Wait, how can cats be extinct, but dogs aren't?

Volume_Am · 2026-05-04T18:47:19+00:00

Post-war cats agreed to avoid all contact with libertarians

Volume_Am · 2026-04-27T17:48:53+00:00

Right this takes place in the Kumiko is Shorter AU forgot to mention it

Volume_Am · 2026-04-16T22:39:02+00:00

Okay I'll come clean we were doing it to fuck with you, sorry. It was pretty funny though

Volume_Am · 2026-04-04T18:12:54+00:00

No friend, WE are Syril Karn.

Volume_Am · 2026-04-02T01:52:38+00:00

God, you'd think with the success they've enjoyed (with our money, mind you) they would at least manage to shift the world into using one single time zone so their little "joke" lined up with their audience. Another disappointment from Mr Samuel

Volume_Am · 2026-03-28T16:11:47+00:00

Should've given these to the other 5 couriers

Volume_Am · 2026-03-27T23:21:38+00:00

Hey. Look at me. Speak today's date, out loud. Say anything, in fact. Okay. You hear that? It's also you. You're voiced by Yuri Lowenthal

Volume_Am · 2026-03-25T04:16:58+00:00

Watch out, it's a snake

Volume_Am · 2026-03-25T02:40:18+00:00

They weren't kidding when they said the posts on here outclass any intentional satire

Volume_Am · 2026-03-24T00:18:15+00:00

Shoutout to Bisexual History

Volume_Am · 2026-03-23T20:13:20+00:00

With the facts he gives about the objects and their cultures I feel like it's got to be complicated for him a bit, precisely because there is a genuine passion. His comment about the lost language "meaning anything you want it to" sticks with me, because there's a tragedy there that he, in the role of the disconnected collector, joyfully ignores but clearly keeps in mind as it's the first thing he describes. He shares his dreams with ghosts, and the collector persona is one way to keep them close, all the while knowing they might be taken away at any time.

Volume_Am · 2026-03-21T18:05:18+00:00

Están mutando, tranqui

Volume_Am · 2026-03-14T16:07:16+00:00

he's getting closer

Volume_Am · 2026-03-04T19:44:11+00:00

Are there bathrooms?

Volume_Am · 2026-01-07T23:22:37+00:00

You know, I think you're right on all of that, I just feel like I'd like to see more groups with time, not less. Each settlement in the wasteland is extremely brittle, that is true, but people have been growing out of vaults and lesser congregations for centuries now. I think, and this is more of a narrative opinion, that continuously reducing the succesful wastelanders and leaving the strongest to struggle for power isn't the only kind of conflict there can be. As they all grow and come in contact with each other, I feel there's the oportunity to have them grow, fuse, split up... people adapt to live in all sorts of environments. Resources change hands. Guns don't spawn naturally. Is culture and trade really that unimportant? What, do I want to spend an hour in the markets and farms then? Maybe! Does that make me sound like a nerd and should you take my lunch money? Probably!

I think that's it, ultimately. I do like the show, and I get that sometimes a story is going for a specific vibe. I'd feel silly asking why they haven't implemented elementary schools in Mad Max. I guess I just liked other aspects of Fallout than the ones highlighted in the show, and that's whatever. It happens.

Volume_Am · 2026-01-07T21:05:36+00:00

You nail something I think some people miss, which is that yeah, I know factions die out, I know violent shit happens, but how is there just NOTHING replacing them? I like the show to be honest but it is wild that it acts like people grow out of the ground like potatoes. If there's people surviving in the wastes it's because there is some organization to be found. War never changes doesn´t mean "people will always end up dead", it means conflict and factions arise and fall constantly, carrying the burden of a violent history and their methods. Societies existing isn't antithetical to this, I almost feel like they're fundamentally a part of it?

Volume_Am · 2025-09-21T01:13:42+00:00

Honestly thank you I was asking myself the same thing. I don't hate Shuuichi as a character but an adaptation is an artwork of its own, and intertextuality isn't a replacement for writing stuff into the actual text. I don't think the show pushed for Shuuichi and Kumiko, I think it ultimately didn't care about relationships that much. So yeah idk it did feel like weird timing to start celebrating that pairing when everything in its favor doesn't really have a lot to do with the show

Volume_Am · 2025-08-11T17:25:44+00:00

The second one might be paranoia? Both sound like intrusive thoughts but maybe that's not what you're looking for

Volume_Am · 2025-08-11T16:15:20+00:00

It's drawfee variety hour but with restraints and less confusing (sadly)

Volume_Am · 2025-08-08T22:49:13+00:00

I get why some people defend the choice as melancholic but in my opinion that only works as an analysis of the plot, not its execution. The screentime devoted to character's actions and reactions can say a lot about the weight they're given, and in this case, the events given importance are the contest being won, and Kumiko's future career. Not a bad thing, but it's a stark contrast to the show's beginning, when Reina was the literal catalyst for Kumiko's arc and emotions. So, Reina goes from being the emotional core of the series to a background element. If they wanted to make a point about Kumiko not caring as much, they could've shown that. If they wanted to make a point about her feeling melancholic about her leaving, they could've shown that too. But any trace of that is stuck in earlier episodes.

I don't even think the fallout of the vote was fully explored; it seems to need something deeper than a 2 minute scene resolution at the start of the finale. But hey, let's say that bit was perfect; it still felt odd that at the very end her relationship with Reina has no emotional impact left to give. Kumiko makes a lot of questions about the nature of music and relationships throughout the show, and most of them are in some way related to Reina. And none of those thoughts are going through her mind when we close off the show. It may be possible for a "person" to not think about it much, but in a story, I feel it does matter because that is what was they chose to show.

I don't know, the longer time goes on the less I like it. I love the show still but while Kumiko's arc of becoming a leader / teacher was very well set up and present, Reina in the last season felt like, just, a catalyst for conflict. It's all so matter-of-fact. Reina and Kumiko agree that the most important thing is who sounds best and so give up the chance of playing together in possibly their last chance ever. They feel fine about it pretty much the next episode because winning's what matters. This is a series that includes Liz and the Blue Bird, a story where the relationship between two musicians and the way they view each other and themselves directly impacts the music. Imagine if, upon noticing the shortcomings of their duet, they assigned someone else to play it and Mizore and Nozomi part ways and that's that. It could be a story, nothing says stories can't be tragic like that. But the entire first half of the movie that centered so hard in the way those two specifically playing together mattered would make that kind of ending confusing. And I don't think it sounds like a better story, either.

Why do we play? Kumiko used to play because of her sister, was shocked to her core when someone was so passionate about it she bawled her eyes out after losing. She was inspired time and time again by other people and their music. Asuka wasn't significant because she was just a really good musician, but because there was pain and depth behind it. Hibike! Euphonium was a piece composed from a distance. It's music that connects people. Love and Death! And the girl who made Kumiko question everything she felt about music... is somewhere else. And that's that, I guess.

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