#very awesome voice

[sw4nfire]

so I made the mistake of listening to the character songs sung by the voice actors and it sparked a buggy centric mad max style musician/music au and I cant get it out of my head here is a google doc with all the details and my reasonings

I tried not to change much about one piece's wacky world since I love it so much

[daisythornes]

speedrun of things that cause me agony in the wondla tv series trailer:

whyyy did they have to make the sanctuary so sterile and minimalistic? the book sanctuaries had this charming clunky 70s sci-fi design to them – they were blocky and durable and Eva's was tangibly lived-in, even worn in some places, because that was the point! they were an experiment that outlived their usefulness, but people kept living in them & they felt like it. this feels like Kim Kardashian's creepy white torture house.

"this... is me." has this line not become extremely passé in trailers, like almost to the point of parody?

that is NOT Muthr. idk who that is, but she is not mothering. it's like they took her book design and stripped away anything that may have been even slightly challenging to the cocomelon-smoothed zeitgeist of current animation. she's just so... nothing. she doesn't even look like a robot so much as like.. the lame soul design from pixar's soul. book Muthr looked WEIRD, but you can see the ways in which she's literally a synthetic + superhuman recreation of a Mother Figure: her head shape mirrors the beehive hairdo, her big eyes are saccharine sweet, she has four arms bc she always needs to do a million things at once, etc. i get that this version of Muthr was probably way easier to animate, and i don't even think they had to stick to the original design 100% as long as they still did something interesting for her, but. they didn't.

rip Eva's sick as hell hairstyle. :( seriously, her complicated braids were so important. bc 1) they were an homage to Dorothy's braids in the wizard of oz, the book to which the whole trilogy is a love letter. 2) they immediately gave her a unique visual identity as a character. 3) they contributed to the world of Wondla feeling genuinely strange and foreign to our current one. 4) they subtly spoke to things like Eva's boredom and loneliness and all the time she had to herself.

the paltry mini braids and single low bun they gave her instead are WEAK. again, they didn't have to follow the books to the letter, but. they did kinda need to give us something more memorable and distinctive than this.

i mean... there is ofc the obvious question of why'd they make her 16 instead of going on 13 like she was in the books? but also, perhaps even more crucially, why does she look like a whole ass adult woman? wondla is very much a coming of age story, and it's really good at capturing the messiness of that experience in every way down to its character design. this Eva doesn't look messy, she looks like an influencer. also i hate that current disneyesque cgi character design.

her outfit's like... fine. but it was so fucking cute in the books. cute and ultra utilitarian, and unlike anything i'd ever really seen before. can't a girl have a vest with a funky collar, cool billowy balloon sleeves, and scrunchy knee socks? do yknow how many kids would want to be Eva for halloween if they simply gave her an outfit that looked cuter? they're leaving money on the damn table.

she wasn't done with her training for life on the surface in the books, and that was important. :/ not that anything could've really prepared her, but the fact that she was so young made her terror and anger all the more palpable. i guess i don't think it's inherently terrible for her to be a bit older in adaptation, but idk, at least let her retain that trial by fire/still kind of a scared kid quality that's integral to her arc.

the placement of the 'wondla' letters on the page makes no sense. it's meant to be the wonderful wizard of oz (or the wonderful wizard of oz by l. frank baum. i forget which, but ONE of those for sure), so by all accounts the l and a shouldn't be right next to each other like that, there should be more space between those two letters.

now i don't fully remember, but i super don't think that 'Eva find me' note was in the books. Eva would've been way more obsessed with it if it was. in the books, she doesn't know the 'wondla' page was actually left for her, it's just this strange anomaly she finds that gives her hope, but she sort of creates that hope herself. its origin is an honest to god mystery until the second book, and therefore, the meaning that Eva gives it is what really comes to define it.

it's not just that no one had seen a human in a long time, most aliens on Orbona had never seen a human at all until Eva came along. that's a big difference! though, this audio does sound chopped up from multiple sentences, so maybe disregard this.

i don't like that they gave away the 'Orbona was once Earth' twist right off the bat. i know it's not a wholly original trope in sci-fi, but this is a middle-grade/family series, and it straight up blew my mind to see as a kid that hadn't ever really read true sci-fi before. and Orbona is SO bizarre, and Eva is SO desperate to find other humans, that the reveal is extra jarring and bleak, and it creates such powerful tension. why give the impact of that away in the trailer?? why not just let people think she's stuck on an alien planet until they get the full emotional gut punch when they actually watch it for themselves?

where's the lake in Lacus? :/ that was... kinda the basis of Lacus' culture and design and all. like ok i see some water, but Lacus should be almost more water than village.

Otto's design!! why god why.

why is Otto furry, why are his eyes Like That, etc.

nooo, don't show the ruins of New York in the trailer, that's for the audience to discover in horror along with Eva.

also why does Otto (i think that's him talking at least?) sound like that? thumbs down.

what are the. uh. shark tale-looking creatures running on water. they're very shark tale-looking (derogatory). they don't look like they belong in this series?? like did this footage just get misfiled?

egads it's coming out at the end of this month. i'm gonna watch it of course. but the whole time i'll be thinking about what could've been. and i'll reread the books, too. >:|

[theyamjam]

SHES CONKED UP &EVIL REMEMBER THAT!!!!!!

[novelist-becca]

That feeling when you unlock Sethos in Genshin Impact and you’re like “HUNTER???”

[fiercestpurpose]

The body swaps in TLT would I think be really effective in a visual medium. I’m thinking specifically of Gideon trying to kill Harrow in HtN versus Pyrrha taking care of Nona in NtN.

It’s the intimate proximity of violence versus the intimate proximity of domesticity and using the names of the people in the bodies sort of hides the fact that the two bodies are the same in each circumstance.

I can imagine it in two comic book panels: Harrow charging for Gideon, startling him by closing in instead of moving away versus Nona moving towards Pyrrha to give her a hug in their apartment. Or if comics aren’t your thing, think about what a parallels gifset might look like.

The body stuff is weird! And I think it’s well done, but I think a visual medium could really drive the weirdness home in a way that the books can’t.

[lilacthebooklover]

grace chasity really said alto rights, huh?

[wuntrum]

only on episode 4 but can everyone watch carol and the end of the world plsplzpls. its genuinely really good. and so refreshing in terms of western animation geared toward adults

[starleska]

...folks, i do think the Interviewer in the Live Interview Audio Segment with Wally Darling and Barnaby B. Beagle is voiced by Nick Nocturne, or Night Mind 👀💖 i’ve been watching Nick’s videos for a long time, and i’d stake a lot on this being true!! can anyone else hear it? 

[sysig]

Stop bringing your own couch just so you can crash here (Patreon)

[spaciebabie]

count how often i make a post about missing choir here's post number whatever. i miss choir

[kvaradonaa]

Sheva suggestion #8

Dress up as the classical literature author you admire the most.

[technovillain]

[palin-tropos]

harry's colleagues having mostly non-british accents while harry's is british would explain how the "dick mullen" moniker stuck

[mukuharakazui]

my hot milgram take that i will always defend is that kazui has more in common with mikoto than he does with yuno and mahiru. perhaps even both of them combined.

[bilestat]

insane how quickly something small can tank my mood

[cherry-bomb-ships]

I have a bit of time b4 this next flight takes off (just sitting in my seat right now hehe) so here's a thought that's been stewing for a bit; honestly in addition to being partnered and totally in love with Mojo, my s/i would also be his biggest fan 🥺💖💖 They'd think that everything about him is just so cool and that all his evil plots are so impressive and they'd always hype him up and want to remind him just how awesome they think he is 🥺💖🥺💖 I bet he'd practice his evil speeches in front of them too or let them "proofread" any schemes he comes up with because their opinion matters to him and he also knows that they're probably gonna be giving him lots of compliments and feeding his ego hehehee 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖