#and i got a few trimax vashes also we fucking win

[dirt-str1der]

1998 trigun literally wins because i was terrified that it would only be stampede and i was preemptively crying and hugging myself then the haul

#Listen to my problems #we win because when i asked told two artists i was happy to see 1998 merch they were both like Because we like 1998 better #and i got a few trimax vashes also we fucking win #that one artist who said they purposefully match every stampede merch with one 1998 merch is my fucking hero even though i didnt buy their #coasters. their extremely cute coasters. i told them if i still had money at the end of the day i would circle back but then i hit the #motherload near the end of the hall and lost all my money and more and i found the yaoi and TWO AWESOME 1998 VASH POSTERS #AND THEY WERE SO COOOOOOOL one even had the option of coming pre-peppered with bullets #i fucking win #1998 wins #i have no money now (grins) i love spending ... #some of these artists are genuinely my heroes though .... like the guy who made a little standee and gave knives a fat ass ... #it was so funny that i was forced to buy him and vash as a set theyre holding cutlery #i left wolfwood out of everything because every trigun decision i make is targeted to piss off vash/wood shippers #because i hate their ship. but also my friend and i found kv stuff at doujima which was so scary to me ... #i would respect the brevity and efficiency of having a ship name thats two letters but i hate their ship #and then my friend told me the bad news that there was at least three kv shippers at the con i thought it was just that one guy #i dont care anymore because i didnt buy anything from them despite being happy but hehe merchandise .... the designs were cute though ... #AND I SAW THREE OFFICIAL VASH PLUSHIES and two bootlegs !!!! and i brought my own bootleg everyone fucking loved him #they all wanted a picture of him in his crib because they were all so pleased that hes a baby #the very first person i saw with a plush made me take it out so they could play together and make them kiss and their friends i think were #filming and one of them went (gasp) selfcest .... and i was like (voice crack) NOOOOO #theyre funny ... thank god ! i had fun today i really did

[longhands-the-second]

Thoughts on volume 1 (disorganized and very sparse, I don’t have the brain capacity for meta this week)

Greetings everybody! I probably won’t be super insightful or anything but I’d really like to have conversations with people (can’t convert my irl friends no matter how hard I try). I’ve really enjoyed reading about people’s thoughts in the tags this week.

Thank god for the people at trigun overhaul they are saving my ass so much time and money right now. It’s really accessible and I appreciate it very much, that shit could NOT have been easy or quick.

I was really iffy on Nightow’s style for a long time, but it’s growing on me pretty quickly. There’s something about that 90s style of manga I was never quite sure about, but Vash’s babygirl eyes are winning me over.

Manga Vash just kind of feels different already? He’s still Vash obv but he feels more blue as opposed to maybe a warmer color. There’s a palpable melancholy about him and it’s making me feel weird. Kind of like I’m seeing the reality of his character and situation? (*I should mention that I’m basing my picture of him on all animated material + a decent amount of manga spoilers.) Maybe part of that is the kind of baby face he has here. He looks younger but seems older? His eyes feel different. It’s the lashes, probably. He looks like a wet cat in a lot of these drawings because of those eyes.

Odds are decent that I’m just weird emotionally right now lol. Probably good this is scheduled to be read slowly instead of all at once. Maybe this is just putting into perspective that his Antics are for his own sanity as much as his image. I, too, make jokes to ignore the Existential Dread. He is more often visibly upset without the theatrics.

WAHOO! (<- obligatory Dante comparison)

Gonna flat color some pages. I have to get it out of my system. It’s killing me they’re like coloring pages I MUST.

The Plants are good and proper fucked up here, aren’t they. I see why Trimax people make Vash an eldritch monstrosity. Very excited to see how much of that is based in canon. Also, wings! (I am going to be normal about this (<- lying)).

Not to homestuck post on the trigun blog but Vash and Knives are so hope/rage coded. Could make an argument for like 4 different classpects for both of them but I’m not that dedicated. This isn’t related to the specific thing we’re reading, it's just on the brain right now. It’s a fun way to think about how character philosophies/personalities interact with each other.

Volume 1 complete! I like Meryl a lot more here. 98 gave me the wrong impression, I think, so seeing this stuff in its original context makes more sense. More often I find myself thinking “oh, that’s more reasonable than I thought.”

Overall I'm enjoying the manga more than I enjoyed my 98 rewatch so far. Once we get into the Meat I’ll probably like it more than Stampede (idk we’ll find out). It’s generally pretty rare for me to like manga more on account of whatever flavor of neurodivergent I am making it fucking impossible to focus on reading long enough for it to not be word soup. Knowing as much as I do about the adaptations is definitely helping with the reading comprehension.

Anyway, I've started coloring a few pages and I might start doing at least one or two per volume if time permits. Got carried away with these ones though. I’ll post them to the tag later.

#trigunbookclub #trigun