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Me, imagining a scene in my head: beautiful poetic prose that gracefully and artfully describes the scene in vivid detail, giving the reader concise imagery and beautiful wordplay to ruminate on.

Me, actually writing: The angry man throwed his chair through the window angrily and bigly. "I'm angry and pissed off." He said because he was mad.

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pokeani fans: man dub watchers are really missing out with xy, the sub has such good music and voice acting

me on the outside: yeah definitely…. music… voice acting… definitely the biggest thing they’re missing out on….

me inside: CHA CHA CHA

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José Altuve hits a walk-off, two-run home run in the bottom of the 9th to send the Astros to the World Series - October 19, 2019

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man i don't know who made this or where it came from but i am OBSESSED

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@anbu-legacy

Thoughts on Welcome Home, Losers

What’s up it’s been forever and a day since I’ve commented on a thread! I was very busy with applying to law school/job/preparing for law school and got way behind. I’ve (mostly) caught up though (: I missed doing these.

Good to see Domen Saburo recovered! 

That Kakashi & Raidou talk was excellent. I’ve been very frustrated with Kakashi in the recent threads (actually, since the Tanuki mission. Granted, the most recent threads I have read at 2 A.M. while expressing sleepy noises of pleasure, affront, or disbelief), but this one made me more sympathetic towards him. I think Raidou is in the right here - staging that suicide was unequivocally the wrong call - but Kakashi makes good points about him, too. I’m only halfway through a re-read (up to the performance evaluations - are there more coming soon?), but the only time he’s really worked with Kakashi is on the first mission when they sparred. Still don’t think Kakashi is at all ready for command track, but there’s seven months to go in Team Six’s first year. 

Speaking of my Kakashi frustrations, while I found their interactions in this thread sweet, my main feeling about the Kakashi/Ryouma relationship right now is apprehension and an impending sense of doom. Ryouma’s done relationships before but none this serious; Kakashi hasn’t done anything at all, and they’re both emotional fuckups in different ways. I’m glad they have each other to hold onto, but it fucked up the last mission (I found Ryouma’s motives more sympathetic than Kakashi’s re: the staged suicide) and it could potentially fuck up Team Six’s future as well. Either that or one of them does something to cause an explosion and then Team Six is also fucked, just in a different way. I hope they prove me wrong but I also love bad feelings.

It might make a bit hypocritical to go all heart-eyes about Genma & Raidou after that screed, but they’re far more emotional stable, have better coping mechanisms and have been in actual relationships before. With that said, I hope they get back to Genma’s apartment and there is ill-advised kissing or perhaps just pining before Raidou’s Boundaries™ re-assert themselves. Slow burn is best burn.  I’m in awe at all the medical information y’all have packed in there - that must have been hours upon hours of research. No wonder writing threads takes so long. How many squabbles over details were there? Also - I’ve always loved Legacy’s imagery. My favorites this thread were “Genma, tethered in his chair, looked up at them like a dog watching someone else eat ribs.” and Kakashi’s little plant corner. (I looked up the flower language meanings of sunflower & lavender in case y’all tried to sneak some foreshadowing in there, but all I got was aww. Devotion, virtue, and adoration. Sweet.)  

NOW BLOOD. I have my own theory about the clotting factors (though I need to re-read the tanuki mission because it could hinge on some stuff from there). I can see the kids missing a clotting issue when they healed Genma, but Himself not so much. I wonder if it’s something to do with the warped chakra that Iebara and Ryouma had/have. (And in that case, they ought to test Kakashi’s levels too since he used Iebara’s jutsu.) Apparently Ryouma’s reverts itself, so maybe the rot jutsu has slowly fucked with his clotting factor but not enough for anyone to notice? I can’t see Ki depriving Ryouma of his rot jutsu forever, but I can see it being used as a plot device for Ryouma to develop a sense of himself outside them.  Part of this might be me wanting that warped chakra sense to Be Something, since it’s been stuck in my head since that mission, but we’ll see! Thank y’all for writing Legacy, as always!  

typos (?) 

and  stockpiles of instant ramen - extra space here “You still don’t get to take all the blame, Rookie.”  - I know titles normally get capitalized, but I don’t see why rookie would.  Re: comma usage - A lot of the ones I see seem unnecessary. Not like I have any room to judge on excessive commas, though. “The danger is kidney injury from the protein accumulating as its filtered, so this is to flush it through - it’s Raidou was right, if it hadn’t killed him in three months, then it probably wasn’t going to, even if the numbers he’d seen on that report were hardly reassuring. - comma splice in the beginning here

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Russian illustrator, Alexander Koshkin (b. 1952).

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on neopets.com there is a yearly event for their neopets sport and there are teams for all their neopets nations and they have neopet players on each team that have names and personalities and sometimes are traded between the neopet sports teams and i’ve been playing for the same team since 2006 and this is the closest i will ever come to understanding why people care about baseball

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intsys said glow up time

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@commentyourcode

me every 5 secs; but did u kno that my team is perfect 

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NEWPOLLO

I love them so fucking much, last issue was amazing

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AAAAHHHH!!

“… At that time, if only I had noticed sooner. I’m sure more would’ve been saved.”

“Hawk King on heated wings”

Gimme!!!!

@barrisokas Look!

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Tyler’s expressions during Velveteen’s dis are truly epic. I’m especially fond of the scrunched-Muppet face he pulls in the second gif.

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James Flint in every episode: XXXVIII.  This is how they survive. You must know this. You’re too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows, and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn’t true. We can prove that it isn’t true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it. And who has been so close to doing it as we are right now?

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this scene deserves an award

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