#episode 1099

[hauntingblue]

Gear 5 luffy's laugh is so contagious I just hear the drums and go insane how does this work. What did he do to me

[thecosmosdog]

Finally, after a year (with some months of breaks) I caught up with OP. Weekly gang here I go 😭✌️

[katvaramell]

Why does CP-0 arrive at egghead and get greeted by the most fnaf ass crowd I’ve ever seen?

[writesailingdreams]

One Piece episode 1099

ahoy, spoiler thoughts below!

Kaku amused me. I vibe with his enthusiasm.

Seeing the numbered doors for the Seraphim was neat. I don't remember if that was in the manga or not, but it presents some idea of potential order of creation and/or access to whatever is needed to create Seraphim.

I was weirdly curious about the workers on Egghead. Like, as far as I understand, those are just civilian scientists and researchers. So, (1) I'm interested in what those people do on Egghead, and (2) fascinated with how initially there was a sense of "kick his ass, Atlas" when, technically, those are top government agents! After, Lucci had struck Atlas, someone did question why a government agent was attacking, but up to that point -- it seemed the sentiment "you don't mess with us." Even if you're from the government! What kind of scientists and researchers are these!

On that note, the attack on Atlas was more upsetting here than in the manga to me. It seemed...more vicious? I don't know if it was the sparks and such, but it seemed a little more horrible.

And on that note, I found the mechanical/robotic nature of Atlas really interesting. Lucci calls her a clone, but it doesn't seem like a lot of the Vegapunks are entirely flesh and blood. Of course, clone, in the context of One Piece, may have different meaning. It's that bloodline element, I think, that sounds like DNA and can be copied and manipulated. Unless I'm mixing up the bloodline element and the Germa science. Hmmm, need to refresh up on One Piece science.

I feel like I had one or two other thoughts, but I can't think of them right now.

Maybe something like how, it would be weird to be watching One Piece now without background info, and yet it provides background info. Though some of it is refresher info, too.

Also, surprisingly very little actually happened this episode.

Oh! I did think the evacuation of the CP0 and co. was clearer here than in the manga. But again, I'm not sure if that's just because I don't remember the event clearly now or if it actually was clearer.

Okay. I think that's all.

[detectivemiku]

never gonna forget this moment from episode 1099. that's referencing something from episode 304!! a full TWENTY-ONE YEARS apart and they're acting like it happened LAST WEEK. "the other day" babes that's two DECADES ago

[bitchesgetriches]

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[ataliagold]

and the moonlight baby shows you what's real

Title from Love Like Ghosts by Lord Huron. This is based off my own experiences with sleep paralysis, so yet again I'm projecting onto Steve :)

Pairing: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson

Rating: T

W/C: 1099

C/W: Sleep paralysis

Tags: post-vecna, established steddie, steve has sleep paralysis, eddie looks after him, steve needs a hug - he gets one

Summary: In the aftermath of Vecna, Steve's left with a variety of issues, including frequent episodes of sleep paralysis. Luckily, he doesn't have to suffer through them alone.

___

Steve’s eyes snap open. They lock on the figure at the end of his bed looming over it, shadowy and shapeless and huge.

His heart slams in his chest. Trying to suck in a lungful of air he finds he can’t, can barely force his chest to expand, his breath coming in tiny, rapid pants instead. There’s ringing in his ears, strange whispers competing for his attention around the room, and the figure is leaning over the mattress now, getting closer and he’s completely fucking stuck.

Frozen in place, Steve’s eyes dart left to where Eddie should be. He can make him out in the light of the moon pouring through the window, sleeping peacefully, unaware of the state Steve is trapped in.

Eddie knows about this. About the sleep paralysis. It had been plaguing Steve for a while now, but he’d been too embarrassed to say anything until Eddie had witnessed it firsthand one night and been convinced Vecna was somehow back, that he was coming for Steve just as he’d come for Chrissy…and Steve had been forced to explain. That this wasn’t anything supernatural, this was just…another of his many issues.

It was added to the list alongside his head trauma, his insomnia, his deteriorated hearing.

Steve had learnt to recognize it now, to realize when it was happening to him instead of thinking it was some strange nightmare every time, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t still terrifying as hell in the moment.

And Eddie had helped him through several episodes of this by now, but he can’t help if Steve’s unable to wake him up and he can’t move…

His heart rate climbs rapidly. The shadow figure still looms, growing taller and taller and soon it’ll be touching him.

Suddenly, Steve feels himself being tugged towards the foot of the bed.

Logically, he knows he’s not moving - knows he’s still lying flat on his bed beside Eddie but it fucking feels like he’s being dragged toward that thing and fuck he needs Eddie to wake up…

He tries to make a sound. Tries to say Eddie’s name, tries to yell, anything.

A small whimper manages to claw its way from his throat.

It’s enough.

The mattress dips as Eddie rolls over, as he sits up and blinks down at Steve.

And Steve’s stuck in some dark place between asleep and awake, but he’s sure Eddie’s real, would know his boyfriend even if he were blind and deaf.

Realization crosses Eddie’s face, and he flicks on the bedside lamp.

“Stevie, sweetheart, you’re ok,” Eddie murmurs, shuffling closer to him but not touching yet. “This is sleep paralysis, whatever you’re seeing isn’t real. There’s nothing here but you and me, ok?”

But the shadow’s still there.

Steve’s told Eddie about the dark figure that haunts these episodes before, so Eddie knows what Steve’s scared of, but he still wants to tell him, tries to, only succeeding in making a small gurgling noise in the back of his throat.

“I’m here, Stevie. It’s…three twenty-three am. You’re in our bedroom, and this will pass in a few minutes, ok? Can you try move a finger?”

This was a tactic Dustin had suggested, once word of Steve’s…nighttime issues had spread. The kid had taken all sorts of books about sleep disorders out from the library, had researched until he’d found something actually useful. If Steve could force even a finger to move, then he’d eventually manage to move his hand, his arm, and at that point he could rip himself out of paralysis.

Steve focuses all his energy on the pinky of his left hand. His eyes shoot to the end of the bed again, where the shadow figure is bending down, where it’s about to fucking crawl onto the mattress…

“Hey, no, focus on me sweetheart,” Eddie slowly reaches for his hand, doesn’t squeeze it or move it, just lays it over Steve’s. Moonlight glows across his pale skin, and even in distress Steve thinks he’s fucking beautiful. “I promise it’s not real. Try and move your hand, yeah?”

Steve tries again. Manages a tiny twitch in his pinky.

Eddie grins. “There you go, try again.”

He does, curling the pinky towards his palm and back again.

“Now try and squeeze my hand,” Eddie encourages.

With his heart still pounding, Steve forces his frozen fingers to cooperate, clenching down on Eddie’s hand clumsily.

The shadow figure retreats across the bedroom, out the door. The ringing in his ears fades, and Steve manages to swallow, to take a gasping breath.

“You’re ok, I’ve got you, I’m here,” Eddie soothes him, reaching for him as Steve starts to move, as he curls inwards towards him, still trembling.

“Sorry,” Steve whines into his chest, as Eddie cradles him close.

“Shhhh, just breathe,” Eddie whispers, running a hand slowly up and down Steve’s back.

And Steve’s shaking even as his heart rate starts to slow, as he slumps into Eddie’s hold, as the adrenaline floods out of his system and leaves him strung-out and exhausted.

“Sorry I woke you,” Steve repeats, his voice hitching and stuttering, “I couldn’t…I didn’t know what to -”

“Hey,” Eddie interrupts, kissing the top of his head, “I’ve told you before, I want you to wake me up. Every time. I don’t want you going through that alone, ok?”

Steve nods slightly, hair brushing across Eddie’s collarbone with the movement.

“Did you see it again? The…shadow guy?” Eddie asks.

Steve nods again. “He was about to climb onto the bed.”

Eddie snorts, pulls Steve somehow closer to him. “Bit rude of him, fucker should probably ask before joining us in bed.”

Steve manages a tiny chuckle despite himself, rests his hand at Eddie’s waist, feels himself slowly settling against the comforting warmth of his boyfriend.

“Want me to read a bit while you go back to sleep?”

Steve nods, avoiding Eddie’s eye, still shy, still a stranger to accepting the help Eddie so readily offers him.

But Eddie only kisses him briefly, reaches for his book on the bedside table, and scans the page for where he’d left off.

Steve has no idea what the book is even about, but it doesn’t matter. It’s Eddie’s voice, calm and soothing and familiar washing over him that helps his breathing slow, that relaxes him back into a state where he can even consider going back to sleep again.

He lets his eyes droop. Feels the vibration of Eddie’s chest against his cheek, sinks further into the blankets, and allows sleep to take him again.

Eddie’s got him, after all.

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[amphibia-a-day]

Day 1099 of Amphibia Screenshots

Episode: Reunion

[demonio-fleurs]

promises broken, promises kept | (one piece) | 11k words read here <3

mature audience characters: Koala, Sabo relationships: Sabo/Koala (saboala) addtl tags: egghead island arc spoilers, slight spoilers for chapters 1083-1086/1095-1099 and episodes 1115-1119, angst with a happy ending, love confessions (&more tags on ao3) summary: For Koala, it's been a long month. Between the events of the Reverie, the disappearance of Lulusia and Sabo, Kuma running off, and Sabo's sudden return-- she's exhausted. But when she and Sabo finally get a moment alone, away from the other members of the Army, she can tell that there's something wrong with him, that he's hiding something and trying to distance himself from her.

And Koala refuses to let him.

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 5, 2025

Weak overcomes strong in sensory integration: shading warps the disparity field. Aubuchon, C., Kemp, J., Vishwanath, D., & Domini, F. (2024). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2033).

Functional networks of inhibitory neurons orchestrate synchrony in the hippocampus. Bocchio, M., Vorobyev, A., Sadeh, S., Brustlein, S., Dard, R., Reichinnek, S., … Cossart, R. (2024). PLOS Biology, 22(10), e3002837.

Time-dependent neural arbitration between cue associative and episodic fear memories. Cortese, A., Ohata, R., Alemany-González, M., Kitagawa, N., Imamizu, H., & Koizumi, A. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 8706.

Neural correlates of memory in a naturalistic spatiotemporal context. Dougherty, M. R., Chang, W., Rudoler, J. H., Katerman, B. S., Halpern, D. J., Bruska, J. P., … Kahana, M. J. (2024). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 50(9), 1404–1420.

Massive perturbation of sound representations by anesthesia in the auditory brainstem. Gosselin, E., Bagur, S., & Bathellier, B. (2024). Science Advances, 10(42).

Between-area communication through the lens of within-area neuronal dynamics. Gozel, O., & Doiron, B. (2024). Science Advances, 10(42).

Brainstem inhibitory neurons enhance behavioral feature selectivity by sharpening the tuning of excitatory neurons. He, Y., Chou, X., Lavoie, A., Liu, J., Russo, M., & Liu, B. (2024). Current Biology, 34(20), 4623-4638.e8.

Human motor learning dynamics in high-dimensional tasks. Kamboj, A., Ranganathan, R., Tan, X., & Srivastava, V. (2024). PLOS Computational Biology, 20(10), e1012455.

Distinct functions for beta and alpha bursts in gating of human working memory. Liljefors, J., Almeida, R., Rane, G., Lundström, J. N., Herman, P., & Lundqvist, M. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 8950.

Regularizing hyperparameters of interacting neural signals in the mouse cortex reflect states of arousal. Lyamzin, D. R., Alamia, A., Abdolrahmani, M., Aoki, R., & Benucci, A. (2024). PLOS Computational Biology, 20(10), e1012478.

Differential role of NMDA receptors in hippocampal‐dependent spatial memory and plasticity in juvenile male and female rats. Narattil, N. R., & Maroun, M. (2024). Hippocampus, 34(11), 564–574.

Dynamic patterns of functional connectivity in the human brain underlie individual memory formation. Phan, A. T., Xie, W., Chapeton, J. I., Inati, S. K., & Zaghloul, K. A. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 8969.

Computational processes of simultaneous learning of stochasticity and volatility in humans. Piray, P., & Daw, N. D. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 9073.

Ordinal information, but not metric information, matters in binding feature with depth location in three-dimensional contexts. Qian, J., Zheng, T., & Li, B. (2024). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50(11), 1083–1099.

Hippocampal storage and recall of neocortical “What”–“Where” representations. Rolls, E. T., Zhang, C., & Feng, J. (2024). Hippocampus, 34(11), 608–624.

Roles and interplay of reinforcement-based and error-based processes during reaching and gait in neurotypical adults and individuals with Parkinson’s disease. Roth, A. M., Buggeln, J. H., Hoh, J. E., Wood, J. M., Sullivan, S. R., Ngo, T. T., … Cashaback, J. G. A. (2024). PLOS Computational Biology, 20(10), e1012474.

Integration of rate and phase codes by hippocampal cell-assemblies supports flexible encoding of spatiotemporal context. Russo, E., Becker, N., Domanski, A. P. F., Howe, T., Freud, K., Durstewitz, D., & Jones, M. W. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 8880.

The one exception: The impact of statistical regularities on explicit sense of agency. Seubert, O., van der Wel, R., Reis, M., Pfister, R., & Schwarz, K. A. (2024). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50(11), 1067–1082.

The brain hierarchically represents the past and future during multistep anticipation. Tarder-Stoll, H., Baldassano, C., & Aly, M. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 9094.

Expectancy-related changes in firing of dopamine neurons depend on hippocampus. Zhang, Z., Takahashi, Y. K., Montesinos-Cartegena, M., Kahnt, T., Langdon, A. J., & Schoenbaum, G. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 8911.

[dcrewatch]

Detective Conan Rewatch: Episode 1115-1116

Episode 1115-1116: "Chihaya and Jugo's Matchmaking Party”

Before watching this episode, on a scale of 1-10, how much are you looking forward to seeing it again?

Yaaaaay a canon case. 7!

Favorite screencap:

Jugo: "I'm just here to get my family off my case about not being married and you're just here for the food?"

Favorite Moment:

Chihaya's deadpan response to everything this guy asks her about just being "motorbiking". She reaaaallly isn't interested, my dude. ^^;

Least Favorite Moment:

Good lord! Takagi, please stop putting yourself in danger!! (You're not even the main focus of this story!!)

What’s one thing you noticed/realized about this episode that you hadn’t before?

Oh hi Matsuda.

Callback to episode 1098-1099.

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate this episode?

Canon cases are in general better than AOs, but nothing really major to write home about on this one. Flows well. 7.

Celebrate it!

Here’s a (not exactly) summary haiku:

Death at a party

Jugo and Chihaya there

For different reasons

Next Episode: Episode 1117

Previous Episode: Episode 1114

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Dreaming

by That_Autistic_Writer So i love Batman the animated series and perchance to dream is one kf my favourite episodes so here is a random story I thought of. Summary: Bruce Wayne finds himself in another dreamworld curtesy of Jervis Tech. This time its with his sons, where he finds he's not Batman there are no vigilantes in the world and Gotham isn't a crime infested city and he's a fun Dad. Will be be able to escape or does he want to stay? Words: 1099, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M, Gen Characters: Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Selina Kyle, Jervis Tetch Relationships: Selina Kyle & Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Alfred Pennyworth & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Batfamily Members & Alfred Pennyworth Additional Tags: Bruce Wayne Tries to Be a Good Parent, Bruce Wayne is Not Batman, Episode: s01e30 Perchance to Dream (Batman: The Animated Series), Author Is Sleep Deprived, Domestic Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Family Fluff, Family Dynamics, Batfamily (DCU), Bruce is confused via https://ift.tt/L7zVgEH

[raamitsu]

⭐ JUJUTSU KAISEN CHAPTER 255 LEAKS TOMORROW AFTERNOON/EVENING (JST) ‼️

⭐ LAST EPISODE OF SOLO LEVELING (EPISODE 12) WILL BE AIRED ON MARCH 30TH JST.

⭐ ONE PIECE MANGA HAS BEGAN ITS THREE WEEKS BREAK AFTER THE RELEASE OF CHAPTER 1111 + WATCH EPISODE 1099 TEASER.

⭐ BLACK BUTLER: PUBLIC SCHOOL ARC (ANIME ADAPTATION) ON APRIL 13TH JST + WATCH THE TRAILER.

[arkiwii]

Random question, did Dorothy's Vision happen before or after Episode 8?

Dorothy's Vision, chronogically, takes place one month before Lone Trail, so in October 1099

Episode 8 takes place in 1097 if my memory serves right? so Dorothy's Vision takes place after!

[jarviskingston]

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