#I’m on ep21 no spoilers!!!

[whyisaperson]

You know I’m happy that I have free will in College because that means I can terrify my professor about DRDT Chapter 2 (Spoilers for Ep16 under the img)

Don’t mind the picture below just something I made while I was bored ⬇️

For context he said that we have to analyze a piece of music/show/etc and for the show we have to choose one episode. So why not make myself mentally suffer by doing this and not my happy idea of doing Power Rangers Samurai Ep21 [Party Monsters] :)

[plainandgeneric]

Earthspark EP21 spoilers!

I hope I’m not reading too much into a few frames. In ep21, the scene where Megatron found Starscream and immediately reacted with violence, some frames showed megs with his Decepticon insignia instead of his GHOST one. Possibly a reflection of Starscream’s mindset. It doesn’t matter if Megatron has ‘changed for the better’ by joining GHOST, to him, Megatron will always be the cruel Decepticon tyrant that did and will hurt him. 

[mysticfallsripaaahhhh0745]

Part 2 of 2 // The Originals, S3 ep21 - "Give 'Em Hell, Kid"

Elijah reluctantly executes Marcel to protect his family.

Spoilers: not dead, lol.

GIFs are mine, pls give credit if using.

Pls like and/or reblog! Would mean a lot as I’m trying to grow this blog.

[athenasdragon]

Where is my content for Otok Barleyfoot from Hello From the Magic Tavern

[rocorambles]

(Includes Spoilers for S4 ep21) could you write something where after the Inarizaki game Nishinoya wants to thank Kinoshita for his help during the game. He asks Kinoshita what he would like as a thank you and Kinoshita, sheepishly, half-jokingly asks to fuck Noya’s gf (reader). Noya thinks about it for a moment, and then “okay, but I have to be there too.” It could be a totally consensual situation on the reader’s part or more of a Yandere situation — whatever vibe you prefer. Thank you!!!!!

I went for regular NSFW instead of DC since I’m feeling softer tonight~ Also I think this is my first Kinoshita ask?????? So thank you for that! Wrote this with the second years aged as third years to keep it 18+

Warnings: NSFW, Voyeurism, Exhibitionism 

Graduation is a funny thing and the somber and serious tension in the air is unusual for the usually rowdy bunch. Even as “mature senpais”, they haven’t changed much and raucous laughter fills the air as they reminisce over the last three years they’ve spent together, remembering about every heartbreak, every win, every detail. And as they talk about the first time they’d ever gone to Nationals, the Miya twins, Inarizaki, Nishinoya suddenly spins around to stare at Kinoshita, genuine gratitude in his eyes as he thanks him for all his help all that time ago. 

It’s rare to see the libero so serious and maybe that’s why Kinoshita instinctively jokes, to lighten the mood. They’ve always been close and it’s no secret how playfully and openly jealous he is about Nishinoya having a girlfriend, let alone someone like you. So when Nishinoya giddily asks Kinoshita what he wants as a thank you for helping him, it’s so easy for the joking words to slip off his tongue when he asks for a night with you and the room immediately fills with laughter, already moving on to the match against Nekoma, only to become immediately silent when Nishinoya shouts “okay” to a baffled Kinoshita. 

Chaos ensues as Kinoshita immediately back pedals, telling Nishinoya he was just joking, as Nishinoya insists that he accept his offer, as the rest of the third-years scream and shout in disbelief. But Nishinoya always does have a knack of getting his way and Kinoshita would be lying if he said he wasn’t thrumming in excitement and anticipation as he nervously knocks on Nishinoya’s front door a few nights later. 

He expects to see a familiar grin when the door opens, but his breath hitches when he sees you and suddenly it’s all too real what’s about to transpire and he’s a mess of nerves as you cheekily grab his hand and pull him in, closing the door behind both of you as you excitedly drag him to Nishinoya’s bedroom where the libero casually greets his friend as if he isn’t about to watch his friend and girlfriend fuck right in front of him. 

“Don’t mind me. Just have fun!”

Kinoshita scowls at the easy words, wanting to retort that it’s easier said than done, but you’re all he can think of when you pull him down for a passionate kiss and he moans as you playfully grab his ass, pulling him against your writhing body as you press against him, purposefully swiveling your hips against his groin and winking at him as he pulls away with a gasp for air and stares wide eyed and slack jawed at you. 

“I thought you wanted me, Hisashi~ Is that not true?” 

You pout and Kinoshita scrambles to find words to soothe and reassure you, only to gulp at the mischievous glint in your eyes as you push him onto his back on the bed and straddle his reclined body, groaning at the feeling of your soft breasts pressing into his chest as you lean on him. 

“Maybe you just need to be warmed up a bit. Don’t worry. Yuu was nervous the first time we did it too.”

“NO I WASN’T-”

Nishinoya’s always been whipped when it comes to you and Kinoshita chuckles at how quickly the exuberant libero shuts up at your sharp look, but when you turn those eyes back on him, suddenly there’s nothing humorous about the situation and he moans as you cruelly palm his rapidly hardening cock while you sit back undress. And his pants feel uncomfortably tight as he stares at your naked body, hips rutting in the air to hump against your hand as you put on a show for him, throwing your head back and moaning like a porn star as you roll and tweak your nipples with your free hand, trailing down the front of your body and spreading your legs as you show him your glistening pussy. 

“Come on, Hisashi. Don’t you want to feel how this tight pussy feels around your cock?” 

You smile at his fervent nods, taking your sweet time as you bend forward and help him remove his pants and boxers, licking your lips when his cock finally springs free. You’re quick to straddle his hips and both of you moan as you slowly sink down on him, taking him bit by bit before finally bottoming out and staying still as you adjust to being stuffed full. 

The sight of you on top of him is breathtaking, the feeling of your tight walls clamping down around him addicting, but he swears he loses his mind when you begin to slightly bounce. Up Down Up Down Up Down. Little whines and moans slipping past your lips as you desperately seek pleasure, a desperate plea in your eyes as you lock gazes with him. 

And how could he let you struggle? 

You yelp when you’re suddenly being flipped over, but you sigh in relief from your new position on the bed, instinctively wrapping your legs around Kinoshita’s back and gripping his shoulders as he begins thrusting in and out of you. It feels so good, the way his cock drags against your walls, reaching deep inside of you with every thrust, and you unconsciously tighten when you accidentally make eye contact with your boyfriend as your head shakes side to side, feeling so exposed and vulnerable in a deliciously humiliating way as Nishinoya strokes his cock to the sight of you being used by someone else.

And before you can stop yourself you’re begging for more, harder, faster, anything Kinoshita can give you as the coils inside of your stomach twist tighter and tighter and you scream as athletic hips slam into you at an intense borderline bruising pace, slipping your hand between your bodies as you desperately rub your clit. All it takes is a few circles before you’re convulsing, thrashing, wailing as you come undone, Nishinoya grunting as he joins you from the corner of his room, his seed spilling all over his hands as he watches your lewd o-face. 

Kinoshita isn’t far behind and as your walls tighten around him and milk him in a silent plea for his cum, he groans, hands clenching in the bedsheets around you as he slams one last time inside of you, balls slapping against your ass and staying still as he empties himself inside of you. 

He’s careful as he gently pulls out of you, laying by your side as he catches his breath. But as post-coital bliss winds down, a growing awkwardness builds inside of him and he’s unsure what to do, tensing when you instinctively cuddle against him as you seek warmth and comfort in your exhausted state, eyes hesitantly looking at Nishinoya who’s making his way over to the two of you. 

But he smiles, wondering why he had even bothered worrying when this is Nishinoya of all people, and he relaxes, letting himself rest as Nishinoya cheerfully joins the two of you on the bed, easily slipping in on the other side of you and wrapping you in a bear hug as he nudges Kinoshita into curling an arm around you as well. 

[midnightcrusader]

electrify my heart (5)

gojō satoru x oc

SERIES MASTERLIST

chapter five: sugar water

↳ word count: 6,2k

↳ spoiler warnings: ep21, a jujutsu stroll from ep10 (cuz we dont know the exact timeline of mr. gojo wearing a skirt but ive thought it was funny to put it in here :)) ) and the one from ep23 cuz yay! fun chapter!

↳ other warnings: cursing, smoking implied & finally some FLUFF

↳ a/n: i am so terribly sorry I haven’t posted on the last Saturday guys.. I’m having a few minor health problems but hey! I promise I’ll post regularly from now on! I hope you’ll enjoy this chapter!!

"But it goes without saying that the exchange event is cancelled," Principal Yaga stated, making everyone in the staff room (despite the Principal of the Kyoto Tech) turn into his direction.

"Hold on. That's not for us to decide, is it?" Satoru interrupted him, sitting lazily on the ground.

"Huh?" everyone despite Sachie and Gojo said in unison, furrowing their brows.

"Gojo's right," Sachie stated, gaining a huge, cocky grin from him. "Only this time," she cleared out, getting up. "If we cancel this event now, the students will not only be upset, but also we will point out that something went wrong. The attackers won't strike again, they're not stupid. Now our priority is to calm down the students, letting them know everything is okay," she explained, approaching her former teacher — Mei Mei.

"I agree," the woman in the purple robes said, nodding her head.

"So what is your plan? We can't host the individual fights anymore," Iori said, glancing at the raven-haired woman and Satoru.

"Let's write our ideas down and make it into a lottery!" Satoru exclaimed, clapping his hands.

"I, uh... that's not what I originally planned," Sachie responded, shaking her head. "But if everyone agrees, I'm down," she added looking at the teachers who nodded in response.

"Alright," Yaga nodded, getting up to get the staff some paper and quills.

Sachie sat back down, and writing "defense training", put the piece of paper into a wooden box right in front of them. She came to the conclusion that fights were only a part of the Sorcerers work, however, the most important thing when it came to Curse Spirits was how to protect yourself from their attacks. Hence her idea of educating the students about the possibilities of defense was the first thing that came to her mind.

"All done! See you in the living room!" Satoru clapped his hands, getting up as he picked up the box with the ideas written by the teachers.

Sachie shook her head, following Gojo as he walked past the door, only to see him shaking the wooden cube and smiling mischievously.

"So, what did you write?" she nonchalantly asked, glancing through his arm.

"Baseball," he responded proudly, his grin not leaving his face.

"Gojo, I swear to you, if you changed the votes only to be baseball I'm going to strangle you," she added, now fully speaking her mind.

"What? Me? I would never!" Satoru called, dramatically placing a hand over his heart.

"Like I don't know you," she murmured, nudging his elbow with her own.

"Well, apparently you don't since you're accusing me of such terrible, terrible things," he put an emphasis on the adjective, looking at her with puppy eyes.

"Yeah, you've definitely done that," she smirked, a singular laugh escaping her mouth.

"Maybe," he said simply, confirming what Sachie was concerned about.

"Yaga's gonna kick your ass, you know?" she added, walking right beside him.

"Like he can beat me!" Satoru laughed, putting his hand over Sachie's shoulder. "Besides, you'd save me, right Chi?" he asked childishly, casually continuing his walk.

"No. I'd rather watch you suffer," she answered, glancing at the arm that was hung over her shoulder. Had he had any idea what he was going?

"Suuure," he whistled. "Of course you'd save me," he teased, pulling her closer to him.

Was he stepping on her boundaries? He wasn't exactly sure. However, gently touching Sachie, or simply being around her was bringing him more happiness that beating up the guy, who tried to dismember his body just to make a coat hanger out of them.

"Believe whatever you want," she gave up, allowing her head to softly rest on his shoulder.

It was nice.

~.~

"Baseball?!"

"What's going on here, Yaga?"

"No, I know I put individual battles in— Get back here Satoru!"

"This dumb moron," Sachie mumbled to herself after leaving the living room where all of the students and teachers were located in.

The lottery had just ended, Yuuji being the chosen one, who was made to pick a piece of paper out of the wooden box. Sachie rolled her eyes, fully knowing that it was exactly what Satoru had planned. He gave the teachers a notion of democracy, when, in fact, he was always the one in charge. However, it didn't surprise Sachie in the slightest; everyone, who even lightly knew Gojo had to realized sooner or later what he was up to.

"What kind of idea is this?!" Nobara yelled as soon as all of the teacher, excluding Sachie, left the living area. "We've just fought against the Special Grade Dpirits! Are we seriously going to play fetch a ball?" she snorted, standing in front of Megumi and Yuuji.

"I guess this could be fun," Itadori whispered quietly, gaining a punch in the arm from the ginger-haired girl.

"Fun? Fun?! This is just stupid!" she continued, calming herself a bit down due to the surprise at the unexpected touch of her shoulder.

"Nobara, Itadori's right. This could be an easy competitive task. Game spirit, or something," Sachie spoke, smiling, hence she didn't believe her words at all. However, she didn't want to object Gojo's intents; he would make everyone tired by complaining if they not agreed this plan.

"But Fujita-san..!"

"Come on, kiddo. You can train with me after the event ends," Sachie offered, wanting to convince the girl that everything was in the right place.

"I–, okay, I guess," she stuttered, realizing that the suggestion was something she had wanted since meeting Fujita.

Having a tutor, especially when she was a powerful female, was something Nobara truly longed for. When she firstly met Sachie, she made herself a promise that she would do anything she could to train with her one day. And now, given the opportunity, she couldn't possibly miss it.

"Great, that's all settled then," Sachie smiled, patting gently the girl's shoulder.

"Everyone, come here and get into your tracksuits!" Satoru exclaimed happily, bringing a pile of clothing into the living area.

He, himself had also changed his clothes. Now, instead of his usual teacher-wear, he was dressed in plain black jeans and a light blue shirt. Instead of his usual blind fool, he was wearing some rectangular sunglasses, which prominently framed his face.

Sachie would have lied if she said he wasn't looking incredibly attractive like that. And, god, she wouldn't even try to object if anyone asked her about it.

"Chi! You too! Come and get dressed," Satoru smirked cockily, pointing at the set of clothes.

"Oh, no way," she objected, crossing her arms.

"Come onnn," he teased, waving a pair of baseball shorts in front of her.

"I'm not wearing that," she growled, furrowing her brow.

"Don't make a scene! My students are looking at you," he called, pointing at Megumi, Nobara and Yuuji.

"Leave me alone," she hissed, not moving to get the sports suit.

"Hey, Nobara! Help me convince her," Satoru said, pointing at the girl.

"No," she answered plainly.

"You guys are no fun!" Gojo complained.

~.~

"Chi."

"No."

"Chi."

"I'm mad at you," Sachie mumbled.

It was two hours later, when the students were allowed to go on a break from playing baseball. Through the whole time Sachie was sitting in the tribunes, her arms crossed, a sour expression on her face. The blue cap Gojo made her wear, was covering her eyes, hence the hat was simply too big and she didn't bother to fix it. She was dressed in the matching blue tracksuit instead of her usual pants and shirt, sighing every time she got a chance.

"Oh, come on. You look adorable," Satoru complimented her, sitting right beside her on a bench.

"Go away," she murmured, avoiding the eye contact with him.

"Nope," he objected, popping the p of the word.

"I swear, Gojo, if you don't go away, I'll kill you with my bare hands," Sachie threatened, clenching her fists.

"Well then, good luck with that," he shrugged, tilting his head. "Are you having a good time?" he sang, fully knowing Sachie wasn't in the mood for teasing.

"No," she growled, moving away from Satoru.

"Quit complaining and have fun," he said simply, siting a bit closer.

"How can I have fun when I'm wearing those ridiculous clothes," she responded, looking to the side. "Look, the break is over. Can you go now?" Sachie asked, pointing at the clock hanging on the tribunes wall.

"Fineee," he sighed, sounding like a disappointed child. "Have fun," he repeated and lazily stood up.

"I can't even explain how much I hate y—," Sachie suddenly stopped her sentence, after feeling Satoru's lips on her forehead.

Her eyes were wide opened and she was sure she stopped breathing for a few seconds. She noticed Satoru smiling, when he walked down the tribunes aisle, only to find himself back on the baseball pitch.

"My, my. Wasn't that sweet?" Sachie heard her former teacher, Mei Mei saying as the woman sat closer to her. "I'm glad you're finally a couple. I've keeping my fingers crossed for it to happen since I met the both of you," she added, smiling from ear to ear.

"Wha—? We're not together," Sachie replied, surprised at the words of white-haired woman.

"Oh?" Mei Mei raised her brows. "My bad then," she shrugged, corners of her mouth going theatrically down.

"Yeah," Sachie only muttered, her glance traveling towards the students, whose match began again.

"But why, though? I see that Gojo might be annoying, but I think he would be a great match for you," Mei Mei continued, making Sachie almost immediately blush.

"He's just a friend," Sachie mumbled, having no idea what she should say.

"Just a friend. Of course," the woman smirked, letting out a giggle.

"What?" Sachie asked, confused by her antics.

"Nothing. You simply don't seem to be just friends," she explained, making Fujita's brow furrowed.

"How is that?" Sachie asked, now quite annoyed. She had no clue what the woman was talking about.

"He had an interest in you already in school. I thought you've noticed that," Mei Mei confessed, however, seeing that Sachie was more perplexed than before, she decided to continue. "He was never letting you win your sparring sessions, remember?" she asked, looking directly at her companion.

"Yeah. Just as he did with Nanami or Geto," she explained, biting her lip. "I thought he was treating me like a friend."

"Oh, Sachie, my dear. It was clear to see that he let the other girls win just so they could get some confidence from their victory. The fact he was treating you differently was simply because he saw you in the other way than those girls," Mei Mei continued, smiling at Sachie's innocence. It was clear to her only now that the raven-haired woman had no idea what she was talking about.

"I—, I guess, maybe..." Sachie stuttered, glancing at Mei Mei. "But how can I be sure he still feels that way? I mean, we spend a lot of time together now and nothing ever happened," she added, being completely perplexed.

"Maybe because he kissed you in the goddamn forehead two minutes ago?" Mei Mei's eyes widened as she felt the urge to laugh at Sachie's behavior.

"But that doesn't mean anything," she whispered, however, hearing her companion's giggle, she looked back at her. "What now?" she asked more angrily than she anticipated.

"You really have no clue what is going on," Mei Mei laughed, closing her eyes.

"No, but—!"

"Stop being so oblivious, Fujita," she interrupted her, patting her back. "I'm going to watch the match now," she added, standing up.

She was right. Sachie truly was oblivious. The words Mei Mei spoke were so intense, it made Sachie think whether or not she had missed a whole bunch of signs Satoru gave her on the span of all those years. Was she ignoring them only because she was afraid of doing anything more? Most likely.

Yet, the worst part was, she had no clue what to do about it now.

~.~

"Fujita-san!" The loud voice of Kugisaki Nobara rang through the hallway when Sachie was about to go on her cigarette break.

Today was the last, full day of the Exchange Event, making tomorrow morning the time when Tokyo and Kyoto high schools meant to say goodbye to each other.

Now, however, right before the scheduled bedtime Sachie was finally going to relax. I'm the end, not for long, hence the ginger-haired girl appeared to have a burning cause to discuss with her.

"What's up?" Sachie called, rapidly hiding the pack of cigarettes in her pocket. After all, she didn't want to be bad influence to the students.

"Have you seen my uniform skirt? I was just about to change from that nasty baseball suit and I can't find it anywhere!" Nobara ranted, and only now Sachie realized she was wearing some grayish shorts instead of her usual skirt.

"No, I haven't seen it... Are you sure it's not somewhere in your suitcase?" Sachie asked, heading back towards the direction of Nobara's room.

"I'm one hundred percent positive. I've put it on the chair next to my bed and it's gone!" she rambled, fidgeting with the weapon she was holding.

"What's with that hammer?" Sachie pointed at the object, realizing it was part of Kugisaki's cursed technique.

"I'm going to kill whoever took it," she growled, ready to open the door of one of the classrooms that were located in the complex.

"Hey, hey. Before you get in, take a deep breath, okay?" Fujita stopped her, gently grabbing the hand that was holding the hammer. "Now, come in and ask everyone about it. Nicely," she added.

"Fine," Nobara answered after exhaling the breath Sachie made her take. "Panda-senpai, have you seen my uniform?" she asked after entering the room.

Sachie walked right past her, sitting on one of the tables, right next to Megumi.

"I haven't seen it," the panda turned towards Nobara, and only now Sachie noticed he was wearing someone's uniform blazer.

"Megumi? The hell is going on here?" Fujita asked the boy, who simply shrugged. His smile, however, was clearly pointing out that he knew what was this all about. "Itadori?" she tried asking again, yet, with the exact same result. "Hey! Hey! Nobara! Put the hammer down!" Sachie yelled, seeing the girl hitting the panda with her weapon.

"Mustard leaf!" Toge Inumaki exclaimed, entering the room.

Sachie knew him, because he was one of the students, who couldn't speak properly, hence his unique ability to make people do what he said. Literally. She thought of him as being the calm and settled one. Now, however he was wearing a girl's skirt and Sachie immediately knew what was going on.

"Nobara, if you use your hammer again, I'll—!"

Bang.

Toge was laying on the ground after being hit by the redhead.

"Okay, that's enough," Sachie angrily stated, quickly standing up.

"But I didn't use my hammer!" Nobara objected, pointing at the weapon that was laying on the ground.

She was right. She hit Toge with her bare hands.

"It doesn't matter. Violence against students is strictly forbidden," Sachie stated, approaching the girl.

"What? That's Maki-san's," Nobara stated, taking off the skirt from almost unconscious Toge.

"Jesus fucking Christ, kids. Can you calm down for a second?" Sachie exclaimed, taking the piece of clothing from Kugisaki and folding it quickly. "I swear, you all act so—!"

"Heya!" The loud voice interrupted Sachie's statement, causing her to turn towards the door. "I'm Kugisaki Nobara!"

"Oh, for fuck's sake," Sachie growled angrily, noticing Gojo Satoru... dressed in the girl's uniform. "Nobara, give me your hammer," she added, clenching her fists.

"Chi? How would you rate my outfit?" Satoru asked, squatting due to the skirt being too short for him to fully stand up.

Sighing as an answer, Sachie put one of her hand forward and generated a stream of white sparks which stroke Gojo directly in the chest.

"Ouch! That hurts!" Gojo exclaimed, now laying on the ground.

"Thought you've said violence was strictly forbidden," Megumi smirked, looking into the direction of his Sensei, who at that time, was still trying to pick himself up from the floor.

"Yeah. Against students, not against irrational teachers," Sachie answered, furrowing her brow. "Here, Nobara. I'll get your skirt back in a second," she added, walking up to Gojo, abruptly taking off the skirt he was wearing.

"Woah, that's not what I was expecting," he responded, unable to move because of the electricity paralyzing his body.

"Shut up," Sachie whispered, fully frustrated. "Here you go," she added towards Nobara, handing her over the skirt.

"Thanks, Fujita-san," she answered, grabbing her belonging.

"Now, if you excuse us," Sachie added, smiling falsely when taking Satoru by the hand and leading him towards his room. "What the fuck was that supposed to be?" she immediately hissed, after closing the door.

"Nanami said I should keep my attitude, so I did," he plainly exclaimed, scratching his head.

"Yeah, Nanami also said you're irresponsible, childish and arrogant. Have you listened to any of that?" Sachie asked angrily, subconsciously placing her hands on her hips.

"Uh, no? Why would I?" Satoru responded nonchalantly.

"Because you're a fucking idiot, Gojo! That's why!" Sachie yelled, closing her eyes.

She tried to find another serious reason to scold Satoru for, yet, instead she stared quietly laughing after a few seconds.

"Sachie? Are you alright?" Satoru furrowed his brow, approaching her slightly. Why was she, all of the sudden, laughing? Wasn't she angry with him just a moment ago?

"Yeah, it's just," she waved her hand, trying not to burst in laughter. "You're standing here, only in your jacked and your underwear, after you've stolen your student's skirt. It's fucking ridiculous," she explained, failing in keeping her giggle inside as she let out a loud laugh after briefly looking at him.

"So you're not mad?" he asked, searching for the reassurance of his deeds.

"Of course I am. That was utterly stupid," she responded, uncontrollably giggling. "But it was also oddly funny," she added, grabbing his hand once again. "Come on, it's bedtime. We should go to sleep."

~.~

"Well, that's a school trip at this point," Sachie mumbled to Megumi and Yuuji as the three of them walked behind Satoru and and Nobara.

It was just a few days after the Exchange Event had ended, making the past following days being nothing but a slight back to the reality. With the students back on their trainings, Sachie decided to do more of her research on Sukuna's Fingers. Having in mind that it was her grandfather's lifetime wish to collect all of them, she spent the past couple of days doing exactly what he had wished for.

Now, being perused by Gojo, she was meant to take a break, with the break being joining him and the redhead girl shopping. Megumi and Yuuji also tagged along; it was Saturday and they simply had nothing better to do.

"I'm gonna go to that shop, you can stay outside," Nobara stated, glancing at her companions. "Or Fujita-san, can you come with me, actually?" she added, asking the woman.

"Yeah, sure," Sachie replied, the tone of her voice quite bored. Seeing Megumi's light smirk, she send him a warning gaze.

Entering the small boutique, Sachie felt immediately overwhelmed by all of the clothing items located in the shop. For her it was either too much colors or patters that created an unspeakable mess.

"What do you think about this?" Nobara asked after a while, showing the raven-haired woman a floral blouse.

"It's nice," she answered plainly, raising up one of her eyebrows. Sachie was sure she gave the worst piece of advice when it came to clothes; after all, she was usually wearing a combination of the same, simple clothes; a pair of pants and a shirt. Dresses or shirts were rare, or almost impossible to find in her closet. She was definitely a woman of simplicity.

"Don't you think it won't suit me? I think those flowers are a bit too much," the girl wondered, putting the blouse back on the hanger. "Oh, just look at this dress!"

"This is going to be a long day," Sachie whispered to herself, awkwardly standing by the side of the shop.

She had stayed like this for another five minutes, when Nobara stated she was going to the changing room to see how the pile of clothes she picked out was going to fit her. Sachie nodded in response, leaning against one of the walls. Closing her eyes, she patiently wait for Kugisaki to get changed, only so she could came up with different versions of the same response.

"What's up with that face? Are you not enjoying your shopping time with Kugisaki?" Satoru asked swiftly, approaching her.

"Thought you were supposed to stay outside," she responded, smirking causally.

"Yeeaaah, but it's getting hot out there. We were in need of some air conditioning," he answered, pointing at Yuuji and Megumi, who also found their way to the inside of the boutique.

"It really is a school trip," Sachie quietly laughed, rolling up the sleeves of her shirt. Satoru was right, they picked up a wrong day for shopping — it was the middle of the summer, after all.

"Hey, Chi, look at this shirt," Gojo exclaimed after a while, showing her a simple, light-brown shirt.

"Uh, it's nice... but isn't it a woman's boutique?" she asked, furrowing her brow.

"That's exactly why I showed you that!" Satoru responded, closing one of his eyes as he moved the hanger with the piece of clothing towards Sachie, just to see how it would supposedly fit. "Yeah, you'd look pretty good in that," he added completely casually.

"Thanks?" The pitch of her tone went up, realizing only now what was happening.

Satoru had just picked a shirt for her. And she almost blushed at the thought of it.

"Excuse me? What are you doing boys?" The older woman, most likely an owner of the shop approached Megumi and Yuuji, who... had just taken of their shirts, exactly in the middle of the shop.

"It's so hot outside!" Yuuji complained, throwing his hands in the air.

"Are you their parents?" The lady asked Satoru and Sachie, an anger expression on her face.

"Teachers," Sachie cleared out.

"I would ask you all to leave. I won't tolerate this kind of... nudity in my shop," the woman stated quickly, grabbing the boys by the forearms and leading their to the exit. "The girl in the changing room, too. Get out," she added, furrowing her brow.

"Hey! I was just going to buy this!" Nobara yelled, rapidly getting out of the changing room.

"I don't care. That's violating my boutique's policy."

"Hey, hey. I don't think it's quite the way you should threat your customers," Sachie objected.

"This is my shop and my rules. Now get out," the lady pointed at the door.

"Geez, okay," Sachie shrugged grabbing Nobara's hand. "Bitch," she mumbled under her breath.

"What did you just say?!" The woman shouted after Fujita, however, she didn't even bother to turn back to her.

Ignoring Nobara's angry tirade, Sachie found her way to the nearby bench under a tree. The boys were right; today was definitely too hot. After a while Satoru had joined them, sitting between Fujita and Kugisaki. After Megumi and Yuuji stated they were going to get something to drink, Sachie exhaled loudly, cursing her today's clothing choice.

"It's too hot," she murmured, resting her head on her hand.

"I don't want to go shopping anymore," Nobara said, being clearly exhausted by the awful weather.

"Sensei! Kugisaki! Fujita-san!" Not a moment after their little complaining session, the loud voice of Itadori Yuuji rang through the whole street.

"Oh, what the hell," Sachie sighed, shaking her head.

"So annoying," Nobara added in the exact same manner as Fujita. "It's too hot for your craziness."

"Fushiguro's getting hit on!" he shouted, making the eyes of the three people on the bench wide open.

Without any further do, no words were needed. The two teachers and two students sprinted towards the direction of Megumi, everyone feeling as protective as possible.

"Fushiguro-kyun!" Yuuji and Nobara yelled in unison.

"Who is that woman?" the girl cried as the both of them frantically grabbed onto Megumi's uniform. "Have you forgotten the night you toasted to my eyes?!"

"Was it all a lie when you said your time with me was the most enjoyable of all?" Yuuji added, making an utterly sad face.

"Megumi-kun! Have you forgotten you were supposed to help your poor aunt with the groceries?!" Sachie shouted, standing right beside her students.

"Could you not touch him so casually, please?!" Satoru's tone beamed through the shopping parlor. "You homewreckers! Megumi-chan has violin practice with me now. Let's go home Megumi-chan. Today we'll master your "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," he added nonchalantly. If Sachie hadn't known him, she could've sworn he truly was Megumi's violin teacher.

"Don't mind them," the dark-haired boy told the woman he was just talking to. "Seriously, what is this?" He turned his head, a death stare escaping his eyes. "Could you stop? You're embarrassing me."

"That woman was flirting with you!" Sachie called with the exact same expression as Yuuji and Nobara.

"She was just asking for directions!" Megumi answered rapidly, making everyone's face drop.

"Oh... oh, fuck."

~.~

Sunday evenings surely weren't popular amongst the students. After two days of relax, the notion of returning back to school was sounding draining. However, this case wasn't including only students.

Fujita Sachie sat silently in her room, having no idea what she should do tomorrow. She didn't officially returned to teaching, she had no more missions to go at that moment. Should she just go with the flow and just observe the students training? Should she approach Yaga and asked him if she could go back? Or maybe, should she just disappear for the whole day and figure something out as she smoked a pack of cigarettes?

Shaking her head, Sachie thought that the third option sounded almost entertaining. However, a sudden realization came upon her not a moment after; she would highly need a piece of advice. But with Nanami gone to his house and Gojo being nowhere to be found, she decided to simply wait.

And, oh god, how she hated waiting.

Listening to some somber music, Sachie decided to grab something to eat. Smiling softly, she had closed her eyes, teleporting right behind of the building of Sushi Go.

It was rather odd, hence Fujita Sachie's power was based on aura, energy, but most importantly, the emotional connection she or the person she was looking for had with a certain object in a certain place. And although Sachie wasn't entirely sentimental, the restaurant had a special place in her heart. She clearly remembered entering the place for the first time after sparing with Gojo the other day. He was about to graduate high school, and she was just entering her last year in Jujutsu Tech. The memory was absolutely splendid; vividly reckoning the time when her high school crush asked her if she wanted to have a dinner with him — at that moment it felt like the ultimate heaven.

Quickly entering to buy her food, she decided to order four more portions than needed — (not her) students would definitely be happy about the gift Sachie was about to give them.

In about fifteen minutes her order was ready, causing her to smile. She forgot how good it felt to show the emotions. Teleporting back, she found her way to the students' rooms, placing three takeaway boxes on the doorstep of Yuuji, Kugisaki and Megumi. Now, having one spare meal left, she decided to go back to the teacher's side of the building, trying to figure out if Satoru was at his house or at school. Knocking on the door, she received no answer, hence she shrugged, making her way towards her own bedroom.

"I guess I'm having a double supper today," she murmured to herself, opening the door to her room.

"Chi! Where have you been?"

"Fuck!" Sachie jumped in place, almost dropping her food. "Don't scare me like that, Gojo," she growled, placing her takeaways on the small table.

"It was you, who scared me," Satoru responded, approaching her. "I thought you've..."

"No, don't end that. We've already talked about it," she interrupted him, immediately knowing what he was going to say.

I thought you've left again.

Opening the kitchen drawer, Sachie reached for two sets of chopsticks and placed them on the two boxes.

"I've bought you sushi," she stated, pointing at the food on the table.

"You didn't!" Satoru smirked widely, looking like an absolute child. "Oh, Chiii, you shouldn't have," he added theatrically in his usual manner.

"Stop it. Don't be annoying," she mumbled, rolling her eyes.

"I have something for you too!" he happily exclaimed, handing her over a blue paper bag.

"The hell?" Sachie furrowed her brow, looking inside the bag. She was quick to notice that the present Satoru gave her was the brown shirt, he had showed yesterday her in the boutique. "But why?" she asked, confused as ever.

Satoru was often buying her food; she did the same when she had a chance. Yet, it was the first time since he gave her the necklace, he had bought her something. Sachie began to feel oddly weird. She wasn't expecting him to buy the shirt. In fact, it was making her uncomfortable that he did that without any occasion neither as an apology (as he had in habit).

"I thought you would look good in it," he plainly answered, grinning from ear to ear.

"Well, uh... Thank you, but I can't accept it," she replied, handing him back the blue bag.

"Why? Do you not like it? Did I buy the wrong size?" Satoru immediately asked, his smile disappearing for a moment, which Sachie found incredibly odd.

Why was he behaving that way?

"No, no. Everything's fine with the shirt. I just... don't understand why would you buy it without any serious reason," she a answered, praying that she wouldn't blush.

"Hey! It was a serious reason!" Satoru exclaimed, his grin returning back to his face. "Looking good is a serious reason, isn't it?" he added, putting the back on the chair next to him.

"Satoru, I..." Sachie stuttered, feeling incredibly vulnerable. Had he had any idea what he was doing to her? "I-I think you're a complete idiot. Buying things just like that. It's ridiculous, you know? I mean, it's not even that deep. It's just weird. It's just fucking weird," she rambled, panicking.

She had no idea why was she reacting that way; it would make her look more suspicious than before, so why, all of the sudden, was she so concerned? It was just a simple situation that required nothing but a quick "no". And yet, he did it again. He had shown her he cared for her. That being the thing she couldn't cope with; was that implying he had feelings for her or was she just exaggerating the situation again? And why, once more, she had forgotten what Mei Mei said?

"Chi," Satoru laughed quietly, turning his head to the side.

"Oh, what now?" she asked angrily, feeling her knees going completely week.

"You're all red. If I haven't know you I'd say you're blushing," he responded, a soft smile entering his face. He knew she was blushing.

"What?" Sachie mumbled subconsciously, feeling all of her vital energy leaving her body. "No, no! It's because it's hot here. Summer, you know?" she spited, moving forward to approach the window to open it.

"Suure," Satoru sang, smiling widely. "So should I also blush at the fact you've bought me sushi?" he teased, not wanting to change the subject this time.

Gojo Satoru was known for being outspoken, easygoing and courageous. With Sachie, however, he always felt like he didn't say enough every time they had a conversation like that; the type when she frantically was trying to change the topic and him usually going along with it because he didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable. Today, however, he was finally ready to shoot his shot. During the Exchange Event attack, she immediately teleported to him, making sure he was okay. That gave him a boost to believe she actually cared for him. In addiction, she was finally back after her disappearance five years ago.

And he wasn't going to loose her ever again. He wouldn't allowed it.

"I hate you," Sachie mumbled, her whole body panicking. She despised the situation, although she was sure her feeling for him.

When it came to emotions her initial response was to flee rather to confess. That's exactly why she was so good at keeping her feelings secret for the past seven years. Every time situation like that happened she played oblivious to whatever was going on, forgetting that having a crush on someone wasn't something to be ashamed for.

But she couldn't confess her feelings now. And she wasn't sure if she could have ever do that.

"No, you don't," Satoru smirked, leaning against the table.

"Excuse me?" Sachie furrowed her brow after being reminded that, in fact, he was still in her room.

"You don't hate me, Chi. You say this only because you know it ends the conversation," he stated, more seriously that usual.

"I–uh," she stumbled over her own words, knowing that what he had said was entirely true.

"So what's the matter? Why do you always act like that?" he asked calmly, tilting his head to the side.

Sachie froze. He had never asked her this question before, and she had no slightest clue what her response should be.

She couldn't say it was because she had feelings for him.

"Chi?" Satoru said, approaching her slowly. "You know you can tell me everything, right?" he added, gently putting his hand on her forearm.

"I–I..." Sachie stuttered, her breath becoming heavy. "No, I can't. I can't tell you this," she finally said with a weak tone.

"Come on, Sachie. We're friends, you can..."

"Yeah, that's exactly that," she interrupted him, feeling her hands beginning to shake. "I can't tell you this because we're friends. And I don't want to risk our friendship just to say..."

"That you like me?" This time it was Satoru, who interrupted her answer. He obviously wasn't sure if his answer was right, but today he was going to risk it all.

Sachie froze once again, her body completely petrified. She had no idea if she should agree to the obvious truth, or should she just say she didn't and make him leave her bedroom. Yet, she wasn't entirely sure about the second opinion, although it seemed to be the easiest out of the two. However, she would be on the bad terms with him if she said just that.

"So you do or you don't? 'Cause if you do, we're on the same page," Satoru smirked after waiting a bit too long for her answer.

"What?" Sachie asked, her knees now completely weak. "You—?"

"Yeah. Since high school," he admitted, grinning. "I know it's kinda weird to say it just now but I was never sure if you liked me back," he added, scratching the back of his neck.

"I��we're so goddamn stupid," she stated, starting to giggle.

"Wait. Now I'm the one who's confused," Satoru said, watching her laugh.

"I like you since high school too," she finally confessed, realizing that all of this fuss, hiding her feelings was absolutely for nothing. "Fuck, that's so awkward now," she added, unable to stop her giggles from escaping her mouth.

"Well, it doesn't have to be," Satoru smirked, returning to his usual self.

Placing his hand on her cheek, he lowered down, still smiling from ear to ear. He felt Sachie stopped laughing, as he closed the distance between her lips and kissed her softly.

It was almost like taking a sip of cold water after the long run. It felt like feeling the touch of a Sun after spending an eternity in a locked room. It felt like finally being free.

Just after the kiss ended, both Satoru and Sachie were smiling wider than ever. Pulling back, they looked at each other, and although Satoru was wearing his usual blind fool, Sachie could have sworn his eyes were resembling his grin.

"You wanna eat that sushi?" he asked, pointing at the table.

"I think I'm not hungry anymore." taglist: @tokyo-banana @stardvstial

[kazoosandfannypacks]

Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure Things 1/3

[I did these with Star Wars the Clone Wars and Rebels, so here’s Tangled the Series, enjoy!]

SPOILER WARNING!

S1:EP1: Let’s start by getting one thing straight: Rapunzel’s PTSD dreams are breaking my heart.

S1:EP1: Rapunzel, Cassandra, and Eugene are literally the “Soulmates, Platonic Soulmates, Saltmates triangle.”

S1:EP1: JEREMY JORDAN IS FANGIRLING OVER FLYNN RIDER I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS REAL ANYMORE

S1:EP1: DARK HAIR AND BLUE EYES Y’ALL DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH THAT MATTERS TO ME VARIAN YOU’RE MY NEW FAVORITE

S1:EP3: “No one calls me genius and gets away with it!”

S1:EP6: OH MY GOSH THIS SHOW KEEPS WHAPPING ME UPSIDE THE HEAD WITH A SENTIMENTAL FRYING PAN

S1:EP7: I love how Eugene just picks a lock with a twig

S1:EP7: OKAY STAHP I know Eugene needs a father figure, but did they really need to do us that hard?

S1:EP11: BABY PASCAL HAD TO WATCH HIS MOM GET EATEN ALIVE

S1:EP11: She also calls him a frog when she first meets him

S1:EP11: Guys, wait, stop, I can’t relate to a chameleon on such a personal and emotional level (he’s an INFJ don’t @ me)

S1:EP13: “Wai, wai, wait, I thought Ruth was a goat.”

S1:EP17: Okay, when Rapunzel promises something, she never, ever breaks that promise- ever. And she broke a promise, and when she broke the promise, she broke my son, and I will not rest until she fixes him.

S1:EP20: Eugene providing the usual and very necessary comic relief.

S1:EP21: Um, uh, Frederic, Fred, Freddie my boy, um, I know you’re new to the whole “fatherhood” thing,  but when your daughter says you remind her of her abusive adopted mother, we know you royally messed up

S1:EP23: WAIT NO STOP I’M ME I CAN’T LIKE A VILLAN’S BADNESS NOOOOOOO

[murasaki-murasame]

Thoughts on Higurashi Gou Ep21

Ciconia? In MY Higurashi??? It’s more likely than you’d think :)

Thoughts under the cut. Also apparently Ciconia spoiler stuff because that’s the world we live in now I guess lol

It’s kinda funny how over the course of Gou thus far I’ve seen people go from ‘there’s no way this is even going to reference Umineko, people are just reading into things’ to ‘wow I can’t believe Ryukishi’s going out of his way to tie literally all of his visual novel lore together in Gou :/’. It feels weirdly vindicating to see Gou just go the whole nine yards with bringing up unprecedented levels of When They Cry Lore [tm], lol. 

I know people basically thought [or hoped] that Ryukishi was just going to be trolling people who wanted this kind of lore stuff, but I always felt like it was going to be more straightforward and sincere than that, considering that he seems to genuinely enjoy this kind of writing, and I guess I ended up being right. If anything I underestimated just how explicit he’d be with this stuff.

Considering that they tweaked Featherine’s design a bit to be more Higurashi-y, and they avoided using that name for her, I figured they’d commit to having her fit more into the existing framework of Higurashi to avoid bringing up other When They Cry lore stuff, but then she literally just has the exact same personality as Featherine and immediately started talking about Ciconia stuff, so that was unexpected, lol.

The Umineko stuff is one thing, since we’re more or less dealing with a character who came from Umineko in the first place, but the Ciconia references throw like five different wrenches into things and make this way more confusing and interesting.

At the very least, I guess it cements the idea of Satoko being a Lambda expy, if not literally Lambda herself. It’s kinda hard to tell exactly where they’re going with this, in the grand scheme of things. If we’re going full Ciconia lore with this, then it’s possible that there’s basically just one original person who’s now a brain in a jar, and they’re basically being used as a ‘template’ for characters within simulations, which all end up looking similar to each other. 

It also raises the question of what this implies about how the timelines of the different VNs intersect, if Featherine is bringing up stuff from a story set in the future, but if we go with the whole simulation theory then they probably just all exist at the same time.

And on top of all the over-arching lore stuff that’s now being raised, this episode also gets into confusing time travel logic now that Satoko’s officially starting to do her own loops, and we all have to wrap our heads around how that meshes with Rika’s own powers and her personal timeline of events.

My best interpretation of the timeline here is that after the scene at the start of this episode, Featherine directly reset the timeline to an earlier point, rather than moving Satoko to a different fragment entirely. And because of that, the Matsuribayashi fragment played out like it did originally because Satoko was just sent back to an earlier point in that timeline, and Rika didn’t have her consciousness carry over because only Satoko got sent back, so the Rika in the next loop was basically just Matsuribayashi Rika again, and things just played out exactly the same with her.

We’ll have to see how the next episode goes, but since this loop ended with both Satoko and Rika dying, I think this will be where Rika’s consciousness also starts getting sent through the loops along with Satoko, although we know that until Nekodamashi she can’t remember how she died.

I’m really curious to see if Satoko and Rika immediately get thrown into the Onidamashi loop after that, or if there’ll be a whole series of loops that we haven’t seen yet before that. Satoko’s actions in the earlier arcs seem to imply that she has knowledge of how the original question arcs went that she shouldn’t have by this point in Gou, so maybe she spends some amount of time going through the same types of loops Rika did before Onidamashi happens, but it seems like from Rika’s perspective, she goes straight from this episode’s loop to Onidamashi, since she talked to Hanyuu about how the last thing she remembered was being at St. Lucia’s in 1988, and considering how this episode went, I don’t think Satoko would have allowed any loop after this to get to that point again in the first place. So if there’s any loops that happen between this and Onidamashi, they’d have to be ones that Rika retains no memory of. Or maybe her consciousness doesn’t start getting sent to those loops until Onidamashi.

Either way, it would imply that some sort of change might happen in the mechanics of Satoko’s looping. Which I could see happening, since she clearly doesn’t just keep repeating the same Matsuribayashi loop, so maybe at some point she also starts going to different fragments instead of just resetting the same one over and over again. Or maybe she just goes back early enough in the loop to completely change how things play out, but that’d basically just be the same thing as going to a different fragment.

I still think that Satoko’s exact motives and methods throughout the earlier Gou arcs changed over time, but this episode goes a long way to show how she’s already at the point of being willing to kill Rika. But at this point she’s only done it as a way to reset a failed loop, so I don’t think she’s progressed to the point we see in Nekodamashi where she’s literally torturing Rika as a way to try and convince her to stay in the village in the first place.

With just three episodes left [as far as we know, at least], I think we’re probably going to skim over the earlier Gou arcs to explain their individual mysteries before we go back to the end of Nekodamashi and see how that confrontation played out. One way or another it’d have to be pretty fast-paced to cover four arcs worth of answers, so they might just shove the answers all into the next episode and end it by going back to Nekodamashi.

It’d be kinda anti-climactic to spend such little time going over the answers to the earlier arcs, but at this point there probably isn’t much we need to know. We now know the ‘who’ and the ‘why’ of the mystery, so all that we need to be told is the ‘how’, and I think that’s going to end up being relatively simple. At the very least, I think Satoko used the same methods in basically every arc, so just going over one set of answers would solve most of the mysteries in each arc at the same time, and the individual mysteries in each arc would take less time to go over at that point.

Even at this point I’m still not entirely sure about a lot of this, mainly since there’s still the question of how much Satoko actually knows about the pre-Matsuribayashi loops, but I think the general answer to how she did basically everything in each arc was that she just raided the Irie Clinic to steal the syringe that makes people go L5, and then she just made people go L5 in the background of each arc.

In Onidamashi, I don’t think there’s even that much to answer. She presumably ended up doing a murder suicide with Rika at the end of the arc to reset the loop, and maybe she injected Rena with the syringe, but I still think that Rena could have easily just been doing all that without any interference from Satoko. Since that was the first Gou arc [unless there were other loops between this and Onidamashi], maybe Satoko hadn’t started injecting people yet, and only started doing that in later loops. The only other real mystery in this whole arc is what happened to Takano and Tomitake, and that was probably just them fleeing the village like we ended up seeing in Nekodamashi, which is also something that they might have done without any involvement from Satoko. I guess there’s also the question of what exactly made Takano abandon her goals, but that also might not really be directly caused by Satoko. My best guess is that, on the meta level, Lambda revoked her blessing from Takano, and she got given memories of Matsuribayashi, which ended up making her lose certainty in her goals, and choose to just give up and flee the village.

Watadamashi is still kinda confusing, but this might also just boil down to her having injected either Shion or Mion to trigger the same general scenario as Watanagashi. I don’t think it was her that killed Rika, but I think her suspicion of Keiichi was probably an act. Now that we know that by that point she was in the middle of her loops and knew exactly what was going on, I don’t think she’d genuinely suspect him of that, or that she’d even care that much. The Takano and Tomitake situation was probably just the same as all the other arcs, with them fleeing the village. I think a lot of the background stuff was basically just the same as Watanagashi, except for Mion ending up as more of a culprit this time. My biggest question about this arc is probably just why Satoko even bothered going to the Sonozaki estate at the end of the arc. Now that we know more about her motives and her level of meta knowledge, it just seems really weird that she’d bother doing that. If anything you’d think that she’d just immediately kill herself once she found out about Rika dying, since she’d have no reason to continue the loop after that.

I still like the idea that she ended up making Shion into her accomplice to help carry out a lot of the stuff she did in each loop, so that might play into the whole mystery of this arc. And maybe it’d explain why she bothered going to the Sonozaki estate.

Tataridamashi is still kinda strange and confusing, and more than the other arcs I think it really depends on how much she knows about the pre-Matsuribayashi loops. The whole situation of whether or not she was being abused by Teppei in this arc, and how much of an act she was putting on, is still pretty unclear. The stuff with Ooishi at the end of the arc is also still kinda strange. Maybe it was all intentional and she had basically just given up on that loop and used him to kill Rika, but I’m not sure. I kinda like the idea I’ve seen that maybe she was tempted by the idea of just letting the Tataridamashi timeline continue, and that she had genuinely come to some sort of peace with the events of that loop, but then Ooishi went crazy and forced her to reset the loop. Either way I feel like this arc is a turning point of some kind for Satoko, since it’s immediately after this point that her methods seem to get much more desperate and violent.

So I think that maybe she had basically ‘given up’ in Tataridamashi and was willing to just stay in that loop and let it play out, but Featherine decided that would be boring so she forced the game to keep going by making Ooishi go on a murder spree. And then Satoko realized that she’s just as trapped in this loop as Rika is, and is going to keep going through pain and misery until she can properly succeed with her original goal, and so she becomes much more desperate after that point. There’s also the fact that this is the point where Rika is also given the ability to remember her loops, so that might be another aspect of Featherine meddling with the game in order to keep it interesting.

I get the feeling that Satoko maybe ends up having another meeting with Featherine around this point, where she gets it spelled out to her face that she’s going to have to keep looping until Rika ‘loses’, whether Satoko likes it or not. For one thing, Satoko’s talked about how she became Oyashiro-sama’s new miko, but that didn’t really come up in this episode, so maybe she has another meeting with Featherine later on where that comes up. It’d also make sense if maybe Satoko gets told by Featherine at this point that Rika is also a looper who remembers each timeline, since the way that Satoko straight up starts murdering and torturing Rika seems kinda counter-intuitive to the idea of making her choose to stay in the village, but it’d make sense if she learned about Rika’s looping and changed her methods to ‘I’m going to torture her across multiple loops so that eventually I’ll get to a loop where she’s already chosen to give up and stay in the village’.

Maybe she could have found out about Rika’s looping as early as the end of Onidamashi, though, if Rika talked about it before the murder suicide. But I wouldn’t be surprised if she didn’t.

Either way, even once we eventually get back to Nekodamashi, I’m not really sure if we’ll get a happy ending or not, lol. It feels like the only way for this to end peacefully is for Satoko to just give up, but like I said above, I think Featherine is actively interfering with things, and is refusing to let Satoko give up before she wins. So I just don’t see that happening. This is also really feeling like an origin story for both Lambda and Bern, and their violently possessive relationship, so I kinda feel like the story might just commit to them going off the deep end and embracing their unhealthy desires. I wouldn’t be surprised at this point if Featherine gives Satoko the ability to become a witch in order to achieve her goal of staying with Rika forever.

There’s also the hanging plot thread of Satoshi still being alive, but with how singularly focused Satoko seems to be with Rika, I’m not even sure if finding out that he’s alive would go much to sway her if she can’t also get Rika to stay in the village. And, again, there’s the whole potential mess of Featherine wanting to be entertained no matter what.

Of course we also might get a whole second season or something, which would open up it’s own whole list of possibilities, lol. I’m not really convinced about it yet, and I’d rather keep my expectations low, but it really does feel more and more like there’s just not enough time to wrap everything up in just three more episodes. I know they can probably go over the answers for the previous arcs in like one more episode, but this whole extended flashback has been going on for way longer than I expected, and we haven’t even gotten to Onidamashi yet. I know that once we get back to Nekodamashi there might not even be that much more that needs to be done to wrap up the story now that everything’s laid out on the table, but it might still just feel kinda rushed to only get one or two episodes of content after that.

Though on the other hand, even though everything with Satoko is being laid out in a way that makes it feel like there’s not much more we need to do to wrap up the story, it’s possible that the story will just shift to having Featherine herself be the new antagonist, so to say. If I’m right about her not being willing to let Satoko just give up and make peace with Rika, then they might have to work together to stop her, but who knows. Maybe she’ll be willing to go along with a happy ending this time.

There’s also still the possibility that this is setting up for some sort of new Umineko anime, which at this point might have it’s own original story that continues on from Gou’s story in addition to Umineko’s, so that might sort of serve as a sequel to Gou in it’s own way, depending on how they spin it. It still feels like a pipe dream, but considering how bluntly this episode threw out references to WTC lore, it’s possible that this is going to be some kind of multi-part cinematic universe thing that’s going to go all the way with tying everything together across multiple new anime projects.

Also, before I forget, we finally got the visuals for the new ED, and I was right about them choosing to wait until now to show it because it had spoilers, lol. They’re more minor than I expected, but it still spoils the chandelier scene, and I guess it also shows Featherine, but in a very subtle way.

Either way, I think the visuals they went with were extremely good. I’m not sure if I like the song itself more than the first ED song since they’re both great, but I definitely prefer the visuals for this one over the visuals for the first ED. The art for them is both great, and they’re done by the same artist so they’re not that different to begin with, but the visuals for this ED feel way more dynamic in terms of their composition and editing. The first ED’s visuals were basically just a series of still images with some slow panning effects, but this one had way more complex images that were designed to feel like 3D panoramas being spun about. So there’s just a whole lot more going on with this one, so I really liked it.

Anyway, now I’m gonna go back to being sad that Ciconia Phase 2 got delayed, lol.

[shipaholic]

I’m so into Skyjacks, holy crap

SKY PIRATES -!

I’ve listened as far as Ep21, so minor spoilers up to that point: love how Gable is increasingly being played as kind of dumb. Like many people, in-universe and out, I was fooled into thinking they were smart because they are mysterious and tall. It’s the She-Ra effect. Gable is a dumb jock with a smooth, sexy voice, the end. also Gable/Hildred 4eva, smart tiny jock x awkward statuesque jock is where it’s at.

also also, given That Reveal about them, I’m guessing their original name was Gabriel. Now I’m imagining them swapping places with Jon Hamm in Good Omens, and let me tell you, it makes less difference to the plot of either universe than you might think, while being x100 more chaotic on both ends.

Not to forget the other characters: Jonnit = SO PURE, WHAT AN AWESOME LITTLE BOY, Travis = super punchable, in a fun way, Dref = god I want your backstory, will it explain why you’re so creepy?, the rest of the crew = how am I so invested in this idiot grab-bag of improv characters?

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Hi! Can you spoil a bit about Dick's well-being? Im just reeeeally worried after ep21

Hi there!

Even though I would love to give spoilers, I alas can’t really. It’d be against the rules - embargoes and all that. Plus it’d remove the fun of watching it and having all of that suspense building.

So let’s play a round of...

Fun facts! Have you ever wondered why it’s impossible to tickle yourself?

It’s apparently because our brains are expecting the movements and thereby removes the surprise and hence, no tickles! Essentially, the whole point of tickles is the surprise factor.

Nonetheless, apparently it is possible if you sort of delay your movements or something? I’m absolutely terrible at science so I’m not too sure how it works. But anyway!

Eventually you’ll get your answers on Dick’s prognosis!

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Racing for Ghoulies Ep21

Spoilers: obviously

Masterlist

Previously

“You can’t just leave!” Dad shouted. I hummed as if I were musing it over before smiling and walking past him to the door. I took a step out of trailer and looked back

“It seems like I can and am” I shrugged. I smiled “Bye, dad” I said before shutting the door behind me. It felt like a new beginning. A new start to my shitstorm of a life

Now

Malachai and I walked into the House of the Dead. We walked into the lounge area and Malachai put his hands on my shoulders making me sit on the couch. I pouted looking up at him

"I'll go get Josh and then we're going to the race" he told me. I hummed in confirmation. He walked away and I took my backpack off plopping it on my lap. I sifted through my stuff. I had packed something for Malachai. My hand reached to the bottom and I felt something touch my hand. I smiled grabbing it and pulling it up. I got this ages ago and I use to wear it all the time until my dad found out about it. He hated anything that had skulls on it, I’m guessing mostly because of the Ghoulies.

I sighed leaning my head back. I took my phone out to check the time and it lit up. My eyes slid from the time to the picture of my family that adorned the lock screen. We looked so happy but I knew it was fake.

Jughead and I stood in front of a cake which was covered in candles, our arms slung over each other. Further back, Jellybean was held in my dad's arms while mom leaned her head on his shoulder with a smile. The door opened and I jolted out of my thoughts. Malachai walked into the room with a boy following close behind him and I turned my phone off shoving it in my pocket

"Josh, this is my girlfriend" Malachai stated gesturing to me as he grabbed the keys off the table. I smiled at the boy and stood up. I held my hand out to 'Josh'

"I'm Ice. Nice to meet you" I said with a nod. Josh slipped his hand into mine. I felt something metallic and tilted my head looking at the silver ring on his finger. I hummed

"Josh" he replied and I smiled raising an eyebrow. I slid my hand out of his. Josh ran a hand through his chocolate brown hair with a small smile "I'm hoping to join the Ghoulies" he told me and I chuckled

"I've heard" I stated with a nod. Josh smiled a little bit of mischief twinkling in his blue eyes "good luck" I said with a nod

"So did you have to race Malachai when you joined or...?" He asked and my smiled dropped a bit. I chuckled a little

"I'm not actually a Ghoulie" I told him with a shrug making Josh tilt his head "I have raced Malachai before though" I added. Malachai walked over wrapping an arm over my shoulder

"She won" Malachai told Josh with a proud smile. Josh looked at me with wide eyes "alright, we're good to go" Malachai stated "you ready?" He asked Josh. Josh gave him a firm nod

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I hopped out of the car. It was rather dark and the Ghoulies were all already there, drinking and having fun with a large fire going. I sighed looking for anyone I knew. To my surprise, I actually knew quite a lot of them due to the races I had done before. I smiled. My eyes landed on the tallest teen. I grinned

"Vic!" I squealed in excitement. The male turned around the scar that ran over his top lip hardly gaining my attention. He gave me a toothy smile revealing his chipped front tooth

"Ice!" He bellowed taking long strides to me. He dragged me into a headlock giving me a playful noogie. I tried to push him off but it only succeeded in making him laugh. He released me and I pouted rubbing my head.

"Are you going to do that every time we see each other?" I asked and Vic hummed in agreement. He pat my head

"I wouldn't be able to if you weren't so short" he told me putting his free hand on his hip. I rolled my eyes pushing his hand off

"Everyone is short to you, but the only person you noogie is me" I told him and he shrugged innocently. I chuckled and shook my head amused. I opened my mouth when arms wrapped around my waist making me tense. Malachai's chin landed on my shoulder and I sighed in relief "dammit, Malachai. You scared me" I chuckled. Vic smiled

"Malachai, you ready for the race?" Vic asked him. Malachai hummed in agreement but didn't say anything making me send him a weird look. Malachai flicked his eyes to me

"Mind if I borrow my girlfriend real quick?" Malachai asked looking back to Vic. Vic shrugged oblivious to the glare that Malachai was giving him. Vic gestured to the side

"I'll go over there" Vic stated "it was good talking to you, Ice" he stated and I nodded giving him a wave. Vic walked off like he said he did and Malachai huffed tightening his hug while he nuzzled his head into the side of my neck. I shivered as a tingle ran up my spine

"What's wrong, Malachai?" I asked confused at his tensed shoulders. Malachai growled slightly and I felt it rumble in his chest. I raised an eyebrow at his behaviour. He pulled away from my neck a little only to glare at Vic

"I don't like the way he was looking at you" Malachai stated and I felt his breath tickle my neck. I sighed out a laugh. I turned in his grasp and put my hands on his chest

"Vic is a cool guy" I shrugged "but he's not you" I told him assuringly. I reached into my pocket pulling out the necklace that had a silver skull pendant. I showed it to him "got this for you by the way" I said with a smile as I wiggled my eyebrows and Malachai took a deep breath. His eyes flicked to Vic and then to me. He released the breath in defeat

"Thanks" He said taking the necklace. He put it over his head. It was pretty big. It hung just above the place his shirt was actually buttoned up. I kissed his cheek

"Now, go beat Josh" I told him patting the sides of his shoulders. Malachai smiled and nodded firmly. Malachai pulled back and walked closer to the burning bonfire that waved wildly in the wind

"Lets do this!" Malachai called over he ramblings and I chuckled as everyone went quiet for a second before they cheered and clapped their hands. Malachai went to his car and I watched from where I was standing. He walked over to Josh holding his hand out. Josh slipped his hand into Malachai's and gave him a firm shake.

They released each other hands and Josh smiled as Malachai said something to him. Malachai looked back at me I sent him a firm nod. A smirk crawled onto Malachai's face as he sat in his car. A female Ghoulie walked over with a red scarf that was easy to see.

The car engines cane to life and only then did I run my eyes over Josh's slick, blue car. It was nice, that was for sure. The blonde put the scarf in front of her looking to both drivers for confirmation before tossing it in the air. It was tense as the scarf fell. As soon as it hit the ground they were both off. Everyone cheered them off and now all we had to do was wait. I gnawed on my lip

"He'll be back" Vic said popping out of no where. I smiled at him and nodded. I looked to where they drove off

"I know" I agreed "how's Had?" I asked him tilting my head. Vic laughed putting his hands on his hips

"He's still upset you beat him, but other then that, good" he told me. I raised an eyebrow questioningly

"That race was a month ago!" I told him with a wide smile. Vic shrugged and I laughed "he's not seriously still upset right?" I asked and Vic chuckled

"He is and he won't stop whining about it" Vic told me making me smile wider "if he wasn't my best friend I don't think I could put up with him" he stated with a groan. I nodded

"Have you seen Verne anywhere?" I asked glancing around. Vic hummed looking around as well. He probably had a better view from up there. He shook his head

"I haven't seen him" he stated making me purse my lips in thought "I don't think I've seen him at all this week though, so I'm probably not much help" he added and I sighed and nodded

"It's fine, I'm sure he's home sick or something" I stated with a chuckle. I rubbed my neck. I perked up at the sound of car engines "is that them already?" I asked confused. Vic looked at me raising an eyebrow “that was fast” I told him amazed

"It's always this fast" he told me with a smirk. I raised my eyebrows in surprise

"Really?" I asked "it feels longer when you're in the car" I told him. Finally, Malachai's car came into view, zooming in past the finish in first place followed by Josh's blue car.

I cheered in delight, as did many other Ghoulies. Malachai opened the car door cheering. I ran towards him tackling him into a hug. Malachai chuckled kissing the top of my head

"How'd I do?" Malachai asked with a smirk. I smiled "not bad for a grandma, right?" He teased and I rolled my eyes punching his shoulder

"You did very well for a grandma" I agreed making Malachai chuckle. My eyes flicked to a sad looking Josh “what happens with him” I whispered nodding to Josh. Malachai grinned and looked to the cheering Ghoulies. He wrapped an arm over my shoulder walking forward a bit gesturing Josh over to us

“Ghoulies!” He called and they swiftly calmed down only a few murmurs remaining “This race was about two things” he stated “the thrill” he began making them chuckle “and Josh’s initiation” he told them. His eyes flicked to the boy “he didn’t win the race but he put up a damn challenge!” He said and I looked at him.

Josh had perked up confused at Malachai’s words. I tilted my head at Malachai a little amused. Of course he would do this. Malachai looked at me with a sneaky smirk

“He’s in!” He called making the Ghoulies cheer again. He looked to Josh and nodded his head “You’re officially a Ghoulie” he stated as the Ghoulies cheered and chattered

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House MD series 1

30 second episode recaps from someone whos just watched em for the first time and has bad recall

ep1: house saves a patient who was a kindergarten teacher played by theresa lisbon actress and made his fellows housebreak for fun, told foreman he hired him for his criminal record and told Cameron he hired her for her looks

ep2: house cures a student athlete who recently got engaged without telling his parents and played lacrosse and also won a bet on the paternity of the kid by stealing the parents DNA surprise surprise he was adopted

ep3: house cures a dude who didnt have two separate things but one thing but he worked it out eventually and blames pharmaceutical companies and people who care too much

ep4: house saves some babies but actually not all of them and cuddy yelled at him when he literally flipped a coin to decide which baby got which treatment when trying to eliminate the one that wouldnt work (spoilers neither did)

ep5: House didn't screw up like everyone said he did actually and he is the one who realised the nun had a v old birth control implant that she was allergic too even after cuddy took him off the case to stop him killing the patient

ep6: it was houses bday and cameron kept telling him about it, the schizophrenic patients son had so much shit together it was impressive, house worked out it was cancer and then realised she wasnt schizophrenic and saved the day twice

ep7: turns out cameron has a tragic backstory, wilson may or may not b dating some1 in the hospital even tho hes married n either way house is gunna fIND oUT and grilled him after asking him to come stare at a patients breasts with him,, the patient had a bad case of sleepy night night and would have preferred death to admitting she slept with her husbands friend but they worked it out anyway and the husband left her

ep8: the mother of all PTA mums is really tryna control whether or not house can save lives and also he should probably stop making people break into places just saying, also there's a horny old lady who's in love with house and Wilson reads her love poetry loudly in the lobby it was hilarious

ep 9: house proves the other doctor wrong even tho no one believes him and he has a restraining order filed against him that dont let him near the patient,, not only does he fix the pneumonia but also the paralysis and gets the patients legs back

Ep10: I FIGURED IT OUT BEFORE THEY DID HAH the patient was a homeless woman who foreman who didn't care about and then cared too much about, Wilson has a secret brother who's been missing for years and they couldn't save the patient, it was a tragic episode

Ep11: cuddy bets house he won't last a week without painkillers ((except actually it was Wilson who's a sneaky bitch (i love him))) and house realises hes an addict but it's nOT A PROBLEM JAMES and also he makes people dig up a cat to solve the case of amanda seyfrieds boyfriend and it's not lupus ffs

Ep12: wow that man's arm really snapped and he's real brittle. He's also famous and a recovering addict. Wilson is a lying liar who didn't go to the monster truck rally

Ep13: Juni from spy kids got cursed by an ouigi board, chases dad is an areshole who has cancer that he's not telling chase about, house was gunna but realised he does actually care about things and junis dad was a Liar™

Ep14: house lied about a patient's psych condition to get her a heart, Wilson suspects and probably knows this, cuddy suspects also chase found out and volger is a dick

Ep15: volger is a fucking dick honestly I'll kill him but at least the gay gangsters brother bought house a shiny new car, sidenote house in a labcoat is wierd

Ep16: I've said it before n I'll say it again volger is a PENIS he's tryna make house fire a fellow, what a bastard. Also there was a lonely lonely child who was sick but dw house cured her n they didn't cut off her breasts

Ep17: Volger blackmails house into doing a speech and Regrets It, Chase is a snitch and the black politician whos running for president didn't have aids

Ep18: Wilson tried to save houses job from primo dick man vulgar so vulgar tried to kick him off the board and he got FIRED essentially and I'm SO MAD JC FUCK U VULVA also the patient has cancer n didn't want chemo to save her foetus n everyone misses Cameron who quit at the end of the last ep but at the end it was all ok cus cuddy stood up to volvo and Wilson came back and they all drank together so

Ep19: The 12 yr old was pregnant, there mUSt be a reason Wilson has to sit in on house interviews, there was an epidemic in the hospital which made it crowded n busy and Cameron told house she'd only come back to work if he took her on a date

Ep20: sulus here and he likes to be choked, chase tried his hand at being a dominatrix and failed, everyone's teasing house about the date with cameron, house blackmailed the parents, the date was super awkward, I really love Wilson just a lot tbh he's so protective of house

Ep21: Stacy is here in the now but more importantly house is giving a lecture and we're getting Backstory and some fantastic interactions this episode is so good and also tragic, how could stacy do that to him what a bitch ass move jc it's HIS LIFE, HIS LEG damn you

Ep22: well it opened with house drugging Stacy's husband and honestly that was a bit of a theme he just kept drugging him against his will but he did save him in the end so oh well, sidenote stacy needs to back off and leave house alone this is bad for him

Season 2

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Hang in there, Chris (Beyblade Burst God ep20 thoughts)

Wow, long time no ep-post... Anyway, apologies for the lack of posts; between uni and moving and holidays, I really have not had motivation for these (really doesn’t help that this is the first ep in a while that I’ve been excited for). But, apparently a Chris-centric episode was enough to get me in the mood to do these again. I haven’t done one of these since May, so if it feels a little...off (?), that’ll explain it. I’m getting back into the spirit of doing these, so~ (And this is a week late whoops!)

Moving on, that was fun~ Very feelsy, too... (Spoilers ahoy, so under the cut we go~)

So this ep was definitely eventful. Chris and Vasquez had the fight I was kind of expecting, over strategy. I can understand Vasquez’s worries that he doesn’t know the team Chris is planning to field (and this is before we add in Cooza). By what I’m guessing, Chris planned to use the newbies, who Vasquez hasn’t trained up. In this way, Vasquez was probably trying to remind Chris “you have other bladers who are good. You don’t have to use the newbies”...but as we’ll see later, Chris really doesn’t take this in. Yet.

We’ve seen before how Chris’s dependence on one or two bladers can end badly (see post-ep10, where they lost Free and everything went wrong), and while she may believe in these newbies, that isn’t always enough. Chris is young and inexperienced (if that flashback to when Chris and Free were younger is anything to go by, she’s not that much older than Free), and she will make mistakes. Such as the main cause of the drama this ep: her faux pas with the other BC Sol members.  

I’m sure she was aware that there were peeps at the doorway, which makes the whole thing worse (the second-hand embarrassment from this scene was too real...). It certainly says something when you’re standing right there, and yet you feel as if Chris doesn’t care about you. At least Chris isn’t dense, and realised her mess-up very quickly. 

Stan’s frustration is completely justified, although his decision to hide from Chris...not so much. If he’d stayed on that stump, Chris wouldn’t have found the old training ground and stayed there. (Though whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing is up to the viewer)

I absolutely love the fact we got more on Chris and de la Hoya’s relationship, and why de la Hoya left BC Sol. Like, something told me these two used to be close, and apparently I was right. (I would have loved to have gotten the flashback in ep10, when de la Hoya was leaving, but better late than never~). Seeing Chris reflect on the past, and being brought back to the stadium where she and de la Hoya battled when they were younger, was heartwarming but also heartbreaking at the same time. (And it’s probably going to be worse when I can understand what is being said) This probably explains why Chris was so lenient at times towards de la Hoya, and may also explain why Chris, aside from him being her star blader, wanted to hold onto him. 

I loved the connection Chris has had--makes it seem more likely she would have been chosen to take over and start leading BC Sol. BC Sol is her home, and she’d work at anything to help it thrive.

The thing that bothered me most is the fact that Vasquez left BC Sol. Like, yes, he showed repeatedly he cares for Chris, but this decision of his--which knowing Vasquez, he probably was planning on moving on at some point around this time--came across as really short-sighted. It may seem like Chris can handle the situation, but considering she’s still doubting herself and whether she’s a good leader, that’s probably not the case. Though if you go by the potential symbolism, Chris’s darkest moments have passed and she’s ready to face the new day--with or without Vasquez by her side (though if she crashes I will not be surprised).

I’m really enjoying the Cooza-Sisco interactions this ep. Like, obviously the last time Sisco came across Cooza was back when he was an enemy, and so he’s probably a bit suspicious. Aaand now he has this little excitable bean as a roomie, so this should be entertaining~ (How long before Sisco goes and asks Kitt’s mom for a room reassignment, I wonder?)

Ep21 looks to be entertaining, with the introduction of Joshua, so I’m really looking forward to it!

[aslibekroglu]

Ep 20 was so well done and beautiful, Alperen acting and the amazing writer. I loved eray,sonar and Akgün team was back. Selim face was priceless when yağmur called Akgün my love. Ep21 fragment, will we get a bloody wedding? Did you heard the rumours about s2 will be filming in Istanbul and Akgün brother role will end in ep 21 kind of expected? There is one more rumour is a huge spoiler hope it's wrong don't know if you want to know it?

I really loved episode 20. I saw a couple of complaints about it on Twitter and I just didn’t understand them. I thought it was so so so good!!!

I’m not surprised about Gokhan leaving since the actor playing him as been listed as a guest star since his first episode. I didn’t really expect him to stay in the long run.

A lot of people on Twitter were really upset about it them going to Istanbul for s2, but I’m not that worried about it. I’m a little sad that characters like Metin and Emel and even Kaan (but that’s more abt Erdem’s relationship with the cast although I lowkey want Akgün and Kaan to become friends) might not be in the new season. But I think it’ll be a nice change of pace. Plus, I feel bad for the cast having to be away from their family for so long.

Now what I am worried about is that huge rumor that I’m praying isn’t true. Ever since I found out about it earlier today, I’ve been going crazy! We’ll just have to wait until Friday to find out, but god idk if I can wait that longgggg

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Shield Hero Fans Cheer for Naofumi's Justice

  It's that time you've been waiting for, y'all! If you haven't watched this week's episode of The Rising of the Shield Hero, please shield your eyes from these spoilers!

  **SPOILERS AHEAD**

  This week's episode starts with the BEST TEAM (let's not forget that!), the Shield Hero team all rounded up. But all of this seems quite hazy... Is this a dream? Is this a vision of what's to come in the future? What exactly is going on here?

    Before we get any sort of answer, we're brought back to reality. Oh yeah, that's right, during the fight against the Pope, that nifty Blood Sacrifice skill Naofumi used kiiinda ended up roughing him up quite a bit, huh? After receiving top care from the royal family and having slept for 3 days, it also seems he's gotta take it easy for a whole month before he's in top shape again. Geez, that's some nasty damage! Thankfully, thanks to Fitoria (who DID warn him to not use the skill, but Naofumi was all like "Did y'all hear sumn...?), Raphtalia, Filo and Melty weren't affected by the curse.

    Our FIERCE QUEEN appears to greet Naofumi and assure that her saving him is what was obvious to do, after all, he's one of the four Cardinal Heroes who defends the world from the Waves of Catastrophe. But...wait a minute. Something isn't quite right here. If it that was the case, why was Naofumi so hated from the get-go? It just looks like anyone who would be summoned as the Shield Hero would be vilified no matter what! There's gotta be an explanation for this mess...

    It turns out that while the Queen was away taking part in an international forum to best strategize on how to fight the upcoming Waves, the plan to summon all four Cardinal Heroes in Melromarc had been set in motion by everyone's favorite King and Princess! The forum had decided that the major nations would EACH summon ONE hero to fight the Waves together in unity... so it's understandable that they'd be fuming about Melromarc getting all four heroes. The Queen was busy this whole time essenitally trying to put out fires and keep things amicably between the nations; she's had it rough this whole time!

    Alright, but what's the deal with the harsh treatment towards the Shield Hero? The King apparently hated the previous Shield Hero, so that hatred carried over to whoever would become the next Shield Hero. The Three Heroes Church saw a valuable opportunity and hurried to take advantage of the King. Meanwhile, being so obsessed with power, Malty even joined in to try and snatch the seat to power as quickly as she could! Yikes, this is quite the conondrum here... Things sure would have been different if Naofumi was summoned in another country!

  Finally, some good food

This doesn't mean that Naofumi is leaving empty-handed, oh no, far from it! The Queen declares that she'll not only clear his name, but that he'll be honored with the greatest award Melromarc has to offer and 500 gold pieces. CHA-CHING! After all that trouble Naofumi went through, it was about time, really!

    In addition to that... due to the King's and Malty's meddling, they are to be punished... but in what way? We don't really hear what the punishment is, but it sounds to be severe... The Shield Hero party will have to wait until the next day to find out when they attend the hearing to clear Naofumi's name. What...exactly is going to happen here?

  IT'S A SAD THING THAT YOUR ADVENTURES HAVE ENDED HERE!!

  We're in the dream world again, and OHMYGOD the King and Malty are going to be beheaded?! They're responsible for summoning the Cardinal Heroes without permission, and their orchestrations led to many deaths all over the world; they're criminals! Is this their fate?! Naofumi, even though he recognizes that they deserve to die for what they did, has some inner conflict as to whether this would be the right outcome or not.

    Finally, the day has finally come where the Shield Hero's name is cleared! The crowd outside was enormous as word spread about that there are some important announcements to be made. The other 3 Cardinal Heroes remain as clueless as ever as all they want to do is party right after defeating the Pope. Little do they know what lies in store for the day's announcements...

    Kicking off the event with a bang, it's time for the King's and Princess' trial! Hey, the other heroes wanted some excitement, right? They've definitely got some right here! The King goes on and on about how the Devil of the Shield brainwashed her too, but she snaps her fingers like Thanos, freezes him in place, and bluntly states there was obviously never an ability like that and that he should've known that fact. Our Queen isn't playing any games here!

    We all know how much of a liar Malty is, so getting a fair trial is going to be kinda hard with her bad habits. But mama knows best and the Queen places a temporary slave crest on Malty so that the truth will finally be in full display whether she likes it or not! 

    Bit by bit, the truth is spilled out to paint the King's and Malty's true colors. They colluded with the Church (even though the Church tried to eliminate the royal family) for their own agendas. Malty tried to assasinate Melty, and tried to pin it on the Shield Hero, just so she could be next in line to the throne. The King worked with the Church to summon all the Cardinal Heroes while the Queen was away. To thrwart the Shield Hero, Malty falsely accused him of an assault that never even happened in the first place. Of course, idiot hero Motoyasu refuses to believe this and he forms a slave pact with Malty to get the "real" truth out.

    Unfortunately for him, all she spews are lies one right after the other! He can't play hero for an obvious villain! It soon becomes clear that both the King and Princess only sought power for their own selfish reasons and caused grief and suffering to the nation all over. And so the Queen declares her verdict...

  Aultcray Melromarc XXXII and Malty Melromarc are GUILTY of high treason and conspiracy! They are to be stripped from their status... and sentenced to DEATH! 

    Here we are again... but this time, it isn't a dream. The crowd is desperate to see justice after some of their loved ones' blood was spilled due to the King and Princess' ravenous plot. Malty cries out to her darling Motoyasu, only to be rightfully ignored.

    ...And then the unthinkable happens: she calls out to Naofumi for HELP! WHAT?! EXCUSE YOU?! She's hollering and pleading at him to help her out of this! Wow... no shame... BUT! Notice how her slave crest doesn't go off? This is a genuine call for help here. Only Malty can beg the one she planned to kill so she can save her hide!

    Instead of their lives, Naofumi proposes that their names be stripped and...changed to names of his choosing to live under for the rest of their lives! And my goodness, they're truly unique names, wouldn't you say? I gotta say, there's something about the Queen making the official motions for their new names and saying those name VERY CLEARLY that's completely HILARIOUS! 

    Along with that motion, the Three Heroes Church is now abolished, and in its place will rise the Four Heroes Church as Melromarc's state religion. Now ALL Cardinal Heroes will be included, as they should have from the very beginning!

  Now with sweet justice being served, it's time to party, but we all know that isn't Naofumi's style. Even though he's not up for partying, he WILL work with Melromarc and all the other nations of the world to best fight the Waves, because they're the Four Cardinal Heroes and that's what they're supposed to do. This proclamation earns the admiration of his peers (not like he wanted that anyways!).

    BEST TEAM Shield Hero gets ready to set off, but with one less member; Melty is finally safely home after all the chaos she had to endure. While she huffs under her breath that she should've thanked the Queen, it's revealed that the Queen was going to offer her own life in exhange for the King's and Malty's if he hadn't stopped the execution. Had he seen right through her? Either way, things worked out for her favor, thankfully!

    The Shield Hero Team finally get the salute they deserved, but Naofumi reflects that he'd gained something far superior for being the Shield Hero. But what of the Waves? Don't forget about Glass! What dangers will come their way now that the Melromarc royal family drama is over and done with? We'll have to wait and see!

  But for now, let's check out what y'all thought of this amazing episode!

  mfw watching shield hero ep 21 pic.twitter.com/c8Y9a7znSv

— skepty (@skeptycally) May 29, 2019

    NEW SHIELD HERO IS THE BEST THING EVER

— ivX (@ivxmusic) May 29, 2019

  Was excited to see a certain someone die but I'll accept what the shield hero proposed@ShieldHeroEN pic.twitter.com/x4jLPduPog

— Chino (@El_chin007) May 29, 2019

  Naofumi: STOP Everyone: wut? naofumi: death is too good for them Ahhh, ok ???? #shieldhero pic.twitter.com/8qTyLuyGIB

— L3SIU (@L3SIU) May 29, 2019

  THE NEW SHIELD EPISODE MADE ME SCREAM !!! HFGDSSHHH

— the strongest hero. (@_infernopassion) May 29, 2019

  Not that I'm complaining, as we'll hopefully get answers to questions about the Waves and Curse Shield, but Shield Hero could've ended with this episode and I would've been mostly ok with it.

— Giant Bird Friend (@Tinytig) May 29, 2019

  Me knowing there will be only four more episodes of Shield hero ;-; pic.twitter.com/tvrBWqwYvb

— Rᴀᴘʜᴛᴀʟɪᴀ ♡ (@Raaphtalia) May 29, 2019

  Sweetest moment of the episode. Raphtalia being so happy that Naofumi will finally have his name cleared and people really see who he really is like she has ☺❤ #shieldhero pic.twitter.com/AhYl86bESD

— Chandler Ingram (@Chandler_Ingram) May 29, 2019

  A True Hero with a Heart of gold who forgives even the ones who betray him and impose false charges on the him Thats a True Hero the SHIELD HERO Ep21 the most satisfying episode till now. Our Hero Gains what he lost his Honor and Respect he truly deserved????????#shieldhero pic.twitter.com/y9ZWS7sZw0

— Sovik Pan???? (@sovikpan48) May 29, 2019

  Me: *Watches Rising of the Shield hero episode 21* Also me: pic.twitter.com/wZ4pWWWGMR

— ᏟᎽ℘ℛʉᏕ (@NewBarnabyP02) May 29, 2019

  The Rising of The Shield Hero is the best anime of 2019 so far Don’t @ me.????????‍♂️???????? pic.twitter.com/NGtut0o8z7

— Nomad ???????????? EDCLV???????????? (@Trav_Da_Savagee) May 29, 2019

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Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure Things 2/3

SPOILER WARNING

S2:EP1: OH MY GOSH EUGENE WAS ENGAGED BEFORE- THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING WAIT WHAT

S2:EP1: Creepy as it is, that spider ring is cool!

S2:EP4: Do you think Rap and Cas’ periods end up syncing up. Idk, that just seems like something that happens to them here.

S2:EP6: UGH I HATE THIS EPISODE BUT EVEN AS A BIRD EUGENE IS HOT HOWWWW????

S2:EP8: Maybe the reason Rapunzel is so nice to everyone is because she grew up in a household where if she didn’t smile and go along with everything, she was punished.

S2:EP15: There’s an entire song for Eugene and Lance tripping on a hallucugenic plant???

S2:EP16: Pascal is my new hero

S2:EP16: I know Cas is tough and edgy and I’m not but good gravy, girl, I can relate.

S2:EP17: “Apple Usurper” is my new favorite insult.

S2:EP18: “Fresh out of the tower” Rapunzel could beat Home Alone Kevin in a fight.

S2:EP20: Okay, it may seem like Eugene and Rapunzel are just really bad at parenting, but please keep in mind that they have no positive parental influences to learn from, and some cycles take time to unlearn.

S2:EP21: I didn’t think there was ANY worse response to a proposal than the ones she’s already given, but I guess I was wrong.

S2:EP22: GOOD GRAVY I KEEP SAYING GOOD GRAVY BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT I SAY AND EUGENE JSUT SAID GOOD GRAVY!!!

S2:EP23: Did Lance just reference Edgar Alan Poe?

S2:EP23: EUGENE HAS A DAD? The Prince of the Dark Kingdom is in love with the Princess of the Kingdom of the Sun?

S2:EP23: Eugene has such daddy issues.

S2:EP23: IF I CAN COMMUNICATE WITH MY COMPUTER ABOUT WHAT’S GOING ON, EUGENE CAN COMMUNICATE HIS THOUGHT PROCESS TOO.

S2:EP23: “You finally got adopted???” Lance, my guy, you idiot.