stage 1 of liking media: yeah this thing is pretty good!
stage 2 of liking media: haha remember when blorbo bleepus did that thing that was so funny
stage 3 of liking media: huh this one song is kind of blorbo bleepus… if you think about this other song is also kind of blorbo bleepus
stage 4 of liking media: blorbo bleepus is really interesting… here’s a sensible analysis post
stage 5 of liking media: FUCK. THE CHARACTER. THE CHARACTER IM HAVING A CHARACTER ATTACK
stage 6 of liking media: well let’s see what ao3 has to offer!
stage 7 of liking media: everything goes on my character playlist. this song with no lyrics is about blorbo bleepus exploding a building and looking really cool. if this lyric was an entirely different sentence it would fit perfectly
stage 8 of liking media: who wants to hear about these characters new pronouns and mobility aids
girl with ptsd voice: hey, so something really bad is gonna happen, right? you guys are picking up on that too, yeah? The other shoe is about to drop, I just know it.
Remember when Xbox was going to basically ban used games for the xbox one, and Playstation made fun of them with that video titled "how to share games on Playstation" and it was just one guy handing another a game disk? And now Playstation is getting rid of physical disks entirely
i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck
this post led to a series of events that had martin scorsese himself reacting to his alleged movie goncharov and it has less than 400k notes almost 3 years later?
also! i found out today that "miss to-oh" (kiyomi's nickname) is an actual position in tokyo university, aka the real life equivalent of to-oh! viz took out the indications of this, but it's essentially like a pageant contest that a lot of universities host individually every year, where the students get to vote for the winner. it's called "the university of tokyo miss & mr contest" and it's still going, you can literally see the most recent 2025 entrants here
i was thinking about what everyone around me thinks, now that i'm seeing takada-san, who's already favored by so many to become miss to-oh [/todai, the original name] despite only just entering university…
after all, takada-san really is very beautiful.
as you can see the japanese is entirely different askdjflasjfkdjg i guess viz thought it would take too much effort to explain the event? which is a shame because it echoes her later position as a news anchor and kira's spokesperson perfectly!! she's being supported by the public for an inherently exclusive position as early as arc 1!!
(and she does say she's above such shallow things, but isn't!)
kind, beautiful, generous genius whose only real crime was killing a few (hundreds of thousands of) people vs evil, sleep-deprived, pervert detective whose name is literally an L
The thing about Miss Piggy is that she kind of has a Roger Rabbit comedy superpower where she wins nearly any conceivable fight she's in. But unlike other characters of which that's true, like say, Bugs Bunny, who tend to win because they make the opponent play the game with their rules, Miss Piggy wins because the joke is that she can beat the shit out of literally anybody.
