i can’t take ian’s scene in 9x14 (looking at the plane) seriously… he does not know that’s fiona’s plane. there was no way he would be able to tell that. stop being so extra and go back to playing basketball ffs

I think I'm gonna die soon if I don't talk abt Martha and her brothers

so like does Jeremy have a thing for the color blue or am I reading too much into two small very minor part of tsc

”and what will you do with your bachelors degree in film?” a wife will graham study through the gender narrative of his character arch. thanks

speedroid is such a fun fucking deck... i wuv speedroid. warning the tags on this are a magnitude 3 Special Interest Zone

I NEED to update my Radiance's gijinka design I stg I have such cool art ideas for her and PK but I am. So lazy.

Two sides of the same coin, equally as awful morally grey people that would maul each other to death if put in the same room, I love them 💜

I need to also focus more on her role in my AU because while I've rewritten pretty much the entire thing she was left behind and now idk what to do with her in the long run oopsie. All ik is that she ends up being mortal or near mortal after her fight with Ghost and Flower and she is Not happy about it, but it's also the only way PK would have left her alive and Flower is big on second chances so now she's just here, bitter and angry and a shadow of her former self (and actually I just didn't have it in me to kill her before I could do something cool with her + I like the potential dynamic she could have with other characters)

my gf and I have been watching knb [10/10 even as someone who doesnt go for sports anime normally] and its funny...the character she really likes and the character I really like, both not like the main guys apparently have a shit ton of ship art between them.... its meant to be

i hope this case really gets to rip into defense attorneys forging evidence. because like we never get to deal with corrupt defense attorneys its so sad. like we have 1 (one) and we dealt with him in the intro case!!!!! pleaseeee 😭🙏 i want them to have fun with this

sorry im busy patiently waiting for the day that lucien is going to be called "my lord"

imo good character-establishing things to have for pcs are like

- the usual why are they on this adventure, why are they w this group, etc

- what's one personality trait that drives them to do the stupid but fun thing

- what's one aspect that might make them act in ways contrary to how they do normally (including Not doing the stupid thing if it wouldn't be fun)

that last one is beneficial for the collaborative aspect of ttrpgs: if everyone else wants to do x, & as a player u wanna cooperate but ur pc would be opposed, how can u navigate that? there's still times to dig ur heels in, but often I've found more value in establishing Why or How my character can be convinced to go along w smth anyway

also just. ppl contradict themselves sometimes, & having even a simple sense of that in ur pcs can both make rp richer & assist in collaborating w the other ppl at ur table

my bpr notes watching me plan where to put werewolves when i havent posted anything in 2 years

ive had everything taken away from me (would have been really excited about a she hulk show 8 years ago and is now just annoyed with the mcu)

>:) at long last:

So much to talk about in this scene, first and foremost that the anime actually moved the return-to-court bit around a little; in the manga ten’s initial unveiling of the coded message is paired with the ‘why are you standing’ line (as a chapter ending), but here we get her whole explanation of the code itself before checking in with its mastermind, and then the entire declaration-of-intent as one scene :D and what a scene, omg, the dead silence in the room as ryo fui begins his interrogation and gets his answer, the weight of every little motion… it’s the perfect staging for a sequence that is first and foremost about shou hei kun’s extreme dignity and composure, despite the fact that this as an absurdly dramatic situation that he’s orchestrated himself (sai taku’s comment on his unexpected boldness lol. but, as with most of his other plans, it’s just a matter of the most grandiose route also being the most practical one in this situation — his conversation with shou bun kun outside of court definitely suggests that it would actually have been unsafe for him to defect from ryo fui’s faction earlier — though he also could’ve done it like years earlier, up to and including Literally During The Coalition Invasion, but for all that I think the loyalty ri shi was discussing here really did linger..), especially with ri shi’s tantrum about his betrayal to emphasize it lol

tho I will say… ryo fui is just as much the star of the show here, once again. His response to shou hei kun’s wonderfully understated statement-of-intent is one of his finest scenery-chewing monologues of all time..

Even with so many odds against him and such a wide variety of circumstances bearing down, he’s still definitively a man who hasn’t lost yet :-)

I also want to discuss his goofy metaphor abt the four pillars just being useless trinkets to him, though, specifically just this one line of it —

— because i think this is as close as he ever gets to acknowledging that he really has lost not one but two of them here :) If I’m recalling correctly, mou bu’s withdrawal from the pillars is never litigated or even mentioned, it’s just implicit that he (like sai taku) seamlessly becomes a member of sei’s faction after ryo fui’s fall from grace, but I think ryo fui knows both him and shou hei kun well enough to know that losing shou hei kun’s loyalty naturally means he’s also lost mou bu’s along with it, and that he’s realized that when he says this line :~) which especially funny considering that his plan in large part relied on the timing of the mou bu army’s arrival (just a little too late to save the royal family, which is such a tasty parallel to the hi shin unit’s primary goal of Not Being Too Late This Time) — they won’t make it on time, but shou hei kun will!

Also, the anime staff gave us a little original additional sequence this week —

A little check-in with rou ai, in case you’d forgotten where he was located on the battlefield, or what a miserable time he’s having there :’)

also here’s a ruki cap for the road because i’m continually floored by how endearing han oyako are in the anime lol

Cute!!

Ok speaking of hunchback. Hi guys

I dont respect disney the company nor do i care to. But there was a "Legacy Collection" edition soundtrack for HoND released in 2021 that had a bunch of remasters of the songs and score, as well as a whole bunch of demos and its very cool BUT. the BEST thing it has is (almost) THE FULL SCORE bc the version available before (particularly the version on spotify) didn't actually have like half of the score. But the remasters have:

More bells in the opening

Quasimodo talking to a bird directly after The Bells of Notre Dame scene music

PHOEBUS INTRODUCTION SCENE HELLLL YES

The FULL version of the track "Paris Burning" (now under the name "Find the Girl"), where before it cut out a bunch of parts of the paris burning scene after Hellfire, now it includes the score for the rest of the windmill arson incident instead of just the moment where its lit on fire, and the rest of the music where frollo almost executes Phoebus which just add a lot to the song and it always bugged me they werent there before

The music for the part where frollo goes "AND NOW ALL PARIS IS BURNING BECAUSE OF YOU!" Which is VERY good music tbh

Quasimodo and frollo confrontation at the climax music (specifically the part right after frollo almost fucking stabs him)

However. Smth that annoys me to no end about the remastered ost is that there is NO music for fucking frollo's death???? Like. Thats an important part of the movie. Is when. The villain dies. And literally goes to hell. Its in the original soundtrack, and this version has all the music from before and after this scene, and there is NOTHING for it here. You included two separate demos for A Guy Like You and added remasters for the entire score and you DIDN'T have ANY version of the "And He shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit!" music??? You got BEYONCÉ to voice nala and you DIDN'T GIVE HER A SONG for NO REASON?????

maries like the bug mijaal accidentally steps on that sparks a moment of self disgust and pity b4 she moves on with her day. and marys the same type of bug but mijaal spots him out on the sidewalk and moves him to the safe grass

One of my personal nitpicks for historical fantasy is a lack of servants, staff, subordinates, and... idk... subjects? Like, their absence is not... a total dealbreaker for me, depending on the situations the characters are in and whether or not I can just assume that other people are there in the background... but so many of the protagonists in historical fantasy stuff are higher-ranking (very often royalty), and/or have busy jobs, and/or have enormous houses that would necessitate having at least part-time staff.

Like, girl, you should have a maid! WHERE is your chaperone?! WHO is driving this carriage?! Where are your footmen? Are you trying to imply that a WEALTHY DUCHESS is taking a CAB?! You know that you probably have tenants, right? Where is your steward?! Where is your lawyer? Your accountant?! (Like, yeah, you're not going to have your lawyer living in your house, but you HAVE one, right???)

Or, man, you're supposed to be a military commander and you don't even have a single secretary?! Where is your SQUIRE?! (In the spirit of historical fiction, I am jumping wildly across time periods with every sentence here.) Man, I know you aren't looking after your own boots. Where are your GUARDS?! Who set up this tent for you?! Who is looking after your horse?! Who is making and carrying the incredibly valuable maps people are recklessly stabbing daggers into?!

SOMEONE has to be scrubbing these floors and delivering the mail and cooking the meals and doing laundry, and they're probably all DIFFERENT people! My dentist has at least three different receptionists and we can't even get ONE for our court wizard here? A sorcerer's apprentice to take notes? Someone like Sherlock Holmes could get away with just having a housekeeper and taking taxis, sure, but your character is supposed to be a KING?! Why is he answering his own front door? He's going to get assassinated. His SERVANTS should have SERVANTS.

Like, yes, I understand that a lot of servants in certain places at certain times were supposed to make their labor invisible, but there have always been servants who still had to interact directly with the masters of the house?! Yeah, there are potentially really messy ethics here, class divisions are bullshit, but I don't think that completely ignoring the reality that humans have ALWAYS been doing work for other humans is better than just including some well-paid and well-treated servants and employees? Because a complete absence of them, especially where logically for the worldbuilding there MUST be servants (and probably exploited servants, or worse, for some particular worldbuilds to work), often makes me think that your main characters just don't care enough to notice the "lower class" people or know their names.

Also, even Frodo Baggins had a gardener and Samwise Gamgee might be the best damn character in the story?! Sam saved the world?! Servants are PEOPLE. Servants are often the funniest and most interesting characters, tbh, with the most to say about a society and its workings (yes, Discworld is a very good book series, highly recommend), and also the joke of some romantic scene being carefully orchestrated by a stage crew of servants frantically diving into bushes to stay out of sight never gets old to me. Teamwork makes the dream work!

I don't want to gatekeep historical fiction, especially not historical fantasy, because the worlds don't necessarily have to conform to our own and may have magic and characters are often in very unique circumstances, but... sometimes I pick up a story and it's like... "Author, please tell me that you know there is a difference between a butler and a valet?!"