ohhh TRIGUN. you are so special to me. this'll be a long rambly one probably so lock in. also, rampant spoilers for a 30yo franchise ahead

i've said it before that i'm really not an anime girly, i fell deeply and violently in love with COWBOY BEBOP (1998) years ago because of it's themes and aesthetics and i've been occasionally trying similar things that people recommend to me since. i think somewhere in 2020 I had gathered my friends to watch TRIGUN with me for two reasons: a) there was a newer soft reboot series in the works that i was interested in, and b) it seemed to be the natural next step after COWBOY BEBOP. there's this tumblr post that i love that compares the two and has stuck with me since i read it; fundamentally these two shows are about avoiding a past that perpetually haunts you, and what direction the characters take to deal with that. i love, LOVE a narrative about pushing through against the odds, i love a narrative about love persevering, and most importantly, i love a narrative about how love is so important even if it's not enough in the end.

1998 TRIGUN is silly. it's goofy, it's like, mostly filler. it's borderline unserious compared to it's later manga narrative plot and yet it is one of the most consistent gut punch medias i've ever watched in my life. like. the love was there. god knows the love was there, and it mattered so much, but it changed nothing. you gotta keep going despite it all. i know it probably hits harder after reading the manga in its entirety and getting more of that story than the anime was unable to provide, but i do believe it's very good all on its own. my first time watching it was my first experience with anything TRIGUN related and i felt the same way then as i do now with further knowledge. i could write essays on the themes of vash and wolfwood, of vash and knives, of literally any of the characters and what they represent in this show because it's so clear from the beginning what roles everyone is going to play and they do it SO well. i love this show dearly.

there is one thing that stuck with me for years and years from BEBOP, and that is the finale episode's end card where, instead of the traditional "SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...", it says "YOU'RE GONNA CARRY THAT WEIGHT." a screenshot of this has been my phone wallpaper for as long as i can remember. what stuck with me from TRIGUN for the last 6 or so years is from episode 4 or 5, maybe. it's a quote from vash - "what is lost will never return; important things, irreplaceable things. but what is needed to keep those things is in the firm will packed into one bullet. man knows that nothing will begin unless he speaks, and that nothing will change unless he moves." i love it very much. in order to make room for change, we might have to let go of things we love. both these shows really did kind of drift into my life at the right time for me to latch onto them with so much more intensity than i expected to, i think.

but also there's a (dubbed) episode where wolfwood says "thank heavens you asked!! it's a long story but kind of a short one!" which is so stupid and permanently entered my vocabulary the second i heard it, so

great show!! please watch it. its goofier than i made it out to be i promise, it's just so very dear to me and if i think about it for more than 30 seconds at a time, i go insane!

this isn't like the best iteration of TRIGUN i've ever seen but we were so grumpy about STARGAZE that my friend and i sat down to watch this instead of thinking about it too hard. oh wolfwood you are the love of my life

i sense a TRIGUN (1998) rewatch in my near future.

this was a WONDERFUL silly little game where you and a friend solve crimes, one of you a human detective and the other a dog! each of you have your own little quirks and abilities and have to work together with limited communication to solve the crime! so much fun; it's only in early access at the moment and only has a tutorial and the first case so far, but you defs gotta give this a go if you like escape rooms and locked box puzzles

i tell you what, i fucking love trigun. i adore it. in 2023, i went absolutely bonkers over TRIGUN: STAMPEDE to the extent that three years later if i type "tr-" into my phone, it STILL tries to autocorrect it to "tristamp". i liked STAMPEDE very much, i thought it was a fun and fresh take on the manga and the 1998 anime. STARGAZE is s2 of this new era trigun and that said, STARGAZE was just so.......mid? resoundingly mid. i genuinely did not care for like 80% of this season i am so serious. the pacing is DOGSHIT, i dont know what the hell is going on and where we're supposed to be, and i've watched the 98 anime and read the manga like a million times!!! this cannot be comprehensible to the first time trigun viewer dude

wolfwood is one of my all time beloved characters and i was iffy about his character in STAMPEDE but holy christ almighty what the fuck are we even doing in STARGAZE. i'm actually so fucking mad at the direction they took his character AND THE FUUUUCKINGGGG 8TH EPISODE. OH MY GOD. oh my god. im so fucking mad dude im so mad i think they are cowards for what they ended up doing with his character arc. furious. hated it. the rest of this show was just mediocre bullshit

i dont want to talk about it man i love this movie and i love being able to share my friends' first viewing of it

holy shit. you have to play this game. you have to play this game; it's free on steam right now!!

what a beautiful narrative about hope and persistance. what a joy to be able to experience this, right now, in this point of time, for free.

still the best movie in the entire world. rewatch inspired by this fantastic analysis/review i watched yesterday!

i am familiar with kane pixel's youtube work and was kind of into his backrooms series in like 2022, but inevitably fell off it when there was evil mould or whatever introduced. there is no denying it's a very good youtube project, though, and the quality is unmatched (though my fav of his projects is always going to be THE OLDEST VIEW). i have never really been one of those people who hates the ever-changing concept of the backrooms and i think it's fun to let people run wild with it so! i went into this movie with no real expectations aside from being curious about the whole thing

it was alright!! it was pretty cool to see the backrooms visuals on a cinema screen. i also had the whole theater to myself which was super cool and very thematic lmao. kinda weak narrative but that's what happens when you make a story out of a concept based on vibes, i suppose. didn't hate it, had a decent time with it. it did look really good

This is, admittedly, a little out of my wheelhouse and I'm not big on fantasy or medieval narratives in general, however. I'd heard good things and a lot of people recommended this one to me (primarily during my PATHOLOGIC psychosis) so I thought I'd give it a go. And it was fine! I do enjoy venturing into other genres and I do like a good found family trope but ultimately it was just a little underwhelming, i think. Like. Exactly what you expect to happen ends up happening so it's not even like a biblical horror that subverts expectations or anything, its just like. Hell Bad But Holiness Good! Also a lot of guys are going to kind of look like lions

Its not that it was a bad book, it was a perfectly serviceable book, it's just that soooo many people recommended this to me that I thought it was gonna be fantastic and it ended up being resoundingly mid. I did like our main trio of characters well enough and it was unexpectedly funny at times.

Also, this is a nitpick and I'll be the first to admit that, but the writing was so awkward and choppy and I feel like the line and paragraph breaks were just non-existent in this book. it made for a very disjointed reading experience, but I also say that knowing I read it on a kindle and its the first time I've ever really used one of these things so ??? idk maybe they're just like that. I had to reread paragraphs on previous pages all the time because it just jumps around so suddenly that I thought I'd missed something

hooolly shit dude i cannot believe it took me so long to get around to playing this. this game fucking rules. AND i missed hearing jonathan sims yapping more than i thought i did. perhaps this is what it takes to get me onto a TMA relisten........

i really liked this book!! fun concept, i love multimedia fiction and i love a good horror mystery novel. this book was awesome and jam packed with japanese folklore and horror. my only nitpick is the translator really americanised the translation and had stupid shit in there that's like "i called 911" or whatever and its like. did they? did they call that? what is wrong with just saying emergency services, yk? egh. anyway. good book overall, really liked it

holy fuck, dude.

this book made its way onto my radar after two separate friends brought it to my attention; one to tell me it made her feel physically unwell, and the other while talking about his personal feelings towards the book. i picked it up this afternoon intending to read a couple of chapters to see what it was like, and then i finished it in one sitting. could not put it down. this book is all sorts of fucked up and grim and horrifying and i loved it. jesus

good movie!! i enjoyed this a lot; i'm quite sure i've seen it before but it would have either been in part or just a very long time ago. either way, enjoyed it. i am quite a fan of NIGHTCRAWLER (2014) which has similar themes, so i did know i was gonna like this one.

i started listening to malevolent in january 2023, immediately fell in love with it and got all of my friends obsessed with it, and have been listening to it in spurts ever since. it finished its main story this year, so this month i decided to sit down and finally catch up on the final season. the premise is this: a cosmic horror podcast about a 1930s private detective who wakes up one day with no memory, no eyesight, and cursed by a strange book that binds him to an entity that uses his eyes to see.

i have not felt this strongly about a podcast in an incredibly long time. i've thought about it a lot over the last few years, and it is difficult to explain what this show means to me. it is so, so, so incredibly good and heartfelt and horrifying and funny and agonising. the characters and the entire cast are such a delight, and whatever the hell john and arthur have going on is so special to me. the horror is visceral and fantastic, often going places i really did not expect it to go. i love it. this show made me laugh, cry, stressed me the fuck out, changed the way i think about a lot of things, and i do think it's a very special one of a kind thing that i just won't ever find in a podcast again. the finale ripped my heart out, stomped the shit out of it and then threw it into a meat grinder and i fucking loved every second of it. what a fantastic, wonderful, incredible story. UGH. there were several parts of the last season that had me pausing the show to do a lap of my house in distress. incredible

there's a second series in the works, THRESHOLD, which only has a couple of episodes out at the moment and i am very excited to dig into that once the first season is over. i just want some time to really sit on and appreciate malevolent for now because i am going to be thinking about it for a long, looooong time

this is one of my favourite books in the entire world and i re-read it today out of sheer unfiltered fury after watching 15 minutes of the absolute insulting garbage that was good omens "season" 3. i didn't even like s2 if i'm being honest, they should've left it as a standalone. anyway. book reigns superior as always.

oh my god ohhhh my fucking god i did it. i finally did it. you can read all about my suffering here

finished s2! still silly, still fun

absolutely joyous little game. fun chill puzzles, wonderful little critters, great game to play while watching my show

hoogh man. i came across this insane little animation a couple of days ago and tracked down the context to the creator's comic and read the vol 1 demo in like 30 flat seconds and fell in love. finished the rest on my lunch break today at work. LOVE love love this comic so much. wonderful art style, wonderful unsettling visuals. very excited for vol 3. you can find it here!!

trying to work on reading more non-fiction this year so! been revisiting old favourites

honestly I don't even care that this has removed a bunch of stuff from the original. it's fun! i'm having a great time!!! endless possibilities with this customisation tool and i am loving putting my oc's and friends into this little fishbowl!!

after rewatching MURDERBOT earlier this month, I decided to dig into the books! I managed to get two at the library and enjoyed them well enough! they're fun, maybe a little too short and abrupt for me. mmm idk, these first two didn't grab my attention much, but I might look into the next few books after a little break to read some other stuff

it is a CRIME that it's taken me this long to watch this movie for the first time. i loved it!! the only wes anderson films i've seen prior to this one were ASTEROID CITY and FANTASTIC MR FOX, both of which i did love but definitely don't live up to this one. great movie, had a wonderful time

i always forget about this movie and then really, really enjoy it every time i revisit it.

happy 17776 day everyone!!!!

do yourself a favour and read this if you haven't already. it's all online. go in blind, don't read anything about it. trust

I was looking forward to this because i knew it was gonna be stupid. insane premise. what if there were a bunch of army guys with no names and they were being hunted by a sentient alien machine gun??? incredible. terrible movie but i had an absolutely fantastic time watching it

streamed this one to a friend because we both like doing detective games together - one takes the notes, the other plays the game. i was actually pretty impressed by this one! i liked the story and the reveal was done well; enough that we almost pieced it together ourselves and then were vindicated by it in the end. short, sweet, visually cool and interesting, and pretty easy all things considered.

i'm in a sci-fi mood and this has been on my brain this week!! started reading the books, devolved into watching the show since it's so easy and short. downhill from there.

i forgot this was funny, actually. i think possibly I enjoyed it more the second time around!!

yes. i watched it twice in theaters. watched it in imax this time. it has been a long time since i was this crazy about a movie

I said I'd get through it over the weekend but what happened is I actually just ripped through this in one sitting. i loved it. it's getting one less star simply because it's less silly than the movie and I think that's what I liked most about it, but I really, really loved it as a whole. i liked the fleshed out backstory into how the world is handling the crisis, I love how the characters speak and sound. i love it when authors are writing about something they're very clearly passionate about and that very much shows in this book. delightful story

I've watched a lot of space movies in my life and i can say with confidence that PROJECT HAIL MARY is one of the best ones I've seen in a very long time!! I watched this on a whim today while I was out at the shops; saw it was starting soon at the cinema and ducked in to watch it. best choice I've made all year. this film was beautiful, visually and as a story. possibly made in a lab for me specifically. I adored it so much, in fact, that as soon as it was over, I left the cinema and walked right to the bookstore to pick up the book and I intend on reading it over the weekend.

absolutely fantastic film, will be watching again. something about it is just so hopeful and wonderful; i'm a HUGE fan of space and given the upcoming artemis ii mission that nasa is launching in a couple of days, I am just currently filled with this giddy optimism and overwhelming love for the space advancements of humanity so this movie definitely killed me a little bit. oh my god it was so fucking good i loved it SO much

i bought a box set because i've been thinking about this show a lot lately and i love it sooo so dearly, yet dont own it! so. bought the box set. been making my way through it. i think at some point, i'm gonna make a page on the site for it because my thoughts are truly too deranged to corral into a small sentence here. i'm rating s1 specifically because i will be honest with you, the next two seasons are not of the same calibre. im sorry. but s1 is just wonderful. so cozy, so charming, so devastatingly tragic.

i watched most of these episodes over a dreary, rainy week and i was dragging a bedsheet and my projector outside to our firepit and watching it by the fire undercover from the rain and it was just soooo magical, absolutely how this show should be watched

so. you see. a new resident evil game has come out. i havent touched the franchise in a while (RE6 wounded me in unspeakable ways and i kind of didn't care for 7, so i also never followed up with 8 bc like. Where Are The Zombies) but RE9 comes with the return of my beloved king leon kennedy and i am a very simple woman who just wants to see her favs go through the torment nexus, so. i'm revisiting all the games i own to refresh my memory on the storylines, while also hoping RE9 will be cheaper to buy by the time i get to it lmfao

the RE2 remake is wonderful, no notes. this is a great game. it was also a great game in like 2010 on my ps3 when i played it for the first time, so i'm both biased and very attached to it. the remake is great. i'm bypassing RE3 unfortunately because i don't own it in a playable form :( but! RE4 (remake) is up next!!

ouuhhhh i've been waiting for this one to come out for a while now!! this is a wonderful little cozy game, still in early access days but honestly, plays really nicely and looks good! delightful quintissential cozy cafe game complete with cutesy critters, a wonderful decorative mode, and a nice, simple gameplay loop that's a delight when you're watching something on the other monitor. been powering my way through tv shows while playing it.

i am truly not sure how to describe this one without spoiling what makes it such a wonderful experience, so please be warned that this game is not what it seems, and you need to play it blind for the best experience!!

IT TAKES A WAR was a wonderful little experience into group dynamics, the relationships between friends, and how little you truly know the person on the other side of the screen. i quite enjoyed it! it was a short game to play, it caught me fully by surprise and it did actually manage to jumpscare me with a cheap fakeout directional knock which very rarely happens, so extra points for that. i was so engrossed in the story that it caught me out of nowhere lmfao

is this not just one of the best marvel adjacent medias out there. i fuckign love this show honestly

rewatched this month because i'm trying really hard to hype myself up to watch DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN (2025) but like to be so fr. i dont think i give a shit about the new one. i cannot muster up the enjoyment for it. also it looks dogshit, like visually it's a crazy downgrade. so i'm struggling. but its fine because I will always have season 1 of THIS show, which is perfect television and i love it dearly

this. was certainly an undertaking, i can tell you that much.

i came across this game through a youtube channel, saw about 30 seconds of it's concept and immediately knew i needed to play it. this beautiful game is a PS1 game about three schoolkids and their dog who investigate strange paranormal rumours in their town. the gang hear about an old shrine to a crow god, and rumour states that those who see the human faced crow diety are doomed to be cursed for 100 days until they die. the kids investigate, get cursed, and in 100 days, one of them will die. you spend the game looking into weird stuff and spooky happenings to try and break the curse, all the while watching as the kids' personal lives start to crumble around them as the curse worsens.

this game, i think, was made for me. it hits everything i love on the head. narratively, it's beautiful. the animations are amazing - mocap pixels against stunning backgrounds, incredibly natural movements and quirks for each of the characters. gameplay is pretty strictly timed and there's loads of stuff you can miss out on if you're not careful. the world continues to exist whether you interact with it or not, which is delightful. each day, the gang will take the dog for a walk and look into whatever rumour you'd like to investigate that day. you can play as any of the three kids and the way you interact with the world - or the way the world interacts with YOU - is different based on whoever you are playing each day. i cannot effectively state how well written, good, and human these characters feel. i didn't expect to come out of this game with such a fierce attachment to them but GOD. this is something i rotated in my head over and over and over when i wasn't playing it. the story is just fucking delightful. i love this game. the atmosphere is beautiful. i'm gonna be thinking about it for a long time.

now, the caveat: it's a PS1 game, so. it needs to be emulated. that part is easy! it's also a japanese game. it never got an english translation. when i say that playing this game was quite the undertaking, i mean that i was running my screen through a translation app the entire time so i could read any of the text and actually progress anywhere, alongside having a playlist of the english translated game up to reference if i ever thought there was a dodgy translation in there somewhere. it was a VERY slow and finnicky process but ultimately...yeah, worth it in the end. the game expects you to do several playthroughs to fully grasp the story, as you can only experience each day once and you have to pick which character you'll experience it as. sometimes, this will lock you out of stuff. you gotta do it again on the second run if you want it. i love games like this. i really, really did love this one a lot - if it sounds good but you're not quite this level of unhinged then i strongly recommend the video that piqued my interest in the first place!

i cannot believe i just played such a short game with such a gut-punching, well implied narrative within a game with absolutely abysmally uninteresting gameplay. holy shit. this was definitely more of an interactive short story with some confusing puzzle elements involved. the voice acting was genuinely fantastic for a game of this size, which really just added to the inherent tragedy of the entire story. short, sweet, very repetitive and quickly boring gameplay, but i found myself very easily getting through it for the sake of finding out how the story goes. these are exactly the kind of projects i love to see and play!!

this was a nice little book! picked it up from the library because I can't resist a horror book about a house. yknow how it is. i think this was a fun little narrative with a wonderful focus on bugs and gardens, which are things i do love. the writing was a little bit tooooo......millenial-core for me, i guess? idk the protagonist was very like, quirky quippy one-liner kind of vibes which is mildly irritating but not enough to put me off. nice, quick little read!

it's fun! i put this on to have a little unserious drama show as background noise, but ended up getting a little too invested lmfao. i used to study to ER (1994) when i was in high school so nothing has changed clearly. fun and flawed and three dimensional characters my beloved! also fascinated with the episode structure. what do you mean all that shit happened in under 24hrs. looking forward to the new season!

why is all horror like this these days. what are we fucking doing. rambling plotless dogshit with uninteresting characters and an insufferable, very clearly author-self-insert main character. holy shit gothic horror my ass, this was a drama fiction at best and that's stretching it