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Finally got caught up on that funky Bravern show the other day and omg. It's so much fun. Have some scribblin' More yelling under the cut (and also mild spoiler alert if you haven't seen any of it:)

Loved seeing more of the other Deathdrives, even if they were kinda short-lived on-screen and all (guess that's what happens when a buncha story stuff needs to get compressed into just 12 episodes)

I'm enjoying the hell out of this silly show it's fucking BUCKWILD. I can't remember the last show that made me laugh this much I am just constantly chimpanzee screaming at the screen Wasn't super sure at first because I was a bit "???" about where this was going in the first few eps but oh my god. It's def become a fav now. It's for sure meant to be a parody of itself/commentary on the entire mecha anime genre and all the tropes that it's loaded with but then the story actually gets interesting too. The TWISTS. IDK it just seems like they had so much fun making this Also, sentient robot characters yippee! (That stuff just seems to be super rare, I've always kinda wondered why, but it's like the mecha genre is allergic to the concept unless you go full into Transformers territory (which is its own whole thing at that point.) Like idk maybe I'm the weird one for loving that idea, but I do wish more of that existed outside of the context of parody or "for little kids" or whatever. Anyway I'll take whatever I can get on that front. I'm adopting all of these idiots) Cupiridas is my fav, Extremely Silly Guy. Kunus (Cunus?) is completely off her shits but I actually love that super wingy design. Pessimism has some really cool silhouette nonsense going on, can def approve of straying from the usual humanoid look. I could throw in some sketches of the main mechs (Bravern, Superbia) but they already get most of the fan art, so I wanted to doodle some of the others..

Introducing Vipera 💚 and Pluvia 🩷 the twin daughters of Pessimism and Vanitas.

These darlings were co-created with and drawn by @dataglitch c: who did an absolutely fantastic job on the art!

Y'all can read the current two fics about them here and here ❤️

optimistic from now on

Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

midnight mass s1e7 book vii: revelation (w. mike flanagan) // true detective s1e3 the locked room // true detective s1e5 the secret fate of all life (w. nic pizzolato)

-> on eternal return

Currently drawing a bunch of quick fanarts of the Death Drives from the Bravern anime and especially Vanitas. I hope you can excuse the robot goo, the anime inspired me and I like the color scheme :P

Away with those overused words optimism and pessimism! We have had enough of them. Occasion for using them is growing less day by day; it is only idle chatterers who still have such an indispensable need of them.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 28

...This is probably going to come off as stupid, but I feel like the whole line of "To preserve a livable planet, no price is too high" is rapidly becoming the eco-leftist version of "There is no alternative,"

At least, specifically WRT the idea of massive cuts to life being the only solution and, in the part that frustrates me the most, actively shutting down any attempts to make the sacrifices necessary suck less/be based on less loss.

IDK, I'm just tired of how whenever anyone says "Hey, maybe with this emerging technological tool we can avoid the horrifying levels of sacrifice," every eco-leftist in a ten mile raidus emerges to yell at them "Go fuck yourself, here's ten thousand papers on why this is bad actually that you can't disprove without seven degrees, fuck you"

Don't think I've seen someone post the full set of Death Drives references, so here they are!

I made a new quiz!

Hate to be a pessimist but nothing ever works out