#and don't even get me started on the ships

[william-byers-1971]

Milevens are Eleven's biggest enemies.

After she began her relationship with Mike at the start of s3, it was clear she wasn’t satisfied with the kind of love she expected from him. That dissatisfaction ultimately led to the conflicts we saw between them in s4, driven by huge misunderstandings and a lack of emotional connection.

Maybe she secretly longs for the kind of chemistry that Lumax have but she’s just not getting that with Mike. And perhaps that’s why Eleven turned to Max for help with her relationship problems. While Lumax, being teenagers and in the same age group as them, are not overly lovey-dovey either, but they at least share playfulness, mutual understanding, and respect, qualities that are glaringly absent in Mileven’s relationship. If Mileven is endgame and they keep moving in this direction, they’re likely to become one of the most toxic couples in tv.

It seems like Duffers are trying to signal that Mike and Eleven's relationship is failing because they simply aren't meant for each other, and the audience should be able to recognize that. Instead of shipping them blindly, viewers should understand why their relationship no longer makes sense. They’re not kids anymore, the cute friendship they once had is gone because Mike doesn't seem to grasp the difference between a romantic relationship and friendship, and that’s largely because he’s struggling with his sexuality. Meanwhile, Eleven is looking for something deeper, similar to what Lumax have.

If I had ever shipped Mileven and then saw them fighting like they did in s4, filled with bitterness, I think I would’ve stopped shipping them, even if Will wasn’t in the picture at all or if he was straight and had nothing to do with Mike. Their dynamic just wouldn't be worth rooting for anymore. (I'm a straight, non-white female in my late 20s and Mileven never made any sense to me, but Byler does, as it’s a ship rooted in genuine care and love for each other. Despite a few fights, they resolve their conflicts smoothly and apologize, always recognizing that they’re a team. That’s why Byler is my favorite ship. I find it far superior to many heterosexual ships.)

Eleven hasn’t had the best childhood or school experience, and her love life is also rough compared to other genuine ships like Lumax, Jancy, or Jopper. Mike isn’t a bad person, but it’s obvious he just isn’t the right match for her.

So if you really love this girl, why would you want her to struggle in her love life? i don't get it.

If you genuinely love this girl (not just because you’re shipping Mileven) you should want the best for her character. That means hoping she ends up in a loving relationship with someone who is truly right for her(guy or a girl), or having an independent storyline where she’s not rushing into a relationship or chasing after guys/girls, allowing her the opportunity to discover her true self.

"Mike didn't love El at first sight. He treated her terribly."

"Well, he had just met her/didn't know her yet/was upset about Will!"

The analysis I'm working on is really opening my eyes...

[sunrisecaminus]

Love your writing ! Can I ask tfp Megatron and tfp Optimus HCS with a single cybertronian carrier (autobot) who has three sparklings (specifically two boys and one girl) and that is struggling but is strong anyways?? How would they treat her and her sparklings? Thank you!

Message - Do I agree with Cybertronians becoming pregnant? I have no idea, I am not an expert in that. Will I write almost anything y'all request even if I personally disagree with the logic? YES! Throw anything at me, I will be as passionate as you are about these.

Megatron/Optimus x Pregnant Cybertronian Reader

Summary - Megatron and Optimus headcanons about how they take care of their pregnant conjunx!

Warning - Pregnancy

Megatron

~ Megatron could not believe his optics when he figured out his conjunx was pregnant. Honestly he forgot sparklings could be produced after all this time.

~ Is he happy about it? Oh he is ecstatic! He would twirl you around and call you his beloved beauty.

~ Don't move, if Megatron does not see you in his birth or anywhere around the throne room, he will go panic mode by destroying the entire ship.

~ If you had triplets, he would have to plan out what you both would do in this situation. Having more than one child is very rare for Cybertronians, and with having the war still going on, Megatron would need future back-ups just in case something bad happened.

~ Honestly he would leave Earth and stay in its orbit for a while to take care of the kids for a few years.

~ Optimus would never figure out his mortal enemy had sparklings, Megatron would hide you from the world to make sure you live peacefully.

~ He would hide you from even his own ship, only having a rare few of mechs know your ware bouts.

~ Knockout would know to make sure you are happy and healthy, also he would be amazing with being a babysitter if you ever needed one.

~ Dreadwing is your guardian when Megatron is not there. He would basically be your nice butler and grab whatever you want.

~ Soundwave…well…he will just keep tabs of you, but of course Soundwave will know about you.

~ Most of the time, Megatron would cuddle you in bed, keeping his arms around you at all times and slide you close to his chassis. You love to hear his sparkbeat.

~ Do you have a favorite type of energon? Watch as Megs forcing his soldiers to travel around the world to find said energon.

~ Trying to plan out baby names are probably the best of Megatron's days. He would never chose a name that you didn't like, but you better do the same respect to him if he didn't like a name you picked out. That would rarely happen though, Megs likes most names you bring to the table.

~ He would kill anyone immediately for you if anything goes wrong. Let's say someone shoves you on the shoulder, Megatron would drag there ass and torture them. If they ever talked bad about you, he would shoot them in the head so fast.

Optimus

~ Speaking of which, the Prime has never been more emotional before in his like.

~ First, he is very happy to know that you are pregnant, but he is also terrified and feels a bit of regret.

~ He never wants any sparkling to be born in the world of war. Now knowing you are burdened to have to carry more than one child scares him…So obviously he swears to protect you with his life.

~ Having you with him at his birth is like if the war was never there for him; Your frame close to him makes Optimus not want to leave your touch ever.

~ Cup his cheeks with your servos, and that gentle giant would stay there for as long as you wish. Leaning against your hands, gently grabbing your hips to gift you a similar touch.

~ He would try to let you name the kids yourself, not feeling like he earned the role of father. Just encourage him and Optimus would help give some good names.

~ If you ever got hurt, holy crap this is where is gets weird. Optimus hasn't felt this much rage since Megatron first started war with him.

~ One of the times he would ever walks off the path of the autobot code, is when someone physically hurts you one purpose.

~ The prime would ground his own soldiers if he hears any one of them insult you.

~ Ratchet is obviously your doctor, that mech will save your life many times.

~ Ultra Magnus tells you whenever you have an event coming up, he will also be your baby shower planner. (Don't tell anyone, but he is a master at planning and designing parties.)

~ Get Smokescreen away from you, do you know how many questions he has about how you got triplets? He will ask many inappropriate questions that would get the human kids to ask questions and NO ONE WANTS THAT!

~ Optimus would dancing with you slowly in his room before y'all go to bed, swaying you around to help you get sleepy.

~ He would stare into your eyes all day if he could, just watching the life through them light up.

[hello-gloomy]

Can we get one with reader who was Senkus science teacher. Maybe she tried out to be a NASA scientist but decided to become a teacher instead and that's how she met Senku. Xeno meets reader and recognising them from NASA. But she has no clue who he is as they had only a brief meeting once.

Lol I'm gonna use this as an opportunity to socially torture Xeno. Sorry this took a bit to answer and I apologize if it's short.

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I'm Sorry Who?

Xeno x Fem!reader

Description: A fellow scientist from the past recognizes you, but you don't recognize him. Chaos ensues.

Warnings: pitiful Xeno, cursing, sex joke at the end, kind of creep Xeno in readers perspective lol.

A/N: I love pathetic Xeno, like my fave genre of man

Words: 627

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Senku and the rest of his gaggle were finishing negotiations in the castle with the American colony, and you decided to stay on the ship to finish up with some new weaponry for the boat. You were drawing up plans to fit on classic cannons or hand-held harpoons for the crew to practice and use. You heard the door open behind you but decided not to turn around as it was probably just Suika or Chrome looking for something or wanting to find a new experiment to entertain themselves with.

"Quite the elegant schematic, Ms. (Last Name)." A Southern-sounding voice said a foot beside you; you screw up your face at the interruption to your work and shoot a nasty glare to your interrupter. You give him a once-over and continue to side-eye him while turning back to pretend to continue to work. You give him an uninterested hum and try to remember where he's from, as he knows you. You're hoping he's not some weird coworker from the old world. That is the last thing you want to deal with right now.

"Shouldn't you have supervision with you to be down here." You tell him harshly, and the sparkle in his eyes drops slightly at your cold tone. He clears his throat and moves out of your way when you get up, moving to grab more paper and start the following blueprints.

"Ah-Senku thought it would be alright for me to come down here alone as a testament to good faith." He tells you, letting the last part fall quietly from his lips, hoping not to upset you further. You roll your eyes and shove out another chair for him to sit at before returning to your own. He watches you quietly, and it gets unnerving having his void-like eyes watching your every movement. It ends up being enough for you, and you drop your pencil with a loud sigh and turn to face him.

"Do I know you?" you ask him curtly. He bites his bottom lip slightly and then responds.

"You were one of the main speech holders for the annual NASA expo in Texas in 2020." He tells you while rubbing his clawed hands together.

"Still not ringing a bell, I worked at NASA for a year or two, maybe, and it was horrible, so I just took a job opportunity in Japan." You inform, your lips forming into a thin line. You're starting to feel bad; he seemed happy to see you, and you didn't even recognize him. He looks like he should be recognizable, with pretty black puppy eyes, pale skin, and snow-white hair. He was cute to look at; you sigh and rub your head before deciding.

"How about we start fresh? I'm (Name) (Last Name). You are?" You ask him a bit more gently this time. His shoulders drop, relaxing, and he smiles slightly at you, taking your hand and kissing it before telling you his name.

"Xeno Houston Wingfield." The two of you spend the latter half of the day conversing and sharing your stories of your shared time at NASA. He asks about your time in Japan, and you tell him of how you met and taught Senku and how you have been with him since he broke out of stone.

"Hey, Teach, it's time for lunch. You gonna eat or-" Senku interrupts the two of you, and Xeno backs away from you as subtly as he can; Senku makes a face at you both, and you brush him off, getting up to go and eat.

"We can eat here, Doc; I'll grab us both plates. You can stay here, and I'll be back." The door shuts, and the room is silent.

"Don't fuck my teacher, bro."

"Senku!"

[kylos-starlight]

So I ran out of tags so I'm posting it here! ITS LONG IM SORRY BUT WHEN SOMEONE ASKS I NEED TO START YAPPING!

You had me under spell right from the start; -> Kylo and Kaden. They're song lyrics from one of mine and kylos main songs but also applies to us and me irl he literally had me right from the start I just didn't know it. Its a long story in which I'd be happy to tell sometime if anyone wanted to know. (But its pretty real)

The Hands of Time; ⌛ -> Cesar and Kaden. Again song lyrics to one of our main songs but it's also a double play because he can literally stop time! :D

Broken to Bonded -> Sackler and Kaden. This has quite a long story behind it as it involves my lore with him, again happy to talk about it if anyone is interested!

Beyond Us; Only Darkness -> Anakin and Kaden. Title of one of our main songs but also give you a glance into our relationship in my bad timeline with him. If you know ani you know why I chose this name for us.

Starbound Companions -> Obi-Wan and Kaden. Well technically this is a name that was around back when I only had him as a friend but something something oops I fell in love but anyways, the name is light and fun! We travel a lot through space! lol

Moonlit Veil -> Revan and Kaden. This name actually has to do with my self-insert if I'm being honest. okay, so the first part is just because I'm a selenophile and love the moon so that in of itself represents me but the veil is because I find it really hard when things get too serious and I downplay or joke or deflect whenever something serious like romantic types of serious gets involved I hide behind a veil so to speak!

Just let me adore you -> Charlie and Kaden. Pretty simple and straight forward. He just wants to adore me! but also because at the start he couldn't really show it well because we were screens apart again if anyone wants to know the lore feel free to asks!!!

Cosmic Malfunction -> Matt(The Radar Technician) and Kaden. We're so fucking clumsy between the two of us.. enough said lmao

Under a Falling Sky -> Mills and Kaden. One of our main songs but also doubles as story telling. Mills and Kaden were visitors (along with their now adopted daughter Koa) on earth 65 million years ago before humans were even a thing and dinosaurs held reign over the planet. We were around and escaped just before the meteor that took out the dinosaurs hit! We were literally under a falling sky!! (also please please please everyone my ship with mills is one of my favourites so if you ever have ANY questions I'm happy to talk about them! its one of my sleeper agent ships haha)

The Sparrow and the Rogue -> Lorenzo and Kaden. kind of self explanatory. Lorenzo is a rogue and meets Kaden, he adored their they don't give a frick attitude and started to call them his little sparrow because it irritated Kaden at first but eventually they came to adore the nickname and would actively get upset if he called them anything else lskdjflds

Those Who Slay Together Stay Together -> Ronnie and Kaden. We have to deal with zombies... I think the name speaks for itself~ hehe

moons and metaphors -> Paterson and Kaden. Again the first part is representing of me and the metaphors are representation of Paterson because he is a poet!!

Chaotic Twinflame -> Phillip and Kaden. We're very much a like in similar ways and we can both been deemed chaotic or hard to be with.

Running in The night With You -> Luke(Ryder) and Kaden. One of my newer ships that I desperately want to talk about more. Basically there is a darkness that makes people vanish (which realy sucks because I'm a huge nyctophile!) and so I am literally running in the night with him and its one of our main songs that ties into our story!!!

Through the noise; we found quiet -> Toby and Kaden. another newer ship of mine that I wouldn't mind talk about either... His life is so chaotic and spontaneous in a way as is my life but in totally different ways. His is literally chaotic, you can see it my chaotic is more inside my head but when we come together.... I can help him slow down physically and he can hush the things running rampant in my mind. So within our respective noises we found a peaceful quiet within each other~

SELFSHIPPERS!! Reblog with your ship name! I’d love to hear about it

Is it a mix of your names, two words that represents you, or maybe just emojis? Bonus points if you share the meaning behind it or how you came up with it! ☆

[bluespiritshonour]

I never took maiko's bad writing seriously because it was so clearly a tertiary sub-plot

When Zuko goes "they let out you of prison?" I was like "wtf" but only for a moment

Because him simply forgetting her was THAT unthinkable for me. He doesn't move like that.

I shipped maiko because I found it interesting that someone gloomy and morose like Mai was paired up with Zuko instead of someone who could stereotypically fix all his problems. I loved seeing the side of him that only comes out when he's with her!

Maiko's a great ship when you love Zuko and don't care for Mai. It was like that for me until I joined the fandom and saw zutara wouldn't leave Mai alone.

Seeing them constantly mock her for the way Zuko treated her made me like her more and go "wow, Zuko's really a jerk huh?"

I started shipping Maiko because I liked Zuko and now I might stop shipping it because I like Mai.

Unless I find it tragically romantic that Mai gives it her all for a man who doesn't even think of her when she's not infront of him and doesn't love her as much as she loves him (which I don't) I can't ship Maiko

I'm pretty sure they'd get back together in Ashes of the Academy but if Zuko doesn't explicitly prove that he's going to value and cherish her going forward, then idc that it's canon, I'm done with this ship.

[mordredpendragon]

greetings catboy mordred nation. i was wondering whether you've got any medlit recs that have good percival/mordred moments cuz ive never actually seen them interact in what i've read but your art has me invested

also i pronounce it persimmon in my head which i think is an adorable ship name

omg hi moss! thanks you so much for the ask, and yes i confirm it is meant to be announced persimmon. it doesn't mean anything, i just think it sounds cute.

also i'm very happy you got invested in them through my art, that means so much to me 💕 as a thank you, here's a little doodle of them!

with that out of the way, this post is stupidly long, so all my thoughts will be under the cut below.

if i'm being honest 99% of the stuff for them is basically made up for my own canon and lore in my personal project, LidERi: Paradise Lost. they started off as a crackship and i just thought they'd make a good pairing together, and here we are. if you want to know more about their LidERi: Paradise lost iteration specifically, you can go through the #prsmn tag under my blog or ask me ^^

but in regards to medieval literature, there's one interaction that stands out to me the most and i've actually posted about my thoughts on it here!

vulgate lancelot part VI, page 325 to be exact.

it's simple and brief, but i find it very poignant and there's a lot worth examining here! mordred calls him "simple" and "prefers peace to war", percival is also described as gentle. 'in no way did he resemble a proud knight'. this is also around the same time he first left his mother, aglovale took him to arthur's court so he hasn't yet faced the hardships of being a knight. 'his shield, where no blow had yet been struck' is an apt observation made by kay.

mordred is also a young knight here, i put him to be around the same age loosely as percival if not just a little bit older. after this brief encounter, their comments are repeated to percival by a court jester to which he's mocked.

now, i personally don't think mordred or kay (for once this time!) meant any ill will behind them, they simply stated an observation. even then, it rouses percival to go on a quest to prove himself as a worthy knight to mordred (and kay but this isn't about him rn lol)

it is an incredibly rash action, percival defies his older brother aglovale by leaving court early on (in the middle of winter, no less!) he feels so strongly about proving that he's a worthy knight to mordred that he's willing to die for it. pretty crazy. it's where i got my reading of them as rivals. they started off as one sided rivals on percival's side but he quickly catched up to mordred, to which mordred thinks "oh fuck, i can't let him beat me." lol

this interaction is also in le morte d'arthur, except the scene itself at court is missing, so you only know about it through percival telling patrides/persydes about it.

anyway, going back to vulgate, arthur finds out about this and reprimands both kay and mordred about it which is really funny.

and he is right! percival does in fact go on to meet hector de maris and team up with him in order to find lancelot.

this starts on page 336 if you want to read it yourself. basically, percival comes across The Guilty Knight clad in all black armour in the isle of joy. the guilty knight challenges any and all knights that come across him and is undefeated until percival asks him for a duel to which he wins, and the knight reveals himself to be lancelot.

so yeah. so called best knight of the world lancelot is actually rivaled by a young percival, he might be one of the only characters to ever equal to or defeat both lancelot and gawain i think. (it's certainly the case in perlesvaus, but that's a post for another day.)

percival also reunites lancelot with his brother hector in a really sweet scene, and then the two of them get to meet the then child galahad who is just 10 years old.

sorry that ended up just being moreso about percival in vulgate but i hope you understand what i mean! i think it's safe to say that mordred pushed percival to outdo himself and be better, and that brief yet significant interaction led to percival performing wonders. bear in mind that lancelot was missing for A DECADE. they literally got an expedition of knights to look for him INCLUDING but not limited to mordred, gawain, aglovale, etc, and they failed. percival did what they couldn't.

apart from that, they also have a minor interaction in the perceval continuations where percival jousts against mordred and mordred gets his ass beat. it's not that significant so i don't think about it or mention it too much, but here it is if you're curious.

while not medieval literature the ones i'm about to list are retellings, i'd be remiss not to mention them. but i do know of gradalis (they're like. actually gay in this one) but its entirely in french so i can't tell you much about it.

what i CAN tell you about though is The Last Knight of Albion by Peter Hanratty, wherein percival is the titular last knight, seeking mordred for revenge for arthur's death. it's a follow up from The Book of Mordred, which i recommend you to read first.

anyways, here's some toxic old man yaoi mordred/percival from The Last Knight of Albion, on the house from me. it's got some insane gay tension in it lol i can't believe Peter Hanratty wrote about percival having an intense homoerotic fixation on mordred before i did.

tl;dr i think they're neat. their interaction in vulgate is brief but resonant enough for me to pull a lot of inspiration from it and you'd be surprised that they also have a lot of parallels and things in common with each other.

they're both the youngest among 5 brothers and have a destiny/fate greater than them (being the one to end arthur's reign and being a grail knight respectively). it's even spicier when you factor in the orkney/wales blood feud which adds onto their rivals bit. i could go on and on about it, like their biblical paralells (percival as biblical adam, mordred as lucifer, percival being tempted by lucifer in disguise during vulgate grail quest, etc), percival in perlesvaus being a vessel of atonement/revenge of the sins done unto his father, mordred carrying the burden of sin as the literal embodiment of arthur's failings, etc etc, but this post is already long af. i hope it's enough to at least give you something to think about and extrapolate from. i hope you enjoy!

much love, and welcome to 🥭 PRSMN NATION 💕

[bluiela]

Hey, hi, hello uhm, I'm a bit new to the ACOTAR fandom and have been lurking around for the past two months looking through tags -- Elucien shipper for the most part -- and I see you keep getting troll anons from people who dislike you for just shipping something and I'm super sorry that's happening! 😭 I don't entirely understand this 'ship war' cause it's been a hot minute since I was around tumblr fandoms (like 2016), but I don't remember them being this openly toxic/hostile about a different opion.

Anyways! Thought I'd pop in with a nice anon about why I think Elucien works/could be endgame -- from the view of a casual reader!

At the start of most romance novels, the two who get together don't like each other, and the book is about them either figuring out they DO like each other, or getting over their disdain and discovering love instead; and over the course of ACOTAR, it really reads like SJM has been sprinkling that around, setting up Lucien and Elain to not act like themselves around the other or appear perfectly ammicable. It doesn't matter if they get together or don't together, either way this awkwardness is going to be resolved, else it wouldn't have been introduced.

Elain and Lucien are the perfect dichotomy of compatible opposites from an aesthetic view. The fawn and the fox -- which if you've ever been around are both timid but highly playful creatures. The gardener who (presumably) wants to fight, and the warrior who wants to never fight again. The lady with secret snark, and the lord who snarks to mask . But when you look at their similar vibes: the blatant cottagecore, the love for socializing/parties, the dancing, the vapid quips (that Elain, subtextually, seems to want to partake in), the love of flowers, of nature, of sun? It all falls together so perfectly.

Lucien going on a voyage adventure with Elain's father and then we NEVER hear much about it? Yeah, SJM's gonna talk about it. I can just sense that coming. Lucien went and bonded with a father figure to his mate, the father figure then died, and Elain's closure is never talked of in full. There is much, much much much, for SJM to write about there between this ship.

At the moment, neither of them want to accept they are mated. THIS is a point that has always intrigued me but I never see many other Eluciens talk about it. Lucien in book one made fun of humans and spoke cruelly of them. Elain in book one was terrified of fairies and presumably held the same opinion of Graysen. Lucien in book two reveals Jesminda and how he very much so is still not over her and is up in turmoil over the mating bond because of this. Elain in book two is very much so not over Graysen and loathes the bond even more for what it's done to her old life. Then for Elain to be horrifically thrown into being a fairy, and for Lucien to be horrifically stripped from his second home, thrown into a war, and venturing to the human lands to work with humans -- combined with them both having a mate they didn't ask for allthewhile being lovers (as in the type of person) at heart -- talk about poetic whiplash.

DISCLAIMER TO THE ABOVE POINT (for any elriels reading this): I am not saying I enjoy their pain or want them to suffer more, or be around someone they hate -- but this is a fictional book, and as someone with a degree in Creeative Writing I am of the opinion that SJM is significantly utilizing the tropes at her disposal to set up a very slow burn/painful connection/healing story filled with growth and acceptance, not just for them to accept being mates, but for them to accept this new world they now occupy and learn to love it, together. Is it possible Elain could do that with Az? I am certain SJM would be perfectly able to write a story doing so, but I personally don't see it happening as much as I see her with Lucien.

And as a last point: the sun thing has always, always, been the gold touch of this ship for me: Lucien being the heir to the Day Court and Elain "needing sunshine" and being a gardener in a land favouring night. This is not to say -- as people will berate Eluciens on -- that the Night Court is awful for Elain and that Eluciens want her to leave it all and never look back or be stripped away from her family or something horrid. People can live away from home and still, ykno, visit home. And the Day Court is right next door! Though I have this horrid inkling that Helion's gonna d*e for Lucien to "discover the bit" (if he hasn't already).

Their ship is balanced in ways I could only ever dream of writing, and its a unique balance. Often nowadays I see Persephone/Hades aethetic rewrites more than anything else, and I'm not saying those are bad (I love them too!), but they, perhaps, oversaturate the world of literature -- and I think Elucien is the Eros/Psyche that people often forget about.

Thank you so much for sending this, reading sensible posts that align with the books and does such a good job at elucien analysis was so good and refreshing after all the e/riel arguments in my inbox.

All the points are such beautifully written. It just reminds me how much I love lucien.

[bronx-bomber87]

Good evening my incredible readers and wonderful fandom :) First off wanna thank everyone for the love I got for 7x08. Holy cow. That was the best reception. You are all the best. I am so happy to be back and that our beloved show is back after a short hiatus. Although the decompression was good I missed our ship and show.

This was a fantastic episode through and though. Keep saying writers are killing the game. It's because they are. We got a couple sweet moments in this one despite it being Harper driven. (Which I loved) Just wasn't expecting to get anything for them to make me squee. But the giving season keeps giving. Let us start.

7x09 The Kiss

We start out with our lovely ship being discharged officially. Getting some homework to help heal their smokey lungs. I've had to do that yellow ball thing. it is HARD LOL Let us note the very little gap between them as they walk together. After 6x07 I crave that little to no space between them. It's the little things as always that make me happy. I adore Lucy picking Tim's brain about it. Although he has zero clue if it'll help them or not ha It still leaves me feeling content.

Can I say how much I love Lucy bringing up their dance? The smile on that man's face. Oh my lord. It’s reminiscent of his smile in 5x10 when he was thinking of her in the green dress. That dance memory in particular making him beam with happiness. Just look at him when she brings it up. His joyful smile has me reeling. Even though they were fighting their feelings at the time, tooth and nail, Tim can look back at what a good moment that was for them. It's one of my fav episodes of that season for a reason.

Gah. Tim remembering her dress in detail. My damn heart. She really can bring this man to his knee's with just her outfits. I mean she did it in 3x14, 4x18, and we know how much he enjoyed her dress in 5x10. I just adore him remembering stuff like this. Sure he actually wanted to say 'That sexy dress you wore.' But instead settles for 'The shiny stuff.' I love you Tim Bradford. I just do.

The heart eyes galore too. My goodness sir. You are at work and don't even care. On their dash cam as well. Tim is just full of them this entire scene. Hell this entire season really. He's so cute stumbling around for the right words and lands on shiny stuff. This goober. I adore him so much. Lucy is enjoying his stumbling as well you can see it in her expression. She loves this idiot sitting next to her so very much.

Then he tells her she looked amazing and my heart stops. Serves that lovely line up with a heaping side of heart eyes. Just look at him before he delivers that line. That man is such a soft puppy for her it blows my mind. He loves her so much and isn't afraid to keep letting her know this fact. 'Not holding back' Tim is rapidly becoming a favorite of mine. This man has changed so much and I couldn't be prouder of him. So open and forthcoming about how he feels about her. Lucy is smitten af with his compliment. I mean she is all red. I would be too. Goodness. Just a touch of hesitancy still but she is cracking.

We all knew Tim had feelings back then. Found her beautiful. But to hear him verbalize it is everything. Holy cow. She is slowly thawing everyone. Take a gander at the slow melting above. I love that it’s now Tim cracking her wall. The full circle of it all makes me delirious with glee. Also there is a wonderful beauty to Tim continuously doing this. Of him showing up for her time and time again. Letting her know exactly where he stands. It's reminding Lucy he’s still madly in love with her. Which in turn is prepping her IMO. Why and how you ask?

Because at some point it’s going to drive her ‘why’ insane. Thinking if Tim is still this in love with me, seemingly even more so now than before, then why did he break up with me in the first place? The more Tim continues to show her he’s here to stay. That this new open Tim is here for the long haul. The more she’s going to need to know the why of it all. To hash it out. To finally be ready for that adult convo that Tim is so very willing to have now. We are inching our way there fandom I promise. It's going to be so extremely satisfying when we arrive at our destination.

Their lovely moment is interrupted by dispatch. We get some field crack. Least it's that way for me lol They are flawless in action and I never get over it. It’s a chemistry no one else has and I can’t get enough of it. Eric and Melissa are a treasure. They are effortless through out this chase. Not once hesitating or panicking when they lose their guy. They are crazy calm and it is fascinating to watch. Said this many times before and it still holds. They are poetry in motion.

I love Tim's response to Lucy's worry about Grey being mad at them. Trying to lighten the moment the best he can for her. I mean he's not wrong. Yes they lost Connor BUT they did save a senior citizen from a gruesome death in a crosswalk. Lucy isn't fully satisfied because they are still working on her.... Her worry and empathy just coming off her in waves.

We catch up with who we think is this woman's daughter. I mean to know those kind of details about her... Why would they question her any further? It's so sad she won't make it. Breaks my damn heart actually. Legit innocent bystander in the way. You can see it’s shaking Lucy.. It was shaking me ugh. That slight hesitation she does as they walk away. You can see the hitch in her gait as they do so. Killing me softly with that stuff Melissa.

I adore Tim checking in on Lucy. Clocking her stress and heartbreak over this. Her empathy sapping it out of her right now. So he makes sure to check her temperature. I knew this would wreck her. I do love her confiding in him about her frustrations. Tim doing his best to apply some logic at first. Side note I love when he uses words like 'Ascribe.' *fans self* Don't why but it just does it for me...*ahem* Anyways Tim is hoping his logic will be the salve she needs.

It does help in terms of her opening up to him more. Lucy continuing on about how this job sometimes makes her feel like they solve one thing at the expense of another. That it's almost like a judicial debt they'll never be able to balance. I can't say that I wouldn't be just as aggravated as her. Tim's empathy kicking in shortly after this comment. Even finishes her sentence for her. (Love this)

Replying with something I know is dear to him. Protecting those he loves. Lucy being one of those people. His top priority as he stated in the last ep. The eye contact they make when he says this. *happy sigh* The way she looks up at him asking if they should check on Harper? Just leaning on him for answers and guidance when she can. It makes me smile.

What a turn in this case. Good lord. I wasn't expecting it in the least I'll say. Pretty gross of both of these women. More so of the daughter really when we find out about the will. I do love the shared looks through out this scene. If you watch their eye line it's mainly at each other. They’re always crushing it with the silent communication.

Friggin love Lucy just taking charge and Tim stepping aside to let her do so. Putting that woman in her place about her mother's belongings. Then we top it off with sharing a look with Tim after. That field goodness shinning through. Makes me happy to witness.

This scene made me laugh so much. Tim embodying Aaron's line from 5x06 about how he is like the old dude from UP. lmao 'Don’t know. Don’t care.' Oh Timothy, my grumpy old man. I do enjoy you so very much. He most definitely does not care about what show it is. Unless it's Top Chef heh

Always fan myself with a good Tim takedown. *phew lord* gimme gimme. Something so god damn attractive about it when he pulls it off so easily. Mmm. I will take that all damn day and not complain.

Of course Nolan knows the name of the show LOL This made me chuckle quite a bit. Little levity in this intense episode. Also that’s a terrible name for a show haha Chenford's initial reaction to John's show reply had me laughing so much. They couldn't be more confused. Tim especially. Wondering if he hit his head or something. Lucy is kind in her reply even though it was unnecessary info haha

Once again must point out the lack of space between them. Damn near touching in that hallway. Which makes me happy considering that brutal convo in 6x07 took place in there. Slowly healing that shipper wound. I love Tim's smile when he hears she's going back to the hospital. That changes when she tells him it's actually for Kylie....

Honestly it's the most Lucy Chen thing ever to go sit with Kylie. She’s only one who’s thought of her for most of this episode besides Celina. This is why Tim is so damn gone for her. That endless compassion she has for others. Thinking of people that no one else has. He may be giving her shit in the moment but internally we all know how much he adores her empathy.

Admires that sunshine heart of hers. Wouldn't be Tim if he didn't give her a little crap for it though. Toss in some light flirting while he does so. Lucy doing a little flirting back herself with her competition line. Damn they cute. I love them sfm. Solid way to end the episode for them.

Thank you forever and always to those that like, comment (they make my heart so happy. Come talk to me haha), and reblog these. It brings me joy like no other. You're all amazing and I adore every single one of you. Shall see you all in 7x10 :)

~~~

Sides notes-Non Chenford

I loved Lucy and Harper holding hands and hugging. I need more of these two together.

Celina getting a nice little drug bust as a P2. Well done madam.

Mekia killed it good lord. I knew she would. Love seeing her get this time to shine. Shawn too that scene was so good and very sad. I love them giving more to Shawn this year he's crushing it.

Such a sweet moment in the hospital for James and Nyla. So raw and real my goodness. I love them getting some real problems as well. This SL this was so good for them I enjoyed it quite a bit.

I don't usually do gifs in my side notes. Or make ones that aren't Chenford related. But I had to with this scene. It. was fantastic. Nolan making me feeling things again. They’re writing him so much better this year. They really are tapping back into why I enjoyed him in the very beginning. Also Nathan reminding us he can bring it emotionally. He had me tearing up with his speech. Way his voice hitched and broke.

Another reason I wanted to do a gif of this was because of the amazing character that is Nyla Harper. Other than Lucy she is my absolute favorite female character. Hands down. I love me some Angela Lopez don't get me wrong. I just friggin love Harper so damn much. Maybe it's because she is the female version of Tim hahah But Mekia could not have been a better addition to this show. She came in s2 and has knocked it out of the park since. I legit forget about Talia every time until I rewatch s1. Because feels like Harper has always been here.

No offense to Talia but she had no where near the depth and grit Nyla Harper does. Just wanted to gif this because Nolan's speech is so fantastic and accurate. We all love this BAMF of a woman. She had Nolan as her rookie and turned him into a good cop. So we know she's a resilient bad ass. I loved him paying homage not only to what she did for him as his T.O. but just her as a person. This was really well written and acted. I loved it.

I missed their dynamic honestly. Was part of why s2 as a whole was so good for me. How far they've come to get to this moment. This hug was so nice. Made me teary. Nice to see her finally lean on someone in this episode. I think Nolan was the right choice especially with him having been the one to witness that kiss. The writers have really come to play this season. It makes me very happy. Because I do love this show as a whole. They're bringing it back to it's roots and this day one Rookie girl is quite pleased with it.

[burningcheese-merchant]

hey merchant i just wanting to ask, are you working on a fic? or you are just conjuring the most outrageous Burningcheese headcannons in your head, because im fine with both i love your headcannons, like the only reason i started to follow you is to read your yapping

Both haha. I have that one BurningCheese fic on AO3 I need to finish (final draft of chapter 3 still in progress), plus another fic I want to get started, plus a billion headcanons, plus more stuff about the fankids, plus a big AU I'm working hard on as well (this ship has demonically possessed me, in case you haven't noticed) (I also have a ShadowVanilla fic in the works. I know it's not going to be as good as any of the big hitters everyone raves about, but I want to write it anyway. It's been on my mind for a while)

I've been slow because of other things. irl responsibilities take precedence over my silly fandom blog. I also had that huge scare with my dog, which I'm honestly still trying to recover from mentally/emotionally (he's alive, he's home from the hospital, he's on some new medication and he's getting back to his normal self, thank God Almighty. I am now trying to parse what the future might look like and whatever extra help he might need, if we can even afford it, things like that), so that's something else setting my creativity back haha. But don't fret, I'm not quitting or anything. I just need a bit of time

Thank you for enjoying my yapping! I love me some yapping. Plz feed me more opportunities to yap about BurningCheese and their babies and other things. I am insane. Feed me, Seymour

[bug-vore]

Okay, nah, I'm gonna go back to being an absolute asshole, especially to those with "holier than thou" attitude when it comes to people shipping toxic stuff. For example, take a look at shadowvanilla. I started seeing y'all being shitty to those who ship it. For what? Because we "don't know" what it's like to be abused and that shipping such stuff makes us ABUSIVE??? Bullshit.

I was extremely abused by 5 to 10 older men back in middle school to high school, and they would rip my security and self-esteem apart every single day. When I rejected their advances, they would coerce me into accepting it every single time. I was 13 when it all started. It finally stopped a year or so ago when one of them finally bit the dust.

You'd think I turned out "just fine" and to be a perfect human being just like you? Fuck no. I still and always will ship whatever I can see myself in. I used to hurt others a whole lot because I didn't want them to get closer to me out of fear that I'd just end up losing them all over again. I also lied all the time, like Shadow Milk, to feel better, even if temporarily. I have lost count of how many disorders I have to deal with now because of that facility I was stuck in for six years till the very day I graduated.

I see a LOT of myself in Shadow Milk and my partner in Pure Vanilla, and I'm still trying to change for the better after all that I've done to my ex-friends. You seem to think everyone who got abused won't turn into an abuser, which is an extremely shitty mindset. I don't care if that's not what you exactly said, but it is very shitty regardless. And tagging the common ships is just even shittier. If you hate us so much, pray it away or even block us. We don't care, just don't harass us or talk shit WITHIN our tags. Like damn.

Sincerely, block whoever you don't like and move on. I'm not naming who, let alone bringing up screenshots because I'm not that kind of person. Just do better.

And yes, fuck you if you think I'm a bad person for being emotionally attached to Shadow Milk, at least I'm not emotionally attached to a perfect character that'd likely fuck you up the chance they get if they think you do/say something bad.

[aurumacadicus]

Omg. A concept:

"I'm glad you all could make it," Tony said solemnly, hands clasped behind his back as he paced in front of the table.

"You literally texted us all that it was dire," Rhodey deadpanned.

"And then you texted me that I should bring donuts," Happy added, unimpressed.

Tony didn't take it personally. They were all there and Happy had actually stopped and picked up donuts.

Pepper looked even less pleased. "Are you dying again? Because if all of this was to tell me you're dying again, I'm going to be pissed."

Carol blinked, mouth already filled with a cake donut with sprinkles. "Huh?!"

"Don't worry about it," Tony told Carol, just as solemnly as he had before. "This meeting is to inform you all that I will be leaving the country imminently. I have already scheduled to have my appendix out and will be living the rest of my life in Antarctica."

"HUH," Carol barked again.

Pepper tapped at her phone and raised an eyebrow, reluctantly impressed. "Wow. You really did schedule a voluntary appendectomy."

Happy sighed and rubbed a hand over his face, then leaned back in his seat tiredly. "Why are you planning to live out your remaining years in Antarctica?"

Tony sighed the sigh of the supremely put upon, turning to look out one of the windows at the view. "I giggled in front of the Avengers."

There was a brief pause. Carol was frantically chewing to bellow another 'huh' at him, but Rhodey reacted first, instead shrugging and reaching out for a bear claw. "Oh, well, rest in peace, pal."

To Carol's relief, both Happy and Pepper screamed 'what' with her in response.

Rhodey blinked at them placidly. "Guys, he literally says 'heeheehee' when he giggles. He hasn't laughed like that in front of other people since college and a group of girls started teasing him about how cute it is."

"I did not get laid until the memory faded from MIT's collective consciousness," Tony added, nodding. "Girls thought I was adorable and guys made fun of me in mean ways. I forgot myself and now must pay the price."

"You're such a fucking drama queen, Tony," Happy sighed. "And what do you expect to do when you're too old to take care of yourself?"

"Walk onto the tundra and peacefully fall asleep, and perhaps they'll ship the ice cube that is my body back for burial," Tony answered promptly.

"I can't tell if this is a joke or not and it's upsetting," Carol snapped, and Pepper just sighed at her, pitying.

"The room went silent, and Natasha just looked at me and said 'oh' and looked like she might cry," Tony continued, ignoring her. "Clint didn't even make fun of me. He just said 'aw.'"

"Steve must have liked it at least, right?" Pepper asked desperately.

"He crumpled to the floor like I'd personally grabbed his guts and twisted," Tony informed her. He turned to look at Carol and Rhodey. "In any case, I called you here to inform you that the team might need your help more now that I am no longer an option. Pepper, Happy, run the company as you see fit."

"Can I get your Def Leppard vinyls?" Rhodey asked over Carol's frustrated howls.

"Stop fucking encouraging him, Jim," Pepper barked, then was distracted by a text from Steve. "Steve texted me."

"I will hear no arguments. I have already made up my mind," Tony informed her imperiously.

Happy read over her shoulder, shameless. "'Tell Tony I survived seventy years in the ocean and I will come and get him from Antarctica.' How'd he italicize part of a text."

"I think he just radiates disapproval at the screen until it cries uncle," Pepper replied.

Tony considered all of this new information, then decided, "Well. I suppose I'll just have to keep moving. JARVIS, the armor, if you please."

"Captain Rogers has already broken into the lab and dismantled several, and has told me he will leap on any suit I manage to get flying toward you," JARVIS answered promptly.

"I see. Then I will just throw myself from the window now," Tony replied, and both Carol and Happy scrambled up to tackle him.

[dragqueenstarscream]

Tfo Sentinel kink headcannons:

- being bred by the Qunitisessons, possibly Arachnid too if you headcannon that insecticons lay eggs

-Like oh no, step lord Qunitisesson, I don't have enough energon for you, guess you'll have to take me to your ship and breed and pamper me

-Being pampered and praised, maybe even degraded too as long as you don't take it too far

-Use his wings as handlebars. Do it, his valve will do a full Niagara falls

-Quntisesson tenticles, bend him over and restrain him with them, claims he doesn't like it but is secretly begging for it

-Even though it's illegal in Cybertron to have organic porn, Sentinel 'investigates' illegal Quitisesson x Cybertronian porn 'for the good of Cybertron' (all parties in the videos consented to it though, consent is cool). Arachnid has seen things.

-Him stumbling into a meeting secretly full of Arachnid's or Quntisesson eggs.

-Make sure to give him lots of aftercare though, pamper and coo at him, get him some energon and call him a good bot

-sorry if I went to far, just wanted to tell someone about it

-💌

ohhhh MAN, these are all so good...

tfo sentinel having a raging organic fetish is the best and i won't take criticism. you just know that this bot jorks it every night to the thought of having a quintesson dominate him. he's genuinely considered just giving up his body to the quintessons (while nobody's watching, of course) so that they can tie him up with their tentacles and pump him full of eggs. if that doesn't work, he'll indulge by watching quintesson x cybertronian porn, fantasizing about being the hapless bot featured in said videos

if the quintessons won't take him, he know airachnid will. those two have gotta have something freaky going on for airachnid to put up with his traitorous ass. his valve has to be insanely good. it wouldn't surprise me if sentinel gets so desperate that he comes to airachnid for help, only for her to pin him down with her extra legs and pump him full of her clutch

and i can imagine airachnid loves it. she murmurs her praises to him, telling him how good of a carrier he is, how her eggs will incubate inside him, how she'll make sure that they're fertilized (read: she's gonna frag him again and again and again)

and sentinel just has to endure it. he has to address cybertron as his frame starts changing, adjusting to his forge being so full of eggs

i have too many thoughts about sentinel being full of eggs lmfao

[malscare]

like we were talking about this situation with our mutual friend at work that he fucked up. and he was on this whole thing about how he hates Walter White so much because he "reminds him too much of himself". scary statement on its own. but like specifically in the context of how walter acts so entitled and ruined every good situation he was in because something wasn't exactly the way he wanted it & how he's like that in his friendships with women & how he feels like he's always slotted into the gay best friend role but never viewed as an option even if that would make them less close/likely to open up

then he brings up the fact that he wanted to date me and was going to ask me out a couple weeks ago and then didn't because he doesn't want to embarrass himself but also feels like he already has (😐) and then doesn't want us to end up hating each other. i remind him of the "it would be pointless to date you bc you don't want kids and i do" situation & that i never considered anything more with him after that. he insists i misinterpreted what he was saying but that was literally his exact wording.

he then spends 20 MINUTES driving around trying to convince me 1. to have kids 2. to have HIS KIDS 3. how cute our kids would be and brainstorming a ship name. he's talking about me getting pregnant IN THE FUTURE TENSE, SAYING HE'S "MANIFESTING" and im actively reacting negatively. idk if he thought it was just a bit but he started singing a fucking hamilton child song as a quirky way to keep convincing me and only stops this shit when i make a move to jump out of the car at a stoplight. hating him speedrun any%

[killerotto-blog]

DEFENSE OF KNEEBY/SPARKLECAREHOSPITAL

Everyone ganging up on her and screaming at her to leave and that she's some sort of monster is crazy. She went through trauma and made her own creation off of it, and maybe it was a bad idea to have a bunch of traumatized fans become obsessed with her comic, she's clearly still healing and everyone who is lashing out at her is too, and everyone's just full of emotions. It's okay to be upset or disagree with what she did, but remember there is a human behind that screen. Her comic clearly had a lot of love and care put into it and wasn't just a "secret fetish comic" if you actually read it there's a lot more to it than that, even if you don't like the comic or her opinions you can tell it's not just a fetish comic. Everything she did that had anything to do with her interest was kept in spaces with close people only, and completely separate from her actual story. She even explained it herself in some of her recent posts. Her own personal ideas that nobody else will understand has no bearing on the comic, nobody even picked up on anything weird until her private information came out, which is unfair to her. You're free to not enjoy the comic anymore if this really ruined things for you, but it's her own creation and anything bad to do with it was 100% private and personal. Even if it's a bad way to cope, she's still trying to heal, she just started therapy, it's complicated and we're all human. The screenshot of Emsody is honestly more self-incriminating than anything. I cannot imagine the lunacy of thinking that others are supposed to just *know* you're uncomfortable without you even saying a thing! & her lashing out at Kneeby over it was just uncalled for, listen, it's not others jobs to read you and know what discomforts you when you aren't even vocal about it! Kneeby did not need to apologize for that at all. People today have become too entitled to expect people to just know they're uncomfortable when they act on board and do things! You cannot be mad at someone for this. I've even seen people calling her out while saying "yeah I did it too" or "I encouraged it" but just brush past it or act like it's different because they were secretly uncomfortable just to add onto hate of her. Some of the stuff is even from years ago that I've seen, like dating as teens and her doing weird stuff. You can't expect her to read your mind. I can reiterate that it's okay to be uncomfortable with things she's done but it's silly to act like she's a monster who did all of this on purpose. Honestly I've never talked to Kneeby but just watching this from a distance this is all absolutely heinous to me the way you guys are treating her, and I'm not even into much of her works anymore but I was huge into her sonic the cat series as a kid so nonetheless I'm still around to see whats going on from time to time. And I must say you guys are ruthless. This girl is completely harmless and not a danger to anyone, she made drawings IN PRIVATE and she obviously knows its weird and wrong but it happens, when you have that sort of stuff happen to you as a kid sometimes difficult feelings and stuff like this comes about, its complicated but in the end it is just drawings, not even graphic ones at that. Even I think its a gross and bad coping mechanism but she's not an evil person for it, shes just creating things to cope with what she went through in private with *trusted* friends (who clearly had it out for her anyway.) The people who posted this callout clearly have a personal vendetta against this girl because she had not wronged them, she's obviously very mentally ill and just doing literal ship art of colourful animals, yes its weird and whatnot but why does this warrant the whole world to know, for her whole story to get leaked and for her to be doxxed? That's just absolutely moronic. In the end I just think people are blowing this way out of proportion. Unfortunately you know how this side of the internet is.

[nanomooselet]

I hunger for good dubbed anime to watch. Sell me on Trigun-make me the newest fandom convert.

A'ight. Get comfortable, this is gonna be a long one.

In its simplest sense, Trigun is a sci-fi western story that grapples with some pretty profound questions about love, principle, volition and autonomy, hope and despair, family and friends. Vash's secrets are stranger and more terrible than can be imagined in advance - I promise you, whatever spoilers you've learned don't prepare for the wrenching sorrow and horror of his life.

But it is a fundamentally kind story. And also very funny! Vash is in many ways a Looney Tunes character. He's a strange and sweet man with no attachment to his dignity and way smarter than he seems, which means he's doing it all on purpose. He might be my single favourite character to appear in any anime ever.

Trigun is set on the burning desert planet of No Man's Land, where a set of colony ships crashed a century and a half ago. The planet is almost devoid of resources, so we rely upon beings called Plants to survive - precious biological reactors that can produce power and water. They are expensive and difficult to find (the technology to make them was lost in the crash) and more of them are failing over time. Enter Meryl Stryfe (an insurance consultant in the older continuities, a reporter in the new one) set to track down Vash the Stampede, the Humanoid Typhoon, a man with the highest bounty on his head in living history: sixty billion double dollars. The crimes attributed to him are terrible. Mass murder, the destruction of cities. So Meryl's going to try and monitor him to see if the damage he causes can be reduced. And that sets her off on learning the story of Vash's life and the history of the planet he walks. Other characters include Milly Thompson (Meryl's assistant and friend, who is set to show up in Trigun Stargaze) and Nicholas D. Wolfwood, a man who quite literally bears a cross and odd secrets, but none quite so strange as those of the man he staunchly befriends.

Okay so. A lot of people started with the OG anime series, released in 1998, and find a lot of value in it, but I have to front: I did not enjoy it at all. While Vash's silliness is cute, it's also wholly unfocused, the dub extremely amateurishly written and acted, and the attitude towards women in it is fucking weird, bordering on disgusting, which I gather is because the director kept pushing the pervy comedy and the staff all hated it. That said, the soundtrack is a banger, and I like that it gave Meryl more of a position as the viewpoint character. The dub was on Youtube but... seems to have been removed, great. So I don't know where you can find it now.

Then there's the original manga. The two initial volumes were shounen, but the magazine folded before it could be complete. When Nightow revived it in another it was reclassified as seinen and renamed Trigun Maximum. I strongly recommend it in its entirety, because it's a magnificent story. A more or less definitive online fan translation is floating around, it should have everything you need.

And then there's Trigun Stampede.

I love the manga a lot, and it's obvious the people who made this show did too. It engages with its themes and plays with the expectations set up by it being an adaptation while clearly resounding with love for the story. Everyone working on this goes harder than I've ever seen anyone go on anything - music, acting, animation, cinematography, even the writing in the English dub is powerful and meticulous, with an unflinching eye to the darkness of its themes. Because Stampede specifically talks about how Vash became the man he becomes when he doesn't done it yet. And it also does something absolutely extraordinary, which is discuss the persecution of femininity even in those who are not women. This Vash is much softer, passive, gentle and nurturing, and the story is relentless in the brutality he attracts. This version of Vash's genocidal brother might be the most chilling of all, because he is realistically emotionally abusive even as it's obvious he loves and needs his twin.

Plus the fight scenes are, hands down, the greatest I've seen in animation for the last decade. There can be no debate. The final battle in the twelve episode is a thing of beauty, perfect characterisation and relentlessly ratcheting tension, spectacle that blows your eyes out the back of your skull.

It all really makes me happy. It's... man, it's hard to state how beautiful and inspiring I find the story. I really hope you love it, and I'd love to discuss it with you once you're done!

(I've written much, much more about it in this handy-dandy index, but it's riddled with spoilers, so beware.)

[palarien]

sketched this out at jury duty actually