#da classics

[slavesoftheyards]

EPIKS

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[tlaquetzqui]

I’m watching the original Pretty Cure on Crunchyroll, and it’s interesting how the two girls react differently to their transformed state. Nagisa is an athlete, so she’s on board with how her power has her body move, in fights; Honoka is a nerd, so she always looks surprised and confused when the power makes her move.

It’s good worldbuilding, and gets around “what so these middle school girls can fight all of a sudden?” No but the motions they make in fights aren’t their idea, they’re being controlled by their power and are kinda just along for the ride, though Nagisa is more used to moving her body to accomplish a goal. (Their agency over it gradually increases, like when Honoka has them slow the falling elevator in the second episode.)

[tlaquetzqui]

The most marvelously 1980s music that doesn’t involve synth.

Actually the He-Man theme seems like it might’ve been a non-copyright infringing version of part of this.

[tlaquetzqui]

The two blood-brothers tall and small felt to the full then the intoxication of the fog, its surging bittersweet touch-song of hate, its hot promises of all bloodlusts forever fulfilled, an uninhibited eternity of murder-madness.

Fafhrd, wineless tonight, intoxicated only by his own idealisms and the thought of watchmanship, was hardly touched by the sensations, did not feel them as temptations at all.

The Mouser, much of whose nature was built on hates and envies, had a harder time, but he too in the end rejected the fog’s masterful lures—if only, to put the worst interpretation on it, because he wanted always to be the source of his own evil and would never accept it from another, not even as a gift from the archfiend himself.

—Fritz Leiber, “The Cloud of Hate”

[pettydemon]

hehe was tagged by @52stations to describe myself using only photos from my gallery 🙏🙏🙏

[tlaquetzqui]

Few things go harder than the first Saber Marionette opening.

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