Gintama Was Healing To Me Because Its Nature Has A Comedy Show That Breaks The 4th Wall All The Time

Rus anon this is a fucking gold mine that I’ve been laughing at since you sent it to me.

100% at first Zoro just did it and Nami was like “fuck it, whoever finds Zoro first gets a fuckin reward” and from there Luffy and Law one day were annoying one another and Chopper came running out and was like “where is Zoro!?” and everyone just shrugged cause like ??? “it’s not my day to watch him”

it was Robin’s idea to whomever found him would be king of the ship for a day and how is Luffy not going to jump on that for one, for two, Nami isn’t going to miss this chance ever, and three Law wants some god damn peace and quiet and he’ll fuckin get it

I agree they’re the top 3 cause of their senses, but I also think it goes a little deeper than that and they’re all just so fuckin competitive. Chopper isn’t, he’s just so adamant about bandages.

HC accepted but only if to this day Zoro still has no fuckin clue an intense battle for “King of the Ship” Wages on the fact he has no clue where he is ever and that even Law gets excited when he finds Zoro and “thats just fuckin creepy Torao”  “That’s fine. I’m gonna be king.” “King of what?” “Don’t worry about it, here hold my hand I can’t lose my prize.”

God send these that was based off of Zoro just getting lost 😂

these are the same picture just on opposite sides of the spectrum

TikTokers are such pussies when it comes to ships. “B-but they’re not canon 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😖😖” honey back in my day we shipped characters from entirely different medias uphill both ways in the snow

I love everything about gintama Italian dub, but calling Katsura il principe furioso....

A peak that will never be reached ever again

Also, props to Allan???

He's a doll most people have never heard of. He got discontinued forever ago cause he was perceived as gay by consumers and they didn't like that.

But I love that he had an actual role in Barbie. He was very queer coded, yeah, but he didn't like when all the Kens turned to Patriarchy. He was so uncomfortable that he wanted to abandon Barbieland all together. He knew it was wrong.

And then he helped the Barbies get themselves back. He had a pink jumpsuit and sunglasses and went out all stealthy to get the Barbies in the van. He even voted at the end to keep the constitution the way it was.

Big Allan fan over here.

H E L L O ????

u ever read a fanfic so good that you want. fanfic of the fanfic

DATS Rant: The Ultimate Spider-Man Is a Masterpiece

Hot take: The Ultimate Spider-Man is the most thematically cohesive Spider-Man show I’ve seen.

All the Youtubers who rag on this show always point to individual scenes and lines as dumb and claim that the show has bad writing because of them. Frankly, I’ve found myself despising the writing on several shows that have a lot of good scenes the fandom goes wild over because the show’s theming is broken or outright missing. coughMiraculouscough

The thing about theming is that it can really work to enforce what your story is about. If your themes don’t work, vanish or aren’t even a consideration, your story is thin. Many current stories struggle with theming, by which I mean things seem to happen without reason. I’m not talking about just kids’ media either, adult shows also seem to have events strung together more just to be shocking instead of in order to say something.

It’s actually pretty easy to do a show-wide theme like family, friendship, the horrors of war or how broken people often have broken relationships. You just need to bring it up every now and again. The problem seems to be story arcs with themes. This is because having a theme in a story means building events up to a certain conclusion that supports said theme. It means predictability and there seems to be a weird allergy for that going on.

The theming in The Ultimate Spider-Man is actually very visible in its handling of the Venom arc. Youtubers with no concept of theming don’t understand why Harry Osborn becomes Venom. Here’s the thing: Harry’s relationships with both Peter and his dad begin deteriorating as soon as Spider-Man shows up. It’s also without him knowing it, in the case of Peter. “Venom” means “poison”. Spider-Man poisons Harry’s relationships with his dad and Peter. It’s poetic.

This is why it’s important that Peter starts off disliking his new teammates. They’re often literally getting between him and Harry, just like Peter’s duty as Spider-Man is figuratively between them, pushing them apart.

This is also why Harry becomes Anti-Venom as part of the arc that leads up to Peter revealing his secret identity to Harry. “Anti-Venom” is basically another word for a counter-poison. Their relationship is being healed, the poison is being countered. Fittingly, the story where Harry becomes Anti-Venom is also the one where Norman Osborn gets redeemed.

Harry becomes the Anti-Spider-Man, then he becomes Venom, then he becomes Anti-Venom and then he becomes Harry again. That’s an arc, those are themes. This show is good.

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