#this was low effort so yeah

[chocmoon-latte]

Gotta love those silly, dead wives.

[ohplasticheart]

Tell me when the party ends Will you still love who I am?

[txxxciii]

My contribution to Railao nation.

(Oh Kung Lao and his undying desire to be loved... same)

[turtletoria]

my favorite wordgirl character, jerma

[stormy-sierra]

now that ive posted vigilance i inflict low effort wizard comic upon ye. + pandora as well

[zedorxio]

I think they’re in L word … Leprosy.

[capitainecorbeau]

Ooh, that episode. Gwen deserved a cathartic breakdown, a hug, and a fucking break (and some better writers).

[deiaiko]

Happy B-day to our best leader <3

[hotwaterandmilk]

I'm still not well so this isn't going to be articulate, but I wanted to say something anyway.

In the wake of Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (amongst other titles) being purged from streaming I've seen countless posts saying "This is terrible, we need to stop this practice -- they might purge a good show next!" and yeah, for sure a lot of titles being impacted by streaming purges/lack of physical media/a decline in archiving right now aren't going to be remembered for changing the world.

However, I think it is vital that we fight to preserve these titles for their own sake not just because "What if next time it's something we actually like?!" There is value is preserving things widely regarded as "bad" not just because I have firm beliefs about the absurdity of taste, but because who gives a shit if something is deemed "good?" Actual human people put their time and energy into realising these artistic visions. Even if the results are arguably not "good" or "popular", should the efforts of these artists be lost to the sands of time? No, no they fucking shouldn't.

I share a lot of art on this blog from titles very few people consider culturally important or valuabe. However, I don't look at the things I collect & share like that. Even some of the most objectively absurd titles I own are still pieces of art that were developed, published, and consumed by humans in the real world. Whether they've turned out to be broadly memorable or not is irrelevant because they existed and that in itself makes them worthy of preservation so that others can choose to familiarise themselves with them long after the original creative team is gone.

So yes, we should all be trying to preserve the media that's important to us and not let corporations try to stamp out every trace of a financial (though not necessarily artistic) misstep. However, it shouldn't take the threat of something we, personally, like being taken away to stir us into giving a shit.

Even the demise of less admired works should concern us and make us start to burn copies of Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies because it might not mean anything to you or I right now, but to some kid in 20 years it could be a seminal experience that leads them to follow their dreams. Or it could become a cult classic that people reflect on at watch parties years in the future. Or it could continue to be a footnote in the history of television that nobody really cares about.

Ultimately I don't think it matters what level of value we arbitrarily assign to media now or in the future, we should be trying to preserve as much of it as possible so that generations from now people can enjoy the option of engaging with these titles should they so wish.

[puppeteerparty]

Honestly posting this here because why the hell not autism sync up

[pokimoko]

Simon Petrikov

Anon-Orbo wants that Canon-Blorbo obliterated.

[thatoneluckybee]

y’all remember that one yanderemidori post

something possessed me at 8pm i guess.

^^the post in question

[96percentdone]

Not to be mean, but I really do think some of hot takes about the meaning for Dahlia Boat are ridiculous. Like, the zero escape references are one thing, Uru is canonically a loser who loves zero escape, and we'll come back to them, but like.

Change the letters DAHLIA BOAT to the fourth letter followed by the original one in order of the alphabet, can get "HELPME FSEX," which could mean, "help me, female." This hints at Uru's dependence on Tokiko, or his Oedipus complex.

Like I'm so sorry; I don't think that's it. I really don't. You don't need a whole cipher to reference Uru's Oedipus complex when you can just play Nonentity Incognito exactly one time and be like "oh okay he has severe mommy issues got it." That's just explicit text for his character.

Maybe the writers would go out of their way to encode that for fun, but it doesn't work in universe as something Uru would do, which matters because Uru is deliberately saying this bullshit name to fuck with the cops. He's meticulous about hiding his identity, and Tearer is a whole persona. In Japanese, he literally uses different personal pronouns for himself when in the costume vs outside of it; it's like...inconceivable he would do this lmao I'm sorry it's just a bad theory guys I know he likes puzzles and thinks he's the smartest boy in the world but not for this.

Let's come back to the zero escape references though. Phi's character design has a black flower in her hair, which according to the designer is a reference to a novel based on the real life murder of Elizabeth Short, also known as the Black Dahlia. Elizabeth Short was bisected at the waist. Boat is a reference to 999, where the death game involves a boat sinking and makes a lot of use out of the mythos behind the Titanic disaster. Do you know what the Titanic famously did when it sank? IT SPLIT IN HALF.

It's that simple. He's referencing tragedies that involved things or people being halved because that's what he does. He's Tearer. He has a whole comment about how he studied history, and this is how he's using it. Horrible jokes about real events to avoid revealing himself. From a writing perspective, they're incorporating the 1/2 motif again; I think that's clever enough.

[shitty-davesprite-daily]

this is really stretching the 'shitty' in the blog title but fuck it the 'daily' is already a lie

keychain design :thumbsup:

[skitskatdacat63]

Renault Nando collages I made the other month 😌

[theokusgallery]

i have nothing to post sooo have this shitpost