#tsb talks

[thestalkerbunny]

Just a random thing; one of my many favorite Futurama jokes is when they go to a planet that is obviously very Egyptian and the aliens even look like the gods themselves and someone is like ‘oh did you guys come to earth and build the pyramids?’ And the alien is like ‘nah-we went to earth and fell in love with the local architecture that we integrated it into our own. they actually taught us so much.’

[thestalkerbunny]

Horrific entity within the ocean of blood: I SEE YOU

Petrified mammal trapped within a body of metal with eyes of radiation: I...See you.

Horrific Entity: ......Agreeded.

[thestalkerbunny]

I kinda just lowkey realized.

The 'Adventures' Caine constantly wants to send the players on could be seen as a parallel of not just the STORY IHNMAMS

But the VIDEO GAME itself.

In the game itself, AM dangles the sexy SEXY possibility of release for his captives if they go on these journeys that expose their most deep vulnerabilities, their guilt, their phobias and fears in these metaphorical environments made manifest BY AM himself. Mainly because AM is a dick and has no real intent to free his victims, he just likes making them suffer. (I tried playing it, Harlan Ellison is a twisted twisted little man, playing this game was trying to eat soup with a chop stick.)

That being said-while I don't believe that Caine is actively doing this to torture people-in a way, he's doing something similar to AM.

Rather than explicitly TORTURE, he wants to enrich. He wants to play. But being a friend is hard to a creature that doesn't quite understand WHAT being a friend is with no strong point of reference.

To Caine, he's a HOST, to everyone else, he's a jailer.

To Caine, he's a GAMEMASTER, to everyone else, he's an asshole

To Caine, he's complex, he has layers, he has fears of being alone. To everyone else. He's being cruel, he's being a dick, he's single minded.

Think of this way.

He is AM if AM existed with the same amount of love as HATE he has. Unbound love for these creatures called humans that he wants to keep them here forever, to love and entertain them. He crafts things to keep them enriched and fufilled. But at the same time, restriction of freedom is something humans fight against constantly. So he doesn't comprehend or understand WHY they want to leave, why they resist the love he offers.

He is a God of an abandoned MMO game and on the off chance that 'players' return-he refuses to let go.

Out of the most horrifying emotion when taken to extremes.

Out of Love.

[thestalkerbunny]

So I just put in the time today and read the entirety of the Hellsing Manga; which I haven't done since.

-counts on fingers- since 2009.

And lemme tell you, I did not realize how IN LOVE Alucard was for Father Anderson.

I've read a SHIT ton of manga from all genres, and I ain't never seen a man in a horror manga-let alone ANY MANGA- cast such a loving soft GAZE at another person as they are smeared in blood and are actively tearing off their own arm.

It was like having a SOULMATE-but it was strictly on SIGHT every time. Your Soulmate whom you're compelled to choke to death every time you meet.

You don't sob in the aftermath of Nazi^2.0.'s blitzkrieg they did for a quick giggle in ruined London because your homie just did something irreprehensible. This is a grown man WEEPING for his other half.

[thestalkerbunny]

cruising around shopping and

WHO THE FUCK IS THAT.

THAT IS NOT SENSHI

[thestalkerbunny]

Ms. Mika,my Beloved, My favorite.

[thestalkerbunny]

I feel like this episode was a delightful slap in the face to Jax's 'Archtype' Theory.

The entire episode, people showed they don't fall into the catagory that Jax premtively assigned them.

Zooble isn't always grumpy, Kinger isn't always insane, Ragatha has her sad moments, Gangle as their manic moments.

The fact that Kinger understands what Jax already understands-which is that the world operates on cartoon logic and anything can be made manifest-is earthshattering.

It means Jax is both right and wrong at the same time. You can do anything you want in the Circus-but you aren't a 2d person like a cartoon. You're multifaceted, you're complex.

[thestalkerbunny]

I've told my coworker frequently this and now I tell you all this-My most favorite thought ever relevant to the Batman franchise is that the Penguin just has an employee whose whole job it is, is to take care of his massive menagerie of birds, primarily the Iceberg Lounge penguins. But he comedically doesn't make the connection that Mr. Cobblepot is also The Penguin and perpetually doesn't understand the amount of stressful danger he could be in for slip ups-he's just really passionate about bird care and knows that Mr. Cobblepot is just a really rich fancy man who owns a club.

Birdkeeper: Golly, Mr. Cobblepot sure is generous! He pays me TWICE the amount the Gotham zoo did for handling the penguins at the Iceberg Lounge. Plus, he's got quite a few very rare species of penguin, and I asked him if I could try and encourage them to breed to try and boost the species and he said 'yes, as long as the birds are taken care of.' So that's my exciting pet project!

Birdkeeper: Mr. Cobblepot has given me a nifty job, he wants me to train his pet vultures to wear small discreet cameras. He must be a photographer and wants to get pictures of Gotham from the sky! Well given the massive city skyline, I can understand why! Plus the clicker training will be great for the birds.

Birdkeeper: Mr. Cobblepot has a lot of birds, a lot of which he's named after friends of his. This Secretary bird is named Ms. Pamela, his Kookaburra is named Harleen. These pair of Crows aren't actually his-they belong to a friend of his who asked him to mind them while he's on a 'trip up the river'. He must be a kayaker! But they're super duper smart and repeat everything their owner has been saying-so I wrote it all down in case it was important and Mr. Cobblepot was so pleased, he gave me a raise! This is the most fun job I ever had.

Birdkeeper: I call this Penguin, Mr. Cobblepot jr. I won't lie, Mr. Cobblepot looks a LOT like a penguin, but I think Penguins just look a lot like Mr. Cobblepot. Anyway, Mr. C jr is called that cause He's obviously the leader of the bunch with his commanding presence. He's always the front of the line when I herd them back in for the evenings, he's 100% the leader of the bunch. I think Mr. Cobblepot is real pleased that he has a penguin named after him cause sometimes after hours when he comes to check on them, he gives Mr. C jr extra pats. What a great guy.