#bro this clip is majestic

[t-is-for]

Representing Zambia 🇿🇲 Racheal scores on her NWSL debut!

via NWSL March 30, 2024

[voidheartkisses]

Ultrakill fanart

[dxndjxrin]

Seventeen, Performance Unit: how they’d eat you out

Hello I’m back with another set for this little :) been a minute, but I’m getting back in my writing groove. If you enjoyed, pls check out my AO3 linked in my masterlist, and the other versions of this series <3

Vocal unit ver.

NSFW under the cut. 18+ only!!

Hoshi: buckle in and get ready for the ride of your life. Soonyoung IS gonna worship the ground you walk on, therefore he IS worshiping your pussy. He’s not stopping if you just cum once (unless you want to ofc), but it’s a whole ordeal and he loves it like that. When he can have some uninterrupted time with you, he wants to really focus on you because he just loves you so fucking much (and is also obsessed with seeing you cum). Honestly sometimes you have to check in on him to see if he’s still down to earth, man gets lost in the sauce but he lives for it.

Jun: y’all see that clip from his drama where he’s like “I’m hungry, but I don’t want breakfast, I want to eat.” That’s what he’s gonna do. Man is a pussy eating fiend. It’s messy, he has to hold your hips down to keep you from writhing everywhere, and he just gets into this trance of you. Your scent and taste, the noises you make. Jun’s obsessed w/eating u out, one of his favorite things to do. At this point he can sense when you want it too. He sees you get antsy, touchy with him, squeezing your thighs together and he’ll just put a gentle hand on your thigh to part them and say “oh baby, all u have to do is ask.”

Minghao: bro is elegant, majestic, and somehow he eats pussy like it too? He likes to warm you up for it though. Starts just by touching and touching and kissing, and finally when you have your clothes off and you think he’s gonna just dive in, no. He’s got patience too, he’ll go as slow as he damn pleases to just watch you lose your mind over him. He knows you like his hands too, so they’ll wander; his fingers will play with your clit a little if he takes a second to talk to you, they’ll grab at your chest, waist, hips, anywhere, which just increases the stimulation and the way he’s got you drowning in him.

Dino: Dear Channie is so eager to please. The first few times he’s not all that experienced, and although you assure him that you still enjoyed it, he is DETERMINED to get better and make you lose your mind. He gets competitive with himself kinda; he listens to all of your queues and anything you verbally tell him as well. He even asks Soonyoung (a little embarrassingly) for any tips but his hyung is MORE than happy to provide his wealth of knowledge. Once he puts that to practice, and you react oh so well, he gets confident. When he gets confident, he starts to get mouthy with you. “Oh, you liked that didn’t you? There you go sweet baby.” Like DAMN.

Divider by @cafekitsune

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25 Days of Shiftmas! MHA DR ｡𖦹°‧

⌗ 𝟏. christmas caroling ; What are a few songs that remind you of your dr? Why?

Field Trip - Kanye, Ty Dolla Sign; the beat goes hard and the vibe gives me the feeling of flying around to wherever in my dr (it's constantly been on loop for the past few days help)

Sao Paulo - The Weeknd; club vibes, sounds like the hype for the sports fest and school festival, as well as pep rallies (which I added to my dr cuz the ones at my school are shit)

Fuk Sumn - Kanye, Ty Dolla Sign - the audio most editors use to edit me during the sports fest and from news clips

Timeless - The Weeknd, Playboi Carti; I can't explain it bro it's just majestic

Long time - Playboi Carti; nostalgic, reminds me of middle school but in a bittersweet way

All Red - Playboi Carti; I saw an edit of my dad with this and I've just been obsessed with it ever since cuz it lowkey hits

Coming down - The Weeknd; reminds me of Katsuki cuz he's so scrumdillyumptious

You can tell I basically have no music taste but we ball

(Don't expect me to pull through with everyday because I tried with shiftober and it didn't end up happening 😬 but I love yapping about my dr so hopefully it'll be okay)

prompts by @solstices-dreams

[loveephia]

omg omg I need to ask you if you've seen the haikyuu stage play? if you haven't you really need to I swear you will not regret it (also a psa to the masses) I will never stop harping on it its just so good !! (Serves as really good Japanese practise too)

AAAAAAAA OFC I'VE SEEN IT!! I'M SO HAPPY YOU ASKED. I KEPT LAUGHING AT THE PART WHERE KENMA'S STAGE ACTOR STARTED PUNCHING THE OTHER STAGE ACTORS (I'M SURE YK WHICH SCENE I'M TALKING ABOUT, I DON'T WANNA GO TOO MUCH INTO DETAIL ABOUT /WHERE/ HE PUNCHED THEM, BUT I WAS OUT OF BREATH IRL FROM LAUGHING).

I WATCH IT FROM TIME TO TIME TO PRACTICE MY JAPANESE ACTUALLY, WHICH HAS BEEN REALLY HELPFUL AS OF LATE!! the haikyū!! stage play was where i got this huuuge crush on bokuto kōtarō's 2nd stage actor, sakuraba haruto. 😭 bro's so majestic I CAN'TTT[@!$(×

I WATCHED A FEW CLIPS BACK IN 2020 WHEN HAIKYŪ!! WAS SUPER POPULAR, AND I ALSO HAD A CRUSH ON OIKAWA'S STAGE ACTOR, ASUMA KOUSUKE. I ACTUALLY MENTIONED HIM ON MY STORY ONCE AND HE REPLIED!!!

the mention isn't seen on the actual story (i edited it out) bECAUSE WHAT I SAID WAS SO CRINGY THAT I GET 2ND HAND EMBARRASSMENT.

[m1ckeyb3rry]

BRO THAT KARASU HEADER IS SO GOATED but ngl im giggling at the fact that you thought of doing it for Karasu in the end and im all for it (obviously) WAITTT THE SCREENSHOTS LOWK ARE KARASU CODED good choice LMFAO “would you like a funeral for it” is so funny ok wait this story cooks fr….signing a petition to add this to your todo list (jk LOL or am I (but your list is so long rn so don’t take this seriously LMAO)

FRRRRR ALSO THE SMALL CLIPS FROM TODAYS EP TOO??? Wait I’m sure you know but NAGIS MOMENT WAS FIRE there was also actual movement this ep which makes me so happy because I’m not even that picky with the slideshow type animation but some of the earlier episodes were a bit brutal LOL also that one nagi scene where he’s flabbergasted is SO. FUNNY. I HAD TO PAUSE THE EP TO LAUGH BECAUSE THATS PROBABLY THE MOST EXPRESSICE FACE QEVE EVER SEEN HIM DO IM CRYING

Aikuniko unironically being one of my fav platonic pairings now because the dynamic is actually so fire and so funny like more people need to focus on this not the opps this is way more interesting imo

LMAOOOO REAL we’re the only strikers around here bastard munchen better come scout us

LMAOOO THE MOTIVATION BEING GEGE NOT GETTING IT TOGETHER so real honestly every now and then I think back to jjk and I can’t believe it’s over?? ATP just going to treat pi as canon because the ending really was messy and I barely even know wtf happened

AHAHSHAH the way that even you forget makes me laugh but you’re so real for that but the nagi mischaracterization is indeed quite insane…off the top of my head besides peregrine I can really only think of one other fic that stands out to me and doesn’t feel wildly ooc but it’s also like a medium sized Mira oneshot length not a full long fic either so looks like you still hold the crown LOL

ATE AND LEFT NO CRUMBS (I’m pretty certain there is a horror movie by that name or at least a thriller but I’m so bad with horror so I wouldn’t know the details LMAO) LMASOAOAOAO close enough you gave Yamada extra exp (I also have only heard of this in passing so twinsies) ok but rin and tullia actually does sound like a VERY interesting dynamic curious about where you think you’d put that pairing

Maybe I didn’t realize it and I’m going through my fall rut too like damn ok tumblr….tbf I actually think it’s a combination between my slow devices that are chronically filled to the brim storage wise because I constantly take videos and pictures….and also my reception being really bad recently although I’m not entirely sure why because that part of tech is def not my specialty but hopefully gonna get through this….

LAMAOAOOAAO ALL GOOD I LOVE LONG CHATS DW our yap sessions give me life

REAL bird symbolism >>>> also YEAH KAISER LMFOAOAAO he’s supposed to look exotic and flashy and well. He fits the bill!!!! His hair makes him look like a molting parrot that’s in like the in between stages of pin feather emergence or something but YESSS written so well especially with the showing not telling thing via writing honestly so impressive and really enjoyable to read it’s like it scratches an itch in my brain because I cannot get past works that are really poorly worded or have a lot of grammar mistakes sorry

OMG if you ever publish a book I’ll be your first reader (imagine it’s a masked Karasu or nagi story LMFAOOOO)

LMAOAAOAO wdym you are an artist look at that distinct style he’s so silly

I DID SEE IT WHIKE I WAS SCROLLING AND SOOOOO TRUE I also love the nagi rin duo so much potential ugh THE PARALLELS why do I feel like we’ve talked about this before but I couldn’t be making it up so er but anyways YES THE PARALLELS LMAOAOA I love parallels sm crazy how people are blind to the actual parallels embedded in the story that make for interesting dynamics but whatever

LMFOAOAOA yeah aikus not getting a glow up quite yet but NAGI WAS MAJESTIC tabieitaken too which makes me so happy!!!

REAL it’s not the liking that’s the issue it’s the hypocrisy lowk same idea applies to people creating ship wars and whatnot but it is what it is I guess I’ll just stay far away

SHSHS HOPE YOURE FEELING BETTER NOW!!! OOOOH breaks coming up!!! Hope you get some more relaxation timeeee also the meetup is so funny LOL sleep is always good that’s honestly me uhhh on my end yeah nothing too eventful besides me struggling with technology apparently but that probably also explains why it takes me several reboots to get my tv working too it’s probably partially slow internet connection urgh other than that also sleeping LMAOO nothing too crazy over here otherwise

Ok also I passed by your meme compilation and PAUSE DO YOU REMEMBER THE AQUARIUM IDEA WE TALKED ABOUT A LOOOOOOONG TIME AGO??? THAT KARASU HIORI ONE WITH THE FISH IS LITERALLY THAT OMFG LMFAPAOAOAOAOAAO

- Karasu anon

the swerving got to me ig SLKDFJHSD even kicking karasu out of the verse entirely wasn’t enough he still crept his way back in…AND as the male lead no less!! okay but do you see the vision like this version of megumi is literally karasu they’re even described the same (black spiky hair [because you will never see me calling karasu’s hair purple sorry not sorry purple hair is like reo to me karasu is just black but with…shading ig…] and blue eyes) it’s SO perfect LMAOAOA omg reader and megumi are so funny with each other they’re like kinda constantly roasting one another while also being insanely in love which again is SOOO karasu it’s crazy 😭 HAHA i will keep you posted currently trying to work on some 1k event stuff because i have to get through my requests and haven’t written in over a month so that’s as good a place to start as any

THEY DID NAGI SOSOSOSOSO WELL AHHHH I WAS SO HAPPY i knew they weren’t going to fumble him they love him SO much now i just need them to put that level of effort into barou and i will literally die with no regrets LMAOOO agreed the animation looked sm better this ep!! i totally didn’t mind it at all and i’m glad that since their budget and time were limited they’re focusing on doing their best with the really important bits (if that makes sense???) also SDLKFHJDS YES SHOCKED NAGI WAS SOOOO FUNNY PLS I WAS DYING he was fr like 😧 he looked so cuteee though but yeah i think that’s probably the most his facial muscles have ever moved in his life…actually wait on a more serious(ish) note i think it’s kind of cute that like as we go further along in bllk he’s becoming more and more expressive??? like him smiling with yukimiya and now this it feels like he really has more friends and is finally becoming more comfortable in himself and showing/having feelings it’s so sweet to see him opening up 🥹 (one thing abt me I WILL be taking the most random things seriously when it comes to nagi like is it truly that deep?? no but i am making it so)

AIKUNIKO FOR LIFE they are THE siblings of all time…actually ngl i was saying to someone that niko is literally the secret third itoshi bro if you think abt it like his eyes are EXACTLY the same (a bit rounder but he’s also younger), he and rin have super similar coloring, and he kinda has a similar personality to sae but a more innocent and sweet version?? like he could literally be revealed to be an itoshi and i’d be like ok sure checks out (also it’d be funny because then there’d be an itoshi on offense defense and midfield) bllk au where everything is the same but niko is randomly revealed to be an itoshi and the only reason he’s normal and not a bot is because aiku raised him he didn’t grow up around their weird soccer drama so he thinks it’s all silly

FACTS we’re literally ng11s atp….i think if i had to hc us on nel teams (this is a crazy statement) i would put you on pxg and i would put myself in barcha NO idea why though (actually wait then you can rizz up karasu and otoya can rizz me up and we can go on #doubledates)

I FORGET JJK IS OVER TOO i saw this slideshow on tik tok that was like “pov you’re seeing the last panel of a manga” and some of them were so emotional and then i saw the jjk one and i was just like ok…??? idk the ending just didn’t feel impactful at all to me something about it felt very incomplete and unfinished and it didn’t at all tie anything together to the point where the final panel left me empty the way a story like jjk SHOULD’VE (i have high hopes for the final panel of bllk although i hope we don’t see it for a while) agreed though SDKJHFS pi is canon everything else is just gege writing fanfiction

HELP rip peregrine truly the forgotten oldest child of the miraverse…i think it’s kinda crazy that besides peregrine and one post of headcanons that was a request i actually have not written nagi at all??? technically pursuit is a nagi fic but he’s at least 20k words away from debuting and the romance is so secondary to the plot that it almost doesn’t count so yeah haven’t written for him in ages which is crazy considering how much i love him…anyways slide that one shot over if you remember the title i don’t usually read much but if it’s coming recommended from you i will

LMAOAOA oopsies accidentally upped him a few levels SKDJFHS yeah it looks like a romance anime i’d watch in a weekend and forget about in a couple of days ngl but its existence served its purpose by awakening me to the rin and tullia potential honestly i feel like my default pick for a tullia pairing ESPECIALLY alongside nagi is isagi because he kinda fits the kind of character i put her with usually?? idk actually originally it was kunigami but then i was like “nah isagi makes more sense” also i didn’t know abt wildcard when i first watched s1 so i thought kunigami was fr cooked so i had to change gears because couldn’t have tullia with a random yk HAHAHA but now that i’m considering it i think rin and tullia would be so much more fun to write?? mostly because i don’t usually write tullia the way she is in pomegranate ink…like typically she’s a very serious, borderline rude in her bluntness/sarcasm, shy (but it comes across as cold), and competent (idk if this makes sense but she like. gets shit done and doesn’t start fights but finishes them LSKDJF) type of character which i think would intersect with rin very oddly as that’s the personality he tries to give off but we all know he’s not really like that HAHA it would be like a fake idgaf warrior x real idgaf warrior chemical reaction 😭 OR alternatively we go with the pomegranate ink tullia characterization which would also be hilarious because rin would just constantly be like wtf is she talking about meanwhile tullia’s dropping her “yk what they say abt assumptions they make an ass out of you and me 🙂‍↕️” wisdom LMAOOOO wait also if she’s more like her pi self then they’d def be that “quiet bf x he asked for no pickles gf” couple somehow like i can VIVIDLY imagine tullia beating rin’s opps up for him she’d even swing on shidou if necessary 🤩

okay wait let me cook what kind of scenario i would pair them up in…i think the male lead would probably be nagi in a fic where they’re the side couple?? because if it’s a long fic lbr the only options for male leads on THIS blog are nagi and karasu but ngl if the male lead is karasu i want tullia with hiori they would have that pi tullia x inumaki vibe and hiori makes more sense as a side character in a karasu story 🧐 let me branch out though and see if i can think of anyone else hmm the obvious option is isagi but erm. isagi has a long ways to go before he can make it as a love interest in the miraverse he should honestly be glad i allowed him to be in a love triangle(ish) with yayoi and barou in pursuit SDJKF uhh who else is even associated with rin…sae?? but a) i’m not writing MORE sae it’s bad enough how many reqs i have for him and b) idk how i would feel abt reader and tullia just dating siblings SLDJFS errr ig bachira is there but i’m incapable of seeing bachira as a love interest fsr…hiori but i also don’t have strong romantic feelings abt hiori like he’s chill but i def couldn’t write a fic abt him yk…why is rin so emo LKSDJFSLD bro has zero friends i gen think nagi is the only feasible option given the miraverse constraints (unless you have any other suggestions ☝🏻) actually that’s kind of annoying though because nagi is lowkey impossible to come up with aus for so now i’m going to have to ruminate on what kind of situation specifically that this could all work in

PRAYING FOR YOU AHHHH fall slump is inevitable fr LKSSDLFJ hmm have you tried going on the tumblr website instead of the app?? that might be a little faster if connection is the issue (no idea if that’s smth you’ve already done/usually do) but yes we will get through this november is almost over and then we will be freed

yeah kaiser is certainly giving…something…LMAOOO PIN FEATHERS SO REAL i think the bird symbolism became a little TOO literal with him which is kind of crazy coming from me (a karasu glazer) but idk karasu pulls it off better!! anyways i’m also just a kaiser hater because all of his fans are nagi haters for some reason (okay not ALL but. a lot.) so there’s automatic beef there like kaiser could literally be the best character ever and be absolutely gorgeous and he’d be my OPP but as it is he’s neither of those things so i will always be criticizing

AHAHAH YAYYY THAT MEANS SM i really try to treat my readers like they’re intelligent individuals?? even in books i think people try to baby their readers and spoon feed too much which just gets annoying and redundant so i just throw in subtle references where if you get it you get it and if you put the connections together that’s great but if you don’t it’s not HORRIBLE you just kinda miss out on some foreshadowing or themes before they’re explained more fully…especially with tumblr it’s nice because then i can post about it and people who did’t see it can then know what i was doing and people who did can be like “yeahhh i noticed that #socool” LMAOOO also sometimes people will come up with their own connections and theories that outclass anything i intended on adding which is always really fun as well but that would never happen if i was overly literal with everything because then there’s no room for interpretation if that makes sense (also agreed poor grammar/wording are indeed turn offs for me that’s another reason why i don’t read fanfic much anymore…not hating because everyone starts somewhere and no one is perfect but yeah i am very picky with what i read and that’s why 99% of the time i end up writing instead)

LMAOOO PLEASE can you imagine you’re reading a book and you’re like “wow this seichiro kagi guy who’s 6’3, lazy, white haired, and super talented sounds really familiar…” that’s how you know it’s by me fr actually honestly given how increasingly insane my ideas have been becoming as of late i could probably write an entire fic and then just use ctrl + f to have a completely new story

NAGI THE SILLIEST I LOVE HIM and so real they should hire me to draw episode karasu my portfolio is scattered throughout our asks i’ll do the story justice fr 🙏🏻

ngl it’s entirely possible that we have in fact talked about it before but i’m thinking about them sm rn…ugh…NAGIRIN IS LOVE NAGIRIN IS LIFE actually i think one of the reasons why people don’t talk about it is that people crash OUT if you ship nagi with anyone but reo (not that i’m shipping but yk) like i saw a nagisagi edit on tik tok (it was to the alchemy by taylor swift actually ngl it was cute hold on here’s the link) so i was like huh i wonder if people are posting abt this on tumblr come to find out people genuinely have like “nagisagi shippers dni” LMAO??? like why is it that serious 😳 you know i’m not really into shipping but look nagi and isagi have that yaoi eye reflection thing going on that everyone talks abt with nagire so i can see why people would ship them 😭😭😭 also they are like. such a normal ship?? like they’re the same age and they’re friends and nagi thinks abt isagi somewhat frequently and vice versa so i was genuinely surprised at how many people hate it KFDJDJSJ anyways long story short i will continue to spread my nagirin duo truth and if the haters come for me…we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it 🔥 although ngl since i never talk abt things in a romantic context i SHOULD be safe. we can hope.

also wait speaking of that edit this comment on it cracks me up every time i look back and see it LMAOO mostly because it’s actually very true but i didn’t think abt it until i saw the comment…like yeah isagi actually IS always going on abt how he and nagi can make a million different chemical reactions like in the 3v3 against kunigami chigiri and reo he literally hallucinated nagi surrounded by rainbow sparkles (when he’s like “the future with barou is dead but the future with nagi is bursting with life” or wtvr poetic pseudoscience bs he was on abt at the time) HAHAHAHA like i said i’m not a shipper nor an isagi fan actually but listen the vision is hilarious to me and idk why it’s not more popular

aiku looks good when we don’t get closeups of his facial hair and teeth LMAOO he looked cute w sendou though ig 😭 AGREED NAGIIII and all of tabieitaken but otoya especially really ate this ep!! and the barou crumbs AHHH I’M SO HYPE FOR HIS GOAL ACTUALLY I KNOW IT’S GOING TO GO OFF

EXACTLY AHAHAHJS no this is why i only discuss “ships” (more so duos for me) and character opinions and whatnot w you and jeirin because a solid majority of people in the bllk fandom are like. a diff breed /neg

YES i am finally healed thankfully been having a restful week for the most part!! just chilling w my dogs like usual…excited to see my high school friends during break as well as for the semester to finally be over soon 🤩 just need to get through finals in the middle of december and then i’m freeeeee (to write bllk fic mostly lbr)

LMAOAOAO YES ACTUALLY I THINK I SENT YOU THAT EXACT MEME BACK THEN TOO AND WAS LIKE “this is literally karasu and fwtkac reader” KDJDSJ for the sake of the larger population i made it hiori but just know that in my mind that’s what i was originally envisioning…similarly the one proposal meme that i had w kunigiri/nagireo was originally meant to be for peregrine with the “she said yes!” being y/n and kira instead of kunigami and chigiri HAHAHA

[truetogaia]

bro is majestic

hes actually looking at me in that second clip...

[hisqueeninthenorth]

Episode 6 of House of The Dragon aka The Chronicles of Rhaeneesha And Daemoni was heavy was night. Spoilers below so if you haven’t watched keep scrolling heauxxx and if you haven’t watched what are you waiting for?

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Aight y’all let’s get to it. We open this episode with new faces and a 10 year time jump. We see Rhaeneesha in a childbirth bed with no epidural. Medieval childbirth was brutal, but the pressure is on to produce heirs because what else are women good for right 😑

Lil man was born hale and healthy with a pair of STRONG lungs. Y’all see what I did there? Maury wasn’t needed in this case because we all knew Ser Laenor was NOT the father, but that’s besides the point. Alicent Ms Mixie Messy (with her PETTY a$$) done ordered the newborn brought to her “immediately” so she could evaluate his paternity with her own biased eyes.

Rhaeneesha dragging herself out of her birthing bed all through the Red Keep with an infant fresh off the pwassy is big Queen energy. She’s better than me cuz I woulda told Alicent “go suck ya madda Likkle eedjiat gal” but that’s why she’s the heir and I’m a commoner 🤷🏽‍♀️

Alicent Ms Mixie Messy greeting Rhaeneesha like she cares about her well being is level 1 Westerosi Noble shade.

Ole eight finger King done downgraded. Ya boy is missing a whole arm. Guess we gone call him the one Armed King from now on.

Now no one cares if whatever bacteria is eating his digits and limbs one by one is contagious because they handed Prince Joffrey over to his grandpappy and let him coo, gurgle, and lie about his nose.😑

Ms Mixie Messy trying my patience with her snarky remarks. “If you try harder, you may get one who looks like you” unnecessary af.

No sooner than step daddy of the year and Rhaeneesha leave the lego display room, Ms Mixie Messy starts in on Rhaeneesha. As much as I detest Ms Mixie Messy, and I don’t like her methods or motivation, she has a point about Rhaeneesha’s children clearly being illegitimate. Everyone suspects they’re not Laenor’s and if one of them were to contest for the throne it would be pure chaos. Rhaeneesha is very much like her daddy, creating succession crises left and right. I’m still team Rhaeneesha though 🤷🏽‍♀️

Viserys and his black mare and silver stallion story to explain away what we all know was wild. He shoulda just told her to mind her business from the jump. Annoying af.

That trail of blood that marked Rhaeneesha’s steps looked like foreshadowing to me 🤷🏽‍♀️

Ser Criston has a severe case of the spurns. He called Rhaeneesha out her name with his whole chest 😑

Now we see Alicent Ms Mixie Messy interacting with her chirren. Prince Aemon is a lil salty because his uncles and big bro gave him a pig, 100% his own fault because where were they gonna get a dragon? She looks bored with Helaena and pretty much tells Aegon after she messed up his very risky nut “Wake tf up!!” I know he was mad af cuz he was this 👌🏽 close! That conversation between the two was a direct parallel to the conversation her father had with her when he got fired.

Next we hop on over and check in with Daemoni and Laena. Now let me just go on head and get this out of the way. I don’t appreciate the time jumps because we can’t see the character growth and all the little political intrigues that make these characters what they are at this point in the timeline. I wanted to see Daemoni and Laena interact more.

The first clip of Daemoni and Laena was everything I needed visually. She looked majestic astride Vhagar. But that’s about where the majesty ends because next clip is Daemoni getting wooed to join the fight for Pentos. Our girl Laena is like “get to the point what do you want? Our chirren?” Ole boy is like “nah, we want to use your flying lizards as weapons.” That doesn’t go over well with Laena, who interjects with the “This ain’t our business” and Daemoni is like “chill.”

We get bout 47 seconds of papa Daemoni with his chirren and Dassit. Laena is tied of living like a guest, she misses her family and home and she yet again, gently reminds Daemoni that they’re not security guards and their dragons aren’t for hire. Daemoni wants to hear none of it.

Down to the training yard Ser Criston aka Mr Bitter Boots aka Prince Aemond and Aegon’s stepdaddy (because at this point he’s more invested than their decomposing pappy King One Arm) is training the Princes in the art of swordplay when Rhaeneesha’s real baby daddy suggests that he pay equal attention to his sprouts. Mr Bitter Boots didn’t appreciate that so he gave Real baby daddy what he was asking for.

The match up between oldest son and oldest son wasn’t a fair fight, and Mr Bitter Boots had to remind baby daddy that fights ain’t supposed to be fair. Needless to say Mr. Strong’s son took a beating and he had to intervene. Here come Mr Bitter Boots with the same slick talk to Mr Strong that he unalived Longmouth for last episode. Mr Bitter Boots found himself on his back getting the old ground and pound. Ser Strong said “Say it again, I bet you won’t” And Mr Bitter boots ain’t say it. He didn’t care about the beating which was by design, and also his lick back. He still mad Ser Strong is taking down that silver kewcheepurse.

Back to Daemoni and Laena. Poor baby’s dragon egg didn’t hatch and she’s feeling left out and neglected, remarking that her pappy doesn’t pay her any mind. Laena like most wives do, tried to soothe her child and make an excuse for her husband 😑 but y’all swooning over him though. That exchange between he and Laena was cringeworthy. Ion like how she said she’s accepted that she wasn’t his first choice. She sounded so resigned but still managed to try and inspire Daemoni’s funky a$$. I swear that man is a Trini carnival of red flags.

The aftermath of the training yard beating left The Hand Lyonel String hollering at his son, Rhaeneesha real baby daddy, and he’s thinking the same thing I’m thinking because if no one had a suspicion they have em now.

Rhaeneesha and her husband in name only have a heart to heart after he stumbles in drunk with his side piece. He tells her he wore the horns she provided for him and took her children to knee so he’s owed his adventure. She counters with “nah cousin, you had the royal treasury at your disposal to woo and wow your pieces but now it’s time to boot and rally.” She commands him to stay and that’s all folks 🤷🏽‍♀️

Alicent Ms Mixie Messy was rolling her eyes and scoffing like the booger she is at the council meeting. This is how I know Viserys is sofTT. Why is the Queen consort at the council meeting when he knows she’s openly hostile towards Rhaeneesha is beyond me. The council meeting was a clear power struggle between the women in his life. And how is Alicent tryna dismiss everybody like she’s the King 🙄

Rhaeneesha was tryna be the bigger person by offering an alliance through marriage and a dragon egg for her dragonless son, but Alicent isn’t here for it. She’s too busy tryna figure out where Rhaeneesha purchased the audacity to suggest one of the Strong boys to marry her daughter. She goes walking through the halls dragging Rhaeneesha’s name for the court to hear it and Viserys is just as useless as ever.

Now Lyonel Strong really has to be the most honorable man so far. He promptly tried to resign because it’s common knowledge his son was hunching on Rhaeneesha but King One Arm knew better. He did not accept the resignation. In hindsight it meant nothing.

Oh what’s this? Ms Mixie Messy eating dinner and plotting treason with Larys Strong aka Mr Make Sh1t Happen.

The goodbye scene with Mr Strong and his family was wonderfully executed. You could see the pain In Rhaeneesha’s face. Emma acted her face off in this scene without saying a word. Mr Strong showed out too. The emotion is his voice was palpable.

Nawt Rhaeneesha lying to the child without lying. And also nawt her leaving for Dragonstone. Honorable mention to her allowing Laenor to bring his piece along. The battle lines have been drawn folks. All the masks bout to come off!

Now the next scene of Daemoni and Laena shows her struggling in birth. This was upsetting for me. For many reasons. One of which they minimized her so much. The other was black women and childbirth 😑 and she deserved better. We get an important look into Daemoni’s state of mind and his feelings about Laena when he couldn’t make the decision to deliver the baby, because you know they’re rushing the timeline. But I just want to know how she managed to outpace Daemoni when he managed to outrun 1000 arrows.

Laena wanted to go out like a dragon rider with ancient noble lineage from Old Valyria. And she does, although at first she had Vhagar fawked up, and the dragon didn’t want to do it. That final “Dracarys” was heartbreaking.

Larys Strong aka Mr Make Sh1t Happen goes to the bowels of the dungeons and gets some waste men to carry out his nefarious plots. And we get a shot of Lyonel and Harwyn meeting their end in a fire set by the waste men. Now I know I said before them Westerosi kneegahs are a different breed but ole boy lined up his brother and his pappy to not even get a promotion, but to set Otto Pimpin Since Pimpin Been Pimpin Hightower back on the path to become Hand again.

The nerve of Alicent acting surprised and contrite. I know when she went to bed that night she slept with a clear conscience, if not a little worried that the snake she let into her garden can now blackmail her.

I’m giving this episode a 5/10 because the time jumps were weird and we miss a lot of context for the hostilities being what they are.

Til next week, Dracarys 🐉 🔥

#DemThrones

#HouseOfTheDragon

[clusterduck28]

nah bro i feel you it's also "goose" in the french dub and hunter is even worse since they don't have half of the sounds... https://youtu.be/2xwNre7ZE5Y?t=91

PAINTER!!! His name is PAINTER ahhhhhh

Okay I'm pretty sure that's just the auto-generated subtitles acting up becuase it doesn't sound like that, it was more like 'Unter' when he said it but I don't know what the correct french spelling is. And I mean, french is weird right? I wouldn't be too surprised if a word that's spelled as 'Painter' is pronounced 'Unter' because french is weird like that lol

Anyway, since international dubs are kind of my niche special interest I'm gonna infodump a little under the cut! Here goes, *deep inhale* *dives into the water majestically inviting the reader to follow me to the depths*

[we're at the depths now]

Okay, first, here's a link to my favorite clip from a compilation of Hunter's lines from the Dutch dub where it sounds like he's saying 'My name is Gunter'. idk its just really funny to me even though again, probably not how its actually spelled. But the dutch VA is actually so SO good, hearing his voice always puts a smile on my face, love that guy!

Second, I wish I had a clip of the russian dub version of Hunter but sadly it just doesn't exist. In its 2nd season TOH got way too based to even be considered for distribution here so they just sorta never even bothered to translate it. Which is a shame because I was super curious if they manage to fuck him up somehow, be it with an awkward name adoptation, the voice casting/direction or awful unnatural sounding dialogue that's already all over the place in the 1st season. Basically, I wasn't expecting anything good but I was hoping we'd get at least something, ya know?

Though, they probably wouldn't even need to change the name, it doesn't have any sounds that are too weird for russian speech, they'd just say 'Хантэр' and let the name's double meaning get lost in translation like it almost always does. There's this one AU where its author did a banger job russifying all the characters and thei name with Hunter ended up being named Ohota (Охота) which is an insanely funny and weirdly fitting name for way too many reasons for me to even attempt to describe here. Just saying that the fans, as always, end up doing a better job translating and adopting the source material than the 'professionals' hired to do so which is also a shame.

Okay that's enough rambling for now. Huge thanks to anon for the ask, please send me more c: I love comparing and analyzing different dubs of the shows I like!

[sleepyowlwrites]

it’s time for more Asian drama clip titles as writing prompts!

(reminder/disclaimer: I’m a fan of Asian dramas, I respect the people making the titles as either a. trying their best in English or b. making fantastic clickbait. or c. they’re just youtube translating literally and badly from the original language, in which case we just stare in awe at the nonsense before us. let’s have fun and be inspired by these titles!)

round one: uh huh

the president finally confessed to Cinderella, and kissed her on the top of a mountain!

fiancée suspects I’m not a virgin, I prove my innocence and dump him directly!

half-demon pregnancy might kill me...so we’ll do a baby transplant

it’s so sweet to be loved and taken care of by the handsome younger brother!

she traveled back to ancient times, fell in the water and got rescued by the emperor

she met her jerk ex-husband in Hungary, and stuck by him afterwards

the heroine fainted after being framed by her evil classmate, 3 boys rushed to hug her

he’s not my beloved man! I don’t wanna marry him!

after she learned that her contract husband is her dream lover, she is crazy about him

he wanted to kiss the girl in the locker room so he drove all his teammates away

I have 3 boyfriends 

on the first day of school, she punched the campus bully. the attack was too fierce

in any case, the little maid is in his favor

to save her sweetheart, she traded her eyes with the immortal

two guys are fighting over her, but she’s got a bigger problem

when she revealed her true beauty, men want her, women want to kill her

started at a new school, but I literally don’t care about anything other than food

at last they realize they love each other, kiss with tears

jealously over his girlfriend drove him into the arms of his bro

my uncle I saved turned out to be the gang boss

demon fiancée has to impress my deeply dysfunctional family

karma! I made up with my ex-bf

kissing your enemy to cure your kids’ daddy issues

I fell in love with my girlfriend’s killer

they look cute even when they quarrel.

you have to admit that we can’t leave each other

I am not having a crush on you. I mean I really liked you. - you kidding?

I can’t believe we met 14 years ago. met in this situation.

I believe you. I’d like nothing better than to rehearse with you. especially the kissing scenes.

Dad, you can’t kill my dream. I love short track speed skating.

bonus round: what

handsome doctor’s lust broke out, the sofa fell on his girlfriend and staged 18 bans

perfect ending. the heroine is pregnant, and the hero brought a box of snacks that she likes.

your majestic dragged the fox into the bath barrel to take a shower together

after I found out that she is not a spy, I thought that she looked very cute and beautiful

alien cat prince can’t stop kissing his sweet maid

you said 1: you kidney deficiency, he directly stands out to pull me: how do you know I can’t

[irepookie]

Infinity Chapter 4-

Meet The Family (PT.1)

Summary: QUEEN AU where Rog (aka Rowan Queen) is a young single dad struggling to make it into music industry.

Warnings: not really. Just fluff, sappiness and swearwords here and there

Disclaimer: I don't own the pictures. The boys are based on Queen, but Piper, Gina and Callie are mine

John: Rick Lincoln (Cause he is John Richard Deacon born on August 19th 1951™™™™™)

Brian: Terry Garrett (Cause my uncle used to have a black puddle named Terry and I had no choice)

Freddie: Len Mars (Yea I couldn't help myself)

Chapter 4- Row opens up with the boys about the raisin.

“I'm a dad”........

"Okay, let's... let's get over this again: A daughter?" Terry, the band's guitarist couldn't believe his ears.

"Yes, Terry. A daughter" Row repeated for the 19th time from the other side of the phone.

"A baby." Len said, taking another sip of his tequila.

"No, a 30 year old alpaca." Row said sarcastically. "Yes, a goddamn baby. Fucking gorgeous, just so you know"

"And you're gonna keep her." Rick, who had been quietly plunking his bass' strings, added. "Are you sure?"

"It's done. I've already kept her. And it's not like I'm rescuing a shelter dog. She's mine. Period."

"Sorry, was just trying to... Wrap my head around it"

To be honest, Row still couldn't quite believe it (that he was a father). Not even now, as he tried to convince his best friends while holding his girl with the other arm.

"And is your mom okay with it?" Terry asked

He scoffed, clutching his Lil raisin close at the thought "My mom has no say in this".

"But she knows" Rick said.

He sighed "Yes, she knows. And she was a bitch about it, okay? She can disown me for all I care". It's not like there was much to inherit, anyway.

There was a general sigh from his three best friends.

"And what are you gonna do?"

" 'bout what?"

"Um, I don't know, man. About School? Maybe about your life in general?"

"School ain't something I'm worrying about".

"What a surprise" Rick rolled his eyes.

"But you're still in the band right?" Len said

"Oh, of course. Of course. You guys are gonna be the only ones keeping me sane"

They chuckled

"But we ain't gonna babysit for you, huh?"

"As if you knew anything about babies"

"Well, the same as you." Terry said

"Just what I was saying: nothing at all" Row grinned

"Her future looks bright, then" Len half teased.

"Incandescent, in fact" Row could pretty much hear Terry's arched eyebrow.

The youngest member could only roll his eyes and try not to take it as an insult. He knew this was a lot to process all of a sudden and that in the inside, beyond the sarcasm and teasing, they were happy for him.

"Whatever, guys" he replied, as Pips began to frown. He sighed, knowing that meant smelly treat was on its way "Gotta go. By the way, she just told me she thinks you guys stink" he grinned, before hanging up.

The other three men exchanged a confused glance, and stayed in silence for a minute, until Len broke it:

"I say he'll go completely nuts in seven days".

"That long? Nah, I think less than 24 hours after they leave the hospital." Terry said

Len smirked "Bet?"

"I'm a bit tight at the moment, pal"

"Then not money. If I win, you'll be my model for the midterm design project. It's 30's fashion. For ladies, of course".

"Ok. But if I win you'll do my chores for a whole weeks."

"A whole week?!"

"Seven days, if you prefer it."

They shook hands "Deal. Rick? Join us?"

"I actually rather believe that they'll be alright" Rick got up and stretched.

"Well of course they will. Eventually. Row always figures things out." T said

"The fun part is to watch him go crazy in the meantime" Len chuckled "Like when he first moved in and left a fork in the plate when first using the microwave"

They laughed, remembering how their friend had called them at 9 PM in panic, screaming the microwave had exploded.

"Let's just hope for the best. I mean he seemed quite sure of himself this time. And who knows, maybe being a dad is the best way to grow up." Rick defended

"Yea, well a bit radical, don't you think?" Len said

"Like sock therapy. If smokers quit when diagnosed with lung cancer, maybe Row settles down now he has a baby"

"I just still don't get why he didn't just put her in adoption" T said

Rick shrugged "Would you if you were in his shoes?"

"Absolutely"

"That's exactly how Row would've answered, say, a week ago. That's what we all answer. Until it really happens. I think it's one of those situations where you can't really picture until you live it."

"But this is Rowan Queen we're talking about. Rowan <<Made out with both Jones Twins at the same party Cause I didn't remember which was which>> Queen. I mean, he does know that a kid is gonna freeze his sex life for indefinite time, right? What the hell was going through his head?" Terry said

"I can't believe you think that." Len interjected "I mean, I'm the one who's never gonna be a dad here, and the one who failed biology, but even I get it. He met her right? Before any decision was made, he met her. Once you meet your kid, you're tangled up forever. And you might think you're not but if you give them away you'll never get rid of a feeling of remorse."

"Wow, Lenny, that was deep"

"Yea, where'd you get that from?"

"Just common sense."

"Funny, considering you're the one who's started the bet" Rick grinned

"One thing doesn't prevent the other. And out of the two of us, I'm the optimistic! He gave him one day, I gave him seven! I trust him"

"Well I'm not sure if I do. I mean, I love him, he's a great guy, a great musician, and everything else, but he's not reliable. Remember his first job as a waiter? I'm still waiting for the fish and chips I ordered last April"

The other two chuckled "I once lent him a t-shirt, and I swear I saw Liz Michael's wearing it" Len said

"See what I mean?"

"Yes, well, we can't do anything about it, T. It's his life"

"But this affects us too, one way or another. This affects the band. And he didn't even consult us"

"Well what did you expect him to do? Call and go <<Hey guys, are you fine with me having a daughter? No? Okay, just checking. Bye>>?" Rick imitated a phone with his hand, doing a decent impression of their friend's high voice.

"A head's up would have been nice"

"Terry, just chill for fucks shake. I mean, this is unexpected, but Row's our best friend, our brother, and we have to support him. Because, if he's a dad, that's makes us her uncle's. And it'll be fun having a little niece we can spoil" Len smiled at the idea.

"Spoil? With what money?" Terry, always realistic, put his hands on his hips

"With the upcoming tour's, of course darlings" he twirled majestically around the room

"First, that's in four months" Rick reminded

"If it does happen at all"

They still had one last song to arrange And record. Plus, they didn't know how Row was gonna make it work now he had a baby. But nobody addressed that concern out loud.

"Oh don't be so goddamn negative, fellas! C'mon! We're uncle's! Row's made a very important, life-changing, mature decision, and we should be proud of him. So" he went to the fridge and returned with three beers "I say we toast for him and the lil Queenie"

The other two grinned and accepted the cans, opening them.

"Oh, I say we Split a fourth beer in his behalf, cause parents shouldn't drink while breastfeeding" Terry mocked, earning a laugh

"To the Queens" Rick raised his can "For our little bro to take this seriously and not fuck this kid up"

"To the Queens" Terry and Len crashed theirs as well.

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Meanwhile, in the hospital...

"Goddamn it, raisin! How can someone so small produce so many colors of something so stinky?" Row exclaimed, holding his breath as he clipped the fresh nappy on his daughter "We only feed you milk! Like... Like white milk! How can you turn a white liquid into rainbow pudding? Holy shit" he held the dirty one at arms length and threw it in the bin "It's a damn good thing I love you, cause I won't do this for anyone else" he told her, lifting her up to his chest again before walking around the room

"You gonna be a good girl for me for the next eighteen years? Huh?" He kissed her chubby cheek "What am I saying? You're my daughter, of course you're gonna be a trouble maker. But we'll get along, you'll see. I ain't gonna be like my parents. Don't worry. I won't be a bloody pain in the ass like mom, and I will never ever do anything my old man did. That I can promise. But I gotta admit I do want you to be like Gina. Yea, she's a control freak sometimes, but let's face it: she's gotta be the strongest person I've ever met. You should've seen her kicking the bastard out the house. She took no shit."

He smiled somewhat proudly at the memory, and for a second forgot how mad he was at her for turning her back on them.

"You wanna be a badass gurl like her? Huh? Yes you do. Yes you do" he cooed, craning his neck so he could brush his nose with her little button one. Her fist chose to close around the nearest strands of blond hair on reach, which he found secretly adorable.

But a part of him did wish he had mom's support. After all, despite the rough patches through his teens, they had always had each other's back; through thick and thin. She had have to raise him all alone, and although he hadn't even begun with Pips, he already knew it hadn't been easy. She may be stern, and a bit inflexible when it came to negotiating allowance. She could come across as rude if you caught her in the wrong mood (which many neighbors had) but above all she was a good person and a good mother.

And looking back, he hadn't been such a great son. He could have been more responsible, less handful and more obedient. Less rebellious, too. He could have thanked her more often for the thousand things she did everyday. For the meals. For all the jobs she had taken to provide for the two of them. For the surprise birthday gift she had got him with the money she had been saving: a real drum kit. For helping him move out her house into that one room crappy appartement which would be Pip's home.

But still she had rejected Piper without a second thought, regardless of her anger towards him; Pips was her granddaughter, she had done nothing wrong and as her father, Row doubted he would ever forgive Gina.

He sighed, untangling the hand of his hair and bringing it to his lips "But you don't have to worry about all that. Just concentrate on staying strong and growing up. And I promise I'll focus all of me on being the best dad. That you'll never miss a mom cause you don't need one. You've got me and I swear I'll be enough. Even if I'm still young: I'll have it all more fresh won't I?" He grinned "You're the one person who's never judged me yet, and I don't wanna let you down"

That a was vow. And he was determined to keep it.

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This one goes to my mega-paragraphist @definitely-darcy who's got my engine going through the usual inspiration blocks, and who's reviews help me improve. She's made me believe in this fic, and encouraged me to keep going despite the one digit notes.

Xx- Pookie

[knifeshoeoreofight]

@sidgenophotochallenge

This fic owes a lot to the following documentary about humpback whale calves. Please watch it sometime, it’s beautiful.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B48ifA0Sw5Y

Disclaimer: I barely scraped through Gen-Ed Bio. Forgive me. I can research but I don’t know how to science. 

The hydrophones have been picking up nonsense for the past three days and Zhenya has had it up to here, honestly.  

He pulls his bulky headphones off and leans back, wincing at the alarming creak of his battered office chair. Maybe if they can get another grant they can finally get some office furniture that isn’t falling apart.

A pipe dream, as it now seems they’re going to have to scrounge up some new audio equipment, fucking hell. He glares mulishly at the spectrogram, willing it to look more like a normal humpback whale vocalization recording.

“S’up G?” Letang asks, closing the screen door to the office with a bang. He’s casually eating a banana with one hand, and is fixing his hair with the other. He drops himself into the other office chair and kicks his feet up on top of a stack of Zhenya’s printouts.

“Recordings from last three days are complete pizdets,” Zhenya says, glaring. “Feet off my fucking papers.”

“Damn, G. Who pissed in your cornflakes?” Letang drawls, but takes his feet off the desk. “And how, pray tell exactly, are they ‘pizdets’?”

“Finally get good position to pick up sounds I’m want. Then there is, interference maybe, all over the audio. Don’t know what is. Radio signal, maybe. Or sound through boat hull? Fucking weird.”

“Weird, huh?” Letang perks up. “Liiike, undiscovered species weird?”

Zhenya makes a dismissive noise,and cues up one of the clearest clips. “All I’m know is ruin three days of recording, and maybe Ma— H-183 will go calve somewhere else.”

“Shouldn’t name the whales, man, it’s bad science,” Letang says, grinning.

“I don’t” Zhenya grumbles, even though he’s definitely been calling the very pregnant H-183 “Magda.” He’s been satellite tracking her since she left the waters off Labrador.

He’s hoping to publish a paper on the vocalizations of pregnant and nursing North Atlantic Humpbacks. He gets teased that he just chose the topic so he can spend his time mooning over baby whales. Which is rich, considering the cooing he’s caught Letang and Fleury doing over his research materials. The French Canadians are here on behalf of The University of New Brunswick, doing research on coral.

The point is, there is a fair amount of work done studying male humpback vocalizations: chiefly of their mysterious songs. But females vocalize too, even if they don’t sing. Zhenya wants to study the communication between mothers and newborns. And to do that, he needs his equipment to fucking function. He can’t miss this window of opportunity. Magda— damn it, H-183, has completed her annual migration from the cold waters of the Maritimes to the clear warm seas of Bermuda to have the calf she’s been gestating for nearly a year.

“Here,” he tells Letang, handing him the headphones. “Listen.” Letang puts them on, and Zhenya presses play. Letang’s look of unconcerned indifference melts into intense, puzzled focus as he listens.

The clip ends, and Letang leans back, slowly. “What the fuck, man.”

Zhenya groans, and rakes his fingers through his hair. “I know. Fucking weird. I’m tell you.”

“Uh huh,“ Letang says, staring into space. “Play it again. You say you have more of this?”

They listen for long minutes, trying to parse the sounds. They’re deeply strange. They almost sound like muffled human voices, which is why Zhenya first thought that maybe the hydrophones were picking up radio. Maybe. He’s not a sound engineer, he doesn’t know if that’s possible. The sounds, though, are so distorted and strange that it’s hard to imagine them coming from a normal radio. There are clicks and buzzes and pops, and even the parts that sound almost human are nothing like words, follow no recognizable patterns of speech.

Letang and he share a glance. The look on Letang’s face is making a cold, prickly feeling spread from Zhenya’s stomach to the rest of his body. He’d dismissed the strangeness of the sounds, hadn’t paid enough attention to it. Explained it away. Letang’s incredulous seriousness is… kind of freaking Zhenya out. Making him think this is something, after all. Not just distorted radio signals. And if it’s not that, then—

“You know what this almost reminds me of,” Letang says, still frowning into the middle distance. “What’s that one African language, the one with the clicks?”

“Xhosa,” Zhenya supplies. “No, it’s not like that. Listen.” There’s a long, almost metallic whrrrrrrr from the recording, followed by a series of clicks, then three deep whooping noises that would almost sound like whalesong, except they aren’t nearly loud enough. And are the completely wrong frequency.

“We should go back out there,” Letang says, slowly. “Put the hydrophones in again. See what we get. Can’t hurt. You need to get more recordings anyway, right? The coral can wait a day or two, it’s not going anywhere.” He smirks at his own joke.

Zheya nods, and stares once again at the spectrograms. They aren’t an annoyance anymore. Now they’re unsettling. That cold, prickly prey instinct is still settled in his bones, and he’s so, so glad Letang is coming out with him tomorrow.

***

They’re up before dawn, hauling gear onto the boat in the pre-sunrise murk. Zhenya checks and double checks the audio equipment, and checks and double checks his data on where Magda— H-183 has been spending her time.

Letang has roped Fleury and Kessel both into the expedition, and even a couple of the undergrads. Zach and Dominik are yawning and sleep-rumpled, but seem pretty thrilled about the entire affair.

“I am hoping it’s some kind of new species,” Dominik says, his lilting Czech accent even thicker this early in the morning.

“Dude, right??” enthuses Zach, clapping his hands on Dominik’s shoulders and rocking him gently back and forth. “I’ll name it after you, bro.”

“Aw, thanks.”

Zhenya laughs to himself a little. He still can’t figure out if they’re actually together or are just super close bros. Not that it matters, really. It’s cute either way.

“Equipment look good?” Letang asks him, leaning over to peer at the hydrophone cables Zhenya is rearranging.

Zhenya shrugs. It’s as good as it’s going to get. Letang claps him on the shoulder, goes to start the engine.

***

It takes them until the sun is up over the horizon to find Magda, but they see her spout before they even have to drop the hydrophones in to listen. Letang cuts the engine, and they drift closer.

Zhenya watches the arch of Magda’s massive back as she slides back under the water. One reason he chose her to study is that she has a deep, distinctive scar digging into her dorsal ridge, probably from getting tangled in commercial fishing nets when she was younger. It makes identifying her at a distance easier.

He drops in one of the hydrophones, and everyone stops what they’re going to crowd around Zhenya’s laptop. At first there’s nothing, just crackling static and water sounds. Magda isn’t making any noise.

Then, a few faint sounds, probably male humpbacks singing miles away. Things quiet again. Zach starts to say something but Fleury shushes him. Time crawls on.

Magda gifts them with some sounds about an hour in,  a couple of low, rumbling “whops” that make Zhenya smile.

“Hi, pretty girl,” he croons at the computer as he notes the timestamp so he can isolate the clip later. Letang wants to make a rude comment, he knows, but thankfully decides to be an adult and restrains himself.

Magda is staying is approximately the same area, as indicated by the spray she sends up when she surfaces to breathe. She’s probably close enough to observe underwater and Zhenya eyes the diving gear they brought along. He’s never actually been in the water with her.

Another of the deep “whop”s from the whale, and then everyone jumps when the strange alien sounds Zhenya had recorded before suddenly crackle through the laptop speakers. A long “whrrrr,” then the same pattern of clicks as on the previous recording.

“Tabernak,” Letang breathes. “Geno, you’re sure that isn’t the whale?”

Zhenya shakes his head. “Sure. Wrong frequency. Not anything recorded from humpbacks before.”

“Is someone gonna go take a look?” Zach asks quietly looking simultaneously excited and terrified someone is going to ask him to do it.

“I’ll go,” Zhenya says. “If nothing, still can record visual observation of Magda.”

Magda Letang mouths at Kessel. Seriously, invertebrate specialists. Assholes, all of them. He goes to ready his scuba gear, leaving the rest of them clustered around the laptop, listening to the noises still issuing from it.

***

When the bubbles from his entry into the water clear, Zhenya almost spits out his regulator in surprise at how close Magda is. The current must have drifted the boat towards her. She’s about fifty meters or less away, drifting motionless mid level in the water column. It’s shallow and clear enough here that he can just make out the bottom, far beneath them both, patches of white sand and darker coral.

She’s so beautiful. Seeing her like this brings new awareness of the sheer size of her. Zhenya can make out the movement of one huge, intelligent eye as she notes his appearance in her realm but doesn’t move. She’s conserving all her energy for the monumental task of delivering her calf into the world.

One pectoral flipper arcs majestically as she keeps herself steady in the water. Zhenya’s chest feels tight with emotion and his eyes water inside his mask. There she is, after all these months. The hope of her embattled species, heavy with the future.

He’s so overcome that he forgets for a moment that he’s supposed to be looking for something else. He turns in a slow circle, keeping in position with slow kicks of his scuba fins. Nothing. Just an infinity of blue, and Magda’s graceful bulk. He makes sure his GoPro is recording in its waterproof housing, and wonders if it will bother her if he ventures just a little bit closer. Just a bit. Can’t hurt, if she’s so calm even with the boat so close.

He makes it maybe a dozen yards closer when he sees something move beneath her, too large to be a remora or some other kind of hitchhiking fish. His first thought is that maybe she had her baby already after all, and then it swims out from under her shadow and comes toward him. And

It’s

There’s a deep, instinctual terror that comes when what you’re seeing does not connect with what your instinct knows to be true. A cold, all consuming flash of sensation as your brain screams “WRONG, THIS IS WRONG” at you. Something left to center of reality. Something moving in a way that it shouldn’t.

Zhenya feels it now, as a figure glides toward him, with smooth, powerful stokes of its.

His. His tail.

Geno’s camera drops from his nerveless fingers.

He doesn’t look like the creatures of myth and legend, at least, not completely. His tail doesn’t sparkle with scales, but has the dull sheen of a shark’s skin. A darker color it’s hard to make out under the water fades to pale skin at his waist. He has dark hair that floats about his face like a cloud, and he snarls at Zhenya, baring sharp canine teeth like an otter’s.

The… merman’s….throat works and jumps, and past the rushing of the blood in his own ears and the hiss of his air supply Zhenya’s can hear sounds like the ones on the recording. A language. His mouth is closed, he doesn’t seem to need to open it to speak.

Deep beneath the animal panic engulfing his brain, the scientist in Zhenya is fascinated.

The merman makes an angry, aggressive gesture, and that’s when Zhenya notices that he’s carrying a wicked looking weapon with a long, curved blade. It has to be made from bone, the handle wrapped in what looks, surprisingly, like nylon rope.

Lost fishing gear and nets the scientific corner of Zhenya’s brain supplies.

The merman’s eyes flick downwards, and he gives Zhenya another baleful look as he dives downwards.

Zhenya follows him with his gaze. You don’t turn your back on a predator, says the prey instinct part of his brain. You don’t turn your back on something so incredible, says the scientist part. Incredible. The word is inadequate and colorless.

Up the merman comes, the muscular undulation of his body and his tail just as eerie and just as beautiful as before. He’s got something clutched in his free hand, Zhenya sees. It’s the GoPro. The merman shakes it at him, scowling, a burst of noise coming from his throat.

Zhenya isn’t sure what he wants. He doesn’t move except to kick his fins to keep himself in position. How much air does he have left? How long has he been down here?

Without thinking, he reaches a hand out towards the camera in the merman’s hand. The merman flinches away, then moves closer, staring at Zhenya’s hand, his arm. Zhenya is wearing a wetsuit, but no diving gloves. The merman reaches out his own hand. His fingers are webbed. His hand closes over Zhenya’s wrist, and Zhenya can feel the iron strength in it.

Is he going to drown me he thinks. Am I going to die right now?

He tugs his arm, panicked, trying to pull it toward himself. A flood of bubbles escape around his regulator and he must scream or make some kind of sound around it, because the merman drops his hand, and lets him go.

Humpbacks hunt with bubble nets, he suddenly remembers. Or use them in dominance displays. What does the merman think the bubbles from his air tank and the hissing sound of his artificially aided breath mean?

He takes a deep gulp of air and pulls the regulator from his mouth. The merman visibly startles. Zhenya almost wants to laugh. Does he think Zhenya just detached some part of his body?

The merman peers at him, leaning in so close Zhenya can see the color of his eyes. Not quite green. Not quite gold.

Zhenya’s lungs are burning. He has to get the regulator back in his mouth. He fumbles it, and with a gasp, sweet oxygen trickles back into his lungs. He kicks his fins to back away, put some distance between the merman and himself.

To his surprise, the merman holds out the GoPro, head tilted in a way that feels very human. Zhenya reaches out again, and takes the camera from him. For some reason he can’t fathom himself (besides possible hysteria) he gives the merman a thumbs up. The merman blinks, then copies the gesture.

Zhenya lets loose a burst of bubbles in an aborted shout of overwrought laughter. A merman just gave him a thumbs up. Belatedly, he tilts the camera at him, sweeps it from his head to the flukes of his tail. Zhenya won’t believe that this actually happened if he doesn’t manage to record something.

The merman startles, then turns around. Over his shoulder, Zhenya can see that Magda is moving, immense tail making a slow downwards stroke as she decides she’s had enough of whatever the two of them are up to. The merman looks between her and Zhenya, eyes narrowed in mistrust, but then must decide that while Zhenya is a conundrum, he has more important things to do. He turns and follows the whale, looking back at Zhenya a few more times until they disappear into the blue.

Suddenly Zhenya is panicked for air, and sun, and a solid surface under his feet. He kicks up towards the dark shape of the boat above wondering what the fuck he’s going to do now.

***

As soon as he’s hauled back on the boat by his colleagues he’s tearing at the straps of his gear, yanking his mask from his face as he gasps for air. He flails out of his BC and his fins, ignoring everyone’s alarmed questioning  and waving off their help, He lies back on the deck and closes his eyes, clutching the GoPro and trying to get his breathing to quiet and return to normal.

When he finally pulls himself to a sitting position, everyone is staring at him.

“We…heard a lot of that noise through the hydrophone,” Fleury says. “What happened?”

Zhenya shakes his head. “You won’t believe me until you see video,” he says, and their eyes all go wide. He ignores another barrage of questions and just points at the boat’s wheelhouse. “Let’s go back. I need to think.”

They give him looks the entire ride back, but he just wraps his arms around his knees and tries to decide what to do.

***

As soon as they get back, secure the boat, and make it back to their research office, Zhenya inserts the Gopro’s SD card into the reader with shaking hands. The footage downloads, and everyone clusters around his computer.

Zhenya watches it in a fog, as everyone around him cries out, swears, and babbles as the merman swims out from behind Magda. When the camera falls, the mount it was on weighs it down in such a way that it continues to point upwards, and Zhenya watches himself and the merman silhouetted against the light of the surface.

He stays silent as they ask him how he got the camera back, then yell when the merman comes and picks it up. The footage continues to play, swinging wildly until the point that Zhenya regains control of it, sweeps it along the entire length of the merman’s body.

When the merman and the whale disappear and the footage ends, they all look as pale and shell-shocked as Zhenya. They exchange glances at each other in silence.

Zhenya isn’t certain of anything anymore. Except two things.

One. They aren’t telling anyone about this.

And two. He’s going right back out there tomorrow.

[whatsapp-rpg-moments]

Whatsapp RPG Halloween Event

3rd/2nd Place

Lime Green's Submission

(Mutilation Trigger Warning)

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Red, crimson, velvety smooth ran the blood of the officer. Sharply dressed in a brown uniform, he had his baton held tightly in his right hand, little did he expect to be living his final moments in a dark alleyway of a city he never loved. His breathing got quicker with each passing moment. Each breath laboured, the world around him got a little brighter each waking moment. He held his hands at his torso, covering the bullet wound while more viscous, and thick liquid flooded out. His lips moved but nothing came out. Slowly, a glowing warmth spread through his head. There was little he could do. He let in a deep breath, a sigh of goodbye from the world he loved. A goodbye to his daughter, Alicia, a goodbye to his son, Felix and a final goodbye to his teenage sweetheart Amy.

And then, there was nothing. Death reaped his soul with the sickle of sorrow. Standing there, squatting over the cold, lifeless body, was Samuel. One clean and swift motion and off went the head. The knife that served Samuel continued slicing through the body of the motionless corpse. The corpse of a man in a police uniform. Grotesque noises of sliced flesh sped through the lifeless night. Twelve midnight considered to be too late in the town, every fallen drop of blood seemed to reverberate. 

Samuel took his knife and dug it slowly into the skin of the man, slowly adding more pressure and tearing the skin into two. He dug deeper, pushing through the wet and warm tissue and into the bone. He clung onto the bone, pushing more and more as he pulled out more tools. Hammers, pliers, screwdrivers made light work of the officer as Samuel slowly pierced the body bit by bit. Blood continued gushing and rushing out of the body as the stomach cavity revealed itself. First the ribcage, then the lungs, intestines, heart, liver, anus, and finally the eyeballs all slowly drawn out. Organs after organs soaked in honey-like blood continued to be pulled out of the officer.

“Sergeant’s been missing for more than a week now Cap’n” a Southern voice asked worriedly, “We’ve been looking for a week and have not found Sarge! How in the name of god will we ever find him? How do we know he’s not dead-”

“Don’t be absurd Pete!” Captain Charlie cut Peter’s words short, uneasy by the thought of having the best sergeant in the precinct and the Captain’s personal friend dead, “We’ll keep looking. I don’t care if it will take a month, a year, a decade, a century. We will find that man. We will find Terrence!”

The arrival of a strange package cut the discussion short. Covered in a type of lubricant and a metal suitcase, the delivery man quickly dropped off the package and left in a hurry. The two, Captain and Detective, made their way to the suitcase to open it. The package was a beautiful aluminium briefcase with a clip to open and close, locked by a brass padlock. The seams seemed to be airtight, with rubber used to hold in place. The package felt eerily cold. The aluminium was given a majestic matte finish and kept under fabulous condition. The two quickly cut open the briefcase to be presented with a horror of a lifetime.

It was a body, torn and tattered into pieces, frozen between packets of silica gel and dry ice. Eyeballs, lungs, liver, kidney, stomach, bones, everything tightly placed almost as if packed by a master in tetris. The skin seemed to have been burnt under a high heat as a black colour overtook the rather pale skin. The two quickly looked away in pure disgust, shutting the briefcase as quickly as it was opened.

“Forensics confirmed, it was Sarge. We don’t know how he died, the body was too dismembered to find out,” Peter managed to say. The precinct was somber, and in despair. The friend of many was found dead.

“We’re going to get the son of a bitch who killed Terrence. I will not rest till that piece of shit is sent to rot in prison for the rest of their lives.” Captain chanted as he decided his new mantra, “Let’s get this bastard.”

Let me be true and true be fair,

Give me your hopes and let me make them disappear,

Hold your breath oh lovely one,

I’m the one to tell you what’s next,

If I be true then as is what happens for you,

Let me be your best shot of help,

The magic and hate cannot be one,

I will be the one to tell what’s next,

Have faith and learn what comes next,

Let me be the one telling you what’s next.

Samuel read these words, enthralled by the idea of seeing the future, took his chances and continued reading on. The book seemed blank to him but as he flipped through, more words started to appear. To know what would happen to him in the future, and to learn of what he would be like made him nervous. Anxious, he continued reading in hopes of getting to know more about himself. 

See now see later,

What’s true remains as such,

Destined you are for greatness,

In terms of strength and magical help.

Magic ran through Samuel’s mind. Magical help were the words that echoed throughout. How would magic run through the veins of Samuel. He let the matter rest at the back of his mind as he kept doing his chores at home.

No, he could not help himself. How? How? HOW? How will he get magical? How would he be strong? What must he do?

That was when it occurred to him. He needed to go to the devil. That is precisely what he did. Samuel got in contact with the devil.

“What do you want?”

“Magical powers!”

“What? You know I can’t just give you magical powers right? It’s not like I’m some sort of dispensable piece of equipment you can just call to get something! Why don’t you ever just call me to have a sandwich? You don’t even hang out with me bro!”

Perplexed, Samuel stood staring at the devil. This big, burly creature with muscles twice the size of his head seemed to be upset. His red skin and horns only gave him a gritty exterior when he really just was a soft person at heart. It made Samuel happy to see that even people obviously better than him in every way struggle with things.

“You want to talk about it Mr. Satan?”

“My name’s Lucifer!!” Lucifer yelped, “Yes I do want to talk!”

The two spoke endlessly over and over with each other as the two bonded over similar problems in their lives. Lucifer seemed to be having love life issues with his partner in heaven. As is, there was a stigma attached to being part of hell, but the fact that his lover was an angel did not help either. Now the gods forbid them from meeting again!

“Damn dude it kinda sounds like god doesn’t respect your feelings. So what if she’s from heaven, love is love my dude!” Samuel proclaimed exasperatedly.

“You know what dude, you’re right! How can they even stop me?” Lucifer agreed, “You know what? You’re a pretty cool dude! Just surrender your life and soul to me and I will give you magic.”

Out of the blue Samuel was given a choice for the power of magic. The ability to do magical things. His mind ran endlessly as he sought to think of what he was giving up. He did not know if he wanted to give up his soul, or even his life, to have magical capabilities.

Samuel wanted to be the best, strongest, fittest and most powerful man ever. The idea of total control made his eyes glint blood red. The thought of total control over mankind let loose an emotion in him like no other. Samuel wanted it. NO, he needed it. He had to be the best person alive, no matter the cost.

“Yes. Take my soul and give me powers for it is magic that I seek. Tetris shall be our name!” Samuel bellowed ever so menacingly.

………………………………………………………………………………………………………....

Lucifer enchanted the air around. Magenta, purple, red and yellow, a swirl of these colours ran mystically around him. The pale cream walls of the living room seemed to be hauntedly black in colour. Mystical glints of sparkles ran wild, bombarding the space around it. A sparkling of sounds, deafening beyond physically possible.

(unfinished)

[whipplefilter]

Cal and Dreams

It’s pretty majestic, as crashes go. They’re down to the final four laps, and Lightning’s leading by tenths of seconds. Brick’s drafting him, and Bobby’s side-drafting him, and meanwhile Cal’s right behind, wildly trying to figure out how he’s gonna get around them all. Taking the high groove might not be a bad call–Lightning can’t push him out without letting Brick and Bobby free, so it’d probably be–

Bobby makes his run on the inside. 

But he’s too close, too close, and he clips Lightning’s back bumper, and Lightning spins like God himself gave him a yank on the spoiler. Zero downforce, anti-gravity. Brick craters into Lightning’s side and Cal, attempting to swerve, ends up on two wheels, his front sliding over Lightning’s hood. Cal divebombs the pavement and for a fraction of a second he’s very, very angry at Bobby for all this. Then he’s upside down and careening into Bobby’s back–Bobby, who’d ended his run with his front crunched into the apron and his mouth full of dirt.

Which looks pathetic enough that it’s hard to be mad at Bobby for anything at all.

“Chip Gearings won? Seriously?”

“RIGHT?” exclaims Bobby.

“That’s what I said!” Brick huffs. “I feel like I lap that guy three times a week–and he’s still mean about my plants.”

“What do you guys have against Chip?” asks Lightning.

“Oh, don’t pretend you’re some kind of angel,” says Bobby. “At least we know who Chip is. You don’t even pay attention to the back of the field.”

“Yes I do! I, uh– I know– Chip, he–” 

Lightning does not know.

“I’d feel bad talking about him, but he’s actually not very nice,” says Cal.

For some reason, this sets Brick off cackling.

“Well, with one win under his belt, maybe we’ll all be talking about him soon,” Bobby intones tenebrously. “THIS IS THE START OF THE CHIP ERA.” 

Lightning tries not to laugh, and fails. He tries not to wince, and fails that too.

They’re parked in the hospital garage together, along with what Cal assumes is the half of the field their crash collected. But truth be told, Cal doesn’t remember a whole lot about how he got here, or what’s ensued.

“Are you okay?” Cal asks, suddenly acutely aware that he basically drove over his friend’s face not too long ago.

Lightning laughs again, winces again. “I’m fine. But that’s what we’re all waiting around to ask you, Cal! How’s your head?”

“Bro, you musta been on some major painkillers–or are your dreams always that kooky?” adds Bobby.

“What?” Cal asks. “My–”

“Oh, you talk in your sleep. Just by the way,” says Bobby.

“No, he orates,” Brick corrects.

Cal looks to Lightning. But when Lightning doesn’t leap to his defense, Cal says, “Waaaait. Guys! We talked about this–three on one’s not fair, remember?!”

Lightning slides his tires out from under him, feigning helplessness. “I wasn’t here for any of this! I was getting Brick’s face imprint taken out of my side. I’m a neutral party!”

Cal turns back to Bobby and Brick. “But you told him, didn’t you. You told him everything I said in my sleep.”

“We totally did,” says Bobby.

“Sorry,” says Brick.

“Not sorry,” says Bobby. “Wow, you really were concussed,” he adds.

“No, I was faking a concussion! Because I thought if I played possum maybe you’d finally be nice to me…” Cal pouts.

“I guess you don’t remember, but we already told you who won that race. You already knew it was Chip,” Lightning says, attempting to clarify the outright hysterics Bobby and Brick have fallen into.

“CHIP ERA!” Brick shouts, blinking back tears. “CAL. YOU CAME UP WITH THAT.”

Oh no. Ohhh no. Cal sighs. What’s he gone and said now?

“Cal, man, you just went OFF on that dude. You’re parked in here, snoring away, and then suddenly you’re just shouting about the CHIPOCALYPSE. And you were savage, holy cow. Remind me not to ever make you mad.”

“I wasn’t mad! I don’t hate Chip! Oh. Oh dear…”

“You’re secret’s safe with me, pal,” Lightning winks. “On the other hand…”

“Yeah, I’m Tweeting this,” says Bobby. “I’ll let y’all know when it posts.”

“Lightning, if you re-Tweet that, so help me–”

[m1ckeyb3rry]

No fr it’s funny because even Ego says that like “you guys live in the comfort of Japan where you’ll never worry about surviving” so good that bllk is self aware but I agree the stakes in the beginning fr felt a bit intense which was refreshing!! Yeah im still a little irked about himizus backstory too like that could’ve been a gorgeous karasu panel instead but NOPE wtv also makes me a little sad that we won’t see karasus backstory animated since its in epinagi

HAHA its funny when you remember he has a second lead role in one of your reqs he will not get his happy ending quite yet it seems LMAOO but also I JUST SAW we literally called it yuki and Karasu certified gentlemen FRRR yayoi knew what she was doing!! I bet it’s also because granny Karasu lives with them too so he’s constantly surrounded by older women and learning to respect them! No because what am I supposed to do with the info in hioris profile he what?????? Hospitalized y/n era next /j I’m crying it just has me imagining like does that include like a whole ass full body cast where you can’t even see the person but yeah anyways and we all thought Karasu was the weird one for commenting on his leg this is a different level of freak

I’m convinced otoya is the animators’ fave because he looks so good?? Like they make him so majestic too I see so many edits of him trust yuki and nagi will get their moment when we see their match!! Very excited to see all the clips from there! Some scenes of Shidou are actually INSANE did you watch through the ep? Towards the end they have pics of the top 6 and when I tell you I fr got jumpscared by Shidou but I also could not care less like yesss save the budget for Karasu pls!!!

FR like how are they even connected…actually ik a lot of people ship megumi and sukuna because of sukunas plan for megumi and how he didn’t let him die etc but Karasu is wild…maybe someone mistook megumi for Karasu and went to town with it idk LMAO

IM CRYING THE STOCK PHOTO thats fr me whenever i have to be productive im crying well at least the sufferings over now!!! You made it!! LMAOO wait im kinda excited for when you have to get to the Isagi req too not just to read but to hear your commentary as you write LMAOAOA I love the classic Mira foreshadowing hint drops i like picking them out and being like “oh yk someone’s dying” or something LOL

AGAIN WITH THE HISTORICAL REFERENCE your research game is too strong but I loved the story overall I mean you know I’m not a Kaiser fan either LMAO but I certainly didn’t mind reading that!! Another win in my book wait again the Kunigami cameo LMAOOOO fr had me like “omg what are YOU doing here??” LOL

Wait your process for making the layout already sounds complicated to me LMAO ibis paint is fr pretty insane though for a free app!!

That panel is so good speaking of I can’t wait to see that animated too omg

LMAOAOAOA you are correct in fact those two edits actually made it to my fyp which was pleasantly surprising but YEAHHHHHH THAT KARASU SCENE CHEFS KISS he looks so good and LMAOOO the “mama a girl behind you” audio is so funny and it works perfectly with otoya being sneaky

- Karasu anon

LMAOO ego calling them out will always be funny to me like bro was not playing around 😭 but agreed it added a bit of self awareness to the show!! and yeah…idk why we needed an entire focus on himizu when we know he’s irrelevant moving forward…just another example of how bllk ends up on focusing on too many characters and spreading itself too thin 😫 it was a perfect chance to expand on karasu and/or kiyora who are both playing in the current match 🙁 but maybe i’m biased because i want more karasu i’m sure the two himizu fans out there were happy abt it

HFJDJSS KUNIGAMI FOREVER SUFFERING at least he’s entering the miraverse though…maybe one day he’ll debut in full probably not though because alongside being ginger he’s also kinda boring i fear 😭 perhaps if the wildcard backstory makes him rlly fascinating i’ll change my mind but idk…ANYWAYS YESSSS YUKI AND KARASU MY GLORIOUS KINGS also i think it’s funny that the rankings are voted by other blue lock characters and karasu’s constantly an asshole to like all of them?? yet they still voted him as the number two gentleman KDCNDJS bro has no enemies fr i love him 🥹 HAHAHA PLSSSS ngl the more i learn abt hiori with his ln and now his profile the more i’m like nah karasu is JUSTIFIED in fucking around with him LMAOAOA everyone thinking he’s the weird one when he’s just a slightly sassy guy who likes to say goofy stuff to his friends meanwhile hiori is like actually lowkey a freak 😰

SHIDOU CONSISTENTLY JUMPSCARING HE’S SO GOOFY I CAN’T 😭 pls i just know they’re going to do yuki and nagi so well in the next episode they show up in…okay but i saw a panel of manga karasu and i was fr like 😫 as glorious as he is animated he fr hits diff in the manga for some reason JSDHSJSJ anyways yeah they’re really eating it up with the otoya scenes ngl good for them otoya would be proud

yeahhh i think that’s why it’s such a popular ship!! since sukuna was all like “megumi absolutely cannot die” ofc we know that wasn’t romantic but when you’re a shipper anything works ig 🙂‍↕️ my only thought is someone who ships sukuna and megumi together started bllk and put the pieces together and created the rare pair of the century

I LOVEEE THAT PHOTO a guy sent it to a gc i was in whenever he had to do computer science hw and i IMMEDIATELY saved i think it’s hilarious 😭 literally me seeing all of my sae requests and zero nagi ones 😔 but YESSSS I’M FREE FROM KAISER AT LEAST not sure what i’m going to work on next but we’ll see!! hopefully it won’t take as long as that did to come out 😫

HISTORICAL REFERENCES ALWAYS #trust LMAAOOA yeah i don’t love kaiser as you know but he is fun to write abt sometimes he’s more on the karasu end of things where he lends himself to more plots…HELP i was thinking of leaving the guard anonymous but then i was like nah let me let kunigami get his first name drop KDJDJDDHJS anyways fun fact in the very first scene when reader takes kunigami to the art gallery and they leave the other guard to watch over her father the other guard is meant to be barou!! also if she didn’t get sick and meet kaiser/literally die she probably would’ve ended up marrying kunigami 🙁

SPEAKING OF HISTORICAL REFERENCES…rin said his fav historical figure is oda nobunaga apparently??? aka the person hollyhock y/n is based on 😭 rin is a hollyhock y/n stan wait imagine we were joking abt what it would be like if hollyhock characters met their bllk selves but imagine RIN meeting hollyhock y/n he’d genuinely glaze her i fear 😰 probably hollyhock karasu too since he’s also one of the three unifiers 😜 probably feels bad they got reincarnated into such “lukewarm” modern time equivalents

yeahhh ibis paint x fr goes hard i love it!! and it’s not too bad DJFHDJ the hardest part is picking what panel i want to use 😭 it wasn’t hard for kaiser because he doesn’t have that many panels with the long gold hair which is what i imagined him having while as an actual angel but i’m sure i’ll start to run out of sae panels at some point HAHAHA

UGH barou goal animated is going to be so good they always do him and his goals SO well i have full entire faith that he’s going to look amazing…barou my handsome amazing boyfriend…I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE KARASU SPAWNING INTO EVERY CELEBRATION TOO he’s literally in ALL of them (except nagi’s i think that’s just his fist pump and then we see isagi and chigiri running towards him) IT’S SO FUNNY LIKE BRO IS IN THE MIDFIELD WHERE DOES HE EVEN COME FROM 😭

THAT KARASU SCENE IS SOOOOO ugh he carried the episode i’m trying not to rewatch because i plan on rewatching all of s2 at once after it’s all out but it’s so tempting i want to see him again 😫 and the mama a girl behind you audio for otoya CRACKS ME UP it’s so him also wait lowkey is it just me or does otoya kinda look like rin 😭 maybe it’s the hair idk they’re kinda giving twin

[eenefangirlanalysis]

Just then Rolf calls the Urban Rangers into action. He and his fellow Urban Rangers march out into the middle of the neighborhood. 

I have mixed feelings when it comes to episodes based around the urban rangers. Eddy is right when saying they’re full of themselves. Rolf believes he has the highest authority when it uniform. He talks down to Eddy. The rangers also earn badges over the ridiculous things such the ‘bringing my badge’ badge. And come on, you call that camping? They never made a real fire and used electricity in the outdoors.

Still, the group wants to put their best foot forward to teach the cul-de-sac about authority. Rolf enjoys being the leader along with passing inspiration. He’s trying to send out a positive message to youth. Just like the beginning of this episode. Chores can be hassle we can learn to take responsibility. 

The Ed’s pear out from behind the fence to see what’s going on. In a rare moment they’re part of the kid’s stories. They’re usually left to find out for themselves what the kids are up to. This annoyed Eddy so much. He wants to be a part of the in crowd. He wants to know what the world has to say. 

Now Eddy could care less about what is happening in the world. He’d rather stay out from the kid’s business. The kids were never worth trying to seek attention. They made the Ed’s outcasts.

This is such a cute image. 

The Urban Rangers set up their table full of pamphlets, clip boards and sign ups.

Rolf announces that they will now entice the kid’s showing them what their group is all about. 

Ed, Edd, Sarah and Nazz all look excited to see what they’re going to present. You never know what to expect from Sarah. There is more to her then we think. She may also be smiling because Jimmy is a part of this organization. Sarah likes doing what Jimmy does. 

Sarah and Jimmy are different in personality. Jimmy is more independent wanting to find what he is interested in rather then what Sarah likes. Season’s 4 and 5 show him spending less time with Sarah, even being annoyed with her at times. They are best friends, but as young children they’re growing up trying to find who they are. 

Eddy and Kevin wish they could be anywhere, but here. They’d be such good friends if they got along. They have the same interests. Arguably Eddy sees Kevin as Bro. Kevin is cool and can get him into the in crowd if anyone befriends him. 

Eddy hates the urban rangers with a burning passion. They have made a fool out of him. Another theory is that Eddy may be jealous of them. Eddy believes that everyone is better then him. Upon admitting that he has a low self esteem it’s sad to see how the world has affected Eddy. 

Bro made Eddy see the negative traits of the world making him immediately grow up into the scamming world. Bro affected Eddy’s mind the worst in season 5. He’s very temperamental and became so harsh to his friends that he almost ended their friendship. Season 5 was Eddy’s downfall.

The Urban rangers complete a series of household tasks such as raking leaves, bagging them, cleaning the windows while jumping on a trampoline, and then washing out everyone gutter with two hoses. 

I’m really impressed by how quickly they did all these tasks. Rolf, Jonny and Jimmy work together. Being apart of the Urban Rangers have made them closer as friends. They have their own friendship, but only when they’re urban rangers. I’m sure we can all relate to this. We all have that one in school friend or the friend who you only see at camp every year. Friendships work out differently.

Okay, I in my last post I said that Jonny was the one flying the air plane because he likes to slack off. He’s not doing that here. His smile never disappeared from his face when completing these tasks. Being apart of this organization has helped him with his self esteem. It made him feel important. I wish it could have done more for him seeing where he ends up in BPS. 

I love the animation of the water spilling into each gutter. It feels so majestic. I don’t know why that word, but the animators did so much to make this show feel alive.