#Sudden Crime

[avomagazine]

Every week, AVO Magazine brings you a treasure trove of captivating music videos from lesser-known, new and intriguing Japanese artists who deserve your support! Read our latest article, published for week 20 of 2024.

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This week we highlighted music videos from: 🍙 透明受胎 (Toumei Jutai) 🍙 突発的犯行 (Sudden Crime) 🍙 ニレ (Nire) 🍙 BabyFaith 🍙 初期の藤林里佳 (Shoki no Fujibayashi Rika) 🍙 四半世紀少年 (Shihanseiki Shounen) 🍙 Analogfish

Since 2020, AVO Magazine has been publishing a list of seven music videos by Japanese artists in various music genres (from pop to rock to metal) that we think you will find interesting!

Enjoy the music!

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded mfer happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

[justaz]

merlin being forced to confront the fact that he’s failing his people bc he’s sitting idly by while uther slaughters them all and coming to the decision that he has to act to save them but that’ll make him camelot enemy no. 1 but technically he already was they just didn’t know it. merlin spending a week all morose but unwilling to talk about it and spending as much time with his friends as possible. on his last night in camelot, he goes to arthur’s chambers and the prince is confused on why he’s there. merlin drops a sealed letter on his desk before pulling arthur into a gentle and emotional kiss. they barely separate, their lips hardly a breath apart, and merlin asks for forgiveness. arthur, thinking he’s apologizing for the kiss, tells him there’s nothing to forgive and goes in for a second kiss but merlin pulls away, knowing that that one brief kiss was all he could handle. if he lets arthur kiss him the way he’s dreamt of being kissed, he won’t be able to do what he needs to do, he won’t be able to leave. merlin tells him good night and leaves before arthur can react. he’s gone by dawn.

[thetarttfuldickhead]

Next Uncle’s Day rolls around and Roy doesn’t mention it to Jamie, of course, because Roy’s not in charge of planning this party, is he, all he has to do is show up and act excited about whatever colourful gifts will be inflicted upon him this year. Only, once he’s sat in his sister’s kitchen Jamie isn’t there and he keeps on not being there and when Roy finally breaks and asks Phoebe when he’s showing up Phoebe looks a bit confused and says you didn’t seem that happy to have him here last year so I didn’t ask him this time and Roy has no fucking idea what to say to that because it’s really fucking stupid to be sad over someone who’s absolutely NOT your best friend failing to show for a made-up holiday, and this whole thing isn’t REALLY about Roy anyway, it’s about Phoebe, so um.

Roy gets it together and nods and mutters yeah, all right, but it’d be fine though, you know, if you wanted to invite him next year

and no sooner has he spoken than THE DOOR FROM THE OTHER ROOM SWINGS OPEN AND JAMIE STRUTS INSIDE, grinning in TRIUMPH, like ha! you lasted all of half an hour before you started asking about me, I fudging knew you wanted me here, you grumpy old man

and Roy stares and stares and turns to Phoebe in utter betrayal but she just shrugs serenely, Jamie said it’d be fun to surprise you and anyway it wasn’t very nice of you to say he wasn’t your best friend last year, Uncle Roy

He said I wasn’t his either! Roy CANNOT believe this is happening to him.

Calm down, Uncle Roy, or you’ll have a heart attack before you can open my gift, Jamie says, smiling broadly and sounding so very, very smug.

His eyes are soft, though. The gift is very thoughtful. Roy will not admit it, but it makes a good time even better, having him there.

Roy’s sister just watches the entire thing unfold, thinking that nothing in Roy’s life has ever vexed and delighted him quite as much as Jamie Tartt does, and it’s all sorts of deeply amusing and very sweet.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Outdrawn

f/f contemporary romance

two cartoonist who’ve been rivals since uni, and now have competing webcomics online, have to work together on the relaunch of a cult classic at the comic press they both work at

they both struggle with art-related physical and mental health issues, and complicated families

[tea-time-terrier]

The mortifying ordeal of your training gaps no longer being manageable <3

[bourbon-ontherocks]

I was tagged by @pia-writes-things (❤️) to show my 4 favorite ships and let my mutuals assume what my concept of romance is

(bold of you to assume I ship characters for romance though 😂)

Well, I don't know if I have "favourites" that I can order up to 4, but here's what comes to mind today (in no particular order):

I couldn't even find a proper gif of them because the fandom for this show is tragically empty, but oh my gosh THEM

Laure Berthaud / Gilles Escoffier, Engrenages (Spiral)

2. Do I have to explain myself? I don't think so.

Florence Chassagne / Antoine Verlay, L'art du crime (the art of crime)

3. My fangirl origin story...

Emma Peel / John Steed, the Avengers

4. Well, guess I didn't give two years of my life and wrote 450+k words on AO3 about them for nothing...

Beth Boland / Rio, Good Girls

So apparently my concept of romance is workplace-related and codependent as fuck I guess...

That was fun! Tagging @sothischickshe @cagefreeromanroy @humanbra @earanie @misshazelevers20 @asteraceae-blue

[shoechoe]

Honestly plot-wise I think VA needed Diavolo to be evil enough to try to kill his daughter because like, imagine if he didn't and actually reunited with her and turned out to be at least a *little* bit of a father figure to her (even if his ultimate goal was Sending Her Very Far Away). Then Giorno and Bruno would be trying to kill Trish's Dad that she'd just reunited with and was only starting to get to know. Like narratively yeah, he sells drugs to children so usurping him is still reasonable enough, but upfront it'd feel kind of shitty

[awesomecooperlove]

🧑🏽‍⚕️👩🏼‍⚕️👨🏼‍⚕️

[jazzy-tzw]

All week I’ve been seeing people posting this man in different shows and commercials and whatnot. At this point he’s Stan Lee, but the cameos aren’t limited to one category😭

[cup-o-cat]

out of all the things to devote serious development to in redemption, why is it eliot's cop girlfriend. why does this arc exist. who came up with that i just want to talk

[jamiesfootball]

The thing about the leverage au I’m not writing is I’ve figured out exactly three things:

1- Jamie’s character arc

2- how Jamie and Roy’s hitter mentor/mentee arc works, and where Ted fits into that

3- Beard becomes Jamie’s crime uncle

[inscrutable-shadow]

@painful-pooch requested: "Thanatos for snoozeville" from this ask game! (incredibly late i am so sorry lol)

contains: toothaching fluff and m/m romance

Snoozeville - Thanatos falls asleep somewhere that isn't his bed.

The first thing Than saw when he awoke was white. His first groggy thought was that he'd died and gone to heaven, but that was rapidly debunked by two facts: one, he had never been Christian (if he were to go anywhere, it would almost certainly be Hades) and two, that vampires didn't go to heaven (that being the point of the curse, immortality and all). He also didn't feel particularly dead. At least, not more than usual.

He looked up a little further and saw red. Literally, not metaphorically. The red silk of the Archfey's robes peeled from his face as he turned his head and rubbed his eyes. "What... happened?" he asked, as was all too frequent between them.

The Archfey smiled down at him affectionately. "You fell asleep."

"Obviously. I mean how did I get here?" He was having trouble remembering anything at all. Had he been drinking? Ae laughed and carded aer fingers through his hair, making him shudder and cuddle closer to aer. "I brought winter to the domain, remember? So that we could play in the snow? I had such a good time." Oh, yes. He'd probably overdone it on the mulled wine. "We were making those... what did you call them? Snow angels? And I was talking to you, of course, and then you stopped talking back. I was quite worried, but when I brought you inside and put you in my lap to warm you up, well... you began purring, so I knew you must be all right." "No..." Surely he hadn't... Vampires were borderline cold-blooded and therefore tended to become sleepy in the cold. Before the Archfey, like many others he would spend the winter months holed up somewhere sleeping in a dark box and barely coming out to eat. It probably contributed a good deal to particular vampire legends. The combination of the cold weather and being tipsy might have resulted in... embarrassing lapses. "Yes," the Archfey giggled, and kissed his forehead. "You do look quite sweet when you sleep like that. I had no desire to wake you."

Heat crept into his cheeks, which still tingled with cold. "How humiliating."

"Humiliating how? There is no one here but me, my love, and you need not hide yourself. I am not fooled by your suave vampire mask, Thanatos. I know you. You are kind and you write poetry when you are drunk and you like to watch the stars." If anyone else had said those things, he would have died on the spot, but as it was Thanatos was too embarrassed to respond, so he merely yawned and pressed himself more firmly into aer side. "Sleepy still? Good. Shut your eyes, dearest. I will wait for you. I always do."

The Archfey ran aer fingers through his hair again eliciting a low moan that tapered off into a purr, and for once, he let it. The rumble of safe contentment increased in volume with his exhales and spoke to a level of vulnerability he would almost never show, but here with his Archfey was the safest place in the world to him, both physically and emotionally. When he'd warmed up and woken up, they could both have another glass of wine, and perhaps he would read aer the latest detective story in the Strand, but until then, Thanatos would let the snow fall outside and be happy right where he was.

taglist: @athenswrites, @albatris, @crash-bump-bring-the-whump

[justareallyboredfangirl]

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[mirkwood-trash]

The last picture I got of my sweet little chungus Athena before she passed away this weekend 💔 my heart hurts so bad, but she passed away peacefully in her sleep (while doing her signature sploot 😭) at the good age of 6... Never had a single health problem, I thought she was gonna be zooming around for another 5 years lol. I'm grateful she was able to go peacefully in her own time, without any pain or suffering ❤️

[mothsolar]

you wanna talk about that tumblr?