#kingofthebookcase

[prismably]

Hello, I hope this isn't too odd to ask, but do you happen to still have your old Utenatober zine uploaded anywhere? I went to see Adolescence of Utena in theaters last Sunday, and it made me remember and subsequently want to share one of your Utena fanarts in one of my discord severs, the one comic where Utena proposes to Anthy with the little coffin necklaces. After finding it again and looking through your tags for funsies, I found the post linking to the Utenatober Gumroad page, but I guess it was removed ever since all that weird stuff with Gumroad's CEO and all that happened and people dropped the website like a hot rock a few years back? Would it be possible for it to be reuploaded to itch.io or a similar website at all? Thank you for your great artwork, regardless.

not odd at all, thanks for your interest- i'm so glad it stuck with you :) <3

sorry to have sent you on a goose chase! it's available here on my patreon shop for $3, but happy to put it on itch.io if that's more accessible for folks! just let me know

[punkitt-is-here]

just got my Nurse Fluttershy standee in the mail yesterday! Quick question tho, when the note that came with it says to peel off the protective plastic layer, does that mean the bubble wrap it was wrapped in, or is there another thingy on the standee and stand that I need to remove? hope this isn't a bother.

There's a thin film of plastic that protects the standee! Any scratches you see are actually on the plastic. its REAL thin, but you can peel it off and itll look brand new :D

[docholligay]

Sorry to bother, but lore question: do any of the kids that exist in MaS (I feel like there were others besides MA & Kimi that got mentioned? Chibiusa? I can't remember) ever learn that their parents were Senshi?

HO HO HO 

This is something I have not yet gone into, but in time, intend to, (I am currently working on an MaS masterpost, thoughts and prayers) that M.A. becomes deeply suspicious of the weird coincidences surrounding her extended family and how they all knew each other despite coming from wildly different backgrounds, how they all happened to be in the same place on that day, etc. 

A point of MaS is that no one can ever know. It would put their lives in danger, their children’s lives, and may well undo the magic that “sets” the future to the Good End. So, this is a thing they have to dodge. 

Kids who exist in MaS are: MA and Kimi, of course, and then Chibiusa (Usagi and Mamoru and Seiya and Fiore’s, in a parenting setup that seems odd but works for them. Her real name is not Usagi, she gets to have her own name and birthday, but she looks so much like Usagi it sticks for years) and then Mako and her husband’s 3 from foster care, and that’s it. Rei and Mina never even dream of going there, Ami and Hotaru are dead, and Pluto is a demigod of sorts who has to go back to the timegate, eventually. 

[keyofjetwolf]

terribly sorry if this is a weird question, but is there a full list of what all the media nominations are this year (outside of the polls themselves)? I remember there being a rundown of all the noms last Giftening, and that was useful in looking up recs of stuff I hadn't heard of before

Yeah, the polls are the full list of nominations. I’ll be doing the breakdown you’re talking about, but that’ll be when we hit Heat 3, so a much shorter list!

[yuri-caps]

I need help finding a specific Yuri I forget the name of. It looked to be about a popular girl dating a nerdy girl, but there was a scene being passed around of the popular girl catching a baseball before it hit her gf, and tossing it right back at mach speed? I know it's somewhere.

lmao i’m pretty sure you’re talking about “tadokoro-san”! (and my post! actually, she doesn’t throw it back, she just catches it in kind of this hilarious way)

[thankskenpenders]

This just occurred to me while reading the Medium article (great read btw!), but I just realized that stuff like the Substitute Legion of Freedom Fighters, and other FF sub groups, may be in fact references to the Substitute Legion of Super-Heroes? Food for thought

That’s definitely the inspiration for the name. I’d say the whole thing with the other FF groups is just inspired by superhero teams in general, though. If the Knothole team is the Avengers, then the others are like the West Coast Avengers and the Great Lakes Avengers. And then I guess the Chaotix are the X-Men

[skarchomp]

I just got punched in the face by those costume reveals, good god

i was lying down during most of the direct, the second i heard the first notes of megalovania i blacked out and when i came to i was standing bolt upright

[being-of-rain]

Do you have any particular recs for 1st and 2nd Doctor Who Big Finish audios? Asking particularly because of this weekend's sale, and I need to budget (apologies if this was a double send, the first time the ask box crapped out on me)

You must be a mind-reader because I LITERALLY just opened tumblr to write some recs for the 1st and 2nd Doctor sale when I saw this ask. Here’s my favourites, and a bit on each because I’m incapable of being short and to the point.

-The Rocket Men. One, Ian, Barbara, Vicki. This must be one of the few Doctor Who stories I’ve never heard anyone say a bad word about; it’s one of Big Finish’s very best. It’s about Ian and Barbara and the writing is incredible and I don’t really know what else to say about it.

-Return of the Rocket Men. One, Steven, Dodo. I mention it here because in my opinion it’s as good as the original. But, because it’s sort of a culmination of a lot of Steven’s experiences and there’s some references/spoilers in it, I think it deserves some prior listening: namely Mother Russia, and the Oliver Harper trilogy (The Perpetual Bond/The Cold Equations/The First Wave).

-Companion Chronicles: The First Doctor Volume 2. One, Vicki, Steven, Polly, Ben. One of Big Finish’s best box sets in term of average story quality. It’s got a super spooky story, it’s got a brilliant Dalek story, and it’s got a wonderfully metafictional story. Unlike volume 1, it’s standalone; all you really need to know is that the third story starts with a recreation of the first scene of The Tenth Planet (One’s final TV story).

-Home Truths/The Drowned World/The Guardian of the Solar System. One, Sara, Steven. One of Big Finish’s best trilogies. The first one also works fine alone if you didn’t want to commit to all three (I think I remember that it was originally written as standalone). All that’s really required before listening is a very basic knowledge of the plot of The Daleks’ Master Plan and who Sara Kingdom is.

-Upstairs. One, Vicki, Steven. This has like everything I love about this tardis team: great humour, weird and wacky plot, the main characters just being annoying siblings to each other. Just lots of fun, and some classically Doctor Who ridiculous sci-fi.

-The Lost Stories: The First Doctor Box Set. One, Susan, Ian, Barbara. Mostly a historical about Alexander the Great. I don’t know what it is about it, but I find it so enjoyable and strangely calming.

Of the short trips on sale, my favourites are-The Flywheel Revolution. One. Told from the perspective of a robot who meets One.-Lepidoptery for Beginners. Two, Jamie, Zoe. Someone gets absolute power by controlling the butterfly effect.-Falling. One, Polly, Ben. Idk how to describe it exactly; emotional? Atmospheric? Fairytale-like? It’s about accepting change.

Hmm almost all of these are first Doctor stories. But they’re my favourites! Let me know if you want any more specific suggestions.

Also while we’re talking about 1st and 2nd Doctor stories, I’ll take a moment to recommend Daughter of the Gods, which has both, as well as Jamie, Zoe, Steven, and Katarina! It’s not on sale because it literally came out two weeks ago, but it’s amazing and lives up to its impressive potential! Again, like the Sara Kingdom and Oliver Harper trilogies, having a basic knowledge of the Daleks’ Master Plan is a good thing to have before hearing it.