some butterfly soup fan music i'm working on + a doodle I did so this can have album art ^_^

Netflix: how do we make this show even better than the original?

Castlevania team: make the animation even sluttier.

Netflix: And?

Castlevania team: continue exploring the parasitic corruption of the upper class and the Church and their constant usurpation of other religions and peoples in the name of their God

Netflix: AND???

Castlevania team: INTRODUCE YORUBA AND OTHER LESSER-KNOWN RELIGIONS AND SHOW THEM IN A POSITIVE LIGHT

Netflix: Go. Be great.

Also Netflix: Your budget is 5 dollars and if you're not instantly a hit we'll cancel you.

I will never be over the fact that tbhk really takes place in 2015

We know that AidaIro published the first chapter in December 2014

The Yugi Twins were in the 66th Festival in 1968 and the curent present have the 113th Festival.

On this panel, it's written that the 1st of September was a Tuesday. The closest years to the manga airing having this date being either 2009 or 2015.

Bonus:

Which means: the 1st year (Aoi, Akane, Nene) were born in 1999, Teru in 1998 and Kou and Mitsuba in 2000.

still thinking about this rly small moment from yesterday….. the silences weigh so incredibly heavy here . they don’t know what they’d do if they lost pomme :(

mini transcript below the cut

[Video Transcript:

Etoiles: On the other hand, dude, if we have to save the Eggs and there’s an Egg that isn’t saved— no, that’s horrible. It can’t be that.

Aypierre: Imagine you— I don’t know. Imagine we have a group of— they’re unable to save Pomme, and it’s the only group without any French.

Etoiles: No but it’s horrible.

Aypierre: Do you, uh— do you hate them forever?

[Pause]

Etoiles: Well then again you couldn’t blame them.

[Pause]

Etoiles: You couldn’t blame them, but—

Aypierre: Imagine it’s Slimecicle’s group, and he misclicks on Pomme, and he kills her.

Etoiles: Then again— oh, Slimecicle’s group, yeah.

end Video Transcript.]

"Halloween didn't used to exist in France" girl, you keep llamas.

daily reminder that henry would pronounce the word quarters as quardas, richard would pronounce it as quawders, francis would pronounce it as qwaadus and camilla and charles would pronounce it as quowdus.

god i had THE BEST TIME AT THE DENTIST TODAY and i feel completely unhinnnnngèd for saying that bc i never in a million years thought the dentist could be FUN but the hygienist was french and switched to french as soon as i mentioned that i had taken french and i understood almost everything he said to me and it felt so good!!! i never understand french!! things are paying off!!!! also i do super recommend this method of conversing in a language you are not super confident in, like it's not just a coincidence i had such a good time doing this at the dentist specifically, it was good precisely because there was very little pressure on me to talk and i could mostly just make yes/no/questioning noises and any time i wanted to say a sentence i could take my time with it because there were literally instruments in my mouth??? absolutely no pressure for me to say something just to say something it was heaven oh my god. i take back every joke i've ever made about dentist office conversational logistics. IDEAL MODE.

(From Consoles+ - July/August 1996) Photos from an unknown build of the game. Two photos show the Green Pole object and one of the head-shaped items, both of which were cut from the final game.

The french really decided to show up,make absolute bangers of cartoons that were dubbed to feed the balkan children having absolutely nothing to watch(me, and everyone else watching ultra tv as kids with no alternatives) and then left. Power move. They didn't have to go as hard as they did but did it anyway

I'm sure there's more im forgetting, sally bollywood was also a good one from what i remember but that was more for little kids. These shows got fucking dark sometimes,man. especially kaeloo as a comedy compared to the rest which are story driven. I cannot name how many times this show has gotten vulgar, violent or gone into dark humor. I should really make a video with a counter for the first season alone lol. it's also what makes it really funny and still hold up, though. It was funny to kids and it's still funny to teens and adults. I hear the french have less restrictions when it comes to kids shows, and i could clearly see kaeloo was a lot more risque,even as a kid. I'm relieved my parents never walked in during the many times the characters pulled out a noose lmao. Shame only season 1 ever got dubbed in serbian,the OG voices were great

There's also some similarities between Baskup and Galactik Football I'll probably make another post about (it has to do with the rival teams) though perhaps it just comes with the territory of being a sports show. Idk, you'll see what i mean. Also Mamba and the white boy (i forgot his name) from the rival team in Baskup were my first childhood crushes/gay awakenings i think. I really need to rewatch that show(can't speak on the quality compared to the rest though, I haven't watched it in a while and everyone loves the other cartoons so)

Ooh btw when I went out with my friends the other night we were waiting for a bus at one point. An extremely pretty girl was waiting for it a few metres away from us... I noticed her existing as you do pretty girls when you are a Homosexual (🫣) but was mostly focused on talking to my friends and stuff. Well suddenly she came up to us and I noticed she was actually kinda crying (!! 🥺) and asked if any of us had a tissue. I am always prepared esp fresh off my sneezy Vienna trip, so I gave her a plastic-wrapped pack, unopened and all... she was very grateful (asking if she could really keep it all - I said it was fine and even got to use the tdv sarah "you can have it, i've got two" line because I did have two hehehe success everyone inside my brain clapped) but she struggled to open it because long acrylic nails! So I offered to help again and she gave it back to me and our fingers brushed a bit and I tore the plastic cover open with my long short-nailed sexy lesbian fingers 😌 and gave it back hehe.

Anyway I feel like this all would've been a queercoded metaphor if it was fictional but because it's real life we went our separate ways never to meet again 😌 but I was still kind of thinking about her at the club 🥹 and when we were taking the train home with my friend at 5:50 am I was kind of talking about her JSKFLDLFLFL omg kinda creepy tbh esp since I wasn't even drunk 💀 Well my friend was drunk so maybe she already forgot about it. I hope that girl is less sad now and believes in the good in humanity 😌❤️

WAIT. FRENCH? FRENCH??? THEY MADE TAAKO FRENCH????

Gonna share badly translated panels from the official french translation because I can

I can’t verbally explain how much Akane ROASTED Aoi in chap 69 . He really took the ‘I am gonna end this woman’s whole career” to a next level

:))))

--> to explain the ‘you’re pretending you don’t know’

first attempt at trying to achieve pre-raphaelite-esque hair . not the best but its something

I should start learning a language, that would give me something to do

Jean Valjean had only two thoughts: to hide his name and sanctify his life & escape from men and return to God

but he would sacrifice the first for the second, his safety for his virtue

he could not fire Javert because he would sacrifice his virtue if he fired Javert in that moment. Because Javert was actually right (despite being completely fooled at that time), and Javert was dangerous, and Valjean could make him go, but he couldn't because it wouldn't be right.

and that's literally it imho. Valjean as Madeleine acts with and around Javert (or anyone, really, Javert isn't special, Madeleine doesn't treat him any different than others) in a way that doesn't sacrifice his virtue. He will sacrifice his safety (i.e. Fauchelevent) but not his virtue

You can also see it in this imho:

“Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your fault. Moreover, this is [another] offence which concerns me. Javert, you deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your post.” [Hapgood, but I added "another" since it's missing]

He can't punish Javert for being right. He alludes back to Fantine spitting on him. "Madeleine", not anyone or anything else, was wronged and he chose not to punish in both cases.

He might not like Javert; Javert has been troubling him, following him, he's been a danger to him (for almost 5 years), but he wouldn't sacrifice his virtue for Javert, and firing Javert would do that imho (and at that time, it would "soil Madeleine")

Javert, you deserve promotion instead of degradation. = is such a good irony, but it probably went over Javert's head completely. But moreover, that line literally makes no sense in context unless you consider "you are actually right" (and you don't know it; ironic, isn't it?)

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That's why I like Javert's line from LM 2000 (which might just be taken from somewhere from the book anyway) that goes: [Valjean] goes against order, against law, and against his own interests.