#episode 173

[cursed-princess-club]

syrah and prez both shit at naming things and being SOOO proud of it. god i love them

[anti-gruvia-blog]

Juvia is obsessed with an impossible and unrealistic idea of Gray being the perfect prince. She doesn't truly care about him as a person with his own thoughts and feelings, but instead sees him as an object to fit her fantasy.

[shoggoth-the-bitch]

Night Night

What a cute title for whatever nightmare this is about to be...

Gonna assume we're looking at the Dark here... Obviously...

Oh? Can Jon just not see anything here and it's freaking him- oh GOD! ALL the children are here?! No Jon, I really didn't think about the children but goddamn, I am NOW!

The Eye is fucked and I hate it more and more!

Who would the avatar of the Dark even be at this point? The Dark guy died ages ago.

UH? Who is this child? Why is he the avatar?!

OH! Right, that kid...

Is Jon gonna murder a kid? I guess not...

Honey, I don't know if there actually is any fixing any of this. I feel pretty sure the only real solution is to undo the apocalypse, if such a thing is even possible.

Oh, Martin wants to hear about this place. That sounds like a bad time, lets have it.

I know you can't help it Jon but that feel like such a weird opener... I'm also a bit of a little bitch about the dark, I straight up have a nightlight app on my phone because I see monsters in the dark sometimes, so I can kind of relate to this too. This series is making me realize that I'm a bit of a coward.

What a horrible monster! Makes me think of the irrational phobia of a snake or a rat coming out of the toilet. Like, I know it's something that probably won't ever happen but god does the thought upset me...

I've decided I don't like Callum Brodie. He's kind of a dick... I know he's a kid but screw him.

Jon, you're being a little passive aggressive here. I suppose you have a good reason to be upset but so does Martin at this point. This is a lose lose situation.

I have to go to bed but the next episode is call The Great Beast and I'm really worried we're gonna see Daisy there...

[guiltknight-gaming]

Diablo IV Episode 173: A Price To Pay

[roguecanoe]

Return of the witch twins!! (So many returns this season!!! Golly I'm so happy!! QvQ)

[a-mag-a-day]

I'm submitting this now because it's relevant here and on MAG 200 day people are going to be focused on other aspects and you guys are going to be so busy:

In the finale scene of MAG 200, Georgie mentions that "we still need batteries for the nightlights." Since Jonny made a point of reassuring us in that scene that the Admiral and Rosie are both okay in the aftermath, I am convinced that this was his (somewhat more oblique) way of doing the same for the Night Street kids. Which means that, in said aftermath, Georgie and Melanie and possibly Basira are looking after the kids, presumably until parents and guardians can be located! From cult leaders to babysitters... in their case, not actually that much of a leap.

Oh mannn what an idea 🥺🥺🥺

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

Confession #173

"I hate "Cogenitor" for making Trip Tucker out to be the bad guy when he was the only main character in that episode who wasn't acting like a sexist douchebag."

[trashmammal-7]

I've so far only gotten to season 3 of tng, but the higher powers (tumblr and my dad) keep exposing me to ds9, so I went on the imdb page for ds9 to check out actors and stuff, and let me tell you my heart sank when I found out that Garak is only in 37 episodes.

[numahachi]

[whumpees]

Damn that was smooth

[anti-gruvia-blog]

Juvia's eyes are often depicted as having an unsettling and creepy appearance. This is likely an intentional design choice to convey her obsessive and intense personality. The eerie and unnatural quality of her eyes is meant to reflect her possessive and unhinged nature, making her appear otherworldly and unstable.

Juvia's eyes are often described as being one of the most unattractive features of her appearance.

They are drawn in a way that makes them appear large, round and unnaturally glossy, with dilated pupils that seem to stare into the soul of her intended target.

[nednickerson]

remember that episode of bones where they’re all talking about their weight and angela is embarrassed she ways 135 lbs as if she isn’t 5′8 and perfectly healthy and still below the us average... men truly think that any woman who weighs more than 120 lbs is fat regardless of how tall she is

[the-cat-sorcerer]

How could I forget scp-173?

Ah yes my favourite genre of creature: they only move once you look away

[livixbobbiex]

The use of the twilight aesthetic in Ace Attorney

This somehow started with me thinking about Miles and Phoenix being THE star crossed lovers, but now here we are with a whole essay (with actual citations. You're welcome.). TLDR: Miles and Phoenix pined so hard for each other that their spirits have broken through the veil of space and time. One of my favourite additions to the Ace Attorney 'lore' made by the anime comes in Season 2, Episode 6. The episode is Miles Edgeworth centric, showing how he first 'became a Von Karma' (in a sense), and Phoenix's attempts to contact him when they were both in middle school. The ending of the episode in particular has always stuck out to me.

Here we have Miles thinking about Phoenix, who had 'helped him' earlier by delivering a message to him through a radio show song dedication. The song ultimately gave Miles the evidence he needed to win an argument with a woman at the mall (and saved a dog in the process). As we can see, the scene is set at dusk, or twilight.

Although this is also a really beautiful image, 'twilight' is an incredibly profound and intentional choice.

Now, I will spare you an entire ramble about wabi-sabi as a Japanese aesthetic (you can use here as a starting point though). Basically all you need to know is that it is arguably the most important cultural aesthetic, and means something like the beauty of transience and imperfection.

Twilight, or tasokare (誰��彼), can be seen through these transient aesthetics. It's something you see a lot in traditional waka poetry, but permeates today through literature and cinema.

"About dusk, we can say that the main feeling is that of the colour of darkness and night. However, twilight is not merely the colour of darkness nor the colour night. That said it is not only the colour of day, nor the colour of light…The world that exists in the instant where it turns from day into night, the boundary of the instant where it enters darkness from light, isn’t there that the twilight world is? …Entering darkness from light, night from day, during that instant there is a world with a peculiar essence and subtle colours, which is what I think is the twilight world."

Izumi Kyouka, 1996. Tasogare no Aji. In Izumi Kyouka, ed. Tomomi Matsumura, 243-44. Tokyo: Center for the Japanese books.

Basically, twilight is all about that transient moment where boundaries drop. Relatedly, there's a supernatural association with it, like the crossing of a veil where the restrictions of 'space' and 'time' can be lifted. Most famously, in terms of modern example of this, take the scene in Your Name.

Admittedly, Your Name is where I was able to find the most analysis. To be fair, it really is a beautiful scene.

In classical Japanese tasokare does not simply indicate the dusk as an in-between period transitioning from day to night, but also a hybrid moment in which visible entities become invisible and hidden presences momentarily reveal themselves. The anxiety of the encounters that take place during this liminal time is emphasised by the expression of surprise - "who is that!" (dare da, are ha 誰だ、あれは) - which constitutes the origin of this term. Therefore, in kimi no na ha, the transfers between the human spirits take place at night during the oneiric activities of the protagonists, but the possibility of a real encounter is limited to the ephemeral time of dusk.

Andrea Castiglioni, 2019. From Your Name to Shin-Gojira. In Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan: The Invisible Empire, ed. Fabio Rambelli, 173.

"Tasokare” means “Who’s in the gloom,” and it’s where the word “gloaming” comes from. You know what “the gloaming” is, right? It’s twilight, when it’s neither day nor night. When the world blurs and you might encounter something not quite human.

Your Name, 2016.

Now, I don't believe you can call this a trope that's exclusively romantic. Though, clearly, it lends itself to that. It certainly conjures the feeling of profound pining, with just a moment of relief (after all, stories of tragic love stories between manifestations of the day and night are common across the entire planet).

Anyway, I hope this explains why, in the Ace Attorney anime, Phoenix turns around and stares, bewildered, as if he actually heard Miles call out to him despite their physical distance.

Funnily enough, they're even under the polaris star, which is also a theme in Your Name. But anyway, yes indeed I think this scene can be taken as Miles and Phoenix pining so hard for each other that their spirits have broken through the veil of space and time.

It's also just really beautiful symbolism, even if it's not 'canon' to the games. Considering the anime also gave them the whole 'gold chains of fate' aesthetic.