#Meima

[silvaruslupus]

Screaming, crying, throwing up (even if I couldn't understand most of it cause no English translation, I got the gist) shit fuck why only in Chinese/Japanese god dammit

(I never saw anything about these other than that 2nd cover art on danbooru and didn't realize a doujin was attached to it, was hunting down a certain other momomegu doujin to buy when I saw these listed and went "huh")

I am not okay btw

I should really be writing...

[the-evil-pizza]

Sayo i'm afraid this will have the opposite effect

[therunwayarchive]

Violette Meima at Rabanne, Spring 2023

[liainettofficial]

I hate drawing cities and parks, but I think it's a success.

Meima Park located in Teitha City, capital of the Part of Teitha in Akinia.

You can touch the fire over here...don't worry. It's warm.

[chunibyo-x-sorcerer]

Kisho arrived back home after thinking. It wasn't late and Meima won't pester him about where he went. However...this wasn't the case. "Kisho, I heard from the school that you were not feeling well."

Shit.

"Uh....I wasn't feeling."

"Yet...you didn't come home right away." Maemi crosses her arms, wanting an explanation.

Crap. He needs to come up with an excuse.

"I guess the dizziness fades away. I guess I need fresh air."

"I see. I know the exams are stressing you out. How about you take a day off for tomorrow?"

"Nah! It's fine! I'm fine!" Kisho quickly said.

"I see. Is there anything else you haven't told me?"

"Uhh...well...I went to the shrine." It's not really a lie, is it? "I guess the shrine helps in calming me down."

"Ah! Do you mean the shrine three blocks away? I see, you always going there." Maemi smiles. Kisho nods, "Yeah it is. It helps me with my studies." Not a lie, either. "Still...you should have called me instead of running off. I was very worried. I might be thinking you will be skipping school."

"Sorry, it won't happen again." Kisho quickly said. Maemi sighs, "Alright, let's have some dinner."

After dinner, Kisho went upstairs, took a shower, and went straight to sleep.

The three were now relaxing but they still was worried even so. However, they wonder if he was alright. For now, they did get some food to eat in hopes of just waiting for that time.

[thealiciacouri]

For the month of March RedCarpetCEO is featuring all amazing & powerful women on their shows.

Leading with Audacious Confidence:

Miriam Meima, Miki Feldman-Simon, Christie Garcia, & Davina Frederick

Unleash Your Audacious Confidence:

Lauren Litt

Small Business Saturday Shout-Out: Simone Richards - Founder of Ms Mango Plus

& Wilma Mulcare - Founder of Mulcare Beauty 

#WomensHistoryMonth

#RedCarpetCEO

#LeadingwithAudaciousConfidence

#UnleashYourAudaciousConfidence

#SmallBusinessSaturdayShoutOut

@2mleaders @miriammeima

@IamBackatWork

@mindfulchoice @MindfulChoice

@davinabfrederick @dbfrederick1

@LilShamelessPlug @lauren.litt @LilShamelessPlg

@msmangoplus

@wilma.mulcare @wilmamulcare @MulcareBeauty

Michael Schunk @schunk80 @ebafl

[sumechiayuu]

✨💖❤️💖✨

[miyako-no-prince]

in honor of the latest ep: what do you think of mima×mei? (i didn't saw that on ur ship list so im curious)

it’s a good ship! full of potential! they face each other one time, but as miyuki puts it, that’s just not enough! I want more! I need to know if they talked afterwards. mei definitely has LINE they should write each other... send each other stickers... taunt each other a little because they��re both super competitive... but also just talk about baseball, mei always needs someone who will listen to him ramble and I think mima wouldn’t mind listening. they can analyze baseball games together I think they’d have a ton of fun doing that. also just imagine mei sending him random pictures or memes with the caption ‘this made me think of u lol’ and mima being genuinely happy about it because he’s a dork.

[bongaboi]

Free to use. #anohana #meikohonma #meima

[skialdi]

Forever and a day ago @mewnia requested that I draw the “Beautiful Lailah”. 

She is very beautiful and very detailed. I had a lot of fun drawing her~

[the-evil-pizza]

fucking forgot how incredibly stupid (honorific, i love this) the suits in kiramei were

[byersus]

i wish i could give my health to my dog like i dont deserve it, i dont know how i can have this bad luck like every dog i have die in about 3 years of being with me, one of the didn’t even endure a year before he was hit by a bus why them, they are innocent im the cursed one T___T

[nyarichin]

Remembering when my mother actually loved me lol

[distantvoices]

Akon Changkou, Violette Meima and Oudey Egone by Stef Mitchel for Paco Rabanne Fall/Winter 2022 Campaign

[ri-writing]

Dear Book, please stop doing this to me (or Ri yells into the void about a throw away line with implications)

I was working on Part 2 of my meta essay on Jordan and Ixil and trust, and was flipping through my copy of Icarus Hunt looking for the right chapter (the one I want to discuss is Chapter 13), when I stumbled on something in Chapter 12 that I hadn't noticed before.  It's fascinating, and I'm trying to figure out if it's intentional or if it's a case where the author made a mistake.  

Honestly, someone needs to take this book away from me.  All I wanted to do was write a nice essay series about how a trust plot line gave me feels, but there's too much stuff in this book and I keep getting distracted by all the details that make me go “wait.....omg, how did I miss this?!” in a book I've easily read three dozen times.

Cut �� because it deals with spoilers.  Everything with this book is a spoiler, I swear to god.

Alright.  Welcome to my Side Quest that I'm now spinning my brain around.  In Chapter 12, Tera is explaining why she called in the tip against Jordan at the Meima spaceport - namely she calls in the tip to prevent Jordan from reaching the ship before Arno, so that Arno can sneak aboard.  That explanation seems to make sense.

But today it hit me - at the time the tip is called in, Tera and Jordan have never met.  Jordan sees her for the first time when he reaches the ship.  It feels pretty safe to say that this is the first time Jordan lays eyes on her.  He describes her in the same manner he describes the other crew member characters.  Jordan does not connect her with Arno.  As he's trying to figure out each member of the crew, his assumption about Tera is that she's part of a religious sect that doesn't trust outsiders.  He holds that assumption about her at least until he's talking with Uncle Arthur, as that's where he suggests Uncle Arthur look to try to find out information about her.  Learning she's Arno's daughter is a real shock to him – so much so that he barges into her room to confront her.  Even afterward, he's not completely sure that it's true.  This man had no idea Tera had a connection to Arno Cameron.  We can confidently say that Jordan's never seen Tera before he meets her in the spaceport.

But Tera's seen him.

As I noted above, Tera admits to being the person who calls in the tip that got Jordan detained back in Chapter 2.  This is before Jordan and Tera meet.  She knows what he looks like well enough to pick him out of a crowd.  (We know there's a crowd at the gate; Jordan literally uses that word).  The only way Tera would know what Jordan looked like was if she was in the taverno when Arno hired him.

But Ri, you might be asking, couldn't Tera have looked Jordan up?  He gave Arno his name.  He has a Mercantile Authority File with his photo in it.  It would make a lot more sense if Tera simply had his name and saw his picture.

That would normally make sense, but in Chapter 2, we're told the photo in Jordan's file is old and looks nothing like Jordan now.  The fact that Jordan no longer resembles his old photograph is what saves him initially from all the bounty hunters looking for him.  Given that people whose job is to find those who do not want to be found are unable to recognize Jordan based on his picture, Tera's not realistically going to be able to pick him out of a crowd based only on the old picture.  For her to pick one guy out of many and know that he's Icarus crew, she must have seen Jordan now.  And she would need to have seen him with her father to know he’d been hired.  That only happens once up until this point - in the taverno.  Tera was somewhere in that room.  Jordan tells us the room is dark and crowded; it would be all too easy for Tera to blend into the background and watch.

Of course, that raises the question of why she's there.  Arguably, she could have been shadowing her father in her role as his mole, but that's contradicted by evidence from elsewhere in the book.  We know that she doesn't see Arno hire the medic.  If she had, she would have known that Everett was not the medic Arno hired.  We also know that she doesn't see Arno hire Jones. During Jordan's homage to murder mysteries, she gets temporarily confused as to whether Jones and Jordan had worked together.  Tera even tells Jordan that the plan was for her to be kept out of the hiring process.  Presumably, that's what happened.

Which then circles us back to why Tera was in the taverno.  Now, it could be that Zahn messed up. There are a lot of inconsistencies between this novel and the sequel that look like mistakes.  (Uncle Arthur, for example, is a general in Icarus Hunt but is referred to as an admiral in Icarus Plot; Tera's last initial, let alone her last name, is never used in front of the Patth, but the Patth know her as ‘Tera C’ somehow.  Authorial mistake is a possible explanation).  The original Icarus Hunt itself, though, is too tightly plotted and the language of each conversation too carefully selected for me to think it's a mistake. The whole sequence with Jordan being detained is too critical to the plot.

Maybe Arno and Tera ended up in the same place accidentally and then became trapped with all the other patrons when the Yavanni decided to barricade the place off.  Coincidence and bad luck are real things that happen.  Maybe they staged a hiring meet-up there so that, if anyone ever did try to look into the hiring of the crew, nothing appeared out of the ordinary and Tera could claim to have been hired off the street just like everyone else.  Regardless, it's an interesting little observation that's itching at my brain.  Because I do want to know why.  And how.  And what Tera thinks of the whole scene from Chapter 1.  These are questions to which I’ll likely never receive an answer.

I've long thought that the two major supporting characters (Tera and Ixil) have more interesting stories than Jordan.  What makes them even more intriguing is that most of their stories happen between the lines and off the pages.  We never get all the details – and we likely never will - but the glimpses we do get are fascinating.