#curious combinations

[aftanith]

Vampire Knight Guilty E10-13, "Prelude to the Battle/Tatakai no Pureryūdo/戦いの序曲" & "Two Souls/Futari no Raibuzu/二人の命" & "World's End/Sekai no Piriodo/世界の果て" & "Vampire's Knight/Vanpaia no Naito/ヴァンパイアの騎士"

Today I'm covering the final four episodes of Vampire Knight: Guilty, and I am honestly just so happy to be done. The ending of the show is 100% completely my nightmare outcome, and I’m not gonna lie, I’m pretty pissed off. This story made me want to go be a hermit alone in the woods somewhere. Please let Castlevania be better, because that's what I'll be watching next.

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[definitelynotshouting]

You have synesthesia?? How does that work for you? Is this how you manage to use the word “meat” in a way that makes me go “holy shit that’s good and cool i need to read that sentence four more times” instead of “ew”?????

I do!!! Letters, numbers, and words all have colours and sometimes visual textures for me-- and while numbers and letters on their own are generally only a single colour (7 is a bright, grassy green!!! while "K" is a pale peachy pink, for example :] ), when i put them into words they often take on entirely new colours, some of which even bleed into each other like watercolour paints. Ironically, its why i use the UK spelling of "colour" in the first place-- the "u" turns what looks like a dull, desaturated blue into a smeared blue-and-purple that i find really pretty to look at :]] so when i say i like to paint with words, i kinda mean that literally 😂😂😂😂😂

But yeah, i'd imagine thats why my writing is Like That™ to some degree-- a lot of what im doing behind the scenes involves matching the colours and visual textures of a given word with all of the others in order to evoke a particular vibe or image in my writing. There are a lot of layers to how i write, but this is probably the one that takes both the most time AND is the one i happen to talk about the least WKDJWKSJEJ

[realareturns]

A better quality look at some of NiGHTS’ acrobatics in JoD (this shows 10 of their 12 tricks— no matter what I did I could only get these 10 to occur, and the file names don’t indicate what each move should look like or how to do it 😔)

[egophiliac]

new ride kamens dropped, rui, who is definitely a horobi homage; another cool choice, but at the same time, kinda wish it was someone else 'cuz now we got two zero-one homages with hayate's jin, when the trend had been one rider for each season until him, and people started claiming that takahashi must be playing favorites

aw, I was actually pretty jazzed to see it was Horobi! I think it opens up some interesting possibilities if it isn't only one-per after all, and I'm excited to see if there's gonna be something with him and Hayate or not. plus I just really like his design

(also, not to be all cynical, but. this exists because of a corporate trend-hop with a franchise that is already sorta notorious for executive meddling. I would be...let's say very surprised if Takahashi had that level of control over what riders were included, versus being handed a list to work off of that the execs had already determined would appeal to their target demographic. c'mon.)

[mortysmith]

wait but guysssssssss rosemary and davekat fankids ??!

[mintghostko]

Frida Big Mama's Assistant!

I kinda wonder how she of all people ended up working for Big Mama... I guess it could just be a coincidence but... well, we all know how Big Mama is... and spiderwebs can be so very tricky to escape once you've been snared

original Rise August prompt list by @sariphantom :)

[thunderboltfire]

POV: You’re a Witch-King of Angmar and a tall blonde has suggested you leave her uncle alone.

[the-punforgiven]

Im curious, for people who have beaten the Shadow of the Erdtree final boss, rb and put in the tags how you did it!

(Don't say who it is though, I've still got mutuals who haven't played it and are avoiding spoilers lol)

[waitineedaname]

the system possession au has had me thinking lately: how do you guys interpret the system when it comes to the two transmigrators? Do you see it as one system working with both transmigrators for the same overarching goal of Fixing The Plot, or do you see it as two distinct systems, unique to each transmigrator?

[aftanith]

Castlevania S2E4-6, “Broken Mast” & “Last Spell” & “The River”

Today, I'm covering Castlevania season 2 episodes 4-6, and Carmilla is just such a queen. Pity her plan got upstaged by Sypha's spell. I assume we're going to have some degree of Dracula v. Belmont/Sypha/Alucard confrontation in the next two episodes, though, so I very much wonder how that's going to go. Surely it's not going to be the final showdown already, right? There's two entire seasons more to go!

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[trans-yllz]

I don't think that the average cql watcher understands just how fragile a bunny rabbit really is

[numbuh424]

Please hear me out..... Jdrama!Light and Musical!L.

[bookwyrminspiration]

There is a little part in the Stellarlune short story that I think everyone skipped over because marelinh (I forgot how to spell their ship name) but the part says something along the lines of “she had already figured out how to set linh’s rain on fire, and she couldn’t wait to do that when the neverseen showed their faces again”. Shannon has a thing she does where she’ll foreshadow things that will only be revealed books later, she also had Stellarlune’s storyline figured out by like, the time she was writing exile, as evidenced by a post during the Stellarlune writing process that said something along the lines of “no pressure, just got to write out scenes that have only lived in my head for the last 10+ years”. Do you think the rain thing will come into play later?

I certainly hope so! Shannon's been hinting for a while about combining elemental abilities specifically with Marella and Linh (since Marella's pyrokinesis was first introduced in Nightfall)--so whether we see it specifically as fire rain or not, I do think we'll see the two of them teamed up in some future/final fight.

With all the comments we've seen about how elemental abilities are especially volatile, it'd seem a waste not to put the two of them to use. If only they had a guster to complete the trifecta

But since she's already specifically mentioned the fire rain, it does make sense she'd use that in the future. So I'm going to go with a probable yes :)

[sammygender]

are pb&js actually good

[featherymainffins]

When the POV character is (a bit of) a cunt and his parallel (who is something he could be if things were different and vice versa) is bound to him inseparably through the sheer power of obsession and the refusal to let go, creating a power dynamic that can be likened only to Munchausen by proxy but exhibited by Aesop's frog and scorpion.

Well I think that's a little bit gay. In a very bad way.