#beautiful storytelling

[duckielover151]

Clearly, Ouran's gonna be my thing for a while. I just keep finding new meaning in little details that make them even more beautiful.

The final storyline of the anime, culminating in seeing firsthand just how bad things are with Kyoya's father and getting Tamaki's troubled family history is so, so good.

Not just because those are interesting storylines. But because it proves a point I'm not sure was even intentional: as much as they've been ragging on Haruhi all series long for being a "commoner..." she's rich in ways they're not. She has the classic tragic protag backstory of having a dead mother... but by a long shot, she still has the best family relationship of any of the other hosts.

One of my absolute favorite details is at the start of the last episode, where she's stressed about the club potentially shutting down and Tamaki leaving, and her dad tells her that he knows she's upset because she skipped breakfast. Something she apparently hasn't done since the morning of her mother's funeral.

And, like, we already knew Ranka loved his daughter. But consider the implications to this particular detail. It's not just that he knows her well enough to notice something out of place in her routine. We know that he works a job that keeps him out late into the night. That it's breakfast specifically that gave her away means that he makes a point to get up early to see his daughter before she leaves for school each day. And that makes me super emotional.

I had a parent who worked 3rd shift. We never questioned that this meant we'd just see her at different times of the day. (And I'm not judging her for not getting up to see us off each morning or anything!) It's just really important to me that everyone recognizes the extra effort Ranka put in.

There's enough shitty anime parents out there. I love to shout out the good ones when I can.

[crookshanks23]

Season 1, Episode 28: The Bridges of Dad and Son County

Favorite Moment: The reveal at the end.

General Thoughts:

Oh man, the sad Scam Likely hold music. Forgot about that one.

So, the way I've been doing these is that I start these drafts and then leave my draft open while I'm listening. I'll occasionally pause the episode when something hilarious, thought-provoking, or something I forgot about pops up, I'll type it into my notes and then resume the episode.

I took almost no notes on this episode because I was just enjoying the re-listen. It was hard to turn my brain on for analyzing. So, I only typed up the bit about the Scam Likely hold music at the beginning. Because when I do a lot of my re-listens, I skip the intros and table talk to get right into the episode, so I've forgotten a lot of these intros and dad facts.

This is one of those episodes that is just so engrossing for me. The plan is put into motion. And it succeeds. And the best part - it succeeds with a twist.

Grant was able to keep the orb, getting all the kids back to the van, Doug was able to pilot the drone, and the dads "successfully" communicated with the purple robes to make it out to the bridge. These are some of the moments that make players feel awesome and powerful. When a plan goes well and they're rolling great.

But then Anthony throws in this great reveal. The bad dudes? Yeah, the ones that have been annoying them and telling them they're bad dads? Turns out, they're their fathers. My mind was blown on my first listen. Definitely one of those moments, where I verbalized my "whhaaaaa????" that usually just happens in my head. It doesn't matter how many times I listen to it - this reveal is so cool to me. I've listened to the last 10 minutes of this episode probably 20-30 times (and I've only been listening since January).

Next episode - one of my favorite combats. And a true introduction to the man we all love to hate: Willy Stampler.

[bizarrelittlemew]

i can't wait to be 30+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 40+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 50+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 60+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 70+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 80+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 90+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to look back on my life and know that i loved things deeply and passionately and was inspired to create and was part of communities with incredible people from all over the world brought together by the stories that touched us

[niinnyu]

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[mmoofykins]

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I am literally so scared to post this u don't understand haha

Fanart for Cass apocalyptic series by @somerandomdudelmao

[illustratus]

Scheherazade and the Sultan by Alfred Choubrac

[brummiereader]

DAISY! I got it wrong...I said I thought it was Tommy in your WIP snippet 🤦‍♀️! But it's our cheeky John ❤️, how could it not be!

Oh god this story....😭.I can see how you broke your own heart writing it. I had no idea how it was going to end whilst I was reading it. I kept thinking back to its title, so I had my suspicions, but no...it was so much more heartbreaking 💔😢. Your write this beautifully hun, it's absolutely stunning. From their meeting to her having a baby to him going to France then coming back.

My heart exploded with love when his daughter showed him the picture she had been carrying of her daddy 😩, so bloody adorable!

I honestly got so nervous at the hanging part, I thought maybe that's where everything would end. But then when it got to the Christmas card part my heart sunk, I knew he wouldn't get lucky again. Daisy...😭��! This part was so heartbreaking, I thought she had got injured and not him, but then when you wrote how she turned her head to see John on the floor with blood coming out his mouth, the image of it appeared instantly in my mind, you wrote it so perfectly I felt I was experiencing it.

THE ENDING...now I thought with the title there might be an afterlife plot within the story and there was 😯🤍! Wow, I've never read something where both of the main characters are together in this way, it was incredibly gripping! For a very quick moment I thought Y/N was dead and John had survived and she was watching him in the afterlife, but when he came to her and hugged her, I was in shock! It was so heartbreaking to think their children have no parents anymore. But unbeknownst to them their parents are looking down on them guiding them, which was a beautiful touch to end the story. I loved the small supernatural feel to it, and I'm still very curious as to who the man John made a deal with was , an angel? A devil? Or some otherworldly being. Incredible story, that stirred up lots of emotions. Well done, I absolutely loved it ❤️ !

Guardian Angel

John Shelby x reader

A/N: I have arrived, ready to break your hearts just like I broke my own while writing it. This was inspired by a prompt I found, I kept thinking about it so I decided to write it but I gave it my own twist. The prompt is added at the end so there won’t be any spoilers just yet. 

I put on a sad playlist to get inspiration. One song stood out and really helped me write it, I just had it on repeat at some point. I think it fits well so if you’d like to listen to it while reading, it’s this song:

Lost without you by Freya Ridings 

Warnings: Death, mentions of blood, guns, swearing, mentions of their almost hanging in S4, I added a few canon things in here but it’s not really canon. You’ll recognize them. In summary: ANGST (I take NO credits for the phrases/scenes that were used in the series)

Word count: 5462

Every time things took a turn for the worst, there was somehow a way out. Except for now. 

(Y/N) and John met each other in 1912 while she unintentionally and unwillingly became a part of John’s theft of cigarettes and too expensive whiskey, saving him from a lot of trouble that afternoon.

He never forgot the girl who helped him. Or well, he might’ve forced the help just a little when he ran past her and crammed the cigarette packages and bottle in her already full basket. He fled immediately because he was still being followed by a furious shop owner. 

Nobody would expect such a beautiful girl to help out someone like him, so he knew his loot was safe.

John went looking for her when the commotion had settled. Thinking she might went home but soon enough found her on the corner of the street, looking angry and helpless at the same time. His eyes twinkled and a big grin grew on his face when he had approached her. “Thank you for that.” 

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[chaoskilled-dinosaurs-darling]

Liv’s speech about not wanting to do what people expect of her anymore was felt in my soul and sent my late 20’s ass right back to being 18 and I didn’t not care for it

[chompe-diem]

hey. don't cry. audible smile in brian murphy's voice when he says "...but it's good when your friends look out for you" ok?

[ambeauty]

thoughts on tomorrow

So I was thinking about tomorrow and how it’s filmed, and how the timeline shifting becomes a feature of the storytelling. Critically, it has been stated that it’s one of the most creative things ever done on television with storytelling. Like Storer was really in his Nolan bag with that one. I, like everyone else, enjoyed it immensely. On first watching trying to keep up with how many days between FNF and before official open and between Noma, Chef Terry���s, Daniel, and the French Laundry etc. was a little chaotic but that’s not why we’re here.

I recently rewatched the clip from Chris Storer at the premiere and what he said the episode tomorrow was about. Which is to paraphrase, “meeting the right people when you’re supposed to and legacy.” So we watch all these different timelines converging around Carmy as he thinks about everything that got him to this point. And if you’re a Loki enjoyer like me, I started to think of the timelines as branches, and it’s a Disney show so I feel like it fits, but anyway, the branches of Carmy’s timeline all converge during this episode. And everything he’s learned and every decision he’s ever made on his own, led him to Sydney. Including things out of his control. It’s always been her.

The first person he speaks to out of the fridge in one of the present timelines is Sydney. And there’s really not much dialogue in this episode but most of it in the present is coming from and to Sydney or because of Sydney.

And the episode ends with the beautiful moment of Carmy making the decision to sub the blood orange and it goes to Sydney who is beautifully centered in front of a giant tree. The tree representing the legacy that Carmy describes in legacy. Sydney is the only person in Carmy’s life who values what’s important to his legacy. Call Richie, I’ll call Marcus. Two branches of their family tree.

Sydney really is at the center of this story in all the ways that matter and all the ways that count and Chris Storer basically told us that at the premiere. This is a story about Carmen and how all of his paths converged to lead him to Sydney, his present, his future, and his legacy.

Excuse me while I go ugly cry😭

[cinderella-ish]

And it’s so layered!! I keep seeing details in new ways on every rewatch/reread!

Not to derail the Aziracrow train I've been on but this is Fandom-Madness69 so

Let's talk about Fruits Basket.

Let's talk about this wonderfully painful anime. Let's talk about everything about it. The way the tone is almost always shifting but never at a moment where you don't want or need it to. From serious discussions about people's lives, behaviors, bad habits, toxic traits, the whole Zodiac Curse, etc. To joking. Laughing. Bent over with tears in your eyes and your lungs burning to draw another breath but you can't because let's face it what Momiji just did was too cute and just stupid enough that you won't stop laughing anytime soon.

In fact you're going to end up going to that mode where you're silently gasping for air and clapping like a dumb seal. Anyone who has seen this anime knows I'm not exaggerating. And then it will shift again and shatter your hopes, your dreams, everything you thought was going to happen. It will rip your heart out, tear it to shreds, and stomp on it. And then it will come along five minutes later and sew your heart back together, heal those bruises and then hand you back your heart. Like

"Here see all better. It's worth it right?"

And you'll be tempted to say no. Because after all that's abuse right? But the hope will take over and your inner Tohru will win out. And you'll take your damaged heart back with a promise that will be broken. And just when you thought you'd had enough something finally snaps.

Something finally gives and changes for the better. And you fully embrace your inner Tohru as you watch these characters struggle with something ancient weighing them down in a modern world. Tying them to promises they didn't make and that no one could remember. I could go on for days about this anime.

I've made grown men sob their eyes out over this anime.

This is a good starter anime because you get a feel for a lot of the incredibly popular tropes in anime, all the obligatory arcs, the silly moments. But you also get gut punching, heart wrenching, literal back stabbing pain. And it's beautiful. It's sad. And it's so fucking worth watching again and again.

[seafoamification]

I just think it’s pretty beautiful that Hua Cheng has a deformed side of his face clearly representing the body in the abyss, heart in paradise/the one basking in infinite glory is you, the one fallen from grace is also you/half crying and half smiling faces/general themes of the ugly and beautiful sections of a person as a whole and both being an accepted and loved thing.

[foreststarflaime]

I looove how all the funny anime swords in ff7 seem to be made the way they are for a reason. Like sure we can all laugh at how big and unwieldy the Buster Sword is, and how it would never work irl, but like…that’s kinda the point? I mean everyone who’s wielded it is a supersoldier with their strength enhanced like crazy, so the fact that they can wield a sword like that so effortlessly is actually a simple but wonderful way of showing just how strong they are, by showing us rather than just telling us.

And I’ve already said my bit about Rapier, but it being matched perfectly to Genesis in fighting style and personality holds up with all the famous swords, really. The Buster is a big bear of a sword, with a sense of grandeur resting upon it not from any inherent quality of it, but from the love and devotion bestowed upon it—a perfect mirror of Angeal, the wielder it was made for. And as it rusts and gets wear and tear on it over time, it shows the inner turmoil Angeal never lets himself show to others, and as he is forgotten and what he stood for fades more and more the Buster rusts alongside him, and is left as a lonely monument in the wastes. It fits Zack too, when he takes it up—Zack, whose every breath was taken for his friends, loyal to his mentor’s memory until the last, wielding the physical manifestation of that purpose and passing on what he saw as good to another of those friends. And it fits Cloud, who was clinging to ideals perhaps better laid to rest along with his friends, barely even knowing what he was clinging to, and it fits that this isn’t his sword in the end, when in healing he makes the Fusion Sword—even more fitting for him, made of a number of different mismatched blades, pieces coming together to form an even stronger whole.

[napttune]

Beauty and the Beast (LeoVil)

I have a proposal for the Beauty and the Beast themes in Vil x Leona that everyone kept on talking about. I might be wrong but most of the people I found on social media within the Twisted Wonderland community and ships Leona with Vil seems to think that the Beauty is Vil and the Beast is Leona.

Let me propose you this:

The prince is known to be a young prince who once lived a pampered life and is notoriously selfish, spoiled, and unkind in his youth. When the prince turned into the beast, he thought no one would love him because he’s now ugly.

Vil values the beauty of all. He values his beauty A LOT. So, I think Vil as the Beast should learn that his beauty doesn’t matter when he has a beautiful soul and people would still love him for himself and not for his beauty. I think it would make for a wonderful fanfic.

Then for Leona, Belle is a kind hearted soul and truthfully Leona is not too kind hearted but he’s honest. He would help Vil to be a better person by being honest unlike the maids and butlers who constantly lies on Vil’s attitude.

I don’t know how to explain it but Leona as Beauty and Vil as the Beast is a nice change of pace.

[the-underrated-moon]

The PROSE!!!! I went into this with absolutely no expectations and have been blown away the depth given to Aurora. The character background that I didn’t know I needed but now I can’t live without. A thousand thank you’s for this recommendation!

@hprecfest Day 9: a rare pair fic

Slice of Night, by SquibNation10

One of my favorite fics from this year's rare pair fest. Aurora Sinistra/Severus Snape is not a ship that would have occurred to me, but it's absolutely gorgeous. I love how Aurora is fleshed out from a character who is barely seen in canon to a three-dimensional person. It's interesting to think about what it would be like to work the night shift at Hogwarts, teaching on a very different schedule from her colleagues. Her relationship with Snape is compelling, but also complicated and bittersweet, because this is a canon compliant fic that includes HBP and DH.

[soscarlett1twas]

man fuck elias and his unreliable narrator tendencies im trying to piece together your mothers life what do you mean you don’t have it all memorized