#and nope! thats not what happened!

[hinasho]

Ariel’s “Siren Song”

So I’ve been reading the Guide to Merfolk book. It dives into the lore in The Little Mermaid (2023) universe and has brought up a lot of interesting things.

One of those things is Siren Songs and their variants. Each song type has different abilities. One of them is the well known “lure” ability, but there are others.

Ariel sings to Eric after rescuing him from the shipwreck, and an observing Sebastian says smthg about her using her “siren song”. As Siren Songs have different types, I believe the song Ariel sings to Eric on the beach is different from the song Vanessa/Ursula sang to him on the rock.

HEART SONG

An aria sweet as honey dripping

Sends cool hearts aflame and senses slipping--

Lulling the longing to wander and stray,

Following the ballad into the spray.

ERIC’S NOTES: “Yeah, this would never work on me. Not in a million years.”

For context, the blue writing is notes that Eric has left behind. The way the guide book reads, it’s as though we’re in Eric’s study reading this book after he has.

A “Heart Song” is basically a love song. It makes the victim fall senselessly in love with the siren, and is basically romantic brainwashing. I believe this is the song Vanessa/Ursula tried to use on Eric on the rock.

His comment about “it never working on him” makes me even more sure, given that we know, despite using Ariel’s Heart Song, Eric was still not completely in love with Vanessa and was still pining over real Ariel. I believe him saying “it would never work on him” is supposed to be irony/foreshadowing.

HEAL SONG

A potent siren tune more sharp than flat

Mends bruised wounds from scraps and bites from the bat--

Fighting poison to cleanse and to discard,

Restoring health through the melodic bard.

ERIC’S NOTES: “Hey! I wouldn’t mind this song one bit.”

Meanwhile, I believe the song Ariel sings to him on the beach is her “Heal Song”, a song that cures wounds and ailments.

Ariel does not know human anatomy. She might have books about certain things and knows humans can’t breathe underwater, but she does not know how to medically resuscitate a human, and her pats on Eric’s chest did absolutely nothing. It’s not until she sings does Eric actually come to and open his eyes.

There are several other reasons why I think it’s highly unlikely Ariel used her Heart Song (despite it just not making any sense). For one, Ariel clearly had no idea her interest in Eric was reciprocated when she came to land. She did not know he was out searching for her. And two, when Eric does run into the room and sees her for the first time, he is obviously disappointed because he thinks she’s just some stranger. He’s not “senselessly in love” as a Heart Song would lead him to be.

So I believe Ariel used her Heal Song to revive Eric from drowning, meanwhile Ursula tried to use a Heart Song to brainwash him into being in love with her. Just a tidbit I found interesting.

[mercurymacaroons]

arrives 15 min late with a latte

......sup

[aurorangen]

What would you do if you found out your crush is your blind date? Me? I would start freaking out like Oscar right here 😖 Riku kept Suzume's identity a secret right to the very end and this was Oscar's reaction!

[ywpd-translations]

Ride 768: Doubashi attack!!

Pag 1

1: Orange....

“Less of a hero”? Ah!?

2: Nonsense!!

You've never been a hero to begin with!!

Pag 2

1: Ha..... Hakogaku!!

Even Hakogaku caught up!!

2: Thick.... thick.....

3: A man like this holds the strongest of powers!!

6: I'm thin compared to him!!

That's not true, Oosumi-kun!!

7: Senpai, is he strong?

The Hakogaku member who last year defeated Sohoku's Kaburagi in the first day's sprint is

Pag 3

1: him, Doubashi Masakiyo!!

Buah!!

Pag 4

2: Buah...

So in the end you've decided to run?

3: “Chicken”

Pag 5

1: We're passing by the sign the signals 5km until the sprint line!!

2: Hakone Academy.....!!

3: Ace sprinter, Doubashi!!

Ugh.....

6: We're at “5km left” until the sprint

7: There's not much left

Pag 6

1: It won't take more than “10 minutes”!!

2: So you've come, Doubashi!!

It's “san”!!

San!!

How many times have I told you!!

3: Again!!

Pag 7

1: You want to get revenge against me!!

2: That's how someone who won last year would speak, but you lost against me!!

3: Hahaha, are you being a sore loser?

I'm telling you you're the one who lost!!

4: Whatever, come at me!!

It's not whatever, what are you even thinkin when saying that!!

Are you that self confident

Pag 8

1: We'll definitely win!!

2: Interesting, buah!! I came here to humble you!!

4: Ugh....

He's different.....!! He's much more dangerous now that he's running rather than when I met him this morning in the tent!!

Pag 9

1: Hakone Academy's Doubashi!! He's so overwhelmingly intimidating!!

It's like the pressure of a huge raging bull that has its eyes on you!!

2: Just by looking at me he makes me feel like my hands and feet are restrained

Issa fought against someone like him last year!?

4: No!!

5: Calm down

Steady your breathing

6: Swallow your nerves, Danchiku Ryuuhou!!

Pag 10

1: He moved on his own!!

Everyone is so overpowered by Hakogaku that they're not moving!!

For me, on the contrary

2: It's a chance!!

Nagoya's Komao used the curve and jumped ahead

He plans on going ahead alone!!

Pag 11

3: The sprint line is 5km from here!!

Horse acceleration!!

I think I can aim for a breakaway victory!!

4: That guy has a reputation for running solo!!

Gallop!!

This is bad!!

5: Doubashi has an incredible pressure!? But isn't this kind of things

6: just fears that we create ourselves!?

7: I can keep going like this!!

Doubashi isn't worth fearing!!

Pag 13

1: Where are you going?

3: Uaaaaaaagh

Pag 14

1: I thought I was 200m ahead of him, and yet

2: I could have let you go freely, but if you keep wandering around in front of my eyes like that

3: I can't win comfortably!!

Wa-

Pag 15

1: Hakogaku's Doubashi accelerated in an instant and passed Nagoya!!

Gallop!!

2: Together with Sohoku!!

3: Ah!? “Sohoku”!? Tch!! He reacted at the same time as me...?

4: You're the only one who can react at the same speed as me in this leading pack

Orange!!

Pag 16

2: Chicken!!

Pag 17

2: Orange is still behind!?

3: Did he give an order to this guy?

4: And he still managed to keep up with my speed of reaction!?

6: What, this guy's eyes, this running

Pag 18

1: What happened, your expression has changed!!

So this guy wasn't a chicken!!

2: Sorry, Doubashi-san

We'll take this sprint

3: The two of us!!

Pag 19

1: Garuaagh

2: After stopping Nagoya down, Sohoku number 5 jumped out from there

3: and attacked again!!

Tch

4: Hahaha

I told you!!

Pag 20

1: “We'll definitely win”!!

2: Orange!!

Hahaha, what we're aiming for is to be

3: “Japan's number one”!!

4: I'll make you Japan number two!!

[allpromarlo]

every day i wake up and megumi isn’t back yet and i cry

[crazyspookies]

“You know that’s not one of your strong suits, right?“

[hyewka]

re..sis..ting the urge to write a brothers best friend beom hard thought..ha..

[onboardsorasora]

Mobwife Daniel is something I didn’t know I needed and now it’s all I can think about. Like maybe Lewis or Toto are a part of the rival mob and are equally obsessed with Daniel and hate that Christian got to him first.

I think I just like the idea of Daniel being at the center of these men’s attention

Bestiebestiebestie Mobwife Daniel is truly that bitch. Honestly, I'm surprised this isn't like omegaverse lmao but ANYWAY

(here's the rest of the Mobwife Daniel thots. Plus Max's POV)

I like this idea, that maybe when Daniel was younger– before Christian, he was like this sought after bride. He’s from a good family, Joe is a well respected gangster and maybe like Daniel got married for the FamilyTM. Alliances are important and all that. Maybe Toto was like trying to get Daniel married to Lewis, they hit it off and Daniel was open to it. Then Christian came in like a shark and swept him off his feet.

So now they’re not like ‘at war’ over him, but sometimes Lewis or Toto will ‘end up’ wherever Daniel is. Like maybe he’s at lunch one day with Max.

Maybe Daniel is playing footsie under the table with Max and he’s giggling away at something Max said all deadpan and then Lewis sits at the table between them. And Daniel maybe swoons a little because Lewis is beautiful and they did have a lot in common– and were almost married.

Maybe Lewis cup’s his cheek a little, swipes a thumb along Daniel’s jaw before letting him go. Daniel tries to bit back his blush and fails. Max is jealous.

When Lewis eventually leaves with a smirk he pays their bill. He enjoys annoying Christian and his guys, because he’s still pretty salty that they scooped Daniel up from under him. 

I wanna say the first time it happens, they're in a store and Daniel is trying on some clothes. Max pulls a gun on Lewis and Daniel is like ‘whoa hey, calm down.’ And steps in front of the gun.

“Lew– you can’t just…” Daniel tries to chastise him, but he’s like half naked in an open satin robe. Lewis and Max are looking.

“I wanted to see you.” Lewis smirks and rests his hand on Daniel’s waist.

“Hey!” Max pulls Daniel towards him posessively. Lewis is still calm, cool and smirking.

“Maxy– Max. it's ok.”

“Daniel it is not ok. He’s Toto’s guy–”

“Max stop!” Max looks at Daniel with wide eyes cause he’s once again standing in front of the gun, protecting Lewis.

“Daniel, what the fuck?”

“It’s fine. I promise.” Then Daniel turns to Lewis and glares with his hands on his hips. “You promised you’d stop.”

Lewis shrugs but he doesn’t look contrite. “You should have married me.”

“Lew…”

“They’re taking care of you?” Lewis sounds serious now, his gaze was different– assessing.

“Yeah. I’m happy.” Daniel says softly. Lewis cups his cheek and then drops his hand.

“Good.” then he leaves. And Daniel watches him go all soft and Max is confused and jealous and Daniel has to explain to him the whole thing. And then maybe some possessive sex cause we love a jealous Max.

[squarebracketsmileyface]

I had an idea for something I wanna write for S,IL, specifically to do with Tim and Brian and their friendship in highschool, after Tim got out of the hospital and reintegrated into society, and goddamn this fic has me digging through old diary entries I saved on my phone. Some of the shit in there is just so stupid and dramatic and poetic and would work fucking perfectly for writing Severely Mentally ill Teenage Tim dealing with a weird "my best friend who I have a crush on is the only thing keeping my even semi sane, and also I have convinced myself he's a deity and I pray to him" thing 💀

This shit is so overdramatic and "cringe" but honestly it described EXACTLY how I was feeling so no actually, it's not cringe it's great. Y'know lol? Honestly tho, I love these little bits of writing I found, because they let me see exactly what younger me was feeling. Like "i feel sad and angry and my heart's beating too hard and I feel shaky and too cold" does NOT get how we were actually feeling across anywhere near as well as this bullshit.

Anyway if you wanna read a couple of these bits I found, they're under the thingy 💀

“I’m bleeding myself dry while I'm going on walks every day like everyone tells me to, and my mental health is still at its worst. I’m putting every penny of my self worth into this boy and twisting the crank to see what colourful hunk of plastic comes rolling out so I can bare it like it's my soul to anyone who asks to see that deep inside me.”

I was such a dramatic kid. Any time I was doing bad my thoughts just switched to overdramatic shitty poetry and I couldn't do anything about it 💀 I was such a fucking

“Can I appeal to your humanity as I lose my own?”

[bugcpu]

i think it's really funny how people just go on the internet and tell lies

[pidges-lost-robot]

The episode where Lance's Lion gets taken except they take Lance too and he has to get out and for some reason the only plan they have is having Keith in Yellows Mouth as they desperately try to catch up with them and they have to do the scene from The Runaway Bride from Doctor Who cause Lance absolutely does not trust Keith will catch him

And later Hunk yells at him cause he's known Lance a while and there's no way with the trust issues he displayed at the very beginning that he wouldn't have kept his beady eyes trained on Lance so it ended up with Lance having to track Rolo instead and they have to switch up their plan

[jacqcrisis]

I love how during the Murder Tribunal, none of the companions had anything to say about Holy Warrior Ronan being like 'oh yeah I'd love to be an assassin of Bhaal. Dribbles? Yeah, we super killed that guy. Really fun. Highly reccomend.'

Obviously, in game there's just nothing scripted there, but I like to think that after months of traipsing after the big lizard man and living through all his convoluted plans that have always worked, the party is just like 'yeah, sure, this might as well happen.' It'll be fine and it was (if you don't ask the rogue how many hits he took).

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

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[phagodyke]

was gonna say smth else but this turned into a vent sorry everyone just ignore. typical weekend post on this blog u know how it is here we go👍

[lokh]

WHY IS THERE AN EXTRA STITCH

[bunnyb34r]

Hopefully now that the ac is uncovered we can use it and cut down on my allergies 😩 please...