#anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk

[tirralirralirra]

something I love about having read/watched frieren and dungeon meshi concurrently is getting to see that, despite their similar broad genres (fantasy, DND-esque settings, failure op elf girls /lh), they are two very distinct stories that ultimately achieve the same* thematic goal through different narrative means.

like you have frieren's contemplative, almost slice-of-life style storytelling that focuses on how the connections between people make an impact, and how it's beautiful to cherish the memories of those we love, even the small ones (especially the small ones), and that being alive is so, so beautiful because of those things. Then juxtaposing this with the overall narrative of a literal journey to a land beyond in order to meet with the dead, while not losing focus on those that are alive. Frieren as a story takes time to explore the small things that make life beautiful (fields of flowers, the beauty and not the power of magic, stargazing and sunsets with your friends).

and then you have dunmeshi's tight narrative arcs that are built around urgency (saving falin, first from digestion, then from...chimera-ization), but also continually return to the same concept as a core tenet to both the literal narrative structure around meals and the overall story: to eat is a privilege of the living. That there is joy to be found in eating because it means you are alive, that you survived. That taking time to take care of yourself is honoring your life. That death is a part of life through the acts of killing monsters to eat, and that the dungeon's condition where a soul remains tethered to the body is unnatural.

For that last bit, I love how we're just introduced to the concept in the beginning as a bit of world building, something you might just take at face value of, "oh, I guess this is how this works in this story", and over the course of the story the characters start to interrogate that reality, culminating in Marcille's realization at the end that they took death for granted because of the dungeon's condition:

[ID: Manga panel of Marcille looking down in thought and saying "Look, this might sound a little weird, but...I think the entire point of this journey we went on....was learning how to accept death.]

(Panel is from the ehscans version, will update with official eng when the final volume releases)

I also love that the story takes the time to say, look, you can be in a hurry, but you still need to take care of yourself. Eat well, sleep well, What will you achieve in the service of yourself or others if you don't take care of the most basic qualities to survive first? The most recent episode is a good example of that with the focus on shuro vs. laios, and then there's this reinforcement of the idea by the end:

[ID: Dungeon meshi manga page showing Laios, Chilchuck, and Senshi shouting "A balanced diet!!" "R-regulating our daily rhythms!!" "And moderate exercise!!" respectively, followed by the three in various poses in front of the word "VICTORY" and Laios saying "If we watch these three points...we'll naturally work our way to strong bodies!!"]

Anyways this is all very disorganized and I have other things I need to do and I could write a more cohesive, actually organized thought piece on all of this with like, coherent points, but I don't really like to delve into literary analysis on my fandom account. it just lives in my head, rent free. thank you for coming to my ted talk tumblr. don't expect to see more of this, lol.

*I say same goal, which is not to say the only goal. stories can have more than one theme, it's ok if you disagree with me on this, but please bear in mind that I'm speaking very, very broadly.

#dunmeshi #dunmeshi spoilers #frieren #frieren spoilers #esque thoughts #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #meta esque

[aclockworkfilmsnob]

While Dune is (still) often misread as a tale about a hero doing the right thing, to view it solely as a warning of charismatic leaders is also misleading.

At least for the films, Paul isn’t really a bad guy for most of the story. Sure, he acts on impulse and is sometimes selfish. But he’s a kid. He’s lived a sheltered existence his whole life. The only friends and family he’s ever known were taken away from him in one fell swoop.

He clearly knows that exploiting the fremen is wrong and is even critical of his father (easily the most morally-sound Atreides in the series) for what he interprets as manipulation. He resents what his mother and the Bene Gesserit did to manipulate them into waiting for a messiah and constantly makes it clear that he doesn’t believe in these things.

Yes, he fancies himself a leader and a hero. But it’s not because he wants to be a God. He wants to be like his father. Noble, kind, heroic and honorable. But he never received the proper training. He sat in on one meeting at a time when he wasn’t even sure he wanted to be Duke.

His biggest enemy, aside from the Harkonnens and the Bene Gesserit, is the ignorance that comes from his youth. The same thing happens to Chani. Paul tells her he can’t go South. He knows what will happen if he does. But she, despite being very intelligent in knowing the danger of an outsider like Paul, believes that the power of true love will get them through any conflict.

Like Jessica, Paul becomes corrupted by the water of life. Any selfish intention he had before is accentuated by the poison. By this point in the film he’s basically a supervillain. In many respects Paul is just as much a victim of exploitation as the fremen are. He had no choice in how Jessica raised him. He didn’t choose to become a target for the Reverend Mother, who purposefully turned the Harkonnens against the Atreides because he was deemed to dangerous.

Paul is a bad guy by the end of Dune Part 2. It’s scary that people don’t see that. His “lead them to paradise” line after he digs his army into a deeper hole than he could have ever imagined clearly demonstrates that he intends to use fear and promises of peace to motivate the fremen to do whatever he wants. But he doesn’t get to this place because he’s always been evil to the core. He got there because he too was a victim of circumstance.

Anyway, that’s all I have to say. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

#dune #denis villeneuve #Paul Atreides #film analysis

[antlereed]

i think its because laudna is such a physical character, she exaggerates and emotes with her hands and face and hair so much, that i think she just. contains all of this emotion until she physically cant anymore. laudna cant sit still or else she explodes. she plays with her hair or makes cats cradles out of ichor, she grooms pates gross ass fur and tries to braid the long ichor-hair of her hound until they fade into nothing. laudna sways on her feet like she still hangs from a tree

#im having laudna thoughts and no where to put them #so here you go #this bitch cant stop moving she is always doing something #which is why i think the kiss parkour is real. because it was such a sudden flood of THING that her body just had to put into motion #anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk

[devils-yui]

FNAF MOVIE RANT

TW: Scopophobia

So, as much as I do enjoy that we got a trailer and posters to boot that’s gotten both new and old community absolutely hyped through the roof, I’m just still caught up on one little design? Which probably doesn’t mean much.

I still enjoy the production of the FNAF movie and for what it is. It’s just a minor thing that I’m just going to mention. Nothing big.

But, to head directly into it. The eyes

I know people are gonna look at me quizzically for this but, hear me out.

When I saw the posters and everything I kind of— wondered, “why did they give them red eyes? They just look— a lil’ high”

I can’t tell if the design choice was based on the idea that “ooh! Hey! Red eyes mean bad. We gotta show that to our audience! (Especially newer individuals who haven’t been around to see the fnaf franchise in its hype-high)” Or if it’s because of some sort of reference to show that they have that sort of… Security protocol programming jammed in their brain for them to have those sort of red eyes as a show that they’re monitoring the pizzeria at this time now for… Any trespassing individuals (while being possessed but y’know, we’ll just brush that under the rug here)

It looks dope as hell, but I kinda wish they stuck a little closely with the original designs? Take Bonnie from the original game for example.

His eyes have a sort of oddly “human” look to them, and they do appear normal in the movie trailer. I think like how it was intended—somewhat without the red glow and everything but, it just feels off a little. Kinda boots the horror aspect a small fraction bit in comparison BUT I’m not saying Blumhouse can’t somehow prove this wrong and still make them scary with the red eyes and everything. This is just my own personal piece I’m taking away from what they’re showing us.

I mean, everything has flaws and with time I think I’ll still enjoy it like many others will without falter

#anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk #fnaf #fnaf movie #bonnie the bunny #bonnie #five nights at freddys #five nights at freddy’s #fnaf spoilers #fnaf movie spoilers #tw scopophobia

[headache-haven]

aventurine is so i dont know how but they found me coded

#sage speaks #had to put this on the internet before taking an algebra test because otherwise i would not be able to focus #anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk #honkai star rail #aventurine #hsr aventurine #aventurine hsr #penacony

[pigeonpalacade]

Just finished my first fic ever... weird feeling. Its never leaving my notes app though sadly even though its 6.5k words long, I'm too embarrassed lmao :P

#im not going to tag this with the fandom so that it doesnt show up when scrolling through the tag #but surprise surprise its fc #it may seem pointless to bring it up if im not going to post it but... idk im proud of myself lol #doesnt change the fact that im drowing in animation that i need to do for Thursday though... guh. #anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk #jake speaks into the void #txt

[somesmartsmarties]

So anyways I think “Fire on Fire” by Sam Smith is a Kanej song

#LIKE THIS MIGHT JUST BE ME #BUT IT FITS THEM SO WELL??? #I can just image the lyrics #‘then I saw you and I knew’ #where Kaz sees her for the first time and his eyes light up ever so slightly but inside him fireworks are going off #AND ALSO #‘they say we’re out of control and some say we’re sinners / but don’t let them ruin our beautiful rhythms’ #I MIGHT BE INSANE TBH #BUT I SHALL NOW FOREVER ASSOCIATE THIS SONG WITH THEM #anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk #these books have been driving me insane /pos #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kanej #kaz brekker x inej ghafa #*cries in kanej* #kanej headcanon #kanej my beloved #they make me insane #six of crows #smartie speaks

[a-tortured-poet]

“ well clase may lead the league in saves but he also leads the league in blown saves— ”

shut upppp SHUT UPPPPPPPPP

#no bc just say you understand nothing about our team and move on bro #like half of those blown saves weren’t on him - they were our shaky offense #and also…he’s trying!! #he struggled with the pitch clock #but he is making adjustments #and he’s going to be fine!! #it just wasn’t his best season #imagine how he’s going to do next season #SO good #so yeah don’t hate on our baby like that #you can’t even be that mad at him #like do you see how upset he is after a blown save? #anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk #mlb baseball #baseball #cleveland guardians

[deimos-the-wolf]

I have the feeling that Kim Dokja would kin Wei Wuxian so hard.

#orv #mdzs #kim dokja #wei wuxian #my two beloveds #selfish selfless sacrificial idiots #genius but dense af in terms of realizing that there are people who DO care about them #also little shits (affectionate) #The System fucked them over #and more #anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk

[strangebossyuri]

ocelot is built like a revolutionary girl utena character

#this is meant to be derogatory #but i love the revolutionary girl utena style #but not on a gay catboy war crinimal #anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk #mgs #el rambles

[vitaxore]

Pls tell me there are other traveler mains out there like pls, pls tell me there's f2p players that have absolute shit luck with the pity system and don't have many good characters even tho their kinda high AR. Like one of yall gotta main traveler right??? Right??? Like she's cool!!!

#genshin #ok but in all honesty i love lumine #but i literally have 2 five stars #and im AR 46 #im begging for a raiden and ayaka rerun ong #i only have one good time like im being fr #im not a gamer so #idk how yall have other well built characters #anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk

[naramdil]

in the mood to start a fight today so let me just say that im still mad that emma watson played belle, not only bc she is a bad actress who cannot sing but also bc emmy rossum was clearly made for that role

#like emmy rossum deserves an apology i feel like she deserves more from hollywood in general #anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk #pp

[unusedcactus]

All of the bloom in old games looks ass. 9/10 times the game would have been improved indescribably if the 2000's bloom was removed. yes this is about oblivion

#if you're playing oblivion turn the bloom off. please. it looks leagues better without it #or just any game from the 2000's with an option to turn off bloom #anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk

[ferretman420]

perhaps it’s old news since mitski’s new spotify singles has been out for a bit, but it introduced me to “Coyote My Little Brother” and i haven’t seen anyone talking about how strikingly similar the vocals are to literal coyote howls

for comparison, pete seeger’s song (that mitski covered) vs. a coyote howl:

like???

it makes me fucking feral the lyrics literally talk about the coyotes “song” and he’s mimicking it in how he’s singing??? what the fuck pete you absolute madman im gnawing at the bars of my enclosure

#anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk #i’m so normal about music i promise #mitski #folk music #ferretman talks