#I think thy is something okay with what could’ve been great

[ariana1881]

So I watched Wish and frankly If we forget what could’ve been, it was good

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Hello? Really hope your doing well. I saw your requests were open and wanted to ask if you could please do a scenario of nami and her s/o (preferably male, but gender neutral is fine as well) spending the night together aboard the sunny. They're talking and laughing the night away until s/o says:"I can't wait to marry you." Nami is happy, shocked or however you would think she's going to react. If it's a lot of work you can ignore this request. Thanks and have a great day/night

authors note : hello ! <3 this is such a cute idea .. i’d be happy to write for it ! i kept the reader gn if that’s okay <3 and i hope you’re doing well , too. please enjoy , i hope i brought out the best of thy vision ! + i hope you don’t mind i adjusted the prompt a bit ;; ++ it takes place during the beginning of Water 7 , before all the chaos. thought it’d be cute to have them on a date .. ( can you guys tell what my favourite arc is yet ? )

Nami x Reader , “ I Cant Wait To Marry You “ Drabble

You and Nami sat together in the tiny boat that was being dragged along by a vibrant king bull. The crew had figured it’d be best to wait to find a shipwright, wait to further discuss things with that man. What did the woman at the train station say was his name, again? Iceburg? Who cares, that wasn’t what was important right now. You were all told to have fun, to split up for a few hours before going to the bank. And that was the perfect time to give you and your girlfriend, Nami, private time.

The sound of laughter echoed out of your shared water carriage as you two traded words. You couldn’t recall the last time you two, or any of the crew could do something so mundane. To others, this must be incredibly boring, just riding around in the slow water roads of Water 7 but it was special to you and the crew. Having time to act like people over pirates for even just a few hours was glorious.

You loved being a pirate, but each time you docked on an island you couldn’t help but wonder how things could’ve been if you stayed back at your home village. Perhaps it could’ve been calm but you would’ve never been so happy, if not for your crew mates. Especially Nami. She was your utopia, your rock. She always was, ever since you met the crew. Even if Nami was a thief, and a rather vulgar woman, you couldn’t help but fall captive to her heart. She was so warm, so kind to the ones she loved. Nami was the woman for you and you knew that, even only after dating since she escaped the wretched clutches of the wicked man known as Arlong.

“Hey, Y/n!” Nami said, her tone high with the upmost happy tune. You looked over at her, raising your eyebrow.

“Mhm?” You hummed, looking at her face. Her normal smile soon twisted into a smug one as she fished one of her freckles hands into her pocket.

Oh no. That face never delivered good news, always just stripping her actions to expose the nudity of her own impulsive choices.

“Look what i got you!” Nami held her hands out infront of your face, palms now decorated with the sparkling chain of silver. “It’s a necklace~! Some random geezer that passed us had it and i just knew you’d love it.” She snickered, showing clear pride in her actions.

Part of you wanted to scold her for stealing from a purely innocent person. But then again, she was a pirate. You were a pirate, your whole existence and the message you stood for was criminal, now wasn’t it? You had no right to shout at Nami for stealing, especially for your sake.

The abrupt bubbling in your throat crushed all sense to ask Nami to kindly return it to the old woman who had passed you both. You began to laugh loudly, your laughter filling the small street you two were along. She was far too much..!

Nami looked over at you, a confused smile on her face. What was so funny? She leant back slightly against the tiny boat, her navy blue tie fluttering along with the force of the slight wind that waved along the city. She twirled the valuable accessory in between her fingers, looking over at you.

“Do you want it or not? I could get a few extra berries off of this if you don’t want it,” Nami shrugged, eyes twinkling at the thought of having pocket money, as the abundance she had now was all for Merry.

You wiped your eyes lightly, swiping the slight watering of your eyes away. “Oh, Nami,” You sighed to catch your own breath from laughing, your ribs aching. “I can’t wait to marry you! You’re too-“

Crap. Your face reflected the same bright pink that coloured the king bulls scales. How could you fail at catching yourself? This was awkward. Nami probably could never imagine such a thing. Sure, you two were dating but marriage was different. Far different when placed beside the playground of dating.

“Marry me? Y/n, you want to marry me?” Nami managed to keep her cool, not including the pastel hues that dusted her cheeks. How could she be so calm? You felt like leeping out of the boat, letting the oceans of Water 7 take you far away.

“W-well, yeah..one day, at least,” You admitted sheepishly, jerking your head to the side to avoid the look in Nami’s caramel shaded eyes. “Obviously, you don’t have to. I mean, when Luffy becomes pirate king, i just figured, we could settle down and...”

“And what?” Nami egged you on to finish your sentence. “Cmon, say it! We don’t have all day!” She huffed, stomping her heels down as she grew impatient.

“A-and have days like these everyday!” You said loudly to match her own tone. “We could do all sorts of things, we could go to places like this everyday, we could talk like this all day, we could-!”

Nami cut you off as she casually applied her lips to yours, no regards for the public. You kissed back slowly, even if the kiss only lasted seconds.

“Okay,” Nami beamed. “I’ll be your bride after Luffy becomes the pirate king.” She grinned as big as possible, eyes squeezed shut from the smile that stuck to her face. Nami’s cheeks were crimson at this point.

Nami couldn’t help but wonder if Bellemare was seeing this, seeing her agree to such a thing. Nami never thought she’d get such an opportunity in life, she always thought she’d be stuck as Arlong’s right hand for her entire life. But no. She’d never have to picture the horror of the old days, not anymore.

She had Luffy, Usopp, Robin... she had everyone she needed.

Most importantly, Nami had you.

[depths-of-your-soul]

Hiii! I saw that requests are open so how about artist S/O? Like the reader would be very bored in class and they just, doodle todoroki, bakugou, and tamaki from afar with little notes beside the doodles like "i can't do his hair wtf is this" "why is he so adorable" "stOP MOVING I CANT GET YOUR HANDS RIGHT" and then one day they just saw the little doodles? Idk the thought of it makes soft- unless you already did something similar then I'm stoopid dhxbhxhd.

#Artist!S/o who doodles them during class

Pairs: Katsuki bakugou x reader, Shouto Todoroki x reader, Tamaki Amajiki x reader

Notes: I can personally relate with this s/o HAHAHA I always get annoyed whenever my subject moves around so much that it messes with the anatomy of the previous pose and I would ALWAYS get so irritated that I give up

A reminder that request is open y'all!! :D

Katsuki Bakugou

• Katsuki with his resting face is simply angelic

• You wouldn't think that such a person would cause such havoc around him

• And one of the few places where he has his guard down would be during class

• So naturally, you cry internally trying to draw his unnecessarily spikey hair because IT'S JUST ALL OVER THE PLACE  H E L P

• Where in the world does his hair even come from? It's just a bunch of spikes

• Does it hurt to touch? òmó

• Anyways, you just find his resting face so precious that before you knew it, you had 5 pages dedicated to just him

• And him alone

• Little did you know, Katsuki has been feeling your intense stares throughout the lessons

• 'What are you doing???'

• 'Stop staring at me stupid'

• Those were all in his head

• To be fair, you were being blatantly obvious

• So after class, he couldn't take it and went right to you with his iconic "ònó" face

• Swoopty Doodle Doo you have achieved "Bakuhoe fanclub prez"

• Seriously. That is embarrassing. Not for you but for him

• Everyone knows Katsuki has an 'above average' face (we all know he be hot)

• Expect curses and new found words to be thrown at you while everyone around hears of a daring fan who came out of the closet and presented their fanart to thy lord explosion murder

• It's not the drawings that made him embarrassed

• Oh no dear it's not

• It's the fact that YOU drew him when you could've just asked him in your free time at his dorm

• Truth be told, he might shout at you, but he never raises his fists against you when neither are sparring

• God please stop being oblivious

Shouto Todoroki

• Alright simps, let's get down to simping

• His face, oh so perfect

• Every nook and cranny, it's so beautiful that we cannot explain it in words

• His scar? Merely an addition to his hot and cool nickname

• Those red burns in contrast to his beautiful arctic coloured eyes tells a story that made him for who he is

• Such fine hair strands that flows oh so serene against the gentle breeze that flew great lengths to bless him with their cool element

• Okay I'll stop-

• Shouto is simply a living statue, it's in his genes

• He knows he doesn't look bad but that doesn't mean he doesn't appreciate compliments

• Drawing him will literally be a blessing in and of itself

• Such art should be loved by all forms

• Unlike Bakugou, he won't pretend to not feel your gazes

• He will make eye contact with you at some point and smile at you as a form of greeting

• HAVE YOU SEEN HIS SMILE

• Being so pretty is a sin

• After class, he would go up to you and ask what you are doing

• After you tell him and apologize, he will assure you that he doesn't mind and that he appreciates it

• He will however ask that you let him see it afterwards

• Of course, that is only because he wants to spend time with you

• This mochi is so cute I love him uwu

Tamaki Amajiki

• Don't lie to me

• I know you can see how cute and adorable he is

• His elven ear is his icon

• Your sketches have certain details that never fails to be missed - it's those blush at his ears and the way his mouth seem to always be pursed

• But then again, throughout your sketches, you would constantly go "OMAGAD STOO BEING SO CUTE I CANT HANDLE THIS CUTENESS OVERLOAD" and "Babey I love you but PLEASE stop moving"

• Those frustrations are worth it though, you know love it

• The way he stares off into space at times are the best times to sketch those details

• He may accidentally see you looking at him while he tries to glance at you from time to time

• But that doesn't really do anything except for the fact that his face will burn and he might cover his face out of embarrassment

• To be fair, you know you love seeing that side of him

• It just makes anyone go \(>w<)/

• Honestly, his movements are joy in and off itself

• This babey elf does enjoy the fact that you, too, glances at him

• Though he will admit, the attention does get a bit too much at times

• He won't go up to you after class though, he will instead hide in the comfort of Mirio's presence seeing as he might melt if you stare at him too much

• How did he find out you ask? Well, simple

• It's the cliche bumbparoo. But not with Tamaki oh no my dear not with this elven baby

• Mirio was too busy laughing and accidentally bumped into you... And voila you sketchbook went flying to the wall and opened at one of the countless pages of Tamaki

• Of course he saw, my dear. But... He may or may not have fainted from the affection

• Go talk to him! He may be shy, but he will be so glad that you even look at him

• I love this elf uwu

[authenticcadence18]

Can’t Help Falling in Love Ch. 4

hello again!!! it’s another chapter!! thanks for reading!!

ALSO. I have seen Candace Against the Universe (it was so good!) and took a bit of inspiration from it for this chapter, but there are no big spoilers for it or anything!! If you haven't seen the film, this fic is still perfectly safe to read.

First Chapter

Previous Chapter

AO3

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INTERLUDE

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“Isabella!!!”

Isabella whirled around to find Phineas rushing across the auditorium and towards her with a massive grin on his face. She had perhaps a second or two to brace herself...and then he was at her side and hugging her tightly, and she was hugging him back and smiling from ear to ear.

“Hey, Phineas!! I’m glad you could make it!!”

Phineas pulled away from the hug so he could face his friend directly. “Of course!!” he replied eagerly, taking her hands in his own and giving them a squeeze. “You know I wouldn’t have missed your graduation for the world!!!”

Isabella smiled (and maybe she blushed a little because Phineas was still holding her hands and was wearing a nice outfit) and replied, “I appreciate it!!!”

“So how does it feel to be a fully-realized Fireside Girl graduate??” Phineas asked.

Isabella laughed and replied, “A little strange, for sure!!! It doesn’t quite feel real.” She held out her sash and proudly displayed its newest (and final) addition: a “Graduate With Flying Colors” patch. “Finally earning this patch definitely feels great though!!”

Phineas examined the patch in awe. “Wow!!! ...it looks even cooler up close!!!”

“And breaking the record for earning the most patches of any troupe ever feels pretty great too,” Isabella added, crossing her arms over her chest with a satisfied smirk.

“Oh yeah!!!” Phineas replied excitedly. “I’m so happy for you and the girls!!! And super proud of you!! I’m not surprised at all, though.”

“I’m sure you aren’t!” Isabella said with a chuckle. “I doubt we could’ve broken the record without you and Ferb. You helped us earn tons of patches!!”

Phineas shook his head. “Nah, you all still could have beaten the record!!” he insisted. “Ferb and I just gave you a hand! You and the Fireside Girls deserve all of the credit.”

Isabella considered this. “Yeah...perhaps we could’ve beaten the record alone....but it wouldn’t have been nearly as fun without you.”

She flinched.

“Both of you!”

Phineas beamed. “Helping you earn patches definitely made Ferb and I’s summers more fun too!!”

For a moment, he reminisced on all those fun times. And then he asked, “Of all the patches you’ve earned over the years, which one is your favorite?”

“Hmm…..” Isabella pursed her lips and thought for a bit before an answer occurred to her. “This one!!!” She gestured to a diamond-shaped patch near the top of her sash. “I could tell you what I earned it for…..but then I’d have to kill you.”

For a moment, she eyed him menacingly.

Phineas shrunk back a bit.

And then they both burst into laughter.

“Now THAT’S an ominous patch-related threat!!” Phineas exclaimed with a grin.

“Yes, yes it is!” Isabella agreed proudly.

(She knew no one loved ominous patch-related threats more than Phineas. Well, no one other than Ferb, anyway.)

Isabella smiled softly, intimidating demeanor gone, before continuing, “Ominous threats aside, my favorite is actually the Help Thy Neighbor patch. It reminds me of how much fun I’ve had spending time with you over the years….”

A beat passed, and Isabella flinched again.

“And Ferb! You and Ferb!”

Phineas smiled warmly at her. “Awww, that’s so sweet, Isabella! The feeling is mutual!!!”

He paused.

“Well. It would be mutual. If I’d also been a Fireside Girl earning patches. But I wasn’t. But it IS mutual as in, I’ve had tons of fun spending time with you over the years too! My summers wouldn’t have been nearly as great without you.”

Isabella giggled and let out a contented, “Oh, Phineas!”

“So!” Phineas scratched his head. “Now that you aren’t a Fireside Girl anymore, what do you plan to do with all your free time?”

“Well, we ARE about to start high school in a few days,” Isabella replied thoughtfully. “I’ll probably join a bunch of clubs and put all the patches I’ve earned to good use!!”

“That’s a great idea!!” Phineas replied excitedly. “Now that you’re done earning all of them, you can come up with new goals to accomplish!”

Goals to accomplish…

Something stirred within Isabella...perhaps the faint sliver of a memory she’d nearly forgotten.

Her smile faded.

“Yeah, new goals to accomplish…”

Phineas frowned upon noticing the change in Isabella’s demeanor. “What’s wrong, Isabella? Is everything okay?”

Suddenly, Isabella found making eye contact with Phineas rather difficult.

“Yeah, I’m fine...I guess I just remembered, uh…” She dared a glance at him and grimaced as her heart rate picked up. “There’s a goal I set for myself a long time ago, back when I first became a Fireside Girl, but I never accomplished it.”

“Oh no!” Phineas replied, taking a small step towards her. “I’m sorry about that…is there anything I can do to help?”

The kindness and sincerity in his gaze almost made Isabella want to cry.

“Uhm...well...I guess so?” she replied hesitantly. “It’s just...there’s something I’ve been wanting to tell...someone...for a long time now, but it’s never worked out...”

“Well, maybe you can practice on me!” Phineas replied, eager to help Isabella in any way he could. “Pretend I’m the person you need to talk to and tell me whatever you need to say. That’ll make it easier when you tell them for real!”

Isabella gulped.

“I guess, uh…I guess I could try that…” she whispered.

She took one of Phineas’s hands in her own. He didn’t seem to notice because he was still gazing at her intently and smiling encouragingly, trying to make sure he was supporting her as effectively as possible.

“Phineas?” She took a deep breath. “I….”

“...I think you’re wonderful, and amazing, and I’m in love with you, and I’ve been in love with you for forever and was maybe wondering if you love me too…”

“.....I appreciate you trying to help, but I think it might be better if I just tell them myself.”

She dropped his hand.

Phineas frowned (and perhaps felt something within him deflate when the feeling of Isabella’s hand in his fell away), but then he shrugged. He didn’t want to force Isabella to do something that made her uncomfortable.

“Well, alright. If you’re sure. But if you change your mind, let me know.

"Whatever you need to say, I know you can say it!! Because you’re one of the bravest people I know.” He gave her another encouraging smile.

Isabella did her best to smile back. She knew Phineas was right—she had a sash full of patches to attest to her bravery!—but right now, she didn’t feel brave at all.

Phineas checked his watch. “Well, I should probably get going...I want to see if my mom needs any help with dinner. I can stick around if you need someone to walk home with though!”

“Oh no, it’s fine! My mom’s here too, I’ll ride back with her.”

“Oh good!! Well, congratulations again, Isabella!”

Phineas took a step towards the exit...and then paused before turning back around. “..you know, Isabella?” he began softly.

Isabella’s heart stuttered. “Y-yes??”

For a moment, the bustle of the auditorium faded away, and all she could see was Phineas gazing gently at her.

Was this it? COULD this be it??

And then Phineas exclaimed, “I just feel so lucky to be your friend!!!” and wrapped her in another hug.

Isabella didn’t think it was possible for her heart to do backflips and droop sadly at the same time….and yet here she was.

“....me too, Phineas….” she replied softly.

And then with a wave and a cheerful, “See ya tomorrow!!!” Phineas was gone.

...

“Ferb!!!”

Phineas burst into he and Ferb’s room with a massive grin on his face.

“Did you know Isabella and her troupe broke the record for earning the most Fireside Girl patches ever today?? Isn’t that great???”

Ferb didn’t get up from his computer desk. He simply looked at Phineas and nodded in response.

Phineas laughed as he sat on the edge of his bed. “Oh, right. I guess you saw the livestream of the graduation online!”

He paused for a second, considering whether or not he should change the subject since Ferb clearly already knew most of what he wanted to say...but the urge to gush about Isabella didn’t go away.

“Isabella is just, so cool!!!!” Phineas continued. “She’s so smart, and brave, and determined, and a great leader to her troupe, and all that paid off today!!!! I’m just so proud of her, and so happy for her!!!”

He stopped, briefly struck with a sobering realization he hadn’t considered until now. “I mean...I guess I’m a little sad we won’t get to help her earn patches anymore, but Fireside Girls aren’t really a thing in high school....

“Well, Candace became a Fireside Girl after she started high school, but that was an exception to the norm. Typically, members have gotten the full Fireside Girl experience by the time they get to high school and thus graduate from their troupes. At least, that’s what Isabella told me the other day.”

Phineas recalled how proud Isabella had looked when she received her graduation patch and the award for breaking the record on behalf of her troupe (and how nice it had felt to give her a hug and talk with her after it was over), and any lingering sadness went away.

A softness entered Phineas’s gaze, the familiar warmth he’d come to associate with Isabella’s friendship filling him from head to toe. “Gosh, sometimes I just feel like the luckiest person ever to be her friend, don’t you?”

Ferb stifled a chuckle at Phineas’s impassioned proclamation. He wasn’t sure how to explain that, while he WAS proud of Isabella, Phineas was certainly far more excited about her accomplishments.

“Gosh, sorry, I know I’m rambling....” Phineas rubbed the back of his neck and smiled sheepishly. “I just really appreciate Isabella, you know? It feels nice to talk about it.”

“ I’m sure it does, ” Ferb thought with a wry grin.

Ferb had spent a long time waiting for Phineas to realize the abundance of feelings he felt concerning Isabella weren’t entirely normal.

(Well...they WERE normal, in a sense. Feelings were natural, Phineas was natural, and he was a natural being in the world...with feelings. But they weren't normal as in, Ferb didn’t feel the same way, even though Phineas clearly assumed he did.)

A thought occurred to Ferb then. He, Phineas, and the rest of their friends would be starting high school in a few days.

(Well, all of their friends except Baljeet. He was already in college and wouldn’t let them forget it.)

If Phineas hadn’t figured out just how much Isabella meant to him on his own by now, he probably never would.

He clearly needed an extra push to get there.

“You know, Phineas…” Ferb leaned forward in his chair and swiveled around to face his brother.

“...if you like Isabella so much, why not just ask her out?”

Phineas’s initial reaction was to laugh incredulously at Ferb’s proposition.

“What? Ask out Isabella?? Don’t be silly, Ferb, I don’t…I…”

Ferb wasn’t sure how he was expecting Phineas to respond to his suggestion...but he certainly wasn’t expecting him to fall silent after a few seconds.

Across the room, Phineas sat stiff as a board, eyes darting about as if he was doing calculations in the air around him.

...ask Isabella out? Like...on a date ? That was something he could do??

Phineas had never thought about asking anyone out before. (He’d witnessed Candace talk about going out with Jeremy, but that was about it).

What would asking Isabella out entail?

Taking her to dinner? Holding her hand? Telling her she looked pretty? Kissing her cheek?

...or maybe just…..kissing her?

Phineas’s heart stuttered, face flushing.

He’d never thought about kissing anyone either.

But doing all those things with Isabella sounded nice.

Really nice.

And then, he wasn’t thinking about asking Isabella out. He was just thinking about Isabella.

Isabella, who was so kind, and so brave, and so smart, and so full of determination and compassion, and so adorable she could short-out a cute-tracker and defeat an alien dictator with nothing but a smile.

Isabella, who’d been his best friend (besides Ferb) for as long as he could remember.

Isabella, who’d always been especially special to him, who’d always stood out from any of his other friends as someone he really loved to spend time with.

Oh gosh. Oh GOSH.

“....I.....I like Isabella…..”

Phineas blinked a few times.

“....I LIKE-like Isabella…..”

He wasn’t sure whether he wanted to laugh or cry.

“.....I LIKE ISABELLA.”

The more this fact sunk in, the redder his face became. His heart was beating so fast now, he was afraid it might pop, and his stomach was in knots. Was this normal??

“FERB.”

Shock was quickly morphing into panic because WHAT WAS HE SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS INFORMATION??

“FERB, I REALLY LIKE ISABELLA!!!!”

If Phineas hadn’t looked to be on the verge of tears, Ferb would have laughed.

As it was, though, Ferb instead stood from his chair and quickly sat at Phineas’s side. He gently patted him on the shoulder.

“I know you do, Phineas. I’ve known for awhile now.”

Phineas looked at him disbelievingly. “How did you know?? How could you have known if I didn’t even know???”

“Well...you’ve gone out of your way to do tons of special things for Isabella...and like spending time with just her...and talk about her all the time...and don’t you remember freaking out when she went missing during the pharmacist apocalypse? It was kind of obvious.”

Phineas considered all these things. And then he buried his head in his hands, let out a groan, and blushed some more.

“What’s the matter?” Ferb asked. “You know you like Isabella now, so do something about it! Ask her out! Tell her how you feel! Or build her something to tell her how you feel!”

Ferb typically refrained from speaking as much as he was right now. But this was important.

“WhAT??? Are you kidding???” Phineas practically sprang from the bed and began pacing the floor in a manner that reminded Ferb of their older sister. “I can’t tell Isabella I like her!!!! What if she laughs at me?? What if she doesn’t want to be my friend anymore???”

Ferb could’ve told Phineas the complete truth right then and there. He could’ve said, “That actually won’t be a problem because Isabella’s had a giant crush on you since we were kids. Go, get your girl.”

It would’ve made things a lot simpler.

But Ferb thought that would’ve been a disservice to Isabella.

She’d been trying to tell Phineas she loved him for ages.

Now that Phineas was finally capable of understanding his own feelings, Ferb couldn’t take revealing Isabella’s feelings away from her.

Morally, all he could do was nudge Phineas in the right direction.

(A few years down the line, he would sometimes regret this decision...but there was no point in dwelling on the past.)

“I can’t force you to do anything, Phineas...but I doubt she’d laugh at you or not want to be your friend anymore. I think you should tell her.”

A part of Phineas wanted to do just that. Run across the street. Knock on Isabella’s door and tell her how he felt, maybe with the help of some grand invention. Sweep her off her feet (if she’d let him!) and make sure she understood just how special she was to him.

But another part of Phineas, the louder part, was afraid. After finally realizing just how much he cared for Isabella, could he really risk losing her friendship by revealing his feelings to her?

It seemed pointless to hope she might feel the same way. Isabella was his best friend, sure, but why would she like him like that??

(Plus, he’d literally JUST figured out he had feelings for her. He needed more time to process everything.)

“Maybe I’ll tell her someday…..” Phineas said softly. “....but not today.”

...

Isabella shouldn’t have been sad. She should have been celebrating, not curled up on her bed with tears in her eyes, petting Pinky to comfort herself and wishing things were different.

Today should’ve been one of the happiest days of her life. (And, an hour or so ago, it was!)

But now she was sad. And she hated it.

A part of this sadness was to be expected. She’d been a Fireside Girl (and a Lil’ Spark before that) for practically her entire life! It was hard to say goodbye to something that had been an integral part of her for so long.

But Isabella had been prepared to deal with that. And she had a graduation patch and an award for earning the most patches ever to sweeten the end of her career as a Fireside Girl.

No, it was the sadness she HADN’T anticipated that hurt the most.

When Isabella first became a Fireside Girl (nearly seven years ago!!), she’d established three goals to reach by the time she graduated from her troupe. She’d even written them down in a diary with her favorite pink pen:

1. Become a troupe leader and be the best one ever!!

2. Earn every patch I can!

3. Tell Phineas I like him!

Now, as Isabella gazed down at the final goal she’d written all those years ago within the glittery diary, she was struck with its naivety...and ashamed at her inability to fulfill it.

When she was seven, life had been simpler. It had seemed like she had a loooooooong time to wait before starting high school and graduating from being a Fireside Girl. She figured she would HAVE to get Phineas to notice her by the time they were older! She had plenty of time!! And certainly he’d notice her eventually, if not during one summer, then during the next one!! But the next summer became the next summer, which became the NEXT summer….which eventually became now.

NOW, Isabella was hanging up her sash for good and preparing to start high school. And despite many, MANY efforts on her part, Phineas never seemed to understand just how much she cared for him.

(And though it would’ve been easy to blame Phineas for all that, Isabella knew she herself was to blame too.)

Isabella hadn’t done ALL she could to communicate her feelings to Phineas. In all those years, she’d never flat-out confessed to him. To her credit, she HAD tried doing so a few times...but the universe always got in the way, for better or worse.

As she’d gotten older, however, the prospect of confessing had only gotten scarier...because the older she got, the louder the doubts in her head grew.

What if Phineas didn’t like her that way at all? Or couldn’t like her that way at all? And what if, by telling him about her feelings, she ended up ruining their friendship and making things weird between them?? Having unrequited feelings for Phineas hurt, sure, but not getting to be his friend at all would hurt even more.

Thus, Isabella had instead tried giving Phineas opportunity after opportunity to realize she liked him on his own, hinting at her own feelings without spelling them out directly. If HE figured out she liked him, she wouldn’t have to face rejection from him head-on if he didn’t feel the same way. And if he DID like her back, he would make the first move.

This, unfortunately, hadn’t worked yet.

(Unless, of course, Phineas HAD already figured out Isabella liked him and didn’t want to say anything because he didn’t like her back. But she didn’t really want to consider that scenario.)

Isabella grimaced, wishing the events of the past hour would stop replaying in her head.

She’d had a wonderful time during the graduation ceremony, and then she’d had fun hugging and chatting with Phineas afterwards. For a few minutes, she’d been able to enjoy simply being his friend (and enjoy having a crush on him).

But then he’d unknowingly reminded her of the goals she made for herself so long ago...and every insecurity and fear wrapped up in her love for Phineas came surging back.

It had been like two sides of her were waging war in her head. One side—her younger, more optimistic side—had pushed her to admit the parameters of her goal to Phineas and even scripted out a spur-of-the-moment confession. But the other side—her wiser, more tentative one—barricaded the doors of her heart and refused to let the confession slip out.

After so many years of repeatedly trying to convey her feelings to Phineas without perceiving so much as a hint of understanding from him...the thought of confessing was too daunting. Too scary.

Even if she loved him so much it almost hurt.

Phineas’s reaction to her problem and statement of how much he valued her as a friend didn’t help matters either.

He was just, so kind! So helpful!! So sweet!!! And he loved being her friend!!!! Though Isabella had been disappointed when his final proclamation turned out to be one affirming their friendship rather than something more, she also couldn’t help but be taken with it just the same.

She loved the thought of being something more to Phineas, sure….but she also deeply cherished being his friend.

And now her fears of confessing and ruining that were far more prominent than they’d ever been.

....perhaps it was time to take a different approach to ridding herself of those fears.

Isabella glanced over at her sash and sighed. Without any new patches to earn, she didn’t have a steadfast excuse to hang out with Phineas anymore.

Maybe that was for the best.

Isabella still wanted to be Phineas’s friend. She DESPERATELY wanted to maintain their friendship, more than anything.

But she also desperately wanted to be free of the burning ache in her chest to either admit her love to Phineas or be loved by him first.

In her current state, these desires could not co-exist.

If she wanted to keep being Phineas’s friend, she either had to confess to him—which could ruin their friendship, so that wasn’t an option—or work on moving past her feelings for him.

And doing the latter would be impossible if she kept spending time with him on a regular basis. That would only remind her why she loved him so deeply and make it even harder to let go.

Isabella rose from her bed, grabbed a pen from her desk, and then sat back down amongst her pillows. She reopened her old diary and thumbed to the page on which she’d written out her goals all those years ago.

Her lip quivered, and she brushed away a few tears gathering in her eyes.

“...this is for the best…” she whispered to herself.

She checked off the first goal.

She checked off the second.

And then she crossed out the third, hesitated for a moment….and slowly wrote a new one beneath it:

“Get over Phineas.”

...

...so uh.....yeah......the past hurts😬

(....if it makes y'all feel any better, I teared up when I wrote the ending of this chapter😓)

Thanks for reading, and thanks as always to the lovely @youruinedmylifebynotbeingreal for being a fabulous beta! 

[arkus-rhapsode]

My Hero Academia Chapter 226 Review

Oh lord this chapter. Wow.

So we open on a flashback, or potentially a broadcast of young Toga’s first murder. Someone who witnessed it actually got a good look at Toga’s face.

Okay, so setting the tone for this chapter. We also get more from Toga’s flashback showing that she was obsessed with blood before her first murder.

I’ll talk about this more when we get back to it as we cut forward to the present.

Kizuki is still interviewing Toga, and I swear to god you could show me some of the faces in this chapter out of context and I’d think they’d be moved to orgasm.

Toga’s not able to really stand. Getting blown up will do that to you. And Kizuki begins to monologue again. Though to be fair, unlike last week, it balanced much better with more potent dialogue and Toga’s own introspection. o its not like dominated by one person.

So we get introduced to a new concept for this world, quirk consoling. It’s not a surprise, that powers you are born with affect your personality, simulations, and interests. Toga can transform from drinking blood, so naturally she’s interested in blood. Bakugou’s got an explosive temper, could be partially detritive from his quirk. Same with Aoyama and his sparkling motif. People’s quirks reflect their quirks.

Quirk consoling is for those who’s personalities effected by their odd quirks are made to psychologically integrate them. Essentially press down their psychosis and make them normal. But a quirk is a part of you. It doesn’t just go away. Focusing on suppressing your oddity just makes you think about it more. And the more you think about the thing you’re told not to embrace in an effort to not do it, its no surprise Toga snapped.

Now to be fair. This is just Toga. We have seen people with blood based quirks like Vlad King, actually manage to live a normal life. It’s likely because his stimulation with blood manifested more acceptably. Showing that Toga’s interest could’ve been met, but rather than being forced down, she could’ve been shown to put her interests in another form.

Toga snaps at Kizuki again, and she reveals a support tool to blow her back. I’m guessing all the Liberation Army executives have a special support tool.

Kizuki brings up something I’ve been saying for awhile, that the LoV and the Liberation Army have the same objective. Thy both wanna change society for reasons that create outcasts. But again, something that makes them different it their closeness. Kizuki, doesn’t care about Toga’s suffering so she can help her, she cares so she can furthur her own agenda.

But the League cared. Gave Toga a place to go. But these guys, she’s just another drop in the bucket for their ends. If they really cared, Kizuki would’ve offered Toga a chance to join them. But no, she’s just another pawn.

Toga dashes off, and I again have to props to Horikoshi as an artist. I tend to hear Horikoshi get shit for ways he draws women at times (personally, I don’t agree with that assessment, but that’s not what this is about right now). But Hori is one of the few shounen artists willing to take this female character who many do consider cute and adorable, regardless of being a serial killer, and burn her. Burn and blood that cute face, because it horrifying, it gets the message across.

So while I get some of the complaints about how Hori draws female characters, I feel its worth mentioning that he will treat their appearances like a male’s. Give them muscle tone and give them full facial damage. It’s something I see rarely done by mainstream shounen and I appreciate it.

Granted, she doesn’t stay like that for long. As she turns into Uraraka while fleeing.

So we get another dive into Toga’s head. This time about Izuku and Uraraka. While it is good, how Toga becomes like Uraraka because of love. She wants to be like Uraraka because Izuku loves her. I also feel this chapter hasn’t brought up the source of that love.

Because as we saw in the flashback, the boy she was watching looked like Izuku, so how much of this love is genuine and how much is superficial. Its not answered and maybe it will be alter, but seeing this scene makes m want a clear answer on if Toga is projecting onto others or is this “true love.”

And here’s where we get the most controversial thing in the chapter. Which this chapter has been great so far, but this moment...

Toga can now use the powers of the people she turns into. Something that only seems to have happened because she is at death’s door. Okay, I’m going to level with you, this is an asspull. This out of nowhere enhancement is the same thing people gave to FT and OP for how they won fights. My damn intellectual honesty does tell me this is still cheating.

BUT! Unlike, say FT, this power up is backed by the story. Sure its not “built up” but the fact this new ability was dveloped thanks to a heavy psychological reason and not say “I have friends” or some shit, that reality bends entirely to their will.

It also lines up with Toga’s powers. Its not like she gained the ability to blood bend. Her evolution came from still having to transform her body from ingesting a person’s blood. And we also she, it has limitations. Like with Monoma’s copy quirk, I can accept such a strong ability as long as it has limits. And this one does. She can’t maintain the form she’s in forever.

So is it an asspull? Yes, but it a very well done asspull that allows to look over the plot convenience.

Our chapter ends pretty gruesomely, but kinda amazingly. Also, she says she’s just like Izuku. I don’t know if that means that the LoV knows the truth about One for All or if she’s just saying that because she has Izuku’s blood.

Post Chapter follow up: This chapter is great. The best part about it is finally diving into who Toga is as a person. It’s such a trip and honestly erriely similar to real life killers.

I love the worldbuilding and commentary on society in this chapter. Horikoshi really knows how to take a modern setting for a battle shounen and give it such depth.

Kizuki is also far better in this chapter. She’s still one-note, but this time she’s not dominating thee chapter and at least gives us more insight into the Liberation army.

The only fault I can find in this chapter is the powerup. But I’ve already written why I can see a reader accepting this over some Nakama crap. And even if the change does bother you there is so much good here, it still is a good read.

Final Verdict: 9/10

Gives us a great psychological look into our villain

Character development in spades

Interesting societal commentary

[mirkwoodshewolf]

Aladdin Queen fic John Deacon x reader chap. 5; Friend like me

*Author’s note*

Now here comes the moment I’m sure all of you have been waiting for, the appearance of the man, the legend, the God himself, FREDDIE MERCURY AS THE GENIE!!!! Okay so work with me here folks, I don’t care which version of the song you guys listen to, cause I did take one verse from the Robin Williams OG version and place it into here even though I mostly used the Will Smith version of the song for the fic so I leave that up to you all (also you can listen to the song just to help set the mood). 

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I felt something grip the shoulder of my shirt as well as a small hand touching my face.  I groaned and opened my eyes to see Abu standing over me. He chattered and hugged me and I was lifted back up to reveal Carpet.  Soon it all came back to me, the cave exploding, the old man taking the lamp, nearly killing me and me falling back down here into the cave of Wonders.

“Thanks carpet.” He waved his tassel around as he bowed in welcome.  I looked up to see the entire cave was blocked off with sand and rock.  “We’re trapped. And whoever that old guy was, he’s long gone with that lamp.”

It was then Abu stepped over behind a rock and low and behold he took out the lamp.  I gaped at him and choked out Abu.

“Abu….why you hairy little thief!” I grabbed the lamp with my left hand and scratched Abu’s chin with the other.  He leaned into my finger and I stood up and looked at it. “I mean, why go to all this trouble for a simple oil lamp? And more importantly how’s it going to get us out of here?”

Carpet then began to point at the lamp, and I emphasis on pointing, it was like he was urging me to rub it.

“Rub the lamp?” he nodded.  I looked down at the lamp and that’s when I began noticing something strange about this lamp.  It was glowing some sort of blue color. “What the….” I blew the dust away from it and rubbed it.

Suddenly the lamp began to jostle in my hands and glow before it shot out a puff of smoke like a cannon, next thing I knew fireworks began exploding out of the lamp and I know I may sound crazy, but I swear I heard laughter as well.  Finally blue smoke just engulfed around the entire cave and I heard a cry echoing through the cave.

Then as quick as it came, the smoke cleared and there stood just a few feet away from me, a blue man with black hair down to his shoulders.

“Oi, 10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck! But man does it feel good to finally be out of—” when he turned to face me, he groaned and said. “Ohh great we gotta do this shit again? Okay might as well get it over with.” Suddenly he grew giant size as he floated over me and in a booming, thunderous voice, he spoke as his arms crossed over his chest; “Oh great one that summoned me. Terrible one that commands me. I stand by my oath, loyalty to wishes three!”

I was just in shock as a whimper softly came out of me as my jaw was probably down to the ground at this rate.  He adjusted himself and continued, “I said…..’Oh great’….” He leaned down towards me and using that normal voice he used earlier he asked me, “Darling help me out here where’s your boss? I mean if I wanted to fucking talk to myself I could’ve stayed in the lamp.”

“Uh—uhh…..”

“Hello~ Anybody in there?” he waved his hand in front of me.

“I—” I squeaked out.

“Ahh use your big girl voice.” He playfully scowled me.

“I’m…..talking. To a smoking blue—giant?”

“Whoa, whoa okay first of all back that tractor up. I am no giant, okay I find that incredible racist. I am a djinn. Or in English terms genie but let’s face it djinn sounds more fabulous. Like gin and juice, and I can’t think of anything more fabulous than me!” He went from giant size began to the height he was before but remained floating in front of me. “But back to the subject, the main difference between djinns and giants, is unlike giants, I’m real. So c’mon where’s big boss man?”

“Big boss man?”

“Look dear I’ve been doing this a long time and you know how there’s always a guy. You know he’s cheated somebody, buried somebody. You get my picture right? Where’s that guy?”

“Yeah I know that guy. He’s outside.”

“So it’s just…..” he pulled out a telescope and extended far and wide through the cave before closing it up and making it vanish. “You and me down here?” He then noticed Abu who was hiding behind me leg. “And a monkey. I mean I myself prefer cats as pets but to each his or her own. So you rubbed the lamp?” I nodded. “Oh, okay then. Hey you don’t mind if I stretch it out over here do you dear? Thank you.” He floated just a couple feet away from me and began to stretch himself out.

“Wait did you just ask me if you could stretch?”

“You’re my master.”

“I’m your master?”

“Downward dog!”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait hang on. No offense but if anything and I can’t believe I’m saying this but it looks like you would be my master.”

“Well not exactly how this whole genie game works. Whosoever rubs the lamp of the jinn, is bound to by thy jinn’s master till the wish fulfillment is complete.” He said as he now stood on one hand and stretched his other arm towards his back.

“Must’ve hit my head harder than I thought.” I said as I rubbed the back of my head.

“So wait you really have no idea how this works?” He came up to me as he continued, “Genie? Wishes? Lamp? None of that?” I shook my head no. “Oh wow okay that-that-that’s a first for me.” The genie then poofed into smoke before levitating just to the corner of my eye before pointing to Abu proclaiming, “Monkey!”

It was then Abu had a mini-drum set on his back, cymbals in his hand and a kazoo in his mouth.  He then proceeded to clap to a beat, like one of those wind up monkey dolls.  I pointed to him before looking up at the genie but he assured me.

“Oh don’t worry about him, dear, he’s fine.” Abu then began walking which made the drum beat in a single rhythm and the genie proceeded to snap his fingers to the beat while moving his shoulders, while trying to hold back his overbite smile to the beat before singing.

Well, Ali Baba, he had them forty thieves Scheherazade had a thousand tales But, master, you're in luck because up your sleeves You got a genie never fails!

Abu stopped with the kazoo note before the genie proclaimed a whoop cheer.  Carpet stood up clapping with his front tassels as the genie bragged.

“Yep. I’m the best, and outrageous. Cause there’s no one more outrageous than me.” But to be honest to me I still wasn’t fully processing this, so I just awkwardly agreed. “Not enough huh? No worries besides that’s not the real me.”

He pointed to Abu again who shot up along with a puff of smoke up towards a higher rock ledge with a real drum set and he began playing a more upbeat tune.  Carpet playing the maracas as the genie floated around strutting and snapping his head to the rhythm of the tune.  

He grew back to his giant sized self before coming back down on the rocks leaning with his arms crossed over one another.

*Genie*

Here I go Uh, ooh, woo! Back up! Uh-oh! Watch out! Uh You done wound me up! 'Bout to show you what I'm workin' with, uh

He held his hands together before opening them up and I saw a swarm of bandits coming towards me.  I raced down the rocks but I was soon surrounded with swords all pointed at me.  Suddenly I don’t know how but my sleeves began glowing as gauntlets appeared on my arms and I proceeded to beat and knock out every single thief that came my way.

Then as I flipped over the last thief I felt the magic in my sleeves gone but the genie stood beside me and handed me the lamp and did the rubbing motion that I had to do on the lamp so I did and that’s when blue smoke came out and there stood the genie once more.

*Genie*

Well, Ali Baba, he had them forty thieves Scheherazade had a thousand tales But, master, you're in luck because up your sleeves You got a brand of magic never fails You got some power in your corner now Heavy ammunition in your camp You got some punch (pizazz, yahoo) and how? All you gotta do is rub that lamp And then I'll say

He then held a giant serving dish before revealing it to be a giant tent of sorts and I was now in a restaurant like setting. Dozens of workers surrounded me prepping everything up like I had seen in the palace, the genie came up wearing a waiter’s garb and he handed me a menu.

Allah I never knew being this pampered would feel this good.  I then saw a tiny version of genie come up to me ear and I leaned in so that I could hear him before I heard and saw the workers, who were just genie in various clothes of servants and servers all pointing out and proclaiming at me.

*Genie*

Darling, wait, what's your name? Whatever, what will your pleasure be? Let me take your order, I'll jot it down You ain't never had a friend like me

Life is your restaurant And I'm your maître D Come, whisper to me whatever it is you want You ain't never had a friend like me

I managed to slide down out of the restaurant scenery but I was soon surrounded by multiple genies who all had a dish full of sweets and treats all surrounding me.  I was so overwhelmed that I ducked down and tried to escape that chaos.

*Genie*

We pride ourselves on service You the boss, the queen, the shah! Say what you wish, it's yours! True dish How about a little more baklava?

To my left the genie made a long row of beautiful gowns, dresses and hijabs appear.  So I grabbed a beautiful emerald green sari and put it on, while on the other side a long row of jewels appeared.  Necklaces, bracelets, rings, anklets, earrings you name it.  

So I grabbed a matching emerald and silver necklace and placed it around my neck.

It was then I felt my arms raise up and I saw myself being connected to blue magic puppet strings.  I was spun around before I was on a stage of some sorts with dozens of genie backup dancers but I was center stage.  I then felt myself being pranced around on stage, doing outrageous gestures and hand motions while holding a cane and I was banging it against my body in rhythm as I pranced across the stage.  

*Genie*

Have some of column A Try all of column B I'm in the mood to help you, dear You ain't never had a friend like me

Oh! Uh! This the big part, watch out! This the big part, oh!

After that the stage disappeared and the genie appeared behind me and as we pointed to the left I saw another copy of him standing on top of his head but his lower body was spinning around with lights coming out of the pants.  When we pointed in the other direction we saw another genie doing a lasso move with his smoky tail, jumping in and out of the hoop.

Before finally the real genie behind me made a crown that resembled the English king crown appear on top of my head before tipping it off of my head.  He took the hat and pulled a rabbit out of it but with the snap of a finger, the rabbit became a phoenix and flew across the floor in flames.

*Genie*

Can your friends do this? Can your friends do that? Can your friends pull this Out they little hat? Can your friends go-WHOOOOO!!!

From the flames appeared three handsome men. The genie pushed me towards them and I proceeded to dance with each one of them.  Each of them either spun me around or dipped me downwards before they poofed away and I landed on a couch with my head resting on the genie’s lap now.

*Genie*

Well, lookie here Can your friends go, Abracadabra, let 'er rip And then make the sucker disappear?

        He helped me sit up right.  And the two of us sat there casually while a choir of genies appeared behind us. Carpet then handed him a certificate of sorts before the genie then handed me the certificate and I felt us zooming almost at lightspeed forward before we stopped and stood up.

        When we stopped I felt myself fly forward but just before I could fall over to the ground, the genie caught me and spun me around towards his chest.  He then made a long scroll come out of my ear that appeared to be three miles long before he whipped it across the cave and wrapped it around him.

        Finally I got around to telling him my name and I couldn’t help but finally get into this song now.  The two of us then began strutting around and moving around each other before we would jump one by one down the ledge, striking a fabulous pose before finally rocking and strutting our stuff.  

All the while fireworks, lights, dancers, and animals surrounded the entire cave, getting into the act like it was all a marvelous show.

*Genie*

Don't sit there buggy-eyed I'm here to answer all your midday prayers You got me bona fide, certified You got a genie for your charge d'affaires I got a powerful urge to help you out So what's your wish? I really wanna know You got a list that's three miles long, no doubt All you gotta do is rub like so

Darling,

*Me*

(Y/n)

*Genie*

Yes! One wish or two or three Well, I'm on the job, you big nabob You ain't never had a friend,

Never had a friend,

You ain't never had a friend,

Never had a friend You ain't never (never!) Had a (had a) Friend (friend) Like (like) Me! You ain't never had a friend like me!

By the end of it all, everything the genie had made appear vanished except a sign that said applause.  I could hear Carpet applauding and when genie snapped his fingers the sign disappeared as he said.

“So what will it be master? Or in this case mistress?”

“You’re—gonna grant me any three wishes I want right?”

“Well almost, there are a few rules a genie can’t do.”

“Like?” He shrunk down to normal height and said as he sat down beside me.

“Well rule #1; You can’t wish for more wishes, three is all you get. Rule #2; I can’t make anybody fall in love with anybody else. Rule #3; I can’t bring anybody back from the dead. Trust me dear, you don’t want that it’s not a pretty picture.” He shuddered before continuing, “Rule #4; I can’t kill anyone. But other than that…..I can do it all. So c’mon wish us out of here so that I can get in the sun.”

I stood up and went into deep thought about this as Abu came up onto my shoulders.

“Well I’d have to think about it. I mean—there are only three after all. Why are there only three?” I asked as I turned towards him.

“I don’t know, who cares?” He spoke in a high pitched, impatient tone.

“You don’t know? I thought you were all knowing?”

“See that’s where you’re wrong. I never said I was all knowing. I said I was all powerful. The most powerful being in the universe. Whatever I don’t know, I can learn. Why are you playing hard to wish?”

“Limitations? On wishes, huh some ‘all powerful genie’ “I can’t bring anybody back from the dead”. So if you can’t do that, then how can you help me get out of this cave?” I mocked.

Abu chattered in a laughing manner and I said to him.

“Now, now Abu it’s not his fault he can’t do it. Looks like we’re gonna have to find our own way out of here.” As I turned around the genie suddenly appeared before me.

“Excuse me?” He scoffed. “Are you looking at me? Did you rub my lap? Did you wake me up? Did you bring me here? And all of a sudden you’re walking out on me!? Oh I don’t think so, not right now! So you better rub that fucking lamp AND WISH!!” he spoke as he walked right up at me, getting up in my face.  His voice gradually got louder before he ended it on a thunderous note.

I suddenly fell backwards and held my hands up in surrender.  Wow he was pretty scary when he needed to be.

“Okay, okay genie! I wish for you to get us out of this cave.” Then like a flick of a candle, he went from extremely pissed off, to pure joy as he spun around and proclaimed.

“Whoo! She has made her first wish!” He then appeared as some sort of escort as he held out a map and spoke like he was talking through a megaphone or something but it was more muffled and softer. “Thank you for choosing carpets, camels and caravans. Don’t forget to tip your genie on the way out.” He placed the lamp in my hands and he said, “Hang on darling!” he spun around me evoking me in blue smoke.

Next thing I saw was intense light from the sun. We were finally back outside.

“Whoa.”

“Ohh look at this view it’s so—big. I mean cause everything in the lamp is all Brass. Brass, brass, brass. Ohh is that a bit of copper or gold? Nope, brass.”

“So wait, is this magic? Or are you magic?” I asked him.  He shrugged and said.

“We’re kinda a packaged deal. But now it’s time to get down to business.” He placed his hands on my shoulders and next thing I knew, we were flung back and now resting on some chairs underneath the shade.

“Can you warn me before you do that?”

“Ahh don’t worry dear you’ll get used to it.” He shrugged off my answer like it was nothing.

“Okay so do I have to make all my wishes here? Because I mean if I take you back to Agrabah won’t people….”

“Oh no, no, no darling I can totally fit in watch me.” He stood up from his chair and snapped his finger and appeared in human clothing, a long beard that went down to his stomach.

“Right, totally normal.” I said sarcastically. He then changed poses with his left arm in the air and appeared in less baggy clothes, but he still had his blue skin. “Still blue.” He snapped and his skin turned from blue to sun-kissed tan.  He smiled widely and looked down at me.

“Better?”

“Yeah but….not to be rude but must you have the—” I gestured to his teeth and he hmphed and fell back into his chair.

“I’m gonna pretend you didn’t ask about that. I change these teeth and there goes my four range vocals. I mean how do you think I managed that operatic section of the song? My voice is something that not even my magic can replicate. More space in my mouth means more range.”

He then made some grapes appear above him and he took a couple off the vines and he asked me.

“So, whatcha wanna wish for?”

“Well I’d have to think on that.” He hummed.

“You are really not that person, are you?”

“Alright Mr. Smart guy, what would you wish for? And more importantly what’s your name?” as he had taken a bite of an apple he paused to look at me.  He let the apple go and it disappeared and he said sincerely.

“Wow…..no one’s ever asked me those two questions before. Well….I do have a name but I’ve hated it for millennia’s.”

“What is it?”

“Farrokh. But I’ve always wanted to change it to something that felt more—me. A name that won’t define me as being what I appear.” I thought about it and I said.

“Well why not play around the name? I mean you’re definitely not a Stephen or even Sami. How about—Freddie?” He pondered and he said.

“Freddie? Yeah, I think it sounds nice. Love it!” he raised his hands and clapped them together.  “Thank you (y/n) dear.”

“No problem, now what about your wish?”

“Ohh now that’s an easy one. To be free.” He banged on his gauntlets.  I looked at him confused.

“You’re a prisoner?”

“Unfortunately it’s all a part of the whole genie getup. Phenomenal cosmic power! But itty bitty living space.”

“Wow, I never thought djinns lived that way.”

“Yeah. And I don’t mean just going,” he suddenly poofed wearing a butlers outfit and said. “How can I help you?” he poofed away again and appeared tiny and he said as he stood on my shoulder, “Yes my darling what is it?” he then appeared on the table and said, “Welcome to Casa de Freddie how may I serve you?” he then appeared back on the chair back in his disguised form. “Absolute freedom. I wish to be—human.”

“Well why don’t you just wish yourself free?” At that point Freddie began to laugh.

“Carpet!” he called out to carpet.  He turned to look at Freddie stopping in the middle of building some sort of castle in the sand. “Did you hear what she just said? ‘why don’t I just wish myself free?’ Hahaha!” Carpet then began to laugh and that’s when Freddie said to me. “The only way a djinn can be free of his prison, is if his master wishes them out. And the last time that happened was next to uhh—never.”

I stood up from my chair and looked outward until I finally decided.

“I’ll do it. I’ve got three right?”

“Uhh correction you’re down by one. Remember you used your last wish to get us out of the cave.”

“Did I? Or did your temper get us out of there?” I asked skeptically.  He chuckled and scoffed exasperatedly but I raised my brow at him. “Also I thought you said that I had to be rubbing the lamp as I made my wish and last I checked I didn’t.”

“Wow, okay I’m keeping my eye on you clever girl.”

“At least now I can use my third wish to set you free.”

“Here’s the thing about wishes darling,” he sat up on his chair and looked at me. “The more you have, the more you want.”

“That’s not me.” I answered straight away.  He nodded but muttered.

“We’ll see about that.”

“But—there…..” I began to stroke the ends of my hair and twirl it around my finger as I continued, “There is something.”

“Uh-oh. I know that little move anywhere.” He teased. Suddenly Freddie appeared in front of me on his stomach, his chin resting between his palms kicking his feet around playfully as he said, “Who is he? Who’s the boy?” I blushed as I shyly smiled.

“He’s a prince.”

“Aww aren’t they all just Prince Charmings? But they better treat us like Queens, that’s what I always say.”

“No Freddie. I mean he’s actually a prince.”

“Well hold it right there. Remember rule #2; I can’t make anybody fall in love.”

“No, no we already had a connection.” I told him.

“Did they?” Freddie said as he turned to Abu who was scolding like a protective older brother.  Freddie hummed and then turned back to me as I began describing John.

“He’s smart, kind, and—so handsome. His hair is like a rich chocolate, his smile is like a thousand suns and his eyes…..” Freddie breathed out in ecstasy as he said.

“Ohh darling you’re killing me here! You’ve clearly got it bad.”

“Yeah. But he has to marry a…..” suddenly an idea came into my mind. “Freddie can you make me a princess?” At that point, he made a strange face.

He poofed back into his chair and he said to me.

“There’s a lot of gray area in ‘make me a princess’. I could just,” he snapped his finger and suddenly appearing on a rock formation a few feet away was a princess. “Make you a princess?”

“Oh no, no.”

“Yeah then you’d be cuddling with her for the rest of your life. Be specific with your words dear. The deal is in the detail.”

“How did I out here? I wanna go home!” I could hear her whine from afar.  I nodded.

“Got it.”

“But (y/n) what I don’t understand is this; if he already likes you, why change?”

“I already told you, he has to marry a princess.” He nodded and muttered as he stood up.

“Okay, I can do that.” He turned and faced me and continued, “An official wish this time, for those of us that our counting, which now I am.”

“Right, Freddie I wish….” He cleared his throat and pointed to the lamp and mouthed out lamp to me. “Right, sorry.” I grabbed the lamp and began rubbing it. “Alright, Freddie…..”

“Don’t hurt her Freddie!” he exclaimed.

“I wish…..to become—a princess.”

“Back up for me darling I need some room to work. I’m about to fabulize you.” I closed my eyes tightly and I felt him grab a hold of me and the next thing I knew, we were being flung across the sky.

Before finally landing in the middle of the desert just a few miles far enough for us to see the entrance to Agrabah.  

“Little head spinny on re-entry but you good now right?”

“I—think I’m getting used to it.” I said breathlessly. Freddie then went away for a bit by himself as he pondered on my first wish.

“First of all this fez and garb is much too third century. These baggy pants what are we trying to say here, beggar? No, no absolutely fucking not darling. Okay I’m thinking more of a—periwinkle.”

“What’s periwinkle?”

“No, chartreuse.” Freddie claimed as he suddenly made some scissors and a tape measure appear, as well as a pair of glasses and a pencil behind his ear.  He then began doing some work on my and I ended up in a pure black dress that was almost completely embedded with diamonds and sparkles. “Eww no! No! No the form’s all off, the black makes you look depressed. It clashes with your skin tone.”

“This is getting really hot.”

“Yeah black and heat do not mix. No worries darling, I got a plan B. C’mon Freddie work with her here!” He then pulled out some gold fabric as he muttered, “Go gold or go home!”  he worked around me again and this time I was in heavier golden dress and he groaned. “Fuck Freddie you’re slipping. It clashes with the sand. It’s gotta be neutral. C’mon think Freddie, think, think, think you dirty rotter!”

“You sure you got this Freddie?” He then let out a long gasp and he looked like he was about to have some sort of seizure.

“I’ve got it! I just know it!” He then worked on me one last time and soon I had my dress.

It was mostly a pink dress with golden embedding and circular pattern, there was also a mix of bluish-green, it also had a long train in the back.  I also wore a golden strand necklace with five main jewels hanging down around my collar bone in the same color as the patter hidden within my dress with a matching set of earrings, a golden tiara was placed on top of my head with the jewels embedded along it.  Golden heels, and pants underneath the dress.

“Oh! I have done it! And the crowd goes wild! Freddie! Freddie! Freddie is back!” He began to hoot and holler as he zoomed off across the desert, leaving a trail of fire in his wake. “Ohh don’t scald her! Somebody put me out! Someone cool me down! I’m burning up! Woo! I’m back bitches!”

Suddenly a mirror appeared in front of me and I could hardly recognize myself.

“Well, what do you think?”

“It’s—it’s beautiful.”

“Of course it’s beautiful I made it.”

“I—I just can’t believe that this is me.”

“Well, mostly me. I mean I did all the hard work, you just stood there and looked pretty.” Freddie said as he came up to me.

“Wait, won’t people recognize me?”

“Oh don’t be ridiculous darling, that’s the beauty of genie magic. People are seen what they are told to see. You’re perfectly fine.”

“Right. Who am I?” I questioned nervously. Freddie scoffed.

“You’re…..Princess….Ali.” I waited for him to say where I was from but I didn’t get a response from him.

“From?”

“Duh. Ababwa.” He muttered quietly.

“Ah-bub-wha?” He shook his head.

“No, no watch my lips, Ababwa.” He enunciated the place.

“Is that even a real place?”

“What a stupid question, of course it is. All the hottest people go there. Little hot in the summers, mild in the fall, gorgeous view, it’s all in the brochure. I’ll let you read it en route.”

“Right. So how are we gonna get to the city?” Freddie hummed.

“Well can’t ride a monkey.” Abu now knowing he was gonna be next in Freddie’s magic, tried to hide behind Carpet.  “Ah-ah-ah no Abu dear, come back here!” he levitated Abu back in front of us and first made him into a donkey. “Oh no, much to small.”

Abu then slowly phased from a donkey to a camel.

“Ohh good god no. Camels and Princesses do not mix. We need something robust!” He then shifted into a white stallion. “No too cliché, come on bigger!” Suddenly a trunk speared from Abu’s horse face and he then morphed into a giant elephant. “Ha! Now that’s what I’m talking about. And don’t worry Abu, your transformation will only last 24 hours and you’ll be back to your normal self.”

“Abu, you look great.” I said as I walked up to him and he held out his trunk to me.

“She’s got the outfit, she’s got the elephant. But that’s just the beginning my darling. Now, for your entourage.” Suddenly a sandstorm began to surround us and I said.

“Whoa wait, what’s going on? Freddie!”

[alastheatlas]

Why Klance/Laith Will Probably Go Down - Masterlist

I know how season 7 broke many of us. We had a lot of expectations and this season, while beautiful and otherwise good, certainly failed at some points.

However it isn’t the end yet. Hopefully season 8 will resolve at least some of our disappointments. But when it comes to klance/laith, I’m pretty sure we’re going to see something happen. Nothing has to happen however. But I’m just saying, based on all of the things listed, it just simply makes sense that it would.

This is just a show so whatever happens happens. But I'm just saying I'll have faith in laith until if the very last second of the show tells us any different. And here’s why.

Are you ready? [CONTAINS SEASON 7 SPOILERS!!]

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but first some lecturing lololol

WHATEVER HAPPENS AND WHICHEVER SHIP BLOWS OUT THE BIG CANON IN THE END IS FINE. IT'S JUST A SHOW. A SHOW THAT DOESN'T EVEN REVOLVE AROUND ROMANCE. If you can't handle that then you can go bite ass. Oh and also, Don’t spread around hate or threats or any shit like that. You should know better. Just enjoy the show as it is. And yes, this applies to if your ship becomes canon and if it doesn’t. Spreading hate and threats are never okay. Accept whatever the outcome of the show will be, and let people ship what they want. This isn’t your story and you shouldn’t become sour just because it doesn’t go the way you want it to go, and if it does go the way you want it to go, don’t rub it in the faces of those who wanted something different.

Just be mature and decent guys, it really ain’t that hard.

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ANYWAY here's my half-assed list of why I believe klance/laith will be endgame by the end of the series:   

[I REPEAT THIS CONTAINS SOME S7 SPOILERS]

Let’s begin with some random stuff:

Lance’s one-sided rivalry with Keith seems to... have something a little extra about it.

The blue and the red star in the astral plane?? Do they hold a deeper meaning??

The bonding moment. It could be seen as platonic, but... The colours and the lightning y'all... Interesting choice. (Also... that a//urance parallel in season 6... Coincidence I think the heck not, purposeful I think the heck yes)

Keith being seemingly really impatient for Lance to come out of the healing pod after the bonding moment, and then appearing to actually sulk for having to wait just a small moment.

In one of the comic books Keith says that he’ll be training and suggests that maybe Lance should too, maybe or maybe not wanting to hang out with Lance and trying to create an opportunity, and then seems to become upset/disappointed when Lance rejects the idea.

Lance talking to the mice about his crush on Allura could honestly pass  as him talking about Keith as well. 

Honestly though was Lance flirting/trying to impress Keith as pointed out here x?

They really pulled the stuck in the elevator trope lmao.

This doesn’t actually have to do with anything but I still find it a funny parallel with Lance rejecting Keith by denying the bonding moment and Keith rejecting Lance and denying him a proper greeting and hug after returning. Are they even now? fuhidsdfu top 10 anime betrayals

The Feud episode (here are the s7 spoilers!!)

Lance chose Keith (read more here x). Look, listen. This was pretty gay. To put it briefly, Lance’s reasoning was kinda weak and he could’ve honestly as well have chosen Allura here. But... he didn’t. And then he seriously says that Keith is the future which is like honest foreshadowing (especially considering how unnecessary it was for him to say that part, at the very least in that way). And then to deliver the final blow he drops that soft smile (a la bonding moment) on us. I don’t care what happens in season 8, this moment was gay af. If I’m stretching a little bit this scene could be viewed a little bit like Lance choosing between Keith and Allura (looking to the side and then the other, pondering, choosing Keith).

Keith chose Lance (same read more link x). Again to put it briefly. We know Keith seems kinda grumpy here. You know what we also know? Keith doesn’t dislike Lance, and he cares about the fate of the universe, therefore invalidating his answer. His body language and expression alone said it all; he closed himself off. He wasn’t comfortable sharing the real reason why he chose Lance. Keith no doubt knows what Lance is capable of. He trusts Lance. Keith chose Lance for a reason (or several reasons), and him ‘not wanting to be stuck for eternity with him’ is definitely not the reason why Keith voted for Lance to escape. Worthy mention of Keith being the quickest here to choose and to finish.

Bii. Boh. Bi. Y’all. This shit. Call it a funny coincidence but the answer was “bi” and the Bii-Boh-Bi kept gesturing towards Lance basically during the entire thing. Call it a stretch if you want, but I have no regrets reaching for this cup. And call it a crack theory at this point but Bob tells the Bii-Boh-Bi “Maybe you could help this dum-dum out”, so this drink tastes like whatever-this-episode-even-was wanted to give Lance a shake. The name game wasn’t even valid. You can be bad at names and bad at remembering faces and still be incredibly smart. None of the games showed Lance actually being unintelligent. And Lance actually did very well in the last game, and I can tell you that game was confusing af so I’m impressed. With this in mind my arm has personally elongated so far that maybe Bob calling Lance ‘dumb’ here wasn’t a jab at his intelligence. Ok hi my ankle is broken but it was worth it. 

Interesting scenery colours and rainbows:

There are several cases of these, but they’re mostly subtle. I’ll leave some examples.

That one episode in season one (is it 06? or 07? you know the one) that is literally the bi flag. We have a lot of Lance in this ep.

In this ep we are also accompanied by at least two rainbows, one when Lance and Nyma fly across the water and another at the end when Keith teases Lance. (Honorable mention of Keith arguably checking Rolo out in this episode lol, we see u Keith x)

That episode when Lotor plays around with the paladins on that planet with the explosive gas, and when the team has split and Keith nears Lance with his lion and no kidding that's the bi flag as a background right there (upside down).

The very obvious, big ass, very not subtle rainbow that's seriously plastered on Keith in the season 7 trailer.

Random rainbow over Keith here as well

The scene where the paladins are in some galra place or something and Lance is sharpshooting and looking down at the others. Background + Lance’s suit + his gun = bi flag colours. 

Funnily enough in this scene when Keith shows up and starts fighting the galra robots (or whatever those things are) and Lance goes ‘I had that guy!’ he looks wayy too long at Keith. Like. Way too long.

Ogling/gloating and jealousy?:

“I’d recognize that mullet anywhere” I’m sorry but if that doesn’t sound like someone has been ogling then I don’t know what.

Again I’m sorry but Lance’s reaction to Keith when he returned wasn’t of the straightest caliber.

Still, when Lance keeps looking at Keith fighting for several solid seconds when he’s supposed to be shooting down galra robots. Parallels a//urance in a way a little bit too when Lance looks at Allura fighting and goes ‘that was awesome!’

But Keith isn’t all that better, apparently

Keith. Out of all people. Stops mid-battle to smile at Lance when Lance shoots away a knife heading towards Keith. Not noticing Axca coming up behind him and then almost getting his ass kicked by Ezor.

After the bonding moment Keith arguably seems like he's jealous when Lance starts flirting.

(Here’s some more hehe x)

How Lance being jealous when Keith is involved could actually be interpreted as ambiguous. It is never actually clarified who he’s jealous over. why not both

Really though the "Jealousy, thy name is Keith" from the comic could possibly be more true than it lets on (though not as you think, Lance).

Honestly I’ll never get over these danking looks:

Lance you’re excused but Keith?? What?? Is that face?? The boy flirted with a girl and ran off and got his lion stolen and you had to get it back for him and you make THIS face?? (Also I think this is the same face 80′s voltron Keith did at Allura at one point?) 

Lance you’re no longer excused. He seriously looks like he's daydreaming of prince charming coming and sweeping him off his feet. (Also remember the face he made when talking about Mrs. Blue Lion x?)

KEITH. HONESTLY. WHAT.

Legit there are no excuses for any of these expressions.

Now for some parallels, some weaker some stronger:

[x] (Krolia/Texas and l0tura parallels, with a dash of Zarkon/Honerva)

[x] (a//urance and l0tura parallels)

[x] (s7 spoiler!), Might and might not be a reach but a//urance parallel (same energy lol))

[x] This entire scene (they make a great/good team). Let’s not forget the little hand glasp Lance does.

[x] (tlok parallel)

[x] (atla parallel)

[x] (atla and tlok parallel) Insert Lance in this context lol

[x] (tlok parallel)

[x] (a//urance parallel)

There are so many parallels tbh I can’t

Allura honestly parallels Keith so much and she LITERALLY plays Keith in the coalition shows

[x] Lance talking about Mrs. Blue Lion vs talking about Keith

[x] (l0tura parallel)

A//lurance and klance/laith paralleling with how both Keith and Allura lectures Lance about the coalition shows not being about the show but about the people 

Some romantic mood parallels:

The previous blue paladin with a (blushing) male galra

Now lets move on to some interesting stuff from interviews and the cast and producers (no sources or direct quotes because I’M LAZY:

We all know about the art Lauren drew with Lance and Shiro holding up the lgbt sign and the theory that goes with it.

Bex pretty much confirming that there'll be lgbtq rep in voltron through a sinister laugh in that vid (we know now this to be true bc of Shiro, but there might be more to come?.. or unfold hehe if you catch my drift). Voltron having lgbtq rep has also been brought up before at interviews. I THINK there’s been hinted that there’ll be a little something something between two characters? Not sure tho

Bex also either confirming or shooting down klance/laith during another vid BUT most probably confirming. You know that vid. Reasons to believe: 1. It was dubious, since we don't know which of the questions she shaked her head to. 2. High Hopes by Panic! At The Disco was playing in the background. 3. I don't think she would actually openly deny a ship when she could have just ignored the question, much less making it so dubious.

Kimberly: "Friendship" (may or may not actually imply something within the future of the show, or if it just was @ the thorsty klancers)

We know that Lance will have an endgame (and Keith happens to check all the points of what’s been said about that endgame)

Lance will end up somewhere different than he thought at the start (he wanted Allura at the start, and Keith certainly would be someone different than he'd thought).

What he wants isn't necessarily what he needs(/gets?? I don't remember lol) (and we know he wanted Allura. plus the lion exchange becomes a pretty interesting topic here, as further talked about here x). 

What he needs/wants is someone who’s self-assured and who knows who they are (I think it was) and hey look Keith is back! (who just happens to fit these criterias more than ever).

The plain fact of how Keith and Lance's arcs actually just seem to intertwine so well.

Also adding that klance/laith interview lol. With the "natural progression" thing and that. And also when Lauren said the only incompatible thing about Lance and Keith is the shipname 'klance'. 

Lance’s milkshake bringing everybody to the yard.

It’s been said that Lance remembers the bonding moment but wasn’t ‘emotionally ready’ for it, whatever that could possibly mean 👀 

And apparently there’s more story to unfold... 

Which may or may not be related but sure makes this a hella lot more interesting (I find this cup worth reaching for ok)

(lmao if you seriously think the folding thing was an accident)

I’m not saying that the pic necessarily implies klance/laith but it certainly implies something with them. Which will be. Interesting.

Some interesting theories:

[x] Regarding the “Red lion” and the “Blue lion”

[x] Keith’s vlog and some interesting tagging

[x] Some possible, interesting foreshadowing?

Highkey Lowkey scared this is actually foreshadowing (from a comic, Keith is the one saying ‘isn’t that love’, and Lance is the other one)

Also some reaches because we love long arms:

[x] Rivals to friends to lovers foreshadowing lol

[x] Interesting... Funny coincidence?

[x] I know I know but honestly you can’t deny his face here

[x] I’ll also add this while I’m at it because I can 

(s7 spoiler ahead) Look this is just an interesting concept ok, but in episode 2 in s7 when they’re splitting up in that tunnel, Allura goes one way and Keith goes the other. We see Lance going last, slowing up and almost seeming to take a little time to choose, before going the way Keith went.

So uhh yeah here’s my grand, half-assed take on it. Season 7 can come bite my ass if it doesn’t happen, I’ll be on the lookout until the very last episode of season 8. Klance/laith may or may not happen. But I strongly believe it will and honestly that’s just what makes the most sense to me. 

But yeah reminder that ships doesn’t have to be canon for you to ship them, and if your ship becomes canon you should not harass others about it and you shouldn’t harass others if your ship doesn’t become canon either. All in all NO HARASSING. NO HATE. NO SHADE. JUST. BE DECENT. This includes to the creators and other people in the fandom both. 

Always be prepared for voltron to sock you in the stomach. Season 7 might very well do so. Season 8 might very well do so. Be prepared for your expectations and hopes and wishes to go completely out the window. But no matter how it goes, let’s just sit back and relax and enjoy the show as much as we can beyond our internal screaming.

In the end this is an intriguing story with aliens about family and being a team and it’s beautiful. So let’s just enjoy it, no matter what.

HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY

[verdigrisprowl]

July 6 Bevel’s Movie Night - Star Trek TNG: The Best Of Both Worlds

Prowl spent the entire show with his avatar on autopilot so that in his other body he could grab at his own neck and quietly panic without anybody seeing.

Bevel *She's been so busy lately that it's taken ages to finally get the time to actually have one of these nights again. But it does mean she has more Starfleet records to share finally* ItsyBitsySpyers *Soundwave tromps in and immediately pulls a tarp out of subspace as he drops onto his usual couch. Over his frame it goes.* VProwl *appears, looks around for a seat—immediately focuses on Soundwave's tarp.* @S «Are you cold?» Bevel Hey, Soundwave. Hey, Prowl. ((gonna get started in a short bit if anyone need food or whatever Ratchet *pops in* Bevel Hi, Ratchet! Ratchet Heya, Bevel! *aaand head count. 1, 2, 3, how many of Soundwave's kids are about?* VProwl ((gonna grab a food real quick)) ItsyBitsySpyers @P: [[No, he simply felt like being comfortable. There are fewer mechs here than at his own, and he doubts Ratchet is going to do something with the sight.]] *The only one of Soundwave's 'kids' around tonight is Chimera, who is stretched across the back of his couch as a snake.* Bevel *speaking of Chimera, Bevel wiggles her fingers happily at them and whispers* Hi~ Ratchet *okay, so 3. Chimera doesn't get one of these treats. the good news is, that means Ratchet has enough for two for everyone else!* Ratchet *or extras for soundwave to take home for the older kids, however you wanna look at it. they're the treats from Groove that did not get shared on Monday. last Monday, maybe.* ItsyBitsySpyers *Chimera picks up their head and beams a weird open-mouthed smile at Bevel. She's always so nice to them.* Bevel *grins back* Do you mind being pet tonight, Chimera? ItsyBitsySpyers *Soundwave nods at Ratchet over the tarp and stretches his legs. Ah. Toasty and cozy. The way every head of intelligence should be.* VProwl (( back )) Ratchet Evening, Soundwave. ItsyBitsySpyers ((i was trying to figure out what you were telling us to put back)) VProwl ((rabbit is2g when i say "back" in parentheses that doesn't mean i want an emoji)) ItsyBitsySpyers <<Chimera does not mind. Can Chimera sit with the Prime creation?>> VProwl *... sits on ratchet's couch* *now that he knows soundwave isn't sick.* ItsyBitsySpyers *Is in no way surprised by that.* Bevel Yeah! Any time you want. *she's gonna sit down on the floor like she usually does* Ratchet *grins and nudges Prowl* Heya! VProwl *starts at the nudge* ... Hello. Ratchet I got some of Groove's FUN goodies, if you want one. For later. You can take stuff home, right? Bevel Oh! Oh! This is Starfleet stuff about the Borg again. Not nice stuff either. ItsyBitsySpyers *Soundwave turns and nods at Chimera. Go on.*

*They'll slither down, over, and pop apart in front of Bevel.*

*They'll also stay scattered on the floor for a few seconds longer than normal while deciding what form to take. Looks like a bird tonight.* [[...Ah.]] VProwl ... Oh. Bevel ((Warnings: Brainwashing, needles kinda, 90s television, death, violence, and all the stuff that comes with the Borg being the Borg VProwl *dammit. if he'd known before he'd come...* @Ratchet «... You've been here before on Borg nights, haven't you?» *no no wait no wait we're starting already prowl didn't have time to brace himself* ItsyBitsySpyers *Soundwave makes a note to himself: make DAMN SURE there's no rough content for his next night.* Bevel *she watches Chimera transform with unrestrained interest. once they've decided on something and settled, she pets them* Ratchet @Prowl ::Yeah, I have. Are you gonna be alright?:: VProwl @Ratchet «I was just double-checking to make sure you knew what to prepare for.» ItsyBitsySpyers *Pings Prowl. He'll let Prowl decide how to answer it, if he does at all.* VProwl *casually doesn't answer the question* Bevel *Bevel's slightly caught on that she should make sure to tell some folks about the Borg, but not exactly how bad a time they actually have dealing with them* Ratchet [[ i can't even remember if Ratchet sat through the whole Borg thing last time or if that was one he noped out on ]] VProwl *casually doesn't answer the ping, either* ItsyBitsySpyers *Chimera closes their optics and fluffs their wings. Pets. Attention. Very nice.* ItsyBitsySpyers *Soundwave takes the lack of response that Prowl does not need or want anything and simply wraps the tarp a little tighter. These horrible creatures again.* [[What was that about Groove, earlier?]] Bevel There are a lot of Starfleet records about the Borg. I found some about a ship called Voyager too. VProwl *oh, data playing cards* *can they have more of data playing cards?* *and less of the borg?* Bevel *Bevel has non-Borg Data episodes, hopefully there's Poker!* VProwl *THEN FOR GOODNESS SAKE WHY AREN'T WE WATCHING THOSE?* Bevel *...Because it's important to know thy enemy?* VProwl *............... IT'S HARD TO ARGUE WITH THAT REASONING* ItsyBitsySpyers [[He's gained sense.]] Ratchet Ah! I've got some of Groove's good stuff! Got enough for, uh, one for everyone if you wanna take some for the kids, Soundwave. Or two for everyone if we wanna make them miss out for not being here. 😉 ItsyBitsySpyers *Looks at Ratchet from one side of his visor. Turns his head and looks from the other side. Is this a trap.* ItsyBitsySpyers [[...Perhaps he should take some, yes. If Groove's]] [][][]good stuff[][][] [[is as good as that, his deployers will never forgive him for denying them.]] *And he can always have them scanned.* Ratchet *yeah, yeah. they're fine. just get Ravage to sniff them or something* Bevel Uh-oh. VProwl *momentarily pauses his avatar to conceal his shudder* Bevel *sits forward enraptured* VProwl *aaaaaand suppresses another shudder* *all those voices. so many trapped together.* ItsyBitsySpyers *It's rare that he doesn't like the sound of unified speaking voices. This is one of those exceptions.* VProwl ((that was such a dramatic roll, he could've just ducked under the door)) ItsyBitsySpyers [[...That move was completely unnecessary.]] Bevel But it looked cool. VProwl It looked unnecessary. ItsyBitsySpyers [[He is sure the security team in charge of cameras in that deck appreciated it. And then called it unnecessary.]] Bevel *giggles* ItsyBitsySpyers *Shakes his head.* [[They had best prepare fast. A failure to adapt is not one of their enemy's weaknesses.]] VProwl ... That's terrible encouragement. Bevel Really terrible. Maybe it helps her feel better about what happened with her people? VProwl *avatar freezes* Bevel *sorry, Prowl* ItsyBitsySpyers *Oh, Primus. It was the back of the head, too. That probably didn't go over well.* Bevel ((i love that painting so much, it's so creepy and awful ItsyBitsySpyers *Slight shiver. Suddenly extra satisfied with the presence of his tarp.* VProwl *he's going to leave his avatar in autopilot mode. just enough motion so that he doesn't look like a statue but it won't show him lacing his hands over the back of his neck* ((riker ur not doing it right you're supposed to say "make it so" after someone ELSE says something)) ItsyBitsySpyers [[A space bridge would be very useful right now.]] VProwl *... it's already too late for him, isn't it* *braces himself for it.* (("the bad news is, the captain is naked")) ItsyBitsySpyers [[...He wonders if the Borg are going to adapt to disallow transportation in and off ship.]] Bevel That would be really bad. Aw no! ItsyBitsySpyers *It's always worse seeing than hearing about it.* VProwl *still on autopilot* VProwl ((oh, NOW she's advocating caution)) ((i'm beginning to strongly suspect that she is not, in fact, an independent character with her own characterization, but a mere foil designed to pettily disagree with every decision riker makes)) Bevel ((and that is how they ended the season all those years back because they're rude af Ratchet [[ hgghgghghgggg "Number One" i physically shuddered no i hate this ]] Bevel ((I'm so sorry, Fabu 😔 VProwl *they're stealing his data, they're stealing his mind, using his knowledge against his own friends and allies—* Ratchet [[ i'm out i'm sorry i can't. too much borg. u all have a god night ilu <3 ]] ItsyBitsySpyers *Is getting worried, but... Prowl has the Constructicons there, and isn't glass, and can ping him if he needs something. Right? Messages from someone like him are probably not helpful right now.* VProwl *BUT AT LEAST THEY KNOW. Prowl can cling to that. At least they KNOW it's not him. They KNOW he would never do this. THEY KNOW.* ItsyBitsySpyers ((night fabu ;; )) Bevel ((It's ok <3 VProwl ((gnight)) VProwl *... somehow it's a great comfort to hear this admiral talking about picard like he's already dead.* *THERE IS A NEEDLE IN HIS HEAD prowl's out of his body it's hollow good bye he's not gonna be back for five minutes.* Bevel *Bevel would feel so terrible if she were in a position to notice Prowl's status* VProwl *Prowl would feel terrible if she WERE able to notice his status.* Bevel *then she'll remain oblivious and fully into the tragedy that's happening in these records* ItsyBitsySpyers [[Hm. This must be when the Sisko loses his conjunx.]] Bevel *glances at Soundwave and then back at the screen, even more tragedy, this is terrible* ItsyBitsySpyers *Bevel has no idea.* *Chimera flaps a little and settles into power reserve mode.* Bevel *pets Chimera gently* 😔 VProwl *it was a little longer than five minutes. Prowl's back. he doesn't regret missing all these ships getting wrecked.* ItsyBitsySpyers [[He wondered when they would.]] Bevel Noooooo. VProwl *oh no. not data. don't lose data too.* ItsyBitsySpyers *Please do not infect Data. He does not think Prowl could stand it. And he does not want to see it, himself.* VProwl *please not data* VProwl *Prowl's avatar is unchanged, but in his head his optics are glued to the screen. fight it, Picard.* ItsyBitsySpyers *Scoots forward on his seat.* Bevel *silently cheering Picard and Data on* ItsyBitsySpyers [[He hopes their presence does not wake them up.]] Bevel Picard! *whines happily* VProwl *that was completely awful.* Bevel *she's just glad Picard and Data are both ok* ItsyBitsySpyers *Gently falls back into the couch. So tense. And he's still so very, very concerned.* [[That was - most educational.]] Bevel I have other records too. For later. I think I want to show more of the funny cops again next time. ItsyBitsySpyers [[And unsettling. May they all self-destruct and never reform.]]

[[Ah, good. He likes the Captain.]] VProwl /Please./ Bevel *nods enthusiastically* I will, promise! It will be a little bit though. I am gonna go get my Star Saber back so we have to miss next time. ItsyBitsySpyers [[You /finally/ found it?]] VProwl *oh. the other show. no. nope. nope. no. prowl can take no more tonight.* *disappears* Bevel ((Ok, since I'm gonna show these for Fabu and Cro is exhausted and so am I tbh, let's just watch SU tomorrow? ItsyBitsySpyers (plz) Bevel I found it ages ago. I had to get ready though. I gotta fight some--*she definitely noticed Prowl left*--do you wanna check on Prowl? ItsyBitsySpyers *Soundwave sits up.*

[[Why do you ask that?]] VProwl ((let's watch twice as much su)) Bevel ((You got it! Because he left and you two care about each other. *had her head in a space ship engine for the last several weeks, she might have missed the rumors going around* ItsyBitsySpyers *...Oh, right. She pretended to be him that time and...*

[[Ah. Yes. He should, then. But you will tell him about your plans soon. We should go over them.]] Bevel *and that time she heard them have a meaningful feelings conversation while they watched the Titanic sink...* ItsyBitsySpyers *Who taught her to spy so well? Did he have alternates at Axiom Nexus?* Bevel *he has many alternates in Axiom Nexus* Yeah sure! I wanted to have Prowl look at them but I think she would get mad since it's kinda stealing and... and stuff. ItsyBitsySpyers [[Yes. Best she doesn't know.]] Bevel *nods* ItsyBitsySpyers [[But he should go for now. If you'll pardon him?]] Bevel Ok! I hope Prowl is ok and I promise it will the funny cop documentaries next time. ItsyBitsySpyers [[Thank you. He looks forward to them.]] Bevel *pets Chimera one last time, expecting they'll leave with Soundwave* ItsyBitsySpyers *Surprise. Chimera is staying with Bevel for the night again.* Bevel *yay!* ItsyBitsySpyers *He nods, buzzes a quick set of rules to Chimera for the night, and - after folding and subspacing the tarp - heads out for one final check ping and a night's rest.* Bevel *hope Chimera likes watching someone build weapons because that's what's on her agenda for tonight*

[ghostlyhamlet]

rant

So I’m just at a loss for words at how people can be and just...I know it shouldn’t surprise me but it does.

A few nights ago, I checked my kik for the first time in a week because of theater and our shows and rehearsals taking up my time along with homework.

When I got on, I had received a message from someone I did not know, I opened it and was shocked at what it said, which was that he kept on calling me a f*g**t and when I had replied with a ‘excuse me?’ he just kept on repeating it, calling me slurs. I was completely dumbfounded because I did not know who this random stranger was and now here he was, attacking me for being bisexual (he had actually only thought that I was gay)?

The man then went as far as to say that: “And I’ll keep beating up every gay person I see I find it fun. Oh yea. I’ll keep doing my part kicking y’all asses one by one and if I see y’all irl I’m beating y’all asses too. And believe me you don’t have a chance.” And right after that he sent this: “Talk to me when y’all can make babies like me and my girl. Alright where you live fag. If I find that out I won’t tell you when I’m coming imma just beat yo ass and imma cause brain damage.”

In the heat of the moment, I was collected and I replied without lashing out and I tried to speak rationally to him, but he was set out to make sure he knew that I was committing a sin and that I could change if I wanted to, because it was a choice I had made.

I soon stopped replying when I realized that it was just fueling him, but after I had stopped and looked at my clock that had read 2am, I took a deep breath and started to cry. I cried a lot because I have never once been called a gay slur before and it was finally hitting down on me.

I knew that I couldn’t cry too loudly though, because I couldn’t wake my parents up because I wouldn’t have been able to explain what had happened.

This man thought that it was okay to just send a person a message spewing hatred at them, all because they liked someone of the same gender?

They had said it was a choice. I chose to be gay/bisexual.

As much as I hate to admit it, sometimes I wish it could’ve been a choice. I had actually wished it was because of my family and the world around me. They see people like me and all they can think about is hatred over us, just because of the people we love.

I remember when I was young, I always liked girls. I can remember in around second grade, wondering why people would say it wasn’t okay to like girls like you like guys, I would be completely baffled by that reasoning.

I grew up with my family saying gay as an insult and calling each other a f*g**t if a man did something that wasn’t exactly masculine.

I didn’t even come to terms with being bisexual until the summer leading up to my freshman year of high school, even then, only I knew and I still wouldn’t even say it out loud, in fear that someone would overhear me and I was almost ashamed, because our society constantly bashed on homosexual people and painted it to be such a horrible thing.

The first time I told people I was bisexual, I was out late with a group of theater kids who I was comfortable with and who I knew was accepting and even part of the LGBTQ+ community themselves. But even as I told them, I couldn’t help feeling terrified on how they would react to me.

I will never forget when I was out eating with my family and earlier that day I had read that gay people were being killed and sent to camps in Russia. At dinner, I brought it up and to my horror I received these answers from my parents:

Mother: well, you can’t always believe the news you read about. So I doubt it’s real.

Father: good. gay people deserve to die.

After that I had excused myself to the bathroom where I had a panic attack because here I was, their bisexual daughter who I thought I could trust, saying that it wasn’t a serious issue and that people like me deserved to die.

Sometime during my sophomore year I was forced to come out to my mother, who was angry at me for how I acted when I had asked my father to stop using gay as an insult and to stop using the r-word also.

She had asked me why I was so angry at it and why I cared so much and then it all came out with a flurry of tears and sobs. She had hugged me and said she’d always love me, but I find that it’s hard to believe. Afterwards she would pull me aside and always ask me why I thought I was bisexual, even if I’ve never been with a girl. She would ask awkward invasive questions, questions that if I were heterosexual, she wouldn’t have asked.

Just recently I had one of these “talks” again. I was upset about the situation above and I ended up coming up with a lie that was around the same issue. When I had said it’s because I feel like they hated me, she then said “so you’re bisexual again?” Which prompted me to reply with, “I never stopped” and she then said that I had lied to her because I had said I was into boys. Which I had to explain that I.Am.Bisexual. I like boys and girls. A few minutes later, she brought it up again while we were driving to let my sister pick something up. She had waited for her to leave before asking me why I thought I was bisexual. In the few seconds we had I tried to avoid the question, which worked because my sister soon returned.

I also had to lose a great friend of mine, she had believed in the same theories as the man who had threatened me, only on a much milder level. Like the man, she had explained that her being a Christian meant that her religion stated that it was a sin and that “it is still a choice, even if not a conscious one”.

For some reason, this has come full circle. How can people believe it’s a choice? How can people think that we enjoy being harassed? Enjoy being threatened? To think that we choose to be gay, even if that means that our family’s will disown us or kick us out? To think that we enjoy being told that we’re going to hell all because we fell in love with someone? That we enjoy living in constant fear that someone might try and hurt or even kill us because of who we are?

God is said to love everyone and says to love thy neighbor, yet why does it only apply to people you want it too?

[sambart93]

2017.09.18 Oushitsu Kyoushi Haine Review!

I was able to go to the Live Viewing of this stage! Which I am thankful for because tickets were impossible! I watched the anime when it first came out and loved the anime and fell in love with Haine and the fact that it's UeChan and Haine himself is adorable just made it all the more 'I must watch this!'

If you want more details about the overall story and plot of this stage then you can go to this blog post I just found here.

Official Website here Official Twitter here Press Coverage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Video Coverage 1, 2, 3 PreOrder DVD/BR here, and here

However, my expectations for this musical did drop somewhat when on the Friday, I was outside the theatre (waiting for a trade) when I noticed, everyone that walked out were deadly silent and not smiling or speaking really. I’ve never seen that happen with a stage before! So it really worried me; did people not like it? Was it bad? What went wrong? Did something happen on stage? Did an actor get hurt? All these things went through my mind and ultimately it really pulled down my expectations for it. And then my friend went and was also like ‘before I went in for the night show, none of the afternoon audience were very waiwai (hyper, happy, fangirling) when they left.. and then I saw it; I understand why they weren’t waiwai but I think I’m not waiwai for different reasons’ so then I really had like minus expectations going into this. Which is a shame because thy anime is a amazing, the cast for this is solid, it has a lot of potential and room to grow and have fun and be a really enjoyable stage. But from what me and my friend had seen... it wasn’t promising =/

Anyway lets get down to it:

CAST and CHARACTERS

Ueda Keisuke as Haine Hirose Daisuke as Leonhart/Leonhard Asato Yuya as Kai Aoi Shouta as Rihito / Richi Adachi Yuto as Bruno Tatsuma Hoshi as Maximilian Udagawa Tsukasa as Lugwig Kimisawa Yuki as Rosenberg Nobuo Kyo as Victor Ensemble

NON SPOILER REVIEW Overall: This is going to be really stupid, and I know it, BUT... there was too much singing. I felt like 70% of this is just song after song after song (according to one press release, this musical has over 40 songs) with no plot or scenes of dialogue. Especially the beginning. The first 30 minutes are absolute torture of song after song and I got very agitated and bored of it very easily and felt like ‘get to the story already!’. Luckily the singing simmers down once we get past Leonhart’s arc and get into Kai and Rihito’s story; there’s definitely less singing and actual acting and scenes once that beginning is over. Asato Yuya as Kai was absolute perfection; he couldn’t have done a better job. Rihito’s arc in the stage is VERY good and very enjoyable. I absolutely adored Aoi’s performance  as Rihito in this part of the stage and his song in the climax of the arc actually made me cry pretty hard. Kimisawa really surprised me with his singing; his singing is absolutely amazing. I was so impressed! But after a while, what with apparently there being 40 songs in this stage, all his song started to sound the same and repetitive. But his voice is gold. I really enjoyed Nobuo Kyo’s performance and thought he fit Victor pretty well. UeChan was obviously a great Haine and his performance always fascinated and entices me. Although I will say; this musical version of Haine lacked in comedy and lightheartedness which is a shame because they could’ve done so many cute and adorable moments with UeChan as Haine but they didn’t do it so much; only now and again would there be cute Haine moments which I'm sad about. And because of the lack of comedy and lightheartedness, the musical feels very down and dark and it’s actually tiring to watch after about the first 110minutes. I noticed the audience around me in the cinema started to get really fidgety and restless after about 100 minutes, and I started to lose it after the 130 minute mark. I think that’s why so much of the audience is/was so neutral after coming out of the show. Finally, the show ran a bit too long; if they’d cut out some of the musical numbers, this play could’ve been shorter but also much more enjoyable in my opinion. I appreciated the ending change (from the anime to the stage) though - the rest of the stage is a carbon copy of the anime. Although it kind of ends suddenly without any real... climax song.... which also leads to the audience being very ‘ah okay... *walks home*’. The best part of the stage was, in all honesty, the curtain call. Seeing the cast interact with one another and having this massive laugh and fun together as themselves in front of the audience was so much fun xD Rating: 6/10

Now to the nittygritty.

SPOILER REVIEW

To reiterate the non-spoiler section: The first part of this play is just not good. I got very bored straight away because it was just song after song after song and it really bogged me down and I was just like 'hurry up and get to the story already!'. I know it's stupid to complain because this IS a musical but.... there really are TOO many songs in this - 40!... so many songs would've been better as just scenes of dialogue. I really don’t like when a song is put in just for performances sake rather than to help the plot along and I feel this happened a lot. For example, you don’t need to sing to me how many fucking points the princes got on their test; just fucking tell me! What a waste of time. So they really irked me. Also there was one female singer who was just a note too high for my liking in almost every song and it really made me cringe. If you wanna sing that high, go do fucking opera! It really took you out of the story with quite a few of the songs in my opinion. It also felt like it was trying to be ‘west end’ with all the ensemble dancing and the singing and such. It was too much for me. There’s a reason why I hate and avoid west end musicals, and Haine unfortunately was somewhat reminiscent of those musicals so I did not enjoy it. The overall balance in the group singing though was really nice and I fell like almost everyone balanced and bounced off each other well in the singing parts. I get it's a musical so there should be lots of songs, but it just feel the balance between music numbers and scenes with dialogue and actual acting, especially in the beginning, was way off.

This musical is REALLY long too! I think we got about 60% through and people were really starting to shuffle or going to the bathroom without really caring. And at about 80% through, I started to feel 'if we go to the council scene right now I'm gunna fucking scream! I am ready for this to be done', but luckily they changed the ending which made it so much more bearable and worked much better for stage rather than it would've in the anime but I'll get to that later.

It wasn't until we got to Kai's arc that it started to be less about the songs and actually whole scenes of dialogue and acting that I started to enjoy it. Unfortunately this means that I pretty much blocked out Leonhart’s arc because that too was just song after song in my opinion. They even cut out the scene of Haine reading his diary! I love that scene! And we didn’t have any ridiculous Haine chasing Leonhart on a horse while standing ON the horse! I was hoping for some Touken Ranbu Stage horse ridiculousness for that one scene but they cut it out completely =[ Apparently the ensemble in this one are too professional to do something that silly - seriously, I hated the ensemble (most likely the directors fault though), but I just hated them. I feel like all their constant singing and dancing didn’t add anything to the stage either. Just be normal ensemble and do your roles! BUT I will say, their costumes were very, very creative and I liked them xD

As expected, Kai's arc was adorable! Especially as soon as he grabbed UeChan's hand and was like 'funi funi.... your hand... is funi funi...... suki / I like you' and Haine freaked like 'it's still a little too early for that?!-- oh, you mean my hand because it’s soft,' which was so funny! Especially because during that moment Haine was brought to his knees from Kai really locking in on his hand and playing with it >_< Asato was just perfection as Kai; he was absolutely perfect. Seeing him completely switch back to himself at the curtain call was just a great transformation to witness. His acting was so good as Kai! He had some golden moments during Rihito’s arc too.

Rihito's arc was probably the best part in terms of acting and performance. Also it had a hilarious adlib in it! Kai comes in from a side door and into the crowd and is like 'I have to be able to give greetings just like Sensei said... *faces camera, but there’s no spotlight so it’s just this black silhouette of him facing the camera, so we all cracked up laughing* are you my father?! I'll do my best!' And then he tries to talk to a girl but fails so he's like 'I wonder what Haine would do in my situation', and UeChan is just in his seat trying not to crack up. So Kai repeats himself 'I WONDER WHAT HAINE WOULD DO IN MY SITUATION,' so UeChan gave in because the crowd clapped for him to join in. He 'jumped' through the 4th wall and approached a girl 'good evening... your kimono is beautiful.... who do you like in Haine? Oh me? Thank you! ... excluding me who do you like? .... she said only me'. Then he went back on stage and 'jumped' back into the Haine world. So Kai tries 'good evening! Who do you like in Haine? ...... LEOHARTO..... WHO’S NEXT? Me? Oh thank you!' And the adlib scene ends. When Rihito came back into that scene, he's like 'Haine you disappeared for a moment' xD

I really, really loved Rihito's arc. I think Aoi did absolutely amazing in his acting and performance. Especially the music number towards the end of his story where he's crying and he's like 'father doesn't care! He never did!' then his father accepts him and he's crying and breaking down like 'you really do care! And I didn't notice because I was just a stupid kid'. I legit couldn't stop my tears! The performance was amazing and I was so impressed with this part of the stage. Also there's a part where Rihito smacks the cafe owner in the face with the metal serving plate and I burst out into laughter. I thought it was hilarious!

OH! The girl next to me was SO funny! Everytime there was a close up of Aoi or DaiChan, she would smack her hand over her nose and mouth because she’d just cry xD she was adorable and kept me entertained during the less interesting parts of the play.

Then we got to Bruno’s arc. I feel like this one was probably the shortest and most simple to get through. I don’t really remember anything note worthy or different to the anime for this arc. Bruno’s actor is probably the weakest singer. You could tell he was trying but he didn’t have much of a range; it definitely seemed like his voice was going to crack at some points due to being strained. The actor himself is cute though, and I feel like I preferred stage Bruno over anime Bruno.

OH! There was one point! When he decides to call Haine ‘Shisou’ and he starts flailing and shaking his arms around, then Leonhart comes in and joins in on the flailing; that part was funny.

Which reminds me; a lot of the comedy and jokes that should’ve hit and made the audience laugh just didn’t; either the timing was off or they just didn’t express it as a comical moment but it totally should’ve been. Like THIS scene where he decides to call Haine ‘Shisou’ -- it’s hilarious in the anime -- but in the stage he’s just like ‘Ah! I will call you Shisou’ and Haine just walks away ‘I’d appreciate it if you didn’t.’ It SHOULD’VE a funny scene! We should’ve had a funny moment of Haine reacting to being called Shisou like ‘ararara?! Shisou?! *cough* I’d appreciate it if you didn’t.’ but nothing! I think A LOT of my problems for this stage musical from the LACK of comedy in it. There were some hilarious parts don’t get me wrong! Such as the adlib with Kai -- but it’s an adlib, not a planned comedy scene --- and we had some cute Haine moments.

Planned Comedy moments we had:

1. Haine being lifted up when he was captured 2. Maximilian giving Haine brides lift so he can’t enter the kingdom at the beginning. 3. Haine  rolling around the floor at and onto Rihito’s feet going ‘goro goro goro’ 4. Haine pulling pufferfish faces and pouting when a Prince is being childish. 5. Rihito smacking the cafe owner in the face with a silver serving plate. 6. Victor joining the cafe and having his butt smacked by the owner after doing a good job. 7. Haine jumping to his knees when he gets called a child. 8. Girls pretending to fall off their chair in the cafe so Rihito can help them up but he ignores them. 9. Haine curled up on the sofa and rocking side to side as he waits for his moment to talk.

But a LOT of this is just ‘story story, oh this prince has troubles, oh now they’re fixed, music number three billion times, story arc done, begin next arc’ without any comedy in it at all! This is HAINE!! The anime was hilarious (AND ADORABLE!)! The manga looks very funny too! But this musical just didn’t have it. Touken Ranbu is MORE funny than this stage! WTF?! That doesn’t add up does it?!

Now that I’ve gone down the road of negatives, I may as well carry on:

I did not like the 'Young Haine' and 'Young Victor' roles. It worked when the two actresses were just acting the scene out while the spotlights were mainly on Victor and Haine. BUT the LV cameraman kept the close ups on the two actresses, and I was like 'you're ruining the magic here!!! Keep the camera on Uechan or Nobuo OR stick to the wide shot you had going on with all 4 of them in shot because that looked FINE!' I did not like the close ups of the Young roles because they weren't even lip-syncing to what UeChan and Nobuo were saying so it just looked stupid in the cinema. Swear to god, these close ups are on the DVD and I'm gunna flip my shit. It just did not work. Continuing my ensemble hate; I HATED the fact that they used the SAME guy to play all the 'Young (insert the prince's name here)' every time,and they didn't even bother to put a wig on him to make him look more like the prince he was supposed to be at the time. Ugh..... that really got on my shit.

Final bad point: I feel like this stage ends really weird... I feel like the climax song was about 3 songs before the actual final song and it’s like ‘Haine please come back!’ and he goes ‘hello I’m your new teacher’ and it just ends, and they suddenly start bowing and I just think it’s really weird and abrupt how the stage ends. Why didn’t they end with like the boys running over to him ‘hey Haine I’m so glad you’re bad! Lets go do this! Let’s try this! Lets--’ and Haine going ‘wait! It’s time for class to start!’ and them all raising their hands and going ‘okay!!’ and then either happy clappy music starts blasting out, or lights cutting out to black before the clapping and bowing starts. That would’ve been a better ending.

BACK to the positives!

UeChan really is the cutest thing to walk this Earth xD whenever he did the little pouty faces or whenever he did something to make himself smaller was just so adorable! I was super surprised to hear that he can actually sing and that he sings so softly compared to his normal, very powerful voice! It's so adorable!! He also made me cry; it was during the Victor and Haine flashback scene and when it got to the Haine going on a fighting rampage, the Young role jumped out of the way and it was UeChan that did all the action and the fighting when he attacked the royal guards and my heart just hurt so much for Haine at that point <3 UeChan’s action choreography and movements were great! I was surprised how high he could kick his leg and everything! I also loved that they did the iconic gun scene when he and Kai are captured and the ‘bang’ sign comes out of the gun rather than a bullet xD UeChan’s action in that scene is good too!

To say it was Tatsuma’s first play, I thought he did great! His Maximilian was adorable! But, I think he needs to eat more; those pants and large jackets weren’t hide the tiny body he obviously has.

Just to reiterate the Non-spoiler section again: Kimisawa really surprised me with his singing; his singing is absolutely amazing. I was so impressed! I also thought he did a great job as Rosenberg and was happy with his performance. I think he made Rosenberg more mischievous. I really liked the scene where he throws the papers on the streets of the town so everyone can hear about Kai’s past. It was a nice moment. But like I said his songs started to sound the same and repetitive after a while. But his voice is gold and was amazing to listen to. AND I really enjoyed Nobuo Kyo’s performance and thought he fit Victor pretty well. Especially the cafe scene where he tries to act cute and does all these cute poses and then gets his butt slapped by the cafe owner and he feels and looks so violated xD I thought he and UeChan bounced off each other very well.

I'm glad they changed the ending. It was getting towards the end, I was getting agitated and thought 'if they go into the council scene, it's gunna be another 20 or 30 minutes, and I am so ready to be done!' But they changed it in that Rosenberg and Haine go back to Haine's old teaching church and Rosenberg tempts him to do something (I didn't catch what) but just before he accepts, the boys turn up and tell him 'you taught us that everyone has a few scars... you taught us we should do what we want' etc and in the end he decides to stay as their teacher. In the anime, the whole council scene works but for Stage I think the council scene would've been too much and I'm glad they changed it to make it all this more simpler and more 'just about Haine and his boys' rather than in the anime where 'the kingdom gets to decide and the boys have to prove their mature enough' etc. I am thankful for this change!

AFTERSHOW

The curtain call was adorable. Everyone did their greetings and UeChan asked them all to hurry up but didn't explain until later that it's because they might get cut off in the LV of they go to long xD Bruno's actor was adorable! He was like 'playing Bruno and a Professor it was so--- wait what did I just say?' And then everyone had a go at him and he was like 'I'm okay' in like the cutest way ever and I absolutely died of laughter. During DaiChan's turn he said nothing mean about Aoi and Aoi ran for him but Bruno held him back while DaiChan just laughed his ass off and UeChan like 'behave!!' XD Nobuo was adorable too; ‘I'm not a father in real life buy I think I now know how fathers feel... look at my sons! I’m so proud of them!’. UeChan's parents were there tonight and he was like 'don't search for them! 探さないで！' to the audience >.<

EDIT: also during the second curtain call Ueda was like ‘thank you all for standing up, but we’re all going to say something so *switches to English* sit down please’ and it was such good pronunciation <3

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I’m kinda regretting the fact that I preordered the BluRay (especially because you had to pay 1000yen at the venue just to preorder it) because of how much I ended up not enjoying the musical BUT hopefully on the BluRay they’ll be good backstage stuff which’ll make it worth it, plus it comes with a possible DVD release event ticket so if I hit for that then it’ll make the purchase worth it. If not, I’ll just sell it off to someone. Any takers? xD

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GOODS

I’m defo buying his randoms from this stage in the near future; last week they were super cheap at KBooks.

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And that’s all! Sorry it wasn’t all happy and smiles like you were probably expecting.. but to be honest; I LOVE complaining, when do I never not complain about a stage?

[lotrewrite]

8/19 Chat Recap

Same as the previous recap - I'm mostly keeping the comments intact! Putting the more fun/general stuff above the cut:

SNEAK PEEK of the COLORED tarot cards: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jq1lm3nd64sx9d3/AAC5qUDB6EvTK28tqE1zffExa?dl=0

Playlist: I think we really need an official playlist for this? There's no depression in new zealand, yo ho, come on eileen, istanbul not constantinople...POC crossed with AC Black Flag music...XD Backstreet boys in the 90s! ep. 13 playlist has to be mercedes sosa; argentinian singer who had to go into exile during the dictatorship. I’m Henry the Eight I Am for the Tudor episode, plus Pastime With Good Company someone should make a playlist for all the episodes maybe when we're posting the episodes I'll make a music suggestion post each day :) that way people can suggest songs based on the final version

INTROS:

We should try to split them up semi-evenly, but also depending on who the episode focuses on.

1 – Mick?

2 – [Ray] [proposed]

3 – [Nate] [proposed]

4 – Sara

5 – Jax

6 – Lisa

7 – [Stein] [proposed]

8 – Rip

9 – Mick

10 – Amaya

11 – Jax

12 – Gideon

13 – Len

14 – Sara

15 – Stein

16 – Hosts

17 – [Ray] [proposed]

18 – Amaya

19 – Mick

20 – [Legion] [proposed]

21 – [Legion OR Sara]

22 - Len

Thoughts? There's only one Ray one so far, despite him having several Ray-centric episodes. Not sure what we would switch, though!

General Points:

can O!Len change his clothes? He had a beer from somewhere in ep6 I think, so can he have objects? i think it'd make more sense if he's 'full ghost' so to speak; I think he can't change his clothes or interact with objects until later in the season. As much as I'd love for more dress-up for Len, I think he works best as a ghost

Interesting consistency note: Because Anne gave away the spear piece, her life went to hell. That is a terrifying but wonderful thought. we have something similar with Ching and her history, because she also suffers defeats after her spear piece is gone And technichally the ship in new zealand sinks after they take the piece, too They could have had a chance to change their fates but they lost/gave away the spear pieces and thus couldn't

Stephanie Fisher - we should at the very least give her a shout-out for all her wonderful comments. I vote we give Stephanie some kind of award, not just for the comments, but for ALWAYS catching Damien Darhk's name and correcting it!!!!!

just generally, I really love the snarky Gideon we have. And Jax. I love Jax so much this season. and I even like Stein again! I wasn't a big fan of Ray, but I think we've managed to redeem him as well and Sara is actually the badass captain we wanted her to be

Sara's journey is soooo good. Ray here is isolated, but not so terribly self centered like he was on the show. Like, as the season goes, he goes from being traumatized and lonely, to struggling with his identity, to accepting his identity and...I guess, growing more comfortable with himself and others??

Oh, question: Does Gideon still call Rip Captain Hunter and Sara Ms Lance? Or Mr Hunter and Captain Lance now? I think I went with both of them being called Captain

MaryWisdom might just do a German translation; DaughterOfScotland can help

just checking, we're all having Queen Bee use the amulet for her powers, right? Yes

Episode 9 Turncoat was my favorite canon ep and I feel like it only got better Jax and Amaya were so much better here than canon's "cuddle for warmth pwp" I feel like the rat sequence in ep 9 is actually a really great lead-up to episode 10 btw since we're talking about Ray, I really hope somebody makes one of those little things that fly across your screen with Ray and his rocket boot, and maybe the poor rat too XD

Episode 10 Because ep 10 was /also/ AMAZING that intro sequence was gold from start to finish There was so much world-building, character-building, and humor I really liked the villain sequences too There's some great exchanges there! The interactions were really in character! Oh, and the Amaya sequences with the British? PERFECT I love how Amaya continues to question her own knowledge and keeps evolving it was just such a fun ride honestly I think the lead up to Ray using the cold gun worked too? Oculus!Len giving it the tacit OK was such a balm Len is SO BORED he just wants to see Ray totally fail and laugh and Ray screwing up just worked so well as symbolism for his identity struggles also, I am so sad this isn't actually visual/audio because now I want someone to put together a short clip with the Waverider flying away, then pan down to a ship and you hear the "yo ho" song

Episode 11 I'm a bit bummed we haven't been able to fit in Stein singing, but I'll look over it again and maybe we can find a spot Maybe we could get that into episode 11? I've had there's no depression in new zealand stuck in my head for almost two days now btw episode 11, any more comments, or should we go back to it next week once people have had a chance to look it over? prob the best to look at it again tbh

Episode 12 OH MY GOD 12!!! THE TERROR! it was so good KAKO YOU MADE ME SCREAM literally, my phone rang during the Mick scene and I legit screamed the way you worked in the movie references so organically was genius THE LEN REVEAL WAS PERFECT was the ending scene of 12 okay? the scene with Mick and Sara I liked it a lot that was beautiful I knew I was gonna love this episode the moment it was pitched, but you exceeded all my expectations <3 so well done it's perfect That episode is definitely going to turn heads. It is very different compared to the rest and will stand out! perfect for the mid-season finale Is there a way we can make it a real mid-season finale? aka not post for aday or two afterwards? Well, if we start posting on the 1st and it's 22 episodes, with a month of 30 days... if we started on Sept 4 and posted every day, I think we'd end up with it falling on a weekend Sept 4, posting every day, would make 12 fall on a Friday We could then restart the next Monday

Episode 13 I LOVE THE INTRO I like the "did you learn that in school?" mention. Because the history classes suck yes that is a GREAT cold open the episode was really powerful also, the umbrella scenes were hilarious it really was, the tension followed throughout and was quite perfectly cut through with the UTTERLY FLAWLESS umbrella scenes Also, bitching Legion. This is great, seeing as we want them to implode also: the Len and Gideon scene <3 basically everything was fantastic i know we need to add the rip intro scene, but is there anything else you think we should work on? there were a few suggestions, but those are already in the google doc - overall I think it was an incredible episode, and you guys should be proud - you dealt with a really heavy topic really well Quick question to eisode 13... the Spanish they all got the pill, but we kind of wanted to show the other side of it, like what it sounded like to the woman at the bakery Like the Legends go into the bakery - then we see the woman working inside and it's from HER perspective, and there's spanish dialogue and then it switches to english and we're back to the Legends POV If you wanted it from the woman's POV, maybe start the scene with the woman? as in, she's working inside the register, and then some guys come in and buy stuff and then stay with her a second as they walk out and she's kinda wondering what's up, then shrugs and goes back to work then we jump back to the Legends talking in English she picks up on Mick being distracted by something that's not there i keep craving churros every time I look at this episode I loved how you guys mixed in the light-hearted scenes in with all the heavy stuff yeah it was really well balanced RIP EXITS, PURSUED BY MICK!!!

Episode 14 Sara saves the timeline with a threesome XD nuff said LOVED the bit where Amaya realises that Sara is dancing with the King! So fitting, too, because of my episode following with all the Shakespeare :D I think... I think I didn't actually mentioned an abberation? Just the spear piece rip found there Alternatively Rip is using his Time Master skills to find a piece before it ever causes an abberation That was what I was going for. He finds it, or thinks he did ooh. i like that. but if it is that then i don't think you should mention the witchcraft rumors The rumors that she bewitched Henry had been around for a long time already. Thy say that tht's the reason he left his wife and Rip thinks it's related to the spear piece but it's just generally people being shit can I just say, I really loved all the scenes with Amaya and Jax? seconded My only thing to add is, and I think I mentioned that in the comments, that it would be great if you could fit the Legion in somewhere Yeah, I agree with you. I'll put it in that they arrive late and Len is like "I got this", I think Before I forget: can I suggest Sara to narrate the intro? the last one she did was ep4

Episode 15 basically Kendra's Old West incarnation and the New York Riots incarnaton exist at the same time OW!Kendra doesn't have a name, so she *could* be Josephine from the NYR 8 years prior and that would make that Carter Hannibal  but then her Carter should be named Hannibal, not Shay :( his name could be Hannibal and then he goes by Shay Or he could've changed his name when they moved out west due to being wanted under his old name Just... don't explain it. Leave it for the reader to figure out. And wonder :P (for what it's worth, I thought 15 was delightful and SO GOOD at actually USING history the way a time travel story should) More next week

Episode 19 I could knight Ystina! that would be AWESOME!

[itsthetruthtold]

Look Ma, I learned!

I am making this to make a remembrance of my mom and all that I have learned so far since she’s gone (background song: Carrie Underwood’s See You Again). Like how the song said, we just said goodbye and turned around, then she was gone. Today is the exact 6th month since the accident and the night that our family never could’ve imagined to happen. Also, it was a Thursday.. still I am having physical pain, remembering how it all happened and how we ended unto this day.. wait! This is so heartbreaking! Awat na! (Let’s stop this!) I just wanted to really make this day count and to keep that hope by trusting God’s perfect time. I hope you keep on reading this and somehow get to know a daughter’s struggle and enlightenment about importance of time, faith, and patience. [(Infairness sakin nag-google pa’ko ng “learning synonyms”! LOL!) (I admit, I needed to google on “learning synonyms”! LOL!)]

Psalm 119:71 - Authorized KJV, says “It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn from thy statutes.” Currently, I am still sucking up to know that all of the current struggles I am in is good. Well, let’s count the obstacles on this course.

Aging Folks

(My internet did not cooperate last night so my draft did not save. Now, I have to go back from scratch and start again on my thought process. Haha!)

There is a Filipino saying that I want to share - “Papunta ka pa lang, pabalik na ako.” (You’ve just started your journey while I’m now going back.) I’d like to make a different view of this saying. I know now what I really want to do with my life. I am moving for that passion and reaching those dreams. Yet, I always have to make my pace not too fast because I know I might miss out on something, something small for me but is actually very important. I should never neglect the time I should also spend with my parents.

The lessons I had so far are these:

-Ask them of how they worked on their own passions and dreams.

-Get to know what are their point of views in life, in love and in their faith.

-Just simply talk to them about anything under the sun and spend time with them like eating out, going on a vacation, and doing something new.

-Take note of what they need specially about their health. Make sure that they are in a safe place.

I may be busy before on establishing myself when I was still working. That is to earn a bigger salary and also to make a difference through my ministries at church. But I should never be too busy to put an effort unto my parents’ needs. I did try as much as I can back when we were still with Mama. She also was an example for me on showing great concern to my Lola Naty, her mom, when both of them were still with us. So now that Papa is the only parent we have left, I know I really have to put my effort level to 100%. Lately, it has been really tough dealing with small and big matters in the family but we are thriving. Ikaw na bahala Lord! (It’s all upto You Lord!)

If ever you may not be close to your parents, well I suggest you start doing an effort to know them more. There is always a reason why you were put in that family and I know that as you pray and make efforts for it, it will pay off! Patience for aging folks is a must. As they are getting old, old habits are also hard to break for them, specially the not-so-good ones. Because, it is you who sees the bigger picture, I pray that the change will come from you first. I know that #thestruggleisreal when it comes to this matter but it will pay off. You will be rewarded as you give honor to your parents. Just thinking of that reward I know you’ll make it through.

TIME AND PRAYER

If time was a person, I would love to strangle it and keep it still, but I know it’s impossible to happen. I know we all give much value to the time that we all have in equal but we never have the same type of valuing for time.

I could really be thought of someone who is wishy-washy and lousy at times. But I am praying hard to get these things corrected. I just want to share that you can never compare yourself to people who are already successful given that you and them have the same opportunities and circumstances.

Be hard on yourself but always be patient for your learning curve. P.U.S.H. Pray Until Something Happens. I’d like to add one more to the P which is practice. Practice what you really want to be. As of now, I am motivated by one Hollywood actor who I think said one of the best speeches I have ever heard. Please search on Matthew McConaughey’s speech. Your hero is yourself (Mariah Carey’s Hero play in the background). Yes some Christians may disagree with me but let me differentiate a hero and a savior. Hero is a human while Savior is a name that I will only link to God. So okay ka na? (Are you okay with it now?) Go better go home! It will all take time I tell you, but wait while moving. :) Only God can change you so pray and be what You think God has made you to be.

EMOTIONS

I wanted to tackle more of this than the other two learnings I have but I just realized that I need to talk less of this because..I will make a separate blog about it.

Before I end this, I just want to say that to all mothers who will be celebrating Mother’s Day next month, I love you all! I miss you Mama, big time! No one will ever take your place in me. No one will ever match you. See you in a while Ma! :-*