#(And no; I will not be combining any of these ships)

[zorbik-guligan]

I have 2 whales and sharks

Whales would be domesticated for dairy meat and skin possibly oil the idea being you have people traveling around the ocean migrating with them occasionally landing at a port somewhere for some supplies but mostly living off the whales when a whale dies they can use its body for materials and stuff you dont waste anything when your out in the ocean sell off whatever you cant keep because whales are heavy and than move back on i picture mostly as just a big sail ship of people fishing and tagging along with the whales plus you could end up with some nice cultural aspects from it too different ships travel with different whales orcas blue whales any of em

Sharks could be a similar thing they live in every ocean i think they are surprisingly curious about stuff from what i remember theyd be like sea dogs use them to help hunt for food and possibly to find underwater loot like sunken ships or random ores you could even combine the two and have sharks travel with the whales and with both being domesticated to some degree they're numbers wouldn't be nearly as low

you can domesticate one animal species of your choosing, which do you pick and why? explain your reasoning

[eralkfang]

How to Buy Takarazuka Castlevania on BD/DVD

I’ve seen a lot of Castlevania fans express interest in the currently running Takarazuka Castlevania musical and wondering whether or not it would get a pro shot, so I thought I’d jump in and write up a little guide on how to get your hands on the upcoming home video release of Takarazuka Castlevania.

Now, Takarazuka is unusual in that its parent company, Hankyu, is extremely aggressive about piracy and protecting its copyright. The company regularly trawls through YouTube and other social media websites to take down content, and they have deliberately made their livestreams increasingly harder to access in response. This can make it feel like getting your hands on Takarazuka is really difficult and, if you’re used to Japanese companies that are friendlier, it’s definitely a bit of a fan culture shock! 

However, it’s actually not difficult at all. Purchasing a Takarazuka Blu-ray or DVD from outside of Japan is a straightforward process. You just have to know what, when, and where.

What to Buy

Takarazuka releases the vast majority of their shows on physical media. All of their shows staged in the Takarazuka Grand Theater and the Tokyo Takarazuka Theater (hereafter “a GT show”) receive a physical media release on both Blu-ray and DVD.*

The main distinction between the two is the video quality, price, and special features:

A GT Blu-ray costs 11,000 yen and includes rehearsal footage as well as Star Angles, which are special cuts of scenes focused on certain performers. In the case of Castlevania, the Star Angles will focus on the performers playing Alucard, Maria, and Richter.†

A GT DVD costs 8,800 yen and contains no special features.‡ 

Both are region-free but neither includes subtitles of any kind, not even Japanese.

The physical media release will include Castlevania, the one-act musical, as well as Ai, Love Revue!, a separate musical revue with no connection to Castlevania. While Takarazuka does stage two-act musicals, the combination of a ninety-minute one act play with an hour long musical revue is classically Takarazuka. This particular revue repeats some classic numbers from Takarazuka’s past, so it’s a good introduction to what Takarazuka is all about!

When to Buy

Takarazuka physical media releases try to drop fast. A GT show is usually filmed during its run in the Takarazuka Grand Theater (before it moves to the Tokyo Takarazuka Theater) and released during the Tokyo Takarazuka Theater run. Usually is the key word here; I’ve received at least one Takarazuka Blu-ray before the final performance in Tokyo, but others can get delayed, likely due to copyright negotiations.§ Given that Konami is directly involved with the production, I don’t have any concerns about copyright or delays.

Based on recent GT show announcements and releases, I would expect to hear the release schedule announcement during the break between runs (7/21 to 8/15) and the Blu-ray/DVD to release late in the Tokyo run (8/16 to 9/28). So I’d estimate finding out in August that it’s releasing sometime in September. 

Where to Buy

Once the Blu-ray/DVD has been announced, you’ll find it available for international purchase on the following websites:

cdjapan.jp

CDJapan always carries new Takarazuka products, offers multiple shipping options, often has coupons, and allows you to pre-order items. This is predominantly what I use and I can personally recommend it.

Yesasia.com

Yesasia carries new Takarazuka products, offers coupons, and offers free shipping. Takarazuka Blu-ray/DVDs will be noted as “Japan version,” but remember, they’re region-free. I have no experience with this website, so I can’t vouch for it personally.

TakaAn

TakaAn is a shop focusing on Takarazuka (but also other theatrical troupes) in Japan that offers overseas orders via email. 

Amazon.co.jp

Amazon.co.jp used to regularly stock new Takarazuka products, but less so lately. Still, worth checking.

Secondhand Stores 

Secondhand copies of Takarazuka Blu-ray/DVDs crop up on websites like Suruga-ya and Mercari from time to time. Suruga-ya is easy to use, has a wide selection of items, and often offers coupons, while Mercari has a proxy service (Buyee) built in to help you purchase items from overseas. Both are dependent on availability, but are a great way to save some money! (Just make sure the shipping and proxy fees aren’t wiping out the money you save!)

Where to Find Out More

I hope this helps out some Castlevania fans in their quest, since I know Takarazuka can be a little opaque. If the new musical has gotten you interested in Takarazuka, feel free to check out this So You’re New to Takarazuka post and this primer on the Sumire Code. Takarazuka's got a bit of a learning curve, but it’s a wonderful (and very sparkly) hobby! 

* In Takarazuka, the distinction is between GT shows and small theater shows. One of the five Takarazuka troupes performs a GT show (with the full troupe) and then will split for the small theater shows, with half of the troupe in one show and the other half in another, performing in venues outside of the Takarazuka Grand Theater and Tokyo Takarazuka Theater. This allows people who are not the Top Star of their troupe to get leads. These smaller scale shows often receive home video release on Blu-ray, but whether or not it does is based on the internal ranking of the star within Takarazuka (Top Stars always do, but baby’s first lead, not so much). So while not every Takarazuka show gets a home video release, the vast majority do. 

† Flower Troupe/Hanagumi’s Top Star Towaki Sea, the Top Musumeyaku Hoshizora Misaki, and the nibante, Seino Asuka, respectively.

‡ In the pre-Blu-ray era, DVDs not only included the Blu-ray special features, but additional features (like digests for any switch cast roles, documentary features), and came on two discs. 

§ There are some shows that are never released on home video for copyright reasons, usually imported musicals with very complicated licensing agreements (like Big Fish). This hasn’t happened to a GT show in decades and is usually kept to small theater shows, if at all.

[purplecatghostposts]

TELL US ABOUT YOUR FELIX RAREPAIRS BELOVED!!! IF YOU WANT TO!! <33

OKAY OKAY SO. To me, one of the core things when considering if a relationship with Félix would work is A: Would they be cool about the senti-thing and could they potentially make Félix feel safe enough to tell them about the senti-thing in the first place? And B: Do I think their relationship could be mutually beneficial? And as it turns out, you could argue yes to both for like, at least half of the Miracuclass.

For ME, making silly little rare pairs is looking at two characters and being like, “Okay but what if. What if they met in some way or helped each other out in some way or what if you got them to see the best in each other. What if.” And that is so so fun. Naturally because I love Félix, I think about this in the context of him the most.

So, because of this, my list of Félix Rare Pairs (and I’m gonna need y’all to not look at me like I’m crazy because I knowww) are:

- Félix/Nino (Started out as ‘They both care about Adrien and hate Gabriel’ and I just think if Nino ever found about the senti-thing he would be like, “Ohhh that’s so fucked up, parents should NOT be controlling their kids like that” and Félix would definitely like that. And I dunno maybe they kiss about it. Plus I would love the idea of Nino not being fooled whenever they swapped places because he knows Adrien/both of them too well.)

- Félix/Alya (Alya is very clever and always trying to solve the next great mystery and I like the idea of them working together. With both of their respective knowledge combined, they could kick ass and take names. Plus I think she could take charge and get him to chill out when he needs to and he could help her get the resources she needs to really kick off her reporter career and be VERY protective over her. And maybe get information for her through unlawful means.)

- Félix/Alya/Nino (For all of the above reasons but also… The idea of Alya and Nino having to explain to Adrien and Marinette that they’re both kinda seeing Félix on the regular is just. An extremely funny image to me.)

- Félix/Sabrina (Okay this is a weird one I know BUT. Both Dog Miraculous Holders. I think Sabrina should get to go apeshit and Félix could encourage this. Also she’s very loyal and I think Félix would be quietly baffled that she goes through all this trouble for him. Also also Sabrina is like, canonically VERY smart and uses a lot of her skills for Chloé so I think if Félix saw how skilled and versatile she is as a person, he’d respect her a lot. Also also also. Chloé would be so weirded out by their relationship and that image is funny to me.)

- Félix/Nathaniel/Marc (I’m definitely not the first one in this because I’ve seen it around so I’m probably repeating some stuff here but. Queer theater kids. Nathaniel and Marc have a lot of skills but are under confident in them so Félix keeps pushing them to see their own worth. A somewhat “They asked for NO pickles” dynamic but also, Nathaniel and Marc could bring out that softer side in Félix that we already see in Feligami. Two birds and a goat in love, what will they do? I dunno it’s just fun to think about!)

- Félix/Mylène/Ivan (A hugeee part of this is that Mylène and Ivan are activists and would absolutely advocate for Senti-Rights. Beyond that, they’re both very sweet and protective people that I think would be good for Félix. In return, he can help them in gaining the right connections in the world and help in fundraisers and such. The image of this ship is just really funny to me? Two very normal people and their mutual boyfriend who threatens corrupt politicians that they adore? Am I making any sense?)

- Félix/Luka/Kagami (This is one I WILL write about and I really need to finish one of my one shots of but just. It’s so good to me. Guy who knows too much meets the other two people who know too much and can be honest around them. They’re all bisexual. Established poly couple Feligami both looking at this guy, then realizing they’ve caught feelings for this guy, then trying to gauge if Luka feels the same way. Luka thinking it won’t work out but confessing anyways. They snatch him up IMMEDIATELY. Luka, who has only known slow burns, now caught in their whirlwind fast burn of a romance and is (pleasantly) overwhelmed. Do you see my vision??)

And yeah. Also it’s important to note that I also love taking any of these ships and also having either poly couple Feligami or Queerplatonic Feligami also going on in the background. Because that’s also fun.

In conclusion: I’m having fun playing with my touys, thank you for the ask <333

[eclipsedshadowk]

Surely, no one will understand me, but

[ya-boi-haru]

Kaleidoscope, Prison Duo, Ghaae, Centross x Kai, End Duo, Ariboo, Garden Duo (probs more - pick your poison)...

With a Beauty and the Beast AU

(More specifically, the 2011 "Beastly" adaptation)

[elpeadro]

I diagnose the Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld gang with QPR (queer-platonic relationship). It is so blatant and I love them so much.

Jentry-Michael: childhood best friends who haven't seen each other for half their lives after one of them accidentally burned down half the town (including her best friend’s home) with her magical fire powers and got sent away to Korea. Hit it off like nothing ever happened the day Jentry gets back in town. Gugu teases her about him because Jentry is not subtle at all. Protagonist girl x stereotypical love interest boy. Get to bond over being pressured to be someone they’re not by parental figures and being lied to about their powers. He dreams about her at night. (Don’t worry it’s not creepy.) She nearly kills him while he’s at work. Dating life stop-starts like 5 times because of shenanigans and poor communication and also maybe because their relationship isn’t meant to be romantic in nature.

Jentry-Kit: shapeshifter-adjacent demon who stalks, flirts with, seduces, lies to, threatens, and makes and wears a skin-suit of his mark only to fold after one (1) conversation, when she suggests he already has a soul, because he is that desperate for love and validation. Oh, and he’s working for the main villain who killed her parents, her great-aunt, and is actively trying to kill her. Protagonist girl x cool aloof bad boy love interest. Get to bond over being manipulated into fighting their authority figures’ feud/war. Lowkey is responsible for her almost killing stereotypical love interest boy. One kiss is enough to make him crash out when she rejects his advances afterwards. He falls for the oldest trick in the book, which is falling for your mark. He nearly dies distracting Cheng so that she can save the day (fuck you canon; you can’t take him away from me). He does this by wearing his Jentry skin-suit. They share the most homoerotically-charged scene in a TV-PG show while he’s building and putting on said skin-suit. Him nearly stealing her qi is so intimate and also please don’t do that without her consent sir 💀.

Michael-Kit: did you not SEE episode 5? They’re the nastiest parallels to ever parallel, to the point that their narrative energy warps reality and makes the lunch lady go on a comically direct lecture about how they need to choose for themselves what they want. This lecture is somehow about their identity issues and entire life’s course, and also about what they want for lunch. It is entirely unprompted. Kit nearly got him killed at work. They’re two-thirds of a love triangle, and a triangle can only be a triangle if it has 3 sides. (You get what I’m saying?) They were brothers-in-arms at the Alamo. They’re both incapable of not lying. Michael dreams about him the same number of times he dreams about Jentry. (Don’t worry it’s still not creepy.) They somehow avoid the stereotypical “high school love triangle drama” plot points between the two of them only because they’re busy fucking up their relationships in even bigger ways. Oh, and he prom-posed to Kit.

Michael-Stella: walking cliche of the high school “it” couple that was doomed the moment they set foot on the show. They were going to go to college together ffs. They dodge love triangle cliches regarding Jentry because they both think she’s that cool. She makes him protein bars. (Which suck, but it’s the thought that counts.) Football player x comphet lesbian. No seriously, she’s the most comphet lesbian to ever comphet lesbian.  They have cliche “romantic chemistry”, but then they break up because he lies to her about wanting to be a shitty flute player over a superstar wide receiver recruit (except it’s not really a lie, but also it is), and they move over the “awkward exes” period and are much better characters and friends. He dreams about her at night as well. (Again, still not creepy.)

Jentry-Stella: the girliest girl friend duo in the world. Stella helps her adjust to a new school in a way that is so nice and sweet that it’s one of the more unrealistic parts of the show. They have a scene in Stella’s bedroom. Their male love interests fumble them at roughly the same time, and then they do spirit week together and are having the time of their lives. She braids Jentry’s hair. They’re both so cool, but also so lame in their own ways. Also there’s no way Stella doesn’t have somewhat of a crush on her because 1) Jentry is that cool and pretty and awesome, and 2) Stella is a certified girl lover.

Kit-Stella: look they didn’t really interact in canon, but he’s on her shit list. She’s got her eye on him at all times, because Jentry may have forgiven him, but she’s watching out for her friend. She 100% gave him the shovel talk. Things get REALLY awkward if Jentry and/or Michael aren’t there, because these two are easily the weak link of the QPR.

Also all four of them are some form of queer.

[achirding]

Sonic finds that there are some definite perks to being the king. C:

[dabeth-is-dead]

One fun thing about being definitively aroace but loving romance as a plot device is that my shipping knows no gender restrictions because my interest is entirely literary/anthropological in nature

[kakushigotofanclub]

Obasanegiyuu is so freaking funny to me because I imagine it's just Sanemi and Obanai complaining about Giyuu to each other and the complaints slowly going from "he acts like he thinks he's better than everyone" to "why is he so dark and mysterious all the time" to "he's got these infuriatingly gorgeous eyes like-"

And then one day they just look at each other and go oh shit

[spittyfishy]

Danganronpa WLWeek2023 day seven: Free Day

Athletic polycule slowly absorbing enough members for a full girls volleyball team

@danggirlronpa

[autumnalfallingleaves]

I think they'd be cute, to be honest, and if they don't have a ship name yet, I vote for "HavocSpecter" :)

Bonus doodle and rambles underneath the cut

reblogs are highly appreciated, and please do not repost my art

[nevertheless-moving]

thinking about how fucking impossible it would be to pine secretly after someone on roshar. Like even if we assume that passionspren are only summoned by the most intense love and/or horniness - that's almost worse isn't it? Because you wouldn't be able to laugh it off like 'haha just a passing thought. Whoops again? Hahaha oh I suppose I have a little crush'

Anyway Kaladin doing one of his canonical epic hero glowing stunts with his canonical destroyed/soaked clothing (what. the man is constantly avoiding shardblades and arrows by a hairsbreath and flying around In Highstorms. The only reason he would even have pants at the end of WOR after the everstorm/highstorm fight is because we're following comic book rules- there's no way this man isn't going through clothes faster than James T Kirk - even if he's not his uniform shirt is WHITE and -)

ANYWAY kaladin having one of his Protaganist Moments and like. There is less than than zero time between the 'Oh. Oh.' Moment and Eventual Feelings Reveal because blorbo B is very visibly displaying a personified manifestation of intense romantic adoration.

[crescentpaws]

was told to post this here so. yeah.

where my fintan x bronte enjoyers at yoooooo (i’m delusional)

[midnight-blue-goth]

An OT4 where they all 'hate' each other 👌💯

[everythingwasalreadypicked]

Ethan: I think I'm in love with Alabaster. Thoughts?

Chris: ...and prayers. You're going to need them.

[getvalentined]

Getting back on my Zack Is Canonically Polyamorous soapbox because the people need to know and also the number of people accusing Aerith of being unfaithful in Rebirth is absolutely fucking ridiculous when taking Zack's romantic escapades into account.

There are spoilers here, and I'm tagging accordingly, but I'm not putting it under a cut.

We know for a fact that Zack is in a relationship with Aerith. We've known this since the OG, although we didn't know most of the details back then, just that they were together. In Remake, Aerith describes Zack as her "first love." In Chapter 11 of Rebirth, the first memories of Zack that Cloud reclaims are of him talking about how great Aerith is, and Cloud describes him as being "head over heels" for her. In Chapter 8, we found out that Zack's parents were able to recognize her based entirely on Zack gushing about her when he wrote home—and this is one of the most important parts, honestly.

Zack has a thing with Cissnei. We don't know how deep it is, but throughout Crisis Core (and even in the summer event in Ever Crisis) we can see very clearly that there is something between them, and it's never treated like a big deal. She's never completely honest about her feelings, so we can assume he didn't know that she saw him as anything more than a casual thing, but they have a relationship. It's made explicitly clear that this is the case when Zack returns to Gongaga and she lets him know that she's spoken to his parents, and he warns her that they're basically going to suggest that she marry him.

Zack's parents know about his relationship with Aerith and they also apparently know enough about his relationship with Cissnei to suggest that she make that relationship "official." They want her to join the family. They asked, she apparently reciprocated, and she lives in Gongaga after Veld is "killed."

Cissnei is also aware that Zack is in a relationship with Aerith, but that doesn't stop her from pursuing him anyway. She gets it and she's okay with it. She never, at any point, tries to push him away from Aerith—she's the one that tells him how special Aerith is, how important, how lonely. She's supportive of his relationship, and doesn't seem to feel that it makes her own feelings or their relationship any less valid.

Okay, so that's proof that the people around him are, at the very least, okay with him having multiple partners. That doesn't necessarily mean he's poly, though, maybe he's just a womanizer and everyone accepts it. Weird, but possible. He's really endearing so maybe they all give him a pass.

But no! No this isn't it at all! And we know it because of how Zack responds to Aerith being in love with someone else in Rebirth. When he finds out that Aerith is has feelings for Cloud, there's not a hint of jealousy in a single thing he does or says. He's disappointed when Marlene says it's because he wasn't there, but it's not disappointment in Aerith or in Cloud—it's disappointment in himself, because Marlene is right. He wasn't there. He couldn't protect her. There's also no spite there, he never responds like her feelings are wrong because he's here now and that means Aerith can rely on him again, and we know that because of how he responds to this information.

Zack finds out that Aerith has feelings for Cloud, and his immediate mission is to make sure that Cloud recovers as quickly as possible. Now it's not just for him, it's not just because that's his friend, it's because Aerith loves him (too) and that means he has to save Cloud for both of them.

He's fully supportive of Aerith and Cloud having a relationship, to the point that the last thing he says to Cloud when he gets thrown into a dying timeline is a request that he take care of Aerith. He's not exactly passing the torch here, because he's still alive—but he doesn't know if he'll be able to meet back up with a version of Cloud that is awake again, and he needs Cloud to know that he supports them in this.

And then, in the dying timeline where Zack is banished after fighting Sephiroth, he has the ability to synergize with Cloud from across the multiverse. The DMW limit break connected to Aerith is active in the space. All three of them are together here, just not physically; Cloud and Aerith are protecting Zack as much as Zack has been struggling to protect them.

Zack loves that Aerith loves someone other than him because that's how he is too. Zack has multiple relationships at the same time, he loves multiple people at the same time, he has emotionally intimate connections with multiple people at the same time. Why would he take issue with the love of his life feeling the same way?

Cloud isn't his replacement any more than Cissnei and Aerith are interchangeable, and Zack understands that, because Zack is polyamorous—and he's really happy that Aerith may be, too.