I was waiting for the night bus at 1am the other night, eating fries, when a dude, high as fuck, tried to harass me. It took several “I don’t want to talk to you, please go away” for him to finally move, but I think it helped that another man was giving him the death stare and clicking his tongue at him. He then checked I was okay and whether I knew the guy or not. Good dude.
Shout out also the man who silently switched places with me on another night bus to be a buffer between me and a guy who had threatened me. Thank you
Men: this here? This here is what you need to be doing as allies. The men who harass and insult women are not likely to take our complaints about it seriously. But you, another man, they will listen to.
I was pumping gas at like 10 PM one night, and these bunch of drunk guys came walking up to the gas station, and one of them yelled over to me if I wanted to see his dick. His friend says to him, “You don’t have anything she wants to see.” and apologized. It was pretty awesome.
this is all we want from men. to recognize the wrongs done by other men, and acknowledge it. not give us shitass defense like, “not all men do that”
Like wobbly clockwork, a gnome knocks on a cave dwarf’s door.
The dwarf grumpily growls “Go away!” but begins setting two places at the table as the gnome has already come in and is on his fourth sentence about the stones know what.
i love how in FL cannibalism is for the most part only hinted at like ‘ohhh they have such ‘’’’’terrible table manners’’’’’’’’ if you know what i mean’ and the player character has to put in a good bit of effort to even interact with cannibals, much less eat human flesh.
and then in sunless sea its like ‘whoops im out of supplies better eat my crew haha’
listen i don’t know anything about Fallen London but you abbreviating it to FL made me think this was something happening in Florida and as someone who lives in Florida, i was prepared to believe it
Tbf, in Fallen London, you’re interacting with Proper Society and/or those who like to pretend they’re Proper Society. Not always nobility, but people of good breeding, certainly.
And Proper Society doesn’t hold with cannibalism, it’s taboo for a reason. So for the people who do that sort of thing, you’ve got to hint at it and carefully tiptoe your way around it to avoid getting ostracized.
Whereas in Sunless Sea, you’re among zailors who are certainly not going to be thrilled that you resorted to cannibalism, but they’ll understand it. Because hey, who hasn’t ended up off-course and out of supplies, with a couple crewmates that everyone will swear died to zea monsters? It happens.
Osamu Tezuka, (most notebly known for the creation of Astro Boy, Black Jack, Kimba the White Lion, and Metropolis) was commissioned by Sanrio (the company behind Hello Kitty) in the late 70’s to create a new character to brand and merchandise. What followed though was not merely an iconically lovable character; but also two manga volumes, two movies, and a pilot of one of the darkest franchises of children’s media even to this day.
Unico is a baby unicorn with the amazing power to make people he loves happy, as long as they love him back. His nature is incredibly kind and naive, and deep within his core he wishes to make friends and not be alone.
Eventually this causes the gods (aphrodite in he manga) to grow jealous of his powers, saying only they should have the ability to make people happy. So they call to the West Wind and demand her to kidnap Unico and abandon him on the Hill of Oblivion, where he’ll be alone forever.
The West Wind pities for Unico, and so she disobeys her orders, and takes Unico to some far away land where she hopes he’ll never be found. It’s only after Unico uses his powers to make soneone happy, that the Gods can spot his location, and cause the West Wind to take him to somewhere else. Each time she wipes Unico’s memories of his previous friends in order to releive him of the pain of leaving.
This is what sets up the facinating episodic nature of Unico. The chapters of the manga specifically were made to be read out of order, since each one Unico meets an entirely new cast of likable characters. It enables flexibility and total creative control. And it works.
The characters Unico meets throughout his journey are all encredibly likable, with there own motivation and goals. Usually, it’s only by meeting Unico can they’re able to develop. It teaches alot of good lessons about loving others nad being kind.
But don’t let the cutesy stuff trick you. Unico is DARK. Especially considering it was for children in the 70’s
In the first movie, The Fantastic Adventures of Unico, one of Unico’s friends who was just turned into a human, was tricked by this demon lord into following him home, and drinking lots of alchohal until she passes out, when some sexual violent implications are given
Don’t worry though, he doesn’t actually get to do what he was intending, and Unico kicks his butt too
Though the first movie remains faithful too the source material, the second movie, Unico and the Island of Magic, is my personal favorite. The villain is this really cool concept that some what paralells Unico’s development, snd becuase we stay with the same cast of characters throughout the story it really gives thes ideas the chance they need to blossom.
All in all- Unico is a really fantastic and surreal adventure about love and friendship! It may be for children, but it really is a great story. I reccomend it for everyone!
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