Episode 3 Thoughts: 

How much nail polish would you need tho? Cuss I feel like time could be fixed with just forcing enlisting people to help but like it would take so much money to buy enough or effort to steal enough polish to fit the cows hooves

I want hatter to have a cow. I want him to treat the cow like it’s his child. Like it’s a gift from the gods. I want him to find the best bell collar, decorate the ears with ribbons. Omfg imagine him like painting the hooves to match his own nail polish.

Oh and it most definitely sleeps in his bed and he sleep in a hammock hanging above him

random head cannons I have that mean nothing in cannon  Arisu is a furry and his fursona is a wolf hybrid thing. idfk I'm not a furry  Kuina was a discord kitten and got so much money of that shit.  Chishiya only writes using quills and ink because he feels fancy as fuck using them and they also make fantastic weapons  you know how in like 2015 (?) monster was like the chad drink that all assholes chugged like it was water? yeah honestly I see Karube being that person with like a can, a monster shirt, shoes custom designed for monster like the shebang.  chouta can recite any Shakespeare play of the top of his head. he has no recollection of when he learnt them let alone ever had a reason to learn them but he can do it.  Usagi slammed her hand in a car door once and had her entire right hand nails essentially fall off as a child  Last boss was that one kid who when the got braces thought “ahhh getting reds gonna be rad” and then had to walk around for like 3 months looking like his gums had been stabbed my something metal and were now bleeding constantly 

Not enough praise is given to the actual animation during the seige of the north. The way once aang merges with the water spirit the only colour we see is the RED/ black water of the oasis (like the blood from Tui has stilled tainted it) and the water aang/La is pooling through the city.

The way all light just vanishes once Tui is killed. But also how fire bending forces light back into the world for just those few moments. It really brings in the theme of equality and fluidity in the boundaries of elements cuss both the moon/water tribe and the sun/fire nation in that moment are shown as bringers of light. Idk I think it’s just a really neat trick.

Another part is how only yues eyes are coloured in. Eyes are the windows into the soul/spirit blah blah blah she’s the moon spirit blah blah blah it’s a really cute detail.

Idk sometimes I feel like because it’s animation it’s very easy for some people to just…overlook the story telling aspects of it. Because it’s less detailed then a live action piece but I mean that’s just incorrect. The animation and the way they almost continuously use motion and fluidity in scenes (eg. People’s hair blowing in the wind, fire of water moving in the background, random side characters having lives outside the main narative) This then means that when still shots are used it’s all the more impactful. They rarely just do a still image with the screen ‘moving’ across like a lot of anime’s do UNLESS its a landscape/building their showing off. even then theres often something moving.

I tend to give a lot of (joking) criticism to season 1 for its weaker animation compared to the other seasons (I assume due to budget plus the animators becoming more accustomed to the style later on). But there are some moments that are just…breath taking. The care put into this series at all levels is something I don’t think I appreciate enough which sucks.

Is hatter a himbo? He feels like a himbo

I've been thinking about seer powers and just what it all includes cuss the show kinda died before we could properly learn. Obviously Ethan can see the future, and I think the past? But what else, what more is there?

In fiction and older mythologys 'seer's or other prophetic people normally invoke a god of some kind so I think it would be intresting if Ethan found a spirit of a god from the old religion. I'm not saying he becomes religious, more aware of supernatrual forces that we might perceive as gods. I think the forces he'd most likely worship are 'life' 'death' and 'nature'. Obvious and a bit lame I know, but life and death are a cycle and are essentially the withered the past and the ever growing future. With nature, its a mixture of the two and connects him to his friends.

Another thing is (at least in western mythologys) A LOT of phrophetic people end up having problems with their eyes, either becoming blind or loosing them. It's obvious Irony, but I do think it would be intresting that Ethans normal vision changes the longer he's awakened his powers. Maybe its to the extent of needing glasses and eventually going fully blind, although I think a more intresting take would be for Ethan to be more aware of supernatrual elements with either a 'aura' arround non-humans and magic artifacts. Another option would be to see 'fate striken objects' or things like the red strings of fate. Just small bits of the future that he KNOWS exist and he can't change, but play no obvious goal to himself.

The more he uses his visions the stronger they can get. Things like being able to walk arround them, letting them stay for longer, maybe even hearing peoples thoughts whilst in the vision. I think an intresting idea would be that he could 'retrigger' a vision if he really forces it, but it leaves him with a migrane as it takes a lot of mental energy. Maybe even physical. The gang starts carrying sweets on them so he can atleast get a small sugar rush so that he doesn't collapse or get to shakey.

One last thing that I think would be sick, though holds no purpose to his powers, is whilst he's dreaming he has 'visions'. BUT these visions arn't always focused on him or his life. Sometimes they arn't even happening during his life time. This leads to him writing multiple note books of his preminitions like Nostradamus or the good omens Agnes Nutter. He predicts all sorts of things and eventually his books become marveled for their 99% accuracy. I think it would be cool to see a reverse of this where he has flashback visisons and he's in history class and the teachers all "and we will never know what Agatha Christie did for those 11 days she vanished" and he has to physicall fight the urge to shout that HE knows because HE saw her in his dreams. His history essays are always exciting to read because he pulls a LOT of facts outa his arse by accident.

December festivities call for a new blog header! Here's a longer look at the pixel gang's Christmas outfits

I just realised McDonalds wont be like a thing in borderland cuss obviously everyone's like gone. How am I meant to fulfil my brain for its need to picture Arisu surrounded by a mcflurry, a bunch of napkins, a large drink and a box of 20 chicken nuggets that he's frantically shoving in his mouth as his sobs whilst watching mlp now??? 

Thinking about how being trans and one of the first people in borderland must have been great. You no longer gotta pay for t-shots or any of that shit just steal them.

Anyway Karube definitely went and stole like soooooooo much t for Arisu arfter they’d been there for awhile.

JUNE 30TH

blah blah blah greek mythology blah blah when we imply Grian is the sun we indirectly imply that Scar is icarus in 3rd life. "oh but Sirius that makes no sense" hush now. it does.