#I finally played The Last of Us! huzzah

[tiredandoptimistic]

thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com complete "riddle" questions and answers

When I first started looking through lists of keywords for thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com, I was confused by a bunch of them which, when entered, produced questions which seem completely unrelated to their trigger phrases. I realized that all the prompts are answers to other questions, meaning it's possible to put them in order and create a complete test. I doubt I'm the first to figure this out, but I still think it's super cool, so here's all the questions and how to find their answers!

(Apologies in advance for the photo quality, they're all described in alt text).

First, you enter the code "RIDDLE" to get "WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME?" which to me is proof that Bill at least has decent taste in movies.

Next, you can either type "NO" or "YES," to get either "YOUR LOSS..." or "WHAT"S MCGUCKET'S FAVORITE SODA"

The answer to this question is "MOUNTAIN DON'T," and while I swear I remember reading this someplace, I can't find the actual source.

Once you enter it, you get the question "WHAT'S A MEDIEVAL HOMONYM?"

Which can be found in the Dark Ages pages of The Book of Bill, in the border of the illuminated manuscript:

"LYRE LIAR"

"Anti-Cipher Tonic" appears near the end of the "Anti Cipher Society" pages, complete with an ingredients list:

The twentieth of which is "Harold's Ramblings"

When you enter it you get another question to which I cannot find the source of the answer, but going off the list of phrases that've been found, I'm guessing it's "UNION MADE"

Bill's government file can be found on the page about the 1940s, and is labeled with:

A number which gets you:

Okay and I swear this is the last one I can't show my work on, but wherever you find it the answer is "Grebley Hemberdreck"

A reference to the picture of Bill celebrating the bubonic plague on the Dark Ages page.

And that funky little rodent gives you:

A reference to Thurburt Mudget Waxstaff III of the Anti-Cipher Society and his eventual fate of being institutionalized:

Once you enter his number, you get a question about tracks in the snow:

Which is answered on Ford's missing journal pages about winter in Gravity Falls:

The tinsel snake gets you "THE 6TH OPTION ON BILL'S EDITING SOFTWARE?"

Which can be found on the page where Bill designs a cover for his book:

The sixth option, "Torture Mentally," leads to:

Which is yet another reference to the Dark Ages, and Bill's adventures with the wizard Xgqrthx the Unpronounceable.

Whose name produces:

An address which is provided on the 1990s Tri Angels page, in the mail order form:

Said address takes you to:

To answer this question, you need to do a little more digging around the website. When you enter the code "NAITSUAF," you get a letter from Bill attempting to recruit you into his MLM soul-selling scheme, complete with this note from his lawyer:

And once you enter the name "MULTILEVEL MARK," you get the final question:

(For some reason I haven't figured out, "CAESAR ATBASH VIGENERE" produces the same result as "MULTILEVEL MARK," so that's one way to skip to the end I guess).

Silas Birchtree is referenced in The Book of Bill on the Cults page:

But his full story isn't revealed until you enter "STOD EHT TCENNOC" on the website.

The whole document is definitely a worthwhile read, but there's really only one aspect that's relevant to our purpose:

It was Emmaline Butternubbins who killed Silas Birchtree (again) in 1952! And when you enter her name into the computer, it tells you that you've finally earned a treat. Huzzah!

(Interestingly to me a least, "EMMALINE BUTTERNUBBINS" and "BUTTERNUBBINS" both work as codes, but "EMMALINE" does not. I guess Bill's not on a first name basis with her).

Anyways, once you enter "DISPENSE MY TREAT," a folder is downloaded onto your device which is full of text-free versions of art from The Book of Bill, which you can use for desktop wallpapers or any other nefarious purposes your mind can conceive of.

I hope you've enjoyed going on this journey with me, because I've sure spent an amount of time on it.

[misterspectacular]

GOOD OMENS 2 SPOILERS, READ AT YOUR OWN RISK, JUST STATING MY THOUGHTS BASICALLY

SO MY FRIEND AND I BINGED SEASON 2 OF GOOD OMENS THE SECOND IT WAS RELEASED! What an adrenaline rush pahahahaa to have waited that long, and finally get it, it was a lot, I think we almost died.

(I dunno how to do the "keep reading" thing so have some dots)

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I honestly would say that season 2 of Good Omens is better than season 1. Nearly the entire thing was Crowley and Aziraphale. YES. They're what I want.

Also, the way the flashbacks were arranged -- perfect! They were longer and more fleshed out and we got continuations of some of them! Huzzah!

Gabriel was hilarious, as usual. Jim was even funnier. Conflicting feelings about Gabriel for most of the season, I started forgiving him towards the end though. The thing with Beelzebub was pretty nice.

It starting off with angel Crowley, he was such a dork, finding out he KNEW AZIRAPHALE THEN, wow! Highlight!

The apology dance was a highlight,

Crowley drinking poison and shrinking/growing and sounding like a Leprechaun was a highlight,

All of Crowley's different accents -- all highlights.

THE FACT THAT CROWLEY IS THE ONE THAT GOT AZIRAPHALE EATING, THE WAY THAT WHOLE THING HAPPENED, THAT WAS CERTAINLY A HIGHLIGHT.

Crowley pretending to be EVIL!!! I didnt fall for it for a second, I was like, yeah okay so where did the goats actually go hahaa! Into the crows, amazing!

Aziraphale with his halo, that was freaking awesome -- he was pretty badass in this season, at some points.

THEM DANCING TOGETHER!!! Jfhsnsnehdiend

The magic act! And it working, even without using actual miracles!

Crowley making it rain, ha, I did that in a RP.

Aziraphale being... look, he's freakin adorable, the way he cradled the, well, the tumor -- I mean, it sounds weird, but it was actually incredibly endearing -- he was very endearing, as always.

THINKING HE WAS GOING TO FALL, and crying about it, and Crowley cheering him up!! YESSS

And... Crowley's realization... SAYING AZIRAPHALE COULD NEVER BE A SIDE PIECE jddjsbdje

Crowley FALLING APART as he OPENS UP TO AZIRAPHALE!!! OUCH! That was like being stabbed, but somehow in a good way, because YES HES SAYING IT, JESUS FUCK

And...

THE

KISS

Like holy-fucking-moly! Dream come true, right there!! I did NOT expect things to go in that direction, I thought we were going to play it safe, and I am so glad that I was wrong. I've wanted these two to kiss for A LONG TIME, I've role played kissing AZIRAPHALE SO MANY TIMES, I've written stories, that was -- well, this was my response at the time: hfjdnelsneksndkwndjskwjznwjs jdneksneksjs disndjsnskw djjwdne idens! LITERALLY A DREAM COME TRUE, NEARLY EXPLODED!!! Like Crowley and Aziraphale literally kissed, mouth to mouth, its canon, it happened, the music swelled, they did it, it's real. Never thought I'd have pictures of men kissing up on my wall but I think I might need to print that out and hang it up, this was not just a highlight of season 2, this was A HIGHLIGHT OF MY LIFE! THANKS FOR THE NOURISHMENT, GAIMAN

and the nightingale thing -- "I don't hear anything" "that's the point, no nightingales", killed me man. THE NIGHTINGGALE, WHY IS IT ALWAYS THE NIGHTINGALE! OW! I DID NOT CRY ABOUT IT, I SWEAR ! ! !

Aziraphale saying I FORGIVE YOU ksndjwnsje I dont understand why he said that when just seconds ago he was saying LET US BE TOGETHER HOORAY, my friend and I were talking and I said, well last time he said I FORGIVE YOU it was after Crowley called him stupid, and my friend was like, well didnt Crowley call him an idiot this time, call back, so maybe that was it,

Aziraphale touching his lips like that after the kiss, holy fuck, A++++, but a painful A++++

and then CHOOSING METATRON!?!? WHAAAAAT?!?!?! I was reeeaaallly hoping he'd run to Crowley and KISS HIM or SOMETHING, but he -- METATRON, NOOoooOooOooo!!! So that was an extremely painful ending. and I realize that for Season 3 to happen, something would HAVE to push fans into creating that build-up and that NEED for another season, but.... OW! how long do I have to live with this pain??? If season 3 is NEVER MADE, it's going to end on this note??? it'd better get made jdbekdnwksn HOLY FUCK, I also better not DIE BEFORE IT'S MADE. I'll be over here, guts out, "cant die... yet... need... to see... Aziraphale and Crowley... make up...! Need... season... 3...!"

So yeah I'll be watching that over and over and over and over and over and over and ov

[subject-2-change]

Huzzah! I have been roped into a wholeosme ask game, and now I'm pulling you into it too! 😄

List 5 things that make you happy! 😁 Then if you like, put this prompt in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! No pressure of course.☺️

Awwww I could use a little wholesome right now!

My precious baby cat. I adore her!

Good food and vibes of my place of work.

Music 🎶 especially angry music

The rain. Finally! I hope it does again soon.

D&D, particularly that it allows me to play imagination with friends.

Honorable mention to fandom art, in all forms. Like your videos!

Thanks for the ask! 😄

[boxingcleverrr]

SO 5-DAY BLIZZCON VACATION WAS GREAT.

Con itself was good, everyone agreed they sold too many tickets though lols. Like, understandable for the first in-person con since 2019, and the production value was just *chef's kiss* like goddamn those set pieces in each section, ahhhh. That Microsoft money + ditching the dead pervy weight looks real good.

However yeah, too many people. It's my third sold-out year and I have never been sardined like I was both days in various areas. I think because it was a) relatively last minute and b) the actors are on strike, there weren't as many panels, so almost everything was condensed to one floor, which....seemed unwise. Even people w/portal passes were like, yeah those did almost no good re: lines and waits. So hopefully that's something what gets fixed.

(seriously, Darkmoon shoulda been it's own floor again, buuuh)

BUT OTHERWISE, a very good time had, less bothered by such things as yeah it wasn't my first rodeo, I didn't have that burning NEED to see EACH AND EVERY THING, just zero in on what I knew I wanted to see/do.

We did our cosplay day 1, as we knew day 2 would be full of the real ready-for-community-night looks and indeed, it were. Even still we got lots of photo ops and compliments, and I was definitely bolstered in regards to attacking my own bigger, more impressive armor-heavy builds in the future.

Avatar vestments next year? WE SHALL SEE.

Friendtimes and Husbandtimes were of course good, but keeping mostly for meee. Still, it was so good to become 13 year olds on a long weekend sleepover, basically, except we can all drink and make our Bubba Gump waitress laugh. Made some brand new friends! Connected with ones I've not seen since Japan! Huzzah!

Ang is of course the magic friend who becomes friends with everyone, and as such brought us along to the Lost Codex meetup at the Hilton, which was rad. My creativity needed it, frankly, and spouse was incredibly bolstered by the conversations and connections. We got THINGS we're gonna be doing, STUFF.

Also I got to hug Spanner and Terran and NETWORK?! WTF is that? What do I do with all these business cards?!

(shhh I know what to do with them, but yanno. STUFF)

The rest of the weekend was uuuuuhhh, enjoying being with my spouse, getting high by the pool/in front of Nanalan tiktoks, and a LOT of Cheesecake Factory. Like don't get me wrong, we sought out some Real Mexican Food and Hawaiian Fusion too, but.

Cheesecake Factory. In California.

that Steak Diane, my beloved.

I love airports, flying is the worst. Which is my only other complaint: Why are bodies and why does being in the sky affect them more and more with age. Grr.

But yeah, I am going to recover and watch the Candela finale (I've avoided spoilers!!!!), toast burritos on my woodstove, and be sad I'm not with friends but excited to make things!

And play WoW again, haha.

[thewholedamnboulangerie]

WIP tag game

I was tagged by @kimchaybrainrot! Ty beloved!! 💕💕

My current WIPs, in the order I last looked at them and for which I have actually written something:

1. Big Bang fic!! I'm finally making some headway!! I am still very very behind schedule but I am no longer horrifically behind schedule! Huzzah!!

2. Deal with the devil KimChay my belovedest concept!! In which a baby Kim made a deal with the devil on his 7th birthday without really knowing what he was doing, and is now impervious to physical harm, and is convinced he's lost his soul in exchange. Post-canon, Chay finds out about this, and decides to help Kim get his soul back.

3. Empath Chay - this was supposed to be for week 4 of the KP anniversary event but uh. WELL. That did not happen! It would have been a very fun fic though, with empath Chay being used to feeling everyone else's emotions all the time - until he meets Kim, who represses his emotions so ruthlessly that Chay can't feel them at all (and immediately thinks he's having a Twilight moment ofc ofc ofc).

4. KinnBig birthday ficlet - listen the birthday in question has LONG SINCE come and gone, and I suspect that no one (least of all the intended recipient) cares enough about KinnBig any more for this to even be worth thinking about any more, BUT... I do have a lil soft spot for this WIP. I might necromance it someday. Whomst can say.

5. Reverse Uno - I can't lie folks this one's been a WIP for a year now and hasn't been looked at in at least 9 months, I think it's well and truly in the graveyard now. HOWEVER!! It was supposed to be about Tankhun and Chay becoming friends post-canon, Tankhun finding out about the entire KimChay situation and attempting to matchmake them back together, Chay immediately cottoning on to what he's doing, simultaneously noticing that Tankhun is hopelessly in love with Arm, and just going "two can play at that game, P'Khun 😇". Notably featuring Chay asking Kinn for help and Kinn replying with "...I would not be an effective ally in this situation BUT I know someone who CAN help!" Enter: TAY.

Tagging @bisexualbard @snickerdoodlles and @majestictortoise (sorry if you've already been tagged!) ✨

[sheliesshattered]

Interior sleeve finishes:

Done!

Armscye facing:

Done!

Neckline facing and reinforcement for trim and beading:

Done!

Visibility from the outside:

NONE!

Pardon my excitement over finishing these finishings, but I'm just so glad to be done. All of these were fiddly, time-consuming handsewing, but now that they're done, all the interior finishes of the overdress are checked off my list. I still need to do the hem (probably very last step of the whole project), and the handsewing on the underdress seamlines are still ongoing, but this is still a huge section of the project done. Huzzah.

Someone on the Dragon Con discord mentioned the other day how much time cosplayers spend doing teeny tiny hand-stitches that no one else will ever see, because the whole point of them is to be invisible. The dimpling along the sleeve seam is just a little bit visible, even after ironing, but that's mostly down to the thickness of the flat-felled fabric there. But the neckline and armscye finishes are completely invisible, even from close up, which is exactly what I wanted. A lot of effort, but worth it.

With all the finishing (except the hem) done, it's finally finally time to move on to the trim portion of this project! The wide strip of organza to finish the neckline was measured to match the 1.5" trim that will be going along there, and that will have ~200 tiny garnet seed beads sewn on top. The red silk can be a little fragile feeling, so I wanted to be sure that the trim+beading would have plenty of support to grab onto.

Getting that trim placed and seamed together at center front and shoulder seams is going to be another tedious project, but I think getting that -- and the narrow trim that goes over the seamlines -- into place will really bring the dress into focus and make it look a lot more like the screen-used dress. The narrow trim is going to look something like this:

I need to play around with it a bit to figure out placement and technique, but I'm planning to anchor it to the interior vertical seam finishings if possible. It all needs to be handsewn, but the trim is so narrow that I think I'll either be able to do a single line of stitches, or a narrow zig-zag alternating between the sides. This trim is on nine of the ten seams (not center back, for some reason, but eh I'll match the show and skip that one) running from shoulder to floor, so even if the handsewing itself is fast, I've got a lot of ground to cover.

The narrow trim disappears under the wide neckline trim at center front and over the shoulders (a fact I used when drafting the shoulders waaaaay back in January, which is weird to think about now), so I may end up sewing on at least the upper edge of the wide trim before I do the trim for those five seams, just so I can position it correctly in relation to the bottom edge of the wide trim. I think I'll start with one of the underarm seams, though, until I have a good grasp on the technique for couching the narrow trim along the seamlines.

Besides getting started on the trim, this week I also want to keep hacking away at all the seam finishes for the underdress. This past week I was able to finish a stretch of one seam from waist to floor, and start on another one. It's another part of this project that is very slow and tedious work, but it would be even more fiddly if I tried to do it by machine, so I'm just going to keep at it little by little.

The only other thing I might try to tackle this week is sewing the hooks and eyes to the forearm opening of the sleeves. It's not hugely pressing, but I do want to have those in and functioning before I add this same narrow trim to the cuff of the sleeves. I still need to figure out what I want to do for the wide flat circular medallions? beads? trim? that are just above that. I think I might be able to replicate the ones on the show using the narrow trim, but if not I do have a couple of options bookmarked on Etsy.

And speaking of, this last week I also ordered the last piece of jewelry I need, and the bits for making the one thing that I haven't been able to find a good stand-in for also arrived. Jack has promised to help me with that, we just haven't gotten to it yet. I'll definitely post pics once that's done. There are a couple of other little bits -- lacing rings and aglets -- that I need to order for the decorative dragon-claw lacings on the front of the dress, but I my shopping list is definitely getting pretty short.

Not counting today, there are 86 days left until Dragon Con, basically just 12 weeks plus a couple of days for packing and last minute wig fussing and such. And I think I'm well on track to get this project done, including a little matching bag to carry all my con necessities around in.

Buuut I've also sourced all the bits I would need for the other cosplay I'm really excited about, including an alternative for the one piece I want to sew, in case I run out of time to sew it. And then there's the classic-and-comfy cosplay that I've been meaning to tackle for literal decades that would be fun to have for an easy Thursday evening cosplay, and ugh I just want to sew all the things!

OTOH, given that it's 12 weeks until Dragon Con, I'm also trying to get my sleep schedule under control again, and walk earlier (and longer) every morning, to prepare for all the walking that con entails. So I should probably wrap up this post, maybe do a little more handsewing on the underdress before bed, and make myself get some sleep. And hopefully not dream about working on cosplay again tonight, lol.

[enbyleighlines]

Leigh plays Tellius prt 11

It's time to push around some priests!

I absolutely adore how Tellius has so many cartoonishly evil villains. Schaeffer especially is so much fun to hate.

Regrettably, I underestimated the boss, and wound up losing Boyd to a crit from his killer bow, so I had to do this map twice. Whoops...

On my second go, I hatched a plan that would allow me to take down Schaeffer without any risk of getting one-shot by a critical hit. I first left an unarmed Soren in Schaeffer's killer bow range, knowing that he's immune to critical hits so long as Ike is adjacent to him. Then on my next turn, I had Ike deal the finishing blow, with Reyson hovering nearby in case I needed someone to make a hasty retreat.

Schaeffer's defeat lines are so funny. You don't get more cartoonishly evil than this.

Here's a visual of what everything looked like. I actually had to use Reyson to give Ike a second turn, because he wasn't able to kill Schaeffer in one round. I also had to put that priest in the lower left corner to sleep at one point, because I accidentally left Boyd in his range with a two-handed weapon.

Now it's time for this scene! I wonder if the writing on the wall actually translates to anything, or if it's just random gibberish that's been copy and pasted.

Do we ever find out just how many siblings Reyson has? Is having a ton of siblings a heron-only thing? Or was Lorazieh and his wife just overambitious? I feel like, with how canonically frail herons are, that childbirth would be difficult for them.

How does one translate a name into a different language?

Ranulf has returned!!!

I think this may be my favorite thing Ranulf has ever said. He is such a fucking charmer. Ugh, my heart.

I snorted at Ranulf calling Soren a "nervous little staff officer". Most people consider Soren moody and detached, but I think this is the first time someone has described him as "nervous". But I think it makes sense if Soren always seems nervous around the laguz.

And now we finally get Ike and Soren's relationship to A rank! Huzzah!

I also got Mist and Boyd to B rank at long last. And it looks like Boyd is the one who started crushing first. Unsurprising, really. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Boyd's love language is dunking on people and being dunked on. It's only natural he would fall in love with Mist, who dunks on Boyd like she's getting paid for it.

Yay! The infamous Aimee and Soren scene! I always wondered about this bit, though. What do you mean, there's only one of these in all the world? Then how does one also exist in Radiant Dawn? Is this a mistranslation?

Next was the bridge map! I could have looked up a map about which squares to avoid, but I was too lazy to do that, and instead relied on my memory. Which turns out was a bad idea, because I still fell into a bunch of holes! Even so, I didn't have any problems with this map.

Lucia! Behold, a true bicon.

I had to get Petrine and Soren's dialogue. I am a little sad we never get to learn more about Petrine being Branded. How does she feel about it? Has she experienced discrimination before? Surely her experiences have influenced her fanatic hatred of the laguz. And perhaps her overconfident personality is her overcompensating for a secret self-loathing? Idk, I think it would be interesting if they explored that.

I decided to give the killing blow to Boyd, as a bit of an apology, both for letting him die to Schaeffer, but also for putting provoke on him so he would take all the hits from the ballistae.

Ike and Ranulf's C-rank conversation was immediately available after this map, so yay! And man, maybe it's just my shipper goggles blinding me from the obvious, but um, how else am I supposed to interpret this line other than Ranulf hitting on Ike?

Ike being so unbelievably tickled by Ranulf's stupid puns gives me so much life.

And that's part 11! We are getting into the endgame, and I'm starting to get nervous. Will I defeat the Black Knight? If I don't, does it count as letting Nasir die? Does that go against my "no deaths" rule?

Ahhhhh, let's hope all goes well.

[astrolotte]

I posted 1,098 times in 2022

That's 628 more posts than 2021!

188 posts created (17%)

910 posts reblogged (83%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 597 of my posts in 2022

Only 46% of my posts had no tags

#art - 70 posts

#my art - 61 posts

#splatoon - 58 posts

#fnaf - 57 posts

#artists on tumblr - 56 posts

#five nights at freddy's - 52 posts

#digital art - 45 posts

#artist - 39 posts

#charlie emily - 37 posts

#astrozei - 36 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#anyway. i shifted the colors around to better fit the character i drew. and by shifted the colors i mean i essentially stuck a filter on it

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Hi I have finally gotten around to reading all of the Alterna Logs after speedrunning my way through world 5 and 6 because I had enough eggs and didn't have to play any of them and. and.

Wow! They did a great job of continuing the Splatoon trend of giving us a funny concept with absolutely decimating lore behind it! I'm absolutely miserable now! /pos

more. under the cut. spoiler warning

ough what the FUCK /pos /pos /very much positive! Wow! All of humanity is dead but the new species exist because of US! That's absolutely miserable!

Honestly, I never really expected an actual reason to how the sea life evolved so quickly. I mean, it's only been 12,000 years since humanity died. There's no way that squids evolved into humanoids THAT FAST. But I didn't think much of it. Sure, Splatoon has a tendency to give proper and often detailed explanations towards little details (ex. the reason you can customize your character after the beginning is because squids can change color irl), but I just figured... eh. It's Splatoon. they can do what they want.

But NOPE! Turns out, there IS a reason for it!

I don't know if there's anyone still reading this who doesn't yet know the lore but doesn't care about spoilers, but here's a copy-pasted message from me talking to my friends about what the reason is:

"The few remaining humans on earth decided to build a dome underground, for their safety. Eventually, they developed these 'crystals' made from the bodily fluids of squids, that could essentially read minds and reflect the hopes of humanity. They filled the ceiling of the dome with these crystals, and they turned into the Earth's sky- the humans just wanted to be on the surface again, all we really wanted was to be back up there. All we wanted was to see the sky.

Eventually, this last group of humans had children, and the new generation was just as wistful as the last; they wanted to be on the surface too. Even though they had never seen it.

Against the wishes of their elders, they built a rocket ship to get back up there. But this... was a mistake. As soon as they attempted to turn it on, it started burning up the ceiling. The 'sky' fell, crystals included. It killed everyone. There were no more humans left on Earth.

But these crystals... they began to, essentially, merge with the sea life around their dome. And as the crystals reflected humanity's hopes and dreams, the sea life began to rapidly evolve into humanoids. They became humanoid because of us. Because of our desires and love and hope, the squids and octopi and every other creature we had found began to become us, or as close as they can get.

They are our last creation, our last little huzzah. The product of our last hope. They wanted to go to the surface just as we had, because that was what we wanted. They became land animals because of our dreams. They left the dome because that was all we wanted to do.

They saw our sky again for us. And yet, they had no clue that they were our result. They just... wanted to see the sky. Just as we had.

In typical Splatoon fashion, you have a funny premise (humanoid sea creatures have a society) followed by absolutely devastating lore."

Just... wow. Alright. Alright! That's some of the most horrifying lore we have yet! I mean, knowing that all the humans died because of World War 5 + global warming, including the few who survived in domes, was already miserable, but now.. now we get to know the history behind it. Now we get to know more about the domes they lives in, now we get to know more about their final years. Now we get to know that they hoped and dreamed too much.

They followed the story of Icarus: they flew too close to the sky. That's all they wanted to see, all they wanted was to be close to it again, they just wanted to see the blue sky and feel the breeze and watch the clouds. But they failed, and the sky they had, fake and artificial as it was, fell.

... Like Chicken Little.

375 notes - Posted September 11, 2022

#4

take me to splatoon city where the grass is green and the girls are squiddy

379 notes - Posted September 1, 2022

#3

hey Splatoon girlies how we feelin after the Splatfest? how we coping?

448 notes - Posted August 30, 2022

#2

oh my god

OH MY GOD??

I thought they were just named after the weather! Big Man's still left out tho...

EDIT in here too: Y'all. I KNOW Big Man is a pun on Man-ta ray. I was talking about how Shiver and Frye are named after groups of their respective fish, meanwhile Big Man's left out because a group of mantas aren't exactly called a big manta.

921 notes - Posted September 14, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Wait, I just realized.

In the final fight of Octo Expansion, against Commander Tartar and the NILS Statue, Tartar talks about how he was created to help the next sapient species not make the same mistakes as humanity.

He talks about how he was disgusted with the new species, and how he wanted to start anew.

Specifically, he details that he was horrified at the fact that they "obsess over trivial things like fashion", and "wage war over minor genetic deviations". All of these are things humanity did, too.

But now, with the new information from Splatoon 3, that... gets painted in a bit of a different light.

They obsess over fashion and fight over small differences, like us... because they're a product of us. They evolved the way they did because of our influence, as unintentional as it was.

Back then, I just thought that it was an unfortunate coincidence. But now it's... it's weird to look at.

Tartar hated them for the same things we did, not knowing that they were a product of our influence. God, that's just.. sad, huh?

1,009 notes - Posted September 11, 2022

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[chidoroki]

Fairy Tail: 100 Year Quest EP3

aka: let's get down to business

I like how to title screen actually focused in on the water dragon now that we’ve officially met him. That would be cool if the same happened with each dragon going forward.

“Great Water God Dragon! Why would you bring a bunch like that to the temple?” Kinda impressed the voice of Karameel sounded familiar to me at all, especially from someone like Olivier from No Guns Life.

Oh, and Mercphobia and Mars share va too but somehow that didn’t set off any bells in my head. Then again, I’m used to the Black Clover dub instead so that explains that I suppose.

Okay no, wait, they really have Carla’s guild mark on her arm. I wasn’t just seeing things last week nor was it an error? Because I’m like 99% sure it was originally on her back like Happy & Lily’s.

“That’s true. He seems harmless.” “That’s not true. I may not look it, but I have killed many people in the past. Like they were vermin.” Well damn, way to change the mood. Such a nice shot of Mercphobia though.

The way he so casually smiles after saying Karameel was nothing more than a meal he once found at sea is too good. I get he had a change of heart once she became attached to him but he looked so soft saying that.

Ichiya and his three cheerful boys were not on my bingo card of who we would see today. Yes I forget things. Nope I haven’t gone back and reread the chapters like I said I would.

Ah right, Jellal still asking around for clues about this Touka chick.

“If that woman’s guilty, then Levy’s in danger, too. I’ll never let her hurt Levy.” Gajeel is a sweetheart.

Pfft Juvia shielding Gajeel’s eyes. Good job girl.

Levy’s goddamn blank-pissed off stare upon seeing Gajeel onto of Juvia like that! AAAHA!

Thank god my memory didn’t fail me about Levy being pregnant.

It did, however, fail regarding the white mage stealing Merc’s power. Whoops. That’s kinda important, huh?

So, Kagura knows about Touka being in Fairy Tail because “they introduced her to me when I visited Magnolia last month.” With how quick everything happened, I assumed it’s only been a couple days since she joined but whatever. I guess that make's Levy's annoyances more reasonable if Gajeel has been out playing detective this whole time.

Also, it’s nice to see Kagura being able to chat with Jellal so normally after everything that happened. Glad they're on better terms nowadays.

“What?! It’s Fairy Tail again?” Surprise.

I like how they mentioned a while ago that there’s oxygen inside the temple so no one has to question how Natsu’s fire is suddenly working when it previously didn’t outside underwater.

Ayyyoo hold up, the animation is looking so good! I’m really loving this new art style they got going on!

Putting our hot head on a boat is such a dirty move considering new gen slayers don’t get motion sickness for whatever reason.

“My sword must he strong to protect my friends.” Help I’m falling in love with Erza all over again.

“I cut her strength itself.” BITCH. That I remembered and I still hate it.

Okay, listen, I’ll be one of the many people who would gladly allow Jade (HSR) to step on me, but someone like Kiria? NAH. Foot off the queen’s head please! How dare you!

Aww I love how Wendy went full dragon mode and rushed in to help Erza though!

Gray bringing out the ice demon stuff too!

Hello sir freezing the whole damn ocean, I see you!

Jellal’s tedious search finally comes to an end, huzzah.

Man.. this whole waiting for episodes thing sucks. I binged watched Fairy Tail however many years ago so I didn’t have to worry about it, but now I have no choice! Ahh! I want more! They’re doing so well.

[foxmonkey]

The Mandalorian, last episode! Spoilers! HAHAHAHAHAHA

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The Mandalorian S3:E8, The Return.

Here we go! Grogu saves Din Djarin! He's so cute I can't take it. Din telling Grogu they can't keep running and asking "Are you with me?" Grogu's little nod. The two of them is what all of these episodes should have been about. Their connection is so sweet.

Star Wars does ships and flying machines like no one else. Gorgeous.

R5! I thought that mouse droid was playing music at first, which would have been hilarious.

DIN DJARIN, BADASS LOOSE IN THE COMMAND CENTER. Seriously, he should have kept the Dark Saber because he's the best.

The mouse droids ganging up on R5 is hilarious.

The red guys again...aiiiii, they're after Grogu! Oh no, the IG unit is toast. :( K, Grogu force jumping away from the red guys and laughing....yes. Yay, Din saved Grogu. :-)

Bo vs. Moff Gideon: The Dark Saber is now toast.

Whee! Grogu used the force to save Bo and Din Djarin. This is definitely The Way. ...aaaaaand there he goes on his little butt. So cute.

Grogu cannot speak so he cannot take the creed. His disappointed little face! "Then I will adopt him as my own." SCREAMING!!!!!!!!! I hated so much of this season, but I'm smiling so hard right now. YES YES YES.

Aw, the Great Forge has been lit. Huzzah! I continue to love the Armorer.

I love Carson Teva. IG-11 is (kinda) back! He's the new marshall! I love this show.

Grogu plays with frogs while Din Dad watches from the porch of their new little cabin on the outskirts of town. THIS is what this last season should have been about. A perfect end to an imperfect season. I'm glad I finally watched.

[ashthehermit]

Legends of Tomorrow: A Retrospective 1.16

At LAST!  The finale of season one.  I truly cannot wait to get to the good stuff.  I don't even remember what happened in this episode.  Snart's death is the moment that stayed with me.  The only thing left to do is murder Savage.

LEGENDARY

The gang get back to 2016.  Rip explains why they're there, which is silly.  He doesn't want to kill him anymore.  He's being all defeatist, again.  A foolish man.  He's going to return their younger selves to the timeline.  Remember that?  I forgot.  He has had to bring them forwards five months, for reasons unknown.  And he never even left the ship.  He sent a hologram out to see them off.  Dick.

None of that made any sense.  I have no idea why Rip did any of that.

Probably so we could check in with these developments from Arrow.  More of Arrow ruining the flow of Legends.  Sara returns to Oliver's grief cave to learn that her sister has died.  I can think of no other reason that Rip dropped them off five months late.  

Rory attempts to replace Snart.  Ray attempts to step into Snart's place.  He even brought a balaclava.  This finale is weird.  This episode's timeline is way off.  It's slow.  All the momentum is gone.  Weren't you lot supposed to be saving Kendra?

'I like stealing stuff.  It makes me feel good.'

Stein plays trivia with Clarissa and manages to answer all the questions correctly because he's a time traveller.  Apparently he hasn't even told Clarissa what he was doing.  God, he's a terrible husband.  The gang get back together not long after being separated to seek out Rip.  It's so unclear how long this took.  Sara only had time to go home and find out that her sister was dead before storming back.  Rory had enough time to find a fresh goon to run schemes with and then kill him.  Stein had enough time for Clarissa to say that 'he hardly ever' speaks about his sabbatical, as if he's been back for ages.

Anyway, we see Rip without even his jacket, so that we know he's vulnerable.  Rip comes back immediately, despite having just abandoned them.  I don't understand!  

'I need your helmet!  Now!'

Kendra completes some good time travel shenanigans, leaving a piece of paper in a helmet that she's seen before.  This show truly has not made enough use of time travel shenanigans.  The helmet in question will end up in Rip's parlour.  Neat!  It's a huge coincidence that she found said helmet, and there were no other identical helmets belonging to soldiers from the same unit, but I'll allow it.

Sara punches Rip.  Apparently the only reason he dropped them off five months late is because of events on Arrow.  I hate this.  Rip refuses to take her back because 'of the timeline', when I really hoped we had all learned that the timeline was in flux!  Ray brushes all that off in favour of looking for Savage.  This show doesn't really want to involve that much of Arrow's story in its finale, and who would?

Savage links his own powers to the Thanagarians, as if we are going to see more of them.  As if I ever cared about MacGuffin alien race.

'Please try very hard not to kill me.'

Rip tries to justify his refusal to allow Sara not to save Laurel.  He claims that Damien Darkh would have killed Sara if she stayed behind, but he also claimed that his removing the legends from the timeline did not alter it.  It's silly, it doesn't work with the lessons we just learned on Legends, and we have to rush to saving Kendra and Carter anyway.

They get to 1944 and find Carter and Kendra.  Savage has some henchpeople, though I don't know how.  Jax learns how to transmute things!  Huzzah!  Rip advocates for leaving Kendra behind, even though it definitely feels like they could have saved her.  Nonsense.  Carter just walks around confused.  Me too, bud.  Apparently Savage wants to erase time, which is as silly as it sounds.

'I never thought I'd utter these words, but I think we need a Nazi.'

Stein figures out what Savage is up to, and by gum!  It makes no sense.  He's going to detonate three bombs in three different periods of history, erasing time.  It will make no sense and it will devolve to a punch up in three different places.  This plot removes the problem of only Kendra being able to kill Savage, which is annoying, seeing as we've been talking about that for ages.

Rip says that the teams need to act simultaneously.  How?  You are literally in three different time periods.  There has at least been a little set up.  We've seen Savage come into contact with the meteors across the series, though the method of the MacGuffin bomb is still pretty hooey.  Anyway, Rip gets his Back to the Future moment.  Then there's a lot of punching.

Ray shrinks the bomb and then chuckles about it, which is kind of cute.  Jax transmutes his.  Then, they can't get rid of the other one by the same methods, for contrived reasons of course.  This is engineered so Rip can have his self-sacrifice moment.  He keeps doing this, damn.  Gideon says that she's not ready to die.  MY LOVE.  Rip decides that he wants to live after all.  He uses time travel to actually make it back alive.  The first time that someone has used time travel effectively.

They're all offered the opportunity to stay on the Waverider and protect history by taking the place of the Time Masters.  Kendra and Carter decide to stay behind, which is honestly the best decision for the show.  The ending sting sees another Waverider crash.  Rex Tyler gets out and says he's from the Justice Society of America!  That's a big comics thing, right?  As far as I know, anyway.  The hard part is over, Legends only gets better from here on out.

[master-john-uk]

The oldest regular cricket fixture in the world which is still played, and the only regular inter-school cricket match to still be played at Lord's Cricket Ground.

The 2023 cricket match between Eton College and Harrow School was played at Lord's in May, and Harrow won by four runs. It was a lucky win for Harrow... Rain repeatedly interrupted play, and the final result was calculated using the Duckworth-Lewis method. (But Eton are still ahead in total number of wins... just.)

Eton v Harrow used to be one the sporting social events of the year, alongside Royal Ascot and the Henley Royal Regatta. In the early 20th Century this cricket fixture attracted crowds in excess of 30,000.

In February 2022, the MCC announced that from 2023 onwards the fixture would no longer be held at the Lord's. It would be replaced by the finals of boys’ and girls’ schools competitions, as stated by MCC to be more inclusive. (This was the MCC's attempted "woke" response to criticism of English cricket being elitist, sexist and racist.)

A large number of MCC members, including myself were opposed to this weak and feeble decision designed to appease the criticism. Yes, I agree that English cricket may be discriminatory... but simply dropping the Eton v Harrow (and the Oxford v Cambridge) fixture does nothing to make the game more inclusive. These two one day cricket games would not stop Lord's from hosting other inter-school cricket tournament finals.

In 2022, I took part in a protest (which I helped to arrange.) Old Etonians and Old Harrovians got together. We attended what was to be the last Eton v Harrow cricket match, all dressed in 1930's style morning dress. As well as hiring an expensive hospitality box, we also spent an exorbitant amount of money on over-priced food and drink.

The MCC have to pay a fortune to keep Lord's Cricket Ground maintained and up to standard. I think we helped them realise that they can not afford to lose the revenue gained from these two historic cricket fixtures.

In September 2022, MCC reviewed their decision and allowed the 2023 match to take place. In March 2023 they decided that further consultation was needed, and Eton v Harrow will continue to be played at Lord's until at least 2027. There will be a members vote on the issue in 2028.

Huzzah!

The annual Eton vs Harrow match at Lords - Slim Aarons (1955)

[miredinmiddleearth]

Rings of Power, Ep. 8 Review - A rant fit for a finale

 Ready for my final rant? I shan’t hold back. The show sure didn’t! Here are my thoughts on episode eight:

1. Starting with a bang. Gandalf is Sauron red herring. Believed it for exactly...no seconds.

2. Slow-mo hits a little different when Halbrand’s limp body is slow-mo bouncing on a horse.

3. Pretty sure the three elven rings were made last? And positive they were made in SECRET. AFTER they suspected Sauron was messing with the rings already. And I KNOW the three elven rings were untouched by Sauron. But oh look. Sauron’s going around touching stuff. Literally picks up the mithril that will make the rings.

4. See, Halbrand’s line about giving “a gift” is okay subtlety! One of Sauron’s names meant “giver of gifts.” Plant the seeds slowly. Show him working his way gradually into becoming friends with the elves, then maybe trusted to play around in the forge, then helping make rings for the dwarves, then suspected, then -

No? We’re going to skip all that and immediately suspect him? Awesome.

5. And of COURSE Nancy Galadriel Drew has to be the one to crack the case. She has no reason to suspect Halbrand! He says one thing that Adar says, and he’s immediately a villain to her. Girl, remind me never to be your ally. You are more fickle than a squirrel trying to cross the road.

6. Oh good lord. We have time to shoe-horn Elendil’s daughter into all this?

7. Aaaaaaaaaaand now Sauron’s helping with the actual forging of the three elven rings. So much for unsullied by Sauron’s hand!

8. Elrond talking about how quickly they’re making the rings: “Three weeks for a labor that could take three centuries.” 

I don’t know if they’re making fun of us with this, but yes, all this SHOULD take three centuries. Three weeks? We’re seriously going to do the forging of the rings in PART of ONE EPISODE?!

9. HUZZAH! HARFOOT DEATH!

10. The three witchy ladies talk about Gandalf by saying “He is the other. The Istar.” THE other? As if it’s just Sauron v. Gandalf. And *gasp* This guy is Gandalf?! Who would have guessed?!

11. Because Gandalf spoke to that moth in the movies, he’s mothman now?

12. They’re really going to end the season with the lie that Isildur is dead?

13. The Sauron reveal. Okay, buckle up.

So Galadriel gets suspicious and SUPER mad at Halbrand when she discovers he’s not king of the Southlands. Problem is, SHE is the one who insisted that that was his identity! SHE was the one who told all of the Numenoreans that he was king! SHE was the one who poked and prodded him to take up that title! This reveal has no weight for many reasons, one of them being it is a lie GALADRIEL CREATED AND PERPETUATED. 

Then we get the reveal, and man oh man. One vague accusation, and they have Sauron go completely mask-off and smile like an over-the-top villain. All he’s missing is a mustache. Where is the master manipulator?! He could EASILY twist her suspicions. 

Then Sauron proceeds to point out fact after fact after fact. Ultimately, Galadriel is the reason Sauron is a villain again. Kill me. Gone is Galadriel the hero. In her place is now a woman with a guilty conscience trying to clean up the massive mess she made.

THEN, the temptation scene. Some cool visuals of the reflections in the water, but why does Galadriel’s temptation have to be tied to her romantic attractions. She can’t be tempted by power for its own sake? She has to be lured in by a sexy face and a soft lilt to the voice? Which, fine...if we didn’t already know her as someone who consistently throughout Tolkien is drawn to the idea of power without the need for all that. 

I’m so over these showrunners who constantly bragged about their strong female characters. You have single-handedly stripped this goddess of a character to be a sniveling, obnoxious, self-righteous piece of cardboard who has every single step of her journey defined by the men that surround her. Now, as the final insult, you make her quest to save Middle-Earth tied to her sexuality and a made-up guilt rooted in creating the very monster that will nearly destroy everything in the world. I. HATE. THIS. SHOW!!!!!

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE. Sauron’s final threat is to remind Galadriel that he lives because of her. She replies, “And you will die because of me.” This is her promise. SHE will be responsible for Sauron’s defeat. Not only have you diminished Galadriel, you are now diminishing the ring-bearers who actually bring about Sauron’s demise. THEY’RE LESSENING THE HEROISM OF FRODO AND SAM!!!!!! You come for Sam and Frodo, YOU DIE!!!!!!!!!!!

Deep breaths. Deep breaths. Let’s get back to the stupid elven rings thing.

14. Elrond says the rings must be untouched by hands other than elves’. Look at that. Even the show insists the three rings shouldn’t be touched by Sauron. The show that just showed him touching them five minutes ago. 

15. The Harfoot goodbye takes FOREVER. 

16. “Always follow your nose.” Good. Freaking. Grief. See, in another show, I might have been delighted with this line. I might have smiled with glee and cried, “Gandalf!” But no. That which is beautiful is soured by the foul fingers of these greedy, talentless showrunners.

17. I’m so confused by the picking and choosing. So in some ways they try to match the Jackson aesthetic (Balrog, basic elven and hobbit design, Sauron armor, etc.). Then they go and totally ignore it in others, specifically the design of the three rings. 

18. I still can’t believe they showed their hand. Their two big mysteries: Sauron and Gandalf, and they revealed both in a single episode and in the first season. AND they forged the three rings.

19. P.S. I hate the credits song.

20. Random things of note: Lol, no balrog. No Theo and fam, thank goodness. No Isildur? 

I hate it all, but at last, it. is. DONE.

[triptuckers]

Together again - Jaskier

Request: nope Pairing: Jaskier x reader Summary: you run into someone you thought you'd lost Warnings:  mentions of blood, death, grieving, fighting, bruises, language, angst Word count: 2.2K A/N: huzzah! I'm writing again who would have thought!! finally out of my writers block :') took me long enough lol. I recently watched the witcher and absolutely love the characters, so I figured I'd write one for jaskier! I'll update my character list as well, enjoy reading!

You're walking through the woods, on your way back to the town you'd been staying at. Just as you're enjoying some peace and quiet, you hear shouting nearby.

You cautiously follow the sound, sword at the ready. When the shouts get louder, you see a clearing in the forest. In the middle of it is a figure in a purple cloak and someone in a long coat, fighting what appears to be a group of assassins.

Then the figure in the purple cloak turns around and you see it's Yennefer.

Immediately, you rush to help your friend. You can tell she's not using her magic, and you don't know why. One thing you do know: they're severely outnumbered.

Just as you slice the head off one of the assassins, the other figure that's wearing the long coat turns around to face you.

Your breath briefly hitches in your throat.

It can't be. You watched him die. You were sure of it because you had to relive the moment every time you tried to sleep. You knew because you somehow saw his face everywhere, it haunted you.

But then he opens his mouth to speak, and you can tell it's not your mind playing tricks on you as a result of sleep deprivation.

'Y/N?'

Just your name, so simple. It's enough to have every feeling you've ever felt for him rush back.

'You- you're..' your voice fades away, too stunned to speak. You even forgot you came here in the first place because they were fighting a losing battle.

You're harshly brought back to reality by a sword making a deep cut in one of your thighs. You groan and quickly turn and drive your sword through your attacker's heart.

You turn back to the man in front of you.

'Jaskier.' you say. 'I watched you die.'

'I know.' says Jaskier, his eyes filled with guilt. 'I know, I know, and I never should have-'

'You're bleeding.' you say, interrupting him when you looked at his shoulder.

It's only then you realise Jaskier doesn't know how to fight. So it's just Yennefer against the rest, and she's not using her magic. You didn't know why she wouldn't use it. Unless she couldn't use it.

Your eyes widen in realisation.

'Yennefer!' you yell.

Yennefer whacks an attacker on the head with a large chunk of wood before turning to you.

You toss her a key you retrieved from your pocket. 'Ronan's inn. Room 27. I'll find you there, go.' you say.

She looks grateful she gets to leave this fight. And she knows you can handle it, she's fought side by side with you before.

'Go with her Jaskier.' you say.

'I'm not leaving you.' says Jaskier.

'Jaskier you're useless in a fight, you don't know anything about combat. Go with Yennefer.' you say, turning around to face the assassins that are left.

You grip your sword tightly as you prepare for the first man to approach you. You can still sense Jaskier's presence behind you.

'Jaskier I told you to go.' you say firmly.

'I don't want to leave you here on your own.' he says.

'I don't want to watch you die. Again.' you say. 'Go.'

It seems that reminded him of the last time you saw him. You feel his hand on your shoulder, squeezing it softly. Then you hear his footsteps retreating as he quickly follows Yennefer.

You take a deep breath and brace yourself for the fight.

It took a lot of muscle power and perseverance, as well as a few clever moves, but you manage to take down the last of the assassins.

You're breathing heavily, blood dripping from your sword onto the ground. Despite being a skilled fighter, you did manage to get a few cuts and bruises here and there. And you painfully sprained your ankle somewhere during all the fighting.

'Fuck.' you mutter as you inspect the wounds on your body. You'd have to lay low for a while, allow your body to heal. If only Yennefer could heal you, but you sensed she'd lost her magic somehow. Otherwise she would have made quick work of the assassins.

You stumble to the next town, careful not to put too much weight on your ankle.

When you get to the small town, the people at the market are taking steps back when you walk past, and they're visibly shocked at the look of you.

You know how it must look for them. A woman, covered in wounds and bruises, carrying a sword that's dripping blood. And your angry facial expression doesn't help much.

As soon as the adrenaline rush was over and you started making your way toward the town, you saw Jaskier's face in your mind again.

Everything in you that used to be grief was now consumed by rage. You watched him die. Or at least, you thought you did. And he's alive. He's alive and he's never even tried to reach out to you.

You're ignoring the looks people give you as you make your way to the inn you told Yennefer about. You'd been staying there for the last few days, you'd have to find a different inn soon. You didn't want to stay anywhere too long.

As you open the door to the bar that's on the ground floor of the inn, a few heads turn to you, then they resume their drinking. You briefly nod at the owner before making your way to the stairwell in the back.

Your leg is throbbing painfully as you slowly walk up the stairs to the second floor. Once you get to your floor, you pause for a second. You feel lightheaded, likely because of the blood loss.

When you get to your room, you knock on the door, not wanting to startle Yennefer and end up with a knife in your chest. After a minute or so, the door slowly opens and one eye appears behind it.

Yennefer pulls the door further open to let you in and you thank her.

Then your eyes land on Jaskier, who is sitting on the bed. Apparently Yennefer was in the middle of putting a bandage on his shoulder. You must still look angry, because Jaskier's eyes widen slightly at the look of you.

'Yennefer, leave.' you say.

She must have sensed the anger radiating off of you, because she quickly makes her way to the door.

'Yennefer, don't leave!' says Jaskier desperately, clearly terrified to be in one room with you.

But Yennefer knows what's best for her as she shuts the door, leaving you and Jaskier alone.

You look at him, anger coursing through your veins. He had all the right to look terrified. And you had all the right to be mad.

'I watched you die.' you say. 'They beat you to shit and then dragged your body away. And months later, I find out you're alive by running into you and Yennefer fighting off fucking assassins?'

Jaskier slowly raises his hands, as if he's trying to surrender or show you he doesn't mean you any harm.

'I know how this looks but-'

'Looks to me like you never even tried to reach out to me.' you say, interrupting him.

'I did!' Jaskier protests.

'Well apparently you didn't try hard enough then.' you say.

'Y/N, I understand that you're angry and honestly you have all the right to be. I know I've been an idiot and I'm truly sorry.' says Jaskier.

You chuckle and shake your head, walking over to look out the window and turning your back to Jaskier.

'You're sorry?' you say. 'Do you know what I went through?'

'No.' says Jaskier truthfully. 'I can't imagine what it's been like for you these past months.'

'I'll tell you.' you say, still looking out the window. 'It was a living hell. I thought you died right in front of me. It would have been so much easier if we'd been separated and someone told me. But instead I saw it happen right in front of me. I'm not easily scared, I've seen enough death, blood and monsters in my life. But in that moment, I was terrified. I didn't know what I'd do without you.'

You turn to look over your shoulder at Jaskier. 'I had rented a room at an inn and I didn't leave the room for weeks.' you say. 'I was so consumed by grief, I didn't know if I had the strength left to live. So you can imagine what it's like to see Yennefer and feeling relieved to see a friend again, and then I realise you're there as well.'

You close your eyes and shake your head. 'I used to see your face everywhere. I still do. I had to relive that exact moment every single time I went to sleep. So I just didn't. I stayed awake, til I would pass out from exhaustion.'

Jaskier's eyes are filled with guilt as you walk up to him. 'Seeing you die in front of me, it nearly ended me.' you say.

'I know nothing I say would ever make it alright again.' says Jaskier. 'But I truly am sorry. I've been an idiot. And I did try to reach out to you. I always found a way before so when I didn't hear anything from you, I figured you'd never want to see me again or that something had happened to you.'

Jaskier slowly rises from his position on the bed, standing so close to you, your noses almost touch. You take a step back.

'I understand if you'd never forgive me, and if you want to stay as far away from me as possible.' says Jaskier softly. 'But I really hope you'd give me a chance to try and win your heart again. For you to stop hating me.'

You look at the ground, feeling tears in your eyes. 'I don't hate you, Jaskier.' you say. 'I never could. I tried. I only ended up hating myself for not being able to hate you.'

You feel how Jaskier places one of his fingers underneath your chin and slowly tilts your head up, so he can look you in the eye.

'Y/N, dear, can you give me a chance to make it up to you?' he says softly.

You look into his eyes, debating what you should do. He looks at you, waiting for you answer. You still feel his finger underneath your chin, warm and comforting. Fuck, how could you ever say no to him?

'Okay.' you whisper. 'But I want you to know it's going to take time. And a lot of effort. This isn't something I can just forget or move on from that easily. But I still love you, so I'll give you a chance.'

Jaskier smiles and presses a kiss to your forehead. You close your eyes, letting the memories rush back to you. He would always tease you about your height, even though he's only a little bit taller than you. A kiss to your forehead was his favourite way to do so.

You sigh and step closer so you can wrap your arms around him. Jaskier hugs you back and you inhale sharply when he puts a little too much pressure on one of your wounds.

He's quick to let you go, a concerned look in his eyes.

'Are you alright?' he says.

'Dine.' you say. 'Just some cuts and bruises, that's all. I'll live.'

'Let me help you with those.' says Jaskier gently.

You smile at him and nod. 'Alright.'

You let him bandage your wounds and wash the dirt off of your body, closing your eyes and letting yourself rest for a while. Jaskier's softly humming a song, something he always did whenever it was just the two of you. It reminds you of old times.

Just as Jaskier finishes taking care of your wounds and you pull your shirt over you head, you hear a soft knock on the door. You shoot Jaskier a look as you slowly walk toward the door, hand holding your sword.

You open the door, ready to fight again, but it's just Yennefer.

'Are you guys alright again?' she asks you, soft enough so that only you can hear her.

'Sort of.' you say. 'We're not fighting.'

You open the door and Yennefer enters the room.

The three of you spend the rest of the night catching each other up in what happened in your lives during the months you were separated.

As the hours creep by, you find yourself getting more and more tired. Partly because of all the fighting you did today, and partly because you haven't had a good nights sleep in months.

Jaskier must have noticed how tired you are, because you keep dropping your head to his shoulder before looking up again. He leans in to whisper in your ear.

'You need to sleep, dear.' he says.

You're too tired to protest that you want to listen to Yennefer's story. So instead you only nod, moving so you can lay down on the bed.

As you close your eyes, you can feel yourself already drifting off to sleep. You reach out your hand and feel Jaskier intertwine his fingers with yours.

There's a smile on your lips as you fall asleep.

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BnHA Chapter 328: Pandora’s Box of Discourse

Previously on BnHA: DEKU TOOK A BATH.

Today on BnHA: 

Also Naomasa grew a beard. Goddamn. 

please let this be a cool chapter that plays nice with my ADHD lol

(ETA: lol I feel guilty because a lot of people hated this chapter, but I’m just happy there was a lot of stuff to make fun of, and also that I have another week to work on my backlog of meta posts since the kids were MIA.)

around one month ago?? ah, okay, so we’re gonna find out what was in that Tartarus security file huh

I love that they just randomly set the place on fire

was it necessary to do this in order to escape? no. was it a good idea to set the island they were occupying on fire while they were in the midst of still occupying it? uh. was it cinematic as fuck? fuck yeah

wow it’s a pervert!!

that’s so great that the villains set loose this fine fellow who I’m sure is definitely not a serial rapist. truly the LoV is so noble and misunderstood. they’re just trying to free society from its chains people

oh my god??!

SHANKED!!! oh my god I cheered for Stain before I realized what I was doing. time to have an identity crisis I guess

so he’s all “hey what’s going on.” which, while a respectable question, is something I personally would have waited to ask until I had put a bit of distance between myself and the fiery murder island. but that’s just my personal preference

Stain you really are tenacious I’ll give you that

“what’s the point of escaping prison if you’re not gonna be smart about it” well shit. anyways yeah you’re dead right, society is in the process of collapsing and the outside world is in total chaos, good call there

oh shit

I mean it’s not like we really expecting anything otherwise, but still. fucking brutal. I feel like these guys’ fates were decided the minute that one guy called AFO “scum” back in chapter 94. AFO is unmatched at getting long-term revenge

??

ahh, was it the security footage??

fdsdfk he’s still alive??

and he’s immediately launching into an inappropriately theatrical monologue even as the darkness closes in on him fdlfksjdlk. you know, was it ever confirmed that the other guy back in chapter 297 was Seiji’s dad? I’m just saying

very impressed that he’s still coherent enough to weigh the pros and cons before making the decision to gamble on giving this info to Stain, who at the very least has his own moral code and isn’t allied with AFO. it was definitely still a risk, but as we now know it was also the right call

what a weird alliance. so Stain tells him that he’ll give it to a just person, and the guy is all,

okay for real though I’m gonna need someone to run a DNA test on this guy. maybe it was some kind of cuckold situation?? the other guy had the family resemblance, but this guy absolutely 100% raised Shishikura Seiji and you are not going to convince me otherwise

anyway, so Stain is all,

PRISON GUARD: “???? ??????? what the hell. what the fuck does that fucking mean. I’m dying here, jesus christ, whatever man fuck you”

(ETA: I kind of feel like this might have been Stain’s last appearance in the manga, given all the fanfare. there’s not really much else he can do for the story at this point, and he seems to have gotten all the character development Horikoshi was planning on giving him. so if this really is it, hasta la vista and good riddance I guess.)

DWLFDKSLDK MEANWHILE, OUTSIDE

(ETA: I feel like this is meant to be evocative of that Sermon on the Mount painting, but in a really fucked up way lol.)

if it were me stumbling upon this scene I would just shake my head and walk right back into the flaming building. not getting involved in that mess. sorry not sorry. I’ll take my chances with the fire, especially given that it’s half-assed neutered BnHA fire lol

blah blah blah and so he decided to pass the info on to All Might -- HOT DAMN, HOLY SHIT

NAOMASA HOLY SHIT. THE APOCALYPSE LOOKS GOOD ON YOU, BOY

“I really like that facial scruff thing Aizawa’s got going on, I think I’m gonna get in on that” yes sir. “also thinking of ditching the tie in favor of the bulletproof vest look. also thinking of getting totally fucking jacked.” good lord. except I’m pretty sure that’s just body armor, but also I don’t care. anyway I should probably stop staring and actually read the fucking speech bubbles here lol

“All Might first handed this information over to Nao, and then went to see Deku, and then came back to Nao” thanks for that tidy little summary Horikoshi. we are capable of piecing events together in sequential order, I just want you to know that. but thank you

“so has Deku finally gotten a bath? also, sucks that Stain saved the day, but what are you gonna do” Nao I missed you so fucking much and didn’t even realize. how am I just now realizing that you are the perfect man

for a second I was gonna ask why Tartarus’s security systems would be cut off from the outside world, and then I remembered that’s a basic security control, and then I actually got impressed by how sensible that is. like, it’s been a while since I could genuinely say that the good guys (excluding class 1-A) did something smart. not that it helped them much in the end, but still

anyway so they’re talking about how AFO was able to coordinate the attack by communicating between his horcrux self on the outside and his ugly peanut-faced self on the inside

huh

okay you have my attention. I am taking notes here lol please continue

ah okay so he says that prior to Jakku, the transfer of information between him and his Vestige self was only one-way. but post-Jakku when Deku was in the hospital, he was able to tell what was happening inside the OFA Radical Lisa Frank Dead People Book Club Realm when he touched him. I feel like we established that before, actually. but he didn’t talk about how it actually felt, though

boy we already know this lol. yes AFO can talk with his horcrux self. and he can also communicate with his little bro in OFA too, let’s talk about that sometime why don’t we. what exactly does that imply, based on the rules we’ve established here

my god I cannot get over Naomasa and his fucking facial hair

no wonder All Might was in such a hurry to leave Deku and get back here

like I have no idea what this radio waves nonsense is but my god, people

that jawline. also so it’s a quirk, I see. except last I checked Deku didn’t have a radio waves quirk, so that doesn’t really explain his connection to AFO. but whatever, hopefully we’re at least getting closer to some kind of reveal here

(ETA: since I sometimes forget that other people’s lives don’t revolve around my theory posts, here are the two relevant links if you by chance want to know my thoughts about this.

Hagakure is still The U.A. Traitor™ regardless of whether Deku is passing information on to AFO through his psychic link, which he almost certainly is.

speaking of said psychic link, Deku is a horcrux.

just posting these now, because whenever trippy OFA stuff happens I tend to get an influx of theory asks. so hopefully this will be a bit of a time saver lol.)

-- wait, what

THAT’S what the recording was??!? holy SHIT. I genuinely was not expecting that. y’all wiretapped his fucking telepathy. fucking quirks, man. wild

AND THEY USED THAT POWER TO DETERMINE WHAT WE ALREADY KNEW, HUZZAH. GOOD SHOW

-- oh shit wait lol, except I forgot we’re not talking about 38 days from the present, we’re talking about 38 days from the date the conversation was recorded. heh. um

yeah that’s the face I would make too if All Fucking Might just casually told me we had eight days left until the end times

oh, pardon me. three fucking days

r.i.p. anyone who thought we were going to have another band arc sob. I sure hope Deku is enjoying that nap

(ETA: I realize people were hoping for a longer rest period here, but given that the man warned us all the way back in chapter 306 that we were entering the final act, you can’t really blame him too much when that turns out to be true. anyway but I do recognize that we’ve reached the point in the story where this kind of discourse is going to become a weekly occurrence, simply because there’s no possible way for Horikoshi’s actual endgame to line up perfectly with the variable headcanons of millions of fans, all of whom have wildly differing and in many cases contradictory expectations which can’t possibly all be fulfilled. anyway, so I’m already bracing myself for that lol. this coming year is going to be a wild ride.)

damn, U.A. out here looking like the motherfucking United Nations

-- is this U.A.?? I actually just realized, U.A. is four interconnected buildings, not two. wait holy shit is this Shiketsu?

wait holy SHIT

based on the overwhelmingly powerful vibes of bureaucratic incompetence, I’m thinking this really is the (future) U.N., or whatever organization it is that deals with international hero stuff

“just let them handle it themselves I’m sure they’ll be fine” yeah okay, thanks guys. appreciate it

wait oh shit did he say that it’s not just Japan?

soooo, what you’re telling me is that AFO is this close to bringing about the end of not just Japan, but the entire world, and you guys don’t think it’s a good idea to help the Japanese heroes stop him? so, genuine follow-up question: are you guys already planning your rich people exodus into space a la Wall-E, and that’s why you don’t give a fuck?? like, what??

omg international heroes

these guys are from World Hoodie Mission, right? is this Horikoshi’s way of reminding me to buy tickets

(ETA: and it worked too lol.)

WHO??? WHAT???

don’t tell me you’re introducing yet another badass new female character for me to fall in love with only to watch as you dismember them and/or blow them up, Horikoshi. I’m getting tired of playing this game my dude. don’t lie and tell me this time will be different. we’re not doing this again goddammit

noooooooooooooooooooo

god fucking dammit lmao. [sighs and rips the previous paragraph into shreds]

on behalf of Americans I apologize for our superheroes always being Like This

I also apologize because I love her already and I’m gonna be shameless about it. so fucking shameless you guys

is her fucking hair red white and blue. it is, isn’t it

this is the volume cliffhanger, 100% lol. it will take every ounce of Horikoshi’s willpower not to put her on the volume cover. he’ll have to settle for the spine or the inner cover this time because Deku VS his class 1-a superpals takes precedence. but it will be a close thing let me tell you

tbh it’s that smile that does it for me. she’s definitely All Might’s protege. get out there and show them how it’s done girl. and maybe call Salaam and BRD and see if you can’t convince them to play hooky from their governments as well. why not. world’s ending in three days you guys. “sorry, I’m busy this weekend” ain’t gonna cut it lol

so while I am not fully caught up with Vigilantes, I have read far enough to know that there’s an American hero named Captain Celebrity whose superpower from what I recall is being a humongous douchebag. and while I haven’t read far enough to know what happens to this guy, I can’t say I’m very disappointed to learn that he’s no longer the number one hero in the U.S. (actually, didn’t they kick him out and that’s why he moved to Japan to begin with?). anyway, so my thanks to Horikoshi for having a marginally higher opinion of Americans than Furuhashi, even though we have definitely not done anything to warrant said opinion lately, and you may have inadvertently opened the door to a pandora’s box of discourse lmao

(ETA: lol I went into the tags and they don’t disappoint. “why is she dressed like a flag” because she’s an homage to Captain America and Major Victory and literally every other character on this list. again, I apologize for fictional American superheroes being Like This. “oh boy another thicc waifu to make the fanboys happy” look, tumblr fandom never seems to have a problem thirsting over Dabi or Tomura or Aizawa or Nao, lol, I’m just saying. “where is Captain Celebrity” idk, probably murdered by the exploding bee cartel, let’s just be grateful for our good fortune and try not to Beetlejuice the man.)

anyway, so let’s see if Horikoshi’s recent character development with regards to making Mineta not terrible anymore will apply to other aspects of his writing as well. I know I was making light of discourse just now, but I do think the complaints about him introducing yet another new character at the 11th hour to be cannon fodder in the final battle are absolutely valid. and again, it wouldn’t be a problem if he didn’t keep maiming/killing off his female characters one by one instead of developing them and letting them kick ass long-term. but that said, I will never complain about Horikoshi adding another female character to the series, regardless of how clumsy the attempt may be. go ahead and pander away, just give us more girl power lol

anyway so we’ll see how it goes, but I think I’m gonna be optimistic and let myself hope once again, even though I’m probably gonna regret it lol. it is what it is. she is standing on an airplane just chilling for fuck’s sake. I’m only human. anyway fingers crossed