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This is like the second editing thing I've tried my hand at and I'm not done with the first so um, be nice please?
#rottmnt#rottmnt leo#rottmnt edit#rise of the tmnt leo#lmk mk#lmk edit#monkie kid mk#monkie kid edit#lego monkie kid mk#lego monkie kid edit#trying to get back in the habit of tagging stuff lol#for future me's convenience mostly but e h#I did a thing#I did a tonal whiplash because I wanted to
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rules — shuffle your “on repeat playlist” and list the first ten songs, then tag ten people; indirectly tagged by @lunapascal
1. The Foundations of Decay - My Chemical Romance
2. Run Boy Run - Woodkid
3. Cemetery Drive - My Chemical Romance
4. The Bug Collector - Haley Heynderickx
5. GOSSIP - Måneskin (ft. Tom Morello)
6. Arsonist's Lullaby - Hozier
7. Me and the Devil - Soap&Skin
8. Trouble - Cage the Elephant
9. Puppet Loosely Strung - The Correspondents
10. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
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@ashestoashers @limnsaber @luthanraels-bignaturals @unleashed-bat @e-the-village-cryptid @exciting-username @oatshow
#the reason there's so much mcr isnt because im just that emo#it's because we were discussing songs in the cas server#also I'm just that emo#listen to this playlist if you want tonal whiplash#the variety#had to turn it up on gossip because it simply cannot be listened to quietly#arsonist's lullaby is because it's on so many of my character playlists 💀#a few of these were in my “sound” playlist and i recently replayed it for my friend so they came up#can you tell im autistic yet#i was p r a y i n g that Supermassive Black Hole would come on and IT DID#AT THE LAST MOMENT
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another one of these posts lol... sketches vs final. not much changed for these ones, i kind of went into them with a very solid mental image already in my head. all of these were done start to finish in procreate
thoughts below the cut
horse fight .... this is based off a really really beautiful sky i saw while driving home one evening. i'm really proud of getting the colours i saw exactly right, this kind of greenish yellow fading to dark blue and with grey clouds low over it that looked very dark against the yellow by the horizon, but very pale against the dark blue.
i thought it would be a cool backdrop to draw a scene i've been thinking about for a while. The little cartoony horses are there to provide some tonal whiplash but also because these are two immortal shapeshifters who can fight violently without it being a huge deal. the little horses represent the actual gravity of the fight (that is, kind of a slap fight between two drama queens) which contrasts with the visuals of two animals brutally tearing at eachother. also i got the two horses at the bottom mixed up, Pascal is the one with the skinny plumed tail and Macha has a more traditional horse tail and i put them on the wrong sides.
i had a LOT of trouble shading this. i didn't want the horses to be too shiny but that meant a much lower contrast in shading and even with my screen brightness turned up i could barely see what i was doing. but i wanted it to read as realistic. mixed results i think. if i did it again i might try a different shading style because this one didn't really do it for me
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spooky van!!! the post i deleted by accident (rip. i will repost it soon). this is a picture of the barrow (the field) taking a different shape - in this case a cool van. the van contains every single thing the field does (including the human victims that get lost in there...) but compressed down into a manageable shape. the void is Pascal because the field is inside him. he did this for his human bf to provide novel way to travel through the Otherworld. don't ask how this works like, spatially, because the answer is: i don't do hard magic systems in this setting
i loooove shading things with pencil hatching and i really like contrasting it with smooth colours/shading so that's mainly what i did here. it was simple enough. the van is of course heavily referenced and i wish i had been able to stylise it a little more.. maybe next time. i want to draw a kind of cutaway illustration of the van showing exterior and interior (like an old blueprint schematic), which i might use as a cover for the book/comic/whatever but that will require a very intimidating level of precision so i think i'll work up to that.
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RUA magazine. this is my third time doing a rua magazine cover (first time posting tho). this is an in-universe magazine distributed throughout the Otherworld to an audience of fairies. in the sketch, the illustation was originally the King of Pentacles tarot card (the pentacle being the disco ball). but i decided to make a different King of Pentacles card for him instead, since I try hard to move away from symmetrical composition for the tarot cards (it's boring). so i repurposed this one into another magazine cover. like i said Pascal is a self-absorbed attention whore and has a habit of giving bullshit interviews just so that he can be on the cover as much as possible. he dresses like this all the time (the year is 2017)
the disco ball took 15 years off my life and it's not even the first disco ball i've drawn! i finished my actual king of pentacles card before i finished the rua cover sketch, so i can show u this
which is much better even if i did reference so heavily that it isn't exactly stylised. but this card needs some serious revision before i even think about posting it. i'm just not happy with his face.
original intent was for it be mysterious with emphasis on the neon lights but it ended up far more suggestive than i expected. that's life!
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Okay, a lot of people are calling Izzy Bury Your Gays or saying the show is saying certain kind of queers don't deserve a happy ending and I absolutely disagree with those takes. Plus, not all queer media has to have a happy ending for every single queer character
That being said, I... hated Izzy's death narratively. The tonal whiplash of having the wedding immediately follow it aside, the death just felt... so disconnected from his actual arc
Him saying "I want to go" after having a whole arc of surviving a suicide attempt and finding a community that loves him and who he loved in return feels.... so fucking weird? The way the crew who did so much for him to keep him alive just kinda... stand around as he dies?
Like, I understand the symbolism. Hecwas a pirate at his core and the Golden Age of Piracy is over. It works symbolically.
But symbolism still has to make sense for the actual character and story. He is a character and a symbol. He can't throw away his character arc just because of symbolism or it's still gonna be unsatisfying
Like it was genuinely just an incredibly unsatisfying end to his arc. For him to have a speech about how piracy is his community, how it's his family, and then... the age of piracy is over. If we're going for symbolism, what does it mean that the symbol of piracy dies immediately after piracy is said to be a symbol of queer community?
It just falls flat to me. It feels like they were so focused on the Themes and Symbolism that they forgot they had actual characters to write.
And the tonal whiplash is... so much. Like Izzy barely gets to be mourned. Ed barely seems upset afterwards. And everyone just kinda moves on and no one really seems all that upset despite Izzy having such an arc about how he matters to the crew
I dunno. It just felt... unsatisfying. That's the best way I can describe it
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i feel like we didn't give the mansion basement enough of a look because what the fuck. what the fuck. just purely from a game design standpoint the tonal whiplash of going from the fast-paced brightly colored noisy antics of the mansion to the dingy, dark, abandoned halls all alone- even your friends suddenly disappear from your side- is fucking insane.
it's comparable to the true lab in undertale, except at least the true lab had some closure at the end. the amalgamates were revealed to simply be well-meaning lost souls who didn't really want to hurt you, they were just hungry. alphys took everyone home. sure, there's the freaky flowey phone call, but that's undercut soon enough by the uplifting and jazzy beginning of the asriel fight and seeing all your friends again. in deltarune's basement, you get no resolution. spamton gives you a supremely off-putting fight in a strange setting, he collapses to the floor, and you walk out still feeling like that was just... wrong. even susie acknowledges it. there are no ordinary encounters in the basement. you don't even have enemy npcs to keep you company. the only people who live in the basement are the strange plug monsters and... that weird face in the dark. that place has been completely forsaken by the rest of cyber world. swatch talks around it, clearly not enthusiastic to go too in-depth. when you check the dark spots in the room with the machine, the flavor text reads "there's nothing interesting". nothing interesting? that doesn't mean nothing at all! there might be tons of deleted data and drawings in there, and we have no. idea. what any of it looks like. the empty, dusty chests that no one knows the previous contents of. what did they used to hold? the teacup rides, oddly well-maintained and shiny, clearly out of place among the rest of the decrepit place. it's like they and the plug guards are the only things in the basement anyone takes care to repair and maintain anymore.
coincidentally, they're also the main lines of defense against someone sneaking in to get to the machine. the only ones, in fact. shouldn't an artifact like that have, i dunno, sentient, mobile guards? but they don't. the machine is extremely powerful, and they know spamton wants it, but they don't do all that much to protect it. it's so fucking weird. the basement is so wrong on a fundamental level that's so out of place with typical toby fox fare that it really makes you realize that the next chapters aren't going to be all sunshine and rainbows. it sets the TONE. i feel like that was confirmed by some of what we saw in the spamton sweepstakes- the basement is bad, but the worst is surely yet to come.
#deltarune#it's some of the scariest stuff in the series and it's insane.#the way toby fox can clearly do POWERFUL horror when he wants to#but he doesn't. most of the time. and when you've let your guard down#he goes and pulls something like the true lab or the mansion basement. and it completely throws you
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Jake Kim x Reader: Asking you out...?
Pining to fluff. Was just going to leave it at the first part, so try to enjoy this tonal whiplash.
Jake looks at you, listening with a smile, and wonders if this is all he can have.
His day starts and ends with thoughts of you. Despite everything, despite bigger concerns. And he wonders if you think about him half as much as he thinks about you.
Can't help but check everytime he hears his phone ring, hoping it's you. Antsy and fiddling until he can get to it, swiping past the picture of you and him on his lock screen, to see who it's from. Even if it's just to tell him something stupid. Because at least you're thinking of him.
Never has the heart to tell you he has an early morning meeting, continuing to text you deep into the night and showing up with bags under his eyes and looks of pity from his crew.
Even when you're not a message away, Jake lies awake thinking of you. Recalling your words through the day, the lilt of your voice, the way his name sounds on your tongue. How he thinks you might be the most beautiful person that will ever grace his life.
And when he tells his jokes, making other people chuckle, it's your laugh that he looks for. Your eyes that he searches for. Wants to say that actually, that was meant for you. Anything to make you smile.
Swallows down his jealousy when you mention someone catching your attention. Jake plays the role of friend well. He's happy for you. Really, he is.
He will keep telling himself that until it sinks into his thick skull.
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"-so when are you going to ask me out?"
At snail's pace, your words sink in... but not really. Jake tilts his head, trying to decipher what's going on.
Is it this dream again?
It doesn't feel like a dream. Just in case though, Jake gives himself a harsh slap on the cheek
Shit. That smarts. Definitely not a dream.
Yet no words come. Throat completely drying up and mind blank, Jake stares and stares and stares.
Unamused with his reaction, you cross your arms tightly. Naturally adopting a defensive stance as this conversation starts to veer wildly from how you imagined. "Aren't you going to say anything?"
Jake's gaze continues to pierce you, and your cheeks heat up. The rejection stings. How did you read the signs so wrong? You thought this guy had been painfully obvious.
"Jake?"
More silence.
"Even if it's a no, you don't have to be such an asshole!"
Wait, who's an asshole? Jake snaps to but does little to tamper your embarrassment or anger.
"Huh?"
Huh?! You practically lay all your cards out on the table and that is all he says? Your voice rapidly rises, reaching what can only be described as shrill with your last syllable. "What do yOU MEAN HUH?!"
"What do you mean ask you out?"
"What?!" And you want to tear your hair out.
"Ask you out." Jake enunciates slowly and clearly, like you're the one not catching on. "What did you mean?"
"LIKE A DATE! Because I like you and," As quickly as your temper flared, it extinguises again. In a quiet voice, you finish your sentence- "I... I thought you liked me..."
Jake considers playing off his feelings like he always does when someone in Big Deal asks about you. When Jerry or Jason catch him looking a bit too wistfully, or he snaps at Lineman for joking about asking you on a date and they wonder why Jake is being so touchy.
Oh right. A date.
Choking down any fears or anxiety on the off chance the wires have been horrendously crossed, Jake plasters on a fake sunny grin. Might as well leap in head first.
"I do."
Ughhhh, so you were right. "Then ask me out already!"
You're pretty sure your eyes are bugging out as you are practically yelling at him. Reeking of entitlement and demanding to be taken out on a date, looking wild and very unattractive right about now.
Jake would probably agree if he wasn't half in love with you already and pulse racing as what you said finally sinks in. He leans down to keep eye level, teasing tone returning.
"Does that mean you'll say yes?" The fear and anxiety is non existent. The grin is no longer fake.
"Does that mean you like me too?" Damn. Jake thinks you're really so stinking cute with your face crimson, even if he's pretty certain there's currently a 96% chance you'll push him into oncoming traffic.
He's replayed so many different versions of this scene in his his head. And that's where he thought it would all stay.
In his head.
"Missed your chance!" Angrily shoulder checking him, you storm off leaving Jake to call after you.
"Y/N!"
You ignore him.
"Dinner!" he says, beaming and easily catching up with his long legs, "Let's go out for a dinner date."
"Hmph."
You and your stupid conscience, you feel guilty leaving him hanging.
"Fine!" Stopping in your tracks, you whirl round to face Jake (who really does look too pleased with himself), and jab him in the chest. "And you're paying!"
#lookism#lookism x reader#lookism fanfic#jake kim#jake kim x reader#kim gimyung x reader#kim gimyeong x reader#i think i might have written something very similar#wannaeatramyeon
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General thoughts after watching Season 1 of Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender (spoilers may be present)
It's not bad. It's weird, but it's not bad.
No one asked for this.
No one asked, but we got it anyway. So what did we get?
It's not a 1:1 remake. I don't think, despite everything people have worried and griped about before the show's release, anyone wanted that either. It doesn't retain the same character arcs for everyone. Not just Sokka, but everyone.
At the same time, they still have arcs.
They're weird, they feel weird, because this show does what the Shyamalan movie doesn't, and makes an honest effort to capture the essence of the animated show, of the characters, of the world, and there is respect in its efforts.
There are musical motifs from the original. The set designs are out of the original. Many scenes are shot exactly like the original as homages.
And yet, storylines are merged together, elements from later seasons are introduced earlier, character interactions happen differently, character motivations are presented differently, and that feels weird.
We know the motions but when we the audience try to follow them, the show changes its direction and pulls a weird flex out of left field.
I won't say I agree with every major and minor change made, but I'm not enraged or disappointed in the same way as I was (and many of us were) after seeing the movie.
Instead, I'm more inclined to see where these new threads intend to go, and how the story we all know and love can be told in a different way.
Roku had barely a presence in this season, whereas in the original, he was more or less Aang's spiritual teacher. Instead, we've felt more from Kyoshi and Kuruk and Yangchen, and Aang has felt lost in his spiritual journey as well as his physical one.
Ozai, who was just a shadowy one-dimensional nightmare for most of the original first book, is now a more fleshed out figure, but one of confusing motivations. It's not the tonal whiplash of the movie, of the Ozai who legitimately worried and cared about Zuko's well being while also having still scarred and banished him, but one who is playing a 4-D chess game with his kids as the pieces and doesn't care who wins so long as one does.
I don't think it was the right call to have Zuko fight back in the Agni Kai before getting burned, but it gives a different dynamic to Zuko and Ozai's relationship that he's not the towering, shadowy Mark Hamill terror Zuko cowers before.
This Zuko seems legitimately convinced Ozai cares about him and all it takes is the Avatar to win his full love back, whereas there's still bitterness in the OG Zuko of book one. He knows Ozai favors Azula over him, he knows he's had to struggle well before being banished.
I also think not casting Dee Bradley Baker was a mistake. But they have time to correct that mistake.
All the kid actors, being green, of course do not stand up to expressive and gorgeous animation with brilliant voice acting. But they are all giving it their best, and I think they have what it takes to grow into the Book 3 Team Avatar if they get the chance.
The music got to me a number of times, particularly the instrumental renditions of "Leaves From the Vine."
Do we need this show? No absolutely not.
We have the original ATLA, and we always will. It's a timeless classic of our generation. Nothing could ever compete with it or ruin it.
However, I do feel like this adaptation is worth giving a chance to stand on its own. It may be far from perfect, but after watching it through, I legitimately want to see where it goes from here. I want to see this cast grow and change in their own ways. I want to see Toph in live action. I want to see Ba Sing Se. I want to see the new directions this story chooses to take to end up in the same place at Sozin's Comet.
But that might not happen if Netflix decides to cancel it, and I think that would be a shame.
I really do think it's worth seeing this show through, for better or worse.
Overall, as a show, I would give it a modest 7/10. (With individual elements skewing higher or lower throughout)
I don't like that it's only 8 episodes, but that's been a trend of other streaming shows also, across platforms, so I cannot fault NATLA alone for that.
You don't NEED to have seen the original to understand what's happening or get key details (unlike SOME adaptations have been doing recently). You can get a complete picture with just this. Is it as pretty or vibrant as the original? No. But it is still a whole picture (or, could be, with all three seasons).
It has great effects, sets, props, choreography, good music. It has SUKI. And JET. and JUNE. And THE Cabbage Man!
AND OMA/SHU ARE LESBIANS! I mean, I see that as an absolute win.
#flowerspeak#long post#atla#avatar the last airbender#netflix avatar the last airbender#natla#netflix atla#I do think two more episodes could have been added for breathing room and more show element inclusions that were mentioned offscreen#but that's a problem I've had with streaming shows as a whole. lacking necessary breathing room#we used to get shows with 20 to 22 episodes each season#and now we are lucky to get double digits at all per season#but overall. i truly enjoyed my watch. and i do want to see more#natla spoilers#Netflix atla spoilers
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Can you give us your thoughts on Big Ethel Energy? I haven’t seen anything glaringly wrong with it tbh, but I might not be educated on the topics the comic brings up.
TBF I haven't read it as extensively as LO (though that's a loaded comparison because I definitely put WAY more into analyzing LO than most webtoons LMAO) but my biggest issue with BEE is just like... the main cast (primarily made up of women) are so manipulative and toxic all the time. A lot of the comic's narrative feels very preachy while not actually practicing that empathy, very similarly to LO in which characters will just yeet out Therapy Speak or whatever have you and then use it to justify their shitty actions, rather than actually learn from them/correct them/etc.
One big example I can think of that alerted me to its issues (as many others) was the scene where Betty tears into her boss (Seth):
And he totally has a point, he acknowledges that he made a misstep but I don't think the irony of her calling him a "judgmental jerk" has been lost here because she's literally basing her judgments of him off instant reactions (and hoo boy, do a lot of the characters in this comic do that, but we'll get into that shortly).
But then there's complete tonal whiplash where they go upstairs to the roof where he reveals that he's changed his decision about working with Veronica (thus correcting the misstep that Betty was calling him out on) and Betty is just SO overjoyed by this that she-
Like, this is her boss, for starters, who she's kissing (without his consent or even any signalling that he wanted to kiss her in that moment) literally MOMENTS after she called him a "judgmental jerk". And then when he rejects her because there would be a power imbalance in their relationship that he's not comfortable with (which is a VERY reasonable boundary to set), she just ?? Goes right back to being mad at him and the story paints it as if he's at fault ??
Like they actually had the opportunity to showcase a story in which a power imbalance in the workplace ISN'T romanticized (like it is in so many webtoons like LO and Let's Play) and instead it made the boss out to be the bad guy for rejecting the advances of a female lead. And so many of the female characters in the story are like this, it's like they're trying so hard to be "strong independent women" but then they just come across as manipulative and mean all the time. Like sorry, but you can't just use "progressive language" like "mansplaining" to make your characters seem smart, Betty is being a huge asshole here over something SHE caused. It's very "woman good, man bad" with no nuance or consideration for the actions of either party.
And of course, they follow it up with Betty actually realizing she wasn't in the right, only for Veronica to come in and be like "nah you're allowed to hate who you hate" even though that kind of advice totally isn't constructive here when Seth was being completely reasonable. So Betty is literally just flip-flopping between actually caring about Seth and his boundaries to hating on him for having them at all.
Like, this is so miserable to read. Don't get me wrong, Veronica is traditionally a very "fuck you, I do what I want" character, but it just feels so gross when we know what Betty did was wrong and Betty ought to know this as well because she's usually the more reasonable foil to Veronica. It's not like it's empowering either of them the same way it would if they were fighting over Archie (as they traditionally do in Archie comics) and then mutually decided he wasn't worth destroying their friendship over, this is Betty's boss who she kept changing her opinion about based on whether or not he sided with her. It's flimsy. And they never really address Betty's behavior here going forward or use this as an opportunity for growth (at least from what I read following this, mind you I haven't kept up on the comic in a while).
To talk about the main character, Ethel, there's actually another weird scene that comes after the Betty/Veronica exchange, this is after she's started seeing Moose (though they don't have an official relationship yet) and is going over to his house for the first time.
Like, these two aren't even officially dating yet and she's already nitpicking things about him and taking his choices personally. It feels very unnecessary and vapid - and if you're someone who's read Archie comics before, it feels very out of character for someone like Ethel, who's traditionally a very sweet (albeit hopeless romantic) girl, here she just feels mean all the time.
And the comic as a whole just has a lot of these passive aggressive scenes. The internal monologuing of Ethel is insufferable because it's often just her constantly judging people or jumping to extreme conclusions. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for characters who aren't morally good, but I don't want to read a story that lives in the head of an asshole LOL
All that said, I haven't kept up on anything from BEE in a while, from what I've scrolled through of newer episodes at a glance it seems to have dialed back on some of that passive aggressiveness, but I'm gonna have to do a re-read of it at some point with the newer episodes included to form a stronger opinion. So take what I say here with grains of salt.
I just don't think it's necessarily a good example of a "strong romance series". Everything feels so petty all of the time and when it does try to act informed or mature, it's completely undercut by characters who can't practice what they preach. A lot of comics on the platform tend to stress "women supporting women" but then really it turns into "women hating men" and it's just like...?? Is that really the point of the message we're trying to get across here?
Add in the extremely stiff dialogue and text dumping and cheap art, and this just doesn't feel like something that would be made for a series like Archie of all things. The Archie franchise has really been suffering from lame melodrama and unlikeable characters as of late, I know there's only so much one can do to re-adapt a series that was from the 1940's, but it feels like it's often misinterpreting the point of the more modernized messages they're trying to preach rather than giving us an actual story with characters who learn and develop along the way. It comes across more as the Archie franchise looking for shortcuts to connect with "today's audience" by using cheap buzzwords rather than put any actual effort into the writing.
IDK, it's just a very mediocre comic with very mediocre attempts at seeming "progressive" and it feels so disingenuous. The characters never feel like they have any real integrity or development, especially with how some of them flip-flop on a dime based on whatever the creators want the audience to feel.
It's just a big ball of 'meh'.
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Lore Olympus ep. 255 critique
Boy oh boy.
No remorse and tonal whiplash
We open this chapter with Persephone waking up not dead, total shock in Hades' arms, asking him if what happened was all a bad dream.
When Hades responds that what happened was not all in her head, we as the readers would expect Persephone to react with shock, remorse, something. Nope. Instead, we get this:
"Oh dear" with the most expressionless face ever. Our empathetic, caring protagonist everyone.
Now maybe I'm being too harsh. However, I feel like most people upon being confronted with the fact that they caused mass destruction would be pretty upset, if not incredibly so. But that's just my 2 cents.
We immediately transition into a party that's being set up for Persephone by all her friends and cohorts. We're then treated to this lovely image:
Thanks Captain Obvious.
While Hermes and Megaera argue over whether or not carrot cake is good, Thanatos pulls Hecate aside and notes about the massive uptick in incoming deaths which confirms what I said in my last critique post. While initially denying it, Hecate quickly realizes that something is very very wrong and that's when Hades and Persephone burst through the doors. Persephone bursts into tears and we get the most tone-deaf sentence ever:
Wow. Haha so funny. Comedy. Given the context of what just happened, this attempt at humor fell so flat.
I feel like the first third of this chapter kind of speaks for itself in terms of the writing and art, which is not good. There's just no emotion at all. I get the feeling that we're supposed to feel bad for Persephone and I just... don't. I don't have a whole lot more to say about this portion of the chapter; just that when I read it, I strained my eyeballs from rolling them so hard.
Hades tries not to make everything about himself challenge: Impossible
We transition into the post-party disaster cleanup where Persephone is hiding out in a greenhouse and Hades and Hecate are inside. Hades takes this opportunity to make everything about himself.
First of all, you're not and you're not.
But on a more serious note, this is not the first time we see Hades take a situation that has either nothing or almost nothing to do with him and make it all about himself. In fact, this is something he does frequently throughout the comic. Hades, in my opinion, very much has a "me, me, me, it's all about me" mindset.
One instance that comes to mind is this scene that happens in early s2 after Persephone opens up about her childhood and AOW. She barely has had time to share and process her traumatic experiences when Hades decides that this is the perfect time to dump 2000 years' worth of pent-up trauma onto a girl he's known for maybe 2 weeks at that point. Yet, he refuses to actively seek help during his time before meeting Persephone and even calls his therapist a hack.
Another instance is when Persephone confronts Hades about ripping out Alex's eye in s1 (when she was still somewhat empathetic to nymphs and whatnot).
Hades, when torturing Alex, very quickly shifts from the mentality of "you could've really damaged Persephone's reputation" to "I'm going to punish you because I view Persephone as my property and how dare you do this to me?"
Hades even outright admits it when confronted. He took a situation that had nothing to do with him and completely made it about himself.
Another instance is when Persephone tells Hades about what Apollo did to her and Hades flies off the handle and makes her trauma about himself. About what he is going to do even though that is not his decision to make.
It baffles me how conceited Hades is despite claiming to care about Persephone. I don't understand how you can look at a person who is going through a hell of a time and think "Let's make this about me". But that's a whole other post for the future
Zeus and Apollo
Skipping to the end of the episode, Apollo calls Hades (with Zeus' phone?) and tells him that he wants to take Persephone off Hades' hands.
Straight up, I don't like Hades and Persephone either as characters or together as a couple. I think they bring out the worst in each other. But Persephone is not some dog that needs to be rehomed and frankly, the whiplash Rachel is giving her audience in regards to Apollo's character is going to put me in a neck brace for life. She keeps flip-flopping between trying to make Apollo this sad, sympathetic anti-hero and the most egregious villain to walk the earth. You can not be both Zuko and Azula Rachel. You need to pick a lane and stay in it.
Apollo reveals that Zeus is in a coma and Hermes conveniently has the news up and running so we as the audience can be greeted with this:
"Attempted murder" you say? Of a being that literally can't die? Rachel, do you even know what attempted murder means?
"The defendant took at least one direct (but ineffective) step towards killing another person" and "The defendant intended to kill that person (malice aforethought)" -> California Law and Sentencing
While both of these are true in the fact that Apollo took the steps to kill Zeus and also intended to kill Zeus, they're gods. You can't murder a god. In order for murder to be attempted, or to even happen, the person in question has to be able to die. But then they're a human, not a god.
I feel like a more accurate report would be something along the lines of "Zeus has fallen victim to what seems to be a violent coup that has left him seriously incapacitated." Maybe that's not the best sentence to ever grace the writing scene, but hopefully my point is clear.
Also, how are people still oblivious to the fact that Apollo is, at the very least, incredibly suspicious right now. I mean his father has just been announced to be "dying" and instead of taking the time to mourn or even appear upset, he immediately slides into the position of power as King of the gods.
This chapter definitely wasn't as bad as 254, but it did make my brain hurt. Merry Christmas Eve and Happy Holidays to those of you who don't celebrate Christmas. See you all soon.
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I’ve got to say, I hate the ‘it was funny’ excuse that gets thrown around for a lot of Damian’s early writing. Because one of the big problems with Damian’s introductory stories was the absolute tonal whiplash they were from what preceded them.
Like, yes, ‘the 10 year old has a sword and is violent and foul mouthed! And gets away with (literal and figurative) murder! Isn’t that amusing!’ is a genre for stories. However, it’s a genre aimed at ADULTS not teen readers premised on the incongruity of a small child doing unchildlike things. And actually I do think trading in the teen character who was noted for having relatable school based arcs and friends for a book about a hyperviolent 10 year old had…issues. I was here reading Robin. If I wanted to read Kick-Ass I would have been reading Kick-Ass.
Especially when I’m picking up a book with the word ‘Robin’ on the cover. I mean I can point to sections of Tim’s Robin run that I would rather not hand to a 12 year old (the back half of Willingham particularly, but that’s because it’s just boring propaganda), but for basically all points up until Batman & Robin 2009, books with ‘Robin’ on the cover were a safe pick to grab for the preteen in your life and often came with a bit of an accompanying moral. Since then? It’s been all over the shop.
Things did pick up once Tomasi got control and there were far more moments where I was fondly exasperated with Damian rather than just exasperated, but early Damian, particularly written by Morrison, is a TRIAL.
Just. Maybe I’m square, but I don’t find Damian’s early violence against criminals and Tim to be funny or charming. I mostly find it to be something that I sigh at.
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Skybound had so many good ideas and concepts that I really like the season for. On the other hand, it fumbled like 80% of those ideas soooo hard that makes me want to cry.
(suuuper long indulgent rant about Skybound underneath cut read at your own risk)
Nadakhan is my favorite villain in a bubble. He’s this disgraced djinn prince who runs away from his home realm to become one of the most feared pirate captains in Ninjago and when he tries to return home, it’s all crumbling. He then exacts revenge on those who destroyed his home by manipulating them and toying with them psychologically, eventually trapping their souls in a sword? Badass, right?
Except that all of this cool characterization is contradicted and bastardized left and right. The season dumbs down the ninja instead of making Nadakhan smarter so he can win. When he gains the ability to make his own wishes, he resorts to immediately killing everyone. His obsession with Nya is really weird considering that she was the one who CAUSED Djinnjago to get destroyed.
Jay and Nya’s character arcs are really interesting too. In a bubble. Jay has to step up as a leader after all his friends were taken by this guy, who he has to face after he kidnapped and tortured him. He fucked around and found out the hard way and has to make up for it. Nya continues to struggle with her identity and coming into her own as a ninja and not having Samurai X to latch onto. They both have to fight to keep each other safe and make sacrifices and fall back in love.
Once again though, this is all fumbled and explored in a way that makes me tear my hair out. Jay is a selfish obsessive whiny asshole who’s pining for Nya is super uncomfortable and annoying to watch instead of cute or relatable. Nya is an even bigger asshole than he is. She lets Clouse get away in the beginning to throw a tantrum on Jay, which causes Nadakhan to be freed in the first place. She causes Jay to nearly get killed by the Tiger Widow and then get kidnapped/tortured, all because she was mad at him.
So many other plot points and character choices make me so upset it really detracts from the season as a whole. To name some:
Kai’s ultra inflated ego/obsession with social media and girls
Dareth
Forcefully inserted misogyny
All of the prison arc. All of it.
Ronin betraying the ninja for the police. I get he likes money, but the ninja saved his ass and he is a known criminal. Just a weird place to take his character.
The ninja turning on Jay immediately and effectively sacrificing him to the ultra deadly giant spider
Cole and Lloyd being unceremoniously/anti-climatically removed from the season so Jay and Nya could be alone
Marriage plot (specifically Delara and the marriage plot only ever being used as an excuse for Nadakhan to fight with Jay over Nya which is really gross)
I wish Delara was explored more and was not a creepy Nya clone for Nadakhan to drool over, ew
Dareth
Cole, Lloyd, and Nya using up their wishes immediately in really stupid ways
Tonal whiplash from the goofy lighthearted first half of the season to the dark hopeless second half
Echo Zane (before the Echo fans come after me, I like his character, but he just introduces a lot of plot implications that are never resolved or addressed for a character who has like 10 minutes of screen time max and never gets to come back)
We never learn why Cliff and ‘Libber’ abandoned Jay with the Walkers. Cliff obviously cared about his son, he made a shrine for him in his dressing room, so why did he never contact him before his death? What happened to Jay’s mom? Did Wu know? It’s annoying to have this plot point, only for it to never be explored in the whole show besides a line about being adopted in Prime Empire. Maybe we’ll get some context in Dragons Rising, but I doubt it.
We were robbed from a rematch between Captain Soto and Nadakhan
I honestly wouldn’t mind the ending, if it wasn’t for the fact that the writers can’t decide wether everyone remembers the alternate timeline or not. That and it’s seems like the events of Skybound don’t effect Jay and Nya in later seasons like at all besides a wink and a nudge at the viewer. Once again, Jay was kidnapped and physically/psychologically abused and tortured, and Nya straight up died. They are the only people who (completely) remember and gained what should be a massive amount of trauma but nope! Lloyd has more on-screen/canon trauma over Harumi than Nya does about DYING or Jay does about TORTURE. Again, I don’t think that Dragons Rising will explore this to any extent either.
I also don’t mind the whole trapping the ninja in the Djinnblade thing, I just wish the ninja could have had more screen time. Either by keeping them around longer before trapping them, or showing what inside the sword was like idk
Nadakhan and Jay are kinda weird because I’m not sure why he singled him out out of all of the ninja. I know the Doylist answer is that Jay is the focus character for the season, but I find it weird that instead of getting the other ninja while he could, he wasted a lot of his time toying with Jay on Misfortunes Keep. Why didn’t he just kidnap all of the ninja on Tiger Widow Island instead of giving them a chance of escape. His obsession with Jay could have been easily explained or explored it it never is?
TL;DR, Skybound is a mess of really good and really bad ideas Frankensteined together in the messiest, laziest way they could. I still like it quite a bit, but I would be lying if I said it didn’t frustrate the hell out of me.
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I don’t remember the exact YouTube video, but someone mentioned that Helluva Boss is basically fan fiction of itself, and I feel like that’s a pretty spot on description.
There is no real overarching plot, this series only exists because Viv wants to see her two edgy OC’s make out with each other.
As I have stated in a previous post, I have a hard time picturing this show appealing to anyone outside of Viv’s hardcore fanbase.
The writing is terrible, the villains are all one note, the “jokes” are your typical “adult” cartoon gags, the musical numbers are just there to pad the runtime, and the tonal whiplash is all over the place.
Helluva Boss’ attempts at drama remind me a lot of Family Guy’s Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q. In which the writers tried so hard to do a “serious” episode that tackled the issue of domestic violence, that the end result ended up feeling super awkward and tone deaf.
Viv and her writing team just aren’t that great when it comes to balancing comedy and drama. One minute Loona is having a heart to heart conservation with Octavia, and in the very next scene she’s kicking Blitzo in the nuts.
There’s no consistency when it comes to the show’s overall tone, as Viv wants to tell this tragic love story, but she can’t go five seconds without making an awkward dick or sex joke.
Helluva Boss is a mess, and I honestly feel like an idiot for giving it as many chances as I did.
#Helluva Boss Critical#Helluva Boss Criticism#Vivziepop Critical#Helluva Boss Critique#Spindlehorse Critical
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Get To Know Me Tag Game!
Thanks to @mythical-bookworm and @alex-a-fans for tagging me.
tbh this is just a song rec list LMAO [easier to open in a browser fyi]
1) Spell your name in songs
Y'all get two for the price of one cuz I couldn't decide if I wanted to go with all non-English songs or not.
The non-English songs are labeled with 🧋 in case you wanna avoid 🤪
Warning: Most of the songs in english have swear words so... just in case u got kids or ur strict parents around LMAO.
⚡️ F: Fighter Not a Lover
aro/ace people gonna love that shit ^ + no swear words
alt: fml u fucked me up
⚡️ U: URARA🧋
It translates to 'Oo-la-la', which I now realize is the magazine Biff was carrying around in the second movie... this was unintentional and the meaning of the song is very wholesome, trust me
alt: Upside Down
⚡️ T: this was a demo for this one song...
That one's like 50% f-bombs ^ i love it
alt: Toxic but its NOT Brittany, B*tch 💅
The most aggressive entry on this list
⚡️ U: Up Up and Away
The only f-bomb is in the second verse
alt: Unmei no Roulette Mawashite 🧋
'unmei' means 'destiny' so you know I had to include it
⚡️ R: Raining in Manila (half 🧋)
Couple of dudes just vibin' out in the studio, what's not to love?
alt: RAHHHH
^im convinced this is what suburbanites see in their nightmares
⚡️ E: Electricity (half 🧋)
alt: Extensyon
Both make up the most WHOLESOME entry in this
⚡️ -(hyphen): Hatid Sundo 🧋
Baby. Baby boi. Baby. vibes ^
alt: Hell to Sell
EVIL. vibes ^
🚫🧢 I have a problem with tonal whiplash. Did I cheat and use the hyphen to include the most wholesome and cute song right before pulling out the lowkey most scandalous song in the list? YES.
Just realized it doesn't work as well if you can't understand it, but trust me. I mean just listening to its vibes is enough 😩
⚡️ B: Balik Sa Umpisa 🧋
Any song that samples/remixes 'Stand By Me' is a W in my book.
alt: Bodybag
I'm just self-reporting at this point.
Ok the rest are very wholesome songs I swear
⚡️ O: Oretachi Rookies 🧋
alt: Oh, Imagine That
ok this one's tied for most wholesome in the list
⚡️ I: I/Me/Myself
gnc/nb people gonna love this shit ^
alt: I Really Like You
that was a struggle, R is the top pick to check out imo. E, O and I are the wholesome ones with no swear words if u care.
2) Why did you choose your URL?
Its based. ..off the song in the musical. I got back into the fandom because of the musical so I owe it that much. 'boi' sounds more gender-neutral than 'boy'
3) What is your middle name?
That's a secret!
4) If you could be any mythical creature, what would you be?
Shapeshifter.
5) Favorite color?
Purple. Lavender/Periwinkle specifically.
6) Song you love right now?
What? 🧋
The amount of crackhead energy, but genuine emotion... AND AESTHETIC. it was literally made for me LMAO Ken is so aggro but hes singing about not littering. like why is he so intimidating-- but i support the eco-friendly king.
but fr the song is about waving ur flag with pride??? PRIDE???? and they look androgynous asf??? whats not to love
7) Top four fandoms? (Current Fandoms?)
Back to the Future
That's it
jk uhhh, Invincible
Thats it, dont wanna get into past fandoms rn
8) Tag nine people
mf u think i know 9 people??
im playin, lemme tag some cool people... not that u have to do this, i just wanted to bother u 🤪 but feel free to do it, i wanna hear other music 🥺🥺🥺
⚡️ @maxintime LOVE UR ART STYLE. BEEN TOO SHY TO BOTHER U THO 😭
⚡️ @jowritesfanfiction my inspo, my density, ILY. Im never shy bout bothering u in my posts HAVE U GOTTEN THE RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST ME YET 🤪🤪😭😭😭 ive tagged this mf in every other post istg
⚡️ @moth-makay ur great frfr 😭😭 all the hugs. r u gonna post more art??? cuz u shouuuld 🥺
⚡️ @bttf-dork ur name and pfp give comfy vibes??? its very endearing. dunno how to describe it, but i like seeing u in my notifs 🥰 bUT UR ART DOHHH. immaculate. underrated.
⚡️ @pepsifox88 i hope u continue to cook ✨ everyone go and GIVE THEM SUPPORT, I AM NO LONGER ASKING
and to the rest of u, thank u for liking a bunch of my work, whenever i see long lists of likes like that, or if i see ur name often 'nuff, i always notice 😇, i never know how to say thank you!!
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@karorurodriguez
@epikprinc
@mapleflavedpepperoni
@xmaster3000
@jayisnotdrawing
@jackofthecards
@ectojester
@cat0marble
Didn't include everyone, but just know that i noticed you!!! 💝
watch me get reported for harassment by all these people 😂
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I have a million thoughts about the ending of ofmd. I think overall it felt a bit rushed, through no fault of djenks or anyone else, but because they were given less episodes to work with.
All things considered with a shortened season and budget cuts I think they pulled it off pretty well.
The one thing that I just can’t get past is Izzy. Don’t read any further if you don’t want spoilers.
so, David Jenkins has said that the plan was always to kill Izzy off. And honestly, I think there was a way to do that where I still could have been satisfied with the ending even if I didn’t like seeing my fave die. But because it was a shorter season, it felt rushed. There was barely any time for mourning, to really feel the impact of his death. Even if it had been to save one of the crew that might have made it feel more congruent with his arc this season. But it was so sudden and we didn’t get time to sit with it before everyone quickly moved on to their happy endings. It just felt like such tonal whiplash.
(I also in general have a real disdain for the trope of traumatized characters only finding rest or redemption in death. But that’s more of a personal preference.)
I can totally understand why Izzy would have to die from a symbolic perspective. As he says to Ed in his final scene, they were both a part of Blackbeard. However, he also spent this season growing outside of that relationship, building a family with the crew and finding out who he wanted to be. From a queer perspective, it felt really jarring watching a character like that finally come into his own only to die shortly after (I am absolutely not saying that it was homophobic. I am just saying as a queer person it was hard to watch that journey end that way. This show is the farthest thing from homophobic.) Also the symbolism of his leg and him being part of the Revenge only to die and be left behind? Really painful to watch. (Also I have feelings about the disabled character being the one to get killed off but idk quite how to write about that right now)
My final gripe, was his death scene. Everyone acted beautifully in it, as usual. And I’m glad that he apologized to Ed for his role in feeding into Blackbeard. But I didn’t like that it was all about Edward. The line where Izzy tells him he has a family and they love him felt so out of place. Because we’ve seen very little this season of Ed interacting with the crew (after terrorizing them as Blackbeard of course), but beyond making general amends his story has been focused a lot on him and Stede this season. Izzy is the one we’ve been seeing find a family with these people.
Anyway, I think they did a decent job all things considered and it’s not their fault it felt rushed. Con O’Neill is an acting master and I loved watching him do his thing. I feel kind of bad for complaining about the ending because this show has given me so much in terms of representation and queer joy, but this one moment just doesn’t sit right with me. Overall very grateful for this show and I will miss Izzy so so so much.
#I did not mean for this to be so long#I guess I had a lot of thoughts#anyway I’m heartbroken#ofmd#our flag means death#Izzy hands#edward teach#the revenge#ofmd spoilers#our flag means death spoilers#ofmd s2 spoilers
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Just some thoughts on Bravern so far...
I'm on Episode 6 of Bravern and I kinda like it, but I also kinda don't. I have a lot of mixed feelings on it, especially in regards to the character Lulu and how the series chose to introduce her character and her role thus far in the series (I'm not a fan of how they introduced her character with sexual aspects going on - the misconception that Smith was engaging in sex with her - and then now they are going a sort of childish and infantile route with her...It's just...kinda weird and creepy, but not in the usual way). I'm glad with how they've been NOT doing some things with her character (her role with Smith after her introduction hasn't been sexualized since, thank goodness), but the character archetype that they are going with her character so far is also one that I'm not really a fan of for reasons involving issues I have with some aspects of moe and whatnot.
Lulu is very cute though, and I actually really love the diversity in the female characters and their personalities!
I'm also not really a fan of love at first sight and soulmate stuff, so a lot of the Isami and Bravern moments, while humorous in some ways (though also a bit uncomfortable in some ways for me, because I feel like there are some slight consent issues going on) don't really emotionally connect at all either.
The storyline itself also seems kinda all over the place. Like, there is a consistent goal in the series so far, but I feel like a lot of the scenes don't really flow into each other as smoothly as they could or should, so it feels like things are just happening. There is a bit of a tonal whiplash too, due to the random bits of English that get thrown around, sometimes in grave or serious situations, that kind of just throw me for an unexpected loop. It makes me wonder if this is a series that I might like a bit more (in that regards) dubbed rather than subbed.
The character designs lean a bit too into bara (gei-comic) style for me personally (like, Tiger & Bunny character designs are my limit, and like Antonio's design is too much for me in that regards, though I adore his character - I tend to be more of a bishonen fan), but I do LOVE all of the gay subtext and text that is literally everywhere. The ED also is a thing of beauty, lmao. I also think this series does comedy extremely well.
I'm also just really intrigued by how things will go and play out and just how far the gay stuff will actually be pushed (I've seen a clip for a moment later on, so I have some general idea, but I want to see just how far it really goes). It's also nice to see anime original series just pushing boundaries and doing some different things. That's what they are there for.
I'm also open to seeing how things evolve and change with the series (some of the issues that I have might actually get addressed or flip around for me in a later episode). I'm not hooked on the series. It hasn't grabbed me in the same way as Buddy Daddies or Tiger & Bunny did, but I'm still interested and will still continue watching.
Anyway, those are just my thoughts on this series so far. I'm probably going to do a write up after I finish it as well.
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JUJUTSU KAISEN, CHAPTER 217-218 THOUGHTS.
The most recent chapters have been a heavy tonal whiplash, from the total despair of Megumi’s body being stolen by Sukuna and Yuji helpless to stop it from happening, to Yorozu’s extremely over the opt personality and hers and Sukuna’s fight mainly being played for comedy. I’d argue this is intentional on Gege’s part, the lighter comedy tone hides the extremely dark and sinister subtext of this whole fight. Thoughtsunderneath the cut.
1. It’s Because of Love
To begin with, no I do not think that Gege is using the fact Yorozu who’s possessing Tsumiki’s body, having a crush on Sukuna who possess Megumi’s body to suggest any kind of incest subtext between Megumi and Tsumiki. Nor do I think it “counts” as incest. They are completely unrelated sorcerers who are puppeteering Megumi and Tsumiki’s bodies in order to fight each other.
In fact, I would say that the fact Tsumiki’s body playing lovey dovey with Megumi’s body is sort of the point, you’er supposed to feel disgusted by it, because Yorozu and Sukuna are using the bodies of two siblings to do things that Tsukimi and Megumi would never do. They have completely usurped control of their bodies, and both teenagers are helpless in these situations.
Not only that, but the same way that Yorozu’s definition of love is so toxic and one-sided more in line with a completely obsession than anything else, Yorozu and Sukuna are basically perverting the love between siblings. They’re making a mockery of it, because they are both 1,000 year old sorcerers who have no regard for individual lives and see the people who they’re possessing as nothing more than pawns.
Remember, Sukuna’s intention is the pervert and defile Megumi’s body entirely, to make Megumi so disgusted with himself that he’ll fall into complete despair and give up control of his body.
Tsumiki is depicted as naked, with flowers being torn apart in the background while Sukuna talks about his plans to make Megumi kill her with his own hands, to symbolize the destruction of innocence. Flowers are often used as a symbol of purity. They come up in association with Tsumiki several times. When Tsumiki’s ideals are first brought up, she’s depicted with white flowers.
When it’s mentioned she was cursed, the panel turns negative and we see black flowers with white outlines. She is also later depicted in the same chapter in a field of sunflowers. Associated with warmth, happiness, and longetivity. Things which Megumi wished for Tsumiki, because he wanted to protect her happiness no matter what.
Tsumii’s flowers are black liles when she’s depicted as being cursed, which mean both curse and love, and are an inversion of the white lilies that mean “innocence.”
Remember, the phrase repeated in Jujutsu Kaisen, especially in regards to cursed or doomed childhood loves, Yuta and Rika, and then Geto and Gojo.
Love is the most distorted curse of them all (i’m used to the older translation, lol but this is from official scans.) Think of all the people who have lost loved ones and manifested into a horrible curse. When Maki lost Mai, not only did she massacre the Zen’in Clan, she became another Toji (which isn’t a good thing I remind you, Toji is a bad person). Toji himself is said in authors notes that he gave up on both his son, and everything else because Megumama’s death was the last straw for him. Yuta did not want to lose Rika, so he turned her into a curse which made an extremely distorted form of him that harmed several people in his life until he learned to control her.
Love is the most distorted curse of them all.
Yorozu’s extremely distorted ideas of love even mirror Rika’s. She screams about marriage while at the sametime wanting Sukuna to rip her to pieces, and try to kill her with everything he has. She associates love and violence like they are one in the same. Yorozu is depicted several times in flashback as a beautiful, naked woman, and her strongest cursed technique is turning into a horrible, disgusting insect.
This also highlights a further theme this whole culling game arc, how horrifying it is people like Sukuna, Yorozu, Ishiguro, Uro etc... will steal people’s bodies and murder others, and ruin someone’s entire lives, for basically the most shallow of reasons. These ancient sorcerers are just another example of the previous generation destroying the newest one and taking young lives before they even have the chance to bloom.
The whole point of this fight is we are supposed to feel disgusted by Sukuna and Yorozu’s antics, because they are curses, taking the bodies of Megumi and Tsumiki and distorting their love for one another. Sukuna especially is doing it, to push Megumi past the point of no return.
Love is the most distorted curse of them all.
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