Votoms kind of suffers from trying to be a gritty show while also giving Chirico a crew of allegedly cut-throat criminals who clearly believe in the power of friendship at least as much as your average Pretty Cure.

I deeply resent this timeline for making me feel things about a political statement in fucking Gundam Wing (Endless Waltz, Relena rallying the people by telling them peace and freedom aren't just given from above but must be defended).

JIMMY CORRIGAN: GOD'S VENGEANCE ON EARTH

Remember the time Bill Clinton told Superman to kill the Spectre with the lance of Longinus, without realizing it had been corrupted by its last wielder, Adolf Hitler?

Painting the immobilized Zaku as part of the background was such an interesting artistic decision. Really gives it a sense of fallen majesty and makes the process of fixing it seem daunting.

Tomino has ruined other artists' 80s mecha for me. Votoms is good, but I just can't fully get into a show that looks like Gundam but expects me to find the hero cool and hasn't had a single line of dialogue that leaves you scratching your head.

Wonder if they had debates about including a 9-second strobe light effect in the Votoms opening or was everyone immediately into it.

VOTOMS not only giving Chirico Newtype flashes but even the accompanying flexatone sound effect is so cheeky.

Disney being afraid of interspecies furry romance is so funny. They have Zootopia 2's poor Judy and Nick acting like the dedicated lesbian subtext girls from a band anime.

Ender Lilies is a very funny game when you don't care about the plot. Every single piece of lore disappears from my mind the moment I close a note and I refuse to reread them. I'm just there for the art design and exploration.

It feels fundamentally wrong that piecing together what caused the fall of a mighty kingdom from context clues became a video game cliche.

Bobby Goldsboro's Honey. As far as I can tell it's supposed to be a romantic tearjerker, but the singer's so dismissive and cruel to Honey you start getting My Last Duchess vibes.

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

Dixon trying to discourage readers from shipping Barbara/Dinah is funny. Say what you will about fandom refusing to accept same-sex friendships as that, but their dynamic isn't written as a friendship, which tends to be a peer relationship. Their dynamic is entirely asymmetric;

Remember the time Barbara Gordon helped notCoca-Cola Company coup a a country in the Caribbean?

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? I sure got myself into a situation this time.

Best thing Lars von Trier ever did.

The three evil kindergarteners crack me up. The original's one of the funniest panels Takahashi drew, recreated well here.

I see we aren't even pretending someone might fall for Ukyo's disguise.

So they decided to fix Wicked's Act II by going all in on Glinda and Elphaba's relationship, with Ariana Grande playing Glinda even gayer than the first time around. Fiyero's scenes aren't even comphet, just scenes from a different movie confusingly edited in.

Lovecraft's ghouls from Pickman's Model are fun. Evil subterranean dogmen who love fucking with puritans.

I think Happosai basically works in the Ranma manga, as a takedown of the lovable pervert master character; he's completely irredeemable, everyone hates him and he keeps getting beaten up. However, in a media context where that character type has mostly disappeared, he's more than a little oof.

Huh, Vampyros Lesbos really doesn't have anything else going for it besides the name.

Akiman posted a picture of Tomino at his birthday party on twitter

Experimental Ranma adaptation where Mappa made otherwise all the same choices but kept Akane calling Ranma transphobic slurs.

Might add Cima to this series too

口から花のビームを出します。がんぼるぞい。 translation: It shoots a flower beam from its mouth.

Dear DC writers: as a psychiatrist, Harley Quinn is a Doctor of Medicine (MD), not Philosophy (PhD). Poison Ivy probably has a PhD, though several tellings of her origin story don't really leave room for her to complete it after Woodrue.

Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would. Tantalus: How could he possibly know about his guests' dietary restrictions if they don't tell him ahead of time?

One clever way John le Carré future-proofed his books was write most characters as sad weird perverts, so the non-white and gay characters being like that just feels par for the course.

I'm going to stop watching if someone uses a scythe as a weapon.

I can't wrap my head around Teen Titans Go! having a huge Internet hatedom. Aren't you embarrased beefing with an intentionally stupid cartoon for seven-year-olds?

Regretfully, the Ranma ½ remake cut Shampoo making homophobic remarks about Akane.

It's at least a little beautiful how more than half of us have been blocked by at least one person.

"Please understand," said Char. "The Federation may be using Amuro Ray for unethical goals. It is imperative that I know where he is. And I believe you may have that knowledge, considering your ties to him. I ask again, do you know where he is?" "Char! Not genki!" Haro bounced up and down in reply.

Huh, I didn't realize the "Khomeini appoints the Joker as the new Iranian ambassador to the UN so he can gas it" arc was a direct continuation of the story where the readers got to vote by phone whether the Joker should murder Robin (yes won).

Remember the time The New Batman Adventures basically called Joel Schumacher the f word?

it's not FOR us

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post! #pixelart

This is such an evocative piece of the Legendarium. The Blue Wizards (the "they" here) are cool and all, but Eastern humans fighting stubborn guerrilla war against Sauron for millennia, opening a path for Frodo and Aragorn, remaining forever unknown and unthanked...

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow does such fun things with the genre's separation of the hero and player. Usually it's just done so the hero can joke about you trying dumb solutions to puzzles, but here Thomasina makes you solve puzzles you know should remain unsolved.

You know what, Thomasina? I don't think you should give your blood to that goblin, no matter how charming his accent is.

If I received a nickel for every Christian girl I've talked down from jumping off a building in a video game, I'd have two nickels, etc.

I made the mistake of agreeing when YouTube asked if I wanted recommendations for the kinds of videos I don't usually watch and now it's all chuds ranting about the tyrant Abe Lincoln and girl cooties in video games.

first and last. the greatest work of american existentialism to ever shill for an insurance company.