The Puppeteer's Collection

i'm only watching the anime for now but one of my favorite senshi moments is while the party and an orc toddler are watching the dough rise. The toddler reaches out, and senshi stops his hand. it's such a small, humanizing moment that makes it feel like a world full of people not just background characters and extras.

and the choice by the anime's artists to have him catch the baby's arm between two fingers, rather than his whole hand is such a small thing but it also shows just how gentle senshi is! just a little gentle "stop"

love it

Plants what now

okay so apparently we just discovered that plants emit clicking sounds too high pitched for us to hear, and are noisy when they're stressed but quiet when content

There needs to be more research done into this, and as of now we can't say why the sounds happen but. WHAT.

I knew they could hear noises but apparently they MAKE noises too

Cats knocking over houseplants just got a lot more vindictive

SHUT UPPPP

I have so many theories about Alice Dyer

im actually a fan of next generation fanfiction, loves making fankids myself. but i can never do that to khr characters because it's like... i think tsuna wouldnt get married if it means his kid will inherit the sins of his criminal empire, him sleeping around resulting in a bastard is not even a possibility. IF he ends up having any kid at all then, well, he'll finally get his act together and destroys Vongola, consequences be damned.

because the only choice other than that is to repeat the same mistakes iemitsu did to him and his mom

will yall hate me if i make a voltron joke

oh hey for anime onlys/ppl who havent read the adventurers bible, a bit of trivia for yall. this isnt super spoilers bc it doesnt really. come up at all? it doesnt appear in the main series At All (that i remember) but does inform a lot of the way they interact: Maizuru (the lady with the cool wing-sleeves who was cooking shuros meal/doting on him) is his governess, and also his dad's mistress. it was apparently an open secret in the household.

because of this, shuro kinda resents her, tho its pretty subtle in the series (kinda hard to tell from him just being world weary and upset at being babied)

so uh. yeah no its not just "ugh im an adult stop treating me like a kid", theres also. this. I would really reccomend reading the adventurers bible if you can, its got so many little things that add depth to the characters, even ones we barely get to see in the series. with this, im pretty sure it doesnt come up at all otherwise! warning tho that the bible DOES contain spoilers for some pretty late series stuff (like, literally up to 10 chapters before the end or some shit) so if youre anime only thus far, i would rec either reading the manga or WAITING for the bible.

also, gonna throw this in too: this part is SLIGHT spoilers just for izutsumi's backstory, but yep, the family literally bought her. and didnt treat her amazingly for that matter (mostly in terms of being super controlling and trying to "discipline" her). ill also include this bit on inutade bc it sheds a bit more light on the dynamics among the group (inutade also having been bought)

and, heres another comic from the section on ogres later that goes into her inutade a bit more

People are talking about how reading Dungeon Meshi gives them an internal monologue Senshi for eating properly I think we all need to adopt an internal monologue Chilchuck at work. Like the boat is literally sinking and he's just watching it happen because he's on his lunch break.

#remember chilchuk would tell you to always put ur own needs and rights first in the workplace 🧡 (@clowniconography)

This is the Union Chilchuck, reblog him to affirm your own worth as a worker and entitlement to regular breaks

LMAO there's a comic https://dannyphantom.fandom.com/wiki/Nickelodeon_Magazine where danny refers to sidney as "that poindexter kid"

like. danny, you're 14. sidney died in senior year of highschool, making him about 17 or 18.

danny out here calling someone who's physically and mentally at least 3 years older than him "that kid." the audacity... the disrespect...

The volume IS the message

I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but intrusive thoughts are basically your brain’s (sometimes very upsetting) way of saying “If there were two guys on the moon and one of them killed the other with a rock would that be fucked up or what?”

I’ve personally found that adding the “would that be fucked or what?” part in myself really helps put the more disturbing thoughts we sometimes get into perspective. Helps me say “yeah thar sure would be fucked up” and move on with my day.

It’s not not a secret desire, it’s not something that only occurs to you because you’re a bad person. It’s just your brain deciding to process the fact that it knows an uncomfortable thing exists in the world by feeding it to you in an absurd “what if” with you as the main character.

Words cannot describe how happy I am that this resonated with so many people.

This might be my favorite coping mechanism of this genre I've heard yet. Sibling goals.

Bkdk based on this manga panel i greatly misunderstood

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.

“This was the most physically taxing of all the film because of the lightsaber duels. Everytime I wasn’t shooting, I was rehearsing. Something that took weeks and weeks to shoot, even though it only lasts a few minutes on film. So it taxed me to the limit.”

MARK HAMILL “Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back” BTS › 1980

Important relevant thoughts courtesy of twitter

I studied fashion for years solely to answer this question: 

-Fitted t-shirts (notice how his collar and sleeves are snug against the body and not loose while also not being too tight; chest/shoulder/torso measurements really matter) 

-Flare bottom/bell bottom/wide fit jeans (loose leg jeans emphasise a smaller waist, which combined with fitted t-shirts gives a lot of 70s dudes the illusion of the ideal powerful twink body)

-Medium length hair and bangs/fringe and feathered hair for masc people (pulling the hair back and away from the face emphasises angular facial structure and gives masc people a mature look, while bobbed haircuts that frame the face and cover the forehead gives a younger look; hair feathering created a feel of energy and brightness) 

Voila, you have a good 70s boy right there if you follow the above instructions. 

I went all through the notes to find the post I wanted to reblog and boom here it is. Also this training is for The Empire Strikes Back, which was filmed in 1979-80 and released in May of 1980. The person in the notes who said “I’m glad bell bottoms didn’t cut back” is a bit mistaken because they did come back somewhat, as “extra wide boot cut flares”. I adore his scruffy hair here, and his cowboy boots with heels and his arrrrrrrrms.

We’re all just not gonna mention he did all the Star Wars training in jeans huh? King.

Art by Yinka Shonibare

1-2. How to Blow Up Two Heads at Once (Ladies) 3-4. The Age of Enlightenment: Adam Smith 5-6. The Age of Enlightenment: Gabrielle Emile le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise de Chatelet

shonibare is an absolutely fantastic disabled british-nigerian artist who combines african textiles with european colonial fashion and props to specifically question and critique the eurocentric history of african exploitation, and the way european wealth was extracted from african people and land. tumblr hates reblogs with links but i highly encourage everyone to look up his wikipedia and personal website. ive seen some of his pieces in galleries and they’re life sized, gorgeous, and incredibly haunting.

2004, Scramble For Africa

Oh yeah, bleach X Voltron crossover bc why not