maya-neko: No seriously these 2 together = Favorite Moments If you reverse Blossom and Moonlight’s places you’ll get what I’m saying
Saturday, November 30, 2013
keyofnik: That moment where the line between Ami’s Sims and Ami’s friends blurs and vanishes.
keyofnik: That moment where the line between Ami’s Sims and Ami’s friends blurs and vanishes.
brianmichaelbendis: Lo’Gosh by Jim Lee (from World of Warcraft)
brianmichaelbendis: Lo’Gosh by Jim Lee (from World of Warcraft)
keyofnik: Minako just broke the sink. Since she can’t flirt with it, she has no frame of reference for how to deal with this situation, so she’s just reduced to a feral snarl.
keyofnik: Minako just broke the sink. Since she can’t flirt with it, she has no frame of reference for how to deal with this situation, so she’s just reduced to a feral snarl.
popwrapped: Breaking Bad Creator On Jesse Pinkman’s Fate: “I Hoped For The Best” Photo courtesy of AMC Stephanie Coats Lead Events Editor Audiences may still be reeling from the Bre… View Post
popwrapped: Breaking Bad Creator On Jesse Pinkman’s Fate: “I Hoped For The Best” Photo courtesy of AMC Stephanie Coats Lead Events Editor Audiences may still be reeling from the Bre… View Post
kazumonogatari: holy shit kyouko calm the absolute fuck down Word of advice? Switch to decaf. ^_^
kazumonogatari: holy shit kyouko calm the absolute fuck down Word of advice? Switch to decaf. ^_^
48-family: oshiri-sisters: Sayanee crying out of joy during NMB Kouhaku announcement and Yuihan laughing at her あれから２年。きっぱりとした冬の青空を見ると、このオブジェを思い出す。認知度調査のあと、焼肉座談会を撮ったあの日。山本さんは「NMBを売りたい」と言っていた。紅白に出るってコトは売れたんだよなぁ pic.twitter.com/VdpNFMY2YN — 新井 秀和 (@HidekazuArai) December 1, 2013 "It’s been two years already. When I look at the crisp blue sky in the winter, I think of this object. After we took a popularity survey, we shot an episode of a yakinuku meeting. It was there Yamamoto-san told me ‘I want NMB to sell’. Surely making Kouhaku means you’ve done just that." - Arai Hidekazu, TV-Nihon Producer of Naniwa Nadeshiko, Geinin 1 and 2
48-family: oshiri-sisters: Sayanee crying out of joy during NMB Kouhaku announcement and Yuihan laughing at her あれから２年。きっぱりとした冬の青空を見ると、このオブジェを思い出す。認知度調査のあと、焼肉座談会を撮ったあの日。山本さんは「NMBを売りたい」と言っていた。紅白に出るってコトは売れたんだよなぁ pic.twitter.com/VdpNFMY2YN — 新井 秀和 (@HidekazuArai) December 1, 2013 "It’s been two years already. When I look at the crisp blue sky in the winter, I think of this object. After we took a popularity survey, we shot an episode of a yakinuku meeting. It was there Yamamoto-san told me ‘I want NMB to sell’. Surely making Kouhaku means you’ve done just that." - Arai Hidekazu, TV-Nihon Producer of Naniwa Nadeshiko, Geinin 1 and 2
popwrapped: Gary Oldman Shares His Thanksgiving Thoughts Image courtesy of ReleaseDonkey.com Kerri Kwong Content Editor Gary Oldman has shared his true… View Post
popwrapped: Gary Oldman Shares His Thanksgiving Thoughts Image courtesy of ReleaseDonkey.com Kerri Kwong Content Editor Gary Oldman has shared his true… View Post
ask-the-girl-with-infinite-muses: Will u guys ask my muses stuff please they r bored and so am i
ask-the-girl-with-infinite-muses: Will u guys ask my muses stuff please they r bored and so am i
brianmichaelbendis: All New X-Men 19 Bendis | Peterson | Da Silva Cover by Kevin Nowlan
brianmichaelbendis: All New X-Men 19 Bendis | Peterson | Da Silva Cover by Kevin Nowlan
wilwheaton: awkwardsituationist: hong kong at night by michael wolf. hong kong has a population density of about 6800 people per sq km If you scroll down real fast, it almost looks like the matrix.
wilwheaton: awkwardsituationist: hong kong at night by michael wolf. hong kong has a population density of about 6800 people per sq km If you scroll down real fast, it almost looks like the matrix.
deathpon: ★Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Illustrated Book
deathpon: ★Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Illustrated Book
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keyofnik: This has always struck me as an odd choice for Rei. With the demon in front of her, rather than transform or fight or slap an ofuda on it and run, she chooses to go to the Sacred Fire and do her hand seals. Rei tends to do this when she’s marshaling her energies, which it could be argued she’s doing here. But she’s got several months of experience fighting monsters under her belt at this point, and I have to think that her instincts would tell her to do any one of the above rather than seek guidance right now. Because that’s usually the Sacred Fire’s purpose: It gives Rei answers, exactly as it does here. But why would she look for answers right now? I’m reaching two conclusions. The first is that there was something familiar about the demon and she needed to know. The second is that she was looking for ways to fight it. They know already that the Rainbow Crystal carriers are people and so Rei can’t simply burn it to death. But the only one who can actually heal them is Usagi. And Rei really, really meant it when she said she wasn’t talking to Usagi ever again.
keyofnik: This has always struck me as an odd choice for Rei. With the demon in front of her, rather than transform or fight or slap an ofuda on it and run, she chooses to go to the Sacred Fire and do her hand seals. Rei tends to do this when she’s marshaling her energies, which it could be argued she’s doing here. But she’s got several months of experience fighting monsters under her belt at this point, and I have to think that her instincts would tell her to do any one of the above rather than seek guidance right now. Because that’s usually the Sacred Fire’s purpose: It gives Rei answers, exactly as it does here. But why would she look for answers right now? I’m reaching two conclusions. The first is that there was something familiar about the demon and she needed to know. The second is that she was looking for ways to fight it. They know already that the Rainbow Crystal carriers are people and so Rei can’t simply burn it to death. But the only one who can actually heal them is Usagi. And Rei really, really meant it when she said she wasn’t talking to Usagi ever again.
keyofnik: First, I have untold affection for the fact that Rei is depending on tropes to fix this. She’s pulling on every fairy tale, every romance manga she’s ever read, and she KNOWS that all she has to do is remind her Grandpa who he’s attacking, and his humanity will surge and he’ll go back to being her funny little aggravating and inappropriate Grandpa again. She KNOWS it. Then it completely fails. Now put that into the context of all I’ve been talking about throughout this episode. Rei has spent her entire life being abandoned by those she cares about. Her mother died. Her emotionally-distant father walked away from her. She has no friends. And the friends she thought she finally, finally did have proved that they don’t care about her either, that they’re just as unreliable as everyone else in her life has proved to be. Except her Grandpa. Rei has, at least, always had her Grandpa. But he doesn’t recognize her. He doesn’t love her enough to shake off this evil influence. He doesn’t love her enough to not want to kill her.
keyofnik: First, I have untold affection for the fact that Rei is depending on tropes to fix this. She’s pulling on every fairy tale, every romance manga she’s ever read, and she KNOWS that all she has to do is remind her Grandpa who he’s attacking, and his humanity will surge and he’ll go back to being her funny little aggravating and inappropriate Grandpa again. She KNOWS it. Then it completely fails. Now put that into the context of all I’ve been talking about throughout this episode. Rei has spent her entire life being abandoned by those she cares about. Her mother died. Her emotionally-distant father walked away from her. She has no friends. And the friends she thought she finally, finally did have proved that they don’t care about her either, that they’re just as unreliable as everyone else in her life has proved to be. Except her Grandpa. Rei has, at least, always had her Grandpa. But he doesn’t recognize her. He doesn’t love her enough to shake off this evil influence. He doesn’t love her enough to not want to kill her.
keyofnik: Before I move forward, I wanted to take a second to say something I know you all realize, and that is just how fucking much I love Rei Hino. Here’s one of the many, many reasons. Because for everything Rei has been in through in her life up to and including this moment, for all the people who have left Rei and let her down, who have been unreliable and who didn’t care enough to stay when things were hard, Rei never, ever lets it eat away at her sense of self. It would be so fucking easy for Rei to dissolve into a pit of self-hatred. If nobody loves her, then it must be because she is unlovable. How many people feel that? It’s a completely human response, to turn to ourselves and wonder what’s wrong with us. But not Rei. There isn’t any character in Sailor Moon who has the kind of belief in themselves that Rei has. At age fourteen she’s taken everything life can throw at her, and she’s used it all to make herself stronger. Rei decides that she doesn’t need anybody to love her. SHE WILL LOVE HERSELF.
keyofnik: Before I move forward, I wanted to take a second to say something I know you all realize, and that is just how fucking much I love Rei Hino. Here’s one of the many, many reasons. Because for everything Rei has been in through in her life up to and including this moment, for all the people who have left Rei and let her down, who have been unreliable and who didn’t care enough to stay when things were hard, Rei never, ever lets it eat away at her sense of self. It would be so fucking easy for Rei to dissolve into a pit of self-hatred. If nobody loves her, then it must be because she is unlovable. How many people feel that? It’s a completely human response, to turn to ourselves and wonder what’s wrong with us. But not Rei. There isn’t any character in Sailor Moon who has the kind of belief in themselves that Rei has. At age fourteen she’s taken everything life can throw at her, and she’s used it all to make herself stronger. Rei decides that she doesn’t need anybody to love her. SHE WILL LOVE HERSELF.
keyofnik: Rei is at potentially the lowest point in her entire life. To Rei it seems like her last pillar, her Grandpa, doesn’t care enough to fight back for her. In this moment she has no one. Only she does. Rei’s greatest issue is trust. Her earliest memories are those of abandonment and betrayal. For Rei, then, everything is in actions. Before she can believe in others, they must prove themselves. She thought that she had finally found people who could do that in the other Senshi, only to have them let her down too when she needed them most. That’s why this moment is everything. Rei has never been as alone as she is right now, only she’s anything BUT alone. Because Rei doesn’t realize it yet, but she never lost Usagi. Usagi’s spent this entire episode trying to make things okay for Rei. She listened to Rei’s concerns about her Grandpa, and she brushed them off but thought she was soothing Rei’s worries. Rei got angry. But Rei gets angry at shit, that’s just how Rei is. Usagi didn’t let that get her down. She followed Rei, again to help make things better. She thought hooking up with the cute new guy would do it, so she did everything she could think to try and make that happen. Rei got FURIOUS. Rei said she wanted nothing to do with Usagi ever again, and Usagi knew she meant it. So she goes home, is cheered up by food, and decides that’s the answer! And here she is to try again. From the moment they met, Rei has been keeping Usagi at arm’s length. She’s yelled at her and chastised her. She’s demanded more of Usagi than Usagi ever thought she could give. And most of that was for Usagi’s benefit, but some of it was for Rei’s too, because there’s been nobody in Rei’s life who’s as much a threat to her emotional security than Usagi. Usagi’s ability to get to Rei is unlike anyone else, and for someone like Rei, there’s nothing more terrifying than her own vulnerability. So she pushes, and pushes, and pushes some more. But Usagi will not let Rei go. And now, when Rei is stripped of absolutely everyone, Usagi is still there. Cowardly, crybaby Usagi is standing alone against a terrifying monster, armed only with a rock and some forceful words. Idiot Usagi who makes everything worse, who can’t understand that “I’m never talking to you again” means Rei can’t possibly be her dear friend. And yet here she is. For Rei, everything is in actions. and she finally realizes that actions is exactly what Usagi is doing. No matter what Rei says, no matter what Rei does, Usagi will be there for her. There is no amount of Reiness that will stop Usagi from being there for her. Finally, perhaps for the first time, Rei and Usagi are speaking the same language. Despite herself, Rei has found the very thing she needs most in the entire world: someone who could choose anything, and chooses to love and support her, unconditionally.
keyofnik: Rei is at potentially the lowest point in her entire life. To Rei it seems like her last pillar, her Grandpa, doesn’t care enough to fight back for her. In this moment she has no one. Only she does. Rei’s greatest issue is trust. Her earliest memories are those of abandonment and betrayal. For Rei, then, everything is in actions. Before she can believe in others, they must prove themselves. She thought that she had finally found people who could do that in the other Senshi, only to have them let her down too when she needed them most. That’s why this moment is everything. Rei has never been as alone as she is right now, only she’s anything BUT alone. Because Rei doesn’t realize it yet, but she never lost Usagi. Usagi’s spent this entire episode trying to make things okay for Rei. She listened to Rei’s concerns about her Grandpa, and she brushed them off but thought she was soothing Rei’s worries. Rei got angry. But Rei gets angry at shit, that’s just how Rei is. Usagi didn’t let that get her down. She followed Rei, again to help make things better. She thought hooking up with the cute new guy would do it, so she did everything she could think to try and make that happen. Rei got FURIOUS. Rei said she wanted nothing to do with Usagi ever again, and Usagi knew she meant it. So she goes home, is cheered up by food, and decides that’s the answer! And here she is to try again. From the moment they met, Rei has been keeping Usagi at arm’s length. She’s yelled at her and chastised her. She’s demanded more of Usagi than Usagi ever thought she could give. And most of that was for Usagi’s benefit, but some of it was for Rei’s too, because there’s been nobody in Rei’s life who’s as much a threat to her emotional security than Usagi. Usagi’s ability to get to Rei is unlike anyone else, and for someone like Rei, there’s nothing more terrifying than her own vulnerability. So she pushes, and pushes, and pushes some more. But Usagi will not let Rei go. And now, when Rei is stripped of absolutely everyone, Usagi is still there. Cowardly, crybaby Usagi is standing alone against a terrifying monster, armed only with a rock and some forceful words. Idiot Usagi who makes everything worse, who can’t understand that “I’m never talking to you again” means Rei can’t possibly be her dear friend. And yet here she is. For Rei, everything is in actions. and she finally realizes that actions is exactly what Usagi is doing. No matter what Rei says, no matter what Rei does, Usagi will be there for her. There is no amount of Reiness that will stop Usagi from being there for her. Finally, perhaps for the first time, Rei and Usagi are speaking the same language. Despite herself, Rei has found the very thing she needs most in the entire world: someone who could choose anything, and chooses to love and support her, unconditionally.
keyofnik: Then there’s this. Where Rei’s saying thanks, in the most understated Rei Way possible, and Usagi’s saying no problem and meaning it completely because she has absolutely no idea what her being here right now means. And then STILL BEING STUCK ON THE DAMNED DAIFUKU. Because Usagi came here with a very clear plan. 1. Give Rei yummy food. 2. Rei eats yummy food. 3. Rei is my friend again. That by simply showing up she’s jumped immediately to Step 3 doesn’t even cross her mind. What’s so marvelous about all of this is that Usagi is fixing everything, she’s winning Rei over fully and completely until the day Rei dies (AND BEYOND), by no more and no less than simply being herself. This whole daifuku thing is hilarious and ridiculous and, both directly and indirectly, possibly the purest expression of Usagi that I have ever seen.
keyofnik: Then there’s this. Where Rei’s saying thanks, in the most understated Rei Way possible, and Usagi’s saying no problem and meaning it completely because she has absolutely no idea what her being here right now means. And then STILL BEING STUCK ON THE DAMNED DAIFUKU. Because Usagi came here with a very clear plan. 1. Give Rei yummy food. 2. Rei eats yummy food. 3. Rei is my friend again. That by simply showing up she’s jumped immediately to Step 3 doesn’t even cross her mind. What’s so marvelous about all of this is that Usagi is fixing everything, she’s winning Rei over fully and completely until the day Rei dies (AND BEYOND), by no more and no less than simply being herself. This whole daifuku thing is hilarious and ridiculous and, both directly and indirectly, possibly the purest expression of Usagi that I have ever seen.
keyofnik: It could be little more than a throwaway line, but I can’t help but wonder if Grandpa Hino is, in fact, Usagi’s favourite Grandpa because she doesn’t have her own grandparents. It could be that both Kenji and Ikuko’s parents are gone (or estranged), or it could be that Grandpa is Usagi’s favourite grandpa in the way that whatever food she’s eating at that exact moment is her favourite food ever.
keyofnik: It could be little more than a throwaway line, but I can’t help but wonder if Grandpa Hino is, in fact, Usagi’s favourite Grandpa because she doesn’t have her own grandparents. It could be that both Kenji and Ikuko’s parents are gone (or estranged), or it could be that Grandpa is Usagi’s favourite grandpa in the way that whatever food she’s eating at that exact moment is her favourite food ever.
keyofnik: Oops. Well, can’t have everything I suppose.
keyofnik: Oops. Well, can’t have everything I suppose.
keyofnik: Free of the demon, Grandpa collapses, but never hits the ground. Rei catches him, hugs him tight, and cries, just a little bit. And if that doesn’t make your heart melt, then you’re probably under an evil queen’s spell, and I don’t know what else to do for you.
keyofnik: Free of the demon, Grandpa collapses, but never hits the ground. Rei catches him, hugs him tight, and cries, just a little bit. And if that doesn’t make your heart melt, then you’re probably under an evil queen’s spell, and I don’t know what else to do for you.
keyofnik: As I said several thousand years ago when I began this episode liveblog, Ami and Mako’s characterization is the major weak point of this episode. It wants to get them out of the way so that it can focus on Rei and Usagi, but it doesn’t do either of them any favours in the process, and Ami I’d argue it seriously mischaracterizes. But it tries to make up for that here. When we last saw Ami and Mako, they’d left the shrine in anger, neither really willing to put up with the shit that is Rei And Usagi today. But now we see that the fight has been haunting them, too. So much so that they’ve left their warm comfy homes (and/or cram schools; note that Ami is still in uniform here while Mako is not) to come here at gods know what time to try and talk to Rei. While it’s not so demonstrative a showing as Usagi (because who but Usagi could reach Usagi levels), this too is Ami and Mako not willing to write Rei off. They got angry (or uncomfortable) and left the situation, but they didn’t leave the friendship. And Rei has finally, courtesy of Usagi, come to realize that. She knows now that people can respond in different ways, ways that Rei might not naturally understand, and still care. We don’t spend much time on Ami and Mako here, but I really appreciate that the episode took the time to bring them back at the end. This episode is really all about Rei finally letting people in, and these relationships are that much stronger for us getting to see beyond a doubt how Usagi, Ami, Mako, all independently, decided that they WANT in.
keyofnik: As I said several thousand years ago when I began this episode liveblog, Ami and Mako’s characterization is the major weak point of this episode. It wants to get them out of the way so that it can focus on Rei and Usagi, but it doesn’t do either of them any favours in the process, and Ami I’d argue it seriously mischaracterizes. But it tries to make up for that here. When we last saw Ami and Mako, they’d left the shrine in anger, neither really willing to put up with the shit that is Rei And Usagi today. But now we see that the fight has been haunting them, too. So much so that they’ve left their warm comfy homes (and/or cram schools; note that Ami is still in uniform here while Mako is not) to come here at gods know what time to try and talk to Rei. While it’s not so demonstrative a showing as Usagi (because who but Usagi could reach Usagi levels), this too is Ami and Mako not willing to write Rei off. They got angry (or uncomfortable) and left the situation, but they didn’t leave the friendship. And Rei has finally, courtesy of Usagi, come to realize that. She knows now that people can respond in different ways, ways that Rei might not naturally understand, and still care. We don’t spend much time on Ami and Mako here, but I really appreciate that the episode took the time to bring them back at the end. This episode is really all about Rei finally letting people in, and these relationships are that much stronger for us getting to see beyond a doubt how Usagi, Ami, Mako, all independently, decided that they WANT in.
keyofnik: This episode also has an interesting bit of side negative commentary about female friendships, which is an odd message smack in the middle of a show like Sailor Moon. But I think the sources are what’s key here. For Rei, I think it’s a primarily a result of having huge expectations of females (and a corresponding zero expectations of males). From Mako, I can’t shake the feeling that she’s speaking from direct experience. We know that until Usagi, Mako was (nearly) friendless. Her size, demeanour, and inability to ignore bullying made her a constant target and/or source of fear. This comment though is making me think however that Mako had tried, and failed, to have friendships with girls in the past. What fractured them? Perhaps Mako refusing to cave to a social pecking order that required her to let bullying slide. Or maybe Mako’s physical maturity attracting too much attention from boys. Not having ever been a Japanese schoolgirl it’s tough to say. Maybe Mako’s not even speaking from a wealth of experience, just one friend, and that IS her entire experience. But these are pointed comments, made from the two people most likely to be speaking from personal experience, so I’m inclined to think they’re specifically character commentary rather than social. Also I do love that although she barely knows them, Mako just doesn’t want to see Rei and Usagi go the same way. This is especially sweet when you remember when you realize that her very first comment when seeing them together was what good friends they were.
keyofnik: This episode also has an interesting bit of side negative commentary about female friendships, which is an odd message smack in the middle of a show like Sailor Moon. But I think the sources are what’s key here. For Rei, I think it’s a primarily a result of having huge expectations of females (and a corresponding zero expectations of males). From Mako, I can’t shake the feeling that she’s speaking from direct experience. We know that until Usagi, Mako was (nearly) friendless. Her size, demeanour, and inability to ignore bullying made her a constant target and/or source of fear. This comment though is making me think however that Mako had tried, and failed, to have friendships with girls in the past. What fractured them? Perhaps Mako refusing to cave to a social pecking order that required her to let bullying slide. Or maybe Mako’s physical maturity attracting too much attention from boys. Not having ever been a Japanese schoolgirl it’s tough to say. Maybe Mako’s not even speaking from a wealth of experience, just one friend, and that IS her entire experience. But these are pointed comments, made from the two people most likely to be speaking from personal experience, so I’m inclined to think they’re specifically character commentary rather than social. Also I do love that although she barely knows them, Mako just doesn’t want to see Rei and Usagi go the same way. This is especially sweet when you remember when you realize that her very first comment when seeing them together was what good friends they were.
keyofnik: And this is how Usagi knows that all is right with the world. She had a plan. A grand daifuku plan. And Rei ate of the daifuku and said it was delicious. Usagi and Rei are friends again! And clearly it was all thanks to the yummy food, just like Usagi knew it would be.
keyofnik: And this is how Usagi knows that all is right with the world. She had a plan. A grand daifuku plan. And Rei ate of the daifuku and said it was delicious. Usagi and Rei are friends again! And clearly it was all thanks to the yummy food, just like Usagi knew it would be.
keyofnik: Our discussion about Yuuichiro’s backstory in mind, I’m now beginning to wonder if he isn’t on some personal quest to find out what it is to be young. Pushed into growing up too fast maybe? Too much maturity forced on him from an early age and he’s looking to reclaim those lost moments?
keyofnik: Our discussion about Yuuichiro’s backstory in mind, I’m now beginning to wonder if he isn’t on some personal quest to find out what it is to be young. Pushed into growing up too fast maybe? Too much maturity forced on him from an early age and he’s looking to reclaim those lost moments?
keyofnik: Rei and Usagi’s relationship: A Portrait in Two Panels
keyofnik: Rei and Usagi’s relationship: A Portrait in Two Panels
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