While the dependant plants in Trigun Stampede look cool as combination of angelic alien orchids and some sea creatures in their little aquariums, im intensely bitter because of how literal they made it (oh they really are plants plants huh) and the lack of the absurdly massive light bulbs they resided in in the 98 anime and manga..Like, Not all of the light bulbs were humongous, hanging over towns, but the ones that were, were mindboggling...There is something intense about something so powerful (and kinda eldritch) being captured in something so massive yet fragile looking. I loved the old bulb and plant designs so much because they werent just cool aesthetics... I loved them because their size and design didnt make sense. As a man made horrors beyond our comprehension shouldnt make sense. And their visuals evoke in me memories of how it felt standing at a foot of a 125 meters tall cooling tower of a nuclear power plant. Its monumental, useful and potentially very dangerous... so much so one has to feel humbled.
- Plants in trigun 98 (we didnt learn much about them because there wasnt enough of material to work with)
- Plants in the manga...whats important to note, is that the plants often stood over the towns as in constant vigil (monumental yet sentient)... not just visible from all around by everyone, but they themselves kept on observing all the people living their lives underneath their bulbs... All the people prospering from their services.... or fighting and killing over them
- Plants in Stampede.. While they are still interesting designs, the little aquariums conveniently small enough to be more easily stolen dont do it for me, even though they still represent the power of captured nature. They are also...very very sheltered from humans. Hidden and overlooked, although important.. Which makes me sad. And doubtful that there will be many interaction scenes between them and the people... Hopefully in next season there will be big bulbs and interactions.. but who knows.. (Ok, like, it makes sense that a core of a power plant should be hidden and protected inside of a building, but I wish to see some big bulbs!! I wish to see them spilled out of the wreckages of the big space ships)
And to illustrate what I meant about the comparison to actual nuclear power plants in their absurd monumental insanity (which is somewhat also sort of mundane??).. here are some photos of our nuclear power plants. Dukovany and Temelín
-Dukovany photo by Zdeněk Dvořák
- Temelín as the Big Night Watchman (video mapping by Milan Cais, photo by ČTK)
I love this sort of thing so much n need more of it.
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i really like the idea of an AU where vash and wolfwood kinda get forced into co-parenting a baby independent plant. like vash hears about a towns plant thats dying and goes to check up on it and then he walks outta there holding a baby and both him and wolfwood are very confused and stressed cus they cam barely take care of themselves let alone a baby let alone a baby whose development and care neither of them know jack shit about.
i think being forced into a situation where they both have to care for another living being together would probably be enough to force them to confess their love, or at least be much more obvious about it but technically never say anything even though they both very much are aware theyre in love.
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Vashwood Week 2024 will be running from May 26th-June 1st!
Day 1 / May 26th: Childhood / Partners In Crime / Werewolf AU
Day 2 / May 27th: Protection / Trust / Bodyguard AU
Day 3 / May 28th: Saviour / Martyr / Reincarnation AU
Day 4 / May 29th: Blood / Flowers / Role Swap AU
Day 5 / May 30th: Traitor / Mercy / Angel AU
Day 6 / May 31st: Forgiveness / Guilt / Timeloop AU
Day 7 / June 1st: T4T / Free Space
(Huge thanks to @nebulaleaf for the phenomenal graphic!)
Thank you to everyone who filled out the interest check! With your input, we have decided to run from May 26th through June 1st, incorporating some of the many wonderful prompt suggestions received via the form.
When the time comes, please tag all entries with [ # Vashwood Week ] and [ # Vashwood Week 2024 ] in order to be promoted. In addition to this, please @ MENTION THIS BLOG in all entries so that I can see and boost your work.
I will be putting a copy of our guidelines below the cut, but you can find those and more written up on our carrd so please check that out if you need a refresher.
If you're not going to stick around for those, thank you for your time! I will be posting about the week in the days leading up to it, so stay tuned for that and happy Vashwooding!
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