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velveteenbard · 3 months

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I just noticed another Mikio/Taigen parallel.

The end of this relationship is Mizu throwing a knife at Mikio (what he thought he was teaching them), which kills him.

Awaiting the tea party with Heidi Shindo, Mizu and Taigen sort of start to bond. Mizu throws a chopstick back at him, reminiscent of Mikio’s death.

But Taigen catches it.

I feel like this symbolises the two men’s very different reactions to Mizu’s true nature and fighting ability. Mikio is caught off guard by it, Taigen is able to match it. It’s why Mikio leaves Mizu, and it’s why Taigen follows Mizu. It leads Mikio to cast Mizu aside, it leads Taigen to respect Mizu. Mikio calls Mizu a monster for it, Taigen admits Mizu is better than him.

It’s such a small thing, but it feels like Mizu goes “this is me”, and it’s Mikio’s downfall, but Taigen *catches* it.

Could also be nothing, but my brain went brr.

#blue eye samurai #bes #Mizu #Taigen #Mikio #I’m still so obsessed with this show #I’ve seen it 3 times #not enough #must watch again #I keep noticing more parallels and details #aaaaaah

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alilarxy · 6 months

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Stephanie has got a gun, tra-la-la-la how fun 🎶

#nerdy prudes must die #hatchetfield #team starkid #fanart #stephanie lauter #hiii guess who's experiencing starkid brainrot again after 3 years #npmd was genuinely so so good WATCH IT RN #everything about it went so hard i love the characters i love the music oughhh #gotta catch up on nmt now omg #sanesartworks

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friendofelphaba · 6 months

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Thinking about the line in hatchet town “Singing all these songs gives him greater windows to kill, but we're singing still!” and how it implies that the song is diegetic (the characters in the story know that they’re singing). In fact, according to the lyric, they know that they’ve been singing MULTIPLE songs throughout the show. I am thinking about the implications of characters IN A HATCHETFIELD MUSICAL being AWARE that they are SINGING.

PROMISE ME YOU’LL THINK ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS!!

#npmd #npmd spoilers #starkid npmd #hatchetfield #tgwdlm #this is my 4th watch of the show and I’ve listened to the cast album 30 times #first time I’ve noticed it #also at the start of bury the bully Richie says ‘oh no she’s snapping again’#team starkid #nerdy prudes must die #starkid #hatchetverse

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secretmellowblog · 1 year

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The thing is, Jean Valjean’s “nineteen year prison sentence for stealing a loaf of bread” from Les Mis isn’t actually unusual….not even today! I see people talking about it as if it’s strange or unimaginable when it happens every day.

In modern America — often as a result of pointlessly cruel (and racist) habitual offender and mandatory minimum laws— people are routinely sentenced to life in prison for minor crimes like shoplifting or possession of drugs.

The ACLU did a report in 2013 detailing the lives of various people who were sentenced to life in prison without parole for nonviolent property crimes like:

•attempting to cash a stolen check

•a junk-dealer’s possession of stolen junk

metal (10 valves and one elbow pipe)

•possession of stolen wrenches

•siphoning gasoline from a truck

•stealing tools from a tool shed and a welding machine from a yard

•shoplifting three belts from a department store

•shoplifting several digital cameras

•shoplifting two jerseys from an athletic store

• taking a television, circular saw, and a power converter from a vacant house

• breaking into a closed liquor store in the middle of the night

And of course, so so so many people sentenced to life without parole for the possession of a few grams of drugs.

And we could go on and on!

Gregory Taylor was a homeless man in Los Angeles who, in 1997, was sentenced to “25 years to life” for attempting to steal food from a food kitchen. He was released after 13 years. The lawyers helping to release him even cited Les Miserables in their appeal, comparing Taylor’s sentence to Jean Valjean’s.

And there’s another specific bit of social commentary Hugo was making about Valjean’s trial that’s still depressingly relevant. He writes that Valjean was sentenced for the theft of loaf of bread, but also that the court managed to make that sentence stick by bringing up some of his past misdemeanors. For example, Valjean owned a gun and was known to occasionally poach wildlife (presumably for his starving family to eat.) . So the court exaggerates how harmful the bread theft was—he had to smash a windowpane to get the bread, which is basically Violence— then insist the fact that he owns a gun and occasionally poaches is proof that he is habitually and innately violent. Then when Valjean obviously becomes distressed traumatized and furious as a result of his nakedly unjust sentence and begins making desperate (and very unsuccessful/impulsive/ poorly thought through) attempts to escape…. the government indifferently tacks more years onto his sentence, labels him a “dangerous” felon, and insists that its initial read of him as an innately violent person was correct.

And it’s sad how a lot of the real life stories linked earlier are similar to the commentary Hugo wrote in 1863? Someone will commit a nonviolent property crime, and then the court insists that a bunch of other miscellaneous things they’ve done in the past (whether it’s other minor thefts or being addicted to drugs or w/e) are Proof they’re inherently violent and incapable of being around other people.

A small very petty fandom side note: This is also why I dislike all those common jokes you see everywhere along the lines of “lol it’s so unrealistic for the police to want to arrest Valjean over a loaf of bread, there must have been some other reason the police were pursuing him. Because the state would never punish someone that harshly and irrationally for no reason. so maybe javert was just gay haha”. (Ex: this tiktok— please don’t harass the creator or poster though, I don’t think they were intending to mean anything like that and its just a silly common type of joke you see made about Les mis all the time so it’s not unique in any way.) because like.

As much as I don’t think Les Mis is a flawless book or that its political messaging is perfect….the only way that insanely long unjust sentences for minor crimes is “unrealistic” is if you’re operating on the assumption that prisons are here to Keep You Safe by always only punishing bad criminals who do serious crimes. And that’s just, not true at all. Like I get that these are just goofy silly shallow jokes, and I’m not angry or going to harass anyone who makes them. but it feels like there’s an assumption underlying all those goofy jokes that “this is just not how prison works!” “Prisons don’t routinely sentence people to absurd laughably unjust pointless sentences!” “Prisons give people fair sentences for logical reasons!” When like…no

Valjean being relentlessly hounded and tortured for a minor crime in a way that is utterly ridiculous and arbitrary in its cruelty is not actually a plot hole in Les mis. It’s a plot hole in …..society ajsjkdkdkf. And the only way to fix that is to fight for prison abolition or at least reform, and (in America) stand up against the vicious naked cruelty of habitual offender and mandatory minimum laws.

But yeah :(. I hate how Les Mis opens with a prologue saying the novel will be obsolete the moment the social issues it describes have been resolved— but two hundred years later, the book is still more relevant than ever because we’re dealing with so many of the exact same injustices.

#les mis #lm 1.2.6 #Jean Valjean #anyway sometimes lm 1.2.6 makes me sad and sometimes it makes me angry #today I feel both #: ‘(((((((((((((((#but yeah #also again I don’t hate people who make the goofy ‘lol valjeans prison sentence was so unrealistic javert must be gay’ jokes #i get that they’re jokes #and that they’re mostly made by people who like watched Les mis 2012 once #but also #but also but also #:’’’’(#I don’t know the tragedy of valjeans story and the continued relevance of that social commentary Gets to me #Les mis letters #Les mis daily

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onlinehorseproblems · 5 months

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I don't understand the "starkid only does hatchetfield musicals 😡" train. Because if i were lang brothers???

i would also make multiple musicals and readings of the different aus involving my OCs, like Oh you liked the coffee shop au?? haha just wait till you see the catboy au

#starkid #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #lang brothers #matt lang #nick lang #team starkid #ocs #me and my buddy with our npmd au for our ocs we have been knawing at like rabid hounds on a bone #hey melissa #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #the guy who didn't like musicals #Also never hearing any hatchfield slander ever again because I have been a starkid fan since 2009 #and My favorite musical has been the same for 12 years until october #and i've watched it 22 times

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lgbtlunaverse · 8 months

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So since mxtx has said that in novel canon nie huaisang is eventually going to end up being chief cultivator we can presume the headshaker thing, while based on his existing personality, was in fact an act and he is way more competent at his job than he's let on. And with Jin Guangyao dead and gone he has no reason to put on that act anymore.

Imagine being an Nie cultivator. Your flopppy incompetent sect leader comes home from traumatic events after it turns out his older brother's sworn brother- who's been over to your sect basically every other week for years now- is the one that killed said brother and you're fully prepared for tears and dramatics. And while you definitley don't like lianfang-zun since it just came out he killed your last (way more competent) sect leader he was sorta the one holding the sect together so you're bracing yourself for the worst, and instead he's... stoic? Paperwork is suddenly getting done well and on time without help. He's not wailing during negotiations anymore and you're getting actual good trade deals for the first time in over a decade. He answers questions now? With something other than "I don't know i don't know i really don't know!"

And even if you had none of the revelations wei wuxian had in guanyin temple, slowly the realization creeps up on you that all his earlier embarassing antics that cost your family their comfortable livelihoods and your sect their good name was on purpose. And from there it's not that hard to put two and two together. The rest of the cultivation world assumes the shock of jin guangyao's betrayal has finally forced the headshaker to grow up a little but you have worked side by side with him for a decade, probably even watched him grow up under his brother's rule. You know better.

How do you feel at that point? What can you even do? He's your sect leader. And he's finally doing his job, things are looking up, shouldn't you feel relieved? It' not like his incompetence really caused any deaths among the nie, just wiped out generational wealth and reputation that will take years and years to build back up. Is it really reasonable to only start hating someone for something when they've stopped doing it? Thereby proving that they were capable of stopping all along?

#mdzs #nie huaisang #mdzs meta #sort of?#oh the urge to write a fic from the pov of a nie cultivator oc feeling INCREDIBLY conflicted about nie huaisang #the absolute generational culture shock between the nies that grew up under lao nie and nmj who watched the sect decline in adulthood #the nies that grew up under flop era nhs and have only ever heard of their better days until things start improving again #and the ones that will be growing up under chief cultivator nhs who kind of can't imagine that he was ever THAT bad.#the rumours must be exaggerrated right?#like 13 years postcanon a 15 year old disciple a 27 year old cultivator and a sect elder are all gonna have DRAMATICALLY different opinions

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kokaibop · 10 days

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LAY ZHANG PSYCHIC (240418)

+ bonus

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s-aint-elmo · 9 months

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the "girls seeking an impossible wish trapped in a system that twists them into hollow shells of grief and resentment used by other girls to fuel their own desperate struggle" pipeline is multiversal

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#revue starlight #daiba nana #nana daiba #puella magi madoka magica #akemi homura #homura akemi #doodles #mine #alternate title: give a lesbian a timeloop and she'll achieve unprecedented levels of negative character development #for context the text on nana is the witch walpurgisnacht's desc and the text on homura is from the final scene of revstar's starlight #spec dialogue spoken by claire to her gaystie flora after flora falls from the tower and claire is trapped inside. in case u are not #in the intersection of the venn diagram #we r webweaving #YOU MUST UNDERSTAND. when i realized this i went a little insane #like banana IS walpurgisnachtcore and homura IS floracore #banana wants to create a stage where there is no pain or suffering at the cost of stagnancy. homura makes a promise that madoka #cannot remember. homura falls from the tower time and again while madoka ends her struggle by remaining at the summit and ensuring #that homura never gets her wish (to protect her. to save her)#like i'm ill about it. somebody put homura in the audience for starlight and watch her crumple like a submersible #shoujo kageki revue starlight

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mymakoamiart · 4 months

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They're so gay it burns my insides it makes my brain melt it could actually kill me

#ami mizuno #makoami #makoto kino #lesbian #sailor moon #sailor mercury #must protecc at all costs #PROTECC HER #old art #Yeah this is old af #im sorry ill draw again #thanks for watching

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cart00ni · 5 months

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He wears many watches all of them go a different time and only he knows which one is right

#he just. pulls up his sleeve to reveal multiple rows of watches #this is my hc and its true #once again posting late for me bc i must draw to keep my sanity #cart00niart #art #jjba #kakyoin #noriaki kakyoin #jotaro kujo #jotaro #sdc

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myfandomhalf · 12 days

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Been thinking of Aventurine a lot and the fact Ratio never uses his name

When Jade was talking to him his name was still Kakavasha and right before that the IPC news mentions a “Egyhazo Aventurine” fraud case and Jade mentioned how he lied to the Intelligentsia Guild so it seems very possible to me that Ratio met him before he was Aventurine and maybe that’s why he only ever refers to him as gambler? Maybe he actually uses his real name but knows he can’t say it on Penacony? Just seemed odd how he NEVER says it, not even when talking to other people about him. The only time we hear Ratio say the word “aventurine” is when he’s talking about the stone to Sunday, but he never says it in reference to the person Aventurine.

I’m probably overthinking this but it just seemed like the dialogue was going out of its way to keep Ratio from saying Aventurine, but when there was no way around it they just had him say gambler

Edit: Should add that I play in English and haven’t looked at the other languages, so maybe it just so happens that he never calls him Aventurine in English even tho he does in other languages? In that case this wouldn’t matter at all but I have no idea

#that fraud case must be how aventurine got his name too #my theory is he told them they would find aventurine if they dug somewhere #so they must have told him well you may as well be named Aventurine #as a stone heart since I’m pretty sure he became one right after that convo with Jade #anyway I digress #this would be very embarrassing if it turns out Ratio DID say his name somewhere #but I watched all their scenes again and couldn’t find any instances so if I missed it someone pls tell me and I’ll delete this #I have no theories as to WHY he wouldn’t switch to using the name Aventurine tho #maybe he thinks it’s disingenuous? not sure #I’m most likely overthinking #aventio #honkai star rail #hsr

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booigi-boi · 7 months

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I just can't stop thinking about them, they're the most brothers ever, all the headcanons and shit I have for them and the Spankoffski family in general 🐐💛

How did Ted react to Pete's black eye? Did he give him terrible fighting tips? What about all the Spankoffski charm he passed to his bro? Does Pete hate taking Steph to his place cause Ted is there and is always weird? Am I the only one who's rolling in the Bastard's Box just crying over them like the little Tinky Sniggle that I am??

#sorry I am crying over fictional brothers #hatchetfield #starkid #nerdy prudes must die spoilers #nerdy prudes must die #pete spankoffski #ted spankoffski #goat bros 🐐🐐💛#My claim to fame is making the terms “goat man/goat bro” and “goat bros” associated with them #sorry I am half awake and watching NPMD again and thinking of all the angsty shit I could cook up with these two if I still wrote fanfics

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cherryminted · 25 days

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Narusaku X Our Times AU

When Sakura accidentally sent Naruto an anonymous prank letter, she didn’t expect him, the well-known mischievous delinquent would accompany her in a confession journey to Sasuke. Little did they know, love blooms in the weirdest timing.

#naruto #naruto uzumaki #sakura haruno #narusaku #narutosakura #HEHE i watched our times again and wanted to draw something with their dynamics but it wouldnt fit kakasaku so i figured #narusaku it is!!#i enjoyed drawing them together really #such power couple #and their color palette is so lovely #modern AU #i got too lazy so i only draw sketches #OMG…….DIDNT KNOW ITS NARUSAKU DAY #IT MUST BE FATE

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satansleftnutcheek · 9 months

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Starting to think that the key to being a staple “must watch” anime is to trick people into learning philosophy cause we’ve got:

Evangelion - come for the mecha fights stay to learn about the “self”, reality, and identity

Cowboy Bebop - come for the space cowboys stay to learn about what it truly means to live and to be alive

Trigun - come for the silly main character and cool fights stay to learn about pacifism, forgiveness, the sanctity of life, and the strength of hope

Fullmetal Alchemist - come for the cool science “magic” stay to learn about Plato, what is truth, and how to live a good life

#this is the TLDR surface level but you get what I mean #they put something in the water in the 90s that’s all I’m saying #I can’t watch normal shows again like nothing will ever be this good #I watched Trigun because stampede was all over my twitter feed #now I’m obsessed with a Bible fanfiction #I watched cowboy bebop bc it’s one of those staple must watch animes #now I can’t stop trying to figure out what the show is trying to tell me #I also watched evangelion because it’s a staple must watch anime #now I’m watching I wisecrack video on it #wish I never watched these shows they’ve raised my standards and nothing can satisfy me anymore #that is a light hearted comment btw #somebody put something in the water again I want more stories like this #anime #90 anime #cowboy bebop #Trigun #Trigun stampede #Trigun maximum #evangelion #almost forgot about FMA #totally didn’t at it in post shhhh #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemsit brotherhood #FMA #FMA brotherhood

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haunted-phantom-student · 1 month

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Hilarious to me that from Debbie and Carl's point of view Ian was dating Mandy and got her pregnant and had a fundraiser to get her an abortion and then one day she comes home with Lip and she's kind of his girlfriend now instead and Ian's not jealous or anything but is pissed at Lip for not treating her well? The alleged love quadrilateral that is Lip, Ian, Mandy, and Mickey must be so wild from the outside.

#from the pov of the kids it must have just been confusing as hell #i want to see the whole show again with just the stuff carl and debbie witnessed can someone make that cut for me #(might have messed up some of this anyway because it's been awhile since I watched all that straight through)#ian gallagher #mickey milkovich #mandy milkovich #lip gallagher #ian x mickey #lip x mandy #gallavich

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hollowtones · 9 months

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Nintendo continues to schedule "Splatoon 3" events during days when I'm extremely busy & at this point I've decided it's funnier if I pretend it's deliberate and targeted hatred of Me Specifically instead of, like, recurring coincidence.

They've got one Nintendo of Canada employee hacking into my devices at all times, reporting back to home base like "BOSS WE JUST GOT CONFIRMATION SHE'S MAKING PLANS THAT WEEK! ANNOUNCE BIG RUN NOW!! NOT A DRILL!!"

#They're putting Big Run AND a Splatfest on back-to-back weeks & the first week is on the days I fly out to Puzz LOL #The second week is when a major tournament is happening & I had planned to just watch that all weekend like it's my Super Bowl.#But now that I'm playing the game again I must return to the Super Sea Snail mines...

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