Asking as someone who isn’t a major gothcleats fan, but who wants to understand the euphoria regardless
I feel crazy. Here’s my thing abt gothcleats, since episode 1 of season 2 I’ve thought “well wouldn’t they be cute and silly” bonding over soccer and the such and such you understand. Then as the season progressed it kinda was pushed to the back burner of my mind, BUT THEN, toxic gothcleats era was really my era man like I was obsessed with them they made me crazy and I just couldn’t stop thinking about them and I love them dearly and it was one of those things I never like, expected to be canon ya know I was always like this is for me and sometimes will makes a joke about it and yes the way it was canonized was for the joke BUT STILL. Also when they said they were doing a reunion I was like “oh damn gothcleats will be untrue” (bc in my mind it was always a post canon thing) BUT THEN IT WAS REAL!!! You must understand I’ve listened to every episode of season 2 live and this is the most shocking crazy thing that could’ve happened I’m obsessed I’ve never won harder
Does anyone else think that the relationship anthem for KafHoshi could be 'I Will Wait For You' by Mumford and Sons?
I mean, just look at the lyrics.
"You forgave and I won't forget"
"I'll use my head along side my heart."
"A tethered mind free from the lies."
Looking at it in my twisted little mind, from this perspective it feels like a war-torn Kafka coming home to the one man that grounds him. Hoshina gave this man a fresh start, forgave him for lying about being Kaiju number 8, and gave him access to tools to help him in the coming fights. Hoshina swept away any thought he had about not being strong enough to fight for others.
When he's with this man... how could one's soul not feel painted with gold.
Or you could see this through a platonic lens and say its about Kafka's relationship with all of Division Three.
my brain at war between starting a playlist called "songs where soap mactavish knows every. single. word." (silly, unhinged) vs a collars and cages playlist (sincere)
Something I find funny is how some people hyper focus too much on the new Scrooge and how attractive he is... As if attractive people can't be bad and horrid, and how it's 100x easier to dunk on someone when they're ugly and grotesque (this change already adds a different spin/conversation to the massive pile of other adaptations that are essentially the same). Like if you watch the movie, it doesn't change the fact that Scrooge is STILL an outright asshole of a human being (like the dude threatens to call the cops on some old ladies and performers on top of everything else). You'd have to be absolutely dense or purposely obtuse to just gloss over all that (the movie from what I've been told goes even further in making Scrooge meaner in some aspects as well). I see people just throw around the word "woobify" when the movie doesn't pull any punches in making Scrooge an absolute piece of work (insulting poor children at the start of the movie) and also making him face and realise that a lot of his misery that's been done as result of his actions in the past, are STILL his own actions. Him being a silver fox doesn't change ANY of this. They never make a reference to his appearance other than Past noting how attractive his younger self was and her saying "what happened to you?" as a commentary on how ugly and horrid he's become AS A PERSON, which I find to be a great moment. This being just ONE adaptation that decided to take this approach amongst a countless myriad of more "accurate" adaptations (which is funny because its still practically the same beats, Scrooge is just designed attractively) isn't going to somehow erase all that and frankly isn't the end of the world.
Also I find it hilarious when people say they're woobifying scrooge... when isn't the whole point of his redemption story THAT?? That ultimately his character is woobified in the end in lieu of becoming a good guy?? But no... People just assume they're going to absolve him or somehow misplace him being the villain in the first place JUST BECAUSE HE'S ATTRACTIVE LMAO. Like WOAH how could we possibly forget that the main character of a super famous story that has a surname used as a reference point for being a miserable human being? WOAH, he's handsome?? OH NEVER MIND, MY BAD. I CANT FUNCTION ANYMORE OH NOOOOOO!! HELP ME! I'VE FALLEN AND I CAN'T GET UP FROM HOW HANDSOME HE IS OH NOOOO!! Might as well just say "I want bad man to be ugly and stinky looking so I can keep track of how I should feel about said character throughout the narrative because I'm so focused on tying morality with physical attractiveness".
not to sound like "average TikTok fandomer with little to no lyric analysis when assigning songs to characters" but would it be a stretch to say that my love mine all mine made me think of showtime specifically in the pov of Caine and killed me immediately
i can't find it now but yesterday i saw a post speculating on how nandor might pronounce 'lgbt' and i have since had 'elgibbity' rotating nonstop in my head
I really like The Junior Science Club because its the audio equivalent of a middle school teacher trying to teach you something but the teacher (Logan) keeps getting off topic and regaling insane anecdotes so all the class walks out not having learned anything but very happy nonetheless
i got the kind of autism where I make theme songs and leitmotifs for my characters that I haven’t written anything about but have a complete fuzzy image of in my head