Malda Marlys 🍉

Little brown dog curled into a sulky doughnut

still mad

it took her a very long time to accept that wearing a silly little outfit is actually beneficial in the winter when you have functionally 0 fur but she did get there, like, after a year

the cats saw it and everything

first attempt was an extended wrestling match followed by dubious tiptoe down the stairs, about 1 second of running in the snow painlessly, then remembering she hates this, running back up, and refusing to leave the steps again. so. adjusting may be overambitious

Little brown dog with her ears down, profoundly put upon, wearing a tiny purple shoe

due to multiple incidents of "ah ahhh aaaaahh my paws are cold heeeeelp," the disreputable dog has been placed in dork-ass loser booties. she asks for your support and understanding at this difficult time

get patricia c wrede and tamora pierce in there and you've got the primordial soup of the millennial nerd brain (and these two hold up by far the best)

a medieval illustration of an anatomically accurate woodcock perched in the floral margins of a manuscript

the "medieval people didn't know how to draw animals" crowd has been real quiet ever since john siferwas dropped the Perfect Woodcock

A cold weather advisory from noaa where instead of a snowflake or whatever there's a sad little silhouette whose coat bells out while they cling to their hat against a gale

me too, pathetic little figure in the noaa extreme cold icon, me too

i guess i appreciate that the show is straightforward about it? yeah he powers up whenever you make him upset about his buddies and then he hits you with blue light that's how it works. does mean you have to rely on the others for the weird ass tactics this kinda thing is best at

yusuke's fights are always the dullest because he's just the hulk but for friendship instead of anger

though i realize now i know literally nothing about the manga, adaptations were infinitely looser back in the day, might bear no resemblance whatsoever to the anime i watched

gotta compliment the mangaka on finding a way to draw an infinite number of floaty and fantastical fancy boys while keeping his feet firmly in muscly red-blooded fightin territory

(this joke is grammatically flimsy, botan rarely does the cutesy no personal pronoun thing)

a girl in a pink kimono is flying on a broom next to a boy Alt: Botan, who has blue hair, riding her oar through the sky

of course you have blue hair and no pronouns

shirts have strange physics in this universe

kurama's hiei translation service is cute

the don't explain your hero gig to your girlfriend so she has no defenses against getting kidnapped was already a cliche here I see. particularly arbitrary since Keiko explicitly knows about the supernatural already?

all the rules are made up anyway

I like that even the show can't think of a reason for the boys to fight the monsters one on one. the reason is that it's thematically resonant and realism isn't an end in itself, who cares, but one line like "the holy beasts can only be defeated by single combat or they curse you" would have worked

(I mean, it plays out like punch punch punch, oh no that was the last of my power, but I believe in our friendship, I have more power after all, punch punch punch, oh no he has a second form, lucky I have a secret ability to fire beams, punch punch, etc, but still!)

ok this is definitely the arc where my family's cartoon network access was lost for like a month, no idea how this one plays out, that's exciting

(see last spring's extended breakdown as jjk disappointed me more with every episode after the first arc}

jjk wishes it could

Rando the demon from the, a pretty but awkwardly muscly anime boy with weird face paint and scars doing a nonspecific magical flourish

now that's how you wrote your first tournament arc. a little tongue in cheek, juggling appropriate tension with putting down the one-off weirdos, beating up a twunk in a fright wig with several rounds of the power of friendship

the animation shortcuts are a little more jarring in the digital era but they have their charm. that's right, this round of our tournament will be fought in the dark, because of reasons. sure! seems fair

GennaRose Nethercott's Thistlefoot feels like the absolute zenith of the fairytale retelling wave, but I never see it discussed. Emma Meiko Candon's The Archive Undying should have been a sea change for sf, made a small initial splash and vanished. those are the two I'm most hung up on anyway

I have a very clear memory of like the first 10 episodes and then the memory decays into disconnected montage, due at least in part to our cable getting broken for a while, we'll see how I do

i am sad the cross-linguistic pun "rei gun" missed me as a teenger, however now i get to enjoy some villain literally named "rando" so there's that

the first big arc is like "oh these evil thieves have stolen the 3 magical thingies" and then you see two guys who are in the theme song and some nerd wonder how that'll play out

i just looked up the various voice actors because my memory for that stuff is shit, and the japanese cast wasn't actually any younger on average than the english. just a matter of affect i guess