headcanons for the characters from Bodies going out on halloween except they're all in modern times

Shahara, Iris, Karl, Alfred, and Henry all go along to take Esther and Jawad out trick-or-treating mostly just so Shahara can show them all what Halloween is

Alfred is very happy to be able to wear his whole Victorian suit gettup without being stared at weird (he feels naked in just one layer of clothes)

Him and Henry go as Sherlock and Watson

Henry takes his old-timey camera partially as a prop, partially to take photos of everyone

He loves seeing all the costume, while he's developing them he tells Alfred something about the costumes people choose to dress up as being reflections of their inner selves finally brought out

Esther becomes obsessed with being able to get the most candy possible

She forces Karl to wear a matching costume in hopes it'll get people to give them more

Karl has to stop her from swiping more candy from little kids passing by

She hasn't seen this much candy since the rationing started

Iris isn't as into all the halloween decorating and stuff but she decides it would be fun to dress up like Defoe's body (except clothed of course) so she watched a bunch of sfx makeup tutorials to make it look like her eye was shot out

whenever anyone asks her about her costume she tells them the full ghost story of no exit hole, no bullet found, no one heard a gun go off, "some say the body will keep appearing until his murderer has been brought to justice"

She tells some of the little kids "do you want to know a secret... I shot him"

Shahara always has to calm to the kid down after that but Iris keeps on doing it

Shahara is exhausted by the end of the night taking care of the whole group

Karl lets her go to bed early and babysits Jawad

When Jawad gets upset about how much more candy Esther got than him Karl forces her to share some but it turns into a big argument

"there's not rationing anymore, we can get you more treats later" "but I earned this fair and square"

eventually he gets her to give Jawad some but she steals it back in the middle of the night

selena was right 'what hurts the most is people can go from people you know to people you don't'

So all of it will heal one day or I will just get used to it?

okay but what if Gabriel didn't actually wish for his wife to come back, but instead wished for the Peacock miraculous to never be broken and in return the Butterfly miraculous to be broken, hence why Nathalie is seen alive as well and the blue energy/spark seen at the end is the Butterfly miraculous showing it self broken as it happens right after Lila/Cerise puts it on

I am a huge Kaijū fan, and I remember reading something a few years ago that explained the meaning of Kaijū, and I'm paraphrasing:

"Kaijū means something akin to "weird beast", and Daikaijū is the gigantifying form for that. In reality they are somewhat tragical beings. Too large, too strong, too heavy for their surroundings, ending up unintentionally destructive, and hated for it."

Watching the Nimona movie I was delighted, DELIGHTED I tell you, to see this reflected so damn well in Nimona's dark form. Everyone around her was freaking the fuck out, pointing at the damage she was causing, but we as the viewers can see that most of the damage was done because of the HUMAN attacks launched against her. She gets shot by missiles and tumbles against a building. It's not her fault nor her goal to cause destruction, because the only thing she is out to destroy and kill is herself in her endless heartbreak from being feared and rejected and unseen.

She reminded me a lot of the original 1954 Godzilla (Gojira), who was described as being a creature driven into an insane rampage from the excruciating pain it endured from its cancerous transformation under the effects of nuclear radiation, a result of humanity's abuse of nuclear power. The spikes on his back were originally conceptualized as cancerous growths, torturing him with pain. Humanity itself created the destructiveness of Godzilla and brought it down onto itself. Yet Godzilla was blamed for it all - and killed.

As a person who's lived through seemingly endless rejection, being misunderstood, scapegoated and blamed, punished for self-defense, shamed and hated for existing, I feel a deep connection with both Godzilla and Nimona and I love them. I feel seen through their stories.

While I was watching Nimona, a sentence formed inside my mind: "Fear is the monster, hatred the demon". Remember Princess Mononoke? How gods turned into demons like stricken by a viral disease? I don't remember the name of the male protagonist of the movie, but I will never forget the scene where he pointed out that the demon that was eating up his body was called hatred.

Honorable mention: King Kong, the old tale about the destructiveness of fear, prejudice and human greed.

Just realised I don't want relationship but I need somebody to love me , listens to my Kaccha chittas and don't judge me at all . I need to feel safe , and prioritised . I need someone to be gentle with me yet strict. I need someone to love me by the corner of the eyes . I don't need to be up halded by pretty poetries yet you give me the worst nightmares. It just doesn't worth it . I used to think I love big brains , people with interest are perfect for me but found out it's not worth it . The warmth, the sunshine that's I need even if you don't know about von Trier'e movies or Kafka's crisis or Dazai's scandalous life ended up in void .

On the one hand I want to fuck them.

On the other hand I want them to fuck.

pretty odd is my Roman Empire. My end all be all. The end of the world. My heaven would be to live in the world listening to pretty odd takes me to. I need to be there sososo bad.

My horrible awful trait is how HOT I think a a southern accent is and a cowboy hat looks on a person. Oh my god I'm done. I'm jelly. Anyways consider Astarion in a cowboy hat oh my heavens, good golly, ohhh boy

fighting games thoughts

so im writing this waiting for my bus to go to work but I just don't really have anyone to dump my current obsessions so I'm just gonna write here instead. a few months ago I stumbled upon a tiktok video of the game guilty gear strive, but I didn't pay much attention except the fact that the game had some really interesting characters. now, fighting games were always a part of my life, it was a way of connecting with my father since he really enjoyed them too, a few that really stood out in my childhood were killer instinct, mortal kombat (a bunch of them, but mainly the ps3 one),

street fighter, the teen titans game on the cartoon network website, anyway, I loved them. but sometime in my life I stopped playing them and forgot about it, I always saw people playing mortal kombat when the 10 released, and then when the 11 released, but it never sparkled the joy in my to play again (also this thing was expensive as fuck). a few weeks ago I stumbled upon guilty gear strive again on my tiktok, but this time since I'm working I actually have the founds to afford a game on steam lol. I looked it up about some fighting games and got interested in a few of them.. guitly gear strive, tekken 7 and street fighter 5 or 6. now, even though street fighter has some characters I really loved like chunli, cammy, menat, juri, vega, it didn't really sparked anything in me.. tekken at the time was a little strange to me since the game is in 3d and the characters kinda looked like the sims ngl, so the option i had was guilty gear strive, it had some characters I thought it looked cool like bridget, testament, i-no, axl, anji, zato-1, may, anyway, you get the point, the game was also in 2d, which was a little more comfortable to me since all the experience I had was in 2d games, it had a big community of people that could teach me and play with me, so I bought that, the expanded editions to be fancy~. the game is really fun, it has some really cool machanics and its making me see fighting games in a way I never did before, all I did before was smash as much buttons as I could and hope my opponent didn't smashed the buttons before me, but now I'm starting to understand the fundamentals.. blocking, punishing, countering, frame data and all of that, I'm not good by any means, actually I started the online part at floor 6 and now im in floor 3, but thats part of the process I guess.. the problem is, I didn't stopped searching about other fighting games, and that made me regret a bit not buying tekken 7, the community was a lot bigger, it had characters that looked cool but not in a supernatural way, in a normal fighting way, like xiaoyu, lili, leo, katarina, asuka, eddy, hwoarang, lee, zafina, anyway, the list was gigantic, so after a week of debating if I should buy tekken or not I bought it, yesterday.. I didn't had any time at all to play since im in the end of my semester and working everyday on the afternoon (I'm fucking exhausted).. (I did a pause on writing, this is two nights after I started), so.. like I said I bought tekken 7 to try out since the idea of playing was really cool, and it is really cool, but like I said I don't have any fucking time ri3848u83.. but my semester is now ending and im a little free, so I'm using this time that I have to play Yakuza 0 and guilty gear strive, today I started playing with milia rage and I'm kinda obsessed.. a woman that can fight with her hair? that's peak pop diva queer icon to me.. she's like madonna of fighting games tbh.. I'm now really invested in playing more games, I bought the Yakuza collection on gog cause it was extremely cheap and mortal kombat x + 11 at 90% discount, gotta make the pennies I got as a salary count, after that I wanna play resident evil, I used to play re4 with my cousin he was kinda obsessed so we would play a whole weekend of re4 and tony hawk's lol.. I also wanna play devil may cry which is I game I used to own but never played.. anyway I just wanted to dump all these ideas somewhere and thought maybe this is the most appropriate place? I guess..

what do you mean by “shall we date?” when you can say “love is not enough. worship me.”

Bocchi the Rock! is a work of art.

Obviously, it's animation, and animation is art. But I mean more than that. BtR as a piece of media is the coalescence of so many art forms and things that I enjoy about creation and media into one coherent work.

And this is from a 4koma manga series.

Read more below the Read More, this is mostly free of spoilers. Mostly.

CHAPTER 1 (yes this has chapters)

Okay, let's set the scene.

The year is...well, let's say just before the 2010s drop. As a kid who still doesn't know much about anime, you stumble across two anime series. The first one in this example is K-On! It's a CGDCT/slice of life (whichever term you prefer) about a girl learning the joy of playing music and making friends...for a rough summary.

It's a really good anime, and for someone who had a pretty poor experience with learning instruments in school (personally, acoustic guitar and piano) it definitely planted the seeds of "guitar is pretty cool" and "making music is pretty cool" in my mind.

...But it's not perfect at doing that. It has the growth across the series, but that growth is streamlined, I'd argue even idealized (though forgiven due to what genre this show is), and it lacks the specific type of impact that I've always been partial to in music.

The other show had that impact.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is one of my all-time favorite series, and for more than one reason. Today, as you might expect, I'm here to talk about specifically the band scenes of God Knows and Lost My Music.

Fucking Legendary.

This scene has Impact. I can hear this, watch the scene, and it makes me both want to pick up my own guitar or just sing along as if I'm in the crowd. Every time. The genre of the song being to my tastes helps, but on a technical level the delivery and setup is extremely well done.

What this show doesn't have for guitar, though, is the growth. Obviously. If you've seen Haruhi, you know why, and if you haven't, please go watch it? Please? Do it for Nagato. Then watch the movie.

...Anyway.

I'm not a connoisseur of anime. I've honestly barely watched much anime since halfway through college, so I'm sure someone out there has other good examples of a music-focused anime that achieves both that sense of Growth and Impact at the same time.

Good on you. Hopefully you agree that Bocchi the Rock! fucking slaps.

BtR comes out of the gate swinging, and it left me with a concussion. Social recluse discovers the appeal of guitar, and then they timeskip 3 whole years to her being good at the instrument. A reasonable human timeframe is terrifying. I'm not even joking here.

Then they address the issue of learning to play with Other People. This isn't even just applicable to Bocchi, this is about band and group music settings in general. You can be cracked at solo performances, but if you aren't used to even being around someone else, it's going to take time to get used to playing or singing or acting around them comfortably.

ALSO CAN I JUST SAY HERE BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE THAT KESSOKU BAND'S SONGS GO HARD??? NOT JUST THE AUDIO THE MVS ARE ALSO KINDA INSANE what the fuck i am looping them so much ok back to the essay

The depiction of learning and growth doesn't end there by any means. Episode 8 is maybe the hardest I've been hit by watching something in the past couple years, and I live in terror because of the thought they'll get me again with something in the finale.

From the next GIF (Kita) to the one after that (Bocchi playing a guitar), I am going to talk about the details of that episode. Your one spoiler warning.

Ok. I am now going to nerd out about how specifically Bocchi the Rock! is not something that can properly be captured in a static panel format after the events of Episode 8. You with me?

As a music anime, obviously having music to go with the band elevates the anime above the manga by default. It's sort of a staple of the genre and leaving it out would result in this weird state the Pokemon titles are currently in where they need that crucial audio to sell the delivery. Anyway sound good.

But the vast majority of performances are either deliberately bad for the sake of showing a beginner status, or essentially flawless. BtR does not fucking do this. Their audition run was really solid, and you as the viewer are primed to expect that same thing from the band because if they've hit it once, they can hit it twice right?

lmao

Guitar, Loneliness, and Blue Planet feels almost painful to listen to here. Bocchi narrates internally the issues she's seeing, but even without that you can fucking FEEL the dissonance. The vocalist tripping over her lines, the lead not being in charge of the pace of the song, a general buildup of nerves and lack of experience that you can feel and see and hear and that burrows into your skull as the performance comes to a close. S l o w l y. They do not skip over this. You are in the audience watching this band stumble on their first performance. It hurts.

AND THEN BOCCHI FUCKING FLOORS IT. (see the GIF marking the end of this spoiler section)

By taking charge of the room with a solo, she's able to drag everyone out of that auditory funk they were just dragged through. Herself, the audience, the viewer, her bandmates. They pull out their new song, That Band, and it is taking all of my willpower to keep this paragraph from devolving into a keymash and incoherent rambling about how much I love this scene and this song and this series.

It's really good. It's really fucking good.

This scene capitalizes on both the ability to put the viewer in that uncomfortable situation in the first place and then drag them out, and ALSO by hiding the full contents of the original songs before the first time they're performed live in full (Guitar, Loneliness, and Blue Planet was used at their audition in a similar way, you knew essentially nothing about it going into that scene). These things together with the commitment to sitting through the entire scuffed first song before the intense shift into overdrive as Bocchi shreds both her guitar and the awkward silence and they go into a second equally impressive original song makes this scene by far my favorite in the anime, and the only thing that would top this is if they outdo themselves in the final episode.

Spoilers over! Welcome back.

Between the commitment to bringing out Bocchi's character even further in the original songs, the technical details of the songs themselves, and the attention to detail in the actual performances during the show, there is an incredible level of passion poured into making this show that is honestly up there with the people who made the movie Redline. (Go watch that one if you have the time, it's a banger too but that's a different topic).

AND THAT'S JUST OFF THE AUDIO AND STORY STRUCTURE BABY, BUCKLE UP HERE WE GO AGAIN

CHAPTER 2: the rest

Now comes time to talk about the fact that this music series that can and will get you emotionally involved in it IS A COMEDY AS WELL.

There is no comedy in the actual performances, and that also contributes to why they hit so hard when you see them play out. BtR manages to walk two tightropes at the same time, delivering immensely high-quality musical performances and a solid cast right alongside genius visual gags, surreal visuals, references to a ton of other media, and fun and engaging personalities throughout the roster.

Bocchi's ability to deform and warp reality is a tangible and recognizable thing to the cast, and the amount of different styles and dimensions and framerates and methods of delivery and length of the gag vary from episode to episode, as well as within each episode. It almost feels like a class presentation session at times, with new styles and references popping in as a guest before cutting back to the regular depiction of the characters in their normal state.

They also??? Do 3D really well??? Like yeah you can tell what parts of some performances are using 3D but it isn't intrusive. It's implemented in a way that it complements the rest of the scene instead of detracting from it (I should clarify this also applies to the more esoteric 3D scenes but for different reasons than the ones used in performances).

Reading through an translation of an interview done with some of the staff (link here, highly recommend reading it) reveals that the animation crew is indeed just full sending into a gag and pulling out all the stops to deliver a punchline without breaking the coherence of the series as a whole.

I love them. I love this show.

CHAPTER 3???? CLOSING WORDS I GUESS

There is more I could say about this series, about the things that I love so much about the show, about the characters and my personal favorite gags and other moments I love.

But hopefully you understand now why I hold BtR in such high regard. A music anime produced to the highest degree, a legendary combination of music, audio, writing, visual media variance, and character designs.

It no doubt stands on its predecessors. But to compare it to K-On! in a way does both of them a disservice. This is as much a passion product as it is a production, and the entire staff and cast have my deepest thanks for delivering so well on this series.

I am not ready for the final episode.

Help.

you want flowers, earrings, kisses, cuddles, love and lovers but me...i want money, alcohol, cars, tattoos and power. we aren't the same bro!

Do y'all know that feeling of just going back to your old phases back then? That's what I'm feeling right now --

FNAF

Undertale

MLP

Bendy and the Ink Machine

DDLC

Creepypasta

Cuphead

Yeah I'm pretty sure y'all went through these and probably ones older than these -- the fandoms still somehow fucking lives and I love it xD

Remain hopeful

Lately, I've been thinking, perhaps the dreams I dream of, aren't meant for me? Why is it, that when I'm somewhat close to getting into the direction of those dreams, something ends up hindering it & I'm diverted into another path? One that seems even longer or maybe even uncertain of its destination?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all about the journey but, sometimes, I can't help but think, am I just fooling myself? Are dreams not really meant to be reached? I'm torn between the part of me that says "It'll be worth it in the end, keep the faith" & the other part that says " maybe It's time to face reality & go for something else".

If so, why was this passion built in me? Why is it burning so much that it reminds me not to give up, despite the little demon whispering in my ear telling me that I should.

Alas, even with all this pushing & pulling, I can only take it one day at a time, & believe that It'll never be too late to live out those dreams, & I will... remain hopeful.

Lately, my heart has been carrying a feeling of emptiness for a while. I usually love birthdays, and I thought mine would make me feel better. But surprisingly, it made me even emptier. I confided in my twin soul, and she comforted me. She created a safe space for me to share and told me it's okay to embrace what I'm going through.

In the morning, I had a breakdown and Simran accidentally fell from her bed, which made me laugh uncontrollably (I can't stop thinking about it). This got me thinking, we often expect to be happy on our birthdays, to feel alive and have fun. But the truth is, it's absolutely fine not to feel that way. If you're sad on your birthday, that's okay too. Once I accepted my feelings, they started to ease. They might come back in waves, but I'm now prepared to accept them.

And I am so grateful for the wonderful people who made me feel so special and loved yesterday. I am thankful my soul picked this beautiful life to go through, to feel all kinds of emotions, to be born into a world where Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Harry Styles exist, to know love, and to sprinkle kindness.

I cannot wait for all the surprises, lessons, experiences and new beginnings, Universe ✨