#[ tg ;re: part two ]

[tamayokny]

sui ishida sure loves to give his adolescent characters devastating backstories and endings

[labuenosairesfrancaise]

Wollaton Hall, Nottingham

Hi guys!!

I'm sharing Wollaton Hall. This is the 7th building for my English Manors Collection, and I will add many more!

House History: Wollaton Hall was built between 1580 and 1588 for Sir Francis Willoughby and is believed to be designed by the Elizabethan architect, Robert Smythson, who had by then completed Longleat, and was to go on to design Hardwick Hall. The general plan of Wollaton is comparable to these, and was widely adopted for other houses, but the exuberant decoration of Wollaton is distinctive, and it is possible that Willoughby played some part in creating it. The style is an advanced Elizabethan with early Jacobean elements.

Wollaton is a classic prodigy house, "the architectural sensation of its age", though its builder was not a leading courtier and its construction stretched the resources he mainly obtained from coalmining; the original family home was at the bottom of the hill. Though much re-modelled inside, the "startlingly bold" exterior remains largely intact.

The house was unused for about four decades before 1687, following a fire in 1642, and then re-occupied and given the first of several campaigns of re-modelling of the interiors.

The hall remains essentially in its original Elizabethan state, with a "fake hammerbeam" wood ceiling of the 1580s, in fact supported by horizontal beams above, but given large and un-needed hammerbeams for decoration.

In 1881, the house was still owned by the head of the Willoughby family, Digby Willoughby, 9th Baron Middleton, but by then it was "too near the smoke and busy activity of a large manufacturing town... now only removed from the borough by a narrow slip of country", so that the previous head of the family, Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton, had begun to let the house to tenants and in 1881 it was vacant.

The hall was bought by Nottingham Council in 1925. Estate and personal papers of the Willoughby family were used to create the Middleton collection at the department of Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham. They include the Wollaton Antiphonal and the single manuscript holding the 13th-century post-Arthurian romance Le Roman de Silence.

Nottingham Council opened the hall as a museum in 1926. In 2005 it was closed for a two-year refurbishment and re-opened in April 2007.

More history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaton_Hall

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This house fits a 50x50 lot and features a great room, a formal dining room and a daily breakfast room, a great library, his and hers bedrooms, 2 royal bedrooms with their formal sitting rooms.

This time I decorated most of the rooms for picture purposes, but as allways, you can make it your own!

Hope you like it.

Be warned: I did not have the floor plan for the 2nd floor. The distribution is based on my own decision.

You will need the usual CC I use: all of Felixandre, The Jim, SYB, Anachrosims, Regal Sims, TGS, The Golden Sanctuary, Cliffou, Dndr recolors, etc.

Please enjoy, comment if you like it and share pictures with me if you use my creations!

Early access: August 15.

DOWNLOAD: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103223415?pr=true

[javaghoul]

touka hot take thanks

AHH, Touka... Ok

I love Touka. In TG she clearly played the role of "slightly hostile, but has a heart" girly. But she did it well. It was free of cliché because she was only (undeservedly) hostile towards Kaneki. I love how she didn't hide how caring she was towards Hinami, Yoriko, and others, how she had aspirations for the future. Touka really was doing her best.

Then RE happened. I feel like I'm going to just parrot everyone else here, but she was ruined in RE. What happened to her?? I know some people mellow out as they grow older, but there's no way she lost her ENTIRE. PERSONALITY In two years or so ... She's the one 20something year old with the personality of a 90 year old barn owl. There's nothing to her at all.

Not that I endorse slapping people or anything, but I was honestly excited when she smacked Kaneki in RE. "Omg has Touka become Touka again 😯🤞?" But no...

I also think that as predictable as her and Kaneki hooking up was, there was ZERO chemistry between them. It was dislike - tolerance - like - marriage. Where and how did they actually fall in love?? Where was the flirting (or even just interest on Kaneki's part beyond "she's cute" or whatever he said). I think Touka had better chemistry with Nishiki.

Toukas' only purpose in Re was to provide Kaneki with his white picket fence ending. Out of all the characters across the entire series, she was screwed over the worst.

Even Naki, a SIDE CHARACTER, got a better outcome than her.

Seriously when I think of Touka, I only think of her in the first 14 books. It's like my brain is trying to erase her from re in order to protect me.

[ipsen]

Kishou and Eto: A Tangled Web of Hatred, Fear, and Apathy

(Alternatively: Good God They Are Horrible For Each Other But Like Actually)

Let’s talk about this slow motion car crash. Buckle up, this one’s actually really long. Subtext, amirite, fellas?

This connection is fascinating. It came out of basically left field if you were like me and could not predict a story to save your life when re was coming out (even when it was foreshadowed as far back as tg 141). The two “pinnacles” of humankind and ghoulkind were working together the whole time!! Amazing. It also spawned lots of content for a brand new ship because now they’ve canonically interacted! Very cool.

And while “two broken souls try to fix the world that wronged them and maybe fall in love along the way” is a good trope and I love it, I want to talk about the aspect of this relationship that is most appealing to me that I don’t see talked about often: the story of a revolutionary who, instead of being finally given the tools to change the world, is instead yanked up by strings and thrown about by the whims of a child having a temper tantrum.

When sourcing, I use (ch X) to refer to the original series and (re X) to refer to re (there’s also some (jack X) for tg jack). And, as always, I’m looking at the official translations. Under the cut.

First, the age gap. no one talks about the age gap even though it’s like the most important part

Anyways, let’s lay the groundwork for their first meeting. It looks like this:

(re 86)

Does this area look familiar? It should:

(re 62)

This is Eto’s hiding spot when she’s 14. We can also infer that Noroi is no longer around because of a few things. Bit of a tangent, but it’s important we contextualize her mindset when she meets Arima.

Noroi raised Eto in the 24th ward, and we can probably assume she would have grown up down there with him if things had gone fine. However:

(re 66)

We can assume V interfered with that setup. Not only that, but Eto’s first appearance on the CCG’s radar was in the 24th ward, where she killed Kasuka Mado. An angry ukaku-type ghoul kills one of Akira’s parents after losing an important adult figure in their life. Now, where have I heard that before...?

(ch 16)

There it is.

The difference between Touka+Hinami and Eto+Eto again is that the former are not alone in their pain. They have Anteiku, they have each other. As a result, they are able to heal from the past and move on with their lives. Eto did not have this luxury, and the pain and rage (she’s freakishly similar to Touka) were allowed to manifest. It didn’t help that Eto was familiar with cannibalism at a young age (24th ward culture is freaky like that) and developed a full kakuja by fourteen. Horrifying thought, if you ask me.

So Eto is lonely, she is angry, she wants to change the world through extreme targeted violence. We know it’s targeted violence because Aogiri never attacks civilian areas: they only attack certain targets that can get them what they want (Kanou’s nurse, for example) as well as CCG property (Cochlea being the big one). Her hatred is reserved solely for those who deserve it, which is a pattern that follows her through her entire life.

Let’s move on to Arima.

By the time Arima meets Eto, he has experienced the events of Jack. So he is familiar with the workings of the Garden, the Washuu, and V as a whole, and has interacted with a ghoul that was a bit more sentient and aware of herself than he’d like:

(jack 7) (“Maybe they [the Washuu] want to be human...” -- Arima, from re 83)

He’s 19 when he finally encounters Eto at her shrine. Evidence:

(re 74)

So there’s a 5-6 year age gap between eto and arima when they first meet. They are basically at two completely different stages of their lives, being an extremely young teenager and someone on the cusp of adulthood (context: during TG’s and re’s run, the age of a legal adult in Japan was 20. It’s been lowered to 18 since April 2022. Flabbergasting, if you ask me).

I’ve stated this before, but the best way to look at Arima and Eto is to look at a similar age gap:

(re 142)

They are an inversion of Kaneki and Hinami. We can also highlight the similarities further because Eto and Hinami have met before and Eto implies that they are similar:

(tg 114)

Eto only ever gives out advice-- cruel and otherwise-- to those that remind her of herself. The Yasuhisas and Kanae both reflected some aspect of her that she wants to correct, but that’s beside the point.

(She’s also alluding to her collaborating with Arima with this line, as Hinami is 14 during this chapter as well.)

Anyways, we know that Hinami is one of Eto’s foils, alongside Touka. All three women are women who crave love and affection from parental figures who have either died (Hinami’s dad+Ryouko, Hikari, Ukina) or were just never there when they were needed most (Kuzen, Arata). So what we can apply to one, we can generally apply to the others as well.

Hinami takes to Kaneki very easily and very early on. She’s very lonely, even when Ryouko was alive, due to not really having any friends her age (or friends at all, honestly). Having lost her father, she is also (subconsciously) looking for an older male figure to take his place (hence Big Brother Ken, the sweetheart). In the same vein, Touka acquiesces to Kuzen’s request for her to take school because she is lonely, even though Ayato is Right There (but also he doesn’t really Get Her), because again, no friends her age as well as No Dad.

We can easily apply this phenomenon to Eto with Arima. A young, lonely girl with no real friends her age or parental figures in her life is seeking a replacement for the hole that left in her. She also wants to upend the narrative that ghouls and humans have to kill each other to survive. As someone both stuck in the middle and someone with very personal connections to the origins of that narrative, she wants to destroy the “us vs. them” mindset.

Enter the strongest investigator in the history of the universe: Kishou Arima. And he wants to help her. Unfortunately for Eto, though, the world is cruel, and Kishou Arima is not a Ken Kaneki or a Kuzen.

Let’s see how he interacts with people, shall we?

(tg 73)

(re 8)

(re 45)

Now, Arima’s not exactly mean, but he’s... overwhelming. It’s not condescension, it’s more... unawareness. Tactless.

I’m sure some of you have been in Akira’s, Haise’s, or Hirako’s shoes before. Someone who is just typically Correct and wrapped up in their own thoughts, that you have little choice but to accept it. Arima’s worldview is completely twisted around his strength as a fighter, to the point that he can’t understand others.

It’s sad, because he also craves connection and friendship and love like everyone else in the series. Unfortunately, he is also a perpetrator of that “not being good enough” feeling that goes around the CCG.

He was trained by Kaiko, after all. Heartless bastard.

So we can imply that the dynamic he had with Eto wasn’t very different from anyone else in his circle. We can also see the effect this had on Eto herself using the advice she gives out to our favorite points of discussion, the Yasuhisas and Kanae:

(tg 98) (side note: i actually wrote a fanfiction about this scene. read it here! It’s called “Toddle, Toddle” on AO3 if you don’t trust my links.)

(re 43)

So, as Eto worked more and more with Arima, she became more and more aware of Arima’s actual goals/nature, which don’t align with her own. She’s perceptive like that, but it’s likely that by the time she Caught On, it’s too late. After all, everyone listens to Kishou Arima. Everyone likes Kishou Arima.

Eto values control, but she is never the one truly in control. So she projects onto others in a vain attempt to seem like she has some semblance of control over her own actions and her own life. Such as becoming an author, one of the few things she actually enjoys doing.

So, if Kishou Arima were to say “Sen Takatsuki is a ghoul”, that’s one more thing she’d lose control over. One thing too many.

But what is Arima’s actual goal? Well, children are prone to tantrums, aren’t they? They like to break things, using what they know to do so. He’s known to use his quinques masterfully to kill. But Arima doesn’t exclusively have literal quinques. He has metaphorical ones, too:

(re 52)

While on the subject, Haise’s got an interesting pose there, doesn’t he? But it looks so familiar...

(re 69)

Not quite...

Bingo. (not to shoot myself in the foot when we’re almost at the end but they should kiss bc of this. arima’s broken toys smashing together like barbie dolls. it’s the ultimate fuck-you)

Poor girl doesn’t even have the luxury of having two arms when this happens. Arima took advantage of her weakened state to rope her into what is basically a childish rebellion.

He often goes into the 24th ward to exterminate ghouls. Ghouls that are not a part of Aogiri, presumably. However, this is counterproductive in the long run; how do you recruit ghouls into a ghoul organization if their numbers are continuously dwindling? You can’t change the world like that.

But Arima, with the OEK as his secret identity, is not actually affected by this. He will still have the praise and love he craves from the CCG. He wants both things. He can’t choose. So he doesn’t. Because no one can stop him. Who would stop Kishou Arima? Who would stop the God of the CCG? Who would stop the King?

Nobody.

It’s a childish rebellion because if it fails, then he doesn’t face any real consequences. No one would listen to the whims of Tatara or the One-Eyed Owl; they already have humongous targets on their heads, and they’re part of the Aogiri Tree, the organization with the largest Dove kill count in history (besides the Clowns, probably). If Arima actually cared, he’d at least stop killing ghouls en masse like he did with the Anteiku raid or his regular forays into the 24th ward with his squad that can see him. That’s the bottom line.

Of course, V being all over the world probably discourages him, but he could have at least tried to lean more into his identity as king instead of trying to compromise between both sides of him. But that doesn’t really matter to him, does it? None of it really matters. After all:

(re 83)

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So yeah, that’s Eto and Arima’s imbalanced power dynamic featuring my silly little rambling. Did it make sense? Who knows!

Thanks for reading!

[emilykaldwen]

Fic Rec List 2

I cannot find the link for my first fic rec list. I'M SORRY! Anyway here's another one. These are on AO3 because that's where I read 99% of my fic but if I can find a tumblr handle for people, I will add it! This isn't just HotD/GoT fic, I also included a few other fandoms should anything strike your fancy!

World on Fire - @theothermaidoftarth - In which Nettles is sent North after the Battle of the Gullet. It's Cregan x Nettles! SIGN ME THE FUCK UP! If you love rare pairs, please follow this author. She writes fantastic stories and I just really love their work.

Inertia - @lesbian-kyoru - With the Cat’s confinement approaching, Kyo and Tohru attempt to avoid their feelings as ineffectively as possible. Hi yes do you love Fruits Basket? Do you love a good friends with benefits AU with two emotionally fucky individuals in Tohru and Kyo? Then please run, do not walk, to read this lovely series. I was introduced to this via someone bookbinding this series on the renegade guild and devoured it (I reblogged this series ages ago screaming in my tags)

Something Old - Ducks - Miserable after Oz's departure, Willow casts a spell to have her will done. Predictably, it goes awry, having some interesting affects on Buffy and Angel. A re-imagining of the Buffy episode "Something Blue". One of the first really fandomy fics I got obsessed over (back when Ducks ran their own site, which might still be up?) anyway yeah, it's Buffy x Angel, which teen me was utterly obsessed with and one of the first fics that really ever entered into my mind that you could write long ass series AU fics. There's also an eventual Blade crossover in the final part.

A Game of High Stakes - In_Dreams - In theory, the task is simple: kill Draco Malfoy. In practice, putting a curse through the Dark Lord's favoured lieutenant will take everything Hermione has―especially since he's trying to kill her, too. Even more so when the lines between them start to blur. Sometimes, the only way out is through. Hello yes it's another dramoine fake marriage/real marriage AU but it's so good, really goes into the fuckiness of the war, I just devoured it in a weekend.

Taken - Wheater - An AU set after 2x15: Elijah succeeds in kidnapping Elena, Katherine is out of the tomb and the Salvatore brothers have one hell of a mess to fix. Sometimes you have no choice but to make a deal with the devil. If you can get the devil to make a deal with you… Another oldie but goodie for if you liked your obscure TVD ships. And I was such an Elena x Elijah fan (also Tyler and Elena too pls)

Kingdoms At War - deathwalker - What if Ned Stark wasn't executed at the Great Sept of Baelor? Instead, what if, he had been removed from Kingslanding before Joffrey could give the order for his head? What impact would this have had on the Game of Thrones? It's a Robb x Marg, Ned Lives AU y'all and one day, one day it's gonna be completed and it's going to be amazing. So far it's sitting at just under 700k words, and Marg and Robb are about to take on King's Landing and my body is ready.

Parlour Trick - @stannisfactions - What if Aemond was born with dragon features and hidden away, and Helaena is his bride. Hi yes I scream about this story a lot, Kinderhook is one of my all time favorites, and not only is this fic amazing, but they have a ton of TG fics. A lot of the content is of the angstier variety, as well as a lot of dub con so please mind your triggers.

Aesthetic Chills - sloelimbs - An Eddie/Chrissy fix it picking up where Vecna started, and the Party's adventure taking a different turn. - It's an Edissy fix it fic and just very thoughtful, very moody, very everything. Pretty sure this was the only ST fic I read and it sits in the bookmarks for a reason.

[fictomorph]

Any Objections? (Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth TF/TG/MC)

This story contains female to male TF, character TF, and identity death as well as Wrightworth shipping/romance.

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“Looking for something in particular?”

A voice disturbed Griffin, who was currently hunched over the top of a display case, filled with rings, all of them beautiful, finely crafted….and expensive. He jolted up, meeting the eyes of the clerk.

“Oh...yea.” He rubbed the back of his neck, awkwardly chuckling. The clerk looked him over, trying to read him for what he wanted. Decently groomed short chestnut hair, a purple polo shirt and pressed jeans, brown leather dress shoes...probably had something decently important later today. And considering what kind of jewelry he was looking at….

“You’re proposing later, aren’t you?” Griffin paused, nodding.

“How did you?...” He sighed, his shoulders slumping. “Ugh, yeah. But everything’s so expensive...I’ve been saving for practically a year and even then I can barely afford any of the good ones!” The clerk watched him as he went back to pouring over the rings, struggling between getting his loved one something they deserved and something he could pay off.

“Actually..” He perked up, holding a finger in the air as his icy blue eyes pondered a thought. “I think we might have a set of rings in the back for decently cheap, $100, $120….but they still look rather nice and are of high craft. Would you like me to see if we still have them?”

Griffin nodded, letting out a sigh of relief. “Really? Oh thanks, man, you’re a lifesaver!”

“Ah, no problem. My job is to help people find what they’re looking for, after all! Now if you’ll excuse me…” He walked off, headed into the forbidden parts of the store unknown to the commoner. After a few minutes, Griffin (who had started scrolling through Twitter) was brought back to reality by the sound of something being set on the glass in front of him, along with the clerk’s statement of “Take a look”.

Two small ring boxes were laid in front of him, one coated in red velvet and the other in blue. He lifted the red box, popping it open to reveal the contents inside. A rose gold band, with two small diamonds and one ruby crowning it. The edges of the band flares, giving it a ruffled pattern almost like creased fabric. Ooh...this would be perfect for her! He picked up the blue box, inspecting its hidden treasure as well. It was a similarly simple pure gold band, two sapphires on either side of a diamond tucked away in a golden four-pointed star. He looked back to the clerk, grabbing both of them as he fidgeted his wallet from his pocket.

“You said these were…$120?” The clerk nodded, leading to Griffin slamming the money on the counter. “Oh man, thank you so much! She’s gonna love this, I-I can’t thank you enough!” Placing the ring boxes in a bag for him, the clerk waved as another satisfied customer ran off.

The rest of the day was as normal as it could be for a day leading up to such a big event. Griffin called to double and triple-check his reservations were still in place, re-washed and ironed everything he was wearing for later, and took an intensive shower. Everything had to go perfect for tonight. Soon enough, after what felt like both no time at all and a full eon, his doorbell rang. Answering it, he was met with the face of his beloved Kelly. She had dressed similarly nicely, a long somewhat shimmery orange dress accompanied by a pearl necklace. Her blonde hair had been neatly curled at the edges, letting it frame her face in a rather flattering way.

“You look nice.” Griffin stuttered, eyes darting across the room as she chuckled.

“Thanks. You too.” She grabbed his hand, leading him out the door. “C’mon, we should get going. You said this place was expensive, and I don’t wanna miss our chance to eat $100 steak.”

The car ride over was nice, Kelly looking out the window at the late-night city’s lights. Her eyes drifted over the scenery, soon enough settling on the restaurant they had arrived at. She had known it was a fancy place, but she didn’t expect it to look quite this nice. The building had strings of fairy lights dangling from it, and as they walked in, she took note of how well everyone was dressed. She started to think she might’ve underdressed for the occasion.

“Mr. West? Ah yes, we have your reservation. Please, follow me.” The waitress led the two to an empty table, one which happened to be on the patio. A nice open space, no one else outside, illuminated by the moonlight….it was perfect. Griffin kept a hand on the two ring boxes in his pocket, waiting for the perfect moment.

Whatever was above must’ve taken a shine to them that day, as the dinner went perfectly. Their food was cooked to perfection, the wine the servers brought out was a rich palette, and all night the moon and stars were perfectly visible and bright. As Kelly polished off her second glass of wine, he gripped the boxes tighter than he ever had before and sighed.

“Hm?” Kelly placed her glass down, focusing on her partner. “Something wrong, Grif?”

“No, it’s just….we’ve been together for a while now and...you’re really important to me. I

realized I found something I don’t wanna lose. So….” He took the red box from his pocket and held it out to her, letting her see as he popped it open. “Will you marry me?”

She gasped, grabbing the box as she teared up. “Oh my God….yes!” His heart pounded out of his chest as she slipped the ring on, admiring it. He had taken the shot and hit a bullseye.

“The best part?” He held the blue box in his hands, showing its contents to her. “They’re a set. We match!” Putting his own ring on, Kelly practically pounced on him as she pulled him into a hug that turned into the two holding each other’s hands, rings resting against each other. It felt like a moment that would last forever…..until they withdrew their hands in shock.

“Ow, something shocked me!” Kelly rubbed her hand, surprised by the indignant interruption.

“Yea, me too….might’ve been some static electricity or something in the rings.” Griffin explained to the best of his knowledge. That was a thing that could happen, right? Metal conducted electricity.

“Mhm...probably. Felt a bit stronger than static, though. It was just...weird.” She unconsciously flexed her fingers to fully shake the feeling, although a new, even stranger one replaced it. Her hands began to shift, growing broader and more well-groomed, like they belonged to someone from the upper class. Though the expected tightness of the ring becoming too small for her fingers was strangely never present…

“Maybe you just aren’t taking your wine well.” Griffin chuckled, taking her hand in his in an attempt to comfort her, only to realize how large it was compared to mere moments ago. He gulped, feeling his hands become a bit more comfortable in holding hers, the change nowhere as near as drastic as Kelly’s but still something concerning. His arms tensed, swelling with a slightly toned layer of muscle new to his form. He took his hands from Kelly’s, looking over them. Sure, he admittedly never held his wine the best, but he’d never hallucinated before, and he’d definitely never actually felt it.

“Grif? Do you think someone put something in our food?” She took a longer, more well-built arm to her chest, feeling the fat layered on it melt away and replace with an admittedly not too shabby set of pecs. “Wh-What?” Her face flushed, eyes widening at the realization that whatever was happening to them had decided to shift her sex around.

“I’d like to see whatever drug can do something like this at all, let alone this fast!” He gripped onto a chair’s back, groaning as his back popped, leaving him slightly taller and, as a cursory scan of his new body would reveal, sporting a new set of abs. “Woah...this is...something.”

Kelly, meanwhile, was not as enthralled with her changes as Griffin was. She felt awkward enough in her dress already, and the cracking of her spine and toning frame didn’t serve to help. What only made things worse was the notable pressure she felt from her high heels, confirming her fears as the sides of the shoes gave, leaving her feet exposed in the cold night air. “Ugh….just kill me now….”

“Hey, cmon, don’t be like that.” Griffin pulled her into a hug, grinning in an attempt to ease her fears. “This probably won’t be that bad.” She looked up at him, desperate for some form of comfort. It was probably just the changes, but...he looked so much more handsome than usual. His jawline was sharper, his eyes had cooled to a soft smoky grey, and his formerly chestnut hair had burnt to a dark black, even changing how it was styled into a striking slicked back and spiked look. Something about it was…..familiar and comforting.

Griffin swept a bang from her face, letting him look at her shifted face. He let out a quiet gasp, her heart sinking.

“I-Is it bad?” She clasped her hands together, still feeling the ring.

“No, you’re...you’re gorgeous.” His hand rested against her cheek, taking everything in. Her face had gained this strong stoic look to it, almost statue-esque. His hair had faded to a platinum, combed into a set of bangs that perfectly framed his face and made similarly pale eyes stand out. “I...wow.” He’d never felt this strongly towards...anyone. He took one of her pearls in his hand, only to let go of it as he realized it had gained an odd fabric like texture.

Kelly watched as her pearl necklace flattened and softened, the chain around her neck becoming the same silk as the pearls now were. She brushed over it with her hands, the string now a rumpled scarf of some sort...what was the term? The word “cravat” suddenly popped to mind, albeit she didn’t know where from. Yes, that was right.

Griffin coughed as something tugged against his throat, looking down to see a bright red tie had formed around his neck. More notably, where it touched seemed to sap the red from his shirt, leaving it pure white as the still-blue edges tugged away from itself, leaving him with a formal white undershirt topped with a sapphire blue suit jacket. “Guess they have a stricter take on business casual than I thought…” He awkwardly joked as he watched the blue spread down to neatly pressed dress pants, his changes finishing with his shoes expanding slightly and shifting into dark leather.

Kelly brushed her face, slightly flushed from Griffin’s new form. …..Griffin? Was that right? No, that...that wasn’t it. What was his name, though? As she thought, her clothing underwent its own metamorphosis, bleeding into a combination of a black vest and a deep red suit jacket, albeit this one more high quality than her partner’s. The material shared its conquest of her wardrobe with her partner’s changes, as the ends of her dress wrapped around her legs into fanciful perfectly tailored wine red pants. Her shoes even got a second shot as the heels flattened to the ground, a refined pair of leather dress shoes.

“Is...is it over?” The two looked at each other, Griffin pausing at his new voice. It was young, nothing too outstanding on its own but probably could be with some power put behind it, like some form of objection.

“I...I believe so.” Kelly gasped, putting a hand to her throat as she felt her new Adam’s apple. The voice it had given her was a rather pleasing one, deep and proper, the voice of someone who really knew what they were doing. “My...this is all so….” She didn’t get to finish her thought as she trailed off, Griffin taking her hands one again.

“Not what I expected to happen tonight, either. Can’t say I’m too mad though.” Kelly blushed, Griffin’s face equally red as he leaned in for a kiss, which she gladly reciprocated. That simple act sealed the two’s fates as when they pulled back, a different, more fitting set of memories and personality traits belonged to the pair.

“Wright....must you be this extravagant?” He looked around the patio, taking in the almost storybook-like picture the two found themselves in.

“Of course. Nothing else for my Miles.” Edgeworth turned his head, leading Phoenix to giggle.

“You’re an embarrassment.” He tried to come off as his usual stern self, but the slightest hint of a smirk on his lips was his lover’s cue to keep going.

“Hey, you know how I get when drunk.”

“I suppose I do, Feenie.” Miles slipped his hand into his partner’s, only for the two of them to pause and investigate the rings they didn’t remember putting on.

“Guess I was a bit more drunk than I thought….” He looked away, rubbing his neck in that ever-so-Wright way. A pause of awkward silence, before he sighed and reconnected eye contact. “Hey um….even if we don’t remember it...would you still...you know…”

“Of course, you idiot.” Edgeworth full on smiled, a rare sight, and grabbed Phoenix’s hand once again, planting a kiss on his cheek. Even if they didn’t quite remember how they got here, this proved to be the best night of their lives.

[tg-pilled]

favorite tg ships? any unpopular ship opinions?

Favourite Ships

HIDE/KANEKI - They are the reason I wake up every fucking day of the week oh my god. I just. The death kiss, the pining, the unrequited love for a Hot minute. I mghsjfsbnsskn. Them <3

TOUKA/YORIKO - OUGH they are the lesbians of all time! They kind of have a similar dynamic to Hide/Kaneki to me BUT I think their dynamic is much healthier. Since Touka isn't grappling with living in two worlds Miley Cyrus style, she definitely has more insight on the ghoul world. So rather than hating herself for having two different worlds to be a part of, she can just hate herself for being a ghoul! 😻 I think Yoriko helps her overcome this line of thinking a Lot and inspires Touka to start eating around her. I think Yoriko would also find Touka's ukaku to be beautiful. Yoriko 100% decorates their apartment with those colours and wears those colours proudly.

UTA/RENJI - I love when a grumpy man has an edge lord bf what can I say.

AKIRA/TAKIZAWA/AMON - Why do they look at each other like that bruh 💀 Need I say more?? Akira and Amon both are down horrific for Takizawa like.

Unpopular Ship Opinions

Idek if this is unpopular but I dislike Hinami/Ayato DEEPLY. I am their number one hater on fucking god. I don't like Hinami or Ayato shipped with anyone At All.

Anyone x Rize is a no go for me. I think she's better as a stand alone character, no shipping involved. I feel like shipping her with other characters kind of takes away from her whole Vibe. I can't explain it really it's just. A vibe.

A ship I like that I think not many ppl do (?) is Kaneki/Amon in :re. In the original series NO I DO NOT SHIP THEM but in :re I can see the vision. They're not my favs but I don't mind them either.

Kaneki/Arima is a Huge red flag for me. I despise that ship SO MUCH. I appreciate them for their parallels and the storytelling they have but it is HEAVILY implied Kaneki sees him as a father AND it's a weird dynamic too :/ Idk it just is gross to me

[dialux]

Hello! Hope you're having a good day!! Idk if u got my previous ask, but I just wanted to know if you're still doing director's cut and if you are then could you do one for 'i imagined a dark world where the stars clamor to be inside us' aka the feanor and findis fic? I've read it so many times its insane and I just love it so much!! I'd love to know your thoughts when u wrote it

In your findis fic, at the end, is my understanding that feanor ended up making horcruxes or something adjacent to horcruxes right?

Combining these two bc I'm pretty sure they're from the same person!

Literally this started because of the LOTR/ASOIAF crossover AU, where Sansa's dropped into ME and mistakes Boromir for her father: I hadn't read LOTR in AAAAAAAGES and so I hopped onto Tolkien Gateway to learn more about the timeline. My search essentially went Boromir -> Third Age -> Age -> First Age -> Feanor -> SILM.

I then started reading the Silm (keep in mind this is in covid-lockdown in 2020) and found myself so absolutely disinterested in the Valar that I skipped all of it to go to chapter 6 (THEE Feanor chapter), and found myself very confused. So I hopped back onto Tolkien Gateway and used their incredibly useful family trees to keep everyone straight in my head. As I'm doing all of this, I'm struck by the similarities between the Finwean kids and the Stark kids, especially Findis/Sansa-- but at this point all I'm thinking is eldest daughter eldest daughter, nothing else. I put Findis into the crossover fic anyway (still know nothing about her apart from the TG page!) and get on with the rest of the Silm.

And then I find out that there are a number of similarities between Sansa and Findis beyond simple birth order, including favoring their mother, presumably being pious, etc etc. I start reading PoME and HoME. I start building an idea of Findis in my own head from, like, four lines total in all this reading.

Annoyed at the lack of canon material, I go to ao3. This is April of 2020; after filtering for languages, I get about a 100 works. I scan a few, but don't find the character I'm looking for. This is mostly because I've wholesale made this character up myself. I scowl at myself and sulk for a few days. Then I start writing. I post the story in a month's time, and in the process I've gotten so many feelings about the Silm that, a full three years later, I still haven't managed to deal with any of them.

Re: the story itself!! I personally think of the Finweans as a little bit incomprehensible, as more mythologized even to their own family than any normal elf; I wanted to explore that idea in the story, particularly how it feels when one person becomes a myth, and how it feels to be left behind when that happens. Feanor does it first, of course, but Findis isn't far behind-- chapter 2 is all about Feanor leaving Findis (and everyone else in his family, through Findis' eyes), but chapter 3 is very purposely from everyone's perspective but Findis, so we can see how it feels for them when she's walked away.

And yes, Findis does in fact create a couple of horcruxes. So does Feanor. They're good horcruxes, though, ig? Don't need murder, are simply like the... laboratory equivalent of soul fission, and yet with some ephemeral connection to the og soul. Afaik the Valar didn't ask before hallowing the Silms as well, so! Not exactly great when imperfect people have parts of their souls hallowed!

[ovrour]

“tell your baby, that i’m your baby”

absolutely broke me.

i loved it and i NEED a part two, but i’m scared of re-reading…

i put myself in her shoes way too much and was balling thinking that it actually happened to me…

i need extra therapy now.

MATT NEEDS TO GET HIS SHIT TOGETHER AND GET READER BACK, BREAK UP WITH FLO, BEG ON YOUR KNEES FOR FORGIVENESS, KISS HER IN THE RAIN WHILE NON STOP APOLOGIZING.

please use this for a part 2 idea, i am begging you. i need to fix this heart break.

LITERALLY HE NEEDS TO FIX HIS ACT BUT, HIM AND READER DONT GET BACK TG UNFORTUNATELY. I POST A LITTLE SNEAK PEEK OF IT ON MY BLOG. LIKE OMG

[brattylikestoeat]

Hi Bratty,

I really appreciate you talking to us and keeping it 100% w/the things you choose to share. I also appreciate you putting us up on a LOT of game. Could I pls ask the following sex questions? I was raised in a dysfunctional/abusive fam. where asking about things re: sex, bodily changes, etc. was a HUGE NO so pls forgive any "silly" questions =[

So, 4 someone like me who's still a virgin & wants to know the healthiest way to go about sex, are you meant to:

Get yourself tested first

(after I've decided/vetted a person & decided I'd like us to be sexual partners) insist on seeing his latest test and/or get tested together

always shower or clean up and pee first and insist that he does the same?

shower/clean up and pee after we're done?

but I've seen and heard instances - some of the stories you've shared here too - where you've been able to get oral or have sex in the car before work or elsewhere, and (unless you didn't mention it and you don't have to cuz again, it's always w/e u want to share w/us) there was no mention of cleaning up or peeing. So, does that mean it's optional? But, what about UTIs?

I'm confused. How are things supposed to happen (or, not "supposed" cuz every1 is different. I guess I don't know how to properly ask this but all I'm after is great sexual health for me and w/whoever I decide to have sex with).

(Part 1)

People lie a lot. People will try to pass off old test or falsify paperwork. There is a big rise in this since onlyfans. Most onlyfans girls will only work with me with recent paperwork and a lot of men lied. That’s why solo content is more prevalent than couple content.

I always say get tested together. Make a date out of it. Me and Ted did the first time. we both got tested, went and had lunch and went to a movie. By the end of the movie the test results were sitting in our emails. Check to verify the date. And know that test results aren’t always 100%. Some std/sti can be dormant or people can be asymptomatic. 

Cleaning up isn’t optional but it’s a preference if that makes sense.

- TMI Donald dont care of I just got off a 10 hour shift and went to the gym. He will eat the pussy as soon as I walk in. I personally don’t like that. I prefer to shower.

- TMI I’m okay with a certain level of sweat. Most men (to me so this is a personal Opnion) smell better with a little sweat. I don’t know the science behind it but that shit turn me on. Some will says it’s nature and pheromones. But idk. A little sweat ain’t gone scare me.

- I always pee after sex and if I can’t pee that second I’m headed to the nearest bathroom. I’ve fucked outside and in a parking garage. Both times we immediately went home to pee and shower.

When it comes to sex I feel like only two things should be consistent across the board, 1) being tested and 2) consent.

Everything else is personal preference. Some men like smelly women, some men don’t. Some women want a man who hung some women don’t.



Some people shower before and after, some shower just after.

I’ve had 8 sexual partners and none of them were the same at all.

TG and Ted fall on opposite ends of the sexual spectrum in what they like. So it’s up to me to say, yes I’ll do that or no I won’t.

TMI Donald into watersports but that’s just something I’ll never do. I damm sure won’t be receiving but I also don’t want to give.

As far as UTIs I’ve never had once. Some women are prone to get them more than others. This is why you should know what’s normal for your vagina.

[strangestcase]

I just wanted to say that as someone who really loved the LXG film adaptation back in the day and discovered I still really love it when I did a re-watch a few days ago (and I'm firmly in the better than the comics camp now), however messy in a 2000s action film way it was, I really enjoyed reading your old commentary posts about it, especially as someone else who liked how they handled Jekyll/Hyde (I think my much younger self was obsessed with him at the time) and wish people focused on literally anything else but the 'But Hyde is supposed to be tiny like in the novella' thing at the exclusion of everything else yet again tbh

GOD FOR FUCKS SAKE YES. It’s a very wild movie (based on also very wild comics!) and it’s very fun and yep, Jekyll/Hyde were pulled very well. Alan Moore said “you know what would be hilarious. if Hyde was fucking huge but he still was the fucking petty smartass manchild nerd he’s in the book” and it worked. It worked so well and Jason NAILED that performance.

It’s so frustrating when people act as if Hyde being a flesh abomination (which makes sense if you read the comics, I swear) means he is some sort of mindless monster. He isn’t- truth be told I think LXG Hyde is more in character, relative to the book, than most other movie Hydes, since he’s written as intelligent and well-spoken (and an morally weird bastard!). Fucks sake, he’s a few leagues (heh) more in character than TGS Hyde (there, I said it) just because of this.

(Now I’m sad they cut the “I recall his actions” “well, I recall my own” interaction from the movie because it also helps cement Jekyll and Hyde as two versions of the same character, which is, other than the cut scene, for the most part, left a little ambiguous.)

[kneedeepincynade]

The shaoshan collective is determined to spread the truth over the lise of the American empire

Il collettivo shaoshan è determinato a mostrare la verità contro le bugie dell'impero americano

Those who have questions on the collective feel free to ask them in the comments or reblogs

Chiunque abbia domande sul collettivo è libero di farle nei commenti o nei re blog

So for everyone to know:the two admins are both Italians

Per conoscenza generale:entrambi gli admin sono italiani

The post is machine translated

The translation is at the bottom

The collective is on telegram

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🌺 Xinjiang: Master-Post | I, II, III, IV, V, VI | [nuovi post sull'argomento: 🔜].

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🎨 Rivoluzione Colorata - Cenni Storici, Hong Kong, NED e Ruolo dei Media: I, II, III, IV, V.

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[ipsen]

compilation of eto touching people (+ analysis :P)

Oh yeah. Let's get weirdly fixated on an inane detail. Under the cut

tg 109

friendly. skin on clothes. it's impersonal, but probably genuine on a superficial level. like real celebrities.

eto tends to touch things that matter to her with her skin. however, there's clearly a distance between her and the other guy, height-wise and how she stands pretty far away from them besides the arm.

tg 109 again

playful and friendly.

first instance of skin-on-skin contact for eto, and that signifies a connection: hinami reminds her of better days, but she isn't bitter about it. she just worries that being loved won't be enough in a world that tends to treat kind people cruelly. this worry is extended to when she gives hinami her contact info in tg 114, to give her a chance to actually have strength to protect what matters.

there's still distance between them, but its caused by her arm, so now she's physically "pushing" hinami away. eto hates herself, so it makes sense she doesn't want someone like hinami (an actual kind person who pursues strength out of said kindness and not anger/rage like eto) to end up like her.

re 43

condescending, pity, like an adult watching a child throw a tantrum.

inverse of the time eto touched that other guy's butt: it's her clothing on skin this time. physically putting herself above kanae despite being beneath him in this scene.

kanae loves someone who doesn't love him back, and also thinks humans are the scum of the earth. it's these facts combined that keep him from interacting with chie until it reaches a breaking point, and ironically keeps him out of a vital part of shuu's life (his relationship with chie is VERY important, imo).

why should you let something as inane as a species keep you from what you want? if you want something, you should take it. only liars and prideful losers hold themselves back.

so eto breaks him. breaks the illusion of pride that lies to him. reveals "truth" to him, albeit in a really unnecessary fashion.

oh right this was about her touching people. oops.

re 56

unmatched. drives me Insane. something genuine and overwhelming.

the second instance of her touching someone else's skin with her actual skin. two-folded here: she's goading him into attacking her (he always reacts to his eyes being touched bc of Arima Trauma) and it's a genuine declaration of twisted affection because there's finally someone who Gets It and she's sick of being alone. it's an overwhelming feeling and she's never experienced this kind of elation before.

this is also where she fully embraces kaneki being the next OEK, because despite their extremely similar backstories, she knows he has the capability to lead ghoulkind to a better world. because eto knows hinami and how people actually do love kaneki, unlike her. he was loved by her own father, someone who despised her so much he left her in a shithole, after all.

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thanks for reading!

[episentre]

@cannibalic​ 

    He knows the Oggai exist, yet he’s never interacted with one personally. Yet even if Fumio did interact with them, he’d try his best to keep it short unless Kaito was around. He gets too nervous, too anxious, he doesn’t like it. But he listens to what the younger girl has to say, taking her words into consideration. ❝ Ye-Yeah… I guess you’re right. ❞ Fumio says shyly.

    To be annoying, to be irritating, that’s what got him into trouble with his mother. If he didn’t do as she said, or if he acted to clingy ( which he was, he lived for attention ), there was punishment, so he believes if he were to irk anyone else, he would have to face the music. He didn’t like that. ❝ But I was taught better than that. ❞

     They were ruthless and without fear-- children gifted with weapons within themselves and told that there were no restraints and no consequences. All you had to do was have fun. So when he seems to divert away from her attempts of trying to get him to open up a bit, she frowns.

     “What were you taught?” she asks stiffly. Better? Better? As if he was trying to pick a fight with his words-- but his body language states otherwise. It puzzles her. What a strange kid.

[krizzkrashh]

there are only a few hours left and I’m still undecided.....

H E L P

[lurkerwithcomputer]

WIP: Saiko’s Decision

I've been digging up and getting back into my old TG writing, like re-working this Saiko piece. Here's a little cut of it. In which Saiko makes a decision - bold, reckless, probably kind of a stupid decision. But it is hers and that matters.

She rinses her mouth, spits, repeats it until she no longer tastes vomit and half the water is gone. She withdraws her kagune - and that feeling is so much smoother now, too - and returns to the rusted-out truck, pulling a rag from her pocket. In one cracked rear-view mirror, she wipes her face, cleans the drops of sick from her hair, until the water bottle is empty. She takes one last look at her reflection. Two red eyes look back.

A ghoul’s face. My face. I... I like it. I think. Proof I made a choice. One not even Mom can take from me.

The sky is orange, pink, violet, the sun melting into the horizon. As she wriggles into her T-shirt and shrugs on her jacket, a gleam in a patch of weeds catches her attention. Among the thistles, behind where she had knelt during the transformation, lies the broken implant. It almost looks like a tiny, barbed mechanical ribcage, spilling cold wire guts. She steps forward, searching her jacket, and retrieves a plastic bag. She scoops the mangled implant into the bag, not with her hands, but a kagune, the entire motion fluid from release to withdrawal.

A sound, a scent on the breeze catch her attention. A scent she knows well, one she’s fallen asleep to, woken up to, held against her skin. The sound of footsteps, slow at first, then breaking into a run. At first glance, this person looks like any other jogger, which is more or less the point - a lean, black-haired woman in well-worn high-tops and a tracksuit. A small backpack bounces on her back. A warm smile pulls at the corners of her mouth - because Hsiao is not just any jogger.

"I... I did it. Became a ghoul- What’s wrong?”

“We need to run. I just passed someone making an emergency phone call, about ‘woman with tentacles on her back’. Which is probably you.”

“Hsiao, we’re CCG agents. For now, anyway...”

The mangled implant bag, under her jacket, presses into her side.

Nevermind, that part would still look really bad. It'd probably blow our cover all to hell.

“...On second thought, we do need to get out of here. We’d be in a world of shit if the CCG knew what we were doing.”

"Keep walking, but," Hsiao pauses, swinging her backpack around her body to unzip, and points down, "one question - can you run in those?"

She feels a bit stupid, all things considered, as she slips off the sandals and shoves them into Hsiao's backpack.

"Not exactly how I pictured finding out," she puffs as she struggles to keep up with Hsiao's long legs, "if ghoul skin is as tough as it's talked up to be."

Is it ever.

She's 99% sure the skin-crawling, crunchy scraping she just felt was glass underfoot, and there's no pain, no hot trickle, no scent of blood. Just an unpleasant drag of sharp edges on skin when she put her foot down. The speed, that's different too - she's keeping up better with Hsiao than she usually does, despite breathing hard. She's starting to lose that benefit, though, and not just because Hsiao's long and leggy. There's a growing pit in her stomach.

And a cold feeling in her chest. Because.

Because everyone knows what ghouls eat.