Saturday: start to feel like I'm coming down with something. Take a home COVID test, it's negative.
Sunday: definitely got Something. Go to the clinic, get tested for strep and COVID. Both negative. But! They tell me that I came in so soon after symptoms started, I might be getting false negatives. Also, I ask about home tests and am told they're pretty reliable.
Monday evening: take another home test. Set a timer for 10 minutes but don't need it as I watch the positive test result develop before my very eyes. Report my positive home test results to the CDC.
I strive to be him. He's so silly, he has an unsettling aura. I am him and he is me. He's my babygirl, he's my wife. I would end him, he's done nothing wrong in my eyes. He's so me coded, I hope he dies.
Good morning I'm thinking about how Azure Lion's treatment of Monkey King kinda explains a lot about Monkey Kings teaching style in LMK
Azure absolutely lavished Wukong with praise in a manipulative sense, described him as something he really wasn't "I see non other fit to rule us than you brother" yada yada and everyone followed behind him because Azure's right! He says truthful stuff! Nevermind the others clearly never once thought of Monkey King as their leader. At least not until Azure said it. Because Monkey King in LMK wasn't a warring being, honestly he just seemed like a young adult being manipulated by much older adults.
Azure crafted Monkey King into someone who would fight his battles for him. Wukong was on the front lines, Wukong took the fall for it. He used his relationship with sun wukong to manipulate him into taking on Heaven and ngl atho I'm still kinda :T about it, (it takes away so much of Monkey Kings character,) it really does explain why he acts the way he does around Mk at the beginning.
Starting out he kept him at arms length. It was a while before he even made contact with him outside of sparring and the contact he makes with him is minimal from the start, a hand on his shoulder and never for long. (Azure's hand and gaze always lingered on Monkie King, when theyre about to go to war Azure doesnt let go, Wukong has to be the one to pull away.) He doesn't lavish him in praise ever if he can help it, he doesn't ever tell Mk he's something he's not and when stuff like Spider Queen and Lady Bone Demon happen his first reaction is to get Mk away from those things, not because he doesn't trust Mk, but maybe because he would never ever make Mk fight his battles like Azure Lion did him.
"...you command me to renew unspeakable grief." idk if this was virgils intent but god i hope it was bc Aeneas's name in greek translates to terrible grief. he says she commands him to renew himself. bc hes losing himself............
kagurabachi is so good yall please please listen it’s so good im crying i loved cloud gouger im gonna miss that fucking sword so badly but enten is back AND HE DID THE POSE AND PLEASE READ