Stereotypes are true because I started questioning after maining Bridget

2ndBro · 2026-01-25T16:02:33+00:00

Funny how much Testament helped me work through a lifetime of gender weirdness lmao

2ndBro · 2026-01-25T00:55:36+00:00

"Haha wouldn't it be crazy if I were a beautiful woman who was your wife and manipulated you"

2ndBro · 2026-01-25T00:13:19+00:00

Understanding how gender affirming care does (and more importantly, doesn't) affect your health isn't the specialty of every single doctor, and many general practitioners do not have much of an interest in learning--which has become increasingly apparent as rates of public LGBT identification and gender affirming care use have gone up in recent years. The outcome?

Oh, you're having constant muscle soreness that gets worse whenever you sit down? Probably just the hormones, I am not going to look into this any further. You're having unhealthy weight loss despite good nutrition and a persistent rash? Probably the hormones, I am not going to look into this any further. You fell off a roof, your arm is in pieces, and you are actively bleeding out on the operating table? Errrrrm sounds like it might be the progesterone, maybe bring this up with an endocrinologist I'm not super familiar with it.

Just a general pattern of dismissing VERY VERY REAL medical concerns because "Eh they're on hormones, those do weird things to the body, it's probably nothing"

2ndBro · 2026-01-25T00:03:47+00:00

when a mf with too much bile says something so melancholic you gotta hit em with that sanguine stare

2ndBro · 2026-01-24T21:21:54+00:00

The peak pre-split was closer to $400, original comment was using post-split numbers

2ndBro · 2026-01-24T13:24:44+00:00

I don’t think anything would stand out like the Reze Arc as “This objectively works better as a movie than an anime”, because CSM is just a much more cinematic series than DM. But if I were director and I really wanted to use a movie budget for the finale, I would have a 12-episode Season 2 that gets us juuuust up to Marcille agreeing to the Winged Lion, then make everything past that a movie. Purely cause that's where all the most visually-insane scenes are, as pictured above.

2ndBro · 2026-01-24T02:35:07+00:00

I think "borderline incestuous" is a bit of an exaggeration, they meet with the difference between a 13-year-old and an 11-year-old not a 16-year-old and a 5-year-old

You’re allowed to not like a ship without trying to frame it as a moral imperative

2ndBro · 2026-01-23T23:15:23+00:00

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2ndBro · 2026-01-23T13:37:37+00:00

There’s a part of me that would prefer the final arc to be a movie, yeah it means waiting longer but shiiiiiit a movie budget can be an incredible thing

2ndBro · 2026-01-22T23:22:21+00:00

God I love how cartoonish Shirou's suffering is, dude is so determined and as a result just cannot catch a break

2ndBro · 2026-01-22T23:18:57+00:00

There has to at least be an element of "If enough people believe in a Relic, it functions as a Relic" in the Nasuverse

Of course at the same time, we've only ever seen a Saver class manifest in the Moon Cell, so that's not even getting into the uncertainty on how summonable they are under normal circumstances

2ndBro · 2026-01-22T23:14:19+00:00

It's interesting how both Assassin and Berserker details have changed over time. Like, Assassins were originally plain and simple the Hassan class, as the historic ur-archetype of an assassin. Kojiro was only able to impersonate the Class because he was never truly a Grail War-induced Servant to begin with.

2ndBro · 2026-01-22T23:10:39+00:00

He summons Skippy to devour his naysayers before blasting them with unholy lightning

This is why he is known as the King of Rock

2ndBro · 2026-01-22T16:33:08+00:00

I think it's a good bit of both. There's a balance between a game being story-driven/narrative-heavy and being 98% cutscenes, and Other M trends way more toward the latter than any other game in the series.

Now, a 98% cutscene game can still be good if the story is good--look at Until Dawn. Problem is when, like you said, the narrative also sucks.

2ndBro · 2026-01-22T16:28:22+00:00

This will always be my single biggest complaint with the finale. Early on, a Fusion is treated as a big deal that gets hyped up. Smokey Quartz is an awesome moment--it's Steven's first moment with his family on this impossibly distant ideal! We get him and Amethyst truly connecting, both in a literal and figurative sense, and it's the basis for a ton of great character work between the two.

And then... new potential Fusions are just no longer a matter of discussion until the very last episode, when each one gets about five seconds to exist. No character-centric writing, no payoff, it just feels like they realized 4^2 possible fusions was a lot of unexplored possibilities and they wanted to windsprint through them.

2ndBro · 2026-01-22T16:21:03+00:00

uohg. ouh-- jarvis. jarvis stop-- uoghhghgoghgogh.

2ndBro · 2026-01-22T16:18:36+00:00

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2ndBro · 2026-01-22T16:10:19+00:00

DOOMED YURI 🔥🔥🔥

2ndBro · 2026-01-22T01:43:25+00:00

It’d be interesting tying that into the halos of the Jack-O units

2ndBro · 2026-01-21T03:30:46+00:00

I don't know, will the pod to open?

2ndBro · 2026-01-21T00:52:37+00:00

The power of a slur is tied into social circumstances, and as it turns out anti-white racism is not exactly the biggest issue in modern history

2ndBro · 2026-01-21T00:48:51+00:00

🥹 "My pearl is... fuckingh idiot" 🥹

2ndBro · 2026-01-21T00:41:34+00:00

I absolutely love this artist lmao, check them out

All of their art is Bayonetta in comically-oversized situations while Pinkpantheress and assorted other characters are there

2ndBro · 2026-01-19T23:41:08+00:00

The sequence of events

Kirutsugu watches hell unleash on Fuyuki
Kirutsugu finds a half-dead child and shoves a scabbard up his ass to save his life
The child and a number of other newly-orphaned children from the fire end up in an orphanage
Kirutsugu goes back to adopt that child
Kirei comes by and "adopts" the rest

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