✯My Corner of the World✯

*⁠.⁠✧ Welcome! I'm an enthusiast about pretty much anything! *⁠.⁠✧ Mostly writing, literature, anime, linguistics, and whatever my silly mind latches onto *⁠.⁠✧ Totally up for chatting, so feel free to hit me up! *⁠.⁠✧ Ledouche_Lamperouge on AO3 *⁠.⁠✧ They/Them - African - Autistic - Aroace *⁠.⁠✧ Sometimes I take mini hiatuses for mental health

[aventuras-de-andre]

me explaining that The Mixtape could’ve come back to the plot if cas gave it back to dean before leaving the bunker in the season 15 Divorce Arc OR during the Confession Scene, but it’d be funnier if it was in divorce arc because then it would have the same energy as gabriella giving troy the T necklace back when they break up in highschool musical 2

/ my friend who has never seen an episode of spn

[dokjas-lostselfpreservation]

linkclick memes to cleanse your soul<3

[ledouche-lamperouge]

Spending just about all my Ability Stones in Mayoi because I refuse to go on with my life without this Chuuya card

I got Akutagawa 2 or 3 times throughout the Scout so I played until I got the Special Ticket. Didn't have enough to shine the marble the next day but it was worth it.

[ledouche-lamperouge]

Let's go Tumblr let's go!

[ledouche-lamperouge]

Absolutely hear me out, Lelouch Lamperouge and Neil Josten are opposite ends of the runaway spectrum. Lelouch is a banished prince living an unsuspecting high school life and he's like yeah I'll just keep the name Lelouch, that's an average name for you. Not like anyone would recognise a prince's name. No appearance alteration, either, no wig no hair dye no lenses even fully keeping those flamboyant violet eyes. He's like okay sure I'll slap a last name next to Lelouch and I'm good to go. Suzaku shows up and asks if he can call him Lelouch and Lelouch is like here's the thing I am now Lelouch Lamperouge, still Lelouch, yes, but I have a last name for a cover. And Suzaku is like sure that checks out. Meanwhile Neil is keeping the hair dye and contact lenses industries in business, checking his roots every time he passes by a mirror, going through every baby name site and choosing the most average sounding names to keep himself off any radar. And if I told you one of them gets found out by the very people he is running away from, you'd never guess who.

[j-psilas]

Will we ever get anything quite like Code Geass again?

I don't think it's possible.

Code Geass is Japanese nationalist propaganda disguised as a global political drama, disguised as a military mecha show, disguised as yaoibait, disguised as a teen melodrama, disguised as a high school romcom, disguised as a Pizza Hut commercial...

...except those layers aren't layers at all, but are instead comingled in a giant snake ball of insanity.

The lead writer, Ichirō Ōkouchi, only ever worked as an episode writer for other shows prior to Code Geass, and never took the helm of an anime series ever again. And it shows. [EDIT: Several people have pointed out his other lead writing credits to me. So I misread Wikipedia—sue me. I maintain that this guy is a better episode writer than he is a lead writer.]

The minute-to-minute pacing is impeccable from a mechanical standpoint, with tension and stakes rising to ever-higher peaks, balanced out by the slow simmers of the b-plot and c-plot. It keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat at all times. Meanwhile, the large-scale plot is the most off-the-wall middle school nonsense I've ever seen, continually surprising the viewer by pulling twists too dumb to have ever have been on their radar—and therefore more effective in terms of raw shock value.

"Greenlight it!" was the mantra of this anime's production. It must have been. It has, in no particular order, all of the following:

Character designs from CLAMP, the foremost yaoi/BL group in Japan at the time—for characters who are only queer insofar as they can bait the audience, and only straight insofar as they can be more misogynist to the female cast.

Speaking of the female cast, hoo boy the fanservice. We've all seen anime girls breast boobily, with many cases more egregious than Code Geass, but there's something special about it happening immediately after—or sometimes in the middle of!—scenes of military conflict and ethnic cleansing.

Pizza Hut product placement everywhere, in every conceivable situation. High-speed chases, light slice-of-life scenes, intimate character moments, all of it. Gotta have Pizza Hut.

The anime-only Pizza Hut mascot, Cheese-kun. He wears a fedora.

The most hilarious approximations of European names—which I would love to see more often, frankly. Names like, I dunno, "Count Schnitzelgrübe zi Blanquezzio."

A depiction of China that is wholly removed from any modern reality, with red-and-gold pagodas, ornamental robes, scheming eunuchs, and a brainwashed child empress. There's a character named General Tsao, like the chicken.

Inappropriate free-form jazz in the soundtrack, intruding at the most unexpected times.

A secret cabal not unlike the Illuminati, run by an immortal shota with magic powers, holding influence all across the world, at the highest levels of government. They matter for approximately three episodes.

An unexpected insert scene of a schoolgirl using the corner of a table to masturbate. She's doing it to thoughts of her crush, the princess Euphemia—because she believes Euphemia to be as racist as she herself is, and that gets her off. This interrupts an unrelated scene of our protagonist faction planning their next move, which then resumes as if uninterrupted.

Said schoolgirl, in a fit of hysteria, threatens to detonate a worse-than-nuclear bomb in the middle of her school. She then goes on to develop an even more destructive version of that bomb, and become a war criminal, in a chain of cause-and-effect stemming from the moment she finds out that Euphemia wasn't actually that racist.

A character called "the Earl of Pudding."

A premise that asks us to believe that the name Lelouch is normal enough that he didn't need to change it when he went into hiding as an ordinary civilian. "No, that's not Prince Strimbleford von Vanquish! That's our classmate, Strimbleford Smith."

The collective unconscious, a la Carl Jung, within which the protagonist fights his villainous father for control over the fate of humankind. After this is over, the anime just keeps going for about ten more episodes.

An episode in which a mech tosses a giant pizza.

A gay yandere sleeper agent who can manipulate the perception of time.

Chess being played very badly, even to the untrained eye. Lelouch frequently checkmates his opponent by moving his king. This goes hand-in-hand with the anime's crock of bad chess symbolism.

A fictional drug that can most succinctly be described as "nostalgia heroin."

Roller-skating mecha in knightly armor, and some of the most sickass mecha fight choreography that I've seen.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture. This anime is what the average Westerner in 2006 thought anime was, and it was made in a confluence of factors that cannot be replicated. I've never had so much fun watching something that I found so... insulting. Repugnant. Ridiculous. Baffling. I love it sincerely.

Catch me cosplaying Lloyd Asplund at a con sometime, or maybe even the big gay loser himself, Lelouch vi Britannia.

[kallencc]

malewife...

[lelouch]

Code Geass: Lost Stories chapter 15 ending illustration

[stjm08]

Fem andreil hihihi 🫡

[manekkii-art]

cheers to more tsc 🥂

[vwwitch]

rewatch code geass s good

[unsettlingoddity]

brat summer is over, let witch bitch autumn begin

[ledouche-lamperouge]

[scribble-of-stars]

I need neil josten to chew somebody out again like he did with riko so vehemently, no mercy to be found, he was locked and loaded within seconds. He took one look at riko and decided to ruin his ENTIRE LIFE without hesitation. I miss it. The antagonism of it all. Neil "I have a bit of an attitude problem" Josten was not only there to play stupid games, he was there to win those stupid prizes. And he sure won those stupid prizes and more.

[konchitsya-leto]

so it was supposed to work out like this

[ledouche-lamperouge]

My dad was chastising my brother for not being informed about the happenings of the world, comparing him to me, who immediately knew about trump getting shot, the microsoft outage, biden stepping down from the race, and I just sat there in silence because I didn't know how to explain that the only reason I keep up with the news very well is because of the destiel meme.

[yes-that-would-be-dark]

this is easily the funniest thing I’ve ever said idk why this wasn’t responded to with absolute peals of laughter