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There's a huge number of ways to do it but really this way is great and it digest it and they're not really full eggs but it works and it should not be a full egg it's not sewer and it's another thing to do to help out and we are helping and it's good

-you got to get some other stuff going and right now and it's important

-we are in need of giants there's huge attention in the Mediterranean gigantic numbers are there it is an impossible number of people in his massive it's massive okay but each other location needs people so what I'm saying is I know the answers to these questions and I've got clearance to answer some when you said it a bit but here we go

-THE GIANTS ARE NOT YOURS THEY'RE OURS FROM US AND FROM OUR TWO LEADERS ALL OF THEM AND THEY LEAN GENETICALLY TOWARDS ONE OR THE OTHER RACE OF ABOUT 50 RACES OR SO AND EACH SUB RAISE IN OTHER WORDS WE HAVE A RACE OF CAMBODIANS IN THERE ARE FOUR TYPES OF CAMBODIANS IT DOES NOT BREAK DOWN BY THE CLAN NO

-THESE GIANTS ARE CLASS A ONLY ALL OF THEM EACH ARMY WE DO NOT PRODUCE ANY LOWER LEVEL DEMONS ANYMORE THAT'S UP TO THEM THEY'RE FREE DEMONS

-THE GIANTS ARE USUALLY 1,000 MILES OR TALLER AND THEY'RE BIG PEOPLE WILL ACCUSE JC AND MARY AND PEOPLE THOUGHT THEY WERE DOING IT AND THEY'RE RUNNING SATURN AND I THINK THEY MIGHT USE THE POWER TO MAKE THEM THAT'S THEIR PROBLEM

-WE HAVE A HUGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE LOOKING AT THEM NOW ALL OVER THE WORLD AND THEY'RE TRYING TO OUTFIT THEM WITH AI AND RC AND RC FROM WITHIN AND THEY HAVE MECHANISMS AND MACHINES THEY'RE TRYING TO FIT GIANTS WITH A FEW OF THEM OUT OF THE AROUND 300,000 KNOWN IN SUSPECTED THERE AT 200,000 OF THEM BUT THERE'S 100,000 THAT THEY'RE NOT LOOKING AT IT'S NOT TOO HARD TO FIGURE OUT IF YOU'RE IN THE AREA

-ONE OF THE AREAS THEY'RE NOT LOOKING THAT MUCH ARE THE DESERTS WHICH IS RIDICULOUS THAT'S WHERE THE MAX ARE AND THEY MIGHT BE OUTFITTING THEM WITH SUPERIOR EQUIPMENT AS THEY STEAL FROM ALL THE INTELLIGENT GROUPS THEY DON'T STEAL THAT MUCH FROM US BUT THEY SAY THEY DO

-THERE A COUPLE MORE COMMENTS THESE CELESTIALS ARE ARMORED BY GALACTUS AND CAN WITHSTAND ABOUT AT AT STANDING ABOUT 3,000 MI EVEN ON HIS FACE CAN WITHSTAND A 20 MEGATON BOMB ATTACHED TO HIS FACE WITH EASE UP TO ABOUT 50 MEGA TIMES MEGATONS AND THOSE BOMBS ARE ABOUT 10 FOR THE CROSS YOU'RE MAKING NUCLEAR WEAPONS UP TO ABOUT 300 FT THAT ACTUALLY WORK THE REST ARE HALF-YIELD AND IT GETS WORSE BUT THE MOST POWERFUL IS ABOUT 1,000 FT AND THE REST ARE LESS POWERFUL IT'S NOT WORTH IT THOSE IF THEY WERE 200 FT FROM A 3,000 MILE GIANT WOULD BE INEFFECTIVE AND IT WOULD DEVOUR EVERYTHING NEARBY INCLUDING THE SOIL AND PROBABLY BECOME 4,000 MI AND IT BEAMS THAT COULD SEAR THROUGH THE ENTIRE EARTH

-the radiation levels would be intense but people have a developed shielding systems it actually work using salt water and we have had a lot of Joy talking to people but this is going to be fun a lot of you are going after them

-THE MAX AND OTHERS LIKE WILL AND BILL MAC DADDY HAVE IDENTIFIED OBJECTS INCLUDING KEN THAT THEY DON'T RECOGNIZE AND OUR SON SAYS IT TOO THAT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE SOMETHING THEY HAVE IT LOOKS MORE LIKE THE EYE OF HORUS AND IT'S TRUE THAT IS WHAT IT IS AND YES BUT ALTHOUGH IT IS A DIRECT REFERENCE TO JUPITER IT IS NOT A DIAMOND IT'S A EYE OF OCCASION EACH AND EVERY HIGH OF THE KJU MIGHT PETRIFY AND TURN INTO A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND DIFFERENT THAN THE LASER IT'S A COMPACT LASER AT 3,000 MILES IF PETRIFIED AND THAT'S WHY I THOR YOUR CHARACTER HAS ONE EYE AND OWED IN YOUR CHARACTER DOES HE WANT ONE THEY WANT ONE HAS THE POWER OF ONE OF YOUR 5-MILE LASERS

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Nice big moon there oh yes buzzfeed unsolved moments! I should finish watching that with my older bro... Where's the van outside tho? How do the doors close again? Maybe ghosts ARE real. Like in murdoch mysteries & then it was never again acknowledged that murdoch could see ghosts What can he see? I thought the thing came from you-know-where?

AC, on her dad's lap as they watch a movie together but then he tilts her in front of him: Dad, are you using me as a shield against flesh-eating zombies? She looks so adult. & oddly tanned. RC: I know he's busy, and you are very thoughtful to be so accommodating, sweetheart, but a healthy relationship is based on mutual respect. I mean, think about what kind of signal you're sending if you're the one always re-arranging your schedule at the other one's every beck and call. I mean, if you just drop everything the very moment that— *beckett calls* *castle drops everything at her call*

RC: The Ghost Wranglers are here? Okay, that's why I love these guys. Body's not even cold, they're already tracking down the ghost. KB: Why doesn't it surprise me that you actually watch that ridiculous show? GIRL SHUT UP RC: Ridiculously awesome. Jack Sinclair is, *becks turns to him in shock* hands down, America's most accomplished ghost hunter. KB: Um...Castle...Jack Sinclair is the name of our victim.

LP: His throat was slit almost from ear to ear, jugular, superior thyroid, common carotid left and right. You name it, it's been severed. Sexy Can't you be behind the guy? Heck yeah ghost killer! She works with dead ppl don't let her believe in ghosts

Oh nice maybe they caught the murder on camera castle explaining what it means <3 So many angles! Mum & I both immediately knew it wasn't begging for mercy. An emp maybe? (btw I'm pronouncing it émp' like in rvb when they were arguing abt it) GIRL IF THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT THAT IS A RECENT UPSET IN RELATIONSHIPS, THAT'S WHAT THEY ASKED ABOUT

Ryan's nice red sweater over his suit uwu JE: Right. Hey, we're still on for dinner tomorrow night, right? Me: what? Maybe it's a game night or smth not a date haha KR: Oh, yeah, Jenny's totally psyched. Me: oh KR: She's never really hung out with Lanie before, so *full body nod* cool. JE: Well, just to let you know, Lanie's gonna be getting off a double shift. So, she could be a little cranky. KR: Oh. *squints eyes* Maybe we should reschedule. I mean, isn't the whole point for Jenny and Lanie to get along? JE: Nah, she'll be cool. Just, you know, don't say anything controversial. KR, walking back over & crossing arms: Like what? What's controversial? [The computer makes a sound.] JE: Bingo. KR: Bingo. Don't talk about Bingo? JE: No. *gestures with some irritation* Barry Bavetta's been busy, and so has his lap. Dude has racked up a hell of a tab at a strip club

RC: We heard you were racking up quite a bill. Or is that billing quite a rack?

Sounds like he said he did kill the guy but obv it couldn't have been him. "you decided to prove him wrong"

Killing time was KIND OF funny "apparition american" KB: You'll see, Castle. This'll turn out just like every other murder investigation. *Ryan walks up looking concerned.* Once we find out more about our victim's life, the details surrounding his death, everything will be explained. KR: Um…maybe not everything. Mr irish folklore over there he looks SO mildly concerned & shaken & I LOVE it, good acting b'y *gestures politely to send castle in first* Caught a ghost! So cool!

Posting that intro on my blog

B'y surely u got SOME sleep esposito smiling watching castle set up his ghost murder board *drank her coffee* RC: ready for this? Espt *nods* RC: a demon

RC: That's not a real thing, you know. That real ghost hunters use. JE: "Real" ghost hunters? Isn't that a contradiction in terms, bro? Oxymoron? Nah man let people have their beliefs I thought that "I do" was Ryan Ooh Ryan nice tie! RC: You see? I am telling you, there is something going on with this house. The last people-- to-- *Castle tries to flip the board back around, but Beckett stops him.* RC: The last people that lived there moved out four years ago in a hurry. KR, breathy: Why? RC: I don't know, but I think it's time we found out. KB: Knock yourself out, Castle. RC: You're not coming? KB: No. I've got a murder to solve. KR sidles up to castle, eyes wide, eyebrow raised, mouth open: I'll go. *softly* [Beckett gives Ryan a look. Castle smiles at Ryan, then turns and sees Beckett's expression and his face falls. Beckett narrows her eyes.] RC: Ooh. That's a look. KR, looking down & to the side: Yeah. RC: I get these a lot. Just start walking. Faster. [Beckett watches them leave, then smiles & looks over at the empty coffee cups.] Ryan really is becoming castle jr!

Poor beckett, castle drank her coffee then said he'd make her one then he doesn't & she burns herself on it. I like the idea of ryckett & casito but rn we have some rystle & especkett scenes. JE: Yo. I, uh, just saw Ryan downstairs. I can't believe you let him go chasing ghosts with Castle. KB: Yeah. Maybe Shaggy'll keep Scooby out of trouble. Besides, you never know, maybe they'll come up with something useful. JE: Oh, you want useful. *sarcastic surprise* 'Cause I just spoke to CSU. They found fingerprints at the scene from a real live person, so… *points & wiggles finger* Becks still has the coffee with her

Girl maybe he thinks he was molested by a ghost it is not your business to make fun of the (probably psychological) issues of a man in prison! Wow the grammar & spelling... the handwriting is fine

Poor guy, he has to live with his mom bc he's an ex-con, he violated his parole for the guy who ruined his prison life, I just really feel for this guy. Prophesy vibes

This is so cool & cute & funny & scary! RC, trying not to show his excitement over the ghost: Oh, my God, that's terrible Ryan looking mildly freaked out is my new favourite thing Mercedes King & Mercy LaGrande are both cool names KB: So the question is, how is she involved in all of this? *rystle look at each other & hop up quickly* RC: Uh, well, you know, uh, Ryan and I would be glad to go check this out *ryan nods half winks* if you guys are too busy solving that murder. *especkett share a look*

Oh & now caskett is here instead of rystle These folks are doctors. They are psychologists, they are pharmacists, they are the medical professionals of the past. & I respect them. Why did he say mercy I can see IT not HIM? his face is an it but jack could have said him too.

Give that man a prize. tbh I expected the pics to be even more gory Murdoch mind moments!

I love the term on the lam, I like this guy's shirt (I have one from hot topic that looks like it lol) RC, looking to beckett: Really? He claimed there was a demon involved? AS: I know. Like anyone's going to fall for that, right? I mean, what kind of jackass did he think he was dealing with?

Ooh info! Cool! Valid, he probably turned him away. Yep you need a warrant babe. Do you need a warrant to get their car service logs? Ooh I love it when they do that! There was this one time a serial killer was watching TV with his wife 20 or 30 years later or smth & they said "this is a serial killer, we think he looks like this" with an aged up model including the style of glasses he would most likely wear & the wife looked at him & said "it looks exactly like you" & they both just laughed it off bc how could this guy my husband be a serial killer? lol that's so silly how he looks like the killer.

KB: Wait a minute, don't you guys have dinner plans tonight? KR, afraid: Uh, we can move it to…some night when Lanie's not coming off a double shift. JE: Uh, actually, Lanie's really looking forward to it. KB: You know what? No worries. It's on my way home. [Beckett takes the photos.] KR+JE: You sure? KB: That I don't want to be the one to blame for ruining Lanie's night out? Oh, yeah. I am sure.

Martha <3 Ooh hoo wowie look at alexis! & going to a party too! No he literally just called, you can answer & say she just went out bc she had plans or smth! gah!

Ooh scottish architecture! Ooh Laird's Lugs! KB: We'll go first thing in the morning, see what we come up with. RC: *puppydog eyes* KB: You want to go now?

RC: For me. Please. KB: I ain't afraid of no ghosts. *ghostbusters theme*

She's pulling his leg KB: How long have you known me, Castle? Of course I don't believe in ghosts. *door closes* RC: What was that? *lights go out* KB: Well, that's odd. RC: No, that's more than just odd. This is the same sequence of events that preceded Jack Sinclair's murder. KB: Except Jack only had an EMF meter. I've got a gun and a flashlight. *The flashlight goes out.* Except wouldn't their phones also be out? Gosh it's hard to be on someone's shoulders *grabs* KB: *gasps!!* Castle, I said legs, okay? RC: Oh. Legs. Sorry.

LP: Not as sorry as I was. I'm around dead people all day. When I get home, I want a live one. JE, eating: I was tired. [Ryan and Jenny laugh.] JO: I can't believe we waited so long to do this, babe. KR, wearing his fortnightversary tie: Yeah. Yeah, it really did turn out to be a perfect night. JE: *winks at ryan* KR: I would like to propose a toast. I know that it's kind of corny, but it's me, (yeah lol) so well, there we go. Uh, to best friends, now and forever. [They toast.] JO: Cheers. JE: And to the future newlyweds. JO: Aww. [They toast again.] KR: You are so thoughtful. LP: Cheers. JO: You know, Kevin said you guys made a great couple, *Lanie smiles & leans towards javier* but I had no idea. [Lanie and Esposito cuddle and lean in to kiss.] JO: So, when are you two getting married? [That kills the mood and Esposito and Lanie recoil w/o even kissing.] KR: JO: LP: JE: *stares daggers at Ryan* KR: *moves to drink his wine during the awkward silence.*

Sad that they found a magnetic field generator to explain the moving tripod BUT wouldn't it have also moved every other tripod & any metal that Sinclair had on him? WHY is it creaking tho? *makes castle open the door* Oh it's a rat It's like when higgins kissed a corpse! Well he fell on it & his lips touched its lips but he was so grossed out about kissing a corpse & that's totally valid Poor castle lol

Hide & seek lol. In the morgue: *Beckett exits and Castle stops on his way out* RC: Hey, how'd that double date go? LP: *crosses her arms and glares.* RC: I-- I just… LP: *eye twitches* *KB comes back in abt the case, but castle leaves past her* RC: Don't ask her about the date.

KR: Look, I said I'm sorry, okay? t-- h-- I didn't mean to jinx the dinner. JE: (imitating)"This really is the perfect night." KR: Jenny got a little caught up in the moment. JE: (falsetto)"When are you two getting married?" That's a question you do not ask! (Yeah jenny, sorry. I love you plenty tho. btw when are we going to find out she's a spy like with terrence myers or mary morstan) [Ryan sighs.] JE, mellowing out: I-- You know, it's-- it's not entirely your guys' fault. KR: You guys have a big fight after? JE: Big fight? *laughing* No. Mega fight, *seriously* yes. *ryan nods* The point is, we, um…we decided that we're gonna cool things off. (Good facial expressions.) KR, sad for his friend: Wait, you mean split up? JE: Yeah. Just until we both figure out what we want. *looks down kinda sad but also an "i don't talk about emotions" way* KR: Man, I'm so sorry. JE: Anyway. *starts ignoring him* KR: Look, brother, if you need anything, you know I'm always here… What? Friendship<3 also "brother" is such a Term

WHOA THE BRO GOT THE GIRL? Cafe jouer not cafe jouerre bro Either it's weird how he remembers all the details or they got burned into his brain bc of that event or it's weird how he remembers all the details bc they would be overshadowed by the horror.

KR: It wasn't someone Melanie worked with. I just tracked down George Banner, Melanie's manager at Flywide Travel twenty years ago. He said Melanie had two co-workers: KR: both guys. RC: A-ha. KR: Married. RC: Still… KR: To each other. (XD WOW) RC: Oh. I mean bisexuality, maybe they invited her to join idk The way castle's hair moves lol

It is not going to be him Ooh strong man there WOAH DETECTIVE SMITH!? Yeah I can understand why you... wait he killed her too I forgot AS: You're both very smart, but you're forgetting one thing. Me: you have a gun? AS: This house is haunted. Nice, lights out scene, fun. Now becks has also lost her gun, maybe ryan won't feel so bad about tyson getting the drop on him.

AS: Get on your knees. *castle starts moving* KB: Don't worry, Castle. He's not gonna shoot us. That won't fit the legend. AS: *pulls a sexy knife* rysposito had better be around Technically that's illegal tho

Ooh castle is so right! Jack sinclair's ghost was TOTALLY solving the murder! Sussy elevator (are ghosts canonically real?)

Oh no I feel bad for ashlexis. Castle said "goin'a" like "going ta" except since n & t are in the same place in the mouth he just said goin'a, not quite "gonna" Cuddling <3 Flesh eating zombies I love their father daughter love time Wait am I in the zombie movie? As soon as they press play we're going to be attacked by zombies!

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We had a great day at a fantastic playground last weekend! We captured the super nice CrossRC Demon SG4! The rig works great after some mods! Enjoy the run!

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✶ 𝐇𝐗𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐒: 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 & 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒, 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 & 𝐃𝐀𝐌𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍   Long story short, I have been thinking about this for wayyyyy too long now and wanted to get some ~thoughts~ & analysis written down! This post is going to be...fairly long, lol. Apologies in advance :D

  Also, if you can’t see the last gif (the one for ‘holy’), click here. Tumblr keeps fucking up the image when i try to upload it :////

  This post is probably going to be about 2/3 yorknew & phantom troupe/kurapika focused, 1/3 chimera ants, maybe with some references to other arcs (including manga-only arcs) mixed in. so, ofc, tons of spoilers ahead! also, i realize that my blog theme is hard to read (and i’m p sure clicking ‘keep reading’ sends you to the og post itself), so i’m linking the post w/ full text copy/pasted in on my art backup side blog (which has a more legible font) here. 

✶ 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇   I’m sure absolutely nobody is surprised with me starting here - there is just. SO. MUCH. DEATH. in hxh. & right from the start, one thing I noticed that togashi really emphasized was the #4 and its connection to death. in japanese, chinese, and im p sure some other asian cultures the number 4 is pronounced like the word for death so it’s associated with death in general, and boy oh boy does the ‘deadly number 4′ thing show up E V E R Y W H E R E. we get to the hunter exam, and hisoka is applicant #44. kurapika is #404. i didn’t notice it at first, but this was so intentional holy shit. togashi is NOT SUBTLE.

  So pika & hisoka are, right off the bat, associated with death. okay. and then there are even more clues to drive the point home: hisoka is member #4 in the phantom troupe, kurapika’s birthday is april 4th (aka 4/4). 100% not a coincidence (!!). with hisoka, it’s pretty obvious why togashi’s throwing all this death 444444 stuff around - dude is a psycho murder pedo clown, literally gets off on killing people (and there’s also the fact that judas sits 4th from the left in the last supper painting, and he’s sort of the judas equivalent for the phantom troupe). with kurapika, though, it’s a bit more subtle and woven deeper into his characterization, which i LOVE. togashi puts the mans in blue & gold & white (traditionally ‘pure’ or ‘heavenly’ colors), makes him so fucking kind & so good-hearted.....when he’s not relentlessly pursuing his revenge, ofc. more on this in the next section, but pika = death. togashi has made that v v v clear.

  Backtracking a bit to hisoka, though, I also just wanted to point out the 4 is death symbolism in the fortunes too (GOD i love the fortunes): in one translation, he’s the false fourth moon, and in the og japanese (i think), he’s the false hare (4th in the lunar zodiac or w/e it’s called. i don’t know the japanese cultural influences here, but in the chinese legend that established the zodiac animals, they race across the heavenly river & the top 12 animals got zodiac slots. the hare finished 4th, so it’s #4 in the cycle). 

  And just as a final note, Tserriednich is the fourth prince of the kakin empire, and also another dude who has a hard-on for murder & other gory shit. again: togashi is not subtle with this, lmfao

✶ 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐘, 𝐔𝐍𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐘   As probably everyone who’s gotten to yorknew knows, togashi is so 0 fucks given when he wants to be. I mean there’s the whole thing where he just. took New York and decided, Yorknew. LMFAO, but also, he made the main antag of that arc be named chrollo lucilfer, sit around in a ruined church, have a reversed cross coat, pale & dark-haired/dark-eyed, generally dressed in dark colors, very terrible murder guy. liiiike......chrollo x devil symbolism game is 1000/10 at this point lmaooo

  And i know absolutely nothing about christianity in general, but pt/kurapika & yorknew arc is just so full of christian imagery/symbolism! one thing that i L O O O O O O V E though is how togashi really blurs the traditional christian-coded good/evil, holy/damned boundaries.

  Back to kurapika: he wears gold and blue, his coloring is very stereotypically ‘angelic’, he’s precious and good and kind. his chains are all about ~judgment~ and ~healing~ - some of the chains are also in literal cross shapes, aren’t they? And the chain dagger in his own heart...the imagery is very startlingly similar to the immaculate heart of mary, where the swords stabbing thru the heart apparently represent seven sorrows. IDK much about this stuff other than the visual similarities; literally had to google ‘daggers through heart christianity?’ to even get the name of that thing LOL. anyway, at first, it seems like togashi establishes him as the ‘angel’, the ‘good’, the ‘holy’ in the angel/devil, good/evil, holy/damned dichotomy between him and chrollo.

  But that’s not the end of the story. his entire storyline is driven by a huuuuuuuge giant desire for vengeance, first of all, and then there’s the scarlet eyes, which canonically are seen as demonic/cursed/what have you (according to one of the movies or smth? where they show pika as a 10 y/o?), and then we also have red eyes in modern culture being associated w pretty much the same thing (vampires, anyone?). the fight scene with uvo has everything in b&w besides the blood on his face & his red eyes & the moon (<<< more fortune foreshadowing & symbolism, i love to see it), and there are tonssss of scenes where he has to suppress his rage. so all of that is obviously not very angelic of him i would say LOL. in fact, what i find super interesting is that the scarlet/red eyes (which are ‘demonic’) is actually the driving factor behind his super powerful nen abilities; this ties in so well with the fortunes & death associations imo! the fortunes call him the ‘death-bringer’ in one translation, or ‘half-angel, half-death’, so that’s one side of pika = red eyes = death, but there’s also the fact that emperor time is literally draining his life force. so pika = death for both himself and others namely the pt, question mark?

  Now for chrollo: togashi’s devil symbolism is EXTREMELY overt with him, but i love the subtler jesus references too. the church thing, obviously, and the st. peters cross which is cuz st peter respected jesus too much & didn’t think he was worthy to die in the same way as him (or something like that, i am the most atheist person in the world & hxh is literally my entire christian education pls) but is also used as an anti-christianity symbol these days. bandit’s secret looks like a bible, lbr, and mans has a cross tattoo.

  Other things beyond visuals - 12 spiders, 12 apostles; hisoka’s betrayal, where member #4 can be thought to correspond to judas sitting 4th from left at last supper. and this miiiiight be a bit of a stretch, but i think the meteor city being the place of origin may also play into the blurred line between angel/devil and holy/damned here; meteors are defined as space rocks that are in earth’s atmosphere, becoming incandescent in the process. meteorites are for the kinds that actually reach the ground. and idk, lucifer was cast out of heaven / sky too right? so i think there might be some subtle fallen angel imagery/symbolism playing into the pt as well

✶ 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 (𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒)   Last section yay! i don’t have as much to say about this, besides when i was making chimera ant arc edits & realized that there might have been some subtle gon/meruem parallels???

  So obviously, everyone knows that line killua says to gon - “you are light” - and then i was just remembering that meruem’s name means.... “light that illuminates all” (!!!!). maybe it’s a coincidence, but knowing togashi, i’m leaning towards nahhhh. there HAS TO be some kinda meaning there (!!).

  Going back to the events of the chimera ant arc....ooh boy. let’s see: gon is optimistic & hopeful even in the face of kite potentially being dead, killua says he’s light, they find kite & dude is fucked up, gon is pissed. gets all angry & ~dark~, especially during the palace invasion when he’s staring pitou down as she fixes up komugi. then the actual fight against pitou: more darkness, more anger, but through it all there’s still light, namely his jajanken being very orange & fiery lookin.....and that final sequence, where he puts all his possible nen he’d ever have into his ~final form~ or wahtever & turns into a male version of true form!bisky but dressed in a crop top & short-shorts (i am SCARRED, btw. s c a r r e d !). there’s just huuuge flashes of light as that’s going on, and it reminded me of supernovas or dying stars when i was thinking about it, where the star is like, collapsing under its own weight? & burning thru its own fuel, until there’s nothing left except a dwarf or black hole or what have you. one final, extremely deadly burst of light & energy before death.

  On the meruem side of things: born into a dark cave, exhibits a traditionally evil/cruel/wicked/whatever personality/traits so that has ppl associating him with darkness. then he gets to know komugi, starts to appreciate other aspects of humanity, seems like he could have actually turned into a decent person who doesn’t want to eat everyone - so that’s a ‘path to light’, maybe? - and then the extermination team yeets themselves into the palace, netero takes him out to bumfuck nowhere, they fight. netero’s fighting is just ALL light, from his giant ass golden 100-type guanyin bodhisattva to the poor man’s rose. again, there’s the sense of finality to it all, in a similar vein to dying stars: netero comes in determined to kill meruem no matter what, and we all know netero doesn’t flake. then we see netero get destroyed after the zero hand, and he triggers the rose, and everything is burning & on fire before the flames are put out and all turns dark again.

  But wait!!! pouf & youpi revive meruem and all he does is play gungi with komugi, even with the poison of the rose. he eventually dies, and the gungi pieces in that final shot of them together (i am BAWLING just thinking about it holy shit) has one that’s all white, one that’s a black ring and white inside. i assume all white is for komugi, who has never done ANYTHING wrong in her LIFE, so i like to think that the 2nd one is for meruem - born “into darkness”, literally & figuratively, but he turns something like ‘good’ by the end. it’s interesting how togashi has sort of gone for a bit of a subversion here: the hero going from light to darkness, and the main antag from darkness to light.

✶ 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍   AahhhhHHHHHhhh so if you read all the way down here through my LONG rambles, tysm! i would LOVE LOVE LOVE to hear what other people think about all this, and i’ve FOR SURE missed tons and tons of stuff - chimera ants is just. SO MUCH. and i don’t know it as well as yorknew eeek.

  I’m not sure if i’m really ~knowledgeable~ in any other areas relating to hxh, so this might be the only one of these that i do, but i definitely think about some of this - esp all the religious symbolism & #4 stuff - a ton! so in the meantime, if it’s of any interest, i’m just going to shamelessly plug my hxh x religious beliefs/superstitions edit series :D lots of love to all!!!

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“Demons are pretty straightforward. If they want something, they take it!”

Book: Heaven’s Secret

Mimi becomes your roommate upon entering the academy. She comes off as friendly towards you and even slightly flirts. She often descended with her parents to Earth and saw how them performed tasks. Everything was fine until her father crossed the road to another demon who was above him in status and went to prison for several years. After that, he lost most of his influence.

Interesting fact:

As a child, she dreamed of becoming a human, but when she grew up she realized it would be a huge step back. At least, all angels and demons think so, and Mimi is trying to convince herself they're right.”

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[doomstypewriter]

(does that make space a soup by association?)

oh yea signor morandi can suck it

if youre unable to nudge him down a flight of stairs defamation of only signor morandi probably isnt an option either is it? what with the whole family reputation thing (old timey ppl be like: your reputation? i think you mean Our reputation) so should you still not know how youre gonna inflict violence upon him consider if you will and if its even at all applicable to the plot: what if signor morandi was somewhere or was doing something thats inconvenient for the gang so janus just hits him over the head from behind, knocking him out (or something similar). no permanent damage and a good excuse for why he gave his boyfriends dad a concussion sksksk

and this is a question not necessarily a suggestion but has patton ever been in janus' home? probably not right? will he ever see his home? does he have a vague idea of what it looks like? where it is?

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Hi RC!!! 

I’m trying to space out the responses so I have time to make progress with the writing, aaaand, half of the thing is already outlined! (My outlines are very detailed so I have an easier time writing, but that also means it takes longer)

Accept my offering of a sneak peek: 

(Transcription at the end below the cut) 

Now, back to replying. 

(I’d think of it more as the bag of a vacuum cleaner, lot’s of stuff in there, vast, inhospitable but it may hold life)

In this house, we despise Signor Morandi like self-respecting individuals. 

I’ll consider the idea of the “Polonius incident” but with less dead father in it, and see what I can do, this will come up on the last part so I will be able to fit it in as I make progress with the outline. BUT, I already have a perfect target for the shove. This guy is going to fly BEAUTIFULLY downstairs. It will be even more satisfying than when Romina first completely humiliates him in front of everybody. 

Oh! This is so cute! I love it! No specific idea of how I’ll make it happen but it can. It will be so cute to have him there!!! But I may have to also introduce Romina and Virginia to Janus’ house because I think it will make the most sense if it happens the way I’m thinking it can.  

By the way! Logan and Remus’ backstory is now mostly outlined and I’ve been told by the friend who’s sort of been my test-reader for this, that it’s super cute, so I believe you are going to love it. I am making it so it’s a mix of letters and small scenes that shows in a very full picture kind of way how it came to be and develop, and I believe the letters are going to give it a really cool vibe without making it boring. 

AAA I’m so excited to write all of it and for you to see it!! 

Anyhow, hope you have an awesome day!

Previous ask

Fic that’s a prequel to this

(Transcription: 

Suddenly, the place where they’re celebrating is being attacked by pirates. Chaos ensues. Everybody is running, Romina is like VIRGINIA I NEED TO FIND HER. Patton goes with her. They run to the kitchens. 

Meanwhile, Janus runs to the gardens where he agreed to meet with Virginia. Virginia gets surrounded by a bunch of Remus’ goons and is gagged. Janus runs, sword in hand, to try to save her, suddenly, he crosses blades with a man in a while bauta (bc anonymous, only worn by men, forbidden to carry weapons while wearing it) mask, wearing a wide-brimmed flat hat. This guy fights viciously. R- (to his goons) Take her sword, it must be hidden in her underskirts. G1- (Woman’s voice) Right away Captain. Janus manages to stand his ground but the guy gashes the left side of his face. (Janus be like, Fuck, the only person who’s managed to beat me up this bad is Romina. Who the hell is this guy? He fights like a fucking demon) R- Leave with her (to three guys), you (woman and two guys), find the servant, she must be hiding nearby. The goons take Virginia and leave.) 

[frmartinshomiliesandreflections]

7th July >> Fr. Martin’s Gospel Reflections / Homilies on Matthew 9:32-38 for Tuesday, Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time: ‘The harvest is rich’.

Tuesday, Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Gospel (Europe, Africa, New Zealand, Australia & Canada)

Matthew 9:32-37

The harvest is rich but the labourers are few

A man was brought to Jesus, a dumb demoniac. And when the devil was cast out, the dumb man spoke and the people were amazed. ‘Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel’ they said. But the Pharisees said, ‘It is through the prince of devils that he casts out devils.’

Jesus made a tour through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the kingdom and curing all kinds of diseases and sickness.

And when he saw the crowds he felt sorry for them because they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest.’

Gospel (USA)

Matthew 9:32-38

The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few.

A demoniac who could not speak was brought to Jesus, and when the demon was driven out the mute man spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.” But the Pharisees said, “He drives out demons by the prince of demons.”

Jesus went around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom, and curing every disease and illness. At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.”

Reflections (3)

(i) Tuesday, Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

The sense that Matthew the evangelist gives us in today’s gospel reading is of a Jesus who is constantly on the go. He heals a man who cannot speak; he goes through the towns and villages of Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, proclaiming the presence of God’s kingdom and curing the sick. He begins to minister to a crowd whom he recognizes to be harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd. Is it any wonder that Jesus then goes on to ask his disciples to pray to God, the Lord of this rich harvest, to send more labourers into the harvest. Not even Jesus could meet the needs of people on his own; he needed helpers. It is probably always the case in every age of the church that the harvest is rich and the labourers are few. There was a time when we understood that call of Jesus to pray for more labourers as a call to pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life. However, the decline in people wanted to be ordained priest or enter the religious life has sharpened our awareness that the labourers the Lord needs are to be found among all the baptized. The Lord needs all kinds of labourers, with a whole variety of gifts and temperaments. We can look around our parishes and give thanks for the many labourers that are already serving the parish community in some way. We need to pray for more such labourers. Even a small service can bear rich fruit for the life of a parish, like the mustard seed that became a large shrub. The widow’s gift of two small coins to the Temple treasury shows that great generosity can be manifest in small ways.

And/Or

(ii) Tuesday, Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

There is a sharp contrast in this morning’s gospel reading between the way the ordinary people responded to Jesus’ healing ministry and the way the Pharisees responded. The people said, ‘Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel’. The Pharisees said, ‘It is through the prince of devils that he casts out devils’. The people saw God at work in what Jesus was doing; the Pharisees saw Satan at work in Jesus’ healing work. It is hard to imagine a more contrasting set of responses. It brings home to us that when people look at the same phenomenon, they can see it very differently. The people, in contrast to the Pharisees, were attuned to the presence and action of God in Jesus. The gospel reading invites us to ask ourselves, ‘To what extent am I alert to the presence of God all around me, especially in the good that other people may be doing?’ We can be prone to seeing what is lacking in some situation and to miss the good that is also there. We can be better at naming what is wrong than what is right. We can be more attuned to noticing evil than good. While never being blind to evil, sin and failure, the gospel reading encourages us to be open to the ways that the Lord is at work in our lives and in the lives of others. The Lord himself was sensitive to the good in others, even when they failed to see it for themselves, and others failed to see it. We need something of the Lord’s generous way of seeing, especially in these times when the negative can be highlighted to the detriment of everything else.

 And/Or

(iii) Tuesday, Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

There is a very striking contrast in this morning’s gospel reading between the way the people respond to the healing ministry of Jesus and the way the religious leaders respond. The people were amazed and said, ‘Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel’. The religious leaders said, ‘It is through the prince of devils that he casts out devils’. Both saw Jesus perform the same deeds, and, yet, both interpreted what they saw in very different ways. One group saw the presence of God and the other group saw the presence of evil. One group was open to the truth of who Jesus really was; the other group were blinded by their prejudice. These were two very different ways of seeing. The people’s way of seeing Jesus was like Jesus’ way of seeing people. He saw the goodness in people just as the people saw the presence of God in Jesus. The gospel reading calls on us to be alert to the signs of goodness in others, to the signs of God’s presence all around us, especially in those who cross our path in life. We need the generous vision of the people, and especially of Jesus, rather than the jaundiced vision of the religious leaders, if we are to see the many ways that the Lord is present and active among us.

Fr. Martin Hogan, Saint John the Baptist Parish, Clontarf, Dublin, D03 AO62, Ireland.

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[bishiglomper]

I HAD WEIRD DREAMS

Probably because I took my drugs at bedtime. My glipizide causes funky dreams.

First of all I woke up mentally chanting:

"Demons never stay

Stay away, stay away"

It makes less sense the more I sift back through it..

So. I (not physically myself) had a little sister. At some point she turned into an orange kitten that had licked up a pill that had poisoned her. The male guardian dude didn't give a shit. I shot a baby bottle of milk down her throat because I'd read milk will bind to some poisons. It worked and the kitten expelled brown chunky sludge. (Dream logic! I popped her head off like a bottle to dump the liquid out. I had to give her cpr to start her up after screwing her head back on...)

She apparently accessed some forbidden knowledge and her soulmate-couple parents were doomed to split so she decided to give up her form and we would become sisters again sometime later when the time was right. Next thing I know, she's a little Lego viking woman.

I was taken to some boy's house to play and I dug around in a junk box in their garage to find little Lego weapons and stuff my Lego sister could use to entertain herself with because she was staying there. We made the promise that I could come visit after a while. Like a year. I was worried the kid would get rid of his legos and she would be gone.

Next part is murky..

But the next part got very plot heavy. I guess I had made friends with the warrior cats and some of them had traveled out of their place and into the world. So I went looking for them

Somehow toy story characters got involved and they were interchangeable... (I remember seeing life size Woody and Buzz go into Applebees. I don't know how, why or when. I remember wondering how they were life size)

I went to the zoo and sought out this prairie dog exhibit. You could walk right up to it like it were a guinea pig pen at Earl May's.

One of my buddies was a prairie dog. He'd been separated by his buddies but he was going to somehow get back to them. I could speak to the other prairie dogs and they thought this not-really prairie dog was weird because he had refused a mate. You could tell he was sad and lonely but he was holding out for his clan. I wished him luck and said goodbye. I'd find him later.

There was this resort.. theme park... city? Thing an hour away. I think I had a lead that my buddies were headed in that direction.

Mom read me a job ad for this area. They wanted a kid for PR purposes. You have to work on this stone bridge, posing and taking pictures with cats and dogs. They did articles on service dogs and warm fuzzy things like that. We discussed it because 1) I am a very socially anxious person and omg a job wut. 2) this place was an hour away we can't just drive there everyday. Someone then said we could be picked up by helicopter (and I was like whoa I don't think I would be real chill with that, that's scary)

But then I realized I was too old but my (non-lego, now 12ish year old outgoing sister would be perfect! ...???)

I'unno. We end up in the city (its evening/night now) and I'm anxious to find a sign of my friends. I split up from my family and look around.

I find some cheap souvenirs someone dropped that were kid make-up and 2 necklaces. They were clues somehow..

There was a line going up this resort's stairs and all across the balcony, my family were in there. It was for a nifty private movie showing.

But I went looking for clues.

I found this pretty white cat with an orange patch wandering around. I talked to her, waiting apprehensively to see if I understood her speaking to me. (I could understand the warrior cats and it spanned the gap to the prairie dogs so why not)

She did speak! But it was in spanish.

I was disappointed. But then I saw 3 Latino kids playing nearby and I called them over like "Hey! Spanish speaking children!"

To the cat I was like "....habla espanol?" And she looked suprised. I told the kids I needed help with some sentences and they translated for me.. not knowing I was talking to the cat right there. I pretty much just asked if she saw any weird cats. She confirmed with a couple more tiny clues.

During this exchange, my aunt Susan had wandered over looking for me. She overheard me asking about warrior cats and she griped "You're still on that cat story? Aren't you a little old to be believing that?"

And, it was glorious. I just glared at her, raised my whole arm above my head and flipped her off. Because I was still talking to the kids/cat. She stalked away in a huff.

(My aunt always does that, saying I'm too old to like Disney characters and shit. Like wtf? Who the fuck is too old for disney?)

Anyway.

Back when we pulled into the place, I saw a "Cars" beetle car pull out of the parking lot. It was "my friend, RC" he was upset. But by time our car had stopped he was long gone, heading in the direction we CAME FROM which was odd. I tried calling for him. Obviously didn't work. Got lots of weird looks for screaming "RC!!" Into the night.

Plot happened fast after that.

I wandered up into the hotel area, trying to find the movie viewing mom was at. I wandered a hallway of rooms. I stopped at one where a woman was playing a record. There was hippie stuff in the room but otherwise was kinda sparse. I was carrying a large pan of casserole that I put down and went up to talk to the woman who looked like she expected me and greeted me with a smile.

I forget how I received this information, but Firestar was trying to lead his clan when Squirrelflight decided she wanted to go to college. She had a little teal, square album or notebook that had a spiral of pearls on it and a bottle of what was salt? Or beach sand? She took it as a nice little pretty thing but if she didn't do something specific with the bottle of sand, something would happen to the clan and they'd fall apart. But they couldn't find her.

While I'm finding this out (I think by ambient dream symbiosis) a white cat with brown tabby patches comes in. He's a jerk but I don't remember what he said.

I take some metallic plastic confetti and some tiny potion bottles from the woman's table (who had left) I had a very strong sense I had to take a piece of this heart shaped spiral confetti from this paper bag.. I was about to write the woman a note explaining this when a man entered the room. I told him that (the woman) knew I was there and I was just about to write this note..

When the cat yells at me "What, are you an idiot? He's a demon!" Y'know. Like, run!

So I flee and he lumbers after me. Suddenly people are everywhere like a convention. I'm dodging, trying to lose him..

Stuff happens. Some girl finds me and teaches me a chant that's essentially "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" and is a ward against demons that very fragiley renders me invisible to them. But I have to keep chanting it and I kept stumbling over it. The girl helped. An extra chanter strengthened it.

She led me to a hidden alcove in the side of the building like the size of a vent. The piece of spiral confetti; when you held it, bent in the direction of something like a locator spell . It led me to the correct hole. (There were half a dozen) Where there were several piles of random little items and pills. Apparently these all helped ward me against the demons. They were for specific times and situations.

The girl explained that as time went on, wards moved away from enchanted items and they just started making pills that did the work. It was more convenient and worked more reliably. Some looked like antihistimines..

So I shoved all these haphazardly in my little backpack and I followed the girl who ran across some lawns away from the hotel.

I needed somewhere to take a breather and sort through all this shit. Also there was a letter from the alcove too.

But this was BAD because I look back and find a teenage black girl was running... or gliding after me. She looked like a pissed vampire.

Girl I followed yelled at me that my chant only worked in the vicinity of the hotel. I was completely unprotected. I wasn't supposed to follow her. Oops

We ran until we crossed a few lawns a few blocks and towards a strip mall.

A very dismayed middle aged Asian dude was waiting at the door of one store. As soon as the we cleared the door, he closed us in with like a garage or storage unit door. It would protect us for a while.

Asian doctor guy was very unhappy that we were there. He was friends with the girl but did not have permission to use him to protect us.

Unfortunately that's when I woke up...

So I woke up chanting for demons to stay away and never found out what happened to my friends 😣

[cruddyborderlandstheories]

omg okay so i was totally ignorant but now i am enlightened because the brilliant @h00f sent me the booth video recording and im dying over it so here we goooo. i recorded it and uploaded the vid into davinci resolve so i could zoom in and also go through frame by frame.

tl;dr: so its all good its all good UM TYREEN’S TATTOOS WENT MISSING ON HER FOREARM AND THEN SHE SUCKED A MONSTER AND THEY REAPPEARED so it’s all good it’s all good im not having a crisis. im not. i thiiiiiiiiink we see the Vault of Promethea (the one with the cranes, but lilith also says “wherever the hunt for the vaults takes us” which throws me off a bit. still kinda think it’s promethea tho).

so not what i was expecting to be doing at 2:32 am but you know what? this is okay, borderlands gives me literally infinite energy

and new content? HOH BOY i am going to go so fucking in depth. hold onto ur horses. i was working on my mock intro to the game but this is so much better

UMM?? HOLY SIHT????

THAT’S THE SAME TILE AS THE ONE IN THE TEMPLE

I THOUGHT THIS WAS ON EDEN-6???

same tile on the wall on the right there

those guardian statues have staffs!!! that’s so rad, like the Watcher and shit, they also have less big necks?? or they might be bowing down. they look a lot more humanoid than the guardian/eridian statues im used to!!!

like as far as i can see they don’t have the butt spikes? maybe these are just super well preserved and thus not broken/spiky/cracked!! I do think the staffs are awesome! I know the Watcher carried one and so do some in TPS (I don’t recall seeing any in bl1 with staffs? im pretty sure they used their energy claw things) so maybe these are a higher tier of guardian than the ones we see in bl1? (which, if the Eridians wanted us to open Pandora’s vault as punishment for stealing fire the tech on Promethea, then that would make sense)

AND THE CRANES! and the buildings!!!!! is this Promethea’s vault? there’s something in the sky near the moon (?) so i thought maybe that was the asteroid belt but... it’s only condensed in one area..? 

it looks like a rocky place (you know, the quasmarian quarry Typhon mentions?!), i could see it, it looks super well-kept!!! my only problem?? it’s not underground/next to a cliff or anything. i guess it’s actually possible with those cranes and shit that it’s been excavated completely

i think we walk out of a temple here, which makes me think this is connected to the temple with all those monster dudes in it (also i can’t be the only one who thinks the blue sparkles on the statue on the far left makes it look like it has a shiny thicc butt. i CANNOT be the only one)

you know this one

well ACTUALLY in the We Are Mayhem trailer we DO see one of these guys!!! he’s on Maliwan’s side as the VHs are running across the bridge and im pretty sure that is Promethea!

IM PRETTY SURE

the neon lights and shit make me think it is in fact the city!!! maybe a part of the city that’s been totally overrun by Maliwan??

okay im certain this is promethea, those turrets we 100% see in the gameplay reveal trailer (below)

i thought i recognized that silhouette!

so unless maliwan is carting those demon dudes from a different planet to use in their army, I’m going to guess the huge ass temple was excavated from when Typhon found it (explaining the cranes and buildings) and Maliwan maybe took control with the CoV and somehow?? got control of those big demon boys. not quite sure tbh

OKAY SO THIS IS SO AWESOME ASDFGFHGJFK IM NERDING THE HELL OUT I LOVE ERIDIAN STUFF AAAA OKAY SORRY IM JUST ADSFSGFHYDJUK

AND THIS ONE LOOKS SO TINY?? I AAAA I KNOW IT’S NOT BUT??

THIS FEELS LIKE IT WOULD BE THE VAULT ON ATHENAS (IF THERE IS ONE) THOSE STAIRS (??) ARE GIVING ME THE VIBE. THERE IS UNFORTUNATELY NOT A LOT TO WORK OFF OF HERE, BUT THE PROJECTION THING IT’S DOING IS NEATO!! 

okay so this is either paint or light. and i can’t tell if that’s a person up there or a statue or something? I feel like i can’t almost see a cross or something so...

THEN IT CUTS TO THIS? AND HOLY STARGATE VIBES BATMAN I LOVE IT

i have a huuuuge feeling at least one of these Vaults is going to appear in like a cutscene of a flashback where Rhys and/or Fiona describe what happened at the end of Tales. The reason I’m bringing this up right now is because this Vault is just... in a void. There’s nothing around it except that gradient which is really bizarre to me.

JUST

ALL OF THIS

HOLY HELL THAT LOOKS LIKE A FORTRESS IN THE BACKGROUND MAYBE THAT’S WHERE THE TWINS ‘LIVE’? I IMAGINE THEY HAVE SOME SORT OF PLACE TO SLEEP AT THE VERY LEAST

it has the mouthpiece shape on the top up there? although i guess that could also be a VERY crude statue of someone raising their hands to the sky?? but it looks like the mouthpiece symbol. 

another shot of the HBC

intro to the rc

what i am assuming is the back area of the RC? but uh... given what we saw above, maybe this is in their fortress area???? imagine lilith teleports away because the twins stole the key from us and we have to sprint to their fortress base and when we get there it opens into a cutscene and Lilith is crawling on the ground away from them

mhmhmhmhmhmmm

heyo look at those shapes and colors on the left there. you know exactly what im gonna say

im gonna say it anyway

inhale atlasatlasatlasatlasatlasatlasatlasatlasatlas

okay i think i got it out of my system

it could also be dahl architecture (because it looks very very similar to the RC) painted with the colors of the CoV. Could also be that. 

i do think it’s interesting because this is almost the exact same shot as this!!

which means this is here

and i can 100% see this being in their fortress (???) and not the RC. The RC has that huge area in the back we don’t explore yet, so it could be there but... now I’m thinking... what if that’s just so we find the clue that the sun smashers gave the key to the twins in the HBC? Like i know i said the room Shiv comes out of is gonna be it but... maybe the whole area is just for quest stuff? or there’s a loot room or smth. idk. it’s good to keep ur mind open to alternative possibilities, is all

we get to learn what color Tyreen’s power actually is! ... I think? I’m pretty sure. like im hopeful this happens before she steals Lily’s powers...? but?? anyway although the vid is washed out, if we look at the shot from the dev trailer, it seems to be purple/red. I thought it was straight red, but guess not. Unless this IS after she stole Lily’s powers and that’s why she’s looking at it like that LMAO. i don’t know!!

Troy with a little robot buddy! Did he build that?! it’s adorable! it reminds me of the one in the RC but without a snake body. I wonder if his body mods/arm/neural implants let him control it. that’d be so rad

... why did the background start glowing???

ty in the hbc!!!

same shot with troy. i think this is the same cutscene as the reveal trailer one (VS the Calypso Twins) just at a slightly different angle/animation

oh shit is that a demon boy in the background? i think it might be

definitely looks like the temple area!! those spikes look like they could’ve been part of one’s wings, you can even see the thin skin bit stretched out on the left next to tyreen. also... is that an eyeball on the part in the middle there? that’s horrifying. no thank you.

so far, literally the closest we see Troy near one. This is 100% after he shed the monster skin like a snake. ... I’m kidding. mostly.

also i can’t believe my art of the twins giving the rock on symbol is actually legit. i posted that literally the morning before their personalities were revealed in the demo, im so happy

if this is not the video we see in Shiv’s room I’m gonna be so disappointed. is that a sword behind the box? Also i think i understand why the Map Machine Broke now. I am under the assumption this happens before they steal lily’s powers, but it’s entirely possible it’s after! this looks like the area they steal them in, so maybe lily sees it on live stream and is like “NOPE FUCK THIS” and teleports in to steal it. that’d be really interesting... still hoping they steal her tats after the HBC tho. im gon b really upset if they dont lol (not really, because it’s fucking bl3, but like... why would u then go put the map with mouthpiece... why...)

troy has his tattoos here! that or his skin has been peeled off and he’s losing a lot of blood. let’s say he has his tattoos so i can sleep tonight :)

cuts to him catching the key? almost want to say this is a different scene entirely than the previous one. same area, probably though

hmhmhmhmhm the fortress (?????) doesn’t seem to be connected to a rock wall at all (it’s elevated on like a plateau) so you know what, maybe this IS in the RC afterall!

fuckin mlg over here

oh it stops glowing again. you know maybe its on like a timer/pulsing or something. maybe that’s not important lol

back at the monster. why does tyreen look nervous/in pain? AND WHERE DID HER FOREARM TATTOOS GO???

OH MY GOD

THEY ONLY START REAPPEARING AFTER SHE DOES THE SUCK ON SOMETHING BELOW HER

WAIT HOLD UP

 UMM 

wTF???

i think that’s the horn or part of the monster they were sitting on/had killed???

holy shit. are tyreen’s tattoos/powers temporary and she has to continuously suck the life force out of stuff to keep them going??????? maybe stronger stuff = longer battery life??? holy shit.

troy in jakobs manor! explains the psychos with tv heads being hung everywhere

i was about to say this was the HBC but its not. ‘HOLY CHILDREN’ maybe this is where the VHs are walking forward with the giant spike head behind them. you know, this area?

altho that would be the outside of it. ACTUALLY maybe this is the entrance to the fort?? the walls like like castle walls lol

what in the holy fuck is that thing??

it looks like a fucking dragon??? sitting on a wire ball?

where the heck is this? in the temple area maybe? i don’t ever remember the floors glowing, but they do look similar. 

oh and the twins shake forearms again. maybe Tyreen is giving Troy half her powers or something and whenever she does her tattoos start to disappear so she has to suck more energy from other stuff to keep them present??

to this shot, so it’s a possibility. maybe they figured out how to “activate” stuff or something! And i am kinda thinking this is on Promethea now because of the Vault being similar? and the big demon boys appearing. but again like... the Eridians were kinda EVERYWHERE so it’s hard to say for certain even if the architecture looks similar. of course it would, they were goddamn everywhere. still curious as to why Little Blue gets that book, though. is it typhon’s book? a siren’s book? a researcher’s book? one of her ancestor’s books? i don’t know! lol

another shot of this. is this actually a vault???? it seems small and tbh the vaults are usually like... not shaped/designed like this? maybe it’s a statue. idk this feels wrong saying it’s a Vault. it doesn’t even have the inscriptions. maybe the academic district on athenas has a statue of a vault bc they’ve got a bunch of weird shit like Amara’s tattoos on a building and a vault symbol for a door so why the heck not this too lmao

the circus area with the ferris wheel! im so excited for this area. hype hype. it looks like it’s next to the motorcade. maybe this is where the big face arena place with pain and terror is, too!!! i could see the whole arena type deal being in a giant red circus tent

oooo where the fuck is this?? im interested. my first thought was a spaceship bc of the machinery (?) in the back but... maybe not?

maybe some part of the CoV spaces we’ve already seen? the railing in the back makes me think so.

back in the HBC!

space shot of Promethea (the asteroid belt and city lights)

it was at this point in the vid i started crying (like for real lol)

god im so ready for this game

Sanc-III!

colors check out 

im still wondering where that blue ship is...

they have totally different paint designs and the blue one is on the cover art as well!!! what is UP with that gearbox?!

anyway, this is TAKE OFF and also a nice shot of Elpis in the background. the crackening lava seems to have died down over 7 or so years. good for her.

“Pandora”. i love the sky, holy shit that’s gorgeous. what’s in the sky there by the moon? i don’t know! maybe sanc-iii actually DOES have a cloaking device. damn, i was kidding, but that’d be amazing

eden-6! with the jakobs manor in the background. this looks vvvv similar if not the same area we got the moze gameplay in

Promethea!!!!!!! wow this place is gorgeous holy shit

as this shot appears lily says “wherever the hunt for the Vaults takes us” which is likely implying this isn’t promethea. athenas, then? It’s possible, we see Maliwan has occupied at LEAST the academic district so i could see them excavating a Vault.

THERE’S A BIRD where do we see birds??? on eden-6, but this 100% does not look like eden-6 to me... it would explain the temple, though....... because tannis has the floor tile in her office the same time she’s crawling around inside a dino so... maybe???

we’ll have to see! I kinda hope it’s promethea, seeing large buildings and cranes and shit would only really fit my views of Promethea and Pandora.... the whole area is giving off weird blue sparkly effects, maybe it has been teleported or summoned or something? i don’t really know what’s up with that tbh.

it cuts off on this shot

wondering if this is like a character selection screen or smth it reminds me of the persona “press start” screens haha

also the art in the background is pretty rad. anyway that’s all for now folks

im gonna go pass out now, it’s 4:12 in the am. gnight

edit: i got my acronyms for the hbc and rc messed up bc i am a v tired.

[romancatholicreflections]

27th February >> Fr. Martin's Gospel Reflections / Homilies on Mark 9:38-40 for Wednesday, Seventh Week in Ordinary Time: ‘Anyone who is not against us is for us’.

Wednesday, Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

Gospel (Europe, Africa, New Zealand, Australia & Canada)

Mark 9:38-40

You must not stop anyone from working miracles in my name

John said to Jesus, ‘Master, we saw a man who is not one of us casting out devils in your name; and because he was not one of us we tried to stop him.’ But Jesus said, ‘You must not stop him: no one who works a miracle in my name is likely to speak evil of me. Anyone who is not against us is for us.’

Gospel (USA)

Mark 9:38-40

Whoever is not against us is for us.

John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.” Jesus replied, “Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me. For whoever is not against us is for us.”

Reflections (2)

(i) Wednesday, Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

Today’s gospel reading is taken from a section of Mark’s gospel where the disciples consistently show themselves to be at cross purposes with Jesus. After Jesus communicated to his disciples the painful truth that he is to be betrayed into human hands, they immediately begin to argue among themselves as to which of them is the greatest, earning a rebuke from Jesus. A little later, when parents were bringing children for Jesus for him to bless them, the disciples turn them away, and Jesus has to rebuke his disciples again. In today’s gospel reading, which comes between those two incidents, the disciples try to stop others from doing good in Jesus’ name simply because they do not belong to Jesus’ circle of disciples; they are ‘not one of us’. Again, Jesus has to rebuke his disciples. Whereas the disciples saw unwelcoming competitors, Jesus saw potential co-workers. It is tempting to look upon the disciples with very critical eyes. Yet, the disciples in Mark’s gospel represent us all. We all find ourselves at cross purposes with the Lord from time to time. Our way of seeing, and our actions that flow from such seeing, will not always be in harmony with the Lord’s way of seeing and acting. We too can be unfairly dismissive of the good others are doing because they are ‘not one of us’. We need to keep growing more fully into the Lord’s generous vision and way of being.

And/Or

(ii) Wednesday, Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

In Mark’s gospel we often find a clash between Jesus and his disciples. This morning’s gospel reading is one example of that. The disciples had a somewhat black and white view of people. Only those who were ‘one of us’, as they put it, could be trusted to do the Lord’s work. Jesus had a much more nuanced view of people than his disciples. He could see that even those whom he had not formally called to become one of his disciples could be doing God’s life-giving work. Indeed, he makes the very generous spirited statement, ‘Anyone who is not against us is for us’. That might be a good principle to take to heart in the times in which we live. There are a lot of people who are not explicitly for the church, in the sense of practising their faith in the way we have come to understand that, and, yet, they are not against the church or the gospel either. The attitude of Jesus in today’s gospel reading encourages us to build bridges with all those who in some way share the church’s mission to bring life where there is death, wholeness where there is brokenness, relief where there is suffering. We can be partners in mission with those who are ‘not one of us’ in the strict sense. In these times we need the generous vision that Jesus displays in today’s gospel reading rather than the much narrower one displayed by his disciples.

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[justapanda]

In her Coffin she sleeps

Alright so people are still undecided about the identity of the “Puppet Owl”, and I can admit that my own perspective has shifted multiple times already. At first before chapter 166 came out I 99% believed it was Karren. Then immediately after chapter 166 came out I 99% believed it was Eto.

Now my perspective has altered once more after having some time to think, and now I 99% believe that the Puppet Owl is actually Hairu. (Hopefully my perspective remains unchanged this time around lol.)

Before I delve into the symbolism of the event, first let’s go over the details of the chapter and why we’re being misled to believe that this is Eto.

How Ishida mainly misleads us is by giving direct references to Eto, pretty much forcing a red herring on us so that we’ll be just as shocked as Ui once the reveal comes. Right now the Puppet Owl is being treated in the story as synonymous to the One-Eyed Owl, just like the readers are. So far the Puppet Owl has pretty much nailed all the classic things that Eto does. It comes crashing down from the sky to shock the characters, its kakuja form is gigantic and to top it off the body of the host inside is wrapped in bandages. Let’s not forget that the chapter title “Et” is often a way that Eto’s name is spelled.

It’s safe to say that if Ishida were faking us out and this character isn’t actually Eto, then he’s trying his hardest to convince the readers that it is. However when you take the context away from Eto and focus it onto Hairu then you will notice a much more fitting pattern.

Namely, Ui’s confrontation with the Puppet Owl is the main focus of the chapter, also referencing to the time he fought Eto a long time ago, which further adds to the misdirection. Before he declares to defeat the Owl himself he conveniently has another flashback of Hairu (and Arima). Now, let’s consider the context of Hairu’s position.

Unlike Eto, who we haven’t heard a single word about since she disappeared in cochlea, we do know a whole lot of Hairu’s position. As we already know, Hairu was killed via impalement through the chest (presumably the heart) and decapitation (she also lost an arm in the process).

The major point here is the set up, and Furuta has directly brought up the notion of bringing Hairu back to life through the knowledge of Noro’s research, all the while waving her head in front of Ui. However Furuta afterwards claims that it was impossible to Ui, which I see as both truthful and deceitful. For a start, through characters like Noro himself, we know that it’s very plausible to re-animate dead characters, however they may not come back like their old self, which is also represented by Okahira.

Now let’s get down to the symbolism that I wanted to bring up. If we presume that the identity of the Puppet Owl is truly Hairu, then the symbolism aligns together in a convincingly intentional fashion.

Aside from the narrative of the story, the biggest hint of Hairu’s resurrection comes from her birthday illustration.

People have been theorizing for years that this illustration was the biggest foreshadowing to Hairu being reborn with the Yoshimura kakuhou, hence the bat wing design. However people became distracted by this lone factor and thus failed to notice the costume that Hairu is wearing. Coinciding with the bat wing, this is very clearly a vampire costume.

Now you may ask, why does it matter if Hairu is wearing a vampire costume? She wears unusual costumes all the time in her illustrations (her lion costume for example), so surely this would be irrelevant right? Well it would be if not for the fact that Hairu’s costume fits eerily well into the Halloween illustration which also dresses up our favourite half-ghouls as traditional Halloween monsters.

In this illustration the costumes worn by these characters foreshadow the events in the story and the secrets that these characters hold, let’s go through the list:

Kaneki the Zombie. This no doubt refers to the degrading condition of his body and health during the 24th ward to the point that he was crawling on the floor and eating children. Then he was a zombie no longer after being rebirthed by Dragon.

Seidou the Mummy. Since the entirety of Seidou’s character arc in :re revolves around him distancing himself from his human past, the mummy costume no doubt symbolizes that the wrappings refers to his ghoul self, and the dead carcass inside refers to his human self.

Amon the Demon. I believe this symbolism refers to Amon’s inability to accept his ghoul side. He views ghouls as sinful (ironic since his foster father is a ghoul priest), and on top of that his dark side tends to run rampant when it loses control and his kakuja takes on a horrific form.

Eto the Witch. Do I really need to explain this one?

So when you look at these and then look back to Hairu’s position, you’ll see things in a very different light. The reason that Hairu isn’t included in the Halloween illustration, and the reason why she’s symbolized by the vampire is because well, she’s dead.

You’ll also notice that the method in which Hairu was killed is also heavily symbolic of a vampires. First, she was impaled through the chest, most likely the heart, and initially survived. In most common stories, vampires can’t die just from being stabbed, unless it was specifically a wooden stake through the heart. Then, Hairu was successfully killed via decapitation, which is also coincidentally one of the effective methods of killing a vampire.

Where am I going with all this? It’s heavily symbolic, and Ishida tends to use foreshadowing through the means of referencing to different pieces of history and culture, he’s certainly done so plenty of times before. Anyway another big piece of the puzzle here is the involvement of Donato Porpora who ALSO coincidentally fits well into the symbolism.

Donato, the Priest, is the one who has turned Hairu into the Puppet Owl through the usage of his kagune. Even though Hairu has been reanimated by the Owl kakuhou and overwhelming RC cells, her consciousness is still locked away. In Hairu’s coffin she still sleeps, and a cross damns her from returning.

Or you know, the Puppet Owl’s identity might just be Eto.

[wiremagazine]

OUT & ABOUT: LET’S CELEBRATE AT THE NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE GALA – MIAMI

By Rafa Carvajal | Photos by Juan Saco Mironoff. miamigayblog.com

As a proud sponsor of the annual National LGBTQ Task Force Gala – Miami, Wire Magazine invites you to join us this Saturday, October 6 at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach to celebrate our LGBTQ community and recognize this year’s honorees. Robin Roberts and Sam Champion will receive the 2018 National Leadership Award, and South Florida activists and philanthropists Charles Million and Tim Nardi will receive the 2018 Eddy McIntyre Community Service Award.

Robin is the co-anchor of Good Morning America on ABC. The ABC News website explains that "under her leadership, the broadcast has won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Morning Program and the 2017 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Daytime TV Hosting Team." Also, in December 2013, Robin publicly acknowledged her longtime partner, Amber Laign. Sam is a five-time Emmy and Peabody award-winning anchor best-known for his work on Good Morning America, where he became the first news anchor to come out publicly. Sam is also a passionate advocate for the LGBTQ community that has raised awareness of HIV prevention, a recipient of the Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award, and one of the first openly gay news personalities in the world.

Emmy Award-winning actor and musician Jai Rodriguez, best known as the ‘Culture Vulture’ on the Bravo network's reality television program Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, will emcee this year’s Gala. Singer-songwriter Kimberley Locke, of American Idol fame, will also perform live.

We sat down with Sam Champion to discuss his career, advocacy efforts and the importance of fighting for our rights and full equality.

Rafa Carvajal: Tell our readers about your professional background and your advocacy for the LGBTQ community? Sam Champion: People think I've been with ABC forever! My first jobs were local news in Paducah, KY and Jacksonville, FL. It was my third job that took me to New York City. I have worked on all three networks and every Cable News Network (except Fox News), but most people seem to remember my years at Good Morning America, where I started while working at WABC in 1988. It was in NYC that I started focusing on raising money for AIDS research and support groups, after my best friend hid his diagnosis and needlessly died. Being outed while working in NYC in the ‘90s, gave me the unique opportunity to be visible in the community when homophobia in the News business was unforgiving and rampant. We faced many challenges today, but it's wonderful to see the progress our community has made in the last 30 years.

RC: How did you feel when you found out you were going to be honored with the National Leadership Award at this year’s Task Force Gala – Miami? SC: I am very touched and honored. My husband and I understood there would be good sides and bad sides of "visibility" when we announced our engagement on Good Morning America almost seven years ago. We had no plan or intent to be leaders, we, like others, just wanted to simply express our love and share our family openly.

RC: What does this honor mean to you? SC: It's very emotional for me when I think of all the incredible people who have been honored by The Task Force. There will be people in that room on October 6 that have devoted their lives working with and for our community every day. I want to thank them! I see it as a challenge to be more visible here at home... to do more.

RC: I have been watching Good Morning America every morning for years. What are your thoughts regarding sharing this great honor with Robin Roberts, your former GMA colleague? SC: This brings me great joy, and it’s a dream come true to share another important moment at this stage of our lives! When Good Morning America became number one for the first time in 20 years, people said it was the real "chemistry" and that we were a "family." They were seeing and feeling the truth. In my heart, Robin and her family are honestly a part of our family. I feel like I grew up with her and we have shared so many of life's important milestones together.  

RC: What were your concerns when you decided to become the first news anchor to come out publicly? How did coming out publicly change your life? SC: I was at the top of my career and we knew there were people who were opposed to it. Actively against it! But, I am lucky to be in love with the most amazing human being I have ever met. Being honest about that love was more important than any possible risk or "blowback." We realized in telling the story later, we had no idea how much love and support we would receive from the public. The next day, taxi and bus drivers were honking and waving... people were crossing the street to give us their congratulations or a copy of the newspaper. We were floored. Not long after that, while in line at airport security, there was a commotion in the long line behind us. A woman was shaken and crying as she pushed her way thru the line. When she got near us, she told us the story of her daughter in the military who was announcing her love and marriage because of watching us on TV. She was so proud and happy, and that's when we realized how intensely our announcement had impacted others. Our marriage, in all ways, has made me a better person and being "out" in a supportive community like South Florida is one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.    

RC: In your opinion, what are the greatest challenges facing our LGBTQ community today? SC: I once believed hate and bigotry could be put-down or killed... Now older, I know it will live forever and needs to be battled aggressively, forcefully, and loudly... daily.  As a community, some of our biggest battles are within our own ranks. Gay men and women are every size, shape, color, age, ethnicity, religion and political persuasion. We are stronger than any opposition that seeks to demonize us or to remove our constitutional rights, but only stronger when we use the strength of our common beliefs and experiences and stand together.

RC: What do you think are the best tools at the disposal of our LGBTQ community to continue fighting for full equality and equal rights? SC: Visibility! What we are doing on October 6th is our best and strongest "superpower." Beating back political and social opposition means standing together, finding a loud voice and raising lots of money. Yes, we have every right to expect the security guaranteed by the American Constitution, but today's politics make it impossible to assume those rights will be equally or fairly applied. We must fight for, and secure all rights as forcefully as we fight for our own, and do it by forging unbreakable alliances.

RC: What are you looking forward to the most at this year’s Task Force Gala – Miami? SC: Being a part of the 22nd Task Force Gala has a great feel of history all by itself! It’s a long list of community activists and friends who have taken this stage. I am very excited to applaud the work of Charles Million and Tim Nardi! Also – selfishly – excited to be laughing with friends, and possibly share an adult beverage or three.

RC: Is there anything else you would like to share with Wire Magazine readers? SC: If you want to be loved and accepted as the wonderful bright light that you are, accept openly the people around you! And when you hear the terms or face the actions that are meant to bring you down, please hear these words: I love you for the wonderful things that make you unique, colorful, dynamic and exciting... those things are gifts, share them with the world as only you can!

This article will be published in Wire Magazine Issue 40.2018

[midnight-in-town]

I can’t help but wonder how much truth there is in the “you sacrificed your brother” statement. Like, undeniably, OC was the one who summoned Seb. Even if he didn’t kill him. It was an accident, right? So does that count as a lie or just twisting the truth? OC has been asking Seb if he lied about something a lot lately. What is it that he refers to? That RC could never come back, or OC sacrificed him? The order to never lie was presumably after. Both the “can never come back” and ->

Hello Anon. :) Soooo, to address your different remarks:

Sacrifice vs Accident

To quote you, “it’s an accidental summoning any way you look at it” in my opinion as well!

@cielsama14​ explained it well enough as well here, so all I’m going to say is that our!Ciel definitely is the one who turned his back on God and called for Seb, which is why his brother’s soul was used to pay for Seb’s summoning. However, considering that he said…

I can’t call that a sacrifice, seeing as it’s not something he did consciously or willingly. 

After reading the chapter, I also don’t think Seb lied, because he definitely heard our!Ciel calling and the fare for crossing was paid, so his interpretation that it was a sacrifice, especially considering the settings he found our!Ciel in, makes sense (even if we readers know that it’s not exactly what happened).

However, manipulation from Seb’s part is also rather obvious where I’m concerned, because he definitely decided to show up for a reason…

And his way to try and play it chill isn’t exactly fooling anyone…

…since our!Ciel didn’t really have any other option besides making that contract to survive the cult. 

So in the end, it’s as William said…

About Frances

Frankly, whether she knew or not about which twin our!Ciel was, I don’t think it really matters nor that it will trigger such a huge reaction out of her in case she didn’t anyway. x) Besides, sorry but she clearly wasn’t wrong in ch132, I mean…

she never said that our!Ciel wasn’t clever enough for the job, more like he was too physically weak and we’ve had enough occasions to see for ourselves that, without Seb, Ciel would have indeed died many times in the past. 

I mean, no worries, I can understand wanting Seb to mess with her a little, since she’s always keeping such a perfect composure, but I actually enjoy the fact that she, as well as Nina and UT, can give a demon cold sweat even though they’ll never be as strong as him. Besides…

this is Frances “tricked” by Seb in ch14, so I think she’s more level-headed than maybe you give her credit for (not that I can blame you for that, seeing how Yana uses her for comic relief most of the time xD). 

Anyway, as I explained when ch132 came out, my opinion is that Frances doesn’t care about the Phantomhive family being successful or well-seen or anything, she just cares about its survival because she cares about her family. So the only moments we might see her falter…

…will probably always have to do with if/when she feels powerless about helping her family and maybe only our!Ciel (and not Seb) will ever have an influence on her in that aspect. 

We have time before anything like that happens though, haha, so as always feel free to disagree. :) 

Thanks for passing by Anon! I do agree that the Seb/Ciel dynamic is very interesting especially, since the more we advance, the more I see hints that they might end up clashing at some point, and that even though UT is counting on Seb to protect Ciel for now indeed. :))

Have a nice day! 

[freyjaiam]

RC prompt: Mick writes, Sara is an artist (at least in fanon), but what is Leonard's artistic/creative talent that only his partners know about?

Sara smiled as the beautiful notes traveled down the hall, drawing her toward the spacious living room as she tied the belt of her black, silk robe. Her feet were bare and silent on the wooden floor, the scent of sandalwood intoxicating and relaxing her as she searched out the man who hadn’t been in bed with her. She trailed her fingertips along the plain, white walls that were decorated with her sketches and canvas paintings, emerging from the darkened hallway into the dimly lit living room. There, in the corner sitting at the polished, black grand piano: was Leonard. He didn’t see her yet. He had his eyes closed, feeling the music as he played, his long and slender digits traveling over the keys with precise and skilled movements that had tingles going down her spine. His music was always hauntingly beautiful. She could see the picture he was trying to draw with his notes so clearly in her mind. She could feel his pain. The sorrow of his past ghosts that still haunted him to this day. The anguish was almost tangible, and it took everything in Sara not to rush forward and engulf him with a hug and kiss away his pain. He’d once admitted to her that his music was his therapy. Whatever demons needed to be exorcised from his mind had her keeping her distance. She took a seat on the oversized leather chair Mick favored, tucking her feet beneath her and resting her elbow on the arm of the furniture.  Her loose hair tickled her wrist and forearm as she relaxed, blue eyes taking in her lover as his piece hit the crescendo.

When the last bars were played and the final notes faded away in the room Sara waited a breath before rising. He’d opened his eyes and he’d seen her long before he’d finished playing. He just watched until she made her way to the bench. She saw that he was still in the clothes he’d been in when they’d gone to sleep earlier that night. He hadn’t even bothered to slip on a robe or his slippers. The white shirt was snug and the gray pajama bottoms loose. 

“Did I wake you?”

“Only because you weren’t in bed. Not because of the music.”

“I had to play,” he said softly, looking down to the keys now, fingertips running over them but not pressing to make a sound. “Had to get it out.”

“Nightmare?” He didn’t verbally answer, but she saw the answer in his eyes. Saw those ghosts she’d heard earlier. She reached out, hesitated, then placed a hand on his shoulder. It stiffened slightly, which broke her heart, but then relaxed as her soothing caress calmed him. “You don’t have to talk about it. Just know I’m here. So is Mick, even though he’s sleeping in the other room.”

“Lisa called. Said she was pregnant. She’s worried that she’d be like our parents. That she’ll be a horrible mother. I told her that her fears were unwarranted. That she would be a wonderful mother. She is still scared. Worried that she’ll end up like our mother… Or worse. Our father.”

Sara shifted closer. Both arms wrapped around his middle, trapping his right arm as she rest her head just below his shoulder. He sighed, raising his free hand and placing it on the spot where her elbow bent near his stomach. They stayed like that for a long time. Neither moved, the only sound their mingled breathing and the ticking clock sitting on the mantle above the fireplace. They shifted when they heard a door open, the heavy footfalls down the hall signalling that Mick was awake as well. 

Mick wasn’t silent like Sara. They could track him up until he turned the corner. He’d been naked when Sara left him. Due to the frigid winter, and the fact that he hated the cold, he’d slipped on his favorite robe and slippers to ward off the chill since his two lovers weren’t in bed with him to retain his heat. 

“What’s goin’ on?” he asked, his eyes squinting slightly because he didn’t have his glasses. He hated his glasses. He only wore them when he absolutely needed to. Mostly when he did his reading. And his writing. He shuffled to the other side of the bench and plopped down, his hand grazing the lower keys of the piano and making them wail, and Leonard wince. “I woke up. You both were gone. You out here getting busy without me?”

He said it as a joke. He could read his partner since the first day he’d met him. He was spooked. Something got into his head. Sara was holding him tight but it was something that needed both of them. He reached over, his scarred hand resting on Leonard’s thigh, warming it through the material of his pants. 

“Oh please, like you ever give us the chance to do that,” teased Sara.

“You should be sleeping, Mick. You have a signing tomorrow.”

“Bah... I’m fine. Besides, my fans love it when I’m out of it.”

“He did have them cheering when he overturned the table at the last place.”

“Damn crooks were trying to charge my fans extra for my autograph instead of just charging them for the book! They got what they had coming to them!”

Leonard felt put out. His inability to cope had gotten the two people he cared most about aside from Lisa out of bed and worrying about him. He hated how his head got sometimes. He wanted to blame his abusive father. His alcoholic mother. But something sick and twisted in his head blamed himself. It seeped into his thoughts and wouldn’t go away. Hadn’t budged in over forty years. 

“Let’s just all go back to bed.”

He’d lay there, wide-awake, but they would be safe and warm.

“Mick, apparently we’re going to be an aunt and uncle.”

“Is that so?” Mick hummed. “Haircut knocked up your sister, huh?”

Leonard scowled. Mick howled with laughter. He’d always liked Ray. Leonard, on the other hand, hadn’t. Hell, even Sara liked the boy scout. Then again, Len was always protective of his sister. Had even squared up to Mick and asked about his intentions at one time because he’d thought he’d been hanging around for HER instead of HIM. Boy had he shocked the hell out of Leonard when he’d just grabbed him and kissed him instead. 

They’d been together ever since. 

Sara had been a surprise. Someone they’d met at the bar. Someone who had proposed a fling and they’d all been drunk and willing. Well, Mick had been willing. Leonard had taken some convincing... But had warmed up to Sara very quickly. She’d been reluctant to call it anything but a fling. Like them, she had her own demons, but one night she’d confessed to liking it with them. So... She stayed. Had inserted herself into their lives and had flourished. They all had. Shortly after Mick’s first book had been published. Sara had some art pieces bought before but after some time and some pushing from her lovers she’d really gone out there. She still did defensive training as her main project for at-risk women. But art was her other passion... And also what helped pay the bills.

Then Leonard, who had always been hesitant to go out there and showcase his talent, still liked to only play at home. He ran a security business, something that an ex-thief would flourish at, but at home he played. Mick always thought he had what it took to get famous from it. But he knew, deep down, that this was private. Something he only shared with those close to him. Music was something Leonard clung to when his past reared it’s ugly head.

“He did,” said Sara, pressing a kiss to Leonard’s shoulder. “Had him worried about what might happen if it were to happen to him.”

Leonard tensed. Ah hell, Mick felt that change right before Leonard scrambled off the piano bench away from the both of them, hands slamming against the keys and making a chaotic mess of a sound. He had that trapped look on his face as he started pacing, both hands rubbing over his closely shaven head. Sara merely shifted on the bench, crossed her arms and legs, and waited. She was so damn patient. Mick wasn’t, but hell, he didn’t know how to handle this.

The thought of kids had him all panicked, too.

Leonard should have known Sara would have picked up on the reason for his panic. She was too damn smart for her own good. Yeah, perhaps that was why he played. That the panic that Lisa felt about her unborn child transferred to him. Had him wondering what the hell he’d do if Sara were to suddenly tell him she was pregnant. Had him wondering if it was Mick’s, if he would be left alone in the dark while they built their little family. 

“Leonard. Len!” Sara was suddenly there, cupping his heated cheeks with her cooler palms. “Hey, baby, breathe for me... Okay? Breathe...”

He had no idea he’d been holding his breath. He struggled to inhale, the exhale shaky.. His eyes met Sara’s and that calm hit him. His hands went over hers and he felt Mick at his back and he breathed. There was a light sheen of sweat on his forehead and at the back of his neck. 

“You okay?”

“Yeah,” he said, struggling with the simple word. 

“I’m not pregnant so hold off on the panic attack,” teased Sara, making him give a slightly broken laugh. “Talk to us, Len...”

“It’s just my head,” he whispered. “Stupid stuff... Lisa made a comment about worrying about being like our parents. Of course, it had me worried, too...”

“You’re nothin’ like that asshole,” said Mick, meaning Leonard’s dad. 

“I know... But it doesn’t mean those thoughts don’t come.”

“Remember Abby?” asked Sara.

Abby was the daughter of Sara’s sister Laurel and her husband Tommy.

“Yeah.”

“You were so gentle with her. So kind. There was nothing malicious about you when we all watched her that first night. Or any of the other nights. And Lisa... Remember Lisa? You said you practically raised her. You didn’t harm her, did you?”

“No...”

“You’re nothing like him, Len,” said Mick. “You gotta believe that.”

“I do... I do...” His eyes closed. “Just... I don’t know. It’s ridiculous.”

Mick pulled at Leonard and he easily turned into his embrace. Mick, the rock of the three, held him tight while Sara turned off the lights. Slowly they made their way back to the bedroom. They lay with Leonard in the middle. He was locked with Mick still, so Sara pressed to his back. 

“I love you,” she whispered, making his fear abate some more. 

“We both do,” murmured Mick. 

“And we’ll always be here for you,” said Sara, pressing her lips to the back of his neck. “Always.”

“What if I can’t go there?” he asked. “What if I can’t give you a family, Sara?”

“You two are my family.”

Leonard relaxed, the last dark thought dissipating, for now. 

“Go back to sleep,” said Mick. “You gotta make me an omelette in the morning.”

All three laughed.

All three held on to one another. 

And when the sun finally rose over the horizon and awakened the city to the new day... They were still tangled together, ready to take on any threat that be-felled them.

Together.

END

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11th July >> Fr. Martin’s Gospel Reflections on:

Matthew 19:27-29 for The Feast of St Benedict, Abbot, Patron of Europe: ‘We have left everything and followed you’.

And on:

Matthew 10:7-15 for Thursday, Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time.

The Feast of Saint Benedict, Abbot, Patron of Europe

Gospel (Europe, Africa, New Zealand, Australia & Canada)

Matthew 19:27-29

They will be repaid a hundred times over and inherit eternal life

Peter spoke to Jesus. ‘What about us?’ he said. ‘We have left everything and followed you. What are we to have, then?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I tell you solemnly, when all is made new and the Son of Man sits on his throne of glory, you will yourselves sit on twelve thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children or land for the sake of my name will be repaid a hundred times over, and also inherit eternal life.’

Gospel (USA)

Matthew 19:27-29

You who have followed me will receive a hundred times more.

Peter said to Jesus, “We have given up everything and followed you. What will there be for us?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, I say to you that you who have followed me, in the new age, when the Son of Man is seated on his throne of glory, will yourselves sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times more, and will inherit eternal life.”

Reflections (2)

(i) The Feast of St Benedict, Abbot, Patron of Europe

Benedict was born of a distinguished family and was educated in Rome. He abandoned his studies and his inheritance and he devoted himself to the quest for God. This initially took the form of a period of solitude in a cave at Subiaco just to the east of Rome. His solitude was interrupted by those who were drawn to his way of life and wanted to gather around him. Much against his will, he organized these followers into a group of monasteries and he himself took leadership of one of those monasteries, Monte Casino, which is now considered the birthplace of the Benedictine order. There he wrote his Monastic Rule which set a standard for the future Western Monastic tradition. His rule was marked by moderation, balance and humanity. Community was a key feature of his monastic vision and he stressed the value of community life as a school for holiness. He saw the community as a place of equality where each person was helped by everyone else along the path of holiness. The monk’s primary occupation was liturgical prayer, complemented by the reading of the Scriptures and manual work of various kinds. He was made patron of Europe in 1964. Peter’s question to Jesus in today’s gospel reading, ‘What are we to have then?’ has a somewhat self-regarding tone. It is a very human and honest question on the lips of one who, as he says, ‘left everything’ to follow Jesus. Peter went on to give everything, his life, for Jesus. Peter’s question is one we can all be tempted to ask as followers of Jesus. ‘If I am to take this difficult path, what is in it for me?’ Saints like Benedict prompt us to make away from such questions. He gave to the Lord and to others without regard for personal gain. As a result of such a generous spirit, in the words of the gospel reading he was ‘repaid a hundred times over’ with communities of work and prayer that helped to renew the church of the time and ever since, and he also inherited ‘eternal life’. If we give to the Lord and to others, without calculating the likely benefits to ourselves, we too will be ‘repaid a hundred times over, and also inherit eternal life’.

And/Or

(ii) St Benedict, Abbot, Patron of Europe

Benedict was born of a distinguished family and was educated in Rome. He abandoned his studies and his inheritance and he devoted himself to the quest for God. This initially took the form of a period of solitude in a cave at Subiaco just to the east of Rome. His solitude was interrupted by those who were drawn to his way of life and wanted to gather around him. Much against his will, he organized these followers into a group of monasteries and he himself took leadership of one of those monasteries, Monte Casino, which is now considered the birthplace of the Benedictine order. There he wrote his Monastic Rule which set a standard for the future Western Monastic tradition. His rule was marked by moderation, balance and humanity. Community was a key feature of his monastic vision and he stressed the value of community life as a school for holiness. He saw the community as a place of equality where each person was helped by everyone else along the path of holiness. The monk’s primary occupation was liturgical prayer, complemented by the reading of the Scriptures and manual work of various kinds. He was made patron of Europe in 1964. In the words of the gospel reading, Benedict left everything as a young man. Yet, in leaving everything he gained that new family which the gospel reading refers to. Indeed he gained a family of families, a great multitude of monastic families or communities, linked together by his spirit and his rule. He is a living example of that image of the grain of wheat which when planted in the ground dies but in dying bears much fruit. Whenever we give generously, we invariably receive more than we give. Our giving, our dying, creates a space for the Lord to work in a life-giving way in us and through us.

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Thursday, Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Gospel (Europe, Africa, New Zealand, Australia & Canada)

Matthew 10:7-15

You received without charge: give without charge

Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘As you go, proclaim that the kingdom of heaven is close at hand. Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils. You received without charge, give without charge. Provide yourselves with no gold or silver, not even with a few coppers for your purses, with no haversack for the journey or spare tunic or footwear or a staff, for the workman deserves his keep.

‘Whatever town or village you go into, ask for someone trustworthy and stay with him until you leave. As you enter his house, salute it, and if the house deserves it, let your peace descend upon it; if it does not, let your peace come back to you. And if anyone does not welcome you or listen to what you have to say, as you walk out of the house or town shake the dust from your feet. I tell you solemnly, on the day of Judgement it will not go as hard with the land of Sodom and Gomorrah as with that town.’

Gospel (USA)

Matthew 10:7-15

Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.

Jesus said to his Apostles: “As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give. Do not take gold or silver or copper for your belts; no sack for the journey, or a second tunic, or sandals, or walking stick. The laborer deserves his keep. Whatever town or village you enter, look for a worthy person in it, and stay there until you leave. As you enter a house, wish it peace. If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; if not, let your peace return to you. Whoever will not receive you or listen to your words – go outside that house or town and shake the dust from your feet. Amen, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.”

Reflection (1)

(i) Thursday, Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Jesus is the fullest revelation possible in a human life of God’s tender love. Yet, he experienced the turning away of people from this love, their refusal to respond to it in any meaningful way. When Jesus sends out his disciples in this morning’s gospel reading he warns them to expect the same. They are to proclaim the good news that the kingdom of God is at hand, that the reign of God’s life-giving love is present, but they will encounter those who will not welcome them and will not listen to what they have to say. Jesus insists that this negative response is not to deter them from their mission of proclaiming God’s loving presence by what they say and do. It certainly did not deter Jesus. Even as he suffered the ultimate rejection on the cross, he continued to proclaim the same good news of God’s unconditional love for all, even for those who were responsible for his crucifixion. We too are to reveal the loving presence of God, regardless of how we are received by others. As Jesus reminds us in today’s gospel reading, we have received without charge. God has graciously loved us in Christ even while we are sinners. In response, we are to give without charge; we are to pass on the love we have received without asking for anything in return.

Fr. Martin Hogan, Saint John the Baptist Parish, Clontarf, Dublin, D03 AO62, Ireland.

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