#adri rambles

[asianfrootloops]

"sabrina carpenter should play rapunzel I need to see her as a disney princess" SHE ALREADY IS ??

[adridoesstuff]

I love Der Schleier fällt where Elisabeth just drops lifeless from the kiss and she's just immediately gone and passed on and Der Tod has to lay down her lifeless body. But I also equally love Der Schleier fällt where Sisi shoves Der Tod away from her after the kiss and just walks away all on her own, leaving everyone and everything behind and being absolutely blissfully free.

[adrianpurplelet]

Happy Summon day Moritaka! >:33

Best doggo uwu

[once-upon-a-freaking-december]

Actually if a single person says they are tired today I might have to do something drastic (clock out) ((go home))(((go to sleep)))

[adriellej]

hiiii

Who are your fav flash characters? My ultimate fav is detective Joe West, I bloody love that man so much, actual angel. I love allegra and chuck, I liked ralph too but he took a while to grow on me, caitlin is probably my fav from the team. Also loved Eobard because pretty 😍 lol Hunter/Jay was pretty as hell too and sadly underrated on tumblr cuz I can find like only 5 fics of him (cries in self pity lol)

Did you watch any other arrowverse shows?

Uh this is a tough question! But I do have to say I love the Wells (absolutely adore tom cavanagh!), mostly a big fan of Harry, also the reason I haven't dared writing any of the other members of team flash 🙈

Don't think I've met Allegra and Chuck yet, I'm so far at season 6 of the series!

Hunter sure is a hottie though!

I have seen some of Arrow, else only seen the chapters that mixed with flash so far 😂

[sweetflowerboi]

Some fiancé pictures from this past December! This was his first Christmas with my family and he ended up crying because my parents got him separate presents for his birthday and Christmas 😅

There was a lot of firsts for him this past year. From going to the fair to having family dinners, even something as simple as watching movies or playing video games as a family. His parents aren’t very good people and it made me happy seeing him enjoy his time with my parents. It made it feel like he truly belonged and that it was home for both of us rather than just for me. I hope to continue having amazing times with him for years to come, even if we have ups and downs moments like those will be the ones i cherish the most.

[once-upon-a-freaking-december]

I personally want it to be like Colette sneaks back into her room - “weird that none my fam texted that I missed dinner Emily (gf) I guess no cares about me (little sister inferiority complex) “ and Jaime is like “hey. I’m you from a diff timeline“ and Colette just accepts that bc of Amelia and her mom.

Cue Jaime (big brother) busting in think she snuck someone in and sees both of them and freaks the fuck out.

Jaime starts calling Jaime (big brother) Jaime w a Y bc she’s gen z and would think it speak comedy even tho there’s no Y in his name.

Both Jaime w a Y and Colette just pretend for a hot second that Jaime has always been there at breakfast in the morning and their parents are like “Jaime the psychic from canada???”

The more that I think about it, the more I'm convinced that Jamie and Colette are two separate entities.

First off, Timeline 1 adult Chris and Timeline 2 adult Chris are two separate beings, which means there can be two versions of a person according to this universe's time travel rules.

When Jamie goes back to 2023, she's sent back to at least an entire day before she time traveled to 1987, to a location that she wasn't at that same time in Timeline 1.

So either Jamie just vanished from where she was and reappeared at the carnival, or Colette is a separate entity. And if she is, then that just begs the question:

Where is she?

[asianfrootloops]

catching myself thinking about a guy who i literally only talked to twice these three days and one time was him jokingly scolding me and the other was threatening me NO NO FUCK OFF SAALA BOARD YEARS ONLY WHY THIS HAPPENS EW EW NO

[adridoesstuff]

I just realized that the older Schlussapplaus music for Elisabeth perfectly outlines the 4 central themes of the story with song choices in order from general to the main story theme:

Death is inevitable for everyone and everything (Alle tanzten mit dem Tod)

Loneliness and trying to find comfort and solace from or in it (Wenn ich dein Spiegel wär)

The warping and misconstruing of history in order to get personal gain and/or to make it more palatable for the masses (Kitsch)

And finally, finding and fighting for one's personal freedom (Ich gehör nur mir)

[adrianpurplelet]

Tumblr: "(User) started following you"

Me: Oooh nice new followers!

Wait a damn minute

Some B!tches are following me?

With no content?

Has the link of her p0rn in her username? :D

Begone th0ts I like guys not hoes

there's so much pornbots following me lately

and it's annoying

[adridoesstuff]

I feel like Rudolf, for getting such a relatively minor part within the musical (since I think I'd be overestimating if I said that he gets 15 minutes of stagetime), is such an incremental part of the narrative. Because, to me, it's through him as a character that is presented with the nearest equivalent to general modern day opinions and openness of feelings, that a modern day person can really get immersed in the story by. That's why there is such a focus on Rudolf within the fandom: because he is such an easy character to empathize with and see oneself in. After all, who doesn't want their country to move forward and run justly and smoothly in the face of rising hate and ignorance? Who doesn't want someone to console them in bad times, to help them and to offer a shoulder to cry on?

Kronprinz rudolf apologism rant 😂

Not to showcase my own mental illness in terms of overidentifying with fictional characters based on historical figures but. I think the Elisabeth musical portrayal of Rudolf gets criticised too much and occasionally also for the wrong reasons

Like, you can dislike musical Rudolf being "woobified", that's ok, but sometimes criticisms end up going back to demonising mental illness (ie. ugly symptoms/behaviours automatically make you an irredeemable abuser and bad person - I'm specifically thinking of him "frightening Marie Valerie"). With someone like him there's lots of layers to it, he was a bad person in lots of ways (murder, arson, graverobbing...) but a very good person put in a desperate situation in others.

But since the musical is a psychological portrait of Elisabeth (and tbh - less so a psychological portrait of her and more of the end of an era) they only show the parts that make him "collateral damage" (of the system! Because in act 1 we see Elisabeth become part of the system to survive and the seeds of Rudolf's unstability be planted, and in act 2 we see how different ways of action and inaction uphold the system and make things worse).

And tbf on a more personal level, it annoys me that often when I talk about Rudolf with someone new, ppl will go "you know he was a bad person right?". Yes I fucking know!!!! The only people in the world who don't are the people who only learned about him from Elisabeth and didnt look stuff up on Wikipedia afterwards!!

Because guess what! That's what Rudolf's historical legacy was before Elisabeth and mostly is after it, the depraved ineffectual (overemotional, sick, politically emasculated...) nobleman in his greed murders a young girl. (Whether it can be called murder, btw, is questionable. As of 2016 we have Mary's suicide note/s. Obviously it's still icky for him to have shown romantic interest in her and pursued that/drawn her into the suicide pact...). In any case, that's hardly something I think is worth soapboxing about in the show itself.

How does showing "Elisabeth's son was mentally unstable, sexist and violent" on stage contribute to the central themes of Elisabeth's story?? When the story is about, among other things, the rise of nationalism and the death of liberalism (which is very convenient to portray in the show through Rudolf).

Idk also, I always talk about how it's important for me to have a non-cartoonish portrayal of depression and suicidal ideation (and suicide...) on stage in terms of representation. Musical Rudolf is me, he checks all of the boxes,,,, he's gay, he's depressed but NOT about being gay, he's stifled by the system, injustice weighs heavy on his shoulders, the politics of the world around him are going to complete shit....... irl rudolf is also me btw because he was a nerd, loved to travel, posted rants & callouts and was (towards the end) convinced he had an incurable illness aidöaålgösld

Anyway yeah, Rudolf was a victim of his situation, it doesn't make the other stuff he did where he victimised other people okay, but the musical storyline is really important representation for me specifically. I'm cordially inviting the ppl who want more emphasis on his immorality to make their own show, elisabeth is mine and brigitte hamann's and we're apologists 😂

[once-upon-a-freaking-december]

Truly if you told me eight years ago I would till be hung up on the same people after all this time I would’ve decked you

[koolkitty9]

LET ME FINALLY GIVE MY THOUGHTS ON THIS SCENE RIGHT HERE. Hi I am obsessed with this scene for absolutely no reason. I have MANY THOUGHTS on it and I want to share my analysis on this entire minute scene. It has been almost EIGHT YEARS NOW since it aired (Sorry some of this got formatted weird by Tumblr hhhhh)

Right here, you can see the moment where Yumoto's heart just drops into his stomach and he realizes he MAY actually lose for the first time ever as a Battle Lover (Which would be A VERY INTERESTING THING to see!)

Now why do they show him in the past? It shows that this is a REAL fear of his, losing Gora is such a big deal to him. This MAY have happened before at home but as a child, this scene takes place during the events we saw with the tiny Beppu bros in ep 10. Where he was left alone

Starting off with this, WHERE is this coming from? Well, Sailor Moon S1Ep1, we see Usagi having an attack JUST like this, and it is a defensive attack, which I believe Yumoto's own attack was based on. Wombat MUST have known about this, I believe he NEVER thought it would occur

The others are confused at this new power (Power #5 for Yumoto in s2) meanwhile, the twins are horrified/even MORE angry at him. Aki tells Haru to not falter and Haru tries to shoot Yumoto in the chest to stop/fatally injure him at this point

Atsushi mentions Yumoto has stronger emotions compared to the VEPPer (He shames them btw), we learn in the OVA, Yumoto's powers are loved based, we DO get hints of in ep9 when Yumoto performs his Love Sprinkle attack. En notes that the twins underestimated how strong Yumoto is

To me, this is just a VERY extreme panic attack but since his powers are with love, it is amplified due to his love for Gora. Kinshiro notes that both past and current Yumoto are merging. I HC that Yumoto was always destined to become Scarlet, so this moment has taken him back to the time when he was a child and this has somehow made itself known in the universe. This could be a result from the alien technology (or could just be nothing and Im looking too deep into a single line)

Everyone isn't sure WHAT is going on, Ryuu tells him to get a grip after he learns Yumoto is "Losing himself to fear" and tries to touch him. As we see when Haru tried to hit Yumoto, this power is actively protecting Yumoto while doing damage to anyone who tries to hurt him. I actually find this to be SUPER interesting

It's more interesting when he calms down after the twins realize how strong he is, I believe this is his true anger over the entire situation. By this point Yumoto is sick of it, he has been fighting these two for so long over his own brother. He has almost been killed and now He's ready to do the same to them. When the boys all come running to stop Yumoto, they all have different expressions (Can't see Io's :(( ) The twins though, are horrified as they know if they get hit, THEY ARE DONE FOR! (It's finEEEE)

En's first thought is to grab Yumoto to try to calm him down somewhat by grounding him back to reality

Atsushi (just like a mom as Yumoto says about him) gently grabs Yumoto's face and tries to get him to look at him, while also shielding him from either himself or another attack from the twins. You can actually see him and Io pulling Yumoto closer to them

Ryuu and Wombat don't add much, BUT Ryuu does actually support Yumoto's head when they all fall onto the ground. Which Yumoto's head SHOULD be in Ryuu's lap (In theory).

As for the dark place? Yumoto probably experienced a severe form of tunnel vision along with the influence of his powers. IMO, He was so overwhelmed with the thought of losing his only family forever that he forgot about his found family as well.

adding to how Yumoto is being held, Ryuu seems to have Yumoto's forearms pinned, Io has his arms around Yumoto's chest, and En and Atsushi I CAN'T really see where they're grabbing at but it but it does show you even with their strength it takes all four of them to subdue Yumoto

And uhhh I think that's it really for this scene...for now... Once Yumoto remembers how he's loved by his friends and he's not alone, he transforms into his highest form to date :)))) also these frames of him are pretty lol this scene had a lot of gorgeous frames OKAY BYE!

I WANTED TO ADD MORE PICS BUT RAN OUTTA SPACE

I didnt fit ALL I wanted to talk about but ANOTHER TIME! OKAY BYE FOR REALSIES

[sweetflowerboi]

Shout out to my shitty roommate. My fiancé and I have cut them off financially because they were essentially mooching off of us regarding food, toiletries, going out, etc. and they refuse to help at all around the apartment regarding chores and cleaning.

So, now, my favorite thing is watching them go into the fridge and freezer trying to see if there’s any food in there for them. Just for them to close it and shoot me a glare like I’m gonna feel back. Maybe if they’d spend their money on important things like food and their cat instead of corsets then they’d have food in the apartment they can eat.

It’s also important to note: they don’t have a job, their parents pay rent for them, even when we did allow them to have food we bought they’d complain because it wasn’t boxed or frozen, they’ve been a shitty person to me since I’ve gotten together with my fiancé, AND they told my fiancé that the only thing they’ve ever gained from their friendship with him was a place to stay and learning how to knit.

So needless to say, they’re overall a shitty person and we can wait to be rid of them.

[urlocalrambler]

my summer watchlist is so chill:

boys over flowers.

succession.

meteor garden.

the boys season 4.

maxton hall.

nana (dying to watch this omg).

jjk s2 *because i didn't catch up with it as it was releasing.

fruits basket rewatch.

maybe f4 thailand or twinkling watermelon.

(bar jjk & the boys, it's all comfort show vibes)

my summer readlist however is so wild:

junji ito collection (tomei, gyo & uzumaki).

alone with you in the ether.

a certain hunger.

a stepmother's marchen.

devil's night re-read.

when the moon hatched.

paradise kiss.

my year of rest and relaxation.

bunny by mona awad.

fairyloot books i received.

the secret history re-read.

(when your reading list is pain, with a side of deeper thoughts because sweet reads are boring)

[bragganhyl]

Okay I got myself some popcorn, I'm ready to lose some followers

It has been spoiled to me that there are gay dwarves in this and that Meredith is back I managed to avoid pretty much all else (or I forgot... entirely possible) we'll see how that affects my viewing experience, hopefully not too much