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WHOO! Okay, Merry Christmas Eve to those who celebrate; Happy Holidays and Winter Solstice to the rest. I’m exhausted, halfway delirious, and I need to stay awake long enough to help preserve the magic for my 2 year old nephew, so let’s talk about why THIS:
Remains one of the most iconic moments, and perhaps the most iconic transformation, in anime.
First, we need to properly appreciate and immerse ourselves in the context. The year is 1991, CRTs are the primary means for broadcasting any entertainment medium into people’s living rooms around the world, anime is still a relatively niche interest in much of the west, and in Japan, Dragon Ball reigns as the undisputed King of the Shonen genre.
Point is, Goku’s among the most recognizable characters by children and teenagers alike. A kind, oft-goofy yet clever nature boy who, in a twist, was revealed to be not of this world, but nonetheless stands firm as our world’s strongest champion and protector, despite his alien origins.
He’s lovable and loving, a boy-turned-man who loves fighting so much he would, provided the stakes are low, almost prefer to lose, because that means he has another summit to aim for, another challenge to overcome. Slow to anger, averse to cruelty, equipped with a breadth of heart that allows him to accept former enemies as friends and allies.
On June 12, 1991, the last three minutes of Dragon Ball Z’s 95th episode began the climax of Goku’s life story and universally gave chills to everyone who grew up with the boy called Son Goku. The transformation that had been built up as the ultimate mythical power in the universe, the closest thing the terrifying tyrant Freeza ever had to a horror story: A Super Saiyan.
Let me be clear: this moment, in it’s original intention, wasn’t cool, wasn’t fun or a gag or anything that could be called natural progression like subsequent transformations in the series. THIS was the score played in the backdrop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeFoasNr3d4
It’s unsettling, eerie, scary even, the change that came over such a beloved character as Goku. As the following episodes would reveal, his transformation wasn’t simply aesthetic, but he also revealed a side of himself that had never been seen before in seven years on the page and five years on the screen.
For the first time ever, Goku was out on a mission to hurt.
People had seen him hunt before, even kill, but after watching his best friend Kuririn perish at Freeza’s hand, Goku’s only end goal was to inflict the worst pain he could unto the demon who took his brother from him.
He got mean.
Goku could have ended Freeza’s life whenever he wanted; the way their battle concluded and the way Goku manhandled the tyrant in those first few exchanges after his transformation confirms that.
But that wasn’t enough. Not for Freeza. Not for Kuririn, who as far as Goku knows, is gone, only to be seen again when his own life expires.
No, Goku attacked Freeza where he was most vulnerable, the point that he knew would bring the monster the worst pain he could cause.
His ego.
Goku takes everything he can from Freeza by choosing to fight the latter at the height of his power instead of simply killing him outright.
He unequivocally robs Freeza’s title of strongest in the universe.
He steals any restful nights the despot might conceivably have ever again, having become his one true nightmare.
“I quit.”
He even takes away The ruler of the galaxy’s agency.
He makes clear that, short of stripping away his ego and shattering it to pieces, Freeza means nothing to him. Think about that for a second; this is a man who’s loved fighting for as long as anyone has known him, and yet he makes the incredibly powerful statement–to one who had been the universe’s strongest just minutes earlier–that he’s satisfied, done, going home.
He’s effectively telling Freeza: “You don’t decide when this fight ends.”
This is a Goku more ferocious and more informed by his Saiyan roots than any that anyone had seen until that summer of 1991, and arguably even since then.
Freeza had stood at the top of whole fucking universe for decades as its ruler.
Yet Goku decided that day that he didn’t get to make any rules anymore.
This.
This is why Goku’s Super Saiyan transformation remains the most iconic in the series and among the most iconic in all of anime.
That’s all from me: Merry Christmas Eve, Tumblr.
And to all a good night!
#late night posts#analysis#Son Goku#Goku#Kakarot#Dragon Ball#Dragon Ball Z#Xmas Eve#I just really like Goku#Bruce rants#PM posts#Bruce talks about
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doing my duty of drawing skeleton falin
#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#laios touden#laius thorden#marcille donato#falin touden#farlyn thorden#laius touden#laios thorden#falin thorden#farlyn touden#tw blood#tw skeleton#tw death#tryina keep all those in mind HJAWJKJKSFD#my art#drew these a while ago but i forgot to post oops#this post has been scheduled in advance! bc i like my 8 pm schedule
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Look at these goobers
And some wallpapers cause why not
#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt#rottmnt mikey#rottmnt leo#rottmnt raph#rottmnt donnie#my art#tmnt fanart#tmnt#Keineryn’s post movie rise au#Keineryn’s pm au
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Desktop Laios is finally finished… download (runs on Shimeji-ee)
#Directions: Copy the unzipped “Laios” folder and paste it into shimeji-ee's “img” folder#Was in high demand on insta so Ill post here in case others are also interested ^^ Feel free to PM for any questions/issues#dungeon meshi#laios touden#tumatawart#Mostly made to sit so no pesky running/climbing actions or anything.
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little man's lucky he's gay because he's never having kids after this
#just a quick shitpost so its mildly scuffed. oh well#friday night funkin'#fnf#fnf pico#pico fnf#pico's school#nene pico's school#darnell pico's school#cw knives#cw knife#based on the weekend 1 cutscene iykyk LMAOOO#i forgot nenes fucking cowlicks but its ok. i will cry quietly#update: posted this on ng off-portal. phantom arcade left a rly nice comment#and motherfucking tom fulp sent me a pm asking me if i posted it off-portal by accident ???#genuinely what the fuck#i hate being in a situation
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being on your period is the closet any human can ever get to turning into a werewolf
#if u get it u get it.#sorry f or all the posts about my pms. no im not im insane this month literally had a mental collapse and nearly got#a doctor called on me so i think it's ok to talk about these things no shame#anyway
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dazai making up a whole language with fyodor that no one else can understand is amazing but imagine him using codes that, very objectively speaking, you could crack, it's just that no normal person would ever make the insane leaps in logic that it requires. except for someone familiar with dazai's weird thinking patterns, that is.
i just love the idea of dazai's unhinged antics being dialed up to an eleven when he was in the port mafia, and oda being the only one who simply wouldn't bat an eye at it but chuuya was the only one who would actually get it.
like imagine ango at the end of the jailbreak, his boss saying he should allow himself to sigh and lean back and maybe indulge himself, pat him on the shoulder, tell him what he pulled off reading heart rates wasn't easy and he should be proud for being able to keep up with such a plan
but ango i-drank-with-teenage-dazai-and-also-had-the-records-for-every-soukoku-mission sakaguchi can only remember the time dazai was like using greek sign language through his breathing patterns to communicate from a submarine from beneath the pacific ocean or something, and chuuya could not fathom how no one else could understand him.
and that was the day mori signed off on skk being exclusive partners because every subordinate in the room was crying tears of blood by the time chuuya finished explaining which blood pressure level was warning them about a bomb, which blinking sequence was him conveying the vault password and which series of inhales was just him calling mori a bitch.
(ango also pointedly did not want to think about how smug dazai had looked after the mission when mori confirmed skk would only be each others' partners for efficiency and to maintain everyone else's sanity
or about how when he called chuuya to tell him about dazai's prison break scheme he could only get like 3 out of 276 steps into the plan before chuuya rolled his eyes, said "got it" then hung up and pulled the whole thing off without a hitch.)
#listen soukoku having telepathy that they insist isn't telepathy it's just using common sense#while everyone else sobs in the corner#is a flavour of pm era skk I adore#like yes technically chuuya can in fact explain the play-by-play#process of understanding dazai's codes#it's just that no one else is going to immediately make the same far fetched connections#UGH the latest chapter of chuuya watching dazai flop and roll around on the ground like a fish while he brainstorms#not an ounce of curprise or confusion#like he's seen this a thousand times before#and even spotting his worries and dazai actually openly musing about his ideas and expressing emotions so vividly#they KNOW each other your honor#soukoku#dazai osamu#nakahara chuuya#the sigma show#bsd#my post
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this stupid fuck has been rotating in my mind so im here to share it w yall
Dazai doesnt belong in the pm. he never did. heres why
in the pm, dazai calls chuuya his "dog". akutagawa is referred to as "the rabid dog of the port mafia". when we first meet akutagawa, he calls higuchi "a useless cur" (cur means an agressive dog or one in poor condition). we can see that the port mafia is full of dogs.
in The Day I Picked Up Dazai, oda refers to seeing dazai as a stray cat (i think). almost every headcanon associates dazai with being a black or stray (or both) cat.
and then we have the ada.
one of their employees litterly turns into a tiger. the president is obsessed with cats.
in the pm, dazai was a stray cat in a den of dogs. thats why he fits in/cares about the ada. he fits there, feels at home.
#bsd#bungo stray dogs#bungou stray dogs#dazai osamu#port mafia#pm dazai#ada dazai#bsd dazai#bungou stray dogs dazai#dazai bsd#bungo stray dogs dazai#chuuya nakahara#akutagawa ryuunosuke#ada#armed detective agency#cats and dogs#jett posts
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Ik there are usamericans following me I have a question for yall , what the fuck do y'all even eat . Like . The typical huge greasy American breakfast has to be an exaggeration but I really can't think of meals that don't contain stuff exclusive to my country and do you guys even have that honestly
#no dulce de leche ... no pepas .... no milanesas ......#what a sad life#/j ofc im being hyperbolic but fr what#I mean this as in like . what you usually have in your main meals not something specific#also let's not even talk about the hours y'all manage im going to get sick . dinner at 6 pm ??? ong no honor to the merienda ...#rambles#completely random post but im just really tired my brain doesn't work very well
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hey all, sorry for the accidental hiatus, i’ve been kind of crazy busy lately but! i did manage to finally finish A NEW ZINE!!!
i’m pretty dang happy with how this one turned out, even if it took me genuinely 7 months from first draft to final print version to finish it. i think it sums up my philosophy vis-à-vis artmaking pretty well, and looks pretty good to boot!
the full zine is purchaseable on my shop but patrons of mine get access to full PDFs of this zine and all of my others (and behind the scenes posts on the making of this zine from script to final layout!!) wow what a deal!!!
#my art#art#zines#zine#how to evolve#posting this at 9:30 PM on a sunday because i dont giive a fuck
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bad week for PMs of island nations across the world
#EDIT >#i have been told that it wasn’t actually protestors who burnt the president’s house rather police#unfortunately tumblr doesn’t delete posts like twitter so i’m editing the tags#i should have put ‘the PM/president of sri lanka’s house is on fire’ instead#please do keep this in mind when you share the news! apologies again#world politics#current events#british politics#shinzo abe#uk politics#sri lanka#boris johnson#supernatural
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we are LIVE here in world news watching the fall of (former) PMs all around the world and– wait, what’s this?
IT’S SRI LANKA WITH A STEEL CHAIR
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Mystic Mikey
#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt#rottmnt mikey#rottmnt leo#mystic mikey#my art#Keineryn’s post movie rise au#Keineryn’s pm au
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happy thanksgiving
#i’m thankful for all of u <3#it’s 8:47 pm so i didn’t miss thanksgiving-#can posts twst#idia shroud#vil schoenheit#leona kingscholar#cater diamond#jamil viper#rook hunt#lilia vanrouge#jack howl#riddle rosehearts#trey clover#epel felmier#floyd leech#azul ashengrotto#twst#twisted wonderland#twst shitpost#twisted wonderland textpost
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the biggest problem with tos’ episodic format is that the episode usually ends pretty quickly after the conflict resolves and then they never really talk about it again - no matter how intense or harrowing it was
which means that we don’t get to actually *see* the interpersonal fallout of bones being diagnosed with and cured from a previously-incurable terminal illness (that he didn’t even want to tell jim and spock he had), and then just four episodes later drugging them so that he can go be tortured (and likely die) instead of spock, and so jim doesn’t have to make the choice between them.
did they talk about it? beyond just a standard debrief and a “never fucking do that again bones i swear to god i mean it this time”? did they make it the captains’ quarters for the debrief, only for mccoy to be pulled into a crushing, trembling hug as soon as the door shut while jim tried to assure himself that bones was still here, was still breathing? spock hovering nearby - a hand gently coming to rest on his shoulder?
why didn’t mccoy want to tell them about the xenopolycythemia, anyways? to try and hold onto a few more normal-ish months before every time they looked at him their eyes would be filled with grief - mourning a man they hadn’t yet lost? the same reason he ran away; to spare them what he went through with his father?
only for him to immediately turn around and throw himself back to the wolves to (almost) die right in front of them anyways
i don’t really know how they handled it. whether they talked about it and attempted to soothe the hurt, or just resolutely tried to bottle it up.
but i do know this: spock eventually came back from gol because jim simply (though accidentally) called out for him in a moment of need. bones only came back because jim personally drafted him back into starfleet
#comet posting#they love eachother i promise but my god these boys need to learn to talk about their feelings#star trek#star trek tos#dr mccoy#spock#jim kirk#leonard mccoy#mcspirk#i’m sorry i don’t know why ive been so angsty the past few days#i think it’s the pms#the empath#for the world is hollow and i have touched the sky#star trek tmp#angst#star trek the original series
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Always associating this advice with super sonic thank you super sonic
#ignore how im posting this at 1 pm-#sonic the hedgehog#shadow the hedgehog#sonic and shadow#my art#fetti art
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