aggressively festive

It’s been forever and I’m still insane about Renheng. What do you MEAN I contracted a disease in which all my rational thought and memories and feelings were corroded and replaced by total mania, and yet the feelings I had for you were so strong that even when all I could feel was pain and insatiable bloodlust, they stayed with me for hundreds of years, leading me to seek you out over and over because the image of you is all I have left of my sanity???? And even though all I can feel for you is hatred and violence, a desire to make you suffer in the same way I’m suffering because that’s all I can feel now, and I no longer remember how it feels to love you, I no longer remember anything about myself except your importance to me, I seek you out because I don’t know anything else???? Even when I’ve forgotten everything else I can’t forget you?? I’m cursed with the inability to die with no purpose for existing, so I make it my purpose to die with you????? Hoyoverse DID THAT. Wow.

"why tf kaiba do all of that just to duel atem" wow so crazy that this happened in a manga / anime where duels via card games are inherently dialectical for the characters and fundamental to understanding how the characters relate to each other, themselves, and the world at large. bananas

have to give a lot of credit to kazuki takahashi, whose high school horror manga got turned into an enormous commercial trading card vehicle by his editorial powers that be, and still he managed to tell extremely compelling stories about our connections to each other, the value and power of our connections, the process of actualizing and becoming THROUGH our connections, the difficulties of processing grief, trauma, abandonment, identity, etc. AND he did all of this through some absolutely fucking insane trading card duels

Amazing that we call him the cookie clicker guy and not the "this website's hate mail game is insane" guy because one of those things had a much bigger impact on Tumblr culture than the other

honestly the worst part of being a kaiba fan is knowing that i’ll never win this hard at liking a character ever again

you like a guy for his cool dragons and then the anime goes out of its way to commit more time just to include him, you even get extra arcs just to explore his character even more. the manga’s ultimate conclusion is literally a whole movie focused on him. there is an entire official merch store themed after him. he’s the single most important character in the entire yugioh franchise. and crucially, this also nets you even more of the cool dragon you like.

Fuck this job man, I sentenced this guy called Theseus to life in prison for murder and then I get a call from the prison that he has systematically replaced every organ in his body including his brain and is now claiming he is not the same person who committed the crime. They are letting him go free, fuck this. Worst of all is he also then took all of the parts that he discarded and made a second Theseus who is also claiming he did not commit the crime and they are also being let free. Now there's two of them out there and you just KNOW they are murdering people and then having gay sex. I fucking quit man...

Those two Pagliacci tweets always fucking send me

functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I

Now a functionally suicidal character saying “I will live for you”. Now that’s a dynamic I can sink my teeth into.

now how about a functionally suicidal character saying "I will sell hot dogs for you"

Hotdog vender lays down their life to protect their suicidal partner, who then takes over the hotdog stand to carry on their memory...

They say ooooh be a good boy for daddy and you'll get a reward. But then the reward is just gay sex. This is bullshit. I wanted a skateboard

Then they say if you're a bad boy daddy will punish you. But what's the punishment? More gay sex! You can't escape it. This whole damn place is in the pocket of Big Sex

lots of handwringing and discomfort about the phenomenon of kinks forming before puberty but if you think about it’s it’s much scarier to imagine a world where kinks only ever appear without warning when you’re fully grown

on your 18th birthday—wait no let’s say 25th birthday—you must undergo the traditional ritual and be assigned a kink that will determine the course of your sex life forevermore and place you within the corresponding faction. you close your eyes and pray that it’s something kind of classy and chic and practical and affordable and not something that will freak you out or embarrass you. the girl before you comes out crying; she’s autistic and got “prolonged eye contact”. you gulp. someone else is hastily pulling up Wikipedia. the anarchist guy covered in ACAB pins scowls at the floor, resentfully contemplating his uniform fetish.

Man, these YA dystopias are really starting to reach for fresh concepts.

one sexually mature adult woman dares to defy it all… what will happen to her world when she walks out of the ritual with a kink for feet…. AND inflatable pool toys?

i loveeeee everyone pretending dan heng going "yeah i've got him under control" is a normal sane and trustworthy thing to say about famously deranged murderer and stellaron hunter blade, guy that has repeatedly tried to kill him personally. you know everyone was judging his ass.

Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her

I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.

the original? on my dash?

lord ravager that can see all possibilities and yet in every single one of them, he is forced to drink himeko's coffee