#every spoiler is so nonsensical that it literally means nothing to me

[corviiids]

THANKS @kimdokjafan you are so kind and generous. ok im cashing in the first of three blank checks to talk about faith trust and pixie dust (most recent chatfic) because the last two directors commentaries were too serious so let's do a silly one.

some p5r spoilers, and this is mostly about sumire, and it's long again. do i need to keep disclaiming that these are long? you should know me by now.

i had this written for a while before i started formatting it because i wasn't really sure if i should post it? i feel like silly chatfic is something people go to for predominantly lighthearted nonsense so i was like, maybe there's too much plot and dramatic misunderstanding and i should just keep this one for myself. but then i was like well nothing matters and maybe someone will have fun with it. it's kind of terrible how much fully or mostly completed fic there is my docs that just doesn't see the light of day lol. write for yourself etc but i like sharing! too bad it comes with the mortifying ordeal etc. anyway that was a tangent

potato counter is a neopets game. there's no deep lore i just like neopets. i guess in this universe ryuji doesn't play neopets? or maybe he's just never played potato counter specifically. i also have a different fic where ryuji DOES play neopets. it's about neopets and ryuji and goro talking on neopets.

i think this might literally be the first time ive written sumi in a fic because i haven't actually written that much fic for royal, like, now that im looking, literally almost none? and none that had a group dynamic. so it was kind of fun to find her voice for the first time in a silly groupchat like this. i was worried people would find her exclamation marks annoying but i personally thought it was endearing so i added it in there.

every time i do a gag where a character corrects their own typo i have to code more stupid little bubbles to make it happen but i think it's worth it. all the effort that goes into making tgis look as much like a real chat as possible

this obviously doesnt take place in the canon p5/r universe, but im imagining sort of a postcanon sumi personality where she's more comfortable being herself and isn't borrowing kasumi's brand of confidence, but she's visibly a really anxious person without that kasumi veneer. i also think in this universe sumire is a fairly recent addition to the friend group, and while everyone likes her a lot and she really likes them, i kind of wanted to emphasise that feeling of being in a friend group where everyone's established and you're sort of a plus-one? you don't really fit yet. part of that is her being new, part of it is her anxiety, part of it is just the kind of person sumi is where she's so polite and self-conscious she ends up taking herself out of things with her own good intentions. stuff like her interrupting the flow of an existing conversation by greeting everyone instead of jumping straight in because she doesn't feel comfortable inserting herself, which means everyone else stops to greet her even though that doesn't normally happen in a friend group, or making a point of thanking everyone for being invited to events while the others take it as a given.

idk i love that she feels a bit out of place with the phantom thieves in p5r. and part of that is a natural consequence of being a new addition in royal who can't be naturally integrated with an existing dynamic but i honestly feel like the writing team realised that and acknowledged it, and really leaned into it, and that made it work incredibly well for me. like, it's part of her character that she's sort of an outsider. it's not like p4g's incredibly clumsy integration of marie and subsequent attempt to shove her down everyone's throat as the canon love interest in p4ga (knife). sumi has that outsider vibe on purpose and it makes me really like her dynamic with the thieves as an individual

goro also feels slightly out of place in these chats, but his conversational style blends more naturally with the other thieves at this point and he even uses their codenames sometimes. i keep saying my chatfic series isn't a real Series because the lore keeps changing, but if we accept that they're all kind of following a General Continuity, assume this takes place some time after the last fic in which ren added goro to the groupchat and they made an effort to integrate him into their friend group. he's kind of there now and has settled into being the weird boyfriend. that's his role.

every time goro says something like "ren and i" assume it's the text equivalent of him talking to the group with his arm around ren's waist.

ok i got really fond of this silly running joke where sumi brings up the weather when she's feeling uncomfortable. she's so polite. i like this thread because setting it up meant i got to tie it off like this:

this just made me happy lol i liked writing this. i tried to use it to demonstrate that despite goro's abrasiveness he obviously knows sumire pretty well, he's attuned to her quirks and knows how to tell when she's having a bad time with her anxiety, so he uses her little weather habit to ground her.

i honestly dont think goro and sumire could be considered close in p5r and as much as i like the "royal trio" in canon they're not really... like... friends? with each other? they're both attached to ren, so it' more a V shape than anything else. but that said, i really LIKE goro and sumi's canon dynamic. he takes a really grouchy but politely attentive supervisory role to her during their few forays into the palace as a trio where he doesn't really know her well but clearly identifies her as a harmless little tryhard who needs some guidance and steps into that role grudgingly, and she immediately looks up to him despite being very wrong footed by his ruthlessness, which i find incredibly charming. i think given time they could be good friends, they just didn't get much chance to know each other very well in canon. so i tried to kinda do that here.

once goro stops being evil and joins the group they all kind of tiredly accept that his role is to occasionally push a cup off a bench while smirking and refuse to clean it up. emotionally, i mean.

wait i need to backtrack chronologically to talk about akeshu.

in this scene they're in the same room lol talking and snickering while typing. im trying to get at that vibe of the annoying couple who is flirting with each other, via you. you know? like ostensibly they're talking to you (sumire) but everything they say to you is part of their stupid game. sumi is incidental to goro and ren teasing each other about flirting with someone else, goro is reporting everything ren says because his boyfriend is so eye-rollingly foolish in a cute way. they're very tickled by how amusing and charming they are. gross. disgusting. sumire im so sorry for putting you through this

anyway here are too many of my favourite jokes from the fic

[everythingmp3]

spoilers for the new yj episode!! I am being kind of a hater bc I havent really enjoyed the last two episodes, so feel free to just ignore this if you liked the new ep lol

guys... when is it gonna get better 😭 like what the actual fuck is this adult timeline coming to, a bunch of Walter and Lotties father?? really? this whole detective nonsense what on earth are they doing... I cant take it.

also do NOT get me started on their reaction to Lotties death. as if they would just fucking shrug that off, as if Van would be able to make a little "did Misty just leave her own house?" joke while HD pictures of Lotties corpse are on the coffee table in front of her.. the writers looove to say that the adult timeline is all about trauma and grief but then when someone actually dies, a close friend, a fellow survivor, LOTTIE, they make the adult characters move on from that as if nothing happened? its absurd, where is the tragedy, where are the tears, wheres the horror, the pain, they lost Lottie and what did they do? say "aw thats sucks :(" and then go about their day? huh???

also love that they gave us quite literally one second between Van and Simone and then later on Van just seemed fine and YET AGAIN just passively went along with what Tai suggested like what the fuck is this?? she saw Tais wife and kid and you mean to tell me she just shrugged that off? Van has no personal life of her own anymore, she shes living with Tai and letting her decide every single fucking thing, she has no say in anything they do, and shes just... chilling? you mean to tell me shes not hurt in her pride, that she never has moments of anger and frustration where her and Tai fight? never? like what? they made Van an empty fucking vessel this season, shes nothing, shes just Tais little wifey who hardly ever argues or challenges her, like I am starting to hate adult taivan it’s absurd, season 2 taivan come back to me immediately please…

also the teens just need more, every week I feel like I missed sth when the episode is done like that’s it?? cut some of Walter’s shit I’ve had it like actually

also pretty unrealistic to me that none of the girls would fight Shauna and Melissa after just doing that to Ben, especially since his screams would keep them from sleeping, like as ifff they’d just let them go fuck after that?😭

also didn’t think that Misty would be a highlight for me but Samantha and Christina are really doing whatever they can to make the most of their scenes and I do think Mistys character development in both timelines is one of the few positives in the latest episodes, I enjoy seeing both of them but adult Misty deserves more than this comedic relief nonsense! yeah idk I’m kinda fond of teen Misty rn, would love to see her and Nat talking some more

teen taivan fucking against a tree probably best moment of the whole episode to me 🤞🏻 like finallyyy some lesbian sex and not just implied stuff thank god and tbh I think we should see more women jerking each other off on screen (also maybe I manifested that scene last year when I wrote an adult taivan fic where they fuck against a tree and Van suddenly gets surprisingly dominant with it 😭 like okayy I was locked in)

also Lottie only getting a wilderness faith arc and grouping her together with Travis just to give them both something to do and Nat getting little no scenes outside of the group setting... they deserve waaay more

anyway yeah ep4 and 5 were not for me, a few cool moments here and there but other than that I am just not loving season 3 rn which is sad like damn I wish I did I really do! please let the rest be better like please

anyway lmk if you have any pressing thoughts!

[babiebom]

Sdv Bachelor/ettes as Doctor Who Companions

A/N: because the specials are coming out soon(the first episode of the three part special is coming out tomorrow I’m so excited I missed ten and Donna) I wanted to combine my two prominent special interests. Keep in mind gender has nothing to do with this, and it’ll be nuwho focused because I have never watched classic who except for some compilations that were chaotic.

Tw:maybe some cursing? Some spoilers but like the show and episodes have been out for so long idk what to tell you

Wc: idk it’s headcanons. I wanna make it at least 3 or 4 or each. So that times all 12???

Sdv Masterlist

Sebastian

Nardole

I KNOW I KNOW

Starting off chaotically

It was SUPER HARD to figure out who he fits

Like genuinely so hard it took me SO LONG

But I think he does fit Nardole in the way that both of them are loyal to their friends and very no nonsense when it comes to their responsibilities

Like I know that Seb seems antisocial in the game but like it’s mostly when he needs to get work done (which is always) which seems to me more like he needs to get his shit done in order to do anything else his responsibilities come first

Nardole is the same in that yes he loves his friends but shit needs to get done and that’s what’s important first, no distractions, no going off the beaten path, just do what needs to be done

Also Nardole seems passive he isn’t very submissive actually. Like yeah he gets scared but like Nardole is good at taking charge when he needs to

Sebastian is the same he seems quiet and submissive when in actuality he just doesn’t take charge unless he has to

Also Nardole isn’t anything more than a platonic relationship and I think that despite how attractive Sebastian is, he would probably prefer things to stay on the platonic side of things rather than fuck everything up with romance

Also would think it would be cool to be a humanoid cyborg thing

Sam

Bill Potts

I feel like Bill was a funny companion and her personality fits Sam

I mean they both seem chill and excitable

And both are very in tune to their emotions and able to understand what other people are feeling

I also think that Sam would be a more platonic companion rather than romantic.

Also I do think in serious times that Sam could be a little intimidating.

Both are extremely wrong and loving towards those they view as friends

And I feel like both are easy to get along with.

Also would be both comic relief and exposition

Also Bill is very inquisitive and curious and very smart

And I feel like that describes Sam somewhat with the curiosity

I feel like he would ask so many questions that everyone around him would be annoyed even though he’s doing it to gain an understanding of what is happening around him.

Also would gain crushes like Bill did ngl

Shane

Donna Noble

NOW LISTEN

Both of these people have very horrible self esteem issues

Like both feel a negative way about themselves

Think they’re unimportant and stupid that they’re just some person that exists and that they aren’t special at all

I think the main difference between them is that Donna carries herself differently

She will scream at the world to get it to listen to her, Shane just accepts that no one cares to listen to him and it makes him spiral more

Like Donna speaks about herself in a very sad way through her episodes

And so does Shane. Most of his conversations are just insulting to him and downplaying how much he means to anyone in general

Donna saved the doctors life by being there

And in a way Shane saved Jas’ life by being alive because he is her guardian even though she stays with Marnie in the game

He is her literal guardian

Without him who k owns where she would’ve ended up?

Also both are funny

I think Shane would be an extremely funny companion

Harvey

Graham O’Brian

Silly goofy old man

Is absolutely confused

Like I know Harvey is a doctor and all

But dude would be absolutely lost in every situation if it isn’t medical related.

I wanted to cast him as Martha but I don’t think he fits her very well

Like the only thing he has in common with her is the doctor thing

Like is he capable of a lot?

Yes

Can he save people?

Yes

But I do not think he could go through the year that never was like Martha did

This is why I think he’s similar to Graham

The old man is very protecting and loving and the main point is even though he’s terrified I don’t think Graham ever refuses to try to save anyone

And even if he did it was in a very sad way like he thought there is no way to save them.

I think Harvey would be similar

Terrified but ready to help

Elliott

Jack Harkness

Tell me I’m wrong bc I’m not

You can argue with a wall

I swear Elliott fits this role too well

Not that he’s a whore(affectionate) like Jack

But that he would use his looks and verbal prowess to seduce people for absolutely no reason

Literally him saying hi is him flirting

Would’ve flirted with EVERY alien he came across I know he would

Would recite a poem to them about how beautiful they are

Cause them to fall in love

Them be like heheh I’m cool right? I’m so sexy :)

Also despite all of that Jack is a very caring and protective character in my opinion

Like yeah he jokes a lot and is a very unserious person

But he is good hearted and tries hard to help

Like who do you know that is scared of death that would use the ability to come back just to help save other people

Especially if they’re unsure if that ability will last forever or not

Like I think Elliott would be similar

Alex

Ryan Sinclair

I think there is something about guys specifically that lose their mothers that act similarly

Like they both seem closed off to people and use either humor or being standoffish to keep from actually showing their feelings

And when they feel their feelings it’s in an angry and unfair type of way

Also Ryan loved his grandmother more than anything having being raised by her(I think?)

And Alex has been being raised by his grandparents and I do like to think that he is a grandma’s boy even though he does love his grandfather as well

I also think he would be the one to ask how people are doing on the side.

Like without anyone noticing he would be like “hey you okay?”

Is actually super sweet when he works through his insecurities and becomes one of the best companions due to his compassion grounding the doctor

Like is super sweet during the later half of his season or maybe the second season he’s in.

Maru

Yasmin Khan

I think that Maru fits Yaz well

It took me a minute to decide but when I went back to read the wiki I realized that they are very similar

Both are very ambitious and want to be the best in their fields

And both love to learn and are naturally curious

Both are very focused on their jobs and in Maru’s case she’s very focused on her work in science

Maru doesn’t really have friends or relationships thanks to (Demetrius) her focusing on her work and Yaz is the same, never bringing friends home or anything because she’s focused on growing and becoming head of the police force.

I also think Maru would be very in love with traveling with the doctor and the doctor themself

Maru already likes robotics and science in general, traveling throughout time and space would be perfect for her

She would fall in love with the doctor and want to travel forever

I also think that due to her having feelings she would grow in confidence and in protectiveness

Would shove the Master to the ground in anger because wtf do you think you’re doing?

After returning home would probably be depressed and lost without the person she thought she would be with forever

Abigail

Amy Pond no doubt about it

I think they both have the same level of chaos and love of adventure

Like Amy is a very first girl that is sort of sensitive and hides it behind her confident and toughness

I can see Abigail being similar

All they want is to have adventure and not be forced into some role they are supposed to play

I can see Abigail being the girl who waited

Out of the characters she would be the one to survive so long in a foreign place and waiting the entire time

Only to have rescue come when she finally lost hope so she��s pissed off at them and hurt but not really wanting to show it because showing it is weakness.

Like Amy I think she would have a crush on the doctor for like a second because who wouldn’t when being offered the chance to explore the universe by the most mysterious person you’ve ever met

But that crush would go away quickly and would be boiled down to a platonic relationship.

Leah

Martha Jones

Now listen

She and Martha are similar personality wise instead of like oh they both have the same career or something

Like I feel like out of all the bachelor(ettes) that she would be the one to survive the year that never was

Like I think she is a lot stronger than people think she is

And she would be the one I can see having a crush on the doctor but not letting it get in the way of doing what she needs to do

Also would leave a toxic situation quite easily

And by easily I mean it would take a lot of strength but she does it beautifully

She did it before when leaving her ex to go to Pelican Town and she would be strong enough to leave the doctor.

Both are very headstrong and firm in their beliefs

And I do think Leah has a temper, she doesn’t prefer to use violence but will if she has to.

Being with the doctor only makes her stronger and when she leaves she uses her knowledge to help

Penny

Rose Tyler

Not just because they both were raised only by their moms

I think that Penny has the Rose quality about her when it comes to romance. Like I could easily see her being the love interest for the Doctor, and being the one they get torn from in the end.

And not to be a hater but I can totally see myself getting annoyed at her the more the romance grows

Because Ten and Rose started to become annoying when the romance became sort of the focus (yes I am a nine and rose enjoyer)

Like them Penny and her doctor would get so “obsessed” for each other that they start to not see the importance and impact of what they’re doing.

Like yes traveling through space and time is a silly goofy thing but at the same time you’re messing with peoples lives. Like even if you’re saving them, you’re still messing with them and it needs to be taken seriously instead of thought of as dates and “fun”

But on the cuter side I can see her being the type of person to slowly and quietly make her way into someone’s heart and make them remember that life is worth living.

Emily

River Song

She has that air of weirdness about her like River does

Like isn’t around all the time

And out of everyone I think Emily would be the one to meet the doctor out of order.

Like tell me I’m wrong

Out of everyone her timeline would be the one that’s backwards

And while I don’t think Emily has the violent streak in her I do think she would be part time lord like River is

Also I think she could be the one to get married

Both are strong and smart and knows what they know and don’t need anyone to help or tell them different because it’s not going to change their minds at all

Like yes she knows what she’s doing is unconventional but it’s what she’s doing and she’s almost 100 percent sure that it’s going to work so back off

Very confident

Just very amazing women

Haley

Clara Oswald

Because I think Clara and her are similar

Both are fiery and stubborn

Would be the one the doctor gains feelings for after somewhat getting over Rose

Like she’s pretty and strong and doesn’t take any shit

Also would be the one to somewhat become like the doctor but still not act like they’re a god

Also would be funny in certain circumstances like if she needed to act like the doctor who read the fuck out of them

Would be the one to call people out and do what needs to be done

I can also see her being extremely hurt if something happens to someone she loves and she becomes an absolute bitch while she’s hurt

Realizes she’s in the wrong but like she’s HURT

Would also steal the Tardis and go on her own adventures

Added headcanon that she would take pictures of every place they visit

[mahou-furbies]

Closing thoughts on Samurai Flamenco

(spoilers)

(like big ones, this is the kind of show that throws one big revelation after another at you)

Okay this was a ride. The story is about cinnamon roll dumbass Hazama, who dresses up in a superhero jumpsuit to fight for justice as Samurai Flamenco and faces enemies like littering and random thugs, and the policeman Gotou who somewhat reluctantly befriends him and helps him. Before long Samurai Flamenco attracts the attention of tabloids, and his fame increases. Then we have the reason why this anime is on this blog in the first place, that is the leader of an idol trio, Mari, who wants in on the fighting action and starts moonlighting as a magical girl themed "hero", though she doesn't care about justice and is in it only for the attention and getting to blow off steam by using excessive violence on her targets.

We spend quite a while on issues like stolen umbrellas and running away from overly curious press before we get the big twist, that actual superpowered monster of the week type enemies start showing up. Samurai Flamenco eventually manages to beat their group, but then we learn that there is actually an even bigger and eviler bad guy organisation behind them, and also on the human side there is a secret super sentai organisation, and Hazama is recruited to be the leader of the sentai team Flamengers.

Once the Flamengers beat the new bad guy group, it is revealed that everything was orchestrated by the prime minister, who frames the Flamengers for the monster attacks for his own political gain. Once he has been dealt with, Samurai Flamenco has to go to space, because there was even bigger hyperintelligent alien bad guy organisation behind the previous one. When that too is defeated, Hazama meets the universe's will, who explains that due to his love of superheroes Hazama is actually creating the bad guys through some cosmic nonsense, and that new enemies can be created to oppose him if he so chooses. Instead he opts for a world where he doesn't need to be a hero and is sent back to the earth, and all is well. Wait, why are there still four episodes left? Where can we go from here?

If nothing else this show definitely committed to its twists. The pacing for the early season was pretty slow, but once it got the ball rolling there was something new and wacky in every episode and things just kept escalating. But I gotta say getting through everything was quite a slog for me, and especially the fact that I'm really not a tokusatsu/super sentai fan I just couldn't get into it. And it's not even that different from stuff like Precure, but the aesthetic is just all wrong, I want hearts and cute frills! But if you're a toku fan then this is definitely worth checking out because it leans heavily on the "what if this was real?" aspect and analysing the meaning of heroism and such.

However even putting the toku stuff aside I had trouble finding the right angle to approach the show, like at first it seems like it wants to have a more grounded setting, but also expects the audience to take in some major logical leaps that are more acceptable in more "tropey" stories. Like for example the most egregious example of this I can remember is when in one episode Mari got seriously beat up both physically and mentally in a really dramatic scene, and at the same time the boys are dealing with a mass destruction weapon whose countdown timer is about to end. So we get a scene where a broken and tattered Mari has made it to her concert and does her best to sing a sad song through her crying, which was played over the bomb disposal operation. And through the whole thing I was all like, a) she should not have had the time to physically move from the villain base to the concert, we even have a actual countdown telling that not much time passed, and b) how the hell did literally nobody prevent her from going onstage, like not a single adult said "this 18-year-old is clearly injured and having a breakdown, maybe we should stop her"?

Then there were the numerous twists and bad guys behind bad guys, which I assume was done in a self aware way as a parody of the super sentai genre because their pacing was so fast. But I dunno, to me a lot of it felt just bad writing even if you're doing it ironically. The other four Flamengers also felt underdeveloped, especially for a show that has as many as 22 episodes. Not that I particularly cared for any of the characters though, like I guess Hazama was likable enough for his role but these kind of cute-and-innocent anime boys generally don't belong among my favourites.

As for Mari, even though I'm always inclined to be favourable towards anything resembling magical girls, she was quite difficult to deal with. In general I like it when characters have negative qualities, but with her we went way too far because she is just so selfish and aggressive for most of her screen time. And even though she does get her comeuppance it wasn't enough to redeem her in my eyes. Also her "mahou" outfit is extremely meh.

Then about the final four episodes, they introduce an edgelord teenager who starts tormenting Hazama and the people around him in order to force Samurai Flamenco to return, and the stuff with him didn't work for me either but for a different reason. That is, going from the silly and over the top toku antics to Hazama having to deal with his friends being poisoned or isekai'd by truck-kun by an anonymous stalker moved towards the type of thriller genre that I can't handle very well. Also Gotou was revealed to have some serious mental issues, not sure how to feel about that. But I got to say that in the last episode the show manages to throw in something that topped even the stuff with the universe's will as far as I'm concerned, but I shan't spoil that, you'll have to look it up somewhere yourself (or watch the show I guess).

Ultimately while getting through this was pretty arduous for me, I still have to have some appreciation of how dedicated the show was for its vision and I'm glad works like it can exists. And the creators clearly have a lot of love to the Toku shows, which is also endearing to me. Still Tiger & Bunny will remain my early 2010s buddy cop superhero anime of choice.

[ariianaz]

delivered to @aridebxse, just because ;

to (spoiler alert -- it's still true !) my favorite ari,

distance has a way of making my mind feel like an absolute mess, like we're only floating farther apart with each day that we can't physically be together. you think you're miss independent™️ until a pretty woman with the brains to match walks into your laugh; turns out, in that instance, you're royally fucked. every moment that we aren't together, i wish nothing more than that we were. when my mind starts trying to pull me to a less-than-ideal alternate universe, i slip instead into the familiar yet slightly distant scene. you might recognize it, if you closed your eyes and willed yourself there too. a chauffeured car ride, a really nervous blonde and her sweaty hands...

it's hard to believe how long ago -- and yet, how it feels like we turned that corner yesterday -- it all was. or is. and before i knew it, you were mine. and i yours. i laugh saying it (that kind of nervous giggle i do when it's, like, an almost snort -- you know the one), but it's not hyperbolic that nothing else has carried the same weight since then. not since you.

for literally no other reason than the fact that you're dating me (still can't believe this is my life sometimes, btw) and i haven't really spoiled you with a spontaneous surprise yet -- here's one hundred sixty-eight roses, one for each day we've been together. if there were one for every day i wanted you, i'd have to collect far more to account for every day since the second our eyes met.

you restore my faith in love and light, you remind me that the world is soft and we are softer, and i'm so lucky to not only be in a world that you exist in but to be a small fraction of the extraordinary experience that is the world of ariana debose.

love you forever, mean it. ♡

-- your ari.

p.s. --- i know we put a 'pause' on the house/apartment hunting nonsense for reasons, but long distance sucks. requesting we launch a search for an ari squared home base, stat.

[scrapyardboyfriends]

Watched the rest of the absurdity of a hostage story with Laurel and Collin...

Still...no words. 

Like I could see that having been somewhat interesting if Marshall was like...still around? And this was how he finally got truly free of his father and that really made him start thriving or something as a character that was going to stay on the show. And maybe if Marshall had some part in the rescue attempt and got to help turn his father over to the police. 

But as it stands...there’s just absolutely zero pay off for anything that happened in the last two episodes. I mean truly...what was supposed to be the point here other than giving them a headline or two in the soap mags?? 

It’s not even like Laurel not going to India originally was based on some fight she and Jai were having and him rescuing her was bringing them closer together again. Or even if Jai and Suni had really had more of a falling out before he left and them working together to find Laurel had brought them closer. 

Like literally none of that. 

It wasn’t even particularly satisfying to watch Colin finally get what was coming to him because I feel like him melting down in front of a reporter at the bus shelter reveal did that. Him losing his job and having nothing, that was good enough and not a convoluted mess. 

Also the fact that Laurel didn’t just get up and fucking run when he sat her down on the bench was kind of ridiculous. As we learned with Aaron’s kidnapping skills, you have to tie their legs together so they can’t run...unless you’re Laurel. So silly. 

And if all of that wasn’t bad enough, all of this hostage/kidnap nonsense totally undercut any significance to Rishi’s already off screen funeral. They just had to have a shock death, killing Rishi on Jai’s wedding day without them having made up. And then he gets like a day to grieve and a week to plan the off screen funeral. And then he’s off to India. To my knowledge (cause I can’t possibly be bothered to watch a whole episode), they didn’t even show the drinks they were supposedly having for Rishi in the pub. Instead of focusing on any of that, they decide to do a hostage story with fucking Colin who no one really cares about and make it all about that. And all about losing his wife and then Laurel losing Ashley and like...you just killed off a character of 12 years and this is what you’re focusing on?! 

Sigh....

Not to mention all of the extreme pacing problems they have lately because they’re so fucking desperate to have new snappy spoiler headlines every week that insane things just happen all the time and have absolutely zero on screen impact because they’re over in an episode or two and then everything is back to status quo and you’re supposed to forget it ever happened. 

It reminds me a lot of Kate Oats’ crazy Thursday doubles where you’d get Robert hiring a hitman to kill Chas and then be expected to forget it happened. And like Maxine wrote that episode and did everything she could with it, gave it nuance where there absolutely was none but that doesn’t make it any less ridiculous. And Isobel Cameron wrote this episode and like...the scenes themselves weren’t actually terrible if it had any business being a story in the first place. But I digress. 

All that to say, current Emmerdale feels like Kate Oats’ crazy Thursday doubles on crack. (But at least Kate Oats had other longer running better paced stories with impact going on and not just all silly thursday doubles, which is what this feels like)

And it’s a fucking problem. 

And I’m so jealous that the Hollyoaks producer is leaving because I want Jane and Company gone too. It’s not fair. We’ve all suffered enough. 

okay...rant over

[derangedthots]

I'm really curious about your writing process and everything ctf, got a million questions but most of them you probably can't answer because spoilers 😅.

If that's OK, I wanted to ask some more general, behind-the-scenes things? (if not just ignore them)

Like, who out of the truly secondary (as in, they don't appear that much/aren't that central to the plot) characters you like/enjoy writing the most/least and why?, what scenes came easily vs which ones were a pain to get just right? , is there anything/anyone that's been flying under readers' radars but will be "a surprise tool for later"? , when it comes to reader reaction, is there anything in particular you didn't expect or that you thought may happen but didn't?

And finally, when writing about the Tullys (Kermit, Elmo, Oscar, Grover...), have you ever been overcome by the mental image and ensuing hilarity of everyone else as human and them as Muppets? (I had the realization midscene and got the giggles BAD 🤔😲😳🤭😂)

hi darling🥰💕

i'm always getting such fantastic questions from you guys and don't worry, i can actually answer all of these ones haha

out of the truly secondary characters, it's hard to choose a fav when it comes to writing them. it's good that you narrowed down which ones you meant by secondary bc i love almost all of my ocs but it just so happens a lot of them also reoccur and play important parts LOL. if i had to choose someone tho...maybe matilda? she just gives such matronly but no-nonsense vibes and i have nothing but respect for that personality type. not to mention, i feel like with any building/home/estate, the kitchens are always one of the places where everybody knows something. it's where the food gets made which already gives very "this is the heart of the place" vibes but also lots of ppl pass through there, which means there is always tea (both literally and metaphorically). matilda's fun to write bc she's aptly positioned to receive a lot of information, while also being highly responsible and respected for her job (srsly never EVER mess with the cooking staff anywhere), and idk i just like that abt her lol. i realize i haven't written much of her yet but hopefully that'll change soon. also who knows, my answer for fav secondary character to write might very well change as we go along (i did say this was a difficult choice haha)😅🤷🏻‍♀️

as for least favorite? bors. it's bors. no real spoilers but yeah, you'll find out why

what scenes came easily? is it bad if i say none😭 i think almost every scene i've written has been jam-packed with detail/characterization which means very little relaxation while writing for me lol. oh actually, on second thought, i think any scene with vermax? just bc he never actually says anything and his interactions with jace are all pretty straightforward. LMAO that's not a v interesting answer but it's the best one i have for you rn😂😂

as for what scenes were the hardest/took the most pains to get just right, i'd have to say the really emotional ones just bc whew - jace's emotions are really quite heavy and i want to convey how he processes (or doesn't process) them as authentically as possible. his scene with daemon in the dragonpit took me forever and i was constantly switching back and forth btwn writing that scene and other ones bc i needed the brain break

weirdly enough, i'd say any scenes between jacemond themselves are both easier and more difficult? they're in a weird liminal space. on one hand, they flow quickly bc i love writing them, they ARE our romantic leads after all lol, the origin and main impetus for why i'm writing the story (besides fixing what hotd broke), but also their scenes together are always charged so i have to do a lot of thinking while i'm working on them

my only advice for now regarding something that's been flying under the readers' radars but will become a special little mousekatool (god how american of me) for later in the story is:

just like jace, you should keep your eyes open and pay attention to the shadows👥

if we're going off what i've read in the comments/seen in my asks, i will admit i was surprised no one mentioned jace's relationship to rhaenys in terms of how he learned to braid from her. then again, i'm just very soft abt the idea of baby jace getting his little fingies caught in her hair and then jace practicing on his siblings+parents after they moved to dragonstone. but honestly i'm just endlessly thankful for all the responses and continued interest regardless🥹💕💕

the tullys tho. omg the tullys. i'm so glad you brought this up bc i absolutely had to hold back my laughter while writing their scenes i'm sorry but george is a comedian for naming them after muppets😭😭 i know he ran out of ideas for names but sir? the muppets? really? i'm over here trying to picture two charming young men with red hair for kermit and oscar and instead have to physically fight back images of a stuffed green frog puppet and a green whatever-oscar-is in a trashcan💀 little benjicott blackwood sparring with two muppets i'm wheezing babes😂😭

[allthemusic]

Week ending: 21st June

It's the return of a few familiar faces - faces we haven't seen for quite a while. But will they continue to impress, or will they be dethroned by a newcomer on the scene? (Spoiler, they absolutely will be!)

Have a Drink on Me - Lonnie Donegan (peaked at Number 8)

Okay, well, this certainly feels like Lonnie going back to basics. He's been on a Cockney comedy streak, recently, but this is just a good old striaghtforward skiffle number, lots of guitar and nonsense, repeated lyrics, with a vaguely American Old West vibe - or perhaps more of a Gold Rush vibe, this time, as the song's notionally about a guy from 1880 who gets rich mining, then arrives at a saloon at noon, covered in dirt, with a chorus of have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me / Everybody have a drink on me / Hey, hey, everybody drink on me.

Lonnie sounds like he's having good fun, on this one - most notably, you see it in the way he keeps almost giggling as he adds details about a potato-farming uncle who struck oil, and has left his well to the narrator. Plus, it's just a fun, bouncy vibe. It's not got the fire or the chaos of some of Lonnie's earlier stuff, but he's still getting to show off his guitar playing more than he has done for a while, especially when we hit the final solo, right before the last verse - it's nothing groundbreaking, but it's pretty smooth.

I also did appreciate the final verse, where there's a totally unnecessary flyby mention of Adam Faith, with the line exhorting the listener to sell your shovel and your old long johns / You can make a fortune writing Adam Faith songs. I guess there's a positive interpretation of it, too - the idea that Adam Faith's so successful that writing a song for him's like striking oil. But seeing as how striking oil's shown in the song as something you stumble into by accident, with barely any skill, I can't help but see a slightly coded dig at Adam. I'm not the hugest fan of Adam, so this doesn't bother me one bit, plus it's just kind of amusing to me, seeing these little references unfold.

Jeez, this song is repetitive, though. That does seem to be Lonnie's modus operandi, but still. Thank goodness for the solo, is all I can say.

Halfway to Paradise - Billy Fury (3)

You get blasted straight out the gate, with this one, with a stompy mix of horns and strings and drums. It's echoey, like the instruments are playing in a larger room - and that might literally be the case, because this track is apparently notable for having used a full orchestra. Not bad for scrappy old Billy Fury from Liverpool - gone are the rough, rock and roll edges, replaced instead by a more epic, balladeering sensibility that's backed up by soupy strings and blaring brass. And throughout, that steady, booming timpani.

The song itself's got a slightly country vibe, though it's definitely a pop song, penned by none other than Gerry Goffin and Carole King - it was originally written for (and a hit for) Tony Orlando, an artist we'll definitely see more of in future. For now, though, Billy's version does seem to have been the bigger hit.

It's suitably dramatic and sentimental, for what's a song that's basically about being friendzoned, as Billy laments how I want to be your lover / But your friend is all I stay. This leaves him halfway to paradise / So near, yet so far away. If I were feeling grumpier, I'd maybe roll my eyes a bit at the melodrama and the vague whininess of this. But that would be mean-spirited for a song that's honestly quite a good depiction of the frustration of unrequired love, and the particular torment of almost having what you want - which is almost worse than a love who'll have none of you!

I've Told Every Little Star - Linda Scott (7)

Linda Scott's our only completely new entry, this week, and immediately, I feel like she's got a very 60s voice. I couldn't explain exactly what makes it a 60s voice, but it is - she was a teen star, and she sounds it, fresh and clear-voiced. There are hints of Helen Shapiro, and definite hints of Connie Francis - Linda's got some of the same sassy spring to her sound, the same youthful charm. She even manages to make the dum-da-dum-da-dada-dada-dada-dada refrain sound light and catchy. Impressive stuff for a girl who was literally 15 - much better than anything I could have pulled off, for sure!

I think it helps that it's lyrically a good fit for a 15 year old, being as it is a song about being tongue-tied and anxious about whether your crush likes you back. Linda's not shy about telling people, we learn - I've told every little star / Just how sweet I think you are. She's told the ripples in the brook, she's told all her friends, she's not hiding it. And yet, the one person she wants to tell, she can't, leaving her wondering why haven't I told you? And, more pressingly, why haven't you told me? These feel like very teenaged concerns to me, with all its guessing and double-guessing and awkwardness. You can kind of imagine two people bumping along, each too shy to tell the other, though they're happy to gossip away about their crushes with all their friends - I certainly had friends like that, back at school. So yes, it feels pretty authentic, to me - consider me charmed.

I'll admit, I was then quite surprised to find out that the song's not a Linda Scott original, but a cover of a 1932 Oscar Hammerstein song that debuted in Music in the Air, a musical set in 1930s Bavaria that honestly doesn't sound like it's particularly well-known today - the Linda Scott version of the song is generally recognised as the best-known version of it, and rightly so, because she's absolutely made it her own, updating it into a proper 1960s girl-pop number that sounds like it was written just for her.

I'm loving this fresh crop of female singers and girl groups we're starting to see - there's just something very fresh about them. In comparison, Lonnie's folksy mugging and Billy's sweeping friendzone balladry sound... well, fine, I guess, but not the most dynamic or interesting thing out there. More Linda Scotts, please!

Favourite song of the bunch: I've Told Every Little Star.

[novemberdevils]

I took a shower before puck drop so you will get only intermission thoughts for today.

Jack keeping his hotel is just like me to the unending hatred that my sister for me, NO BECAUSE first race ALWAYS STRESS ME THE FUCK OUT-im a Ferrari fan im always stressed, jack my dear stupid Ferrari driver nico is not playing a game he just figured out that you have a praise kink and he is obsessed with you, oh jack I will wait for you oh oh moment to realise I actually think about nico a lot not because he is my rival but it’s because I love him, jack feeling like everything is tight and everything fits wrong is the worst anxiety feelings ever so please nico give him a hug and tell him it’s from me, Formation laps are awful. Oh I know -throwback when I went to bring my phone and looked away for literally two seconds and charles was in the fucking wall-, OUR FIRST RACE IS ON!! And let me tell you the way I was STRESSING reading the commentary and when they fucking touched?? Oh I lost it had to put my phone down to breath because first corner is ALWAYS stressful, you have killed it with the Ferrari radio bit it was so good genuinely got me even more into the fic and it made me so much invested with everything.

Okay second period has started so we will be back in the second intermission! 

WHAT DO YOU THINK FERRARI’S CALL WILL BE IF SAINZ GETS UP TO SECOND? Please dont do this to me I Will Cry, ryan being tired of jack and it’s only the first race is something I will cherish because no one can annoy the race engineers like drives do it’s a talent they all share and race engineer just have to suffer through it, but anyway yes let them fight, A JACK WIN!!!!!!! YAYYYYYYY AND IT IS A FERRARI 1-2!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for writing this and making me happy over fake results, ah jack having the home race curse there always a Ferrari driver who has it but he has a hundred home races he is good, oh my jack my dear you are in LOVE; what do you mean he thinks about what might noco say and is thinking about the articles they might be writing about him like boy get a grip, AND thinking he hasnt earn it because he didnt get to fight him for his he win JACK WTF??? This Is Not Normal Behaviour, “You didn’t like getting an easy win?” Where is that twitter meme the “you like pancakes? So you must hate waffles”, anyways jack really went and said I want nico to race me so I can earn my win; my guy wtf? YOU PUT THE COOL DOWN ROOM I let a squeal when I read it.

Okay third period has started and im getting so sleepy from my shower so I will end my rambling thoughts here today and will be back later to continue.

ferrari fan stress is so real... i will confess i was always more of a red bull fan myself but i live with ferrari fans lmao so we were just fighting whenever the race was on. go red bull. that was the easy life when i was paying my highest attention to the sport... what a great season it was. when max won like 15 races or whatever it was. he is so crazy <- i promise i am not doing That breed of crazy in my fic

i cannot resist the jack hughes praise kink. i swear it writes itself. i had nothing to do with that. don't look at me!!!

ferrari's call will be Annoying as always. ferrari team orders sideplot goes crazy. the only thing jack and carlos can agree on is fuck that we are not listening to their nonsense. i love when teams give team orders and the drivers just say no (oscar piastri TAKE NOTES.)

jack will forever be fighting the idiots in the media... and he will also forever be fighting. Himself. home race curse is real but like cmon man you DO have three home races a season there's got to be SOME hope for your unlucky ass. no spoilers though. it is about to be his first home race though yippee!!!

cool down room is a necessity i do intend to do it for every single race for the entire fic

[lyrical-lovely]

Anime Review - Love Live! School Idol Project (S1)

I have a very deep connection to the Love Live franchise, but the original anime was actually kind of disappointing... This is the first anime I've reviewed on this page that had a second season I declined to watch. I might come back to it down the line, but I'm gonna take a break for now.

Watch Love Live! School Idol Project if:

- You enjoy music and anime about music

- You like the premises of sports anime but got tired of baseball/basketball/soccer

- You like women (seriously- there's no voiced men in the entire series)

Do NOT watch Love Live! School Idol Project if:

- You are sensitive to the usual 2010s anime nonsense (minor sexual harassment, sexualization of minors, insensitive discussion of weight and diet)

- You want a cast of likeable characters (don't worry, I'm gonna touch on this below)

- You like anime with tidy endings

SPOILERS below, I have to talk freely about this, sorry.

Nobody here knows this yet, but I've been into Love Live for about 10 years now, just before Aqours debuted. And let me tell you- based on the cards and stories in the game, I was a big fan of u's because I thought their characters were much more complex than they are in the later seasons. This is still true, but after watching the anime, I hate basically all of them. But let's go back to the beginning.

Love Live is an anime about a girl named Honoka who finds out her school, with a history so extensive that her grandmother and mother both attended, is closing due to a lack of applications. After seeing another school's successful idol group, Honoka decides to recruit her friends Umi and Kotori to join her. She runs into opposition at just about every possible point- struggling with getting venues, a difficult student council president, troubles with advertising, arguments within the group, et cetera.

In order to fully understand Love Live, you need to have a grasp of the context- Love Live is actually a sports anime! Many of the issues that Honoka and her friends, which make up the group u's, run into are based on cliches from sports anime, and the characters are also based on sports anime cliches. For example, Nico ran the old idol club before all the other members quit because her demands were too high. Eli is the overzealous student council president who thinks the idol group is giving the school a bad image. Hanayo is shy. Maki is moody and difficult, but a real talent. Do you see it? Replace those names with male names and you've got the ingredients for a perfect baseball club.

Anyway, I had very high hopes for this anime, so it's my own fault I was disappointed. The number of main characters, combined with the sheer volume of hurdles that the group faces on their way to stardom, means that the complex characters I had gotten to know so well through the games were largely left undeveloped. Instead of the cool, calm, and collected traditional woman that Umi's character wants to be, we get a frazzled mess who's being dragged into antics that really don't seem to suit her at all. Instead of deeply struggling with her relationship with her own femininity, Rin just says "nya" a few times every episode and that's literally her entire arc. Seriously, it's a shame because I know she gets development in the second season, but she adds nothing but wasted time to the first season. And as a result of these failed complex characters, most of the Love Live idols to come would ultimately be shallow. I could go on and on about the failed character arcs in this show, but that ultimately brings me to the plot.

Nothing. Goes. Right. Absolutely nothing can be easy or insignificant. Each performance is for the fate of a school, and each hurdle seems nearly impassable. This would be great if the anime was supposed to be a thriller, but its target demographic doesn't want that from it. What young girls wanted to watch was a cute anime about girls wearing dresses and singing, and what we got instead was just a barrage of struggles. There was almost zero downtime, no cute little interactions between the characters that had no significance to the plot. Forgive me, but I think those mundane moments that develop relationships between characters are part of what makes an anime, specifically an idol anime where the emphasis is supposed to be ON the characters, good. In the end, they end up withdrawing from the competition because Honoka collapsed (cliche) and that's where they leave it. Fortunately, I think by this point the anime had been approved for a second season, so I think the dramatic ending was a ploy to draw viewers back for next year.

That's enough complaining, though, because there were some highlights. The music is wonderful (despite the lack of variety between the songs, ALL of which are about doing your best and following your dreams) and the costumes are cute by 2010s standards. They're a little campy now. Furthermore, this series was one of the pioneers of 3D idol performance animation integrated with 2D closeups of the characters. The 3D animation has improved significantly since then due to better software and computing power, but for the time, the animation was good. I also think the color palette was well chosen for this anime, and the voice acting was stellar.

Anyway. This turned into a rant about all my problems with Love Live, but I think any potential viewers should be aware of its shortcomings before investing ~5 hours into it. Overall - 4/10. Amazing for the idol anime genre and I really love Love Live as a franchise, but man, this anime was not for me. Thanks for listening.

[perpetual-fool]

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Starting serious work on my conlang, and got swindled into watching a show.

I've worked out that fundamental meaning has to be a function between observations. I think I can abstract that to 'arguments' and 'premises', but I need to work out data types, what sort of things there are which could be premises. It shouldn't be that complicated, but I'm finding it hard to wrap my brain around it for some reason. I think that's because I'm trying to sort out my existing understanding, and much of that has been corrupted.

I kept seeing clips of the show online, it suggested something interesting was happening. Problem is, it's not, nothing's happening. Like, I would have to start with how things are, then see what develops from that. Instead, it's like characters are sort of vaguely pantomiming a plot, except the plot doesn't fit the circumstances or the characters. Like for instance, the character known for wantonly killing decided to spare the main antagonist for no reason, so that the antagonist can come back and antagonize later. And also there's no justification for the antagonist to antagonize, and everyone is trying to kill each other despite the fact that all of them are trying to achieve the same thing. Or, character makes a heartfelt plea to convince someone of something, but say nothing specific and make literally no argument about it. That is, there is no causal relationship between how the world is supposed to work and what's happening in the plot.

And I'm wondering if this is just a sloppy version of what actual people do. It does mirror a lot of their behavior. Ya' know, the truth is true whether or not it's valid, or whether it happened, or whether it even could happen. And the equation isn't that complex. If they're not starting from the premises then they must be starting from the argument. Oh! say, arguing over whether the ends justify the means. an argument without its premises. I have wasted so much fucking time trying to make myself understood. Last attempt, I had this whole thing about multiple phrasings, examples, counter-examples. But none of that will fix communication if the other party is actively trying to destroy it. Ambiguity for instance, I'm pretty sure that's a feature and not a bug. Like, off the top of my head I know three different versions of "argument", and they'd would decide which one(s) I meant here to justify imposing what they want onto me. That was actually the thing that tipped me off to the fact that it's them and not me. I'd clarify 'I mean term(a), not term(b)' and then they responded as though I meant term(b).

Honestly the most disappointing thing for me about season 2 is that they still refer to the timelines as 'sacred' or 'branched'. So like, (spoilers for Loki S1) the deal with 'the sacred timeline' was that it's the one He Who Remains came from, what was or was not a 'branch' and who was or was not a 'variant' was defined by HWR. But now HWR is dead, the terms no longer have any meaning. Every timeline is a branch, everyone is a variant. So it's like the writers don't even have the most basic grasp on their worldbuilding. Somehow that feels more significant to me than bad setups or nonsense plot. I guess maybe it was the most engaging thing they had going. Like, what's most interesting for me is when I have to reframe how I think about things. I'd love to hear a take on time travel that's not just 'the past rewrites the future' or 'there are parallel timelines'. Say, the scene where Loki is talking to OB in the past, and as it's happening in the past he remembers it in the future: if they'd actually justified that somehow that'd be cool. (Aside, variations of "you can't actually change anything" are cop-outs.) It makes sens that they wouldn't, you'd need to come up with an alternative causality, which would be difficult to impossible. But it'd be fun.

[sweetcloverheart]

Clover Rants Miraculously: Nope, still hate it

(This is more me venting then anything really. Spoilers below!)

Okay, to properly explain why I greatly dislike “Lila and Chloe are more evil than Gabriel” thing, I need you all to think back to the olden internet days when you would read those fanfics where the writer clearly and obviously wrote one half of their NOTP as a raging jerk/yandere psychopath to justify their preferred OTP/Self-Insert character and fav character getting together.

Did you imagine it? Did you remember how cringey and eyeroll-inducing you found it?

That’s how I feel about the whole “These two teenage girls are more monstrous and capable of greater villainy than the established magical terrorist super villain who emotionally abuses his son”.

Because it’d be one thing if Lila and Chloe becoming a supervillain criminal girlboss duo just for the hell of it was being done as a way to expand on their characters and explore new plot territory - That I don’t mind at all and would 1100% be down with. But instead, it’s very clearly and obviously being used to help hype up Gabriel’s frankly unearned in my opinion “redemption arc” because instead of writing Gabemoth showing actual remorse for his actions and eventually turning himself in or having him have this “too late now” moment that ends in his defeat and the slow realization that he destroyed his and his son’s lives for nothing, we are instead treated to the show repeated screaming at us that the two teenage bullies (both of whom could be very easily dealt with if the adults surrounding them did their jobs and forced them to face consequences for said bullying) are clearly the greater threats here, what with their constant scheming to...*checks plot* ruin the day of a girl they don’t like while trying to steal her boyfriend via lies and one of said girl’s parent’s money, which is clearly leagues more evil than...*checks plot again* magically controlling your son through the ring that’s literally tied to his life, while abusing the sentient cosmic entities you stole (well, actually your teenaged nephew stole them for you, but I digress) as you forcibly use their powers to buff up your magically transformed croonies to help them fight the pair of magical teenagers who’s magical jewelry you’re trying to steal.

It’s so obvious they can’t be bothered to make Gabriel into the 3D villain they claim he is, so their only option is to drag down the other antagonists so they’re “more evil” and make all the terrible and awful stuff he’s done on screen seem “minimal”/less bad than it is. That’s why Chloe’s “worse than usual” and Lila’s collecting moms and alternate identities like pokemon cards - not for actual plot development and character progression, but so that the writers can prop up Gabriel as this “misguided saint” who “only did what he had to for his family” while shoving his “redemption” through the story and down everyone’s throats. Because it’s the only trick they have in their bags for making a character “good” - make one character super evil/mean so whoever they’re propping up looks better in comparison. They did with the Zoe/Chloe comparisons, they did it with Felix’s intro, they’re doing it with Nathalie and Gabriel, they’re doing it with Amelie and Emilie (Don’t think I don’t see that nonsense going on with that “The other Princess wants a magic baby because she was overcome with jealousy over her sister” line), and they’re doing it with this.

Like, mark my words, almost every other episode of Season 6 is going to contain at least one character going “Wow, Chrysalis is so evil! Hawkmoth never did something like this!” or “If only Gabriel had kept the butterfly miraculous - he would never abuse it the way Chrysalis has!”

[thefanficmonster]

Bloody Jealousy

Alcina Dimitrescu x Reader (Gender Neutral)

Warnings: Jealousy, Minor SPOILERS for RE8:Village

Genre: Fluff, Romance, Humor

Summary: Y/N’s friendship with a maid working in the Dimitrescu castle poses a bit of a bother to their partner Alcina. Enough to cause a raging jealousy to spark within the already dangerous woman.

Requested by Anon. Hi dear! Thank you so much for your lovely request and I’m so terribly sorry you’ve had to wait so long for the fic to be posted but here it finally is and I hope you enjoy it if you happen to come across it and read it! Love, Vy ❤

To be perfectly fair to both sides in the story, neither Alcina nor Y/N are at fault here. It’s a simple case of overprotectiveness and paranoia that have clashed with unconditional kindness and friendliness and neither are to blame for what they are doing or have already done.

Y/N is simply a person with a big heart that has room for literally everyone they meet. They have always been friendly and kind, understanding and willing to give everyone a second, third or even fourth chance. They’ve never had a shortage of friends. Or at least that is until they moved to Romania and didn’t get the chance to meet anyone before falling for Alcina. Afterwards, due to their relations to Alcina which apparently the whole village knew about, they couldn’t even approach anyone without the villagers running away from them, begging to be left alone. Such a reaction to their presence left them unwilling to ever leave the castle and often times put them down. Eventually, all they saw were the walls of the castle and the Dimitrescu family. That is, however, until one day, a new group of maids were admitted to work in the castle. That, in Y/N’s eyes was an opportunity they hadn’t had in the longest time.  Although the majority of the maids tried to keep their distance from the residents as much as they could, on in particular didn’t seem too afraid to interact with them - though the sisters scared her quite a bit with their behavior. Y/N, on the other hand, was quick to gain her favor, letting her know they meant no harm and only wanted to be friends with her. The maid, Esme, though reluctant at first, soon warmed up to the newest resident of the castle, happy to finally have someone to talk to who wouldn’t mention the theories of how the owners would kill them or torture them. 

“I can assure you,“ Y/N told Esme, “Alcina nor the girls would never do such a thing.“

Oh just how Alcina would, not to mention how cruel she’d be when fueled by jealousy as she was when she started noticing her partner growing close to this maid in question.

Alcina, up until meeting Y/N, had always put her love life in the last of the elements on her list of necessities. In fact, she had been on her own for so long she feared how she’d change if a person entered her life to fill the void of a romantic partner. Truth be told, she was more afraid that she wouldn’t change and that her ways would end up pushing that person away. That is exactly why she was so relieved how easily she morphed into a literal new person when she met Y/N. The change was automatic, not that she was even trying to implement it in her life. She automatically wanted to be a better person for Y/N and so she became one.  However, with the beauty of love come a few unwanted side-effects such as jealousy. She’d never felt it before, at least not like this. Sure she envied some of the Lords for some specific things every now and then but nothing she ever dwelled on for too long. This was a whole new experience with jealousy which was also degrading to her, not only cause she thought she was above that to be jealous of someone, but also because she was jealous of a maid, a servant. That fact was all to bogus to her and ridiculous to the point of disbelief. To save herself the troubles, she decided to start off the wine making season a little early - and with Esme of all the maids.

Unfortunately, she could never find the right moment since Y/N was always by the girl’s side, not allowing Alcina the opportunity to take her to the basement - or the wine cellar, as she called it - to execute her plan.

“Alcina, dear?“ Y/N inquired one day soon after Alcina made her decision, “I’ve noticed you’ve been sending the dirtiest looks poor Esme’s way. May I know why that is?“

Alcina huffed unpleasantly, “You call that servant ‘poor?’ Believe me, Y/N, she knows exactly what she’s doing and I won’t allow it.”

Y/N furrowed their brows, “And what is it she’s doing that I haven’t noticed? I mean, if someone were to notice her plotting something, it would be me after all.”

“Oh of course.“ Alcina scoffed, “Of course it’d be you since the two of you appear to be joined at the hip as of late.“

Y/N’s eyes widened ever so slightly as their eyebrows shot up in confusion and surprise, “Excuse me? What’s that tone?” Their lips curve into a smirk, “Could it be jealousy, Lady Dimitrescu?”

The accused woman scoffs, “Nonsense. As if I have anything to be jealous of. That filthy little rat? Complete absurd nonsense.”

Resting their head on their girlfriend’s shoulder, Y/N can’t help but giggle, “Oh Alci, nonsense it is.” They say, turning their head to press a kiss to her shoulder, “Nothing to be jealous about, babe. I’m yours, all yours and only yours. So you never need to worry.”

When Alcina turned her head to look at Y/N, they lifted their head and straightened their posture to make proper eye contact with her. The look in her eyes was asking the unspoken question: “Really?” - the gaze she was looking at them with begging for the answer she was hoping for.

They nodded, “Forever and always, Alcina.” Their hands came up to cup the woman’s face (who, by the way, was sitting to be at eye level with Y/N), “I promise.” They planted a kiss on her forehead as if to seal the promise.

And that was the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth spoken straight from Y/N’s heart which was flooded by their love for Alcina. 

[crackedegotheories]

Is This All Meaningless?

(I was going to save this theory for the next time Mark started making everyone feel bad for our choices or the “consequences of our actions”, but then he just said the trigger words in his FNAF Custom Night revisited stream and here we are instead. Spoilers for ISWM ahead! Also, with Part 2 just 2 days away (!), this is going to be the last theory from this blog for a while. Take care, Captain!)

Okay, so if you’ve been paying attention to Mark’s videos since ISWM Part 1 came out, you might have noticed some recurring themes when it comes to teasing Part 2. Mainly guilt and doubt.

We see it in Ë̸̼R̴̢̼̂R̵̡̙̚͜Ǫ̸͙͚̈R̶̦̮̝͗ , which starts with echoing words of praise and trust from our crew before, around the halfway point, taking a turn in tone. What seems like us being begged to shut down the wormhole, criticism of our leadership style, and then Dorene’s, "Been a long day, Captain. I bet you're wondering if you made the right choice."

In an unexpected return from Bim Trimmer in a show called “Life is Ours to Choose,” we’re treated to multiple hypothetical scenarios where there is clearly a wrong choice and a right one (or at least one that’s good enough) before the tone finally shifts for the final “hypothetical scenario.” Suddenly serious, Bim’s final question for us is, “Captain, was our trust in you misplaced?"

If these questions are enough to make us start doubting ourselves, then it’s the repeat of Lady’s dire words “The universe is littered with the corpses of your failures” hidden in an animation for Go! My Favorite Sports Team of all things that seems to answer both, not helped by the next video, P̴̮̌̓A̵̧͌͜R̶̰̀A̶D̶O̵X̴͓̟̖̭̠̜̣̪̹́͗͗͊̆̀͝ ̵͙̈̚D̴̖̍E̷T̷E̵̩͑͜ͅC̵̻͊T̸̺͎̾̾È̷͕Ḓ̴̵̛̥̫̰̊͗̔̃̌̅̀̓̂̕͝ͅ , which literally starts with listing off multiple universes that have been affected by the events of ISWM. The description even suggests that EVERY universe has been affected, backed up by the trailer for Part 2: The Multiverse Is Littered With the Corpses of Your Failures.

Ouch.

But as if that’s not bad enough, there’s more than one suggestion that our choices in all of this don’t even matter. Paradox Detected switches over to a PSA regarding wormholes that all but says we were screwed the moment we first entered the wormhole and began experiencing a “destabilizing paradoxical event.” The right choice would have been to backpedal(PEDL?) away from a wormhole, exactly the opposite of what we did. "If only they would have remembered PEDL, then your other self might have avoided an eternity in spiraling chaos, doomed to choices already made, and perpetually obligated to choices never even known."

And then there’s the story of the Lady of the Fountain.

A hidden page on the Universal Stability Agency website (literally titled YOU SHOULDN’T BE HERE, with the link saying captain why are you doing this to me) has an unlisted YouTube video with Morse code in it. (Warning: the video contains flashing lights and loud sounds.) Thankfully, other people found this page and have provided a translation in the comments of the video already, so I would suggest reading the entire thing there if you’re interested.

In short, the “man in the machine” offers to tell a story, the “nonsensical ramblings of a mad man,” a story that we are outright told is meaningless. The story is about a fountain that appears one day, in which there is a “divine angel of the universe,” sent to grant knowledge to a single question asked by the one who is worthy. In the story there is only one villager who does not ask a question, the “one who was once known as Captain”, until they are dying. Their question, “What does all of this mean?” is answered “It means nothing, how have you not got that by now.” And that’s it, end of story.

It’s not the first time the viewer has been mocked for trying to find something more. ISWM Part 1 has the Narrator giving us an Easter egg while mocking us when we try to venture off of the path he has written out, and Wilford himself calls us out for poking around, telling us that we’re too early (back to that in a bit).

In fact, all of Part 1 would seem to suggest that our choices don’t matter. We have so many choices, so many possible routes that all end up in one of three places, two of which are the universe rebooting. There’s even a point where the Bandit asks us if our choices even matter, just before we’re presented with a choice that literally does not matter: either option leads to the same outcome before we’re shepherded toward the warp core.

Lady outright tells us that every choice we have made has cost us the lives of people who depended on us. No matter how we try to save the Invincible II when we first wake up, we will lose someone--either one of the crew or colonists, or our own self to the whole jumping out of an airlock thing, which doesn’t exactly help the people still on the ship. Even if we do free the ship from the wormhole, we eventually die and have no choice but to go into the light and right back to the beginning of it all. We were trapped in the effects of the wormhole even before we were offered the false choice of jumping in or doing a cannonball into the thing.

So the question is, do our choices even matter? Is there no way out, or are we doomed to fail again and again and again? With every failure costing the lives of more and more people? Do we just give up?

Let’s go back to that meaningless story, the Lady of the Fountain. In it, the one who was once known as captain is, obviously, no longer the Captain. They abandoned all of their responsibility, hiding in the shadows and the story says “fear of failing like all before them kept them trapped in the dark for nearly their entire life.” In the end they die, being told this all is meaningless before no doubt finding themselves back on that ship again, inside their cryopod in a new universe with the same problems.

We’ve already seen in the fakeout endings before going towards the light that not dealing with the wormhole doesn’t fix anything, not in the long run. And not doing anything for fear of failing isn’t going to change that, just like how Celci putting the ship in cryo doesn’t fix anything--it’s the third ending, but one without a resolution or even a sign that anything can change, like with the reboot endings.

There’s also the whisper we hear after the rush of voices the first time we enter the wormhole, the only words that make it into the subtitles.

A voice telling us, “Don’t give up.”

The narrator of the Lady of the Fountain story tells the person translating the Morse code, the ones searching for answers or some deeper meaning that it all means nothing but “you can’t help yourself, can you? Even if it’s only a one percent chance that something of value is here.”

And I am 100% behind that spite in the face of what feels like everyone and everything telling you to give up, that failure is the only option. And that’s kind of what we see ourselves doing in ISWM, both in and outside the story: trying every single choice possible see if there’s that one chance we can get things right. But there is a downside to this, in that we risk falling into a loop of trying to do the same things over and over again expecting a different result, like when Mark keeps suggesting we jump into the wormhole. Throwing ourselves at the problem again and again doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll get it right.

So new question: is it better to do nothing and leave things like they are, like Celci suggests, or to keep trying even at the risk of failure, if there's even just one percent, or even less than one percent, chance of success?

Or maybe we're still not asking the right question.

Are these really the only two options we have? To stop trying and live in fear of failure, or constantly throwing yourself at the problem in the hopes that maybe this time it will work, no matter how many bodies you leave in your wake?

See, In Space isn’t the first time we can get caught in a loop. Way back in A Date With Markiplier, following the Don’t Pay route and escaping from the Chef leads to an Exit, or at least the EXIT video. A video where you and Mark seemingly walk out into freedom--only for a glitch to appear courtesy of Darkiplier before you’re both back in the cell. Your choices there can lead to you and Mark stuck in that cell, seemingly with no hope of getting out before the murderous Chef returns, Mark getting wasted dying, or right back to the Exit option. It’s only when you wait, when you turn down the offered choice, that another one appears offering MORE? and the True End.

There’s another opportunity to turn down a choice in A Heist. Once again in a prison cell, if you investigate the opening in the wall and think twice about going into the hole currently occupied by a skeleton, you seemingly go back to the second choice provided where Mark digs a way out. Only, things are just slightly different here: a pink fairy instead of blue, a kitten plushie instead of a dog...and a device that takes you a little further back in time than expected, if not out of it completely before we have our interview that is tragically and thankfully cut short.

Sometimes, deviating even just a little bit from the path laid out for you can have unexpected consequences. And sometimes, to get out of a loop, you need to find an exit besides the obvious one.

I think there’s a reason we’ve seen Wilford’s fingerprints all over the place, same as he promised we’d meet him in Part 2. I think that, knowing what we know now about the consequences of our choices, the reboot is going to be about finding a third option, one that breaks the narrative we've found ourselves in. And from the glimpses we’ve seen in the glitches in Dorene’s route of things similar but not quite the same as what we’ve seen before (like with Mark offering the choice between Romance and Horror), or how Mark glitched out into other versions of himself early in ISWM, I think the narrative is going to break hard.

It’s going to feel like we've been here before, that we’ve remembered things that haven't happened yet--which is impossible, of course. Depending on whether anyone else notices, it might even feel like we’re going crazy, or seem to them like we’re not treating these choices seriously enough or caring enough about all the bodies we’re leaving behind us as we start taking a...less than expected approach to the wormhole issue.

But maybe there's a beauty to that: to taking a step back, relaxing, and having some fun.

Life needs a bit of madness, after all.

[makeste]

BnHA Chapter 306: the beginning of the WHAT

Previously on BnHA: Nana and the Gang were all, “hey Deku, we can read your thoughts and feelings so we should already know the answer to this, but for some reason we want to quiz you on whether or not you’d be down to kill Shigaraki Tomura.” Deku was all, “um okay, well tbh, probably not seeing as Saving People has been my entire thing since literally the start of the series.” The Vestiges were all, “yes that makes perfect sense and again we already knew that, but well, good for you buddy and I’m glad we had this talk. Anyway I guess we should ask these two cryptic fuckers in the corner to finally turn around now before we run out of -- ” and then the chapter ended. Because OF COURSE IT DID.

Today on BnHA: Horikoshi is all “YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, WOULDN’T IT BE SO MUCH BETTER IF I GAVE YOU A CONFUSING CHAPTER WHERE EVERYONE FINALLY LEARNS ABOUT OFA, AND GOES BACK TO THE DORMS, AND THEN THE CHAPTER ENDS WITH DEPRESSED NOMAD DEKU STANDING ON A PRECIPICE WITH GRAN TORINO’S TATTERED CAPE FLOWING IN THE WIND.” Everyone is all, “???????????” Horikoshi is all, “also the parents are moving to the U.A. campus, and Jeanist’s neck is two and a half feet long, for everyone that was wondering.” Everyone is all, “WHERE ARE KACCHAN AND TODOROKI AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHO ARE THE SECOND AND THIRD USERS”, and Horikoshi is all, “:)” and fades away into nothingness like the fucking fae he is. Like a fucking imp who’s kept his end of the cursed bargain. What, the, fuck.

okay guys, so after the longest Thursday of my fucking life, during which I was secretly hoping that my spoiler containment net would be somehow be breached, inadvertently exposing me to theta spoiler radiation, so that I could be all “oh no... spoilers... there’s nothing I can do... I have no choice but to look” (which sadly did not happen), it is finally Friday and the chapter is finally out. so I’ve got my clown kit at the ready and other self-deprecating memes on standby, and I’m ready to go. and I should note that I’m also ready for Horikoshi to pull some absolute bullshit and be like, “oh you know what, we haven’t checked in with Rat Principal in a while have we” and spend the entire chapter on nonsense like that. I’M READY FOR FUCKING ANYTHING so bring it

(ETA: it would be nice if this man wouldn’t call my bluff every now and again.)

oh, right, we were due a color page! wow look at this

isn’t this supposed to be the future?? what’s with all of these staticky CRT TVs

anyway, so! is this the first time we’ve seen Tomura’s stylish finger prosthetic glove thingy in color?? because I didn’t expect it to be red. also, at some point you just have to give in and change your pants into cutoffs or something, Tomura. start a new trend of stylish villain capris

meanwhile Deku is dressed like he’s going on a journey into the desert to find a mystical oasis. actually this cape looks a lot like Gran Torino’s. I have to go back and see if Gran’s is all raggedy like this

(ETA: it wasn’t before but APPARENTLY IT IS NOW. I also forgot that Horikoshi had showed it sitting on a side table in the hospital a few chapters ago.)

lastly, AFO looks like someone’s thumb after they’ve been washing dishes for twenty minutes. you are just the ugliest dude in history, and as always, fuck you

HAHAHA SOB I KNEW IT

oh, Twowy McTwoface is finally starting to turn around? better CUT BACK TO DEKU’S HOSPITAL ROOM THEN. wouldn’t want to accidentally ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS or SOLVE ANY MYSTERIES, god forbid

well, whatever. whatever!! anyway so now someone’s knocking at the door. I say “someone” but we all know it’s Hawks

yep

they were actually standing outside the door for a while hoping they’d overhear another juicy plot conversation, but no such luck this time

lmaooo Jeanist wtf

acting all embarrassed, but you’re really just as curious as Hawks is. making him do all the dirty work for you huh

ARE YOU SERIOUS THIS IS AN INJUSTICE

so like two seconds after Katsuki gets dragged away you open the door for the rest of them!! well, fine!! I really want it to be a more private/personal moment between the two of them anyway so let the other kids check in on Deku first then

and in the meantime, time to see Hawks put the thumbscrews to All Might’s resolve lol

I wonder how much of it Hawks has already put together in the last five minutes. One for All is something connected to All for One that Tomura seems to want. Tomura was apparently targeting Deku. that’s more than enough to make a few deductions right there. I wonder how much Hawks knows about Deku’s quirk. he did watch the sports festival, and he ran into the kids interning under Endeavor that one time

okay well maybe he hasn’t put the rest of it together just yet, but Hawks is making a pretty reasonable pitch here to All Might

also this is a pretty spectacular view. is this a hospital or a hotel??

AHLKJLKJLKJ ARE YOU SERIOUSLY GOING TO TELL THEM

OH MY GOD HE IS?!?!

JUST LIKE WE ALL EXPECTED, THE NEXT TWO PEOPLE TO LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT OFA ARE GOING TO BE HAWKS, AND BEST FUCKING JEANIST

-- LFKLKKLDK ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS. ARE YOU --

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[sitting cross-legged on the ground pulling up little clumps of grass and letting them fall from my fingers one by one] yeah. sure. okay. fine. sure

-- OKAY, NO. NUH-UH. NO

everybody better hold tight cuz I’m about to pick up this whole chapter and yeet it into the ocean like a fucking frisbee lol

HORIKOSHI I DON’T CARE ABOUT THESE PEOPLE SITTING HERE WATCHING TV WTF

-- OH

well okay then. proceed. though lord help me if they’re about to reveal the secret of OFA to the whole fucking world skdkj

oh snap

well, there it is. pretty much what I expected, but it’s good to actually get to see this moment with him taking responsibility

though at the same time, thank you Horikoshi for not forcing us to sit through the rest of that

their fucking faces omg. okay but seriously, what nation doesn’t secretly love a good scandal

the Endeavor Pamphlets, part two. thank you for giving the country something to opine about on twitter in these trying times, Enji

so now they’re asking about Hawks and Jeanist but I cannot even focus on anything all of a sudden because what?!

is Jeanist even a real actual human being you guys?! are we sure he’s not three kids sitting on each other’s shoulders?? are you related to that one guy with the really long neck from the Jedi Council?? are you Orochimaru, bro??

so now Hawks is apologizing for the murder of Twice, and for hiding the connection with his dad

the fact that he has to give this serious formal apology and beg forgiveness for the shameful crime of Having An Abusive Father is really something else, though. just. it’s realistic, but I still hate it

moving on now to the one thing he actually does owe the public an explanation for

not to go all “Hawks did nothing wrong” on you guys yet again, but seriously. 100% facts. fandom can (and no doubt will) debate this until the end of time, but if Twice had gotten away they wouldn’t be having this press conference right now because there wouldn’t be any heroes left to give one. anyways though, I’ve already said more than enough about that in previous posts

so now some severe-looking lady with the weirdest fingers I’ve ever seen is saying that her mother was injured during Machia’s rampage

and she’s basically all “a fuck lot of good ‘I’m sorry’ does us all about now.” true true

wow she’s really getting fired up

and now Enji is basically saying that he understands that an apology isn’t enough, and what they really need now are solutions. okay, well! SO THEN WHAT IS THE PLAN THEN

hmmfsdgh

this eloquent PEZ dispenser makes a good point you guys

wait, hold up

CERTAIN citizens?? um excuse me, what??

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh shit

holy shit. well, this will go over well

okay! so this tells me a number of things, though

basically the minute that Hawks learned about One for All, he realized that anyone connected to Deku (e.g. Inko) would be a target for AFO. AFO wants OFA, meaning AFO wants Deku, and one of the easiest ways to get to Deku would be to target his family

Hawks therefore realized that Inko needed to be placed into protective custody

but the fact that ALL of the hero course students’ families (and is it only the U.A. hero course, or all of the hero course students across the country?) are being given protection tells me that Hawks and co. don’t want to single Deku out as being important. so then it looks like they’re not going to tell everyone about OFA (or at least not the public. which, good). so rather than drawing suspicion by saying “we’ve got to protect everyone connected with this one kid”, they’re making it seem like all the U.A. kids’ families are getting this treatment

but since the heroes are now spread so thin, they can’t just send a protective detail to each and every family, so they’re bringing all of the families to the same place instead to better keep an eye on them

so that’s all well and good, and a very smart move. except that idk how all of this is going to go over with the general public, all of whom are probably feeling unsafe at the moment, and who will probably see this as preferential treatment -- basically just the heroes looking after their own and leaving everyone else to fend for themselves

(ETA: okay so @hanashimas​’ translation clarifies that U.A. is offering their services as an evacuation shelter for everyone who wants it, not just the families of the U.A. students. that’s much more appropriate so I withdraw my previous “wtf” reaction lol.)

anyway though here’s Mitsuki and Inko

can we take this as confirmation that the two of them really are friends? that’s one piece of fanon that I’ve always hoped was true, so I’m gonna go ahead and say it’s confirmed

(ETA: also this means that Hagakure’s parents (or maybe “parents” in quotation marks) will supposedly be moving in as well. sure am curious as to how that’s going to go.)

now someone in the press crowd is asking whether U.A. can provide adequate security, which is honestly the LAST thing I expected these people would be outraged about lol. shows what I know I guess

(ETA: again though, this makes sense if the “certain civilians” thing was just a translation error.)

LMAO DAMMIT ENJI

YOU CAN’T JUST ALWAYS PULL THE “JUST WATCH ME” TRICK AND EXPECT IT TO SHUT DOWN THE CONVERSATION EVERY DAMN TIME YOU ASSHOLE

-- OH MY GOD RED ALERT

TIME TO ANALYZE THIS BECAUSE OMG

WASH CAN’T BELIEVE HIS FAMILY GROUP CHAT IS STILL SENDING HIM FUCKING MEMES AT A TIME LIKE THIS. HE DOESN’T GIVE A FUCK IF THE DABI DANCE IS TRENDING ON TIKTOK, MOM!!

FOR A MINUTE I THOUGHT MT. LADY WAS HOLDING MIDNIGHT’S TORN-UP MASK, AND BY THE TIME I REALIZED THAT’S ACTUALLY HER MASK AND NOT MIDNIGHT’S, I HAD ALREADY CONSTRUCTED AN ELABORATE HEADCANON IN WHICH MT. LADY AND MIDNIGHT WERE SECRETLY DATING BUT HADN’T COME OUT TO ANYONE YET, AND THEN TRAGEDY STRUCK, AND NOW MT. LADY IS GETTING READY TO SET OUT TO SEEK VENGEANCE. AND WELL, NOW THAT THIS HEADCANON EXISTS IN THE WORLD, I’M NOT SURE IF I’M READY TO GET RID OF IT

MIRKO HAS GOTTEN HERSELF A PROSTHETIC (ROBOT??!) ARM, NOTHING ELSE THAT’S HAPPENING IN THIS CHAPTER IS EVEN SLIGHTLY IMPORTANT!!! HELLO!!!!!

AIZAWA WITH THE EYEPATCH GOOD LORD. THE WORLD ISN’T READY. HE LOOKS LIKE HE HASN’T SLEPT IN NINETY-EIGHT YEARS, BUT SOMEHOW HE MAKES IT INTO THE HOTTEST THING EVER AS PER USUAL

WHO THE FUCK IS THIS FUCKING GUY. ARE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW HIM? IS THIS KAMUI?? WAS THAT THING WHICH I ALWAYS ASSUMED WAS HIS HAIR ACTUALLY A HELMET OR SOMETHING WHAT

LOL AND MEANWHILE

you tell me, Dabi! weren’t you the one who said that wouldn’t be enough to kill him? what even is your endgame here. I’m starting to worry about the villain brain cell supply you guys. I feel like Compress took most of them with him when he left

OH??

“when asked about One for All, Endeavor fucking lied through his teeth.” well, well, well

SLKDFJLSKGDJLKLKGJL THE DORMS

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SLDKJFLKJWLKJLK

WLKDJSLKJFWKELKSDJLKHGLK

HDSMFLKGKL:GDSELK

OCHAKO’S HAND IS SHAKING OH MY GOD

THERE’S YOUR KAMINARI, EVERYONE!!

RHA’S SCANLATION TEAM REALLY THREW DEKU’S HANDWRITING UNDER THE BUS HERE HUH

HE TOLD EVERYONE!?

WHY THE FUCK IS HE WRITING IT AS A LETTER

(ETA: 9. also if he really wrote every kid in his class then that means the U.A. traitor -- or Hagakure as we like to call her around these parts -- also knows about OFA, and knows that Deku has run the fuck off and isn’t at U.A. anymore. so that’s just great!)

OH HELL NO

the hell does that mean, you must leave. leave to go where. son you are not up and leaving to go power up and lead us all into a timeskip. and I swear to GOD, if you left Kacchan too...!!

MY GOD I CAN’T PROPERLY ABSORB ALL OF THESE OCHAKO FEELS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I’M TOO TERRIFIED TO SCROLL TO THE LAST FUCKING PAGE, FUCK

I JUST GOTTA DO IT. I JUST GOTTA SUCK IT UP AND DO IT. FUCK

FUCK

WHAT. THE. FUCK

y’all I’m not even gonna waste your time with more keysmashing, JUST ASSUME THAT I AM DOING IT NONSTOP, FOREVER. and let’s just jump RIGHT IN HERE

okay so here I thought that All Might and co. had taken him away somewhere to train, but that is CLEARLY not what’s going on here. this kid is standing here in his Apocalypse Aesthetic hero costume which has CLEARLY seen better days, with Gran Torino’s cloak (GUESS THAT EXPLAINS THAT, THEN?? SO DID GRAN FUCKING DIE EXCUSE ME WTF), and a fucking backpack. this little green idiot has RUN AWAY FROM HOME. this is the absolute LAST THING ON EARTH I ever expected to happen so PARDON ME WHILE I SCREAM CONFUSEDLY INTO THE VOID

he does not look okay. you guys he doesn’t look okay at ALL. he has NEVER looked like this. this isn’t just a “I’m sad because I’m leaving all my friends behind” kind of look on his face, or even just a “Gran Torino died maybe and I’m still having emotions over it” look. this is an EXHAUSTED, dead look in his eyes. something terrible has happened

WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR ARMS DEKU. THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING DOWN WITH YOUR ARMS GODDAMMIT

love how this random building is just straight up collapsing, like that’s just a normal thing that happens every day now. lovely

APRIL MEANS IT’S NOW FULL ON SCHEDULED ALL-MIGHT-DYING-HOURS, BUT LET’S COMPLETELY IGNORE THAT THOUGH BECAUSE FUCK THAT NOISE

“THE SECOND USER? WHO KNOWS? CERTAINLY NOT ME” HORIKOSHI I SWEAR TO GOD

“BAKUGOU? NEVER HEARD OF HIM!” HORIKOSHI PLEASE

WHERE. IS. KACCHAN

did he go with Deku?? did he get a chance to talk to him before he left?? did he get his own private letter which he read and then promptly blew up in a fit of panicked rage?? is he going to go after him?? DOES HORIKOSHI KNOW WHAT HE’S DOING TO ME RIGHT NOW?? OF COURSE HE DOES, DON’T BOTHER ANSWERING THAT

omg. though actually the fact that we’ve already jumped a few weeks forward makes me hopeful that there won’t actually be another timeskip, or at least not much of one. I’m sure that’ll be the big debate of the week, but I don’t think we can jump too far forward here. for starters because of that All Might prophecy I mentioned. and also because TomurAFO isn’t just going to wait around for months. and also because I’m 100% sure that Deku’s running-away backpack is just filled ENTIRELY WITH NOTEBOOKS and this asshole cannot possibly survive more than 3 days on his own. UNLESS SOMEONE COMES TO HELP HIM THAT IS. OR SOMEONES, EVEN. OMG. omg omg omg. fuck this chapter lmao

[thegreymoon]

Lie to Love (dropped)

It is a known fact that I have no impulse control, so here we all are 🙄 This is most likely going to be a hate watch, so if that bothers you (or if you are a fan of Cheng Xiao), please block the tag “l2l spoilers” because I’m probably going to be mean. Odds are that I will be fast-forwarding through this one because there is literally nothing in this premise that appeals to me, so I don’t know how much fun a liveblog is going to be anyway, unless it’s to share screencaps of Luo Yunxi. Cheng Xiao looks so fucking stupid even in the stills and I’ve heard only the worst when it comes to her acting skills, so RIP Luo Yunxi’s spectacular charisma, it’s going to be sorely tested here. As far as I’m concerned, there is one reason and one reason only to watch this trainwreck: Luo Yunxi and his impeccable styling for this role.  

Again, please make sure to block all the appropriate tags! 

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No love for the opening song whatsoever. Will be ff-ing through that, I see. 

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SHANGHAI!!! 😍😍

One gigantic plus for this drama already! Not even Cheng Xiao can beat that! 

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God, look at him 😭😭

MY GOOD SIR, YOU ARE SO PRETTY, I WILL WATCH ALL NONSENSE THAT COMES MY WAY FOR YOU!!

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Introducing an asshole that needs killing, but we’re all so grateful for the LYX whump he gifted us with! 😋

All that alcohol he drinks and the games he plays have clearly done nothing to harm his pretty face, so the uncle can shut up. 

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She looks like a tacky Barbie I would buy used on Ebay to rebody a more worthwhile doll and give the head to my baby cousins to chew on, after pulling out the the hair so that they don’t choke. 

She looks cheap af and I also want to know who she’s fucking for the privilege of ruining drama after drama after drama. Whoever he is, I hope she makes it worth the money he’s wasting. 

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Here she is after a change of clothes, looking like Pornhub’s version of a serious business lady, doing serious business, and wearing glasses to signal to the viewers how serious she is. 

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Yes, please suffer 😋😋

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Look how pretty!!

They should beat him up in every episode! 

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Oh? 👀

Actual violence? In my c-drama?? It’s more likely than you think! 

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I’m going to use these posts to share so many screenshots of his pretty face! 

He really looks impeccable in this role! 

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I feel like if anything gets me through this drama without ff-ing too much, it’s going to be his relationship with the evil uncle and whatever is going on there. As for the romance, he and Cheng Xiao don’t mesh well at all, so that’s dead in the water. Also, I couldn’t give a fuck about her dead father and her little diary. The less of it there is, the better. 

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A cutie 💛

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YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME 🤣🤣

WHAT ARE YOU DOING, THIS IS NOT EVEN PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE 🤣🤣

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LOOK AT THIS!! GUYS, PLEASE COME AND LOOK AT THIS!!

NEITHER ONE OF THEM IS BEING SUPPORTED BY ANYTHING HERE AND YET THEY ARE SOMEHOW HANGING IN MIDAIR, GOING, “DON’T LET GOOOO!”

I am dead and buried at this nonsense, what the fuck 🤣🤣🤣

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When a hedgehog is a better AND cuter actor than you 😤

People weren’t lying, she’s absolutely terrible. 

Bai Lu, where are you? 😭😭

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They are putting a bandaid on the tiniest prick in recorded history 😑😑

This drama is going to be so stupid, I will have zero brain cells left by the time I’m done. 

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Ugh, cute, cute, cuteeeeee!! 😭😭

This drama would be much improved if they simply edited out the female lead and just kept Luo Yunxi and the hedgehog. The evil uncle can stay too. 

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I would bet good money that the prosthetic limb, the alcoholism and the chronic pain are the main reasons LYX thought it would be a good idea to take this role 🙄

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I love how she thinks she’s so clever but he’s already onto her stupid ass.

She may be a schemer, but he’s an even bigger one. 

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You think?? 🤣🤣

He’s already got a plan in motion to end all of you.

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LMAO, he’s not even going to bother pretending he doesn’t know 🤣

Anyway, I really love him and really hate her, which doesn’t bode well for this drama. 

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Okay, I am dropping this. Life is too short to subject myself to the likes of Cheng Xiao. She literally makes this unwatchable. 

Luo Yunxi, baby, I love you and I’m so sorry you had to be subjected to this talentless imbecile who more than likely slept her way into a role opposite you 😢 I will be seeing you in your next project, hopefully with some more worthwhile partners.