#i should rewatch when i have the time

[russenoire]

that scene in season 1 where teruki hanazawa exorcises ekubo mid-sentence... and shigeo's eyes widen in shock?

i really want to talk about it, specifically the explosion meter accompanying it.

normally, when the teenager's emotions aren't obvious to the audience, that meter relays to us a sense of what he is actually feeling. but we cannot trust the meter here. we see it jump up a few points at teru's 'psycho wave' sending the sleazy ghost to the shadow realms, and remain steady at 50% upon shigeo's recollections of the spirit's unsavory nature. the boy outright tells teru that he isn't bothered. and it's funny!

but shigeo isn't being honest with himself here either.

his face briefly gives his feelings away before resettling into its normal flat affect. (to be fair, what he's really feeling isn't teru's business. this kid is trying to provoke a fight out of him, after all.) after he's basically tortured into exploding, shigeo spends three hours in the pouring rain, searching everywhere for ekubo.

three. hours.

these are not the actions of someone who isn't bothered. letting himself get drenched to the point of sickness,

even though he literally holds the power to shield himself from it,

reads to me like unconscious self-punishment for allowing all this to happen.

after a large chunk of his short life spent denying and fearing them for good reason, shigeo's first impulse is often not to use his psychic powers -- even after his integration at the story's end. i wish this was discussed more, because many watchers cannot fathom why this boy with world-breaking psychic abilities would ever refuse to use them.

also: the explosion meter lying to us / representing shigeo's detachment from his own emotions alexithymia may occur elsewhere in the series as well, especially when he's not close to an explosion; i'm reminded of the tiny dent ritsu's provocation of him makes in it a few episodes later.

#mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mp100 meta #alexithymia #unreliable narrator #self blame #self flagellation #mp100 s1 rewatch #trauma #tw death mention #this boy often does not think to use the power he has #it's something i wish was talked about more #there are good reasons why #he won't use his powers to solve his problems #even when they actually can and he probably should #because they're capable of doing and have done real fucking damage #life on hard mode on purpose? #i think he'd be even less comfortable using them after outwardly fighting with himself #at least for some time afterwards #this should be another post #700 #kageyama shigeo #分析

[rithmeres]

on a mountain of their corpses i stand.

#ERWIN SMITH THE MAN THAT YOU ARE #erwin smith #snk #aot #attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin #'people who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoyi-' STFU AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY 13TH SURVEY CORPS COMMANDER ERWIN SMITH #wherefore art thou #blood tw #me when im the only mf in the world who can draw hands so i put 16 hands in 1 painting just to flex on people who can't #but i'm allergic to good lineart and coloring inside the lines and also rendering #i think they should hang this one in the louvre btw #if tumblr hasn’t compressed this png to h e double hockeysticks and back you should zoom in and appreciate the brushwork #just take your time with it and really look at it. i would appreciate it i think it’s not the cleanest piece but it looks so good up close #this one's for you fran thanks for making me insane again #by the time this posts maybe you will have made it to perfect game or midnight sun in your rewatch

[steviesbicrisis]

Stranger Things S2 rewatch thoughts

I finally finished rewatching S2 and this is everything I've written down as I was watching lmao

KEITH USED TO WORK AT THE ARCADE?? Also the arcade is right next to family video so Keith just moved next door in season 3 lmao

Steve omg you’re so cute stop

FINALLY MAX IS HERE

Okay Billie is bad, yes? We all agree Billie is bad, right? But Dacre IS SO HOT I CANNOT HE TOOK A “PORCA TROIA” OUT OF ME LIKE IT WAS NOTHING

Honestly they’re so dope for dressing up as ghostbusters and going to school with matching outfits

Ugh Nancy and Steve are so terrible for each other

Steve’s face during the bullshit scene really broke my heart 🥺

People being annoyed at Joyce for being super protective of Will like what?? That boy was proclaimed dead, they had a funeral and he turned out to be in another dimension??? I dare you to not be at least a little paranoid

I’m getting the gayest vibes ever from this basketball + shower scene I’m not even joking, Harrington 100% felt what it is like to be a girl objectified in a nightclub

Billy calling Steve pretty boy is so fucked up like are you Eddie Munson? No so imma need you to back off ✋

Jfc no wonder Vecna chose max she’s a walking gold mine for therapists

One drive with Billy would be enough for me to become a target for Vecna I swear

A part of me will always blame Dustin for the cat’s death 🥲

Stranger things is so good I cannot fucking believe my eyes sometimes

First Nancy, now Hopper… can they like, stop going inside creepy ass portals all by themselves? FFS

OH MY GOD ERICA WAS SO SMALL HOW CUTE SINDFKJDF

Lucas telling Max “if I tell you the truth, you could be arrested or killed. Do you accept the risk?” Hits different now

FINALLY THE DUSTIN/STEVE DUO IS BORN

I was today years old when I realized Nancy broke up with Steve in S1 for a month but then she got back with him because she got tired of waiting for Jonathan

Dustin’s proud smile when Steve told him “good call dude” I CANT IM WEEK IM CRYING ON THE FLOOR

I will never get over Dustin’s pure adoration for Steve in this season

JUSTICE FOR BOB

BOB NEWBY THE SUPERHERO 😭😭😭

Everyone: it’s like the mind flyer! Steve&Max: don’t speak nerd in my presence pls

I’m sorry but Mike holding that small trophy as a weapon LOL

I CANNOT BELIEVE THE KIDS WERE AT THE WINDOW WHEN BILLY CAME ARE STUPID

I cannot believe they wanted to leave a beaten-up and concussed Steve behind, are you crazy???

I totally forgot that Steve, in a span of a couple of hours, pushed his girlfriend to be with another guy, got beaten up defending kids he barely knows and then went down - all beaten up and concussed - the upside down tunnels just for said kids?? ARE U EVEN REAL MAN?

Will turning to Mike when that girl asked him to dance 🥺

Nancy is so fucking right, those girls are so stupid turning Dustin down like fuck you who do you think you are????

Jopper at the end, I love my parents so much

Here my thoughts on S1!

#I know I took a long time #I wanted to savor it okay?? #Steve season 2 is premium quality #I know I mostly talk about steve but like #have you seen my blog??? #you should be surprised when I DONT talk about him #stranger things #stranger things rewatch #random st thoughts #season 2 rewatch #stranger things 2 rewatch

[rhymaes]

The Untamed, Ep. 11 // The Untamed, Ep. 48

#you can’t cross the distance to your brother but you can build a doorway to watch the loss through!!! #INSANE SHIT. GOD. HIS FACE. THE TRAGEDY OF LOSING SOMETHING AS YOU HOLD IT #AND MERLIN BADE FAREWELL TO THE KING HE HAD CREATED!!! #THIS HAPPENED LONG AGO NOTHING CAN BE DONE TO CHANGE IT!! FUCK. FUCK!! #Wei wuxian saying the cruelest thing he possibly could to his brother thinking it’s the kindest & just. #the way it world destroy both of them to know that. good. god. #the best part abt rewatching this series is 1.) I can understand what’s actually happening & the foreshadowing SLAYS & 2.) their relationsh #ip & seeing just how badly Wei wuxian backed himself in thta corner & Jiang cheng should have known to help him but he didn’t know how to lo #ok yet. because that came wijt time and experience and not having to build your home back up from the ground where evil people killed your p #arents & tortured your brother & now neither of you can really speak correctly to each other because there’s a gap #you don’t know how to cross because you don’t know yet who put it there #& then 16 years later in a temple you see what it is and why it’s there and that your brother will never #try to cross it because he thinks it’s a kindness #when all you’ve ever wanted was for him to stay. #ANYWAY. CRAZY HUH #the untamed #mdzs #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #wei wuxian #wei wuxain #I don’t know the right spelling now these tags r making me doubt SO #wei ying

[gideonisms]

oh instrumental track titled "tenderness" from the utena soundtrack we're really in it now

#i should rewatch utena. it wouldn't fix me but it might give me new problems #when they met once as children and then utena spent her life waiting to meet her again.........guys ..... #they knew each other all along......... #every time i get to that part i cry real tears #sometimes i just put that song on loop so i can have my feelings to it

[okurrroye]

In an Inuyasha frenzy and it’s eating me alive

#inuyasha is first anime I ever watched and rewatched so many times in my childhood #but I never saw the ending obviously for so long and when I did finally learn of the final act I did it separately on its own #but always wished I could watch in its entirety and finally did it followed by finally getting to watch yashahime for the first time also #I did it all and I have so many feelings about it all honestly #but this is the first time I can see others opinions and I just can’t believe the hypocritcal and misunderstood takes on certain characters #who deserves better and other characters who deserve more controversy #I’ve been fighting for my life and sanity on what I’ve seen on Reddit and wonder if I should just make a post here too about everything #inuyasha #inugang #inuyasha sequel #yashahime #half demon princess yashahime #rumiko takahashi

[airenyah]

no but when mhok told day to think of his plate as a clock and told him where on the clock the food was that really reminded me of one of my favorite movies from when i was in middle school which is also about blind people and where the title of the movie itself is a reference to thinking of the plate as a clock: it's called "erbsen auf halb 6" which literally translates to "peas at half past 5" (yes, "halb 6" means "half past 5", yes the numbers are different, don't worry about it)

the plot of the movie is a theater director losing his eyesight in a car accident and him being a director who kinda needs to see what's going on on stage he really doesn't take his sudden loss of vision very well. he gets assigned a helper/mentor, a lady who is blind herself and who's been blind since birth and is supposed to help him adapt to a life with disability. he ultimately runs away from her when he learns that his mother is sick to go find his mother in russia and say goodbye before she dies. his helper/mentor chases after him and they end up on a travel adventure together

it's been over a decade since i last saw the movie but i think at some point they eat and they talk about how the peas sit on the plate where it would be half past 5 on a clock?? anyway, that moment with mhok and day at the restaurant where mhok tells him the position of day's food with the help of an analog clock really reminded me of that movie

edit: i went to look for the trailer of that movie and i found the scene in question!! turns out they're at a restaurant and the helper/mentor character goes "if you imagine the plate as a clock... what numbers is the food lying on?" and the waitress is all confused going "i'm sorry?"

there are no eng subs for the trailer buuut the moment is at the very end at 2:11:

see it's a real movie i didn't just make it up kjdfkjdfk

#god i need to rewatch that movie so bad it's been so long since i last saw it #i actually thought about this movie only recently!! #bc these two italian erasmus students were asking for german movie recs and i told them about this one #and now the scene with day and mohk at the restaurant reminds me of it too and #now i just feel this strong urge to go rewatch it #i vividly remember many scenes but there is no connection between them djgdkfjkfdg #i should really rewatch it during christmas break i think we have it on dvd??? #bc my mom found it in the library and we liked the movie a lot and i think she ended up buying it #i gotta check my parent's dvd shelf when i go home for christmas in a week #airenyah plappert #last twilight #lt ep5 #adrm #no but that movie also had this feature where they had an accessible version of it for people with low/no vision!!!! #which was the first time i'd ever seen a feature like this‚ up until that point i didn't know it existed #(i was like 12 or 13 or so i think when i first watched that movie) #(and (pre-)teen me thought it was really cool)

[lazy-toad]

CHARACTERS WHO ARE ON BORROWED TIME, CHARACTERS WHO HAVE BEEN DEAD ALL THIS TIME, CHARACTERS WHO HAVE BUILT THEIR LIVES BETWEEN DEATHS

#specifically thinking about Alana Bloom because i finished my Hannibal rewatch an hour ago #but this is the trope of all time #characters who have been dead since the beginning and characters who have been dead for a while #characters who are on borrowed time #characters who are waiting for the other shoe to drop #not even just characters who have been dead from the very beginning just characters who didn't die when they should have #who know they've not truly escaped it but are simply buying themselves time

[analyzingadventure]

You know I actually never realized this before-- so you remember how tri. retconned Original Chosen fighting and defeating Apocalymon into them fighting the Dark Masters instead? (To be fair it is possible they could've ALSO fought Apocalymon afterwards but that isn't the Epic Final Showdown tri. decided to depict so it's borderline a retcon)

If the Original 5 Chosen fought and defeated the Dark Masters once in the distant past, doesn't that mean that

A) They survived and hid for just a few thousand years until they came back for a Round 2 at conquering the world

B) They died, were reborn, and THEN went for the Round 2

You know I've just DYING with curiosity, desperately wanting to know if any of the villians in Adventure would ever be reborn after Adventure, right. Because according to the lore they should, right (unless their data was like somehow absorbed by Apocalymon and destroyed along with him (though that would still leave Piemon as an exception (and Vamdemon but we all know what happened to him) and the sole survivor))

And what tri. has essentially done is confirm that most of them should, in fact, be reborn sooner or later

But that just raises the question of if Apocalymon was lowkey driving the Dark Masters nuts (as suggested by the novels), and if tri. was kind of about destroying the last remnants of Apocalymon's data (within Meicoomon), if they were reborn this time would they be free of Apocalymon's influence

If so, would their third (?) lives then turn out different? Would they still try to take over the world all over again for funsies (this time just without Apocalymon giving them power etc), or were they just the same as Ken was in Zero Two? I mean Apocalymon was supposed to be a spawn of Milleniummon and Ken was infected with Mille's malice directly, so while it may have been a bit filtered it was still the same source of malice and corruption, right

And like regardless of how their next lives would turn out, shouldn't the kids (OR AT THE VERY FUCKING LEAST GENNAI) like realize that this is going to happen eventually and like. Go and see if they can find them (either as their pre-Ultimate forms or even when they're still in their Eggs) and try to figure out what to do BEFORE shit hits the fan

I JUST

#Sorry I'm rewatching the second half of Adventure while working (it improves my focus actually) and #Oh the brainworms are real #Text post #I'm sorry I'm just thinking about Pinocchimon. My sweet poor murder child just needed friends 😭 #But even if he was reborn without the craving for blood- who would be friends with him. After all he did in his past life #Who would want to be friends with him. Who would forgive him #IS HE GONNA BE DOOMED TO BE ALONE FOREVER. I'M 😭😭😭 #Meanwhile for all we know Piemon is still stuck in that other dimension 10 years later lmao #Depending on if tri.'s reboot ever affected him at all or not because god fucking knows we'll never find out #(Or if he even COULD be affected by the reboot to begin with. God knows Wizarmon seemed to be fucking IMMUNE to it) #(Even though it was supposed to reset EVERYBODY) #But also that could have horrifying implications too if Piemon was just left to cook overnight with a part of Apocalymon #Like Apocalymon is just a collection of grudge and hate from Digimon who've gone extinct right #What's stopping that part of Apocalymon from just restarting the collection of hatred and grudge all over again #This time using Piemon as a vessel to just contain it #Like Apocalymon came from beyond the Wall of Fire to begin with so it's not like dimensional barriers should stop him either #I mean the good news is that there probably haven't been that many Digimon species that've gone extinct after Adventure #But still kids. Y'all might have a timebomb on your hands #Edited to remove some of excessive cursing lmao. I was feeling very intense when writing this sorry lmao

[shelfperson]

fuck the haters aight jack crawford is my special little guy and everyone who doesn’t like him gets Squished Like Bug. I don’t want to hear anything else about gender envy will or whatever okay i’m in lesbigay for jack crawford ans i could have fixed him.

#on a more serious note i’m rewatching the series #and ever episode i’m just struck by what a good character he is #lawrence fishburn preforms him with so much confidence to rival will and hannibal for flair and gravitas #and like!! it os insane how many fans ignore him like he isn’t essentially the third protagonist #and his actions have HUGE weight on the show’s themes #and i don’t want to hear an IOTA of ‘he was a dick to will’ #not to say that he wasn’t but he ALSO goes to bat for him SO. MANY. TIMES. #at the risk of both his career and his life #when he really should not #anyway jack crawford is my best friend my sweet cheese my rotten soldier my goodtime boy #jack crawford #nbc hannibal #hannibal

[oldfashionedmorphine]

Listen. I haven’t watched Ted Lasso. I do not plan on watching Ted Lasso (just not my thing). However last night I was dreaming and who should walk into my dreams but ROY KENT AND JAMIE TARTT. This is YOUR FAULT. I have ABSORBED YOUR BLORBOS THROUGH OSMOSIS

my bad

#although it’s funny you should say that cause i remember when my brother was trying to get me to watch ted lasso #he kept asking me for like 4-6 months or so #and i kept saying ‘it’s not my thing’ #and then i went to visit him and i guess we had nothing better to do so he was like ‘please just try one episode’ #so i said ‘fine. why not.’ #and i didn’t pay much attention to it…like i was half interested in it until maybe the 3rd or 4th episode #and then i started paying more attention and then i got hooked… #eventually rewatched the whole thing and liked it even more the second time #and this was a few months before season 3 aired and of course by then i was a big fan of this silly football show #kinda went a little crazy while season 3 was airing too #but my fixation on it is stronger now i think than before #also i do not really care for sports…someone thought i like this show because i love the sport or something #but i do not…i just really enjoy the characters and the humor #i think it’s a great show and watching it feels like a warm hug #it’s funny but also has its angsty moments and idk i feel like my brother now trying to convince people to try it #oh and i don’t even know how i became a royjamie shipper #it just happened….they have a crazy dynamic and i just think they deserved to kiss lol

[appleciders]

not to post about grey's anatomy in the year of our lord 2023 but i still cannot believe they had meredith unplug derek without calling his mother or any of his sisters (including the one who lived in. her house.) like. sorry. sorry. two episodes later and amelia is forgiving her?? sorry i'm maybe never speaking to you again ever as long as the earth is turning round

#rewatched the episode w my mum when she visited and like. maybe stopped our gray's full watch through forever lmao #and sorry people were mad at AMELIA? she should have been worse. #both of us had to leave the house and walk to cvs feeling physically ill likeee #she didn't call his mother even. #anyway moral of the story soap operas are bad for my health #AND THEN TWO EPISODES LATER SHE'S LIKE 'HE GREW UP IN THIS BIG FAMILY–' AND HOW IS AMELIA NOT LIKE. YEAH GIRL #HELLOOO #grey's anatomy // #every time i think about it i get livid like sorry. i would scream and scratch my fingernails over someones face

[kittiesfordays]

something feral awakens in me every time i hear the intro song from a tale of thousand stars

#a tale of thousand stars #atots #atots my beloved #tian #phupha #chief phupha #phutian #i truly cannot describe how i feel when i hear that song #something in me desperately wants to have never seen it just to experience watching it for the first time again #but when i hear it the feeling i get is me remembering how i felt when i first watched atots #can you tell i love atots a lot? #i am once again rewatching atots #gmmtv should send me a thank you letter because i alone am responsible for like half of the views that atots has

[grrrlsoverdramas]

Anyway, thinking about kdrama masterpieces this weekend, and obviously imo Coffee Prince is the ult.  Like, is it a perfect drama? No.  It probably wouldn’t withstand drama audience standards today.  But the synergy of that production is some once-in-a-lifetime stuff.

Absolutely no one involved in that show has ever made anything of that level again.  Like, maybe Goblin? But Coffee Prince has an authenticity, genuineness, ingenuity, freshness that doesn’t show up in what is ultimately an overproduced epic fantasy (that I do like). Maybe My Ahjusshi?? I haven’t watched.

Some of it has to do with the way drama production changed in the year or two following Coffee Prince, and the way set design etc became better funded and more streamlined and shinier.  But aside from aesthetic differences, tone and sensuality and character just reached an apex in the show.

When has an actress ever been so willing to embrace imperfection and “unattractiveness.” Go Eun Chan is so visually boyish for the entire show aside from like 1.5 scenes!! She is awkward and gangly and messy in a way that shows like to pretend their heroines are, but they never really are!  Yoon Eun Hye hasn’t even ever gone their again, let alone anyone else. But the thing is, Eun Chan doesn’t seem like a kdrama character, she seems like a real person. She is well-written, sure, and in a realistic (ish) story, but she’s also just actually embodied.

And despite the fact that the main female character is not a Smooth Beautiful instagram model (or whatever) the show is sexier and more sexually charged than most of the more contemporary shows that are way more raunchy than 2007 MBC could have stomached.  The way they just casually wake up together and Eun Chan is like... CLEARLY naked? There is no fancy music, no soft lighting, no sunshine washing out the scene making it feel artificial.  There are two people who are together in that bed barely clothed and you know exactly why. The way Eun Chan casually rests her feet on his in the next scene as they have breakfast???  It’s not sexual at all, it’s just comfortable and sweet, but it’s also very sexual!!

Not only do shows simply Not do this, they can’t! They don’t know how to wrap you in a blanket and say hey, step into these people’s little lives.  Their problems feel so big here and everything is so scary, but also their love feels so big and so overwhelming. You can feel the anxiety and the care and you want to shake everyone shoulders for their stupid cliche drama hijinks but at the same time you’ve met people like this and you feel like these are real characters breathing in front of you so you just let them go on their merry way and enjoy the story as they go. You’re safe in this narrative construct with this cast of believable strangers.

#does this show spend too much time on side tangents? yes #does this show have frustrating characters? yes #does this show have stretch out certain scenes too long? yes #is there literally a single thing wrong with this show? no absolutely not #like.............wow #coffee prince #i rewatch this show often enough that I SHOULD NOT cry when I rewatch #but i do!!! EVERy TIME

[tennessoui]

Have you ever watched the show Bones? Lots of good banter. It definitely reminds me of my two favorite idiots. I'm finally watching it all in order and just saw the episode where the main characters have to see a therapist. It's work mandated; they're not together yet. And all I can see is the couples counseling au. They even get a questionnaire for homework. This was me when that bad boy came out. I was like I saw this in a fanfic!

Omg I’ve seen a few seasons of Bones, but I don’t think I’ve seen the season that episode is in but yesss absolute vibes but also only if the therapist was then like so now you guys need to hold hands when you’re not holding your government issued weapons

#asks #couples counseling au #obikin #is it time for a bones rewatch deep dive??? #also deep dive corrected to dead dove it’s important everyone knows that rip #anyway if Sheari ever said #you should hold hands when you’re not holding your government weapons #obiwan would have a long speech about Jedi vs republic and how he is a Jedi or #of the Jedi order #and anakin would be like I have 2 hands #and obiwan would be like 🤨 don’t you need to hold #your wife’s hand with your other hand #and anakin would be like oh yeah #um no

[dollar-store-sparklez]

i miss dominion smp :(

#also i wanna be in one of legs videos i couldnt be in the undercover one bc when i try and log in on my wifi i jsut insta crash #this used to not happen when i joined legundos server but now it does bc verizon wants me dead ig #like that GOT one looked SO FUN fr #like im a silly goofy guy! im good at the game! i could be an asset! #this isnt relevant to the post at all i just got instantly distracted #except like. only patrons and like. really active members are prolly ever gonna get to be in those #and i had to cancel my patreon membership for a little while so i could save money #so im only a patron until october rn after having been a patron for. many months #im kinda sad about it fr #legs you follow me if you see this. hi. sorry i had to stop being a patron im also not happy about it but i had 20 dollars to my name #ill rejoin later i prommy #also viking if you see this. start a patreon nerd i wanna be a member when i have more money #what was i talking about? OH YEAH videos players can be in #they look so fun i was in the ryan one recently and im super excited for it to come out #even tho i wasnt a big part of the story besides getting my ass kicked that one time #it was still fun. wish my group hadnt continually had everything we owned burned down. that sucked really hard #very excited for that video tho i wait w bated breath #i should go rewatch the got video