#listless list

The computer genius is the most emotional!! I feel like we don’t get that a lot, but maybe I’m wrong

Main character starts in China/East Asian inspired city

Prince Kaito has so much damsel energy

Long Lost Rightful Heir To The Throne claims throne and then DISSOLVES MONARCHY!! very fun

The pumpkin car!! </3 rip

The advisor (torin) isn’t evil!!

The doctors admittance that he would have gone on supporting everything on luna and being a devoted citizen, but because it was His Daughter, it should have been different for His Family, she should be The Exception, because That’s His Daughter. He knew his hypocrisy, and hey better late than never??

Acknowledging that seeing levanas true appearance as monstrous isn’t fair or right, and that her appearance doesn’t really have any bearing on her being horrible, because being a monstrous person isn’t about how you look.

Cinder is never not a cyborg

“ I don’t wanna hear anyone say anything about how delicious that is!” “It’s completely disgusting, you would hate it.”

“None of my friend’s bodies are replaceable, why should mine be?”

Just Iko. She’s the best.

Scarlet Growls At People Sometimes

Thorne canonically had a five year plan in high school

Mandarin suffixes for respect reasons in New Beijing (Linh-jie, Linh-mei, Linh-DaRen)

They ate the celebratory cake with a combat knife because they baked a cake and everyone forgot utensils

For most of the time, even when she is being terribly threatening and unspeakably evil, Levana is beautiful. And not beautiful in the untouchable and intimidating way, but in a way where you just admire her and adore her. Very specifically, when she is described, her voice is pleasant and melodic, her face is stunning and breathtaking. Yes she is awful, and eventually she starts declining in her emotional and mental control so that more of her irritation and cruelty and anger show, but initially the cognitive dissonance of this woman who looks so beautiful and charming and gracious act so callous and entitled is meant to be there

Some men can be useful when separated from their object of Eternal Loyalty and Devotion. Some cannot. I’m looking at you wolf -_-.

Revolutions are bloody— when your advantage over the oppressive regime is numbers, you are going to end up stepping over the bodies of fellow rebels just to take a shot at the palace gates. They can’t take all of you, but they sure can kill a lot of you.

I’m about to get my throat bitten out by my good friend wolf for the fifth time in three days :)

Everyone was thinking it, and no one voiced the thought— can cinder swim?

Snow White and her animals VS Winter in her animal sanctuary parallels

The Snow White character is black!

The emperors most plot relevant abilities are diplomacy and speechwriting

Cyborg character has an inbuilt lie detector, but has no other emotion sensors, just knows when someone is lying

The kiss counter

Cinder is at the ball and her remaining stepsister is more pissed that she stole her shoes that she didn’t even chose to wear, and not that cinder is wearing he Recently Deceased Sisters Dress

That one room in the lunar palace that was minimalisticly decorated because it was all made of glass so you could see the glittering city below and the stars above.

The glass that doesn’t reflect anything. How? Who knows but it must have cost a fortune.

Head trauma induced blindness

Massive iron chain

Broken flag ploe

A wooden sign big enough to hit two grown men with the words 'Welcome All Travelers & Thirsty Residents' written on it

A shattered drinking glass

A broken off chair leg

The rest of the chair

A single coin?? (a 'silver disc')

A lute

A decorative rope tied like a lasso

Fascinating

I really hate how much episodes 11-13 made me like Fakir because he is the worst

The way this anime deals with nudity is interesting and thematic but also vaguely circumspect to me

Feelings of Affection are stored in The Lamp™

I'm so glad that this anime was released in 2002 because if Mytho was dropped into the submissive and breedable femboy fixation era my poor guy would be everyones new favorite chew toy I fear

Many Ballet Motifs and Themes—Delicious, This is Good >:)

I really wish Rue spent a bit more time having an identity crisis

And also wish she got to explore more lesbian storylines. Free my girl from comphet hell please

Or even just let her have friends jfc

All These Animals Are Here For Some Reason

Mr. Cat is never not a Cat

Everyone thinks they love Mytho and in my opinion the only person who Really loves him (cares about his wants and wishes, wants him to be happy and healthy, is kind and supportive but not contolling) is Duck

Fakir should wear his hair down more often

Fuck Drosselmeyer

Usually I find characters like Duck to be incredibly irritating but just this once I actually love her very much

Ms. Edeeelllll TT ^ TT

BoozeAndPopcorn's MHA fic (class of kids below gen ed who are being secretly trained for underground heroics. plus fem izuku who is being experimented on under the pretense of special quirkless healthcare)

That one Gajevy fic with the vaguely medieval world building where levy invents the catapult/trebuchet and is part of some kind of rebellion force??? and gajeel is her bodygaurd before they start a romantic relationship

That youtuber eren/levi fic (gamer levi. gender fluid eren who has 2 seperate youtube accounts called 'queen eren' and 'king eren'. mikasa is levis niece.)

That sakura centric fic with the cool art where she emulates kakashi a lot. like she recives kakashis old gloves/armgaurds as a gift, and theres a piece of art where they're both sitting and reading at ichiraku and they look like father daughter and its so cute.

Hinata (little stalker she is) is as much of a ichiraku ramen regular as Naruto is, because she knows he goes there all the time so she likes feeling close to him in that way

She discovers she really really likes ramen.

She is never ever there at the same time as Naruto until they have a date there

Sakura was one sided academic rivals with shikamaru— she never told anybody, and certainly never got any acknowledgement from him.

But she knew that shikamaru was always holding back and under-stimulated even when his test scores came back in the solid middle ground of the class average, and she could never shake the feeling that if he tried he would blow her out of the water

Uchihas who have recently activated their sharingan used to undergo really strict mission debrief parameter training, because otherwise they would talk about any and every perfect detail they could remember

This is also why Sasuke tends to give very minimal reports or just let some else do it entirely, because if he has to give details, he starts talking about the weather and the angle of the sun and wind speed and local fauna and the exact amount of wear and tear on his opponent’s shoes

Technically useful info, but also not really mission debrief critical

Ino tends to befriend people who she thinks she can help out in someway, major ‘I can fix them’ complex

Usually this eventually leads to these people feeling resentful for feeling like a pet project

Shikamaru and Chouji tend to exacerbate this by treating her new friends as different or temporary, because they usually end up leaving her to strike out on their own and they’re preliminarily defensive

One of the reasons why Gai wasn’t worried or questioning his rivals sensei skills and team dynamics is because team Gai used to be way worse than team 7

Neji looking down on everyone made Tenten specifically out for his blood. She would spar with him with kill shots, which he would deflect, but still

And Gai attempts to discipline Neji for his cruel remarks and negative attitude were really ineffective, which made Tenten respect him less as a teacher and authority

Neither of Lees teammates respecting Gai made him double down on his admiration and adoration of his sensei

Lee claimed Neji as a rival, but Neji not acknowledging him made him more determined and train to an unhealthy and obsessive degree and also ignore Tenten as an equal teammate and potential friend

Tenten would do more and more independent training without supervision, because she was fed up with the disastrous team dynamics

She almost killed her self doing seal experimentation on her own, and then after learning from that particular incident, tried to use the same technique to knock Neji down a peg in a spar

They sort out their differences eventually, especially when Neji learns a bit of healthy fear and respect for Tenten, and Tenten sits Lee down to take breaks and train responsibly after watching him almost fall off hokage mountain on a morning run, and Gai cements his skill and authority during a particularly stressful mission

But it was touch and go there for a bit, the Naruto’s match with Neji certainly didn’t hurt

Sakuras dad was wearing his hair in that five spiked style when her mom told him she was pregnant, (it was unrelated, just a silly bet with a friend) and then by ridiculous happenstance he was also wearing his hair like that the day Sakura was born.

He decided to wear it like that pretty much everyday after, and he calls it his ‘lucky dad hair’

Fuck, marry, kill, is a real game but more civilian. Most ninja play Seduce, Assassinate, Interrogate

Different but similar, ‘Kunai, Shuriken, Senbon’ is a drinking game where you have three different targets and have to pick which you kill with what. It’s encouraged that you really consider which weapon will be best suited to combat against each target and in what way.

There are certain housing areas in konoha that have lower rent because they are frequently used by ninjas for roof hopping at any and all hours of the day, which bothers tenants and lowers property value

Before sealing fell out of common knowledge, you could make some good extra cash making deals that solved this issue for tenants. But most would make the kind that required maintenance or reapplication, because they were trying to make money here cmon

Shikamaru’s eyes actually look a lot more like his moms, doe eyed and perky, but he constantly half-lids and droops his eyes to cultivate the bored/dangerous look. And also to emulate his dad

When he was younger, he would lose control of his face if he was genuinely interested or curios about something, leading to him looking his most adorable and sweet when in situations that tend to cause stress to everyone else besides him

Because so many people would Barr Naruto from various areas and establishments, either outright or just by saying that kids aren’t allowed there when it’s really just him not allowed there, means that he has a very poor concept of places that are genuinely forbidden to enter. The divide between ‘area im not allowed in because they hate me’ and ‘area I’m not allowed in because I don’t have clearance / not my jurisdiction’ is pretty much nothing to him.

This is compounded by the fact that people never seem to respect his space or possessions when he tries to prevent them from being messed with, so clearly only stay out/away if you stop them with force

So if he can sneak in, he’s allowed because they didn’t try hard enough to keep him out, and if he can’t sneak in then maybe he needs to try harder or maybe he really isn’t allowed

People would be more free to leave unfulfilling and/or dangerous relationships if they could rely on a certain amount of financial independence

People would feel more secure leaving exploitive jobs because they wouldn’t end up on the streets or lose grocery money

And maybe companies would be more motivated to be kinder to workers and staff because they would have actual agency

Orphans who age out of the system would not be automatically homeless (tbh this might be a USA centric thing, I’m not sure how other countries address legally adult orphans)

Even for kids who aren’t orphans, it would be helpful for them to have means to be financially independent from their parents for a myriad of reasons

Maybe people would feel more comfortable taking risks in their education or profession because they will have minor financially stability to fall back on

Would maybe not solve homelessness, but would definitely make it much easier for people to afford housing

Would make it easier for people to build savings if they had UBI on top of their employment income

Would mean people who have terminal illnesses would not have to spend their dwindling lifespan working instead of experiencing joys of living

Im really bothered that this anime is as good as everyone says it is

Watching the anime makes me even More pissed about the female character design because there is so much distinct design and diversity in all of the male characters— even the background people you only see in crowds for 3 seconds!!

Like Oda is GOOD at character design!! He’s Really Skilled!!! But as soon as it’s a woman were supposed to like im the narrative he trips into the attractiveness trap

I think sanji is so freaking cool I’ll be honest

I thought I would find luffy annoying but he’s actually really fun and I understand why everyone looks up to him now

I Like Zoro’s Character Design So Much

The way everyone’s add break wanted posters have different musical themes is very fun and cool to me

Nami's departure from cocoyashi after the arlong arc was very funny and touching to me

Something something reocurring plot point of characters acting cruel in order to push the people they care about towards some goal?? idk, its just very interesting to me the way zeff and the chefs tried to get sanji to leave and also the way the whole villiage let nami act like a thug when they knew she was actually trying to save them all

Fuck Kuina's dad fr. I don't care if he was a good dojo sensei or if he helped Zoro train. Fuck that guy.

Love how Nami condemned a man to terrible death via inevitable drowning and the whole crew was like, 'Nice!! good save Nami, we were in a tight spot!'

I'll be honest Ussop is not my fav, but he is pretty cool as a marksman

Styled/dyed hair being ‘surprisingly soft’. Please please please that character has a bleached perm with 2 cans of hairspray in it it’s not soft and it doesn’t have to be please let hair be dry and tangled and rough and sticky

Comically, supernaturally bad cooking skills. They followed the recipe and have all the correct ingredients but somehow the pancakes are sentient. This is cooking is difficult propaganda, and it’s exhausting to me. Obv, if it’s a first timer trying to make French pastries, it won’t turn out, but please please please stop treating cooking like an arcane art and inborn talent

They always smell like 2 different things and something ‘uniquely them’. I acknowledge that there is really no better way to describe people's natural scents, but it’s still getting repetitive, seeing the same phrasing every time.

POV character always notes how attractive the love interest is even before any feelings exist, but only do this for the love interest and no one else.

^^^ I know this is to establish that ‘instant connection’ between them and show the reader that these are the intended end game pairing. But I find it frustrating, because if you are the kind of person who comments and gets caught up in the appearance of strangers when you meet them, then they should theoretically do it for most attractive people they meet. That they only do it for the love interest could mean that the love interest is just That Attractive I guess??? But usually, they aren’t. There is very little media where the love interest is actually that markedly More Attractive than the rest of the cast. It would make sense that the POV character finds them to be more attractive than anyone else in the room AFTER they have feelings, because affection creates a bias and that makes sense. But when they have Only Just Met??? It does not make sense to me, I find it to be aggravating.

On that note ‘instant connections’ piss me off. I suppose they are kind of cute in a way, but I mostly find them to be contrived.

Comically dumb people being shown to work very hard or put a lot of effort into an intellectual venture only for it to fall flat because they are the ‘dumb character’ and therefore all that work is just played off for a gag. SpyXFam I’m looking at you.