Damn I Needed This RN

I love this take! I do feel that in his defense he only picks up the gambling as a schtick AFTER becoming involved with a mystical force that can demonstrably affect chance outcomes.

I like the idea of combining the two ideas; he learned there was a way to lean on the odds and he ain't too proud to try it.

It will never cease to hurt me that his whole gimmick is gambling and luck when his father's gambling issues are (one of) the very thing(s) that delt him a shitty hand in life. For fucks sake, Jou pays his own tuition (highschool in Japan is neither required nor free. It's mentioned that he is trying hard HARD to turn things around by getting into domino high in the manga.)

I can't even blame him for trying to fix things with luck and gambling, it's all he was taught by his old man after all. Ahh talk to me about this I have so many thoughts about Jou. He deserves better.

A master class in Menace. It's so light and lovely, but we KNOW...

After several train changes, Moriarty chasing them on his own personal train (??) and a boat ride, they arrive in Brussels to news:

THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 3 of many - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - bits from the next part of the chapter - the canonical moment where Holmes accidentally refers to Baker Street as "our rooms" and then corrects himself will haunt me forever.

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

Bonus points if the original wife was incidental enough (one line about a marriage added to a treaty, Airplane dropped the plot thread, etc.) that Bingge doesn't know this is OOC.

Just sitting there thinking 'my own kind shizun was here all along, languishing unappreciated because of my unceasing voracious ambition, what have I done?! I have to make this right!'

Meanwhile Shen Yaun was just chilling and helping out. Thinks it's neat to finally meet the protagonist but he'll probably forget wife #whatever immediately. 'Oh well back to my books...'

Bingge has been running himself ragged for MONTHS looking for HIS 'nice Shizun'.

What he doesn't know is that Shen Yuan transmigrated into wife #216 (the one from the sexy slime chapter...) the same night he came back and have been living his best life in the palace's library every day. He's been 'giving' his night with Bingge to the harem member who managed to sneak him in a 'Flower of Transing your Gender'.

It's kind of uncomfortable to wear a woman's clothes when he's just a totally normal straight guy, but he's FINE!! He's low enough on the totem pole that he is ignored for most of the harem drama and since he's a DUDE now he isn't pulled into any wife plots! Now he gets to study all the monsters he could ever want! Plus, just occasionally glimpsing the 'best wives' like Liu Mingyan, Sha Hauling, and Ningying is pretty cool, too!

Things are going GREAT until he passes by an upper courtyard one morning and finds a Beauty Devouring Harpy-Lizard has three wives cornered and is about to eat them! Oh no! Well, this is probably a wife plot, so Bingge will come any moment now to save them....

any moment now....

any moment....

...

WHERE is he???

Shen Yuan uses his new Beast Knowledge and his stolen body's mild cultivation to tame the lizard. Turns out it's just a juvenile and they can wean it off eating pretty women if they feed it enough regular meat! Now Shen Yuan has three women in his corner, too! They can help keep him off Bingge's radar while he stays in the palace!

Except... well... it keeps happening.

Beasts attack when Shen Yuan is nearby. Bingge doesn't show up. And then Shen Yuan has to deal with it! He's forming his own harem inside of the harem and he doesn't WANT that!!! Bingge will kill him!!!

It all comes to a head when one of the IMPORTANT wives, Ningying, is cornered by a Ravenous Rainbow Gem Tiger! Even using all of his cunning and smarts, Shen Yuan isn't sure he's going to make it! He manages to get Ningying out of there, but he's on the back ropes...

Then Bingge shows up just in time to save the day.

Oh and he looks BAD. Hair unkept, bags under his eyes, like he hadn't been eating; even with Airplane's shitty Cultivation rules the protagonist shouldn't look like this! Shen Yuan INSTANTLY starts fretting over him. Bingge doesn't seem that impressed, probably used to it by now and thinking that this is just gunna lead to The Usual Business. But he gets this little nagging feeling when Shen Yuan invites himself back to his chambers. Shen Yuan bullies him into bathing, brushes out his hair, makes him eat something, and gets him tucked all nicely into bed. And without a hint of papapa in sight!

In fact, Shen Yuan just... pats Bingge on the head and makes him promise he'll sleep and then leaves.

Bingge staring at the ceiling of his bed, taken care of, no sex expected... squints and has his 'wait a fucking minute' moment.

Oh my Godddd. The US Army chorus was told to perform at the White House for Trump and his cronies and they chose to perform One Day More from Les Miserables. What a gutsy move. A giant middle finger to authoritarianism right in front of Trump's face. Good for them.

To every member of the military and every civil servant fighting in big ways and small, public and private, to protect the Constitution and uphold the oaths you swore, thank you for your service. We see you and we love you. We're counting on you and we're all behind you 100%. Hold the line.

This made me actually tear up and feel a little hopeful. Everyone, no matter who they are needs to do their part. The Fascists are dangerous but they are few. Together we can all defeat them and keep the freedoms so many have fought so hard for.

Also I am living for these comments!

The first one was a trap! This Side of Paradise is actually about avoiding groupthink and complacency. And also letting Leonard Nimoy actually have fun acting for once.

Star Trek TOS: Don’t do drugs. Here’s the episode witch alludes to use of drugs to escape reality.

Also Star Trek TOS: To survive this we need to get high… The whole ship crew actually needs to get high. And we sure going to have so much fun with it…

I always found Molten Man amusing for how quickly he speedran his descent into villiany. Especially since he's not a criminal beforehand, just sort of a jerk. Normal Dingus to Straight-Up Supervillain in, at most, 15 seconds. Dude's face heel turn was a pirouette.

There are two kinds of people when they get superpowers... Amazing Spiderman 28

Narumitsu week Days 2 and 3: Truth and Free day

EDIT: just found out from a comment that this is bad art conservation practice :(

Thanks @moripartylove for setting me straight

I always smile when I see these types of videos, especially because of where they start. When lifting the veil of time, where to begin? The corner? The exact middle? No, the faces. Show us the smiles, the blush, the eyes. Pull back the shades on a soul-window hundreds of years distant.

It also takes art to restore old paintings that look like scabs...

He does eventually get over it, and I feel like the bigger problem is she has zero powers to fight a literal superhero with and will hurt himself trying...but yeah it's not great.

(And liguistic drift's a real bitch sometimes XD)

Pete, I get it. Princess Python is VERY attractive but she's also a hardened criminal you can punch her, its fine. Amazing Spiderman 22

To be fair, in her universe 'deceased' basically means 'temporarily unavailable.'

This panel is awesome because not only is it one of the like… 2 references we get to JPV post his Azrael #100 death that show anyone else has noted in any way that the guy kicked the bucket

But it’s also like, comically redundant to write a big red “deceased” label over his head instead of Babs just… removing him from her active back up roster.

Birds of Prey #56 (1999)