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Crowley:

Also Crowley:

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“Moon Tiara Action!”

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@giftober 2024 | Day 7: helping

I can't afford that! Then get a roommate. You look like you could use some company.

Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story, Episode 1 “The Local Legend” [x]

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The Apothecary Diaries + text posts and stuff

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DISCO HUSBANDS My part in an amazing project Ineffable Histories!

Aziraphale and Crowley’s history through fashion ✨ Many amazing artists there GO CHECK IT OUT!!!! SEE FOR YOURSELF ALL THOSE STUNNING LOOKS!!! HERE ON AO3!

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Personality test

Everyone let's try! If you enjoyed, I'd be glad if you let me know which character was your type. As for me, I tried twice and the 1st was Concubine Lihua, and the 2nd, Concubine Gyokuyou. I wish I would be a person like Xiaolan, if possible...

Please see my translation if you don't understand the texts.

Regarding the result, please see following;

Maomao / 猫猫

あなたは達観しつつも、周囲を全力で助けられる優しさを持っています。

You have a philosophical perspective, but also a kind heart that allows you to do your best to help those around you.

Concubine Gyokuyou / 玉葉妃

あなたは明るく穏やかでありながら、聡明で気丈に振る舞う強さを持っています。

You are cheerful and calm, yet you are also wise and have the strength to act strong-willed.

Concubine Lihua / 梨花妃

あなたは気品や自尊心がありながらも、高慢ではなく恩を大切にしています。

You have grace and self-respect, but you are not arrogant and always be grateful for the kindness which you received from others.

Jinshi / 壬氏

あなたは万能っぽさが周囲に買われている一方、子供っぽさが垣間見える時もあります。

Although you seem versatile and are admired by those around you, you also sometimes show a glimpse of childishness.

Concubine Lishu / 里樹妃

あなたは感情がすぐ顔に出てしまいますが、ひたむきに頑張る姿が魅力的です。

Your emotions are easily shown on your face, but your single-minded dedication to your work is very attractive.

Concubine Loulan / 楼蘭妃

あなたは何を考えているのか想像できない謎めいた雰囲気で人を惹きつけます。

You attract people with an air of mystery that makes them wonder what you are thinking.

Quack Doctor / やぶ医者

あなたは頼��甲斐はないが人当たりが良く、��ち解けると一緒にいて楽しいです。

You may not be reliable, but you are friendly and fun to be around once you open up to them.

Xiaolan / 小蘭

あなたは天真爛漫な性格で向上心を持っており、周囲はつい応援してしまいます。

You have a cheerful personality and a strong desire to improve yourself, which makes those around you want to support you.

Gaoshun / 高順

あなたは気が利き周囲からの信頼が厚い一方、それが故に振り回される苦労人です。

You are thoughtful and trusted by those around you, but because of that you are a hard worker who is tossed around by others.

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The thing that makes Yor Forger an amazingly written female character isn't that she has strengths and weaknesses. It's that her strengths and weaknesses are complex, varied, and just so human. Like I feel like people think that to write a "girl boss empowerment" character, she needs to be great at everything or that she needs to be one thing or the other. Like she has to either be strong and smart or gentle and motherly.

Meanwhile, there's Yor. She actively struggles to assist her first grader with homework and can't cook, yet she is incredibly knowledgeable about biology because of her side gig and can make one heck of a stew. She can perform inhuman feats of strength and parkour her way across a city, yet she's a total lightweight and loses almost all her coordination when drunk. Speaking of being lightweight, despite that, she is immune to many poisons. She can't handle more than a glass and a half of chardonnay, but pufferfish poison feels like nothing more than advil to her. She struggles to socialize and sees herself as a poor candidate to be a mother, yet she is the only member of her family actually getting close to Twilight's target because of her kindness. Also, while Twilight/Loid can look and act like a picture-perfect father, it's Yor that actually knows how to raise a child and how to talk to children. Without her, Loid would be screwed.

Yor, despite being a paid killer, is the humanity of her family. Anya is a child who, even with the ability to read minds, knows so little of the world, Loid is a spy who prides himself on his ability to disguise himself among civilians but hasn't actually known what it's like to be one since he was a child, and Bond is a dog, a future seeing dog, but still a dog. Yor for all her social awkwardness is what truly sells the Forger family. With any other woman, the Forgers wouldn't work because there would always be a strange sense of uncanny valley around them. Too perfect father, a child who knows everything but understands nothing. It's only Yor that makes it all click. A slightly ditzy yet weirdly ominous maternal figure.

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「 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal 」

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January 6th is Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn’s Birthday!

So how can you celebrate?

♄ Rewatch or reread your favourite Saturn-centric chapter, episode, or musical! She is a key character in most of Sailor Moon S, so why not rewatch the series finale? For a more light-hearted one-off, try episode 117, where she is encouraged to deliver a love letter to an athlete she admires, or episode 118, where a Daimon turns her house into a living board game and she must save the Sailor Soldiers to fix it. In episode 112 she meets Chibi-Usa for the first time, their friendship being core to the latter half of the S season, especially in episode 115. She’s also key in the beginning of the fifth season, Sailor Stars, and episodes 168-169 detail how she came to live with the other Outer System Soldiers.

♄ Sailor Saturn is the only main character not to receive an image song in the classic anime or Crystal. However, she has two key songs in the original Musicals - TO A BRAND NEW WORLD and THE WORLD DIED OUT - and a duet with Chibi-Usa in Un Nouveau Voyage, Chiisa na Kagayaki [“A Small Glimmer"]. There are also several instrumental BGM tracks dedicated to her, including her theme from the S OST.

Here’s a playlist of all these songs and other Sailor Saturn BGM cues, plus original songs by her voice actress Yuko Minaguchi!

♄ Enjoy Hotaru’s favourite food - buckwheat noodles, or soba, which can be prepared hot or cold. Alternatively, her least favourite food is milk if you’d like to abstain for a day.

♄ Hotaru collects lamps and prefers low, mood lighting, much like her name (firefly) might suggest. Relax and meditate in a room lit only with decorative lamps and/or candles and engage in Hotaru’s other hobby, reading - but don’t strain your eyes!

♄ Dress like Hotaru for the day! Hotaru famously wears very dark colours, especially black, sometimes navy and green, and trends to monochromatic outfits with a pop of accenting colour like red or gold. She prefers to keep the majority of her body covered (particularly because, in the manga and Crystal, she has scars covering much of her body) and prioritises keeping warm. Her style is generally neat, timeless and occasionally veering into “preppy”. Iconic accessories include her knit shawl tied with a rose brooch, fully opaque tights, and a berry beret. She also keeps on her person the Taioron Crystal pendant given to her by her mother, so more abstractly, you could wear something given to you or passed down to you by a family member.

After being reborn as a child after the events of S, however, she shows a preference for brighter, happier colours! Naoko even invisioned baby-Hotaru as being something of a little fashionista, so today is the perfect excuse to blend poppy childhood throwbacks with a touch of adult style.

Alternatively, as Sailor Saturn, she has quite a few iconic accessories. Her unique sleeves are shaped like flower petals, and her brooch is a many-faceted crystal star. Her earrings are crystal drop pendants attached to small silver ringed planets, and she wears the gothic purple lace-up knee-highs of everyone’s middle school dreams don’t even pretend like she didn’t dictate your early-2000s “emo” fashion choices. She doesn’t seem to wear makeup, but her “transformation” from Sailor Moon: Various Emotion for the (amusingly) Sega Saturn implied she wore white/silver/nude nail polish. Saturn’s colour palette is purple and maroon with a silver accent.

♄ Hotaru lives with chronic pain as a result of the lab accident which almost took her life as a child. Though the cybernetic components in her body are fantastical, their impact on her life are very much not. Hotaru often finds it difficult to keep up with others due to fatigue and limited mobility, and on days with bad flare ups can barely get out of bed, making it hard for her to maintain friendships - a very real issue people with chronic pain deal with every day. If one of your friends, family members, or someone you know is dealing with chronic pain or illness, or another invisible disability, take the time to reach out to them and let them know that you’re there for them, whenever they have the time and strength, on their terms. Flexibility and support makes more difference than you know. Just make sure to respect their limits and privacy, too.

♄ Write a letter to someone you admire! It can be nerve-wracking summing up the courage to put your thoughts into words, especially if you deliver it to the person yourself, but it always means so much more when you do, as Hotaru learned when she got to meet her track-and-field role model. Write it on paper and send it via snail-mail, or take advantage of the many digital avenues to send someone some fan mail! (Just don’t use Tumblr’s actual fanmail function. Nobody likes that thing.)

♄ Go for a picnic with some friends to enjoy nature and fresh air! It’s good for the mind, heart, and body!

♄ Revert to baby mode and get adopted by a throuple!

♄ Fav and read some Sailor Saturn fanart and fanfic on sites like Pixiv, Twitter, and AO3 - or contribute your own new content! Don’t forget to tag!

Feel free to reply and reblog with your own ideas of how you’re going to celebrate Hotaru’s day!

Happy Birthday, Hotaru!

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new scenes from The Apothecary Diaries S2 Final PV

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OH SHIT WAS SHE EXPERIMENTED THEN SHE THOUGHT THE ONE WHO ABDUCTED HER WERE ALIENS!?

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Relatively short new chapter today, but still a lot to unpack! While we didn't get a ton of Melinda lore yet, as the majority of the chapter was Loid saying things to try and win her over, I found it interesting to see insight into one of his "fake" therapy sessions.

As usual with all the conversations he has with people in his "Loid Forger" persona, if the topic gets heavy, he'll end up saying things that are, what I believe, what he truly feels. This is usually preceded by him dropping the forced smile and showing a glimpse of a more thoughtful expression, for example, in the below panel when Melinda comments on how strong and "lively" she thinks Loid and Yor are. He then goes on to tell her that there's no crime or shame in not being strong enough.

While it is debatable whether he's being genuine here or not, I can't help but be reminded of similar conversations he's had with Yor in the past...way back in chapter 14 where he told her how tiring it can be to put up a facade all the time. And then much later in chapter 86 where she tells him, in her own way, that he doesn't have to be strong and "perfect" all the time.

I'm probably reading too much into it, but it's just something that came to mind 😅 But on the topic of Melinda saying they're "lively," the word she uses in the Japanese version in 健全な ("kanzenna") which is more like "healthy, sound, stable, etc" (the first kanji is "healthy/strong," and the second is "whole/all.") So yeah, a slightly different nuance than "lively."

I also smiled when I saw that Loid still calls Yor "Yor-san" in his thoughts ❤��

It wouldn't be a SxF chapter with at least a subtle hint at something "darker" going on or has gone on...in this case, we hear a bit of Melinda's thoughts about the post-war time.

But the big shocker was obviously the final page where she claims that Donovan is an alien. I checked the Japanese version to make sure, and she does indeed use the term 宇宙人 ("uchuujin"), which is "alien" in the traditional sense.

Upcoming plot twist...this previous Endo art for short mission 10 will turn out to be canon 🤣

Joking aside, I don't think that Donovan is literally an alien, as mixing a truly sci-fi element like that into the world of SxF would be too jarring. So probably something that Donovan has done made Melinda come to that conclusion. As for what it is about him that that would make her think this is debatable - his involvement in science experiments/Project Apple? If he actually has the ability to read minds, is this the explanation she's come up? Or maybe he wants her to think this for some reason? There's also a theory that she doesn't actually believe he's an alien and is only saying it to test Loid in some way. Whatever the reason is, we'll have to wait until next time for more answers!

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SxF CH 109 SPOILER ALERT

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Yor really scared Melinda when she told her about Loid's "shock therapy" and for sure she thought he would use it with her too.

Look at her,she was ready to fight back.

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