#c.64

[silkhy-john]

Saw someone say that the first thing Miko needs is a hug and YEAH, THE FIRST THING MIKO NEEDS IS A HUG.

She’s been living her life scared out of her mind and walking on eggshells because one small slip up and a spirit attacks and she doesn’t know how it started and she doesn’t have any solutions beyond a temporary stop gap.

Also the adults with spiritual powers in her life are too busy to actually give her any proper guidance on how to handle the spirits beyond “don’t acknowledge them”.

Also her friends, with the exception of Yuria(Julia?) don’t know this whole other facet of Miko’s life, and even Yuria has a very limited ability to see the spirits anyway.

Also she’s dealing with what seems to be a death spirit, like, an EXPRESSLY death spirit, and the most advice she’s been given is “do your best not to look at it” which is so crazy when one of the things that’s established early into the series is that mischievous [and especially] malevolent spirits WILL use tricks to try to get you to look at them (eg the child with the balloon)

Also in my head the working theory that with the current spirit (‘unassuming middle-aged man’) it’s 4 strikes and you’re out (ie it starts ACTIVELY pursuing your soul) and Miko is already on strike 2 (4 cause of its association with death, the theory amongst readers that this spirit is a shinigami has been rampaging about my head)

Also the bigger spirit that escaped its binding after Romm, Miko, and Godmother finally put the shrine maiden to rest.

Also this damned ‘always on the side of humanity’ old man and the fact that the lengths he goes to are actually actively cruel and the fact that one of his tails knows about Miko’s dad.

What I’m saying is please read Mieruko-Chan.

[ashwii]

GOOMBELLA 🗣🗣 LEAK HIS IP ADDRESS 🗣🗣

[eternvlsound]

Nintendo USA website (December 2001)

[underratedgrapeju1ce]

schrödinger's walrus

[martyrbat]

batgirl (2000) #64 // batgirl (2008) #3

[ID: a tweet by @/gaybakshi that reads: “gay people never flirt normally its always gotta be shit like this”. The photo underneath it has been edited to be Rose Wilson as the Ravager and Cassandra Cain as Batgirl in two separate interactions. In the first photo, Cass is putting Rose's own sword through her neck while demanding for her and Slade to not move. In the second photo, Rose is holding her sword tip to Cass's throat as Cass looks up at her from their knees. END ID]

[alacants]

thinking about what it means to be an also-ran. good but not great. i'm taking a wide-angle view here—if you're one of the top ten players in the entire world you are not just good at playing tennis you are great at playing tennis lmao. (whether you are tasting greatness for a fleeting moment or whether you are in fact great on a world-historic scale is a totally separate question.)

so let's take munar. mallorcan clay courter, jr dc champ, jr roland garros finalist, it's obvious why people wanted him to be big lol. he was at the next gen 2018 finals with tsitsipas and rublev and fritz and tiafoe and de minaur and hurkacz. every one of them have made the top 10 at one time or another; meanwhile munar's spent 6 years in the top 100 and never quite cracked the top 50. reached exactly one tour final, a 250, which he lost. but that's still good enough to net almost $5 million in prize money. that's light years away from a journeyman bouncing between the tour and challengers. the top is still closer than the bottom, or so it must feel like.

i came across this pdb interview with martinez & munar from 2017, where they're being hailed as the future of spanish tennis. if you look at where they are now, i don't think you can call it flopping, per se, but it's not… exactly… succeeding??? when you're making those kind of predictions you just can't account for phenomena like carlos alcaraz. that's the equivalent of a meteor strike. and yet.

glancing at the time capsule that is socials from the mid-2010s: it's all the best kids in their age bracket in spain, and on one hand there's baby paula badosa all over the place and on the other hand there's the third guy on their junior davis cup team who never broke out of the challenger circuit and vanished without a trace. when you put it like that maybe top 100 isn't anything to sneeze at, you know?

idk it's just such an interesting LIMINAL SPACE. psychologically. to me.

[shima-draws]

God gives his toughest battles (being at work DESPERATELY wanting nothing more than to be at home playing the new Genshin Fontaine update) to his bravest soldiers (me)

[carbon-fiber-internal-organs]

[cocksley-and-catapult]

^image from my friend @the-goldenbot btw

[worthedging]

figured out how to move screenshots off my Switch, so it's time for more ~inane aai commentary~!!!

starting with the fact that Miles is probably only, like...what, four years older than her at this point?? and yet he's been an old man in spirit since he was at LEAST nine hears old

[nancyisthename]

A thing I found on the official Shipwrecked 64 discord server

[nocternalrandomness]

1950 Noorduyn Norseman Mk. V at John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport, Ontario, Canada

[eternvlsound]

[underratedgrapeju1ce]

masterpost of my shipwrecked/hotel 09 spotify playlists

[nayona747]

big koopa troopas. that is it

[pfhwrittes]

i am a silly brit. i am confused by date formats and fahrenheit and i need you all to remember that