTED PoTEntialS. WASTED POTENTIALS!!!!!!

[teruelfxonsuvar]

Sexual Orientation Headcanons

In which I baselessly put everyone(almost) on the kinsley scale because it’s 3 am and I have nothing to do Please don’t ask for my reasoning for this, I can’t explain. I’m not very eloquent pls i am trying my best as it is, ill explain what i can explain. (Masterlist over here x)

Tredd Furia: A solid 2. But he’s not aware of it. Everyone can tell he’s a little gay, except himself. Is it denial? Is it a very intense case of mistaking one emotion for another? who knows! He just seems like That Type of "””straight dude””” he gives off  Those vibes. If you’re not straight you know what I mean.

Luche Lazarus: Like, 4. He won’t flaunt it but he won’t deny it either.

Crowe Altius: 3. See I was thinking. She’s definitely presented in a way you know she’s One Of The Boys, so saying she’s gay would be too easy/stereotypical and saying she’s straight would be too cliche and predictable. So obviously she’s bisexual.

Prompto Argentum: 3. He doesn’t care. Just love him. Someone, anyone, please, love him. GIVE PROMPTO ARGENTUM SOME LOVE. 

Gladiolus Amicitia: Like a 1 or 2. He definitely shows preference for women the most and we do know he’s in a relationship with a woman after the timeskip, but also he sorta seems like the kinda guy that’d try anything at least once, ya feel?

Ignis Scientia: See. Ignis is tough. Because I feel like he can easily be a 6 or simply not care at all about a potential partner’s gender (so like, 3) or also just be asexual (so X). Either way, there’s nothing about Ignis about that says “exclusively straight” to me.

Noct Gar: Idk he seems a lil straight for Luna but also a lil gay for prompto but also he seems too emotionally drained to be attracted to people???? so either 3 or X

Cindy Aurum: Listen this woman is AroAce and you cant convince me otherwise. At the very least, she might be a solid 6 but just never address it unless it’s brought up.

Lunafreya Nox Fleuret: Listen. The thought of Lunafreya so much as thinking “I would engage in coitus with this other human being” seems utterly bizarre to me. When it comes to Romance though I feel like she doesn’t give a fuck man, r u a boy? a girl? something else? she doesnt care, she loves u anyways.

Ravus Nox Fleuret: Oh, dearest rae-rae is totally straight. STRAIGHT UP GAY. SOLID 6 ON THE SCALE. AND SO CLOSETED HIS BEDROOM MIGHT BE A WALK IN CLOSET ADJACENT TO HIS OFFICE. DONT @ ME.

Nyx Ulric: Listen I want to say 6 but idk bcause when I see Nyx’s face all I can see is Johan Akan’s gayness shining through, and this has been a thing before I even knew who Johan was, I always Perceived Nyx as Gay. But now I feel like I might be being blinded by Johan Akan. So many people read him as straight/bi and I just can’t see it but also it makes sense to some parts of my brain... I could actually make a separate post about this to be completely honest.

Cor Leonis: 2. Don’t @ me.

Titus Drautos: 3 or 4.

Libertus Ostium: 0. Ah, our first straight person. I just can’t see anything but Liam man, they did too well with the modeling (If only they’d worked so well on Ravus hah... Kingsglaive Ravus who’s that?)

Pelna Khara: like a 0. but also, Pelna seems like he’d give anyone a chance if they’re sufficiently close, even if he’s not sexually attracted to them?

Loqi Tummelt: 4. Maybe 5. But I feel like saying he’s completely into men doesn’t sit right with me for some reason.

Aranea Highwind: 3. Don’t @ Me.

Ardyn Izunia: 4. When ure his age it probably stops mattering, to be frank. but at least if he fucks dudes, cis dudes at least, he doesn’t have to worry about accidental pregnancies.

Sonitus Bellum: 0. Mostly on the basis that he seems like the least likely of the glaives to be found sucking dick?

Axis Arra: like, 1 or 2. maybe even 3? Either way I feel like he’d be very Precious about crushes.

[survivingjapan]

EPISODE 9 “That Damn Demagorgon” Pippa

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ok so I was close 8-4 against Isaac but Tommy got the other 4 votes.... idk what they were thinking targeting Tommy....like yes he needs to go, but did you really expect to be able to get votes on him right now?? I'm just happy my ladies Sarah and Brian escaped unscathed lmfaooo!

LISTEN UP MCFUCKERS! im pissed as hell! Isaac did not deserve this. AT. ALL. PERIOD. If alex didnt hardcore defend sarah this entire fucking day, we prob would've been a little more aligned. If trace (actually i forgive trace bc we barely talked) and kendall (that damn demagorgon) and johnny (YOU ARE NOT ISAAC, ANDREW, AND I'S KIDS ANYMORE. YOU'RE NOTHING. YOU'RE ROTTEN) had not been up everyone's asses about saving their asses, everything would've been fine. BUT NO. NO ONE KNOWS TRIBAL FUCKING LOYALTY. NO ONE. SCREW ALL OF YOU. this is like bb19 where all of you are so stupid to not vote sarah (paul) out or tommy (also paul) because they offer you friendship. oh and the india alliance is so fucking obvious, get over yourselves

HAPPY DANCE HAPPY DANCE HAPPY DANCE!!!!!! I'M ****SHOOK**** THAT WENT THE WAY IT ENDED UP GOING JDAFKVLABDNFJKLVNFADLJKVNJKLADNVKJLADNVKLJADFLJKVNAJKLAD To be completely honest, I'm not happy at all that Isaac is gone, but it just needed to happen because I needed to show Alex a lesson, and I know it may have hurt Andrew and Pippa a bit, but if I can work it to the best of my abilities, then we have a real shot at only taking down Villains from here on out, and I think the possibilities are endless. I also got kicked out of the alliance chat I had with Isaac (who left), Kendall (who left), Andrew, Drew, Pippa, Alex C. and me (who got booted), so now I know that alliance is down to four and Kendall and I abandoned ship so LUL More importantly, I have a pretty good position on my tribe and every single tribe member has a good level of trust with me, which I'm content with, and now I think we have a VERY strong potential to win this immunity challenge, but looking at that it's flash, I'm thinking the brains are going to go back to tribal, which will hopefully knock Jonathan out of the game. I wanted Music Videos at this point, but we get what we get and we don't get upset. Even though we're the beauty tribe, I think we have the strongest tribe by far. No offense to some, but Kage and Ashton are not too great at challenges, especially doing horribly in their original seasons, but I know Drew, Steffen and Dom are fucking all stars, so we'll see how it weighs out. I think our tribe is mad strong and we could be looking towards our first W as a tribe after this challenge. Time to devote my life for the next 22 hours to this challenge. Finally, I'd like to commend a RIP to Isaac. True friend, just a casualty *blows three fingers into the air*

These heroes know about each other's personal lives way too much....if I'm going to survive here I need to be REALLY inventive REALLY fast because I can't build a bond like that in a matter of a week.... I'll just have to use brute strategy and logic to convince them to keep me. I mean, right now, I'm clearly much, much more valuable than Kage so hopefully they'd at least keep me over him. After that, I could probably stick with Steffen and paint Drew as a big individual threat. From there, we could either help protect him, thus gaining his support, or make a campaign against him to Ashton and Dom. The latter seems risky though considering Ashton and Dom hardly speak to me.... If Drew can't be painted as a big target, my next best bet is to prove my worth over Ashton....cuz it seems Drew/Steffen/Dom know each other quite well so they'll be no chance in breaking that and I'd rather be at the bottom and alive than voted out so.....

So after talking to Pippa, it seems that she's in A LOT of trouble, and she is definitely not happy with my move against Isaac, and honestly, I expected her to be the one that was most upset with the move. The way she was talking to me was almost like ".......... okay what do you want me to do now?" Like she was saying how everything I was saying WASN'T getting shut down, but literally it was, and I was looking to better my position to get to merge, and then essentially just going with the flow and figuring it out from there. Essentially, I think I'm in a good position in my tribe, but I am pretty sure that Sarah is very likely to target me next, but I've got my second chance idol if I go back to tribal council, so I should be okay. I'm just going to have to finagle my way around this and figure my way out of this swap, but I also do think that Kendall won't target me immediately because it just doesn't make sense for her. I'm almost willing to cut anyone on my tribe, except Trace, to survive to merge. It might have to be Brian, even though voting for Brian won't work out too well for my whole Steffen/Crow/Brian/I thing, but oh well. I gotta stay safe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  

asfoajshfoqhrqototbie wubgwbgw; literally me having Sarah throw just gave me immunity and let me avoid 17th place as royalty Cirie Fields once said if ya cant beat them with dem biceps u can beat them with dem brains! (yet I'm a brawn but thats fine.....) Now if I could somehow scheme Junior out of this game cross-tribally hmmmmmm!

Just being here this season https://68.media.tumblr.com/401f8e72df04c376c8d989cdf135f514/tumblr_orehgfDnfj1t8a71ko1_500.gif

Okay since the truel is coming up and there might be the possibility of it being a double tribal, I know I need to get the ball rolling on the strategy. I hope I can bank on Steffen helping me out since we have the connection of me, him, Johnny, and Brian. Kage is too chaotic for me to feel good about having on my side Dom never talks to me nor responds much....Ashton is giving me no vibes of wanting to play with me So I'm working on Drew right now because I feel that if him AND Steffen both see the pros of keeping me, I'll survive at least the first vote-off we have.... Here's to hoping my sarcasm and charm actually work..... =)

I could go on a whole mess about why I'm pissed about Isaac going but I'll just sum up because I'm trying to move past it. I'm hurt. Johnny and Kendall hurt me. I see why everyone did it other than Kendall, and I really think she's just throwing this whole thing to Sarah. I almost pity Kendall but then can see her getting far. Not winning - but getting fat. And that's something that's seeming less and less like a possibility for me while I'm on this brain tribe that was fucked from the start. This is why a beauty had to go. So now we're moving forward. Last night, I called Junior and I think we're gonna try working together on this. Jonathan wants out Pippa but Junior and I discussed taking out Alex. Which? Is fine. Our relationship is just too strained. But the problem is - his chickenshit ass is probably playing the brawn idol tonight. So Pippa and I might just have to vote Jonathan. But I need Alex to not play that idol. That could be a disaster. ON THE BRIGHT SIDE ASHTON GAVE ME THE FUCKING REHIDDEN BRAIN IDOL. So obviously I have to play one of these tonight bc I'm not going home with 2. Everyone's kinda offline rn so I'll check in with everyone a little later. I just wanna survive this brain tribe. Even if I have to take out a hero, or Pippa. Fuck the tribal lines at this point. After being preached to for 18 days about "hero strong" I didn't really have reason to question it but obviously people are going to be selfish, and I wanna be too. Sorry if that makes me a POS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but if we keep losing and I'm still here I'm gonna have to be