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condolences to murderbots very real emotional turmoil but the dynamic these two have in the first half of network effect IS hilarious
#âvery real emotional turmoilâ gxrl its fictional. anyways#murderbot voice i have been nothing but silent curt and or antagonistic towards this man why doesnt he trust me :(#it spends the first chapter furious with him but still cant help but talk about how good he is at everything its so FUNNY. and also sad but#they work it out. its all good#the murderbot diaries#murderbot#thiago#my art
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The monk gave a small smile. âThis is merely the result of my observation, but you seem to enjoy mentoring those young sorcerers.â
Sukuna groaned. âNot you, too. Did Gojo send you here?â
Chapter 35, A Gentler World.
#[my art]#jjk#sikuna#do i wanna tag sukuna.#uhm#i dare not LMAO#uraume#jujutsu kaisen#anyways ive been in love with this one fic#its a SI-sukuna called A Gentler World#if youre a sucker for hard won fluff and good old 'dont trust me im dangerous'#then this fic is For You !!#i am foaming at the mouth. i dont wanna tag thr author of this fic#i dont even wanna know if they have tumblr or not#JUST KNOW THAT I ABSOLUTELY LOOOOVE YOUR FICCCCC#AND ALSO YOUR OTHER ONE !! ISOTBS !!!! <- is crying violently at recent chapters.#anyways#ive been normal.#oh yeah and also this is my first time drawing sukuna and im quite proud of it lmao
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IN THE DREAM I DONâT TELL ANYONE, YOU PUT YOUR HEAD IN MY LAP ; SHOKO IEIRI
synopsis; ever since the battle in shinjuku came to its conclusion, nothingâs been the same as it used to. but you donât think anyone is doing quite as badly as shoko.Â
word count; 4.5k
contents; shoko ieiri/reader, gn!reader, canon-typical mentions of death (iykyk), angst, hurt/comfort (but not very heavy on the comfort), jjk spoilers (up to chapter 236!!), mild gore (mentions of blood, autopsies and general gore-ish imagery? nothing too bad tho), shoko ieiri deserves better, includes gojo slander (stay safe gojo nation)
a/n; first of all i just wanna apologize to the shoko girlies for writing angst when weâre already so starved of content, i have like 50 fluff drabbles planned for her but chapter 236 threw me into a mental angst pit so </3 yeah. i love my wife!!
shoko hasnât been herself for a while.
the thought sneaks its way into your subconscious, as your feet carry you to her morgue â a rotten thought you just canât seem to rinse away.
itâs not very hard to notice. she doesnât talk as much, for one. not that shoko was ever much of a talker, but now the silence around her is deafening. thick and heavy like the spine of a knife. and she smiles even less.
you canât remember the last time you heard her laugh.
the crescents beneath her eyes are darker than ever, darker than you thought possible. a murky purple that youâd find soothing in any other context, but like this itâs just revolting. her eyes are deep and dark, the same as ever, but now theyâre glazed over with something you canât quite put your finger on.Â
apathy, maybe.
or bloodlust.
the scent of cigarette smoke that follows her is suffocating. indistinguishable from her natural scent. you donât know if sheâll ever be able to scrub the tobacco stench off her skin.
(youâve given up on counting the exact number of cigarettes she smokes each day. youâre not sure you want to know the answer.)
she doesnât even look alive, anymore. like some part of her already reached its expiration date. a spectre, wandering the hallways, filling the air with the slow, ominous clacking of her heels.
shoko hasnât been herself for a while â and itâs so obvious. her grief is so heavy, her sleep-deprivation so severe. youâd have to be blind not to notice it.Â
so why hasnât anyone said anything?
you gnaw at your bottom lip, trying to suffocate the bitterness swimming inside your veins. itâs a dumb question, really, because you already know. you donât want to acknowledge it, because itâs so unfair, but you know. of course you do.
no one has the time to. itâs as simple as that.Â
no oneâs doing well, anymore. not since shinjuku.
not since gojo died.
shokoâs grief is a fickle thing. always with her, tucked away within those eyebags, in the pockets of her coat. in that smell of tobacco, never-fading, always lingering. it follows her like a ghost, like something sheâll never quite be rid of.
(like something she doesnât want to be rid of.)
shokoâs grief is a fickle thing, and it always has been. but recently, itâs been downright overwhelming. it used to be subtle, the kind of thing you notice if you look close enough. if you squint. if you even care enough to try.
but now, itâs more like a haunting than a simple ghost.
(geto. nanami. yaga. and now gojo, too.
how many people does she have to lose before whateverâs watching is satisfied?)
shoko hasnât been herself for a while, and itâs obvious, and itâs sickening. she still does her duty to a tee, but she isnât quite there anymore. gaze always forlorn, as if sheâs trying to convince herself of something.
and yet no one says a thing.
everything is one big mess, right now. you donât want to blame anyone. everyoneâs exhausted, completely and utterly spent, but theyâre still planning it all out. even in the midst of their mourning. because they donât have any other choice.Â
this is not the kind of situation where you should be pointing fingers. a part of you is angry, livid even â but you know the others are doing just as badly. itâs not like you arenât, either.
still, though. isnât this just too unfair?
âi brought you coffee!â
making sure your voice doesnât waver is tougher than you initially assumed. just the sight of her sends a tremor running through your ribs; sunken down in her chair, papers in hand, eyes scanning the pages methodically. papers of what, youâd like to ask â but you already know.
(sheâs reading through the post-mortem examination report, again. searching for something you donât understand. youâre not sure she does, either.)
and she looks exhausted.
try as you might, your voice ends up sounding a little stale, as it flows from your lips and reaches her ears. but the attempt is there â the attempt to sound cheerful, calm. normal. to give her something to hold on to.
shoko looks up at you, and her lips curl in a way you think is supposed to form a smile. it doesnât. her eyes look into yours but itâs like sheâs not seeing you at all.
when you go to give her the cup of espresso, your fingertips touch. only for a second, before she curls her fingers around the ceramic handle. she receives the coffee with a small murmur of thanks, but you donât notice because youâre too busy thinking of how cold her skin feels.
(cold like a ghost. cold like death.)
shaking away the shivers down your spine, you allow your gaze to trail over the morgue. it looks the same as always. cold, empty. foreboding. today, you think it feels just a little chillier than usual. matching the temperature of the outside world, where everything lies buried in heaps of snow and frost.
hesitantly, you plop down in the seat right next to hers. with such a narrow distance, you can smell the tobacco sticking to her clothing. it makes you want to throw up.
(you try not to look over at the couch in the corner of the room, where a certain someone used to slack off. his awkwardly long limbs would dangle off the edges, and shoko would pretend that she didnât enjoy his company. you were more than content with silently admiring the smile she was trying to hide.)
shoko doesnât look at you, professional in the way her eyes run across the files. cause of death: damage to central intestines, subsequent loss of blood. from a cut to the stomach, right below the liver and spleen.
you look away before your eyes can read another line.
leaning back in your chair, you exhale a tiny sigh. desperate to fill the silence with something, anything at all. you scramble for topics, racking your brain.
(what could you possibly tell her that she doesnât already know?)
âthe others are still planning everything out,â you speak, playing with your fingers idly to distract yourself. âi think itâs going well.â
shoko hums, unaffected. âthatâs good.â
sheâs speaking to you, but that feeling of unease still wonât go away. her voice sounds still, flat. empty of emotion. but you can tell sheâs trying to be polite.
thatâs no surprise. shoko isnât the type to ever show how sheâs truly feeling. sheâs not the type to ask for help, either. people come to her for help, not the other way around. thatâs all sheâs ever known.
(in that sense, the two of them were alike.)
but that just makes it all the more important for you to be there. even if youâre a little awkward, and even if you canât do much. even if itâs only for a moment or two, you want to see her smile. you want to feel for yourself that sheâs really there.
looking over at shoko, you wring your hands together, the cold air of the morgue nipping at your sweaty palms. sheâs drinking from the cup, one finger around the handle as her other hand flips through the papers.
��does it taste okay?â you ask, softly. if only you could ask her that under better circumstances, with cups of espresso made with better coffee machines than those at jujutsu high. âi made it myself, soâŚâ
âitâs fine.â shoko takes a sip. dragging her syllables out, as if mustering the will to speak. âdonât worry.â
short sentences. almost cold, but you know better than that. she just doesnât have it in her to pretend that everything is normal, anymore.
and it makes you uncomfortable. this silence.Â
a couple months ago, it would have felt comforting; a quiet, peaceful kind of solitude shared between the two of you. nostalgic, like the smell of morning dew. or the way moonlight feels on your skin when the world falls asleep.
the silence you had with shoko always felt so tender. a single moment of peace, before the other shoe dropped. just that one moment was enough to give you the hope you needed to make it through another day.
you loved being silent with shoko. you loved her silence, the way she could soothe your very soul without saying a thing.
but now it only stings your skin. you fear that you might drown in it.
there is nothing to say. you want to ask her how sheâs doing, but you already know. you want to ask her why sheâs still reading the files from gojoâs autopsy, but you already know.
you want to ask her if she can still keep going, like this. but you already know.
she doesnât have a choice.
(something crumbles, deep inside your chest, like ashes cast into the sea.)
âhey. shoko?â
she hums, again. weak. quiet. absentminded, acknowledging your words but not really hearing them.
you take a deep breath.
âi think iâm going to quit being a sorcerer.â
silence.
for a moment, nothing happens. nothing moves, or speaks. the air is cold and crisp and carries no meaning, no words, nothing at all.Â
like time is frozen. frozen like all the bodies shokoâs had to dig inside these past few months. frozen like gojo was when she found him in the snow.
frozen like your youth, a glass marble kept in your pocket for moments when you feel as if the ground beneath your feet is about to slip away. then youâd take it out, and look deep inside it. watch the swirling of greens and blues and purples. that streak of indigo right in the middle of the glass. memories of the past, to give you comfort.
to remind yourself of why youâre doing this. to give you a reason to keep moving forward.
(south or north, it doesnât matter. stay as you are or move forward, look to the past or to the future â none of it matters if you arenât alive. thatâs the conclusion you came to.)
shokoâs expression, too, is frozen. it doesnât change, even as you let those loaded words fall from your tongue. you watch her carefully, out of the corner of your eye. she doesnât even look at you, gaze still glued to the tiny letters detailing exactly what gojoâs pulse was at when he got cut.
but something flickers, in the depths of her irises, so fast you barely catch it. something you canât identify, but itâs still something. itâs movement. itâs alive.
ânot right now, obviously,â you elaborate. suddenly a little nervous, now that the words have been made manifest. âbut⌠you know. once all this is over.â
not sure what else to say, you trail off, fidgeting with your fingers again. voice wavering pitifully towards the end of the sentence, because deep down you know itâs not a question of once, but a question of if.
(if this ever ends. if i donât die tomorrow, or the day after that.)
you swallow the lump in your throat, and look at her. trying to find her eyes. trying to keep her alive for as long as you can, this sequence of motion, this moment frozen in time.
trying to reach her.
âyou wonât ever have to worry about me dying,â you throw in, like the words are light and not heavy as bricks. but you know she needs to hear them. âiâll leave, and then â and thenâŚâÂ
staring down at your lap, you link your hands together. exhaling, a little breathless. sheepish, in a way. â⌠well. i donât know. i havenât thought that far ahead, yet.â
you never had the chance to. you didnât even really think of it as a possibility, as something you could do. and you know itâs not a possibility for shoko. the choice to be a sorcerer was never hers, from the very beginning.
a user of the reverse cursed technique. capable of healing almost any wound, more power and capability than a child should ever have. invaluable. sheâs saved so many lives youâre sure sheâll be reborn as a god.
but the choice was never hers.
a soothing kind of ache blooms in both your palms, as your nails dig into the soft skin. hard enough to form crescents, like the ones under shokoâs eyes, that sheâll never be rid of no matter how much she sleeps. the choice was never hers.
isnât that just too cruel?
they donât deserve her. none of them do. the elders didnât, the jujutsu world doesnât â not even the students. no one deserves it; everything she does for everyone, day and night, just slaving away in the morgue or her office. cutting up curses and old friends. every second of the day, always that same buzzing of her name being called.Â
shoko, someone needs healing, come quick!Â
shoko, i know itâs 2 am and you have work tomorrow, but thereâs a curse that i need you to dissect.
shoko, i think i got a paper cut, would you mind taking a look?
none of them deserve her.
you think of gojo. a flash of white hair, a grin brighter than the sun. a bloodstained smile â one shoko had to wipe away.
something ugly claws its way up your throat.
none of them deserve her. especially not him.
what were you thinking, leaving her all alone like this? so much for being the strongest. you couldnât even stay alive.
why would you die with a smile on your face? do you have any idea how cruel that is to her?
you idiot. donât you know how much she missed you?
â yeah. none of them deserve her. gojo doesnât, the world doesnât, and neither do you. no one does.Â
what shoko deserves is to live a normal life.Â
and she never will.
itâs foolish. itâs naive, a juvenile daydream. but you wish for it so, so badly. so much that even just the thought alone feels like too much to bear.
you wish you could bring her with you.Â
you wish you could take her hand in yours, and run away. leave it all behind, every single thing, without caring about the consequences. youâd hold her hand and never let it go, and then youâd run and run until you were both high on adrenaline and breathless laughter.
maybe you could go somewhere, together. somewhere better. outside of japan, where there are less curses. money wouldnât be an issue, you both have more than you know what to do with â one of the perks of having a job thatâs bound to kill you. you could settle down in some smaller town, peaceful, maybe a little secluded. just to make sure no one finds you.Â
maybe you could open up a little shop, together. or spend all your days tangled up beneath the blankets, catching up on lost sleep. talking and whispering, like youâd do back at the sleepovers you used to have. youâd make her coffee every morning, and tea every evening. youâd spend the rest of your life trying to make her laugh as loud as possible.
thereâs nothing you want more. absolutely nothing. there never will be.
â but you canât ask her.
you canât ask her to come with you, no matter how much you want to. thatâd be the cruelest thing you could possibly do to her.
she would never agree. youâd only be hurting her more. so selfish, all of these wishes. it was so much simpler back when you were just kids. when you didnât have to care about duties or responsibilities. when your cognitive empathic abilities were just a little more lacking.Â
a sigh flows from your lips. resigned, but somewhat hopeful, all the same. tainted with the murmurs of a memory thatâll never happen.
âmaybe iâll open up a bakery, or something.â you tap your fingers against the desk, smiling a little to yourself at the thought. or trying to. âthen you could come visit.â
shoko looks into her cup of coffee. watching the swirling of the vortex, the abyss that gazes back at her. she doesnât look at you but you can tell sheâs listening. then she puts the cup down, and you glance at her now-empty hand.Â
shokoâs hands have always been pretty. even when theyâre covered in grime, or stained with blood. thin, a little bony, smooth skin obscuring clear blue veins. moles litter her hands like stars in the sky; one right beneath her pinkie, another by her wrist. the more you look, the more you find.
tentatively, you broach the distance between you. curling your fingers around her slender ones, where they rest on her lap. linking hands. itâs a slow movement, drawn out and careful, accompanied by the heavy beating of your heart.Â
(her skin is cold to the touch. your skin buzzes with unease, but you donât let go.)
then you smile. a small thing, not really optimistic, but the attempt is there. something for her to hold on to. looking deep into her eyes, admiring the hazel glow that never quite left them.
âiâll give you free pastries.â
a moment passes. shokoâs fingers squeeze around yours â weakly, but itâs there. movement, motion, life. a way of reaching out. a way to hold on.
her eyes continue to trail over the page, but you know sheâs not reading any of the contents. youâve caught her attention. a small victory, but youâll take what you can get.
âi donât like sweets,â she reminds you, leaning back a little in her chair. allowing her eyes to flutter shut, at last â and itâs not much but itâs something. a moment of relief for those tired, tired eyes. more tired than any 29 year oldâs should be.
âiâll change your mind,â you promise, mustering up enough will to sound smug. âmy pastries will be out of this world. youâll get a sweet tooth in no time, sho.â
she exhales a breath, vaguely amused. your smile widens, hopelessly. her happiness was always the root of yours, wasnât it?
then she looks at you, one eyebrow raised in lazy scepticism. âcan you even bake?â
ânope,â you deadpan. âbut iâll learn. youâll see.â
this time, shoko almost chuckles â and itâs more than youâve gotten out of her in recent memory. god, you missed that sound. a little raspy, from all the cigarettes, but still so honeyed and smooth. hearing it makes you feel as if everything will turn out fine, in the end.
(what a powerful thing, for a voice to do. one so lovely it anchors you to the earth.)
a faux pout curls its way to your lips, and you squeeze her hand lightly. âdonât laugh, iâm being serious!â your pout shifts into a soft grin, a little teasing. âiâll get you addicted to sugar instead of nicotine.â
âhahaâŚâ
shoko laughs. shoko laughs and itâs beautiful.
shoko laughs, a genuine laugh, and itâs so beautiful that you almost donât notice the tears in her eyes. almost.
and then you realize your mistake.
a memory comes to you, then. you recall a hushed conversation, beneath a cloudy summer sky. the air was heavy with the scent of lilacs and cigarette smoke. two people were beside you, and all you cared about was listening to the tilt of their voices. that, and nothing more. a time before everything and everyone went south.
(âyou know, shoko. you really should drop those death sticks of yours.â
âi donât want to hear that from the guy who needs 40 grams of pure sugar every day just to function.â
ârude! and as far as addictions go, sugar is a cut above nicotine, donât ya think?â
âwhatever. just worry about yourself, gojo.â)
by the time you realize, itâs already far too late. the tears have already begun to fall. little droplets of grief, sticking to her skin.
they trickle down the contours of shokoâs face, and fall onto the paper in her hand, smudging the letters. she clutches it tightly, crinkling it, just to make the damage worse. her other hand is still holding yours, chipped nails digging into your skin gently.
but she keeps laughing. low, hazy laughter â pained. she sounds like sheâs in pain, and thatâs because she is. even if no one ever cares to mention it.
(how cruel, for her to be born with the reverse cursed technique. capable of healing any physical wound; leaving her with too many mental ones to count. never to be healed or acknowledged, in this life or the next.)
you can only stare. helpless to her sadness. her eyes are a little red, and sheâs biting down on her lip hard enough to draw blood â a drop of scarlet falls onto the paper, and you think of gojo again.
you think of shoko finding him. running to his side. doing all she could to heal him, to patch him up â getting blood all over her hands and clothes. red everywhere, staining the pure white of the snowfall. like something out of a painting.
she did all that she could. pressing down on his chest, positive cursed energy pouring out from her fingertips in tandem with the snow. pressing two shaky fingers to his pulse point, just in case. just to find any sign of life, absolutely anything. hoping so tenderly that sheâd feel the flutter of his pulse. that heâd get up, and laugh obnoxiously, and ask her if she really thought heâd leave her behind so easily.
youâd never seen her look so scared. so desperate, a primal kind of fear youâve learned to associate with self-driven survival. the way some animals can claw their way out of a predatorâs stomach if theyâre swallowed whole. but she did that to save him. trying to claw him out, herself. from the belly of the beast.
she did all that she could.
but gojo didnât do anything. he just laid there, split in two. frozen in time, eternally young. watching the sky. smiling.
(what a wonderful way to die. what an awful thing for an old friend to find.)
before your mind can catch up, your body acts. muscle memory, in the way your arms curl around her midriff to bring her close. tucking her into your side while she sniffles and cries. still laughing, like sheâs still trying to convince you that sheâs fine. like sheâs isnât falling apart at the seams.
the dam breaks. the ice shatters. everything comes crashing down â and youâre there to pick up the pieces. despite everything.
itâs not enough, it never will be. but at least itâs something.
itâs heart-wrenching, the way she clings to you. like youâre the only thing she has. the dry laughter that spills from her throat devolves into sobbing, her chest heaving as she tries to catch her breath, nails clinging to the fabric of your clothing like sheâs trying to anchor herself. broken sniffles fill the space between you as she hides away, in the crook of your neck.
(the sound makes you feel like someone drove a knife from your sternum down to your stomach.)
all you can do is hold her. quietly, delicately. as if she could break if you squeeze her too hard. as if sheâd shatter like a sheet of glass if you were to say the wrong thing again.
you hold shoko like sheâs fragile. because she is, regardless of what anyone else says. because sheâs a human being, and sheâs grieving, and she needs this.
eventually, she musters up the will to speak â and itâs awful, raspy, broken syllables she has to force out of her throat.Â
she chokes on the words like theyâre poisonous. like sheâs been carrying them around for decades, bubbling beneath the surface, waiting to be let out.
âdonât â donât end up here,â shoko pleads, voice wavering through the syllables. full of fear. âplease.â
you know what she means. she doesnât have to say it, because you know.
donât end up in my morgue. donât end up on my autopsy table.Â
shoko sounds meek. she sounds close to falling apart. youâve never seen her like this before, clutching onto your sleeves as if begging you to stay.Â
âyouâre â youâre the only one iâŚâ
she doesnât finish, cut off by a broken sniffle. but she doesnât need to.Â
youâre the only one i have left. i canât lose you, too.
please donât die. please donât leave me behind.
a shaky inhale. your arms tighten around her waist, tugging her closer. praying that sheâll feel the steady beating of your heart, the undeniable proof that youâre alive. that you havenât left her yet.Â
you blink away the tears in your eyes, grasping for control over your wavering voice.
âi wonât.â
and maybe itâs cruel, maybe itâs the cruelest thing you could do to her â making a promise you know you might not be able to keep. but you do so anyway. helpless to her sadness. at the complete mercy of her grief. youâd do anything to stop the tears from falling, to soothe the turmoil in her chest.
âi wonât let you be alone, shoko,â you murmur into her hair, with all the comfort you can possibly muster. ânot now, or ever.â
three words yearn to be spoken, resting on the tip of your tongue. three little syllables, desperate to be heard after living in the back of your throat for so many years.Â
and for a second, you think you might say it.Â
you think you might say it, breathe life into the statement. you can almost taste it, can almost hear it. can almost see what her expression would look like.
but shoko sniffles, and hugs you tighter. protective, like youâll leave if she doesnât. so tightly that it hurts a little.
and you swallow the words, once more.Â
right now, this is enough. itâs enough that youâre alive, that youâre here. thatâs what shoko needs, right now.
she doesnât need your love. she just needs you to stay alive.
so you will. you decide that you will, no matter what. youâll leave, and youâll open up a shitty bakery that wonât get any customers â and youâll give her free pastries for the rest of your life. youâll get her so addicted to sweets that sheâll have no choice but to come back for more.
shoko cries like a child. filling the silence of the morgue with her shaky breaths and quiet sniffles, little hiccups and whimpers. the tears never seem to stop, and you wonder how long itâs been since she last let them fall.
you hold her in your arms, smoothing a palm down her back, counting the bumps of vertebra â and donât say anything. thereâs no need to.
for now, the soft patter of your heartbeat is enough.
ijichi stands just outside the morgue, unmoving. not saying a thing.
itâs muffled, hushed and quiet, but still audible. the sound of childlike crying. the kind all sorcerers do their best to keep to themselves.
in his arms lie a bundle of papers. the final pages of gojoâs autopsy report. itâs important that shoko sees them â vital, according to her. something about the six eyes, the possibilities they hold. the hope that maybe, just maybeâŚ
â he clutches them tightly, and then walks away.
#the wlw urge to leave everything behind and start a bakery togetherâŚâŚ#idk how to feel abt this i just!! needed to get some shoko thoughts out!!! sheâs my fave jjk girl and i love the way her grief is portrayed#i just hope gege does her justice but i have a good feeling that he will!! if not its on sight#sheâs so special to me. the airport scene hurts sm because she really is all alone now :(( its so fucked up i SOBBED into my pillow#well i mean. she still has ijichi. and i love him dont get me wrong but like. STILL#im delusional tho so i think next chapter shoko will use her rct to heal gojo#and then weâll get a scene of him leaving the airport with shoko. trust me gege and i are like thisđ¤#sorry for basing all my titles on siken poems. anyway go read âi had a dream about youâ its so shoko#shoko ieiri#shoko ieiri x reader#shoko ieiri x you#jujutsu kaisen x reader#jujutsu kaisen#jjk x reader#jjk#jjk spoilers#jujutsu kaisen spoilers#jjk 236#jujutsu kaisen 236#âŚ. i think. thats all the tagsâŚâŚ.
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i didnt finish rendering this one cause i ran outta steam but i spent too long on it so fuck it we ball đŞ
chapter 33 from ABoT was my aaabsolute favorite. i love Ritsu suffering from his own bad decisions he is so silly
#A Breach of Trust#ABoT#mp100#mp100 ritsu#i wanted to finish this sooo bad#bc i have a hard time finishing art if i take a break from it#oh well#also i reaaaallly like the concept of possession as a form of body horror#or loss of autonomy#which is practically every chapter of ABoT so i was having the time of my life#anyway#garf chats#garf art#i wouldnt be surprised if i make more chap 33 art later#its sooo good#if you are reading this remind me to make my art fights refs
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"If the structure of your world ever evaporates, I will still be here."
I think The Q might contain one of the greatest declarations of friendship/love ever.
#books#the q#beth brower#this seems clunkier out of context but trust me in context it's very moving#they're discussing how quincy's entire world is wrapped up in work#so even if she likes the people there if the business somehow disappeared she probably wouldn't see them again#because they all have other family/friends to go to and she doesn't really have any#leading to this promise#and let me tell you it's just about enough to make me believe in found family#because this works as a romantic or platonic declaration#it's a promise#a commitment to provide safety and stability when there's nowhere else to go#and i love it#this book is so odd because i liked it quite a bit last year#then rereading i was at first like 'why did i like this at all?'#there's no scene-setting or character description it's just kind of stuff there#but then the relationship starts to develop and i am SO invested#under normal rules it shouldn't take 100 pages for the story to get good but in this case it's worth it#it's such an odd structure#each chapter is almost like its own little short story#or a character sketch#almost like the character have stopped to discuss their own character worksheet#but in context it somehow works#and it drives home how much traditional publishing and writing rules stifle creativity#because your average editor would look at this and try to smooth it over#make it all into one flowing narrative#and it would lose so much of what makes it unique and compelling#following the rules of 'good writing' robs you of all the stories that don't follow those rules#there is so much scope outside of the one 'best practice' that is currently in fashion#and those stories need to get told too!
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literally how i feel any time i read this line. absolutely NOT
i think he's a great mirror type character for the mc depending on how much you draw on the default ra-on and their characterization, but more specifically their feeling of inferiority to solomon (which i take for my mc loyal). both the mc and bael are stuck filling in for a role for a king that neither feels they're well equipped for or were even born to hold and the fact that bael's so used to taking the fall that he's automatically ready to do it for you too is just. man. orz
#cliffnotes/.txt#whb#bael whb#its so...augh he makes me so sad#ik itll probably take forever to get to avisos since the promised chapter 6 hasnt even released yet#but waiting so patiently to pick bael apart (not really patient (vibrating like a chihuahua))#bael and mc spiderman pointing meme#god and both being like an imperfect copy#just similar enough to pass off as a fraud but so very different at the same time#and bc of that they'll never be true replacements#though the mc isnt even supposed to be one its like#the moment of disappointment almost everyone has shown when they realize its not solomon#even if they change tunes and bounce back quickly its there#happy to meet you but still upset its not him#and the underlying expectation that it *should* be him at first#like how it should be beel in avisos. but its not#both get a good amount of reassurance and support from those around them tho i will say its nicd#esp after seeing how the rest of avisos' camp feels abt bael#they love him and trust in him so much even though he always feels like hes failing them just by not being the king#he does so much and still feels like itll never be enough#ok now im just rambling its time to be quiet before i write an essay in here
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Overhead, the stars shone clear and bright, and though Mala had only once appeared to him at dawn, on the foothills across this very city, though she might be little more than a strange, mighty being from another world, he offered up a prayer anyway.
Then, he had begged Mala to protect Aelin from Maeve when they entered Doranelle, to give her strength and guidance, and to let her walk out alive. Then, he had begged Mala to let him remain with Aelin, the woman he loved. The goddess had been little more than a sunbeam in the rising dawn, and yet he had felt her smile at him.
Tonight, with only the cold fire of the stars for company, he begged her once more.
A curl of wind sent his prayer drifting to those stars, to the waxing moon silvering the camp, the river, the mountains.
He had killed his way across the world; he had gone to war and back more times than he cared to remember. And despite it all, despite the rage and despair and ice he'd wrapped around his heart, he'd still found Aelin. Every horizon he'd gazed toward, unable and unwilling to rest during those centuries, every mountain and ocean he'd seen and wondered what lay beyond... It had been her. It had been Aelin, the silent call of the mating bond driving him, even when he could not feel it.
They'd walked this dark path together back to the light. He would not let the road end here.
#Chapter 23#Kingdom of Ash#Sarah J. Maas#Rowan Whitethorn#Rowaelin#Essar#Mala#more starry quotes#lord of the north#I will find you#no spoilers pls 1st read to read along with me pt 4 of 4 perspectives more notes/quotes/reacts in tags; spoilers in both post & tags#They would not all go in all go out. â he wonât leave without Aelin⌠and probably Cairn dead#Ready to unleash hell when he sent a flare of his magic diverting soldiers to their side while Rowan made his run for Aelin.#She'd protested but even Gavriel had told her that she was mortal. Untrained. And what she'd done today⌠Rowan didnât have the words#thank you for Elide appreciation day#He trusted Essar. She'd never liked Maeve had outright said she did not serve her with any willingness or pride.#But these last few hours before dawn when so many things could go wrong...#the full circle of him praying to Mala in HoF and then mentioning it in QoS and EoS and now here in KoAđ#She had to be there. Aelin had to be there.#If they had come so close but wound up being the very thing that had caused Maeve to take Aelin away AGAIN#The bond within him lay dark and slumbering. No indication of her proximity. â Maeve doing that too AGH I HATE HER SO MUCH#Essar had no idea that Aelin was being kept here until Elide informed her. How many others hadn't known? How well had Maeve hidden her?#â maybe that means thereâs some good face on their side who might help if they know or learn?#ah rowaelins love language of revenge and compartmentalizing#Overhead the stars shone clear and bright and though Mala had only once appeared to him at dawn on the foothills across this very city#though she might be little more than a strange mighty being from another world he offered up a prayer anyway.#his magic sending a prayer to the northern stars for dawn to stay with the woman he loves â even back thenđ#Tonight with only the cold fire of the stars for company he begged her once more.#HE SAYS COLD FIRE BECAUSE ITS NOT HIS FIREHEARTđ and the the darkness back to the light â IT WILL NOT END HERE WE WONT LET IT HE WONT LET IT#and the fact he knew he loved her back thenđ and all those centuries before when he didnât know whyđđđ
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me 250+ chapters deep into a 1000+ chapters ongoing webnovel I could never casually recommend to anyone going absolutely insane but having no one to talk to
#its so good yall. source trust me bro#to the point that once I catch up with the weekly free releases I might sub to the tl group's patreon since they're almost caught up w/#official chapters lol#and no for the record. I never usually read shit that long I lose interest#nik speaks
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(Potentially) Daily ask â5
Philza edition!
Stares at him with a mix of hesitation confusion fear disgust respect and concern, hhhhhh I have some feelings about that guy. I put him off as the last character to get an ask cause I genuinely didn't know much about him and cause I didn't really like him either. But here we go!
I can't tell how powerful he actually is. Because the foundation has these things called reality anchors which it canonically traps the reality bending entities with. And Phil was still walking around freely and was powerful enough to make contracts with. But if the reality anchors didn't work on him cause he's so powerful, why didn't he just, yk, break his collected out immediately?
Does he genuinely not understand how traumatizing is a lot of the lovely murder sprees he goes on are, at least for Tommy from what I've read? Like, yeah he's a god but surely he must've researched psychology enough to understand that it's highly stressful?
Are there any repercussions to using his godly powers? Perhaps that's why he doesn't use them often. Loss of humanity?
Why does he actually cling to his humanity via collecting people? Seems like a very illogical and unproductive thing to do if you don't want to get manipulated or hurt in other ways over it.
..I don't have any gift for him but uh.. đ good job keeping them alive, dude?
Thanks! I wrote him to be a very complicated guy. This one will dip into some of the deep lore behind the magic system that isnât entirely explored in Fault bc well the main characters have more pressing problems.
1 and 4 since theyre impossible to untangle. What scp lore I use is up in the air honestly, but Philza is not a reality bender. The Blood God would count as one, though thatâs mostly in the âunfortunate accidentsâ department, and Wilbur very much is a reality. Well breaker but still. Luckily the Foundation doesnt realize heâs an Apollyon since Wilbur keeps that thing locked down anyway. Creatures like Phil are what I personally call Conceptuals, which are personifications of two ideas. They get a lot of names in Fault tho, since it covers Philza, The Blood God, Wilburâs voidlings, etc. These entities are not real* in the same way a person is, as they lack a body and usually have to anchor onto a vessel. They are beings purely made of a soul, and thus are more controlled by the components of a soul -Memories, Emotions, Name, Bonds. People and Real things meanwhile are more than their essence, and can do stuff like change, act out of character, and most pertinent to this question, break their promises. A person has a body to anchor them but an unbound soul is compelled to complete it be it a bargain, challenge, vow, pulled along by their Bonds. Voidlings to their bargains, The Blood God to his challengers, so on.
Philza is a special case, because he is an entity so powerful that he made himself Real. Thatâs not a vessel heâs using like The Blood God; he made himself into an actual person. And because he has made himself Real, unlike every other god/void/entity he technically can break his promises. But he doesnât, because Bonds with his Collected chain him to personhood (and it would be a crappy ethical dilemma if he doesnât have an actual choice). Philza is like actually billions of years old, and humanity is a blink to him if he doesnât force himself to live in the present. He canât care about everyone because theyâre dead so fast, but he can become attached to a very select few to anchor him. It took millions of years to overcome his essence enough to even be fully sapient, let alone feel human enough to become one since his form reflects how he feels. Like imagine trying to get in the head space of an ant so completely that you become one. Without Collected, itâs harder for Phil to maintain his personhood though he can probably manage a couple decades without one. And having fought so hard to be a person, Phil isnât willing to lose it, since again it took millions of years last time and humanity could be gone by that point. As a person he gets to be so much more than an embodiment of fire and fury, is able to change who he is, has purpose and goals and cares beyond the mindless rage he used to be. He gets to be real, all for the low low price of loving and being loved by others. Who the hell wouldnât? So Philza would sacrifice anything to maintain the Collected system, his promises, and thus his personhood.
And unfortunately his current Collected are suffering for that long term goal. Philza made the Collected Contract with the Foundation because all his Collected were captured and short of setting the entire world on fire he couldnât find them. Philza is a very destructive guy, but he adores humanity, so that wasnât really on the table. So he made a promise to the Foundation, and had to follow it or risk unraveling himself. Itâs a slippery slope fallacy, but in eternity once youâve done something once youâre guaranteed to do it infinite times, or so goes Philâs logic. In his own words: âMorals are a slippery slope. Thatâs why I made myself a ledge. A precipice so I can know where I need to stop before I fall entirely.â In his mind to snap even one promise gives him free rein to break the next, and the next, each easier to justify than the last until there really is nothing tethering him to his own sapience. The only tenet Philza has is to keep is promises, because he doesnât know if he can remain a person otherwise.
He doesnât break his Collected out. He canât unless he breaks himself.
2. Philza has no morals because in his opinion an immortal canât have any; what is considered ethical will only shift out beneath you like sand as society changes. He generally aligns with the ethical framework that his Collected have at the time, and Wilbur and The Blade are pretty fine with murder so heâs lenient on that front currently, whereas with his last Collected he was a clean and proper stay at home roommate, his white picket fence completely free of blood stainsâŚuntil the Foundation ruined that. Philza personally doesnât have much care for human lives beyond his Collected given theyâre just going to die in not even a century anyway. That isnât to say he isnât aware of murder being bad/ traumatizing to some people. In fact, prior to the Foundation Philza and the rest took pains to sanitize themselves for Tommyâs visits, cremating the evidence, burning the blood off their hands, etc. They were being actively hunted down and are trying to protect themselves, but also letting a kid see what that life is fully like, all the fear and violence of it, is messed up. Perhaps they sheltered him too much. Tommy didnât know how to recognized he was being followed.
Once in the Foundation, Philza is less cautious about it, though technically is committing far less murder due to the Collected Covenent. Heâs practically behaving himself. Philza makes two mistakes in the Hallway Massacre: 1. Tommyâs killed like so so many people at that point so he doesnât think itâs a problem, especially as heâs murdering Foundation workers who have hurt Tommy. 2. Philza thinks the Foundation has broken their promise and so heâs free. Technically heâs correct, but the Foundation lies well enough that he later regards the Hallway massacre as a mistake, mostly for political rather than traumatizing Tommy reasons. Philza views the Foundation as a far greater source of trauma for Tommy, and all the murder was for the purpose of breaking Tommy out and so justified to him.
In truth, Tommy had already caused as much carnage as he saw during the Hallway Massacre by that time, albeit likely in smaller, more spaced out batches. The reason that moment stuck with Tommy so much was because he saw it as the consequences of choices he made rather than something he was forced to do. Moreso, all his time in the Foundation heâd been told they were violent monsters that would slaughter humanity without reason. This directly conflicted with Tommyâs experience of being forced and forcing others to be violent; until, of course, Philza proved the Foundation right.
In Later massacres during the amnestic arc Philza wasnât aware he even had Collected that could be traumatized, and anyway only Tubbo was really there to see it. Any later murders on Philâs part are typically in battles. He does recognize that Tommy doesnât prefer to fight, and honestly Phil prefers that he doesnât too since Tommy getting captured mid battle is how the whole group got picked off one by one. Tommy tends not to see most of the fighting. Philza recognizes that Tubbo abhors murder and would ideally solve that through smoking them to sleep through battles so they donât get traumatized via their partial omnipresence. But Tubbo refuses bc of moral principles or whatever, and so Phil canât minimize much trauma there without acting against their expressed boundaries, and since the majority of his Collected want to fight and he refuses to let them be killed/hurt/captured, murder time it is. Potentially if they were on better terms heâd smoke Tubbo anyway on the grounds that itâs better for their mental health, but Philza feels ant present Tubbo wouldnât understand heâs âacting in their best interestâ.
3. One large factor is that itâs very hard to be a mile long dragon inside of a itty bitty room, although much like he pretends to be human Philza is likewise only pretending to be a dragon. And also itâs hard to hug his tiny little mortals when heâs big. Plus while his Collected are immune to his fire, the smoke generated from burning matter can be hazardous unless itâs hot enough to be a complete combustion.
And unless his human form is killed (which takes an awful lot of effort) Philza can only switch forms through reframing his entire mental schema. His inner world controls his body, and switching between believing youâre a human and a dragon is quite difficult, let alone reverting to his uncontrolled true essence which Philza takes great pains not to do. Itâs a tricky balance between loosening his self imposed reigns and fully unbridling his self. Too much and he might lose sapience altogether. When feeling untethered to his humanity, he does also become more draconian. Philza finds it easier to go from dragon to human since all thatâs doing is adding more chains, and you canât really go overboard with that. Though it is certainly easier to go between a human and dragon, which are pretty similar if you think about it what with their brains and meat and what not, than between an animal and fire/fury incarnate.
4. Answered above. And yes it is all illogical to some extent, since love rarely is purely rational. But immortality would be hell without other people. Going insane is even less rational, so Philza picks the former.
5. Philza sweeps a bow. It is unclear if itâs sarcastic. He then pulls out a wallet, which upon opening dumps out long rows of photos, and tries to corner you to gush about his kids. He is a dorky dad first and a deplorable threat to society second.
#I noticed your kudos! Mwahaha youâve fallen for my devious trap of rambling about au until you were forced to become invested!#And trust me Iâm sure your opinion of Phil will get even worse as time goes on#Heâs charismatic but when haunting the narrative with a host of atrocities itâs not a good look lmao#its actually really funny given how people on the latest chapter were booing and hissing at Tubbo while trying to protect Phil from them#Iâd be doing something very wrong if people came out of Fault liking a character 100% of the time#Their flaws are so fun to toy with#fault au#scp philza#philza#sbi#sbi au#sleepy bois inc#sbi scp au#dsmp#mcyt#ask#something to nom on#fault spoilers#maybe??
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Fully caught up on the manga (minus spoilers for the last chapter) and..... Ya know what maybe I am a villain stan because I just.... Don't trust that anything really changes in society. Everyone outside of heroes, when given speaking parts, seems to indicate that they'll step in or do something in order to protect themselves - not out of any sense of responsibility or community, but to safeguard their lives in case the other person ends up a villain. Or maybe I'm just pessimistic? But we've seen irl time and again that this ending attitude doesn't work. Doesn't have change. Certainly not long lasting change. I really really wanted to finish the series still liking Deku but throughout the fight, every cut back to someone other than Deku, talking about his heart and how good he was and how much he was doing to fight for the person - and the cut back is just "punch". He never responded to Shigaraki's words. He never engaged with the man himself. And at the end of the day, I feel more trust in Uraraka. More trust that she'll actually work on saving people's hearts. And she's back in construction work like her parents. And of course the camera dies and no one sees Toga's heart. Because how dare anyone think a villain could be a person (paraphrased that one interview guy).
I really really wanted to end this manga happy with it. I'm not stupid enough to conflate the reality of the story with fandom. I'm not. I really wanted to enjoy it for what it is. But when they directly ask "how do we fix villains being made" the answer is "you don't. We can't" and ???? That's supposed to be what the manga was working towards this whole time? I - .....
#the bee talks#idk. maybe im just too damaged to fit in society anymore myself. ha.... fuck.#mha spoilers#bnha spoilers#i think deku still has a lot of growing up to do. i know blah blah his innocence is ruined and he's irrevocably changed but.#.... i think its more that we see other characters understand more than deku has. horikoshi can write it. he just.... didnt for the guy#we're supposed to have placed our hope and trust in.#mha#bnha#like i feel sick to my stomach because this is devasting but also guilty bc i wanted to like it i was hopeful.#i mean!!!! I STILL LIKE THE ENDING. IM GOOD WITH IT!! i just dont like how the underlying themes were finished.#im not even salty about the villains dying- i feel like being alive wouldve always left a way for horikoshi to be pressured to return to mha#like.... story plot wise im good with it! its just that the last few chapters are supposed to be feel good wrap up and im.... empty.#if i was the same person i was when i first started mha and even up until a few years ago i wouldve really really liked it all.#haaa... maybe I'm just too jaded. sorry yall i really tried my best and I'll enjoy whatever the last chapter holds! i will! i just...#need some time to emotionally remove myself from it i guess. (massive props to Horikoshi for making me care about all of the characters)
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OMG GUYS THEY FINALLY UPDATED THE WINDBREAKER WIKI YAYY I HAVE BEEN WAITING!
Chika is 183 cm tall đ Hmmm cute mmmmm đ Having a description of his personality won't stop me from writing fluffy things about him, nuh uh, he is going to show his more 'human' side to you and only you. I said what i said :3
#â§* ę kiki's rambling#â§* ę takiishi chika#windbreaker#takiishi chika#takiishi chika being that one toxic lover who doesn't even know how he is even in a relationship#it just happened that he tolerated you#somehow magically you make him feel things he can't describe#its okay everyone is learning#even evil people#SATORU NII DROPS HIS BACKSTORY I WANNA KNOW IF HE HAD SOMETHING TRAUMATIC HAPPENED OR HE IS JUST BORN LIKE THAT#dw chika i will show you all love in the world#quick note that i dont tolerate abusive people i mean noone should#but its a pretty fictional character so please let me like him even if he is the most awful person#if the author even drops his past like is there a chance of him having abusive parents like his dad maybe?#where are the parents in this type of fiction i wonder everytime#like if endo was loved by everyone in his childhood without feeling any emotion#is there a chance of chika being hated by everyone in his childhood and being emotional about it#just a theory i don't know#why i do ramble so much someone please stop me#like chika is a total psycho#a tall good looking psycho#i love tall boys actually they are my weakness#hoping for a tall bf someday in university life we trust#anyway back to chika I WANNA KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM#NEXT CHAPTER BETTER BE A FOCUS ON HIS FIGHT WITH UME#also i have to make a video with voice actor who will be a perfect match for him
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Same Old Story - Part 1 of Discordant Days
Chapter 1: The Stranger
Rating: Teen and Up
Characters: Player Character, Kayleigh, Dr. Pensby
Warnings: N/A
Summary:
| Well, we all fall in love, but we disregard the danger Though we share so many secrets, there are some we never tell | When Cass awakens to find themselves stranded on the strange and fantastical New Wirral island where man and monster intertwine, they soon become entangled in their new friends' longing to find a gateway back to their home worlds, and escape this land once and for all. Their only clue? The fractured song of a fractured being-Morgante, an Archangel with desires of her own-whose lonely music leads Cass and their companions on a journey across New Wirral that will change the fabric of this world, and their lives, forever. ...That is one version of the story. But Cass doesn't know where "home" is. In fact, they can't even remember who they are. And as they struggle to find their identity in a world suspended in animation, they may just discover that their story-this same, old story-stretches across time in ways they could never have imagined.
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Well, I guess we're doing Cassette Beasts now
Preview under the cut
The morning The Stranger came to town was the morning the light fell not-quite-right on the gleaming pearl of New Wirral island. Lonely in the ocean, awash in air of a milky blue tint that was held as still and bracing as breath between teeth, it swelled imperceptiblyâanticipatory, but of what?âthe ground rising and stirring and groaning softly with the ache of forgotten motions. Within it, something pressed under the skin. Its pressure cracked the ground. Softened like sores left untreated and rotting, the earth bucked and crumbled away in soft black chunks with grass tearing like tangled hair and from under it cold masses budded and roseâ
âand just as suddenly, an unseen palm opened and pressed the ground back into shape. Its fingers curled and, finding what it was looking for, gently cradled the figure lying alone on the shore.
âItâs time to go,â it seemed to whisper. âItâs time for us to begin.â
The Stranger awoke.Â
Immediately, they clutched their stomach and retched a gutful of saltwater onto the sand, clouded with mucus and blood and tasting like a sour wound. They gasped for breath. Salt heaved in their lungs and stung where it rubbed against the cracks in their lips; when they were finally empty they massaged their sore throat, wincing at the long, scratched-up streaks they could feel running down to the pit of their stomach. How much water had they swallowed? Or, better question, when had they even swallowed it?
Why couldnât they remember?
Why, when they wiped their mouth with the back of their sleeve, was the fabric completely dry despite the waves that had torn their stomach and still now lapped at the back of their heels?
They shook their head in an attempt to clear it. There had to be something inside to uncover, something that would tell them where they were, how theyâd landed alone in the sand surrounded by dried beachwood and limpid seaweed strips and pieces of shells as fractured as their own memory. But there was nothing. They were alone, even inside their own mind. The only company they kept was the whistle of wind that curved under their ear and along the line of their jaw towards their chin, lifting it up with the gentle touch of a friend saying, âLook. Come see the world that you now live in.â
The worldâŚ.
It was dawn and everything was soft. The sandbanks rolling into hills of sweet grass and flowers were sparkling pink with white particles like flecks of glass or snow, above which trees fluttered teal-shaded leaves and bushels of pine that crispened the air with their sharp smell. Undergrowth leapt between their roots. Fresh, spring green, they were filled with babish curls of new growth and the small heads of newborn anemones already taking on their distinctive star-like shape, mingling with dog rose and daisies in a bed of leaves that intertwined like hands and fingers searching for the comfort of a warm grasp.Â
Sometimes thereâd be a twitch of a petal or the clatter of a pebble tumbling down the side of the dunes. Birds twittered, but there wasnât once a flash of wings. Insects buzzed in their ears, and yet not a fly came to land on the stinking pool of blood and vomit beneath them. Here they were seeing the world, but somehow they seemed to exist just outside of it, like a hasty scribble etched into the wrong layer.Â
Really, the only proof they had that this wasnât some elaborate farce or hallucination wasâŚ
âŚwell, there was none.
All they could do was trust their senses as they flooded, renewed, into their body. Lifting their head, they sniffed the air for anything other than brine or blood or plant decay, but the thickness of the odor swamped everything. Even if there was civilization close by they wouldnât be able to catch scent nor sound of it until they got away from the roar of the sea and its bubbling, crashing, hissing waves. Squinting past the salt that fuzzed up their vision, they glanced around. To their right, the line of beach ended in a wall of craggy cliff rising high enough above the sea to vanish into the thick soup of early-morning fog. Not ideal. To their left, though, it seemed to go out much farther, and in the not-so-distant distance three shapes of a strikingly bold orange stood out against the dimmer, more natural colours of their surroundings. Could they be man-made? A sign that there were people close by, that they werenât totally alone in the wilderness?
It was worth a try.
The Stranger staggered to their feet and began to drag themselves across the sand. Their body ached as if itâd been pummeled by the waves for hours, a strangely uniform pain that pulsed through their muscles just beneath the unbroken skin. Every now and again they felt something fidget inside them. The twitch of an organ, maybe, the righting of a rib knocked askew. They tried to slow and give their insides a chance to reassemble themselves, but found themself quickening anyway when the objects ahead came into sharp enough focus for them to make out their distinctive, pyramid-like shape.
The Stranger came to an abrupt spot as the traffic cone closest began to quiver. Its base lifted up like a flap on a jack-in-the-box and from within it two large, almond-shaped claws emerged, guided by a sickly green flame of an eye lit up with a supernatural intensity. The creature stared at them, motionless. They stared back. Was it intelligence they saw in that glimmering, bulb-like eye? Or was it aggression clacking along those sharp, ridged claws? They couldnât quite tell, but either way they didnât like it when the creature began to creep towards them.
Traffic cones. Unexciting on their own, but a sign of life.
Just not the kind of life they were expecting.
âGreetings,â they said. âGet out of my way.â
As if in answer, the creatureâs eye flooded a nasty-looking red.
âFine. If that is what you wish.â
#cassette beasts#hey gang. fabian here#my cb deluxe edition just arrived this week so this seems like a fitting time to drop the new fic :)#I am super tired and have nothing to say um it's good trust me!!!#highly recommend it. hell you can even read it if you havent played cassette beasts#it basically takes it from the top and treats the game like its a pokemon anime with overarching plot mingling with silly one-off adventure#no background knowledge required!#this chapter is just intro + set up but we'll be getting into the fun stuff shortly >:]#discordant days
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yall are not reading for the next lmb chapter....
#shut up loser ri#no because rei u will love this#also its a written chapter so it might be long đđ but who doesn't love a long chapter#heeyn content is going to be SO GOOD TRUST ME
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MANHWA WHY ARE YOU ALLERGIC TO LETTING THE YAOI BOYS HAVE A SEASON TO BE ESTABLISHED AND EXPLORE THEIR RELATIONSHIP TOGETHER. WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO END ONCE THEYRE TOGETHER OR THEY HAVE TO KEEP GOING BACK N FORTH SO THE MANHWA CAN CONTINUE. JUST FUCKING GIVE ME THAT SLICE OF LIFE SHIT YOU HAVE GOOD CHARACTERS YOU CAN WORK WITH THEM WHEN THEYRE ESTABLISHED I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT
#yet another reason why killer crush rises above the rest#I HATE IT OKAY#LIKE OMIGAWD IF I LIKE A DYNAMIC ENOUGH WHEN THEYRE NOT ESTABLISHED TO READ ABT THEM#I MOST DEFINATELY LIKE THEM ENOUGH TO WANNA SEE THEM ESTABLISHED AND JUST DOING SHIT TOGETHER#FOR A LOT OF SERIES THAT BOTHER TO DO THAT THATS WHEN IT TRUELY PICKS UP FOR ME EVEN#thank you his favorite for becoming established instantly#me when im ngl i only reread third ending from when theyre established onwards#third ending would not have as high of a rating in my head at all if they didnt bother with that shit#TRUST ME OKAY. THE FANS WANT THIS.#placebo san told me that she only fuck with jp yaoi and doesnt trust korean or chinese manhwa...#imma be ngl jp is the most reliable for higher quality and its probs cuz they dont force you to endure 50 chapters of back n forth bullshit#and then end it right when its time to get to the established goodness#im a true yaoi connesiuer though alright dont knock korean and chinese manhwa completely bc theres always gems#my favorite comic ever is 2 comics tied and one is a jp yaoi while other is a korean shoujo
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Just read Kick It Up a Notch and while the event's story was good why did it do the thing that a good chunk of VBS stories do (especially the more recent ones since Walk On and On) of just dragging the fuck on certain points đ
Project Sekai's pacing is overall pretty great considering how story heavy and extensive it is! With Leo/Need and Nightcord being perfectly paced and WxS and MMJ having minor yet negligible hiccups but then Vivid Bad Squad's is just all over the place?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying their story is bad (trust me they do have banger,good paced stories and I'm excited for the heartbreaking plot twist coming up in June) but some of them just drag on for far too long
For example, Toya getting inspiration from the hospital guy is interesting but it loses it's appeal when it feels like 75% is focused on him and not Toya making music (and later getting to appreciate his bond with Akito) which was supposed to be the plot of the event??
And also the aforementioned recent Kohane event with the middle just feeling like meandering to have the ending randomly feel like her version of Vivid Old Tale minus the nostalgic undertone turned sad by more recent info and the much better pacing that event had
I have more examples of this but I don't want make this rant(?) much longer but TLDR vbs please stop making parts of your events go on for far too long đ
#project sekai#pjsk#prsk#vivid bad squad#vbs#and also the constant talking thoughts they love to add while they're singing please stop âď¸#the other groups do this too but not to the extent and length vbs does#this is making me look like a vbs story hater but trust me im not!! they also have some absolute gold#its just these dragged out stories feel like a sore thumb ya know?#btw when i meant by mmj and wxs having negligable hiccups...#i was referring to the early stories (main events before tea time/haruka 1 basically) for mmj#and for wxs its island panic and curtain call#btw these stories are nowhere near as dragged as some vbs but still fell like there was some pandering ya know?#curtain call and island panic had great emotional beats but also had some chapters that felt like they could be taken out#like curtain call just feels regular for the first half until asahi does the arc land offer#and island panic had a unique concept and interesting developments for nene but did we really need two chapters about beefing with monkeys?#and the mmj early events feel unnecessarily longer because of the predictable formula they have of#something happens and girl feels bad -> girl goes to sekai and gets reassured by the vocaloids -> girl feels good and confident#for both of these groups is negligible in ths greater scope of things and the grand majority of their other stories are amazing#ok end of rambling tags#kohane azusawa#an shiraishi#toya aoyagi#akito shinonome
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I'm gonna be honest I never expected pokemon horizons to be up there as one of my favorite shows currently when I was first intrigued by it last april, but it keeps surpassing my expectations. I'm emotional.
#vi rambling#pokemon#its just. such a joy. i read the interviews with the voice actors last night and it filled me with so many emotions because like...#these voice actors Get their characters. and all the careful details i pick up are very much intentional on the writers and performers part#and its!! SUCH A TREAT!!! to see that the people working on it are just as enthusiastic about it as me.#the mystery being so well set up and the character arcs being so cathartic to watch i feel like im Rewarded for my analysis and noticing#all these details. its just so lovely.#also the fact that this series knows how to prioritize it's cast members so well? our trio is so so great. and i cant believe im saying thi#*this. but there isnt a single character in this series so far that i blatantly dislike. despite the cast being as large as it is.#hell it made me love characters i felt nothing for or straight up disliked in the games. the writing and characterization are that good.#because theyre all quintessential to the main cast's character arcs. idk i just. love this series a lot and im in disbelief it keeps#its level of writing just as high even now. even in this arc that lowered my expectations.#the interviews... bits that stood out to me were definitely ms terasaki noting that amethio looks miserable in the explorers (something tha#is only implied but is conveyed well enough because this series is great at nuanced storytelling)#and ms suzuki saying seeing rika animated made her really excited. me too. i get you. i still freak out whenever shes on screen#and of course their lovely analysis of the characters... mitsuki saiga's portion about liko especially. also anything by yoppi my goat <3#its just so great to see them appreciate everything and put so much thought into it. man im emotional.#and i say this carefully because admittedly im not huge on the dlc characters coming next chapter. but I'll put my trust in them.#dai sato having worked on bebop and samurai champloo definitely reflects in the writing quality.#anipoke
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