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teenandbeyond · 1 year

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Can you do Piccolo x Saiyan fem reader during the three years before he androids? She came to Earth with Vegeta and Nappa, and despite being on friendly terms with Bulma, Goku, Gohan, etc, Piccolo doesn’t seem to trust her. So she tries to find a way to make that happen.

Piccolo x Fem. Saiyan Reader

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Trust Me (DBZ)

Warning: Fluff(?), Short bc I got sleepy (so I might do another part), Bro-Sis relationship w/Vegeta

You spend the day trying to figure out how to get Piccolo to like you...

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Vegeta raised a brow as you groan into a tree, “Why are you all mopey?”

“Piccolo doesn’t like me,” you whine, turning your head to reveal your pout.

“Why does that matter?”

You scoff, “You wouldn’t get it since no one likes you. Even Bulma barely does and you got her pregnant.”

“You’re disturbing my meditation time with your childish troubles,” he glares from his spot on the ground.

“You’re calling me childish? Who out of the both of us got mad about a shirt color?”

“Pink doesn’t suit me.”

You plop into the grass, “A prince at his finest, ‘Pink doesn’t suit me, blah, blah’.”

“Did you come here for any other reason but to annoy me?”

“Vegetaaaa,” you lay on his crossed calves, “What do I do? How do I figure out why he’s so mad at me?”

“Why do you care to begin with?”

You ignore his suspicious gaze, breaking eye contact, “I don’t know.”

“You don’t know? Yet this Namekian not favoring you, has you, [Name]--the strongest Saiyan warrior right after me—pouting.”

“It’s just…I know we did some bad things, I know we hurt people, but they forgave us—Well, they forgave me, they’re still a little funny about you, which I don’t blame them—”

“What is your point? Please get to that, so you can leave.”

“Despite all that…he still doesn’t trust me…I don’t want him to be suspicious of me.”

“He probably still hasn’t gotten over you trying to kill him—”

“Nappa’s the one who's actually ever killed him! And that was forever ago!”

He gave you a long sigh, “Have you…tried asking him?”

“When the longest conversation I’ve had with him is, ‘I really wanna murder Frieza’ ‘You can’t just jump into battle like that without a plan’…There’s no asking anything.”

“In all our years of knowing each other, it is quite strange to see you like this.”

“Vegeta, we’ve known each other since birth, you’ve seen me mopey before.”

“Not other than your menstr—”

“We’re not talking about that!”

“Well, if it really concerns you that much, go do something about it instead of sulking.”

You pick at the cloth covering his knee, “But I’m scared…”

“Of the Namekian?”

“Yes.”

“You—You could crush him with a finger!”

“I know, that! I’m not scared of him literally…I…I’m scared he hates me…”

“It’s impossible for someone to hate you,” he assures.

You give him puppy eyes, “Does that include you?”

He tsks, looking away in embarrassment, “Of course, I don’t hate you, dumbass.”

You smile wide, “That’s the first time you’ve somewhat admitted to liking me.”

“Shut up!”

“Oh, no. Trust me, I’ll be milking this for a while.”

“I can’t with you.”

You sit up, “As much as I like hanging out with you, you aren’t much help, so I’ll figure it out myself.”

“Why did you expect me to help?”

“Because you’ve always helped me, even when you don’t really know how. It’s very brother-like of you.”

“Hm.”

“Thanks for listening anyway, V,” you kiss his cheek appreciatively before running off to find Piccolo.

“Why are you following me?”

You smile, approaching him from the sky, “I’m not, I’m going to visit Goku, too.”

He looks you over in suspicion.

“I don’t have anything on me.”

“I’m not taking your word for it.”

“Why would I lie?”

He crossed his arms, leaning down to you, “Because you’re untrustworthy.”

“You seriously don’t trust me?”

“You tried to kill me and my allies.”

“But your allies forgave me, you’re the only one who still seems bitter.”

“Tsk.”

You sighed, “Look, I usually don’t care if people like me…But for some reason, I care if you do. So, if trust is what I need. How can I get it?”

#piccolo x reader #piccolo dbz #piccolo #piccolo x female reader

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animesavior · 1 month

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"The Earth just draw the attention of some of the most despicable beings the universe has to offer. If something isn't done soon, we could find ourselves in a lot of trouble. what can we do? We could try to wish our enemies away, but even the great Shenron might be powerless against their tremendous strength. Goku is the greatest Warrior the Earth has ever known. Yet to these Saiyans, he's nothing more than an inconvenience. I wonder if King Kai's instruction will even help? Until Goku returns, it seems Gohan is our best hope. He's young though, and there's so little time." - Kami, Dragon Ball Z Kai (Ep. 04)

The Toonami Trending Rundown for March 2-4, 9-10, and 16-17, 2024. The 27th anniversary of the better cartoon came on a somber note, as it was reported on March 8th that Akira Toriyama, the creator of the Dragon Ball franchise, had passed away on March 1st at the age of 68 due to acute subdural hematoma. Dragon Ball is considered to be Toonami’s greatest success story, as since DBZ first aired in the lineup back in 1999, the show led the charge to bring about the 90’s-2000’s anime boom and the overall popularity of anime in the west today.

And as the anime world paid their respects to a legend, Toonami fans celebrated the life and legacy of Toriyama the best way they knew how, by enjoying Dragon Ball Z on Toonami.

Toonami made a quick tribute to Toriyama during the night of March 9 as the news came on short notice for the Toonami staff. But for the following week on the night of March 16-17, following the regular schedule (save for One Piece and Naruto which took the night off), Toonami aired a marathon of the first eight episodes of DBZ Kai.

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In regards to social media buzz, For the night of March 2-3, #Toonami trended in the United States on Twitter alongside Ninja Kamui, Demon Slayer, and Lycoris Recoil. #Toonami also trended on Tumblr alongside Naruto Shippuden. Later, on the night of March 9-10, #Toonami also trended alongside Ninja Kamui, Demon Slayer, and Lycoris Recoil; with #Toonami and Demon Slayer trending alongside the late Akira Toriyama, Dragon Ball Z, and DBZ. And on the night of March 16-17, #Toonami trended on Twitter alongside Ninja Kamui, Lycoris Recoil and DBZ Kai. #Toonami also trended on Tumblr.

As a bonus, this rundown includes a list of trends that occurred when we got the news of Toriyama’s passing to showcase his impact to the world. Besides Akira Toriyama, #Toonami and other Dragon Ball related content trended as fans made their tributes to Toriyama.

On a more positive note, on March 8, Viz Media and Toonami announced that Zom 100, the hit new anime series by Haro Aso and Kotaro Takata, will be airing on Toonami beginning this March 30, 2024 at 12:30 a.m. Zom 100 will be replacing Demon Slayer on the lineup, which will be going on hiatus from the block after completing the Entertainment District Arc the week before on March 23. There is no word when Toonami and Aniplex plan on airing the show’s next season, the Swordsmith Village Arc, at this time.

In an interview with Variety released on March 22, James Gibbons, President of Warner Bros Discovery’s Asia-Pacific division, revealed that WBD plans on increasing its anime output for 2024 and beyond, saying “We have a Japanese anime studio, which has been producing five or ten anime series per year, over the last few years. [...] We’ve approved expansion to take that to more than ten series per year.” How many of those titles Toonami itself will get to broadcast is yet to be seen, but it's a good sign that WBD remains committed to anime overall.

Tune in tonight for the finale of Demon Slayer’s Entertainment District Arc, among other great moments. Do note that as the season finale of Demon Slayer is 45 minutes long, every show after will air 15 minutes later than usual tonight. Stay gold as always, and Toriyama-san, may you rest in peace in the Other World and thank you for everything. Until we meet again.

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Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown. For the Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.

March 2-3, 2024 Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#6]

#NinjaKamui [#3]

#DemonSlayer [#11]

#LycorisRecoil [#10]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [3,490 tweets]

#DemonSlayer [3,256 tweets]

#LycorisRecoil [1,812 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#toonami [#4]

#naruto shippuden [Trended with #toonami]

March 9-10, 2024 Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#9]

#NinjaKamui [#10]

#DemonSlayer [Trended with #NinjaKamui]

#LycorisRecoil [#9]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [4,435 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#toonami [#1]

#DemonSlayer [#6]

#akira toriyama [#7]

#dragon ball z [Trended with #akira toriyama]

#dbz [Trended with #akira toriyama]

March 16-17, 2024 Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#5]

#NinjaKamui [#8]

#LycorisRecoil [#Toonami]

#DBZKai [#Toonami]

Tumblr Trends:

#toonami [#2]

If you wish to send me a tip for the work on the trending rundown, donations can be sent to PayPal.Me/DanielLimjoco.

Until we meet again…Only Toonami on [adult swim] on Cartoon Network.

#toonami #cartoon network #adult swim #toonami trending rundown #dragon ball z #dbz #dbz kai #akira toriyama #demon slayer #kimetsu no yaiba #lycoris recoil #naruto #shippuden #ninja kamui #Youtube

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bluehairlaunch · 1 year

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7 Underrated Dragon Ball Characters

Honorable mention, Launch. She's one of my favorite Dragon Ball characters, but Toriyama never evolves Launch beyond her gag, and then he forgets all about her. Unlike most USians, I started with OG Dragon Ball, and enjoyed the found family dynamic that Goku developed after Grandpa Gohan (who ironically is his father figure) died. Roshi is like his grandpa, Bulma his big sister, Krillin his best bro, and Launch his mother. She cooks, cares for the boys, and handmakes them their cute little World Tournament suits. It seemed like she was going to be a major supporting character, but instead she circles the drain doing one of three things until she's just finally gone 1) getting molested by Roshi 2) shooting people impervious to bullets 3) crushing on Tien

Launch deserved better

Android 16

The only reason he's not higher on this list is because he's not as underrated as the others. Plenty of people like 16 ofc, he's a good character, but in universe he gets nothing but disrespect. Y'know the guy who saved the world by helping Gohan go beyond Super Saiyan? He's on the same tier as Farmer w/shotgun in terms of getting wished back to life. Yamcha would rather give his girlfriend a nice necklace

Super goes a step further in erasing his existence by giving his character traits to Park Ranger 17. And I'd say this was a nice homage to 16 if Super wasn't Super

World Tournament Announcer

The Nameless Announcer. One of the few normies to know about Dragon Team, he's an in-universe Dragon Ball stan. He's also the first character in this entire franchise to go from mustache-less to mustache

Yajirobe

Yajirobe's honestly so cool. He 1 shot Cymbal, then COOKED AND ATE HIM, which is probably the darkest thing to happen in Dragon Ball and actually makes Buu a Yajirobe clone. He was also the equivalent to Tien and Goku on release, being as strong as they were during the 22nd World Martial Arts Tournament.

Except, unlike Tien and Goku, he's a total slacker and was probably this strong naturally, or at least very close. For context, 21st World Tournament Goku was equivalent to Roshi, who could blow up the moon with ease

Oh and he was instrumental in defeating Geets, that's cute of him too

Dr. Gero

One of my fav villains, this fucker here, he fucks. He created best girl (18) best twink (17, sorry not sorry Future Trunks), two very good boys (8er and 16), the most perfect it/its, 19, who had one of Dragon Ball's best beatdowns, and was plenty compelling and terrifying on his own. How is this absolute fucker not in every Top 10 or at least every Top 20 villain countdowns?

Kami

Surely God will be important?

Yamcha

The world's first meme. He gets twisted as useless by people who think Dragon Ball was ever about anyone but Goku doing anything and dunked on for almost everything he does. Yamcha isn't the kinda guy getting mad about this hate tho, he's actually laughing. He's an easygoing himbo that just wants to chill and exposit, but will absolutely throw down whenever needed.

The most pathetic he EVER got was when he made his hair look like Vegeta's, and you really can't blame a bro for trying

Chi-Chi

The hate this woman gets... it's definitely less than it used to be, but for someone Goku and Gohan very clearly loves, the fanbase despises her. And why? For not wanting her FOUR YEAR OLD to fight planet busting monsters? Yes, I know, the world needs that four year old to fight monsters, but if that were your kid, would you be ok with that? Would you say bye son I love you and remember to hold your intestines in if the alien demon from another world blasts open your stomach?

#yellow hair launch says acab #dragon ball #dragon ball z #launch #launch dbz #launch dragon ball #android 16 #yajirobe #world Tournament announcer #world martial Arts Tournament #Chi-Chi #yamcha #dr gero #kami #kami db #launch db #red ribbon army

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jamsofdeath0 · 7 months

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I honestly adore Gohan potentially strongest in the universe just being some dude bc he can not be fucked to fight unless like the fate of the universe is at stake. Bro is chilling unless you fuck with his family. Then you've THE GODDAMNED CHOSEN one at your door step.

#son gohan #dragon ball

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tokiro07 · 10 months

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Something I never quite understood is what it is with people and Daisy from the Mario games. Why is there always so much talk about wanting her in the games and hype when she actually is? What exactly is so special about her that gets people like this? I don't think this is a bad thing or anything like that, It is just something that confuses me.

Are you a fan of Dragon Ball? If so, you've surely noticed that the power creep has rendered a majority of the cast irrelevant, with Goku and Vegeta being tantamount to the only ones that really matter in most scenarios, with characters like Yamcha literally not being allowed to participate in fate-deciding battles anymore

You may also have noticed that Dragon Ball Super has more recently been trying to remedy this. Super Hero hardly had Goku or Vegeta in it at all, focusing on how to bring Gohan and Piccolo up to speed, while there was a mini-arc in the manga tying into Super Hero establishing Goten and Trunks as more relevant characters

Fans love that. They love seeing characters who either exist entirely on or who have been pushed to the fringe being brought to the centerstage. There are all kinds of reasons for this, but in the case of Dragon Ball, I think it's a matter of variety vs. stagnation. "Looks like Goku got another power-up that'll serve to elevate him above the rest of the cast and render them useless again"

Daisy is in a pretty similar boat. She's appeared in dozens of Mario titles, but how many of them are the Kart, Party or Sports titles? How many times has Daisy appeared in an actual Mario game?

Once

Daisy first appeared in Super Mario Land for the GameBoy, a spinoff not even made by Shigeru Miyamoto, and even there she was the damsel in distress who didn't actually appear until the end of the game. A very common event for video game characters, especially at the time, but the point is that her involvement in the main Mario franchise is as minimal as it gets

Since then, though, her appearances in the non-platformers have given her a lot of opportunity to flesh out her personality, most notably with how energetic and tomboyish she is in Mario Strikers compared to the more bubbly and girlish Peach

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With their differences highlighted, it was natural that some fans would gravitate more to one side than the other, but Peach is still the main heroine of the franchise. She appears in most if not all mainline Mario games in some capacity, either as the damsel or a playable character, and now has two games to call her own

Aside from Mario and Peach, who else has gotten to be playable alongside Mario? Obviously Luigi as the original player 2, three colors of Toad across Mario 2, New Super Mario Bros Wii and U, Captain Toad in the 3D World minigames, Yoshi and Wario in 64 DS, Toadette and Nabbit in U Deluxe, Rosalina in 3D World, and most recently Bowser Jr. in Bowser's Fury

That's 13 playable characters (9 if you count all of the Toads together and don't count Captain Toad since he's in a minigame), with Daisy notably absent despite being a fan favorite. Toadette being playable was especially egregious because they gave her a power-up that effectively just turned her into Peach with a different outfit. Rosalina was also "just another Princess" same as Daisy, but introduced much more recently, so it felt like they were acknowledging they could bring in any character they wanted, but who would want boring old Daisy when there's a shiny new Princess right here? Not knocking on Rosalina, I love her too, but I've wanted to see more Daisy content since I was a child

Do you remember how excited people were about Pauline showing up in Odyssey? Sure she'd shown up in the Mario vs. Donkey Kong games, but again, those were spinoffs that most people didn't play. This was direct acknowledgment of her character in the main story, and now she's showing up in the Sports titles! Further awareness of the character means more opportunities for something new!

Even if Wonder just took place in Sarasaland and Daisy was a background character, that would have been shocking because it would have been her first time back in 34 years! But no! They skipped straight to her being playable!! This means that she has a much greater chance of coming back to be playable in future mainline games or even spinoffs like the new Peach game or the more story-driven RPGs

Even better, though? This sets a precedent. Who knows who could be playable next?? We could see Pauline be playable for the first time in a mainline game! We could see Wario come back as a Wario Land crossover! We could even see Waluigi actually be acknowledged by the canon for once!!!

Daisy is beloved because of her personality and was wanted as a playable character because of her absence. Her inclusion is a huge deal because it means that Nintendo has actually been listening to us and knows how to give us what we want. It shows growth on Nintendo's part, and serves as a sign that they will continue to give us more of it going forward

#super mario #super mario bros wonder #princess daisy #long post

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dballzposting · 1 year

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Unedited post in my drafts from July 23 2022:

GT if Goten had gone as intended instead of Pan

Trunks: (maneuvering the ship around asteroids)

Goten: (being dramatic) Wo-wo-WOAH! I told you to take it easy man. I get sea sick..!

Trunks: (takes a hard turn just to piss him off)

Goten: WOAH! I felt that one in my prostate.

Trunks: SERIOUSLY? You're gonna talk about your prostrate when your father is right there, man?

Goten: What? He knows about my prostate. Hey dad you know about my prostate right

Goku: Huh? Your what?

Goten: (not embarrassed at all) Oh it's. It's like, an organ, I think.

Goku: Oh, an organ? What's it do?

Goten: Oh it, uh. It, um. Um. Hey Trunks what does the prostate do

Trunks: SERIOUSLY? I'm not answering that. (Doesnt know the answer)

Goten: (pulling out his phone) I'll ask Gohan he'll know.

Trunks: You're not gonna be able to reach him we're in SPACE (exasperated becasue hes already explained this twice)

Goten's phone screen: first text that says "hey bro do u know what the prostate does ?? I know youve been on an etymology kick lately but maybe u could pull out some anatomy books to help me out."

(Pause)

A responding text that says "Sure!" followed by highly technical jargon

Goten: Oh, I got a response.

Trunks: WHAT ?

Goten: Man I cant parse any of this. He should know better than to talk to me like I know shit

Trunks: WHAT ?

Goku: Oh you got Gohan on the phone? Hey, ask him how Chi-Chi is doing. Ask if she'll make a big dinner for us when we get home (swinging his feet excitedly)

Trunks: WHAT ?

#dballz posting #Trunks is like ''he literally cant text back he wont even get your message like physically like scientifically''#and goten is like ''no he always gets back to me he's good for it''

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gokustits · 1 year

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Speaking of the movie why can’t we just let gohan chill he deserves to not fight bro spent most of his childhood fighting and being traumatized by people dying in fights let him be a nerd

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dbzebra · 1 year

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Krillin !!

Why I like them - everything!! I love how hes so selfless, always fighting despite being out of his league and hes the biggest ride or die for Goku and Gohan i love himmm also he has the hottest DB lady, a cute daughter and hes hilarious. bro is top 3 DB character for real

Why I don’t - i didnt like how in GT he was just comic relief to Tuffle-ified Marron and 18 bossing him around :/

Favorite episode (scene if movie) - uhh prolly his fight with Goku in DB

Favorite season/movie- Saiyan/Namek Saga!!

Favorite line - honestly legit any time he just is really done with peoples shit and gets super snarky lmao

Favorite outfit - i really like his jacket and Kuririn hat from the trip to Namek

OTP - K18 K18 K18 K18 K18 K18

Brotp - KRILLIN AND GOKU!! also Krillin and Yamcha.Turtle Bro Trio beloved x10000

Head Canon - Krillin was suuuuper protective of 18 when she was pregnant like wouldn’t let her do anything lol

Unpopular opinion - I actually really like Krillin with hair in Buu saga

A wish - I wanna see Krillin be a grandpa. he would be the best grandpa EVER and i know the perfect grandchildren 👀👀👀

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen - idk like Krillin dying again. I cant handle more stupif fan hate man plz im tired

5 words to best describe them - courageous, hilarious, strong, amazing, friend

My nickname for them - dont really have one

Thank you for the ask!!! <3 <3

#ask #my post #krillin

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giasparadise · 1 year

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Tanjirou x reader, let’s bake together!(modern au!)

Fluff December day 2

Fluff December masterlist

warnings: none :)

❤️‍🔥 Bro I’m literally listening to Stereo Hearts while making this 😭❤️

❤️‍🔥 ok Tanjirou is either incredibly bad at cooking (like burns air bad) or on snoop dog level of cooking. Because of him growing up with siblings I think the latter is more likely, but either way we all can agree he can bake like a god.

❤️‍🔥 I imagine that growing up he baked on special occasions for his siblings and was really good. And now that he has a day off for a change, his training with Urokodaki is long over, and it was a special holiday, I imagine him wanting to continue his little tradition.

❤️‍🔥 So here’s the situation. It’s a winter festival, so the kocho sisters are hosting a party as a potluck. They invited all of the hashira and all the hashira and the gang are invited. There was a sign up sheet for what everyone is bringing so nobody brought the same thing.

❤️‍🔥 Shinobu volunteered making ginger Tsukudani while Kanao made miso soup. while the oldest one of the brothers didn’t want to go, Genya and Sanemi bought some sushi from a local shop and brought it. Gyomei had elected to buy some Takikomi Gohan while Muichirou bought some furofuki daikon from the same place. Mitsuri brings dango while Obani is that mf who brings plates. Tengen and his wives brought a bunch of random side dishes and booze, claiming,” It would be Unflamboyant if the biggest group didn’t bring the most.” Giyuu was surprisingly invited, so he did his part and brought some small side dishes Urokodaki taught him how to make. Kyojuro and shinjuro brought their favorite sweet potato dishes. Inosuke didn’t quite understand what he was supposed to do so he kinda just brought a bunch of rocks. Finally Zenitsu somehow convinced Nezuko to bake with him, and they actually made some really cute mini peach tarts.(if you want my oc in here they brought taiyaku but I know it can sometimes be annoying to see oc’s in x Reader fanfictions)(also if you don’t know these foods please look them up they are so fucking delicious 🤤)

❤️‍🔥 so that just left you and your boyfriend. What to bring, what to bring 🤔. You guys decided to just make some of your aunties special bread recipe from when you still lived with her.

❤️‍🔥 Tanjirou followed the recipe to a t and somehow even managed to make it better than the original.

❤️‍🔥 While mixing dry ingredients you two got into a bit of a flour fight before inosuke came in screaming, carrying nezuko while zenitsu came in, got on the table, knocking off all of the flour and tackling inosuke to the floor. Flour got everywhere but you still where able to save what was left in the bag for the bread. Luckily it was just enough to work with. Lucky Zenitsu.

❤️‍🔥 These interruptions happened a few more times but after a few “talks” they finally took it outside, and you finally could bake with your boyfriend in peace.

❤️‍🔥 the night of the party came the next day, and everyone was hanging around and having a all around good time. And everybody, I mean everybody, loved your bread. But even more than that, they loved being together as a family

Bonus:

Tengen ended up drinking all the booze he brought and ended up twirking with Obani. And yes they got it on camera.

#Kny #kimetsu no yaiba #Demon slayer #kimetsu no Yaiba x reader #Demon slayer x reader #food #Tanjirou #Tanjirou kamado #Tanjirou x reader #Tanjirou Kamado x reader #Tanjirou Kamado fluff #Tanjirou x reader fludd #Tanjirou fluff #Kny fluff #demon slayer fluff

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kasarawolf · 9 months

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FANFICTION FACTS PART ONE. LOTS OF HECKIN READING AHEAD IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS SORT OF THING.

And unlike Twitter, I can write more stuff on here! :D And add more updated info, since most of this I posted in late April.

1. Current chapter count is 80 titles. It was originally 60! But some of the chapters, I had to split into separate parts either to keep the emotions high or to leave cliffhangers.

(I was originally shooting to hopefully start uploading Arc 1 later this year and all arcs at least scripted out, but with events that have happened at home, I am not sure if that will still be happening. My writing production has slowed down biiiiggg time. The drive is still there, but I am exhausted. (originally I was writing 50 pages + a week. but since I started my job again and the family matters, It’s dropped to maybe 5 at most. Not good at all.)

2. There are a total of 5 Arcs. The Arc Names are as follows and may have been too spoilery, so I removed parts or their whole names entirely BD

Time Breakers Arc --- Burnout Arc --- Lovestruck Arc --- ??? ---- ???

I have played around with the idea of other Dragon Ball stories or maybe even future arcs, (Future arc’s I have written down some ideas!) but that will all depend on if I can live writing these five lol.

3. Characters sexual orientations are not specified in the story. The only time so far in the story is when some male side characters are talking about a pretty new Patroller, but “she’s into chicks so out of their league” but Tufu being a dumb, still tries for that anyway and says to her, “he also loves women.” And when Kota is asked what kind of girl he likes in an interview, he responds “Why does it matter what sex they are? As long as they got a good heart-besides I am not really looking to date.“ I do have head canons for the characters, (some canon characters) but they mostly just stay in my head and most likely will not appear in the story lol.

4. Some chapters are very long. The pivotal, important chapters run at around 30 pages plus, but I have been chopping them down. The lowest page count currently is at 19.

5. This story has a PG-13 to PG-18 rating. Not all chapters are rated this and most are in the 13 range. I have tried toning down the chapters that are PG-18, (I even wrote alternate PG13 versions of the 18s) but comparing them to the 18 rated ones, it did not have the same omph factor and the characters lost their bite. Too tame. Kota’s mouth is a pain in the ---

6. For those who are not a fan of reading, I will be adapting it into comic form later on.

7. THIS STORY HAS the male lead is in a relationship with another man. So if that makes you uncomfy, this is not the story for you. (and heck, my art in general is probably not for you lol) Because somehooww, I still manage to get followers who think Kota and Fu are just bro’s and get so shooken when they see em all lovey dovey XD Like yeah, they bro’s, but they bro’s that smooch haha.

8. Kota’s character was created back in 2009. He may be older, but that’s when I started uploading his first art works to the internet. He was always written as Trunks son, and Kota had a different storyline than his current, but for a brief moment, I had a thought that he may have been Future Gohan’s kid that Trunks was raised with instead. That got thrown out really quick! Character design still looks relatively the same, mostly because I am sucker for the first designs for my older oc’s and don’t like doing drastic changes to them.

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jay talks about characters meme / closed / @acoldsovereign

🗣️ + Maiz! {{TELL US SINCE I GUSHED ABOUT YOU SKSKKSKSKS

I remembered when I FIRST spotted Maiz back when I wrote the fullmetal al- I mean Future Gohan. I think you had the name ‘tyrant’ in your name back then SOO I knew THIS was finna be something fun to jump into. I unapologetically flung Gohan into a thread with your girl and though THAT story itself is on pause I gotta say getting to know her through Trunks had been a treat. It’s nice to see a saiyan just being a saiyan, LIKE I love Trunks and Gohan for who they are but they’re technically Earthlings they get a pass. Vegeta found peace I suppose soo that is more character growth than anything and Goku has always been Goku. He’s not really a hero but he’d fuck you up if you looked at his homie wrong and then you got Maiz who’s just there for chaos. From my point of view she doesn’t do that shit because she ‘wants to’ hell she might even like it lowkey but in THOSE moments I felt she does what she does simply because she can. I mean why not? The saiyans became ‘extinct’ because Frieza could do it. Yes he feared they’d eventually rally up and run his pockets til he calls ‘em big bro but he still blew up the planet cause she could and THAT right there is why I loved Maiz because she became the VERY thing she hated the most and that’s Frieza. IF anything you can say she’s a better written Baby.

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Dragon Ball GT 11

✨GT Stands for Gratuitous Twist✨

So these next four episodes deal with the Luud Cult. I guess technically the Luud arc spans episodes 9-15, but 9 and 10 focus on the Para Bros, and 15 is basically an epilogue. 11-14 see the good guys fighting the cult on their home turf.

As I got closer to these four episodes, I found it hard to remember everything that happened in them. This is my first time watching GT since 2013, but I feel like I had a pretty good handle on the plots of each episode. For instance, I remember Episode 15 pretty well, because Pan gets stuck in the desert and fights a centipede, and Giru rescues her.

Episodes 11-14 felt like a blur, because I could only remember enough stuff to fill like two episodes. They go to Planet Luud, Pan gets turned into a doll, they fight Mutchy Motchy, then he turns out to be a whip, then Dolltaki molests the Pan doll and activates Luud, then Dolltaki and Pan get trapped inside Luud and they have to do that stupid joint attack to hit Luud on the inside and outside at the same time. But that couldn’t have been everything, could it?

Turns out, yes, that’s pretty much it. It felt like I had forgotten something, but then I watched Episode 11 and realized that barely anything happens. I think the pace picks up near the end of this arc, but we’ve got a ways to go.

So the entire first half of this episode is devoted to Pan and Giru being stuck aboard the Para Bros. spaceship as it automatically flies to Planet Luud. They don’t know where they’re going or how to control the ship, so Pan browbeats Giru because all she’s good for is complaining that no one else is solving her problems.

✨ “Good” “Ideas”, Poorly Executed✨

I want to go back to the 2005 interview with GT producer Kozo Morishita. When discussing Pan, he refers to this episode:

“Dragon Ball GT has an episode where Pan is turned into a doll, but that episode established the pattern of ‘Pan sets the incident in motion while Goku resolves it’.”

And that sums of the depiction of Pan throughout the series. Morishita had a very clear, very simple formula for Goku and Pan’s dynamic, and they pretty much stuck with it through the entire series.

For me, this right here is one of the main reasons I hate GT so much. People talk about whether or not it’s canon, or whether it goes “back-to-the-basics”, and whether it hearkens back to the “adventure focus” of early Dragon Ball, but that’s just avoids the central issue. Forget the manga, forget the Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z anime. For a moment, just consider GT in a vacuum, as a standalone anime. You have one of the main characters, and her sole purpose in the series is to get in trouble so the other main character can rescue her. And they just do that over and over. She never gains any agency or development as the series progresses, she just stumbles into trouble so the formula can be preserved.

Now think about the movie Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, where a different version of Pan is a minor character, but she still has a little character arc of her own. At the start of the movie, she can’t fly yet, but then at the end, she finally figures it out, and then she happily shows it off to Gohan and Piccolo. It’s great. She didn’t get to do a lot in terms of fighting the bad guys, but she still had some personal growth to mirror Gohan and Piccolo’s development.

The frustrating thing about the Kozo Morishita interview is how he basically confirms that GT kept shifting its premise and never found a proper direction, but the one thing they stuck to no matter what was the formula of Pan getting into trouble so Goku could save her. The way he speaks of this in the interview, it’s like the bedrock of the series. It’s the guiding principle of Dragon Ball GT.

Why? Because I already grew up with the trope through characters like Jimmy Olsen. In the 40s, Jimmy Olsen was literally a child, and they gradually aged him up over the years. He would get in trouble and Superman would save him, and it was boring as fuck, because it was the same routine over and over. By the 1950s, you had Jimmy doing the same bit on the Adventures of Superman TV series, only he was played by 24-year-old Jack Larson, so you had a grown man making the same idiot mistakes, and never learning anything.

Eventually, Superman writers saw the light and began finding more original things to do with the character, so now we live in a world where Superman can save people besides his co-workers, but people like Kozo Morishita saw the formula and thought it was a feature instead of a cliche.

And really, having Goku save Pan all the time isn’t the worst way to go, but you have to at least give Pan some redeeming qualities to make up for her helplessness. She’s the least powerful of her team, she doesn’t know how to fix things or fly spaceships. She’s too inexperienced to be a leader. She seems to have sensible ideas from time to time, but she doesn’t know how to follow through on them. And whenever she gets stuck, she whines and takes it out on everyone around her. If she can’t save herself, then her obnoxious personality just makes her that much more annoying. Eventually you start to resent the character and wish that Goku would just abandon her to her fate.

But GT is what it is, so we’re stuck with the version of Pan that we have. And yet, even if I accept GT Pan at face value, she’s still undermined by the slipshod writing. Let’s review:

Q: How did Pan get stuck on the Para Brothers’ spaceship in the first place?

A: In Episode 10, she was searching their ship for the Dragon Ball, and noticed some alien words on one of the computer terminals. She asked Giru to translate for her, and when he told her that it said to launch the ship and return to Planet Luud, the ship heard Giru and interpreted it as a command.

Q: Then the ship is only going to Luud because Giru accidentally told it to do so?

A: According to Episode 10, yes.

Q: Okay, then in Episode 11 why don’t they just tell the ship to go back? Why is Pan asking Giru to find a “switch” that will take control of the ship? It’s all voice interface, so why don’t they just talk to it?

A: Because GT Logic.

It is this fucking bullshit that makes the show so terrible. Not the saccharine tone, not the ugly color palettes, not the unlikable characters and piss-poor villains. Those are all problems, sure, but I could forgive them if the series at least kept track of the simplest plot points from one episode to the next. Instead, characters literally forget things like “you can talk to the ship” or “I can fly” or “I’m the Legendary Super Saiyan”. And they always forget in such a way that serves to drag the story out and try my patience.

Because they don’t forget to show Pan and Giru arriving on Planet Luud and disembarking from the ship. No, they made sure to put that in there, and the part where the find Luud’s temple. They could have just started the episode on this scene, and had Pan provide exposition to cover what happened between Episodes 10 and 11. “This is terrible, Giru! The Para Brothers’ ship took us all the way to their home planet, and we can’t get it to take us back! But if there really is a Dragon Ball inside that weird castle, then maybe this can work out after all!”

But no, we have to waste half an episode on a trip Pan can’t control.

✨Is This Episode Worse than “The Roaming Lake”?✨

Yes, as dumb as “The Roaming Lake” was, at least they didn’t have Goku forget about the drought, or that he knows how to talk and fire energy blasts out of his hands.

✨Positivity Page✨

I will give this one some credit for how Pan confronts Mutchy Motchy. He starts monologuing about the Luud Cult, and how Lood is a “god of destruction” who will usher in a new order in the universe, and Pan just snatches the Dragon Ball and makes a run for it.

She doesn’t get very far before the Luud idol zaps her and transforms her into a doll, just like those aliens from the last two episodes. The thing is, though, even if this hadn’t happened, where was Pan planning to go? She had no way off the planet, and she had no way of knowing Goku and Trunks were on their way to save her. But I’ll give this episode some credit for this as well. Pan’s still a little kid, so it makes sense for her to do things like boldly swiping a Dragon Ball from the bad guys without an exit strategy. It’s the sort of thing I wish she got to do more of in this series. Normally, she’d just whine about how Giru should steal the Dragon Ball for her, and then hit him when he doesn’t do it right.

Luckily for Pan, Goku and Trunks are already on Planet Luud, having interrogated the Para Brothers to find out where their ship went. They storm the temple with the Para Brothers, so Mutchy-Motchy turns them into dolls too, and tosses them into Luud’s pot. Then he fights Goku and Trunks at the same time, and doesn’t do too badly at first, thanks to his dirty tricks. This shot looks like he’s firing a ki blast at Goku, but it’s actually a gun he was holding under his robes.

Then Mutchy Motchy summons a giant blue robot lion to finish the battle for him. Goku kills it in one shot. He doesn’t even shoot at Leion, he blasts the wall, knocking off a big chunk of it that crushes Leion.

While they all stare at the wreckage, Giru notices the Pan doll lying on the floor and detects life signs, so he realizes that this is actually Pan. But before he can save her, another bad guy shows up and kicks him away, securing the doll for himself. I’ll have more to say about this next time.

Back to the fight, Leion must have had some sort of secondary explosion, because several seconds after being crushed, he blows up and Mutchy Motchy is destroyed in the blast. So Goku took both of them out in one shot? Okay, this is dumb as hell. We spent half the episode setting up Pan on this planet, and then we speedrun the battle? They’ve spent three episodes introducing this guy and he dies like this?

Well, no, because his whip survived the blast, and then it starts TALKING to Goku and Trunks. According to the whip, Mutchy Motchi was never the actual leader of the Luud Cult. Oh, no. The whip was the REAL boss all along. And the whip’s name is also Mutchy, because that isn’t confusing or anything.

Then the whip transforms into this other jackass, and promises to give Goku and Trunks a much greater challenge. Why the fuck didn’t he just do this in the first place? If he’s in charge, why does he spend all day in whip form, having his servant flail him around and giving orders?

And why is the audience supposed to care? We barely had a chance to get invested in the last boss, and now we’re supposed to care about this guy? It’d be like if Frieza showed up on Namek and then three episodes later he slips on a banana peel and dies, then his hoverchair turns into a robot and says “Ha ha! I was the real overlord all along! And my name is also Frieza!” It would fucking suck, and Dragon Ball GT went ahead and did it.

What... what is wrong with this show? Like, why would anyone write this shit and think it was suitable for broadcast? I just watched this episode and I promise I’m describing exactly what happened, and yet it reads like I’m telling a stupid joke.

“The bad guy summoned a robot lion, but Goku kills it in one hit and it kills the bad guy too, then his whip reveals that he was the secret real boss all along.”

And he’s not even the real boss! There’s like three more rungs on the ladder, but forget that for now. This is stupid enough on its own. This is like something a four year old would say, and then they’d start giggling because they know they’re being silly. But no, grown men in Japan came up with this in 1996, and they were like “Well, good enough, let’s put it on TV.”

✨The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku*✨

All right, I need to move on. Blade Braxton (1975-2021) was a legend in the field of pro wrestling podcasts. One of his many talents was to hit people with a Shake-weight so that his protege, Mr. Fitness II, could win his matches. But also, he wrote haiku poems that summed up weeks’ worth of wrestling news and discourse in a succinct, soul-refreshing seventeen syllables. My purpose here is to honor the memory of Mr. Brakestown-sensei by composing my own poems to save people the trouble of watching Dragon Ball GT.

Folks, life is short. Don’t waste your time watching terrible anime. Don’t even look up episode summaries on the internet. I know I just wrote a whole rant about this episode, but don’t even bother reading this post. Just scroll straight down to this part at the end. That’s all you need! Seventeen syllables, and you’ll know everything you need to know about this episode. Then you can use the free time you’ve saved to talk to a loved one, learn a new language, or spend a little more time in bed. Whatever you want to do. It’s your life, so make the most of it.

Here we go.

Ahem.

Here we go.

How does a talking

Whip know about Dragon Balls?

We’ll never find out.

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