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spectralbugs · 1 year

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the sound design in the hollow is so so awesome.. was rewatching undead and the effects in this ep were rlly cool like vanessa's theme was super cute and the circus music was pretty fun and then the little sound cue towards the end with dave was so silly... man i love this show

#AUGGHH ITS JSUT!!!!! SO MANY LITTLE THINGS IN THIS SHOW THAT I LOVE SO SO MUCH #this show istg... ive known abt it for like a little less than a month now #but already its one of the few shows that makes it hard for me #to NOT get romantic about animation #the hollow #rex rambles

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lomlompurim · 5 months

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respost separated from the og post bc I really liked this silly little thing I made

And a little extra of my own

little binghe has a goal in this life and it only gets worse once he mets sqq, no one dares to threaten his position as sqq's future wife, he literally was born to be his spouse!!

#scum villain's self saving system #svsss #sillies #bingqiu #人渣反派自救系统 #svsss fanart #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #tianlang jun #I like to think little bunhe asked his father to let him write letters to his misterious future husband #to get to know him more before their wedding #and tlj hopeless romantic that he is of course says yes #zzl! go for a reliable mailman of the court!#so one day sqq still is on the way to become peak lord and start recieving letters apparently from tlj's child???#so weird but eeh its okay its a way to check on how the protagonist is doing!#so he displays his full autistic caring mother rizz on those letters #and binghe swoons everytime he reads his poetry #and his tales about monsters and artifacts and some weird stories sqq makes up for him #(he is telling him about anime)#idiots in love #binghe thinks they are courting from distance #sy thinks he has a very adorable pen pal #sxy is in the corner probably keeping an eye on everthing to be sure her son is safe #tlj is living this arranged marriage like a telenovela

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booasaur · 1 year

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Harley Quinn - A Very Problematic Valentine’s Day Special - Coming February 9th

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agrebel18 · 1 year

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Seeing several people GENUINELY think that Raeda and Huntlow aren’t canon PURELY because neither of them kissed like Luz and Amity did is REALLY SHOWING that people’s media analysis skills are getting worse 😐

#toh spoilers #toh #raeda #huntlow #LEMME CLARIFY THAT QPR RAEDA AND HUNTLOW TRUTHERS ARE VERY VALID!!! I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT Y'ALL!!#also as if Willow and Hunter didn't get the SMOOTH ASS ANIMATION that they use for badass and romantic scenes #and as if Eda didn't give Raine a few pecks on their cheek!!#and both of them were put RIGHT NEXT to Luz and Amity #also they're both good examples of ships that you can feel their care and love for each other WITHOUT a smooch #I LOVE Luz and Amity and all their kisses but I have a soft spot for these two <3 (can you tell I'm aspec??)#fandom salt

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lapinparka · 2 months

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TWEWY is a game with love its centre and I think any reading which insists Neku doesn't love all of his partners (just in a general platonic sense) will automatically result in the thematic messages being missed entirely

#twewy #you know that one post that's like you can't headcanon your way out of overt thematic structures on which the narrative is built #i'm speaking as a very firm jn monoshipper here because again it's not about romantic love. just love #when you take that away you get a shallow echo of what the story wants to say #see: the anime #and... neo

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diorsbrando · 4 days

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i like ‘em a little insane, covered in blood and severely mentally unstable <3

#ʬʬ.sosa speaks.com #!tw blood #!tw gore & violence #the grimm variations #the way i watched this on netflix but IMMEDIATELY ran to a streaming site to rewatch….#just to take screenshots……im so insane #when i tell you #for 10 minutes i could NOTTTTTT get past the scene in the first 4 photos #i was feeling so so so so crazy and extremely feral it was hard to contain myself #bc i wasn’t expecting it at all #i have so many things to say about this episode 😭😭😭😭😭😭#aside from this man it was actually really good the plot twist was plot twisting !!#the cinematography the music the animation the voice acting ALL A1 & TOP TIER #they did not have to make him look this DAMN GOOD??? he’s so deranged you guys i wouldn’t wanna be alone with this man 😭#but at the same time………………..👀👀#idk i want him to choke me while he deep in it and say compliment my every body part #not just in a romantic way but in a ‘i want to eat you and satiate my ever growing desire for human flesh and authenticity’ kind of way too #the fact that in the eng dub he’s voiced by ray chase makes it NO BETTER! his voice was so sexy here

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poorlittleyaoyao · 3 months

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Beefleaf isn't canon. Mxtx has said she doesn't like to write another gay ship different from the main (she struggled with svsss)

I have heard about this! The content I saw was just so insistent about Beefleaf that I wondered if maybe I was misremembering and the "no same-gender side couples" thing applied to MDZS only. (I have gotten similar vibes from Moshang and from whatever Yue QIngyuan and Shen Jiu's ship name is, but I've now obtained Vol. 1 of SVSSS and plan to read it, so if those two aren't actually canon, don't tell me! It can be a surprise!)

The "no side couples"--or, in MDZS's case, "no queer characters AT ALL besides the protag, his love interest, and the disgraced goth weirdo who annihilates himself to resurrect the protag"--thing confuses me, because... I guess I don't get the point of it? I totally understand not having the bandwidth to develop more than one couple. The challenge of adequately building up other relationships fully independent of your main couple without detracting from the exploits of your protagonist and his love interest could be daunting, as would expanding the story's focus and juggling multiple equally-prominent lead characters for an effective ensemble piece. But here it seems like people picked up a vibe between the characters from what was already there in the text and then MXTX was like, "oh, no, they're not a couple! there's just the one couple!" and THAT I don't get. If she's disinterested in writing women, but has a cast of attractive men who are all obsessed with each other, why not toss a romance in there between some of the guys? Again, you can keep it entirely as-is and just toss a kiss in there or confirm in interviews that yes, they were in love, and you're so happy readers picked up on that even though you didn't get to tell their full story on the page.

I am extrapolating based on the Xiyao situation specifically, so maybe this doesn't apply to her other works! But it is a choice that confuses me. A couple doesn't have to be that developed; Xuanli certainly aren't, but their existence is a major plot point. I should think that the presence of other m/m couples would bolster the main couple, if anything, because it sets a precedent for them existing in their world. There are situations where adding an expressly romantic element would change something fundamental about the relationship, but there are just as many where the addition of a romantic element changes nothing or makes it make more sense (case in point: Xue Yang's freakout after killing Xiao Xingchen).

Like I said, I get not wanting to devote energy to it, and I also get that sometimes a work or performance is received by the audience in ways the artist didn't intend (this is the Destiel website, after all), but to make it a conscious choice to have One M/M Couple Only? Based on what I currently know, this perplexes me.

#there are plenty of works that have a bajillion guys and only like two women but do NOT intend anything romantic between the guys #but these are things like shounen anime (or fuckin SPN lol) that are written for straight male audiences and don't prioritize romance #whereas these here are epic romances about two gay men written for predominantly female audiences #it's not like your audience is going to be like 'a romance between two DIFFERENT men in my m/m love story? outrage!' right?#anyway the 'nobody likes men except the protags' is so funny in MDZS because of Xuexiao specifically #notable danmei author MXTX I find it very unlikely that the plot you repurposed from an earlier novel project was Just Guys Being Dudes!!#unrebloggable bc this fandom gets WEIRD when ppl say anything that could even be construed as critical of craft

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iridescentis · 3 months

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i have to try so hard not to get upset when i have conversations with my family about love and sexuality because i know they will never understand anything outside of amatonormativity but fuck it hurts

being told that i will never have a best friend who will want to be with me forever because 'everyone will eventually leave because everyone wants to fall in love and build a family' just gets to me even though i know there are people who want that but it's just so hard to remember when no one in my life does

#are qprs really that hard to grasp??#there's also the thing where #i am the only aroace person i know who wants a life partner #so it's hard to remember there are people like me when ive never met anyone who feels the same #funnily enough one of my allo friends has shown me the most understanding out of anyone #don't even get me started on aesthetic attraction #the way i can't go nuts about beautiful women because people irl will assume i want to date them #no sir she is art #how do i explain that pretty people are the same as a cute animal or a flower to me #i cant because THEY WON'T LISTEN #im sorry im ranting im just deeply passionate about this #years of pretending my aesthetic attraction was romantic/sexual has driven me to madness #aroace #aromantic #asexual

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cyberdragoninfinity · 2 years

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maybe i am just an aromantic hag but god. i genuinely believe there are a Lot of character relationships that are infinitely more interesting and engaging when read platonicly rather than romantically, and it’s a shame that it often feels like there’s not much space in fandoms to talk about it or make art centered around it, lest your creations be put under the automatic “WOW CUTE SHIP!! ^_^” lens that some people just can’t fuckin turn off. shit sucks sometimes, man

#this is definitely fandom by fandom basis im seeing. anime fandoms are fucking terrible about this but utdr spaces meanwhile #are way more open to discussion about platonic relationships #anyway ''what ship is this about dana'' So Fucking Many YGO Ships. like. i cant stop you from shipping anything #but it does get a bit old that even when you slap a ''hey dont tag this as ship'' banner on art you STILL get people who dont even bother #to give you a molecule of respect as the artist exploring a platonic read. and tag it as ship anyway #like cmon man. love can be felt in so many ways and it's fun to explore those ways with characters beyond just Romantic Wuv <3 #anyway climb mt. platonic soulmates theres GOOD SHIT up here if yall would give it a go!!!!!

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keepyourpantsongohan · 4 months

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Entertaining Highlights from Sasuke Retsuden:

Sasuke's cellmate Penzila, who is in jail for defrauding numerous rich women by marrying them to pay his gambling debts, implying that while he's a poor gambler he is an excellent flirt!

Sasuke's other cellmate Ganno, an elderly man who makes nail art with pine needles and juice made from his own feet.

Sasuke admonishing Sakura for “courting danger” as if she did not just rescue him from a poison attack he got from fighting with a dinosaur: “No need. Go back. It’s too dangerous.” “Dangerous?” Sakura got a very serious look on her face. “You think I can’t handle it?” “I know your strength and abilities. But I’m telling you that I can handle this by myself,” he replied.

Sasuke's response to being asked to pet the dinosaur he fought, which is much funnier in light of the fact he has one arm: “What? Me?!” Penzila firmly shook his head. “No, no, no, no! Absolutely not! I like my arm right where it is, thank you.” “Okay, Sasuke then,” Jiji said. “I actually need my arm too,” Sasuke told him.

Sasuke infiltrating the prison director's office by being a big wooden stick that Sakura carries around: Tapping the staff/Sasuke on the floor, Sakura mimicked Fandal’s mannerisms and movements as she climbed the stairs.

Sasuke's way of flirting with Sakura being telling her to get wrinkly: “You never change,” he said and put a hand to her cheek. “You could have more wrinkles.” “What?” Sakura laughed, looking not displeased, and lowered her gaze. “Where’s this coming from? Did someone say something to you?” “No, I just wanted to tell you.”

The reveal two-thirds into the novel that the prison director is trying to create his own version Jurassic Park using Edo Tensei and some chickens in his basement?!

Sasuke tossing a baby tyrannosaurus at a bigger tyrannosaurus to defeat it??

Sasuke hugging his dinosaur friend goodbye and thinking of how snowflakes sparkle like a rainbow in the moonlight before it immediately cuts to a man being impaled by a dinosaur right beside him?!

#sasuke uchiha #sakura haruno #sasusaku #sasuke retsuden #sasuke retsuden spoilers #penzila #ganno #meno #honourable mention to sasuke getting embarrassed about doing something romantic for his wife twelve years and a whole baby later LMAO #and when he makes a reference to the time he blew up a whole ass hideout bc he was woken up from his nap #they had such a WEIRDLY DETAILED backstory about the feet juice. kishimoto. i blame u for this #to be clear: they try to help with the impaling situation. it's just such a fucking funny transition #ayesha talks anime #light novels #light novel highlights #naruto series

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novelmonger · 2 months

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Seriously, though. Buddy Daddies. Oh my GOSH it's so good and I'm going slightly feral because no one I know has seen it yet, and like...I need to reassess my top 10 anime list, but I think it might be up there ;A;

The premise: Partners in crime, professional assassins Kazuki Karusu and Rei Suwa receive a mission to kill a certain man at a Christmas party. Unfortunately, as they carry out their task, they discover that his four-year-old daughter is there, going to meet him for the first time. They kill their target...but what happens to this little girl, Miri? Her mother was the guy's mistress, and she apparently doesn't want Miri anymore, so now Miri has no one. No one, that is...except for the two of them! So these two hardened assassins decide that they will be her family, and suddenly they have to figure out how to be dads while also being the assassins who killed her father.

Gaaah, everything about this anime was so much fun! <3 Kazuki has a sunny, friendly disposition, cooking and cleaning and bouncing around and making Miri laugh. Rei is dour and taciturn, speaking in a monotone and never cracking a smile. And Miri is the most adorable little girl you've ever seen. Five seconds of her on screen, and I knew that I never wanted anything bad to happen to her, ever. And it's clear her two papas agree! The three of them just work so amazingly well together; I loved how Kazuki and Rei interacted with each other as well as with Miri.

It's hilarious, but it's also so sweet and heartfelt. There were multiple times that I laughed out loud, and one part towards the end got me bawling like a baby (even though I could see it coming a mile away). There's found family, characters overcoming trauma, dealing with the ups and downs and ins and outs of parenting a small child, and then they throw in some awesome gunslinging every now and then as a treat. The animation is slick, the character designs are great, and Miri's actress does such a good job of sounding like a four-year-old, I would never have guessed she was an adult if I didn't know otherwise! :O

Mmph. This is just...so precisely my cup of tea T^T

#buddy daddies #anime recommendations #also i wasn't sure what to expect in terms of kazuki and rei's relationship #this could have easily veered into soapbox territory because it's about a girl who has two dads #but actually the topic of kazuki and rei being a couple never even gets mentioned once!#there are occasional jokes about 'she has our genes' or one of them being the mom #but it's pretty clear there's nothing romantic between the two of them #and that makes everything way more interesting if you ask me!

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varilien · 2 years

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LOVE OF MY LIFE PLEASE DON'T SAY SIKE--

@lesbian-rook pointed out the silhouette kinda looks like a plague mask if u look at it closer and i like both observations for very different reasons >:)

#trigun #trigun fanart #trigun anime #trigun stampede #wolfwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #reason number one in the hat's favor: i like the Romantic Scenarios it could generate FHSJDJSJS #BUT HIIIIIIII HI I'M ALSO ON THE HYPE TRAIN IT WAS HARD SCRIBBLING IN THE CAR BUT I DID IT!!!!#if woof has a hat i'll consider this a personal attack cuz i spent a WHILE today trying to learn how they work #and then vash has the one hair style i can never get to look right. nightow is BLOCKING ME from drawing them fsjdjdjdjs #im very excited regardless of how this goes i am queuing this at about 1 a.m. and i am SLEEPY #oh my god im so happy....... it's woofwoof time....................

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kakusu-shipping · 8 months

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I rewatched xxxHolic while I was away (and found somewhere to watch Season 2/the OVA) and came out the other side with two self inserts, only one of which I've managed to draw up reference for fdkgjdfk I'll get to the other one eventually.

Quick lore for WaTanuki under the cut

He's a young Tanuki that Domeki found injured and nursed back to health. After falling in love with Domeki, the Tanuki starts using his transformation powers to turn into Watanuki, who he perceives to be Domeki's most precious/favorite person.

At first it's just mimicry for disguise sake, staying near Domeki on his walk to and from school, clinging all over him the entire time (driving the real Watanuki crazy). Then he starts actually mimicking Watanuki, making Domeki lunches exactly as he's seen Watanuki do, mimicing his voice, his silly movements, copying him in every way.

Eventually Domeki realizes that the Tanuki is trying to take Watanuki's place and tells him to knock it off in his usual blunt manner. The next day the Tanuki doesn't accompany Domeki to school, but is still there when they arrive, granted in his Tanuki form and looking rather sad. Watanuki, ever the worrier, thinks Domeki's just being an uncaring asshole and runs off during lunch to go find the Tanuki.

The Tanuki decides this is the perfect time to finally become Watanuki, and locks the real Watanuki in the school's outdoor storage shed, taking his form and playing the perfect Watanuki act to fool Himiwari and Domeki.

It isn't until they're about to leave school that Domeki notices a leaf in WaTanuki's hair. Removing it turn him back into his spirit form, causing Domeki to demand to know where the real Watanuki is.

After freeing Watanuki from the freezing shed, the little Tanuki begins to cry. He just wanted to become Domeki's most precious person. Someone everyone liked, someone Domeki loved, someone with a lot of friends.

Domeki kisses the little Tanuki's forehead and assures him he is precious to him, just as he is.

After that, Domeki commonly wears a Tanuki charm, which is his little Tanuki in disguise, either as a necklace or bracelet. The Tanuki isn't as strong as the Pipe Fox, but serves the same animal companion purpose.

He also sometimes still transforms into WaTanuki, though just for fun or to tease Watanuki.

#Emile's Arts #no romantic for this one just a crush on Domeki because I do think he's cool #Though it's mostly for the implied Domeki crush on Watanuki my beloved #I just think it's unfair the Domeki doesn't have an animal companion!!!#Watanuki gets the Pipe Fox Himiwari gets a bird give Domeki a Tanuki!!!!#And let it try to kill Watanuki and take his place!!!!#Lonely little Tanuki just wants to be loved #In my head he EVENTUALLY ends up with the young Kitsune from Fox Udon sense they're about the same age #but that's an eventually #xxxHolic #xxxHolic OC #Sure why not #I have a large handful of Holic one off episode ideas and this was just my personal favorite #I'll get to the other one Eventually #Right now it is August and I am so exhausted all the time

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stargazerlillian · 11 months

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