#not playing attention at all

[cahirsmommy]

#not playing attention at all #and he was smoking again 😩😩 #my dear distressed baby #i think the suit is so incredibly hot but damn #usually i try to figure out who the murderer is but not this time #jesus when his finger was cut off #but i said this already #wait this is MY tag #that ring he wears since then is so very special to me #got me giggling and shit #please that episode was so gay #i like it #but honestly i'm just like #get the angles right #sorry #mark waschke #but you might be #the love of my life #oh #robert karow #you're such a funky guy #and we all know he's packing #what who said that #(sorry) #das opfer #tatort berlin #tatort #deutsches zeug

[evercelle]

( just follow the script. )

#in stars and time #isat spoilers #ever makes art #i binge played this game over the weekend. IT'S EXCELLENT!! #i really enjoyed all the attention to detail in the progression of game sprites and UI... and the art is so good... #if i had a nickel for every incredible indie rpg debuting in '23 with the word Stars in the title id have 2 nickels. which isnt a lot but-- #2023 has been a buck wild year for gaming. play isat

[stagefoureddiediaz]

I personally think it is categorically hilarious that Buck is seemingly gonna rock up to his sisters wedding with a boyfriend having not told his parents of this development in his life.

It is peak trolling payback to drop that bomb on them in an environment where they have to play nice after all they’ve done to him. This is baby box the revenge and I am here for it

#all the firefam will be totally cool with it and happy for Buck #but his parents are going to be stuck in this environment where they have to act happy and be normal - because they can’t cause a scene #his parents love to be the centre of attention and create a scene - o to not be able to - because if they do it will ruin Maddies big day #well played Evan buckley - well played #i mean the look on Margaret’s face when buck rocked up with Eddie was already her majorly having to bite her tongue #I can’t wait to see her and Philip struggle to behave!!! #because if they say anything to buck or ruin Maddies wedding - the thin ice they were already on will melt away and I will attack #911 spoilers #evan buckley #maddie buckley #911 abc #anti the buckley parents

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Mo Ran fails to master the art of pspsps (continuation of this)

(For @airagorncharda)

#poorly drawn erha #erha #2ha #the husky and his white cat shizun #chu wanning #mo ran #Second raffle surprise: A part 2! #...I meant it when I said a lot of people asked for chu wanning #Small disclaimer that I don't know much about about erha but...if this man is supposed to be cat coded then I understand enough. #I bet he gets sleepy in the middle of the day and needs lots of naps. #Likes affection but if you're the wrong person or engaging at the wrong time: GOOD LUCK. #Guy who everyone is a little bit obsessed with being the focus of his attention. #Mo Ran gives me 'plays with cats like they are dogs and is always covered in scratches because of it' vibes #No idea if any of these are right at all. #It was important for me to give Mo Ran big eyebrows (per the husky title). That is a hill I'll die on.

[madneywedding]

the way i would pay for oliver to write meta about buck's character

#like. he Gets it. i've been thinking about buck in this ep for five days straight and he said it better in one sentence than any paragraph #i could ever come up with #people are arguing over whether buck #acted the way he did bc he wanted tommy's attention or eddie's attention or bc he was feeling left out or whatever but i don't think it's #any one thing i think it was just a general feeling of Wrongness when tommy showed up borne from thirty years of repressing his sexuality #and he tried to rationalize it as jealousy or whatever and worked through the fact that his behavior was completely unreasonable but #it wasn't until tommy kissed him that all of the rage that was trapped inside him was allowed to escape bc he finally had a name for it #he's been turning over parts of himself for years trying to find that final piece and getting more and more upset when it eludes him #n this kiss was the kind of cathartic relief that he so desperately needed bc it allowed him to understand what's been missing #anyway. oliver stark i love you so much i'm so grateful you play buck #buck #rae.txt #911

[bakuhatsufallinlove]

Let's talk about Jump GIGA

Jump GIGA covers, 2016-2024. Volumes are published (left to right per row) as Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn releases, with 2018 and 2019 briefly breaking the pattern by having three Winter and three Summer volumes each. 2023 has an Early Spring volume in addition to the standard four.

So, people have pointed out that the 2024 Spring cover is, uh, not like other covers.

But I've only seen comparisons to other MHA GIGA covers and MHA Weekly Shonen Jump covers. Out of curiosity for what GIGA's typical marketing aesthetics might be, I put together a comparison between all of Jump GIGA's covers to date.

And, um. Some things stand out, to say the least.

First, let me clarify what Jump GIGA even is: it is a seasonal magazine from Shonen Jump, published separate from Weekly Shonen Jump. SJ is an absolutely massive brand and they have a number of magazines serialized outside of the most well-known weekly magazine.

The content of Jump GIGA is primarily made up of one-shots and spin-offs. From the beginning, a lot of the appeal has been the cool cover illustrations which showcase special merchandise that comes with the purchase of GIGA. Usually the cover also promotes big things going on related to the WSJ series, like movie events, new games, or special figurines for sale.

The marketing aesthetic has been clear from the start: the cover consists of one core illustration and a number of ads surrounding it. Most often you get a cover illustration of a protagonist, and then ads and merch for other series, e.g. Food Wars protagonist cover with One Piece film promotion and Haikyuu!! merch.

The purpose of this marketing direction is pretty obvious. Spin-offs and one-shots are not likely to generate a ton of interest consistently, so they lure people in with the cool covers and tempting limited edition merchandise of the series they already know and love. In this way, highlighting one series with the cover and different series with the merch makes sense, because maybe somebody doesn't care about Food Wars, but they definitely want those Haikyuu!! stickers, stuff like that.

Starting from 2020's Autumn volume, you can see a shift. For the first time, basically all of the merchandise is for the cover series. The Demon Slayer manga had already ended five months earlier in May, but a two-chapter spin-off was scheduled for release in WSJ during October. This GIGA was released exactly one day before the second chapter was published and it capitalizes on the hype.

After this point, only MHA and Jujutsu Kaisen dominate the cover and the merch in quite this way, with Black Clover getting attention last volume as a way to highlight the fact that it actually switched syndication from WSJ to GIGA.

Anyway, most commonly the cover illustration is a solo shot of a core cast member (usually but not always the protagonist), and if it's not a solo, it's a big cast illustration.

Only a few covers focus on two characters, and usually it's a crossover as opposed to characters from same series sharing the limelight.

Here we've got Food Wars' protagonist with the main characters from Dr. Stone and Act-Age.

The two covers most similar to the Izuku & Kacchan cover are 2022 Winter and 2023 Autumn.

Winter depicts the main trio of Blue Box in a seasonally-appropriate aesthetic. Not gonna lie, this one kinda makes me laugh--Blue Box is a romance and sports manga, and even though Christmas has a romantic air to it in Japan, instead of depicting any sort of like, hesitant but hopeful romantic energy between the heterosexual couple that actually get together later in the series, they focus primarily on the two girls being cute with the guy is a wee footnote? I mean, all right.

Meanwhile, Autumn depicts one of the protagonists with the series antagonist with a typical cool action style. I'm not very familiar with JJK, but I hear these two have got Some Drama going on, so, there's that.

The merch itself has also evolved over the years. Stickers and posters were present early on, but they have since expanded to decorative folders and now acrylic stands and coasters. 2021 Summer sees the first time the cover illustration is marketed as merch, with the Jujutsu Kaisen cover included as a decorative folder.

Right after that, the Kacchan cover of 2021 Autumn is included as a poster alongside earlier covers featuring Todoroki and Izuku.

2023 Summer's cover is a huge, wrap-around MHA cast illustration and it was published three days after chapter 396 came out, strategically timed to highlight the big shift in the final battle as Ochako vs Toga ends and All Might vs. AFO begins. Merch includes a decorative folder of the wrap-around cover and character motif stickers.

And then we get this!?

A duo cover illustration where the cover art itself has been merchandised to hell and back!?!?

Acrylic stand and pin set!?

Double-sided coaster showing bkdk greatest hits!? With volume 29's river scene cover!?

There's also a double-sided poster featuring the Spring cover with the ninth popularity poll art and a decorative bag with the anniversary art. The cover art itself is plastered all over the volume, front, back, and spine, apparently a total of 19 times.

I honestly don't know what to say about this. It feels wild that this is actually what the cover is. Obviously it is a huge marketing push in anticipation of season 7, and Izuku and Katsuki are the most popular characters, but. it just feels... unique.

In the course of Jump GIGA's publication, this direction is kind of unprecedented. Genuinely no one could have expected this. This seems to be the first time there's been this much merch for a cover. And it was a solid fucking move, marketing-wise--it's sold out basically everywhere, everyone is talking about it. And even people who don't follow the series or ship these two can't help but comment on how strikingly romantic it looks!?

I don't know how much say Horikoshi had in what the cover was, but damn it sure feels like he drew this with immense affection. I kind of wonder if he personally pushed for it to be these two, rather than the typical solo shot, cast shot, or even a protagonist vs. antagonist shot.

I'm KO'd, man. idek if this post is useful to anybody I'm just on my hands and knees here.

Everybody knows what we're all here for, and it's these cute boys finally getting their happy ending.

#bkdk #i'm losing it #idek how to go on #they're so beautiful #I was trying to be all thoughtful and intellectual about what kind of marketing game GIGA plays in SJ's arsenal of branding #but #this is just such a divergence from their typical approach #why are there basically no other duo covers #did the other mangaka just not particularly push for it #did other duos just not serve as attention-grabbing enough #there's nothing else like it #what am I supposed to do with this knowledge

[marzipanandminutiae]

#poll #bad history #no Baylie Carson you cannot be 'she/they Boleyn' #you are a nonbinary actor playing a cis female 'character.' because she's not a character. she's a real person #who was a cis woman #with no known evidence of liking other women. ergo based on current scholarship...she was not queer #and it's cool I think! more trans and NB actors SHOULD play cis characters! god knows the reverse happens often enough! #but. yeah. #interestingly the pocket thing was a stolen and misrepresented bit of worldbuilding from another author #who was very clear- when the debate came to her attention -that it was fictional and she made it up #(it was from Alix E. Harrow's The Once and Future Witches) #but Forster blocked everyone who pointed this out and deleted all contradicting comments

[kerryweaverlesbian]

Thinking about Cas roped into a little kids teaparty while they're investigating a case and being firmly told he's a princess and a plastic crown slapped onto his head and Dean checks in on him saying "hey you wanna come to [next investigation scene]?" And all the kids go noooooo bc they love Cas bc he's Weird and very serious and patient with them about their games which is very funny to them and he pays focused attention which almost always makes kids happy.

And Cas, very solemn, goes "I'm a princess now Dean, I need to oversee my kingdom's affairs". And it becomes a comedy C plot of Cas n the kids fantasy game getting really politically detailed and fucked up while the boys do all the investigation work. Maybe there's some cut-betweens of the kids fantasy violence of smashing dolls together and Sam n Dean getting thrown around.

#the joke is how engaged he is in the game not that he's a princess #he's a princess bc he'd make a cute princess is all #i think cas IS good with kids but it's not quite in the way that's depicted in the show when he talks to that one little girl with Hannah #he's good with kids because he gives a lot of attention and would let them do whatever play they needed to and would stop them getting hurt #but would let them try difficult things rather thab do things for them #and he's remarkably patient unless it's with someone he already doesn't like

[hmmm-shesucks]

One of the Foxes makes the mistake of asking Kevin how often he thinks about the Roman Empire to which he responds, “I’m glad you asked.” And then makes the whole team sit through a two hour PowerPoint presentation. He makes them take notes and gives a pop quiz after. Everyone fails. Kevin is disappointed.

#Andrew draws very realistic looking dicks on his quiz #Neil comes up with new plays to use during games so Kevin’s not to mad about him not paying attention #Renee is the only one who passed and she took very pretty notes #Matt and Aaron fell asleep on each other and Kevin hit them with the stick he’d been using to point out things #Dan Allison and Nicky ask questions but they are all very inappropriate and have nothing to do with the topic #Kevin is very passionate about the Roman Empire #the foxes are not #all for the game #aftg #andrew minyard #neil josten #andreil #aaron minyard #kevin day #the foxhole court #dan wilds #matt boyd #allison reynolds #renee walker #aftg trilogy #aftg foxes #aftg hc #the foxes #psu foxes #my aftg

[margarethelstone-2]

so i've been looking for drawing inspiration lately and since met gala is happening, @anna-scribbles keeps filling my dashboard with emily agreste content AND zendaya decided to choose this year to wear a peacock inspired dress, i was left with no choice.

dear anna, i hope you enjoy this.

the rest of you pray that i get to finish this one.

#miraculous ladybug #mlb #emily agreste #met gala #met gala 2024 #zendaya #wip #sketch #i know met gala is controversial this is not in support or against it #i just saw zendaya and the pose and the outfit and my brain played all anna's post in my head #and i thought of emily before i even realised it WAS peacock inspired #thank you for your attention #helstoneart-2

[fizzytoo]

#ts4 #ts4 globetrotter #globetrotter challenge #sim: starling #it was very important for starling to make the distinction of chicken eggs since his best friend is a duck #it’s nice to play something new in ts4 #all my attention goes to plc. this is fun too #very low energy #unlike my zombie save where it’s a story. and plc where there’s so much commitment to those sims (and their story) #this is very low stakes for me

[itsalwayssunnyinhollywood]

I can't believe in 16 seasons we have never had an episode about the twins' birthday. Just think about the traditions that must exist after 47 years, the competition that would ensue, and maybe even a little wholesomeness? I need it.

#season 17 🙏 #dennis and dee trying to get all the attention for themself #frank telling stories about childhood birthdays of theirs and probably having traditions of his own #mac completely ignoring that it is dee's too #charlie getting manipulated by both twins to go against the other and either being conflicted and confused or playing the double agent #and dennis and dee teaming up in the end to be the most annoying people you have ever seen #iasip

[frobby]

list of haikyuu character with actual real world jobs

-oikawa (accepted player for san juan Argentina )

-hinata (accepted player for sesi san paulo + japanese tourism ambassador for sendai japan)

-kageyama (japanese tourism ambassador for sendai japan)

-kuroo (appointed as special chief of japan's volleyball association's PR department)

#irl volleyball just loves using haikyuu as promotion for the sport and i love it #cuz thats really what haikyuu is all about getting people to play volleyball #and if the silly little anime men make people pay attention to irl volleyball then it has served its purpose #who do yall think will get a real job next #also if i missed anyone let me know #or if i got any facts wrong #haikyuu!! #haikyuu #hq #hinata shouyou #kageyama tobio #oikawa tooru #kuroo tetsurou #**I forgot to add but hinata has actually been a tourism icon twice but the first time it was as hina bird so i didnt include it #Idk about kageyama tho #I also forgot to put that sesi san paulo is a brazilian team oopsie #Figure it out man

[heibon-hiroo]

oughh hiyojun...save me hiyojun save me hiyojun save me

#enstars #ensemble stars #hiyojun #junhiyo #jun sazanami #hiyori tomoe #negi #they make me sick #my art #draws #ngl i was mad over all the eden climax situation #like them not getting enough attention bc checkmate animation and knights trip #but learning this piece of info (jun singing lullaby...hiyori on his lap) healed everything #they make me go insane i cant take it anymore #someone slap jun too cause why is he playing dumb #didnt mean to make this as a sketch only but im tired

[officialjanetweiss]

Margot Robbie Takes You Inside The Barbie Dreamhouse

x

#barbie #barbie 2023 #this is making me craaaazyyy!! #the attention to detail #the fact that it's a real set with real props and not all cgi #the influences from golden ages musicals and real barbie toys and how kids play with barbies irl #greta gerwig being a true barbie girl #this video made me so emotional like i would break down if I walked onto this set

[corrodedcoughin]

I feel like Eddie is the type of guy to always have a slide whistle in his pocket and uses it to make incidental sound effects for the conversations that happen around him.

Nobody knows where he gets them all from and they don’t ask incase he takes one out and starts playing with it.

Wayne is so happy every time he loses one of the whistles. He absolutely never tells Eddie when he finds one of the numerous whistles that have rolled under the couch. He has an agreement with Steve to dispose of them secretly and securely.

Except one night when Steve’s driving around town with Eddie, he opens the glove box and there’s a bag full of whistles (seriously nobody knows where he’s getting them from. And in bulk?)

And Eddie is all ‘HEY!’ Which immediately makes Steve tense up in preparation for an argument with his easily antagonised boyfriend about the possible theft of offending musicals instruments.

But then Eddie continues with ‘more whistles! I didn’t take you for a fan dude!!’

And promptly shoves one up each of his nostrils and one in his mouth and tries to play them all at once while demanding Steve watch instead of watching the road.

Steves going to have to think of a new hiding spot.

#corroded coffin DOES have a slide whistle only song #they ALL get whistle solos #Wayne HAS had to deal with hours of slide whistle practice becuase eddie has told him ‘Wayne I NEED to be a master of my craft’ #’I mean it’s like telling Beethoven to stop playing’ #Wayne doesn’t think it’s like that at all #pre-agreement #Steve comes in to the trailer one afternoon and has to physically shake wayne to get his attention to ask what the hell the shrieking is #Wayne just hands a pair of ear plugs to Steve and points to the couch #the trials and tribulations of dating eddie munson #WEEE guess who originally was only going to post the first paragraph and put everything else in the tags #stranger things #eddie munson #steddie #steve harrington #I’ve got crumbs friebds I’m so sorry