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terrible-horrible-mind-of-aspen · 2 years ago

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Doing this because I love being prompted to give information about myself/my writing I don’t normally reblog things to this blog but I feel like this fits here.

1. I write in Algreya, because I think it looks simple but nice. I think Arial is ugly. Also I specifically write in Algreya 14pt because it’s a small font.

2. I couldn’t, I don’t think. My handwriting is garbage, and I edit a lot. And abandon things a lot.

3. I don’t really have a writing ritual. I just write when I feel like it, or when I get an idea. I’m almost always listening to music though, but that’s a general statement.

4. Necessary. Took me so goddamn long to learn how to spell that correctly, I straight up avoiding typing it for a while.

5. Writing superstitions? I’m not sure what this means.

6. That I will accidentally write something that somebody else already wrote.

7. I love being able to develop characters, especially characters that the story has pushed to the side/done wrong.

8. Without action, because I prefer writing dialogue. I know that would be a shit story but if I had to choose, that’s my choice.

9. I believe that there’s something after death, and that there are things in this world that we simply do not understand. I don’t 100% believe in ghosts, per se, but I’m also not willing to rule them out.

10. OH YES. There’s this story, it’s called Run to Paradise, and it was on Ao3. The author was not in a good mental state, and whatever happened to her haunts me. Wherever she is now, I hope she’s doing better than she was in 2018. Pop_Incognito, if you see this, I wish you the best. I think some of my own writing has haunted me, like things that I’ve written that I didn’t like, or things that I’ve written that I don’t think I’m capable of writing to the level I want them to be at. For me, a story haunting me is it sticking in my brain for a long time, and being either the only thing I think about, or something that pops into my brain randomly with no warning.

11. No, I don’t like killing my characters, canon or original. And I do grieve the ones that die, so very much. Sometimes in stories I will kill a character, and there is always purpose to that.

12. a) the ability to finish stories b) the focus to write for longer periods of time again c) the skill to write my longer works as well as I want them to be written.

13. I don’t like writing death, lol. I think I’m good at writing angst, though, specifically mental illness stuff. I enjoy writing characters who are Going Through Shit and I believe that I’m good at that.

14. I am more than willing to lend books to people, but I think I’ve only actually done it once or twice. And I got that one back.

15. I don’t write in the margins, and I try not to dog-ear pages. I do read in the bath though, it’s fun! Most of the books I read are library books, but I also just don’t want to damage the book in any way, I want to keep it in good condition so it can be read and loved by as many people and for as long a time as possible. I don’t judge people for doing these things, one of my former coworkers writes in the margins of their books and the specific way they do it is something I enjoy very much.

16. Probably a leaf. I’ve tried to use a stick, didn’t work.

17. I have so many WIPs oh god. I plead the fifth

18. Oh this is a passage that I love to quote from one of my fics: “You have no fucking idea how hard it is to be quirkless, do you? What it’s like to grow up in a society that’s constantly telling me I’ll never amount to anything because being a hero is the best thing you can do and I can’t be one. Mom and dad both have quirks and somehow I didn’t get one. You, Kanako, and Hana all have them, so why not me? And don’t get me wrong, I am so, so fucking proud of you and everything you’ve done at UA, but it feels really shitty to be known as ‘the older brother of one of those Class A kids.’ That’s my worth, right there. It’ll always be defined by someone that’s special like you.” The context here is that Katashi, an OC of mine who’s Ojiro’s older brother, and Ojiro were talking. Ojiro was talking about his insecurities, and said that he would give anything to be quirkless like Katashi is. I wrote this because I...project onto Ojiro in some ways and wanted to write something of him talking about his self esteem and self-image issues with his family. Also, I think a lot about the characters with mutant quirks and how they’re treated differently, as well as how quirkless people are treated differently in MHA’s society. This fic has all those things.

19. I’ve been writing since elementary school. I’m not sure why I started, probably because I liked it. I like creating, but I’m not good at drawing, and I’ve never had the patience to get good. There were definitely some bumps, like a writing teacher that I did not like, and then having to go through the experience of being on the internet and seeing people say that fanfic isn’t real writing, and my depression making me stop writing - but not stop imagining stories - for several months on end. I know that there’s such an improvement in my writing from my abilities a few years ago, and I hope to keep going in that direction. I want to write more than I do currently, and hopefully write as much as I used to again.

20. The WIP, 100%. I don’t believe in the idea of only having one true love, I think you can truly love multiple people over the course of your life, also that true love isn’t found, it’s made.

21. I couldn’t quit writing and I don’t want to. I enjoy creating, and sharing my ideas. I have thoughts about my little fictional guys and I like getting them out.

22. I am not very organized. I have different google docs for different fandoms and such, and things that get too unruly are placed in their own docs. That is...about as far as it goes tbh.

23. Currently, this is my writing environment: A lofted bed in a dorm room. Our room is on the first floor, so you can see grass and a tree out the window. The window takes up most of the back wall of the room, the other walls are white painted brick. My bed is rattly, and doesn’t have a headboard, I usually sit with one of those pillow-chairs against the wall, so I’m sitting sideways on my bed, cross-legged, with my computer on my lap. My pillow-chair is dark blue. There are fairy lights taped to the wall because my roommate bought too many and gave me one package, but they’re rarely on.

24. I don’t often do prep, but sometimes for longer stories I will write up a timeline of events that I want to make sure to include. This goes at the very top or very bottom of the document.

25. One of my OCs, Aki, cannot stand wet jeans. Generally he’s a pretty chill guy but he HATES that sensation. He’s a swimmer so realistically this could come up at some point, but it hasn’t yet cause I don’t write a lot of stuff for that group of OCs for when Aki’s actually in high school, and that would be when I would write about him swimming the most, since he was captain of his HS team.

26. I lie in bed thinking about them. I get out by thinking about someone else, or watching something. Sometimes I regret going in because I find myself relating a bit too hard, or I get on something really sad. But it’s always worth it.

27. Characters that I don’t like. I don’t know if I have one in specific, but canon characters that I don’t like are hard to write.

28. My OC Haruki. I haven’t written anything for him in a long time, but I really do love him. He wasn’t dealt an easy hand, and his family has had to fight a lot for him. But he’s a sweetie, a genuine ray of sunshine, and a dorky guy who likes pulling pranks with his little sister.

29. I get inspiration wherever and whenever I can. Canon, other people’s fan works, other shows, real life, everything. When inspiration runs dry, sometimes I turn to prompts, or look through unfinished things and see if there’s anything that I’m inspired to add to.

30. I think I’ve gotten inspiration from a dream before, but I don’t remember enough to give detail. I don’t think I’ve ever written in a dream.

31. To my readers, thank you. I will do my best to post things that I feel are good enough to be posted, and polished. But even if I don’t post often, I will never stop writing. I can promise that. I love it too much.

32. There are a lot of lines that I hold dear, but this bit from Eyes Wide Open All The Time by Macbetha is one of many from the story that I have a memory tied to. “Deep underground, under this very floor, are the Samezuka cellars.” He voice falls into a dramatic whisper. “And in these cellars are said to be skeletons and ghosts and the lingerings of the plagueeee!” When his theatrics are met with silence, he straightens up and grins as he pops his temple against the cork. “Among the ash heaps, hundreds of bottles just like this one were found. Nobody knows who made them, nobody even knows what’s in them – only that it’ll fuck your ass sideways. So! Who’s first?” EWOATT is a fic that I came across after a while. I saw it come up in the tags as I looked at other things for Free!, and I was aware of it. But I didn’t read it for a while. Then, one day early in 9th grade, I decided to check it out. It sounded interesting, and had a ton of ships that I liked. I’ve never found a more talented fan author, and I love each and every one of her stories that I’ve read. This part from Asahi, as well as this entire chapter (Chapter 12 of EWOATT) is probably my favorite one. When I re-read the story, I lingered on this chapter a while, and really let myself enjoy it. I laughed so much at their antics that my mom asked if I was talking on the phone to someone. I knew what bad things were in store for these characters, what was just over the horizon, so I cherished this time of them being happy.

33. I draw on occasion, but not often. I enjoy craft projects though. I can’t say that these projects have made their way into my writing in any significant manner, but I have made some crafts inspired by series or characters that I like.

34. The Oxford comma is needed, and helpful. I bet if you looked through these questions you’ll see that I make frequent use of commas, Oxford included. I believe it’s important and anyone that says we should get rid of it needs to do some more research.

35. I’m not sure, I’m not very familiar with writing rules. I do remember being told in late elementary school to never start a sentence with the word “because” and I have broken that rule many a time.

36. I’m assuming this means what do you know/what have you experienced that you incorporate into your writing. That’s what I’ll be answering. I know what it’s like to struggle with mental illness. I know what it’s like to question your gender identity, and sexuality. I know what it’s like to be transgender. I know what it’s like to be in love.

37. They would think that I need to finish stories, that I use several commas, and that when I like something, I really like it.

38. I think that I often leave stories for a long time and then come back to them. Because now, that story isn’t going to turn out the same way it originally was going to, and maybe not the way I meant it to be. But I think that’s ok. I think that the stories will end up better, eventually.

39. All the ideas in my head. I think of a lot of things for the shows that I watch and the stories that I read, and I want to write them down. I want to remember them, and be able to come back, and expand on them.

40. I haven’t written a lot of poetry, but I’ve written some, so I’ll share a poem I wrote about two people that I loved at the same time.

My love for you is different. My love for you is overwhelming, Encapsulating. Our love buries me, but I don’t wanna dig.

My love for him is like a tightrope walker. Careful, practiced Unreachable

So why do I know how to say my love for him? Say that he is bright, he is mean, he is beautiful. When it comes to you, I don’t know the words. Beautiful doesn’t begin to describe you, And bright is too small a word for the feeling that pours out of my soul when I think of you. You’re not mean, no. You’re not like him.

When I see him, I’m excited. I fumble, trip over my words, unconsciously reach out my hands. I sneak looks, thinking “just one more and I’ll be satisfied” But I never am. I could look for hours.

But with you, I’m not that way. Knowing that I’m going to see you fills me with so much joy I think I may burst. When I see you I’m complete I hold you, feel your warmth against me and feel that’s where you belong. You’re too much for me, and I want it all.

That’s the difference. Him, I could never get enough of. You, I have too much of. But love, I want it all Because too much of you is still not enough for me.

Weird Questions for Writers (because writers are weird)

1. What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting?

2. If you had to give up your keyboard and write your stories exclusively by hand, could you do it? If you already write everything by hand, a) are you a wizard and b) pen or pencil?

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

4. What’s a word that makes you go absolutely feral?

5. Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?

6. What is your darkest fear about writing?

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?

9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know

10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?

11. Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?

12. If a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? Btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current WIPs into Lorem Ipsum, I don’t make the rules

13. What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy?

14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back?

15. Do you write in the margins of your books? Dog-ear your pages? Read in the bath? Why or why not? Do you judge people who do these things? Can we still be friends?

16. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

20. If a witch offered you the choice between eternal happiness with your one true love and the ability to finally finish, perfect, and publish your dearest, darlingest, most precious WIP in exactly the way you've always imagined it — which would you choose? You can’t have both sorry, life’s a bitch

21. Could you ever quit writing? Do you ever wish you could? Why or why not?

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

23. Describe the physical environment in which you write. Be as detailed as possible. Tell me what’s around you as you work. Paint me a picture.

24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

26. How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?

27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

28. Who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? Why?

29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?

30. Talk to me about the role dreams play in your writing life. Have you ever used material from your dreams in your writing? Have you ever written in a dream? Did you remember it when you woke up?

31. Write a short love letter to your readers.

32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?

33. Do you practice any other art besides writing? Does that art ever tie into your writing, or is it entirely separate?

34. Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go:

35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

36. They say to Write What You Know. Setting aside for a moment the fact that this is terrible advice...what do you Know?

37. If you were to be remembered only by the words you’ve put on the page, what would future historians think of you?

38. What is something about your writing process YOU think is Really Weird? If you are comfortable, please share. If you’re not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us?

39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?

40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.

#my writing

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absolutebl · 3 years ago

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This Week in BL

July 2021 Wk 3

Being a highly subjective assessment of one tiny corner of the interwebs.

Ongoing Series - Thai

Golden Blood Ep 4 - yay, my favorite part of any bodyguard romance: the homoerotic self defense classes! Many cute tropes in this episode like hand holds, high-low hugs, sleep facing. Also I am really starting to like the side couple. Super flirty sunshine meets mock-tsundere is a new favorite. I’m enjoying this show! It’s pretty much Thailand’s take on Where Your Eyes Linger and there is NOTHING wrong with that since it’s so much more cheerfully gay. (Nothing against WYEL, it’s just a different style and aesthetic.)

My Boy the series Ep 3 - there is a LOT of punching down humor especially where femme, trans, and women are concerned. AND I’m finding it duller than dishwater. I might drop it.

The Yearbook Ep 1 - it’s fine, I guess. It’s riding hard on the leads and I’m not sure they are strong enough to carry it. It’s not off-putting. It’s not on-putting either.

The Best Story Ep 2 - endearingly awkward and cute. Best’s friends are great and War gives pretty heart eyes. He’s not bad on the guitar either, so the sing your feelings could have been A LOT worse. (I still fast-forwarded though. I’m not a masochist. ) No idea what that note was about but with these two, it’s all still very cute.

Top Secret Together Ep 10 - I like the new couple, can we keep them? No one is surprise by the “not brothers” revelation, and if you were, I am VERY disappointed in you and all my efforts on tropes and romance arcs is for naught. NAUGHT, I TELL YOU. (See? Stepbrothers it’s so bad, it could be much worse.) Where was I? Oh right the “he’s too young to understand” conceit is stupid. Meanwhile, my babies are back in form and got a ton of screen time. This was the CopyNampu show and I am quite happy with that. They are such boyfriends, I don’t know why they’re pretending they aren’t, doesn’t fool anyone.

Ongoing Series - Not Thai

Ossan’s Love (Hong Kong) Eps 8-9 - honestly Tin elevates disaster bi to a whole new level of disaster, like 3 Stooges level. Siu Muk is just about the cutest little muffin ever, and if Tin hurts him, ooooo, I’ll be mad. I have to say the wardrobe for this drama is quirky as all goddamn get up. Their knitwear game is wild.

Friend or Lover (Taiwan) Ep 4 fin- I guess that’s it? If so, it has a sad ending. If there is more, MDL isn’t saying that. So under this context? NOT RECOMMENDED.

Be Loved in House: I Do (Taiwan) Ep 10 - future cafe dad side dishes got a lot of screen time, meanwhile our main couple were tiny idiots. Next week is episode 11 and I think we can expect a bit of trauma drama, but everything is so low stakes in this show it hardly matters. I love this series but it is kinda like the lite beer to the HIStory franchise’s coffee stout.

Given (Japan) Ep 1 - this is an adaptation of the anime (which came from a yaoi manga and i really wasn’t into either), but they are condensing it into only six 25 min episodes so maybe that will help? This is a high school rock star romance featuring the boy with the magic voice and the hot grumpy guitarist. I have to say IT’S OFF TO A GREAT START. And boy am I glad we are getting something from Japan this year! I missed their style of BL. Makes me very nostalgic and I might have to rewatch Seven Days now.

Monster in Law AKA Mẹ Chồn Dâu Cáo (Vietnam) Ep 13 - on hiatus? Or? We not sure.

Light On Me (Korea) Ep 5-6 - OMG SO AWKWARD. Why does it have to be so awkward? Stupid adorable shy inept soft boys. ARGH. Tropes are starting to pile up: symmetrical stare, uncomfortably close distance (lapel grab variant), catch me, baby is clumsy and weak, messy eater, heart knows, etc... Also I have decided TaeKyung falls into the adorable bean nugget category. The bit where he touches his own face after a tiny cheek caress just because no one had given him any physical affection in so long, broke my flipping heart. Poor baby. And we are getting a solid little love triangle going, so DRAMA is coming. Or what amounts to it in K-BL.

(Tell us about it, stud.)

In Case You Missed It

Rakutan did a massive take down serve on YouTube so if you were getting your Taiwanese and Korean BL there (HIStory, Color Rush, Seven Days, etc), it’s mostly been removed. Some of it is still on Viki though... which would appear the be the point.

We Best Love No 1 For You completed it’s special reissue run. I caught a little bit of the extra footage, some came from the Pei Shou Yi special and they tagged the full break-up onto the end. But there is very very little that we haven’t seen before. The rips are a slightly better quality than pervious, if that means anything to you.

I noticed this background rainbow for the first time, at Gao Shi De’s mom’s place, she references the paintings that Gao Shi De does inspired by Zhou Shu Yi and I wonder if this is one of them.

Super cute Thai BL microfilm Once in Memory. 17 minutes of charming, high school set, very winning, well written, and excellent flirting. Nothing major, all we get is a hand hold but it’s well earned. It’s supposedly getting a second installment of the same content from the POV of the other character. RECOMMENDED.

Breaking News

KinnPorsche is back on, with the writer rejoining the team? I don’t know. I do know writers throw hissy fits a lot (the natural consequence of surrounding an introvert with extroverted drama geeks). I’m calm. I’ll be happy if it happens and untroubled if it doesn’t.

Singto rumored to be leaving GMMTV. Still going to do Baker Boys.

OffGun Not Me update here. They’re workshopping, production is delayed, won’t release until after September.

Peach of Time dropped a making of BTS but it acts a lot more like a long trailer and it looks GOOD. Like really good: Korean production values with Thai talent (Mii2 AKA JimmyTommy). I’m suddenly super excited about it. I highly recommend watching the BTS as I think it gives better insight than the original teaser. And it looks like they are filming which means they got funded, so this one might really happen. Mixed languages, mostly Korean & Thai but also a little English & Japanese.

This is not the first co-funded co-acted BL venture: Call It What You Want was a Thailand & Taiwan joint project (language: Thai), and Present Still Perfect was Thailand & Japan (language: Thai, Japanese, English). There’s also Because of You which is Taiwanese but one actor is/speaks Korean and another is bilingual. (Ask me how much I want a joint Taiwan+Japan project? SO MUCH.)

Next Week Looks Like This:

Some shows may be listed later than actual air date for International subs accessibility reasons.

Upcoming 2021 BL master post here.

Links to watch are provided when possible, ask in a comment if I missed something.

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detective-gum-chew · 3 years ago

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okay okay okay

i know this isnt an orginal idea by any means but roleswap!narumitsu is just so good

so youll have to indulge me because this lives in my head rent free and i want to write it down concretely somewhere (also this gets LONG so ill pop a cut in here)

alright so:

1. at least in my writing of it, this is also a no-dl6/gregory lives au. but as well at that, miles and phoenix didnt go to school together

2. this means that there was nobody to defend phoenix at the class trial (yes i know the money stolen was edgeworths but shhh lets pretend it was someone elses, kay?) this lead to phoenix becoming not only bitter, but somewhat obsessive over the idea of punishing people that do wrong

(if someone can find that quote where phoenix talks about how he could have become a prosecutor because of the trial i will give u a gentle kiss on the forehead)

3. Edgeworth was raised by Gregory and ends up becoming a defense attorney

4. in this, Von Karma goes down and Franzy is adopted by Gregory, and she assists Miles in his cases. (she can still have a whip, as a treat.)

5. anyway with that set up, lets get into some cases

6. Larry gets accused of Cindys murder, Miles defends with Franzy

7. Lets say Mia was in the crowd of that trial and decided to contact miles, seeing as he appears to be another uncorrupt lawyer and asks him for his help in taking down Redd White

8. He agrees, and she sets a time for him to meet at her office so they can talk. Mia then calls her sister and updates her on how shes going to recruit another person (Redd White hears this)

9. Much like the original case, Mia gets murdered, but this time, Maya isnt here to be blamed. Instead, its Miles himself, as the name that White heard over the phone (so basically we’re speed running to the “defend yourself in court” part)

10. the prosecutor today is Phoenix Wright.

11. but before that lets go into some backstory actually. Phoenix had encountered Mia previously during the Terry Fawles case. He had respected her as a peer, if not for just her determination and deductive skills. (After all, he was young at the time and solely focused on punishing the wicked) After Diego’s poisoning, he had briefly reached out for condolences

12. but anyway, Phoenix had distantly respected Mia, and now that she was dead, he was going to be tough on whoever he thought murdered her.

13. Miles proves his innocence, although it takes some baiting to get Redd White out of his building and actually into court.

14. Wright is... not pleased about this, but theres not much he can do. His displeasure for Mias murder has shifted, but theres a new displeasure for Miles, the man who could beat him in court. (”well well well, you managed to save your own skin. But you should hope you get as lucky as you did in your next case”)

15. Next case! We know Miles is a steel samurai fan, so even without Maya it takes very little convincing for him to take the case. (Fran is not as amused but trusts her brother... enough.. to follow his lead)

16. Case proceeds mostly as normal, with Phoenix requiring Dee to re-do her testimony (maybe something deep within him still itches to put the true bad guy away, even if its harder than the accused)

17. I dont think Phonix would deliver the unnecessary feelings line, although there definetely is that moment in the lobby where hes like “hm. maybe you arent a bad person, but that doesnt mean i have to like you.”

18. and now, now now now, we finally get to the part where i somehow managed to put the most thought into. (for context it is nearly 2 am when i am writing this)

19. sleep schedule aside, you couldnt have thought i would made this WITHOUT some good angst, so here we go. case four is similarly structured to the original, but with an extra side of Phoenix angst.

20. Miles wakes up to Franzy shaking him. She points to the television. the news is on, but the voices are drowned out by a distant ringing as he stares at the image on the screen.

Famed Prosecutor Phoenix Wright Arrested For Murder

21. it just doesnt make sense. So he gets out of bed and into the closest clothes he can find and out the door with his sister in tow. He sits in the cold detention room, thinking about the other side of the glass.

22. Phoenix Wright looks dull. He asks what they want. Miles says he wants an explanation. Wright sneers and asks why. For some reason, that pisses Miles off. He slams his badge to the glass and Wright looks surprised.

“Do you know what this is? It’s my attorneys badge.”

“the badge doesnt mean youre a good lawyer.”

“Well Mr Wright, its 2-0, so i dont think you have any right to say that.” Miles glares at him and Wright sits back in his seat. He watches Miles for a long time.

“If im going to defend you, you need to tell me what happened.“ Wrights eyebrows shoot up and Franziska squawks at his side

“What do you mean defend him!”

“What she said.”

Miles narrows his eyes at Wright as he ponders to himself the answer. Why is he doing it? the answer comes to him.

“Because i dont believe you did it.”

For all his snark, Miles cant bring himself to believe that the man in front of him would kill someone. Theres something about him, either in his eyes or the way he carries himself that makes the idea itself preposterous. Wright looks at him for a long time after he says it.

“Very well.”

21. Miles doesnt seem him until court, but at least he testifies. The next person up, a red head by the name of Melissa Foster, gives a testimony that seems airtight.

22. that is, until he looks over at Phoenix, who is pale as he looks at the woman on the witness stand. Phoenix catches his eye, and very carefully, very slowly, mouths one name.

Dahlia Hawthorne

23. (I really wish i could continue with the more narrative parts of this but im honestly running out of steam and ill get to the point lol. Maybe ill finish it later.)

24. Terry Fawles dies on the stand. Diego Armando falls into a coma. Dahlia Hawthorne walks free. Even after what happened to Diego, Phoenix is convinced he can do better. He sets up a meeting with Dahlia.

25. Doug shows up, trying to persuade him away from it, saying he overheard Dahlia’s plan to kill Phoenix when she arrives. Phoenix is cocky, and the pair fight. Doug gets shoved into the powerline. Phoenix, thinking him dead, panics and runs.

26. Dahlia, having overheard, goes back and finishes him off, drops some poison into his mouth perhaps. With an accidental death with a cause so obvious, nobody bothers to run blood tests (until Miles)

27. Its years later, and Phoenix gets a note that tells him they know what really happened to Doug. Phoenix arrives to a meeting place to find a dead body. He picks up the vial of poison almost absently.

28. After all, Dahlia had gotten rid of Diego and Mia was dead. Now all she had to do was get rid of Phoenix

29. It plays out similarly to case four, with Phoenix being absolved of the first murder, then confessing to the old one. Miles has gone through the work to save his life once, that he cant not do it again.

30. but happy endings (ish) for all, with Phoenix being freed, Dahlia imprisoned and Miles having a better understanding of both him and Phoenix.

31. maybe more happens but we’re at bullet point 31 so its time to stop for now lmao. uh but yeah! roleswap au..... brainrot really.

#lmk what yall think #sorry to maya for writing her out but i couldnt find a way to put her in ;-;#sorry if it gets repetitive towards the end i did not edit this at all #roleswap au #defense attorney!miles #prosecutor!phoenix #ace attorney #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #aa au

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mc-lukanette · 4 years ago

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MC-Lukanette’s “No Context November” 2020 Masterpost

My personal “No Context November” was so much fun, and thanks to everyone who interacted with/enjoyed it! I adore Lukanette a ton and it was a blast getting out these 54,000+ words and seeing how people reacted to them.

As is appropriate since there were thirty posts involved (+1 more counting the bonus for October 31st), which may or may not be more than one can handle in a single month, here’s a masterpost of everything!

` = ficlet

* = one-shot (or close to being a one-shot if a few paragraphs/a little more context were added)

^ = part of a larger AU/hypothetical story

{AO3 link for No Context November}

(Halloween bonus) * (1003 words) - Loose Threads [Fairy Tale] [Creature Marinette] [Crafted Luka]

A fairy-tale-styled story about a lonely monster who believes in karmic justice.

Day 1 * (1601 words) - {Lukanette} [Festival] [Haunted House] [Confession] [Kiss]

After being shoved into a haunted house attraction by their friends, Luka and Marinette bond over being mutually scared and have a little talk about their feelings.

Day 2 * (2078 words) - {Lukanette} [”Party Crasher” divergence] [Crossdressing] [Marinette Wears Luka’s Clothes and He Doesn’t Know What to Do With Himself]

Upon seeing Marinette sulking outside the Agreste mansion in “Party Crasher,” Luka decides to help her out. When the direct approach fails, he takes her to his house for “Plan B.”

(bonus continuation - 1359 words)

Day 3 * (1781 words) - {Lukanette} [Cuddling] [Discussion of Visual and Auditory Interpretation] [Confession] [Kiss]

When Marinette struggles with her stress, she relies on Luka for comfort and wonders how he can do what he does. His lesson to her goes a little differently than he expected.

Day 4 ^ (2602 words) - {Lukanette} [Talks About Love] [Hurt/Comfort] [Luka Knows] [Dating Without Dating] [Gray Morality] [Mutual Selfishness] [Kiss]

In which Marinette is affection-starved and both she and Luka decide to be selfish about how they feel.

Day 5 * (1461 words) - {Lukanette} [Akuma Mention] [Hurt/Comfort] [Mentioned Confession] [Kiss]

After having snapped at Marinette due to an akuma, Luka goes to Marinette to assure her that he didn’t mean a word of it.

Day 6 ^ (2335 words) - {Lukanette} [Winged Marinette Dupain Cheng] [Luka has Cat] [Luka’s Song Sensing Taken Up a Notch]

When Marinette doesn’t meet with Luka and the others outside of school one day, Luka goes to find her and discovers something about her in the process.

Day 7 ` (600 words) - {Viperbug} [Concern] [Identity Reveal] [Kiss]

Viperion worries about Marinette on the way to an akuma battle. Ladybug explains without words why he shouldn’t.

Day 8 ^ (1212 words) - {Lukanette} [Magical Luka Couffaine] [Blue-skinned Luka Couffaine ala Silencer] [Injuries] [Meeting for the First Time]

Luka Couffaine, hailing from the Tribe of Chaos, wakes up injured in the home of a cute human girl who - to his surprise - only wants to help him.

Day 9 ^ (2178 words) - {Lukanette} [Adulthood] [Time Travel] [Apologies/Regrets] [Confession] [Kiss]

While on a date that Luka had gently requested for her, Marinette confesses to her feelings for him, along with a lot more.

Day 10 ^ (850 words) - {Lukanette} [Adulthood] [Housemates] [Luka and Marinette Are Just “Very Good Best Friends” (in denial)]

Luka has some issues to work out concerning moving. Marinette offers to help.

Day 11 ^ (1003 words) - {Lukanette} [Luka has Cat] [Luka and Marinette Know Each Other’s Identities] [Accidental Kiss]

Marinette meets Luka outside of school and notices that he’s acting weird. Just what is he hiding under that hood?

Day 12 ^ (1543 words) - {Lukanette} [Childhood] [Luka and Marinette Are Basically Neighbors] [Meeting for the First Time] [Paper Airplanes]

For the most part, Marinette didn’t have an opinion on the fact that her house was so close to the Seine. It’s only when she hears the sweet sound of a boy’s guitar that she changes her mind.

Day 13 ^ (1297 words) - {Lukanette} [Adulthood] [Multiverse] [Pre-Established Relationship... sort of]

Marinette could use some serious help in the romance department. Luckily for her, Sass knows just the guy to send her to.

Day 14 ^ (1536 words) - {Lukanette} [Spirit Luka Couffaine] [Possession] [Confession]

Luka, having been in a spirit state for a while, feels miserable about his plan to get Marinette together with her crush (via possession, one of his few capabilities) falling through. Turns out that Marinette doesn’t mind as much as he thinks.

Day 15 ^ (2502 words) - {Vipernette} [Miraculous Cure With No Ladybug] [Miraculouses Have Side-Effects] [Meeting for the First Time] [Hugs]

Viperion suffers through the drawbacks of his cold-blooded miraculous and Marinette helps.

Day 16 * (1525 words) - {Lukanette} [Clothes] [Unspoken Confession] [Kiss]

Marinette just wanted to sleep for the day, but being a normal person requires her not to. She just wishes that she could understand why everyone keeps looking at her weird.

Day 17 ^ (1190 words) - {Lukanette} [Shared Locker] [Communication Over Notes] [Luka is Juleka’s Twin Brother] [Luka is in Ms. Mendeleiev’s Class]

Marinette arrives on the first day of school to find that someone’s things are in her locker. What might’ve seemed like something bad at first ends up being a neat opportunity to make a new friend.

(continuation - 1355 words)

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Day 18 ^ (1838 words) - {Lukanette} [Adulthood] [Bus Rides] [Sleep-Deprived Marinette Dupain-Cheng] [Meeting for the First Time]

Marinette ends up meeting someone on a bus ride. The circumstances behind it weren’t exactly things she’d mention to others, but it turns out not being as bad as she thought.

Day 19 ` (818 words) - {Lukanette} [post-”Silencer”] [Guilt] [Nightmares] [Luka Knows]

Luka has been, to put it simply, excessively helpful as of late, and Marinette decides to get to the bottom of it.

Day 20 ^ (1922 words) - {Lukanette} [Adulthood] [Baker Marinette Dupain-Cheng] [Rock Star Luka Couffaine] [Meeting for the First Time]

When Luka comes back from tour with questions in his head, Juleka decides to solve the problem by sending him to a bakery, where he ends up being more taken by the woman working there than the actual sweets.

Day 21 ^ (1565 words) - {Lukanette} [Adulthood] [Children’s Books] [Author Marinette Dupain-Cheng] [Luka Knows]

While shopping with Ivan and Mylene’s child, Luka comes across a particular children’s book that reminds him of himself (as Viperion) and Ladybug. His curiosity is piqued and he wants to know more.

Day 22 * (2682 words) - {Lukanette} [Non-consensual Kiss] [Confession] [Kiss]

Lila is up to her usual tricks again, with Marinette silently seething in the background while trying not to make a scene. This time though, Lila goes after Luka, which might just end up working in Marinette’s favor in the end, if only in what matters most.

Day 23 * (3874 words) - {Lukabug} [Adulthood] [Cut Contact] [Long-standing Crushes]

On patrol one night, Ladybug meets up with Luka after she’d (as Marinette) cut contact with him for years. They end up talking and she learns that things are much different with him than she expects.

Day 24 ^ (1578 words) - {Lukanette} [Adulthood] [Coffee Shop] [Sleep-Deprived Marinette Dupain-Cheng] [Meeting For the First Time]

Luka finds an exhausted Marinette one day and decides to offer her his coffee. He expects not to see her again and ends up being very wrong.

Day 25 ` (1116 words) - {Lukanette} [Guitar Lessons] [Light Flirting] [Indirect Confession]

In which Luka just wants to continue Marinette’s guitar lessons and she returns the favor by assaulting him with feelings.

Day 26 ^ (1217 words) - {Lukanette} [Adulthood] [Fake Marriage] [Jagged Stone is Luka Couffaine’s Father] [Hereditary Song Sensing] [Meeting For the First Time]

Jagged has called Marinette for an abundance of strange things over the time she’s known him. This one, though, is probably the strangest of them all.

Day 27 ^ (1460 words) - {Lukanette} [Naga Luka Couffaine] [Dimensional Travel] [Confession] [Kiss]

Waking up in the middle of the night, Luka realizes that Marinette is also awake and notices that she’s acting suspicious.

Day 28 ^ (1432 words) - {Lukanette} [Adulthood] [Adrien and Marinette Are Friends] [Bonus Adrimi] [Relationship Meddling]

Adrien and Marinette talk while on patrol, and Adrien is both shocked and confused at the fact that Marinette isn’t dating despite being in love with Luka.

Day 29 ^ (1184 words) - {Lukanette} [Not-So-Secret Admirer] [Mutually Misunderstood] [Meeting For the First Time]

Luka is lamenting how people view him, given his supposed “bad boy” appearance, when he gets a surprise visitor.

Day 30 ^ (3726 words) - {Lukanette} [Childhood] [Adulthood] [Timeskip] [Promise Rings] [Jagged Stone is Luka Couffaine’s Father] [Failed/Newfound Goals] [Flower Shop] [Music Shop]

Luka and Marinette have been best friends for years, but when Luka has to be torn away from her on his quest to be a rockstar, they make a promise that they carry with them all the way through adulthood.

#lukaneventte: No Context November #Flower Arrangement Shipping #Lukabug #Vipernette #Viperbug #((54000+ words))#((Also known as ''half a Quickspinner fic'' ;D))#Lukanette #Pro LukaMari

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queenofthearchipelago · 3 years ago

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So I just finished episode 8 of superman and lois season 2, I know I'm like two months behind everyone else, but I needed to get my thoughts out there.

So I overall really liked this episode, Sam is the best dad. I loved watching Lana and Kyle's relationship develop after what happened at the Quinceanera. I loved pretty much everything Jordan did, helping his brother and ditching that weird dinner with Sarah and Aubrey. (You guys were right, what was Sarah thinking? It was super funny to realize there was no extra context, the spoilers I read for that were spot on.)

I mostly just don't like for Clark is handling Jonathan. I appreciate that Jon gets online classes and he now works at that convenience store (where that one girl who thought he was cute worked!) but Jon is still a good kid, and I think Clark should maybe just let him handle the consequences to his actions and stop bashing the poor kid with how disappointed he is. The first scene at the table was hard to watch, Clark really pushes it in how disappointed he is in a way that makes Jon thinks his dad maybe hates him. Like, I think that's what Lois should have said at the end of the episode. "Clark, don't let this go on too long (because the kid already thinks his father hates him.)"

I just wonder if this is a mischaracterization of Clark, because I really did not expect him to react to Jon this way, about anything.

I realize this is old news to everyone and I don't really have spoilers for episodes 10 and 11, so maybe this has all been resolved. But, my feelings about this are still complicated. I hope Clark realizes what he's doing to Jon, and I hope someone gives that poor kid a hug.

And also I guess Lucy is blatantly evil now, and my heart breaks for Sam.

#superman & lois #superman and lois #jon kent #jonathan kent #clark kent #superman #thoughtsfromthequeen

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dwellordream · 3 years ago

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“The marginalization of girls’ domestic labor is evident in the descriptions of work that enter the records of their lives. Virtually all girls had some domestic responsibilities. (One study in 1896 found that 83 percent of high school girls said they did some ‘‘general housework’’ or sewing on a daily basis, taking about an hour a day.) But this work was characterized by its partialness, by its incidental quality as one of many features which were intended to structure the lives and enhance the character of prospering girls.

…Like the ‘‘pert miss’’ in William Thayer’s book of admonition wondering, ‘‘How can a girl like me be orderly, when I have nothing to order?’’ middle-class Victorian girls learned that they could practice habits of ordering on their own wardrobes and their own rooms, their labor defined by its value in building their own character. And indeed, that was often how girls’ duties were defined: as the light work associated with keeping up of a private bedroom or with the genteel presentation of the household.

Emily Eliot’s chores, which were rarely featured in her journal, included sometimes making out a list of the soiled clothes (which were increasingly sent out to commercial laundries rather than done at home), organizing her shelves, and sometimes sewing. Martha Moore’s mother often called on her to arrange flowers for the parlors before she did her schoolwork. Lucy Breckinridge, like Martha Moore writing in the South during the Civil War, had the lightest of household chores because of the presence of black slave labor.

When she announced in her diary that she had ‘‘been a little more industrious and housekeepy this week,’’ she described chores remarkable for their seeming remoteness to the real work of the household. ‘‘I have crocheted bridle reins and breakfast mats, hemmed some ruffles, and made some ice cream and custard.’’ Sewing, especially ornamental needlework, was the prototypical girls’ work, redeemed by its suggestion of industry without urgency.

…When such household labor was in fact marginal, encouraged by advisers as ‘‘gratifying your mother in these little things,’’ and perceived by daughters as ‘‘sacrifice of my time and pursuits,’’ there is no wonder that girls did not take their responsibility to domestic labor entirely seriously, and sometimes chafed at or evaded those responsibilities. Especially when girls saw their house work as ‘‘helping mother,’’ a note of wryness or rebellion crept into otherwise implacable diarists.

Margaret Tileston, whose lifelong daily entries are notable for their flat, descriptive quality, revealed a saucy note in her contrast of her mother’s activity with her own quiet reading. ‘‘In the morning, Mother was very busy getting closets in order. I helped her a little, but not much. . . . Je n’ai rien à dire.’’ The next day, she noted that she ‘‘helped Mother somewhat by trotting up and down stairs,’’ her duties those of an automaton rather than a coworker.

…As Terhune suggested, when household work was defined as ‘‘helping mama,’’ even dutiful Victorian daughters felt infantilized and expressed rebellion. There were other circumstances, however, when a girl described her household work with acceptance, and sometimes even pride and a sense of accomplishment. This was when her labor was in fact irreplaceable, because she herself was filling in for an absent servant or an absent mother.

When the Baldwin family maid departed to nurse her sick cousin, daughter Jessie’s activities took a different turn from her usual genteel schedule. She wrote to a friend, ‘‘Now I’ll tell you what has been my occupation lately—Getting up at 5 a.m. cooking breakfast for H. and Papa at 7 a.m. washing the dishes at 8, dusting at 9, various odd things at 10, ditto at 11, and dinner at 12.’’ Jessie had inherited a full-time job.

For girls who already had full schedules, especially those who attended school, replacing a maid imposed real burdens. The sickness of her mother and her three brothers and the absence of a maid meant that Jessie Wendover’s friend Florence ‘‘has to do all the work and is completely discouraged about her lessons, she has so little time to study.’’ At the very least, it took a toll on a girl’s leisure pursuits, so that Florence Peck could win her competition with a friend in seeing who could read David Copperfield fastest, ‘‘for her folks are without a girl.’’

Daughters had a clear responsibility to replace mothers’ work when mothers became ill or were away, a responsibility which they accepted and sometimes celebrated. (When mothers died or were permanently incapacitated, girlhoods summarily ended.) Annie Gates’s mother broke her leg when Gates was twelve, and the girl commenced her ‘‘first experience in cooking,’’ a position which made her proud and which she ‘‘strove to prove’’ herself equal to, despite the disastrous results.

Mary Bartine, daughter of a wealthy New Jersey industrialist who employed several servants, noted that she had been ‘‘house keeper and sick nurse combined for the last few days,’’ when her mother had become sick. And when Eleanor Hooper’s mother was away, she wrote a friend, ‘‘I have been housekeeper and head cook and bottle-washer,’’ a phrase which she explained by allowing, that ‘‘although we have a capital servant who has been with us almost two years, I have heaps of work to do to keep everything up to the mark.’’

For seventeen-year-old Annie Cooper, a committed amateur artist whose family also employed servants, the managerial responsibilities of replacing her mother, away for the week in 1882, weighed less heavily. ‘‘I was housekeeper. Papa and I enjoyed it very much indeed, for I painted nearly all the time. and of course that was bliss for me.’’ The suggestion here is that for Annie, replacing her mother in her absence was less time-consuming than obliging her in her presence.

By the end of the century, cultural promoters of domesticity had almost given up on their efforts to reintroduce domestic apprenticeships among an urban elite. Instead, advice givers in periodicals found other ways to encourage girls to learn the skills of home work. The founding of clubs and the establishment of classes, like the writing of advice manuals themselves, were designed to encourage the practice of dying arts.

One Hamilton cousin prepared ‘‘peach creme’’ ‘‘for the cooking club,’’ in the context of a day which included reading, meeting with the Shakespeare club, a trip to town, another stint reading (this time Knickerbocker’s New York), and some crocheting, done while listening to the reading of another story aloud. Another girl organized a cooking club for the maid’s night off. A twelve-year-old wrote in to Harper’s Young People of her desire to belong to ‘‘the Little Housekeepers,’’ but lamented that she probably was ineligible because ‘‘I can’t cook much.’’ Even promotional schemes to restore the lost art of housewifery required at least a modicum of early experience.”

- Jane H. Hunter, “Daughters’ Lives and the Work of the Middle-Class Home.” in How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood

#victorian #american #history #servants #class #jane h. hunter #how young ladies became girls

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transgenderer · 4 years ago

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the following is a lightly edited transcript of my friends and i discussing the life changing, british lads hit each other with chair

www.yahoo.penis 10/27/2020 [6:54 PM] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9oZaP-my5E

www.yahoo.penis 10/27/2020 [6:59 PM] i need a team of anthropologists to start studying this video

prominent hentai scholar 10/27/2020 [7:01 PM] my first look at it [7:00 PM] ok [7:00 PM] it takes several techniques [7:00 PM] but the approaches i would use are lacanian and marxist, the marxism is verging into feminism, as masculinity plays a huge part. The masculinity displayed here is almost alien to an american viewpoint. Therein lies the humor for a lot of people. However, the same mechanisms are used in Britain to prove it, like enduring pain and feigning resistance to substances. this is exemplified in how the protagonist takes a final swig and then smashes the bottle and the still smoking (as demonstrated by his shirt wearing compatriot picking it up and taking a hit, which we will come back to later) cigarette onto the ground where he knows he may fall, both of which add a very real threat as consequences for his failure to “endure” at the highest standard. And no one makes him do this! he makes a bet on himself for his own benefit! [7:06 PM] Yet! [7:06 PM] He kisses his friend on the lips seconds before! [7:06 PM] Kinda gay, dog! [7:07 PM] it also affirms that the ritual they’re going through is not actually for dominance (another attribute of american masculinity, and possibly another difference) of any sort- similar to throwing the bottle on the ground, it’s all a voluntary ritual. It’s not a fight, and it’s not training; It’s a chance to show off, that his friend grants him as a favor, a display of mutual affection and trust. Anyway the cameraman is the most american-masculine man there. He doesn’t scavenge and he doesn’t grant anyone any favors, he never attempts to prove himself like the protagonist - but also never fails [7:10 PM] he laughs at them, as if doing this was not just absurd but without motivation. in the new context of the ritual failing, he distances himself from it by acting as a third party [7:11 PM]

whore of sumer 10/27/2020 [7:11 PM] YES

prominent hentai scholar 10/27/2020 [7:12 PM] Well

www.yahoo.penis 10/27/2020 [7:12 PM] YES

prominent hentai scholar 10/27/2020 taking a look at it from another angle [7:13 PM] Class is not the focal point of the video but an omnipresent part of the background. The style some of the young men have - like patroclus and achilles- conspicuously showing their wealth in muscular physique and and noble, well kept hair, like modern hoplites. but some appear like any other young man of their day; we don’t see the cameraman, for instance, and the young man who picks up the cigarette is also the young man who’s dress is least informed by nouveau riche tendencies; either he’s old money and does not see any need to affirm his place in the class hierarchy visually or (far more likely) he’s just an average income dude… and he’s the same actor that scavenges the cigarette. is he deprived of another carton at home, or is he scrounging up some of the honor of the protagonist who just made a huge show of his masculinity? either way he’s both embarrassing and flattering protag [7:18 PM] i think it’s probably the latter option and here’s why [7:19 PM] When the protag collapses, who runs in to steal his thunder? It isn’t that the protag proved it was safe; he collapsed [7:19 PM] he was trying to do him one better. [7:20 PM] i gotta eat dinner. maybe more later

prominent hentai scholar 10/27/2020 [8:00 PM] anyway [8:00 PM] one of the points of the video that give it so much panache - so much drama - is that through his presence shirtguy takes an almost antagonistic role. by receiving the first hit in the second round, he sets up the chair to hit him by the feet instead of by the back. and he doesn’t collapse; he scampers off. yet despite hijacking and doubly outdoing our protagonist, he isn’t the figure the audience cares about. mention of him is like, minimal, when you ask people what they remember about it [8:03 PM] example: this chat [8:04 PM] The thesis of the video is not “men are silly”; it’s not “this guy is pathetic because he couldn’t take getting hit by a chair, watch as someone defeats him”; it’s not “british people are aliens” (although this is a common interpretation, going back to what i said abt this being a different masculinity) [8:12 PM] the thesis is “british lads hit each other with chair”. There is only one lad hitting the others; there is no mutual hitting. But the title is still correct; the video hinges on the mutual nature of the interaction. The two shirtless lads, performative in body and spirit, do art with each other, mostly for proving that they’re Real Men, but clearly this is not all. The modification of the ritual - the kiss - his rescue by his attacker - the speed of this rescue, indicating that there was never any question of if this was for the protagonist’s benefit, just how (he is being a bit silly) - all of it comes to a head in their unconscious replication of the Pieta, a symbol of familial love even after being scorned in torture and death. The chair lad, the metaphorical mary, delivers punishment with the implicit guarantee of affection and care should the protagonist ever be truly hurt, a powerful parallel to motherhood. This is only one level of looking at the relationship hitting each other with a chair performs; the homoeroticism, brothers in battle and in bed, has been mostly forgotten in western culture, but the vestiges of it remain. The cameraman and the shirt lad, intruders, are forgotten, in time; their performance had no allusions to love and death, the two fascinations of any society. [8:15 PM] Despite their attempts to out-masculine the chair lad and the protagonist, without showing any vulnerability, they fail to gain any interest from the audience they didn’t understand or prepare for. This is another reason the video is so compelling; the spontaneous nature of the action suggests the bond between the men is genuine [8:17 PM] Anyway, final words: it’s funny because it’s absurd, and because the visible depth of the emotional interaction going on here under british lads hitting themselves with chairs in an alley is just as absurd as the premise. Something that silly shouldn’t be complex! it’s so weird! and it’s the weirdness that makes it funny [8:24 PM] honestly this could use a lot of polish [8:24 PM] now that im thinking abt it a lot of it is nigh freud tier acontextual [8:25 PM] bc i don’t understand british masculinity [8:25 PM] i also need to devote more time to the feminist angle [8:25 PM] ach

#.smxt

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lorei-writes · 4 years ago

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The Dragon of Yss: Extra!

Bloopers, Outtakes, some HC

Masamune x MC (Mizusaki Mai)

Fantasy AU

Summary: He wanted Mai to remain herself - and for that very reason, he promised to protect her, at any cost. Little did he know, he may need somebody to save him as well.

All parts: Part 1 - Sands of Estarra , Part 2 - Findings , Part 3 - “ I knew you’d come.” , Part 4 - Reborn , Part 5 - Eevi , Part 6 - Closer , Part 7 - Way to Varshka , Part 8 - The Gods We Trust , Part 9 - Flowers that Bloom in Adversity , Part 10 - Singing Bird , Part 11 - Vibrant Smoke , Part 12 - Hidden in Plain Sight , Part 13 - Heritage , Part 14 - Isger , Part 15 - Mad Possibility , Part 16 - Unraveling , Part 17 - Promises Sealed in Snow , Part 18 - Never Unfamiliar, Part 19 - White Noise , Epilogue: Threads

So, the main part of the story may be over... But it did not stop my brain from coming up with few little things here and there. As such, allow me to share those here as well.

// Dialogue shortly following the ending of the series; between Iroha and Masamune

// General post-chapter 19 notes/HC + explanations

“What do you mean you were turned into a dragon?! I thought you said you’ve lied to me only once in my life and that this was the lie!”

“Of course not. It was when you were seven and refused to go to sleep without having cake, so I told you that the neighbours’ dog was hungry and ate it.”

(Pause)

“Are you for real?”

“Dire situations call for appropriate measures.”

“I swear to skies, dad...”

The Plague of Yss

Iroha - the heiress of the Date clan

I feel it may be somewhat unclear, yet I decided against repeating it in the story itself. As was stated, Mitsunari had some hypothesis to test and needed at least a single person who survived long enough into the plague OR recovered from it.

The plague of Yss was in fact more of a double-edged sword, perhaps it could be even called a ritual performed by Isgerians. Yssians are their descendants and, as you probably already know, Masamune turned into the dragon as the result of this plague.

Long story short: Masamune is the survivor of the plague, the one thing Mitsunari needed. This is also why they came to live in Varshka, the place being one of two major cities presented in the story. (Why Varshka and not Vyrminia? University in Vyrminia would still be partially destroyed. As was stated by Mila, despite being almost the same in most regards, the atmosphere is the major thing setting those two apart. +Take note that Ieyasu did work there shortly before being forced to move to Vyrminia and recorded a rapid increase of cases of said plague there).

As was implied several times in the story, magical abilities or lack thereof may influence one’s life to a great extent - from their social status to rendering them a desirable product on the black market.

Allow me to write a short list (least to most desirable) of abilities.

Giftless.

Healer.

Connector (either of two types).

Transmuter.

(As for why this order is like so: talk between Oxa and Masamune in regards to giftless and healers; fact that the only transmuter in the story is Alleyah/Manya and it’s specifically mentioned that this ability is extremely rare and desirable to the point of people being bred to acquire it in the offspring. Yes - yikes; the only remaining and most common class are, of course, connectors, hence its placement).

Lastly, before I move to the point, please let me remind you: abilities are inherited. It is not completely random.

How does it all tie up into Iroha’s situation?

The history repeats itself. Iroha is hence more desirable heir than any of her cousins. If she so chooses - she will become the heiress of the Date clan. However, as it was already implied in the story: it is a choice. Masamune tells her he will handle any business with his family if she wishes to take a different path.

Masamune is giftless, which, aside from having only one eye, makes him a very poor candidate for a heir. As such, it was his younger brother who was granted the role - whichever type of magic he possessed, it was better than no magic and the risk of passing this “affliction” onto the next head of the family.

However, just as magic is passed, so is lack of it. Even if it did not activate in his generation, Kojirou’s children are born giftless. (Given the context, despite the other parent possessing some sort of ability).

Meanwhile, Masamune’s daughter, Iroha, was born a connector, having inherited the ability from her mother.

Her trip to Mitsuhide’s estate is related to that - there are little other reliable ways for her to be taught about diplomacy.

On warlords and their relationships

This may cause a question to appear: how did the warlords even end up being connected? Well... Simply as that, they were all sons from rather prominent households and had most likely met each other during diplomacy trips of their parents. Them either becoming heads of said families or not - that comes into play later on in their life. Their relationships survived.

It also means that the reason why Ieyasu was able to become a physician is because he was a healer and hence, not the best candidate. Also - Masamune could travel the world in search of Mai because... He didn’t have any political duties to attend to.

As for Mitsunari and Hideyoshi - it’s not explained nor implied how they got where they are. However, it’s possible to adapt canon for the sake of that.

Portal magic and its many faces

As it was stated in the story, the main thing setting Arynthian people from other connectors is that - if one of them is born a connector - their magic manifests somewhat differently. It’s ruled by different limitations.

As such, Mai’s portal magic is different from that of Kyubei. (As it was shown, she can see colorful lines and can follow them basically anywhere. Kyubei, meanwhile, has to be able to see the place he is supposed to open the portal to - or to be able to visualise it well, as was pointed out when Mai passed through a portal point).

Why am I bringing it up? Because Iroha’s magic is a bit different too. It has less limitations that Kyubei’s ability, yet it isn’t as powerful as Mai’s.

This also explains why “Arynthinas” are so rare - the ability degenerates fast. It’s more of an error than actual ability, so to say.

Kenshin & the timeskip

What was he even doing then? How long was it?

Well. Kenshin has a very fuzzy memory of last 20-ish years of his life in the form of the dragon. As was previously mentioned, it happens so when the primal desires take over human mind - when smelling blood or... Well, or what? It was mentioned he was hungry.

Yes. He was starving himself for the entire duration of the timeskip. Why? Because then the flammable substance in his stomach self-ignited and caused him to combust. In a way, he committed an act of self-burning...

And flames of the dragon were the only thing which could turn him back. So they did.

// Bullet-points (not written in the story, may not be written, but overall, you can assume those are canon)

Iroha was born 12 months after her parents reunited. When Mai got pregnant, it was a surprise for all parties involved. However, they chose to continue the pregnancy.

Mai became proficient in portal magic mostly because Iroha’s powers would activate at random when she was still little. A toddler stuck between the worlds doesn’t make for a happy toddler.

On that note, Masamune could be hardly left home alone with her. Hardly, as he eventually developed fast enough reflexes to pull her out of a portal right as she was starting to pass through it. It later became a joke that they needed to keep her on a leash for few months - which is not completely incorrect.

Developing the cure involved taking plenty of samples. In other words: RiP Masamune’s veins, he would curse like a sailor whenever he had to have his blood drawn.

To follow down this path: the preventive medicine involved having your skin cut and then it being injected. Iroha was very young when it happened and so, she has a scar on her arm from that.

Shortly after that, they moved back to Yss. Masamune might have not been the heir, but family standing did make some matters easier to achieve for him. As such, he’s a bit of a local leader in his community, I would say, dealing mostly with local politics and management.

They were relieved when it turned out their son, Tadamune, was giftless.

Iroha will never live down what happened at the apple tree.

During winter, the frostbite on Mai’s hands makes itself known again. Her skin cracks and scabs start to form - and each year, Masamune takes it onto himself to tend to them. He is more than aware that she got it while he was still turned into the dragon.

Manya continued to serve under Mitsuhide. However, she hardly uses her power anymore. She grew particularly close with Kyubei, although they’re still working on the terminology. Or perhpas there is no reason for it?They’re not sure themselves; Call them very close friends.

Mitsuhide does not have a chid or a partner. He doesn’t seem to mind, however, his “niece” having always been a handful to manage. He made sure to tell everybody about the apple tree. All of his stories contradict each other.

Time almost stopped for Kenshin when he was still a dragon. In other words, he’s the oldest in actual years of life, but in terms of physical form? He’s younger than Masamune or any other warlord. This lands him in a rather peculiar spot of... Well, an adult face, although in his case, it’s just another variety of VERY severe baby face.

// outtakes

-- this was a very early attempt at writing the smut scene. Written several months prior to actually getting to this point in the story.

The room was cozy and simple, the inventory of it consisting of warm chimney stretching from below the floor and up through the ceiling, a small table, with a bronze basin on top of it, and a bed, just barely big enough to fit two people comfortably. They stepped inside, the white sheets seemingly calling them, inviting them to come closer. Mai sank onto the mattress first, her legs still remaining on the floor. She kicked her boots off and, this time, lay down properly.

„ We're switching today,” she said, opening her arms for Masamune. He obliged, soon nuzzling into the crook of her neck. Resting in silent contentment, he slung his arm over her waist, pulling her even closer. She stroked his hair tenderly, basking in the warmth exchanged between their bodies. Ever since she was kidnapped, she wanted to just hold him, knowing he'd push himself with no regard for his own well-being.

„ You shouldn't have done that, you know...” she hummed. „ What were you even thinking, it was so risky...”

„ I screwed up in the market, didn't I?” he sighed. „ I'm sorry I didn't keep my word then.”

„ You idiot, you missed the point entirely. I can... If... If that's what I have to do to survive, I will accept it. But I don't want to lose you,” her voice hitched. Masamune propped himself on his elbow, cupping her cheeks with his free hand.

„ I'm sorry. But I couldn't stand having you whisked away again too.”

As if guided by pure instinct, she pulled him into a kiss. His lips pressed against hers more delicately than usually. She opened her mouth, needing to taste him, over and over again. His familiar scent enveloped her, his fingers tracing the outline of her jaw – and for a moment she could have sworn that the time stopped, that the entire universe was reduced just to that single small room. Yet, they had to part eventually, their lungs begging for air. To her surprise, Masamune returned to his previous spot, his hair tickling her chin.

„ I missed you so much, Mai,” he murmured against her skin. His lips brushed her neck once, twice, and so many more, each and every time descending slightly, until he reached the very tip of her collarbone. His hand waited at the hemline of her shirt.

„ But you should rest...” she trailed off.

„ I'm fine. You know the question was whether you want it or not.”

Hadn't she known the answer already? Yet, the reason still fought within her, reminding her of both her and his fatigue... But... Maybe? Maybe just a little... Maybe just a little more.

„ I do,” she uttered finally.

-- At first I considered Mitsuhide and Manya becoming and endgame ship. I ended up deciding against it. However, a line of dialogue stayed. I debated using it for another pair, but it didn’t happen either.

A chilly gust of wind slipped through the tiny creaks around the window. His teeth pulled lightly on the cord keeping her neckline closed, the knot soon unraveling. His hand snuck under her shirt, travelling up so very slowly, as if he wanted to renew the map of her body in his mind. She shivered under his touch, anticipation growing deep within her. His lips returned to her neck, as he cupped her breast from below, massaging it lightly. Switching between the left one and the right one, his fingers caressed them unhurriedly. Masamune pulled onto the top of her shirt, the fabric dispersing over the cord just slightly, exposing her shoulders. Cold air inviting itself into the room again, he kissed the newly freed skin. He propped himself on his elbow and looked down at her, her nipples peaking through her clothing.

„ Masamune...” she whined a bit, as if to rush him. He chuckled in response, the garment soon flying to the floor.

„ Aren’t you impatient, kitten?” he hummed against her breast, his breath warming up her skin. Mai shivered.

“ You’re..!” her voice hitched, as he took her nipple between his teeth and bit on it just lightly, flicking it with his tongue and sucking it a moment later.

“ Have you said anything just now?” he laughed, looking up at her. Mischief played in his eye, as he returned to caressing her, his fingers sliding down her side.

“ That I missed you too,” she gasped as he grabbed her rear, his hand sneaking beneath the fabric of her pants. As if to make up to her for all the missed time, his lips trailed a path down her abdomen – until she couldn’t take it anymore, pulling him up by his shoulders, needing to taste his lips. She pushed Masamune against the pillows and straddled him. Seeing the surprised look he gave her, Mai laughed a little.

“ I still think you should rest,” she stated firmly, her fingers tracing his jawline. She cupped his face and leaned forward, her hair tickling his cheeks as he kissed her again, his tongue entering her mouth eagerly. Wordlessly, she

-- Another dialogue exchanged between Mitsuhide and Manya. It made it into the final story, although slightly altered.

“I love you.”

“What--”

“With every fiber of my being. I love you.”

“He will not love you, no matter how much you change.”

“How can you know that?!”

“The filthiest scums on earth are unable to feel anything lest it’s twisted - and love, my dear little one, can never withstand that sort of deformation.”

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ambidextrousarcher · 4 years ago

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Sarcastic StarBharat Reviews-Episode 22: In which horny deer rishis set off a chain of events.

Hello everyone! I’m back after a VERY long hiatus, had some real life issues to deal with, along with the aggravation of changing an url and some online drama too. And I’m right in time for Diwali, too, yay! Happy Diwali, people! Also Happy Children’s day!

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Review is under the cut.

PS: Nila updates- The Sarcastic StarBharat review of episode 18 is missing from my blog for some reason, I’ll reupload it. Also, for anyone who’s listening to my song covers, the next items are Karam Ki Talwar from Arjun the Warrior Prince, Moh Moh Ke Dhage from Dum Laga Ke Haisha and Jo Beji Thi Dua, from Shangai.

Okay. Rehash is in order, along with some new nicknames. Till the last episode, Madri has reached Hastinapur, the precap of the last episode makes it clear that this is the episode with horny deer rishis.

I had made a numbering mistake in counting the number of canon fails, my bad, so, as of now, we’re at canon fail #49.

Here’s the nickname rehash and additions to be made-

1. Bhishm-Mr. Paragon of Perfection

2. Dhritrashtra- Mr. Drama Queen (Honorary mention-DisasterRashtra, courtesy of @iamnotthat)

3. Pandu-Honey Boy/Lord of Cheesy Lines

4. Gandhari-Ms. Always Patnidharma

5. Shakuni-Mr. Ominous Music/Mr. Annoying Poseur

6. Karn-Mr. Glitterwash

7. Kunti-Ms. Melodrama/Lady of Cheesy Lines

8. Amba (deceased)-Psycho Princess

9. Satyavati-Psycho Mum

10. Vichitraveerya (deceased)-Drunk Kid

Here are the new additions:

11. Vidur (finally)- Picking the line where he likens himself to a thorn during Pandu’s coronation, he’s Mr. Weepy Thorn.

12. Madri-Ms. Smarmy Tears

13. Krishn-(Parody version, anyway, also, FINALLY) Mr. Excess Gyaandaan.

Now, let’s get to business.

Alright, so, last episode, Gandhari was told that Drama Queen wants her in his chambers. Being the aadarsh, Ms. Always Patnidharma that she is, she goes immediately, and that’s where today’s episode of choice begins.

She stumbles in and stutters out her usual ‘Husband?’ (International viewers, please note, Hotstar has rolled out the English subtitles for your most unfavorite show. It translates ‘Arya’ as Lord, but I’m keeping the ‘husband’ variation, because no.)

Anyway. He shushes her. ‘Don’t say anything, Gandhari, just listen. The mind is so weird, isn’t it?’ Okay…why this sudden volte face? Ah, he’s trying to apologise, I guess? He says that he was absorbed in his negative emotions of hurt, grief and jealousy, but when no news of Honey Boy came from the battlefield, he realized that he still worries and cares for his little brother, and that he was merely unfortunate, not conspired against, concluding that he was unjust to Honey Boy. O…kay? Should I count this as a canon fail? Canon Dhritrashtra can be two-faced, so eh, leave it.

Ms. Patnidharma is shaking her head next to him, because of course, she’s that much of a doormat. ‘I was unfair to you too. I had rejected you, Gandhari, but if I realise my mistake, will you accept me?’ Ah. I see what this is. Anvil-shadowing. Just before Pandu ‘loses’ his ability to ‘be a husband’ Drama Queen and Patnidharma make up with each other. Newsflash, writers: Nothing is this clean cut.

Of course, that was precisely the opening Ms. Patnidharma was waiting for, so she feels her husband up as they hug. Drama Queen’s heart, apparently, very anomalously, is overflowing with happiness, now that he has unloaded his weakness onto Patnidharma, or so he says. Don’t believe him, though, don’t be the naïve idiot Patnidharma is, because that weakness of his wreaks bloody wrecking ball havoc in the future.

‘So what if I don’t become the King?’ Excuse me. I just choked on my water. What’s up with this volte-face? Just what? ‘I have more respect here than the King himself!’ I think I’m gonna count this as canon fail #50 because nah, he ain’t gonna say this in any adaptation that’s sane. And of course, since he’s randy too, it seems, he goes ‘When you give me a son, he’ll be the eldest son and King after Pandu. I’ll also get the pleasure of being a King. Will you give me the gift of such a talented son?’ Ah. So that’s what the volte-face is for. Canon fail #50 cancelled. Drama Queen would say anything at all to get his way, that’s right. Patnidharma, predictably, goes all gushy. ‘Yes, husband, for your sake, I’ll go to the portals of Yamlok themselves!’ Ah, sheesh, sometimes, watching this show makes me think that I should projectile-yeet myself to Yamlok.

He laughs. ‘When the time comes,’ he says, ‘we’ll go to the portals of death together, Gandhari.’ Well, that, at least, is true. He continues that they still have many happy moments to experience. She nods, melting into his embrace.

Scene changes to a green vista, the whickering of horses heard. Madri, henceforth known as Ms. Smarmy Tears, is laughing, Ms. Melodrama being stony faced and stoic. (That’s a change, though the music manages to make even THAT dramatic) The camera focuses on a deer, and Smarmy asks Honey Boy to stop, because it’s a beautiful deer. Okay…I know what’s coming up next. Anvil-shadowing, anyone? I realise it was very long ago when we were introduced to Ms. Melodrama, but I’ll give you a short rehash. She was introduced saving a deer from hunters. Anyone got the hint? It’s an obvious ‘Madri is an evil witch!’ gambit. Please do not take it. I know that in canon, Kunti and Madri probably had a fractious relationship given the whole fracas over the boon, but I refuse to believe Madri would be this transparently biatch-y.

And…bingo! Smarmy says that the deer is absolutely unique, and follows it up with a request for its skin. Melodrama, of course, is having none of it. She passionately launches into defence of the deer’s children who’d be orphaned, basically echoing her very first piece of dialogue on this show. Do you think there’s a chance that they dubbed it in? I mean…I wouldn’t be able to say that twice with a straight face. But, whatever gives, I guess. Fawn get orphaned often, goes Smarmy. It’s not like I’m asking you for the position of the Queen, can’t you do this much for me? Since StarB has a thing of making women either bitches or doormat ditches, its Honey Boy who cuts in. ‘Speak of good things alone.’ Did this guy get a theology class between the ‘war’ and this moment? ‘I’ll get the deer for you, the rest of you please stay here.’ And then the show takes yet another opportunity to set Melodrama as good and Smarmy as bad, as Melodrama tries to give Smarmy a moral lesson about abstaining from killing for no reason, and Smarmy going all casteist (not sure if that’s the right word, since afaik Kunti’s maternal family are also Kshatriyas? Yadava is not one family. It’s an entire dynasty.) And here’s canon fail #50 and #51. #50 is the fact that Pandu, in canon, hunts the deer because he wants to. Madri has nothing to do with it in the text. #51 because the jibe about Yadavs being shepherds that Madri makes smacks of a misconception about politics in the MBH. The idea of ‘Yadavas’ being shepherds is present because of the lore of Krishn and Balaram in Gokul. While I’m sure there might be some branches of the family that may dabble in those pursuits, typically, considering the social structure of that time, Kunti’s family is of quite royal pedigree.

The scene switches to Honey Boy looking for deer, listening attentively to the rustling leaves. Really, this question goes for canon too, haven’t these guys learnt a thing at all from the whole Dashrath/Sravan Kumar fracas? That it is TOTALLY not a good idea to just randomly shoot in a random forest, anyone? At least sight the prey a little, no?

Regardless, he shoots an arrow, the tell-tale thunk is heard, followed by a human scream (the typically serial-ish ‘nahi, nahi!’ aka ‘no, no!’). Alarmed, he sets off in pursuit of the sound. The camera focuses on a bloody arrow then showing us a rishi and a rishin. ‘Maharishi Kidam?’ exclaims Pandu. ‘It was you?’ ‘What have you done? You shot an arrow without recognizing me! I was dallying (read: deer hanky-panky-ing) with my wife in the form of a deer, and you shot an arrow without considering that the grace and the form of the deer could only mean it is such?’ Okay, for all that I want to call this canon fail #52, I’ll be honest…because such a scene, at least one of Pandu killing Kidama when he’s in sexual congress with his wife in the form of a deer does happen. Sometimes, *sigh* canon itself is quite strange.

But…in the whole of this thing, I have an observation to make, a few questions to ask, in the context of this serial:

1. Madri saw only one deer? What was the deer rishi doing, a deer mating ritual of some sort? Where was the wife then?

2. Does what he said mean that there might be…other rishis doing deer hanky panky?

3. Kidama was a rishi, right? He’d have figured out Pandu wants the ‘deer’ when he saw them and vanished? He could have, IDK, sprinted off real quick, or turned back into human, or just vanished once more. Why escalate it this much?

Honey Boy is very contrite and begs for forgiveness. Canon fail #53. In canon, he basically goes, well, Kings hunt deer, why cry about it? (That is, the dialogue given to Madri to establish her as ‘bad’) The deer rishi brings up the Dashrath point I gave above and says that Honey Boy’s crime can’t be pardoned, that he shouldn’t have killed a man in congress with his wife, so he curses him that he’ll die the moment he’ll have congress with any woman. Canon fail #54. The original curse specifies ‘his loved one’ not any random woman.

Cue dramatic panoramic shot and dramatic title bgm. Honey Boy is in tears. The rishi dies.

Scene changes and we’re back in Hastina, where the court fool is entering. He says he has a lot of questions. Mr. Weepy Thorn prompts him to ask his questions. So there’s this long drawn out riddle session that’s set up to predict that Gandhari is pregnant, and Drama Queen will be experiencing the love of a son soon. There’s happiness all round, lots of hugs too. Of course, this show takes no rest from anvil shadowing either, so exactly at this moment enters Honey Boy with his wives. Honey Boy is welcomed with joy and immediately apprised of the news. In his head, the dying deer rishi’s words echo, even as his wives smile by his side. (Ah, apparently, there’s anvil juxtaposition, too! Whee!)

Anyway. Satyavati notices he ain’t looking happy and she asks him if he got what she said. He manages to sponge her off, hug his brother and congratulate him. When he does that, Annoying Poseur closes his eye.

As he ascends the throne, deer rishi’s words come back to him, asking what kind of a King he is. Honey Boy refrains from climbing the final stair, turning. He says that he has something of great importance to announce, confessing that he has killed Kidama and is no longer worthy of being a King.

His announcement is met with shock all around, as he renounces the throne of Hastina. Cue dramatic title bgm again. Camera focuses on Satyavati (who’s quite less psycho nowadays), then panning one by one to Drama Queen, Paragon of Perfection, Smarmy, Melodrama, Patnidharma, Ambika, Ambalika, a grinning Poseur (both eyes open), back to Honey boy and Mr. Paragon as he drops his angvastr limply.

Scene changes as Mr. Perfection walks inside Honey Boy’s chambers and they have an argument about his responsibilities. Honey Boy puts forward that for all that Satyavati wants a worthy King, he is no longer worthy, that even Indra renounced heaven for the killing of a sage and meditated for eons, that mere charity and abstinence as suggested by Mr. Thorn and Kripacharya won’t be enough. He continues that the duty of a King, the man who holds the royal scepter is to dispense justice to his people. He asks who would mete justice out on a King? The camera pans out to Mr. Perfection, standing mute, ending the episode.

Alright, this whole thing is canon fail #55. Pandu does not go back to Hastina, he sets out immediately to atone. Also #56, his wives know everything as he does. He doesn’t keep it hidden from them.

Precap: ‘But the crime was ours’ says Smarmy. ‘the punishment, however, has to be borne by our yet unborn children!’ ‘You can’t ever have children.’ Announces Honey Boy, going on to inform them of the curse.

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pinksh00tingstars · 4 years ago

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So I need closure so I've compiled relationship highlights from the show, from Kang Tae's POV vaguely prettified+featuring maybe some of my own addition+context that was not known to us when we watched it (if any) in text form and then I can live and let go of this show.

1. He's just annoyed when he sees her. After all, who smokes on hospital grounds. So when he goes to her to tell her she can't smoke here, his coffee cup still in his hand and she looks at him, he doesn't expect it- the memory her expression and demeanor combined trigger. It's not her. He thinks it so hard, he half expects her to respond but she just puts out her cigarette in his cup talking about fate and walks away. It's not her.

Well, turns out it is her. He's actively tried not to seek her out and when his brother had developed a liking for her books he hadn't done anything to stop him because it had felt like cheating on his promise to run away from her because he still got to keep some part of her. He's never read any of them, it feels like reaching for too much of the non-existent something between them, but her presence, even by proxy through the books is something. He's well aware of the burden the circumstances of their meeting has put on them. Even as a child he knew he'd never really be able to get Sang Tae's forgiveness because he's never had the courage to ask him for it. His best case would have been one where his brother simply forgets it. So he's in the hospital, looking for a suicidal, possibly dangerous patient when he meets her again and she stabs him in the hand, he's sure of it. It's Ko Moon Young. Not a doubt in his mind.

His brother insisted on an autograph. He's practically on his way to the hospital when he hears about Ko Moon Young's presence but Kang Tae stops him because she's a loose canon and she's never held back from firing at anyone even if she's firing on a whim. It's for his brother's well being, Kang Tae rationalizes but some corner of his brain just whispers I'm not sharing her. He isn't proud of it.

2. It's categorically a bad decision, leaving his brother alone in the queue to see her and when disaster strikes and his brother has a meltdown in the crowd, Kang Tae is there as soon as he can and he's there to be strong for the both of them. It's something he's used to and fully capable of doing. Then she's there, loudly demanding justice for his brother, taking the heat for him. It's terrifying. It's easier to do it alone and not expect any help, Kang Tae thinks as he tries to swat the memory of her saving him away from his mind.

It would've been easier to not have stuck around and seen the impact her intervention for him had on her. She's non-plussed by the skeevy journalist's jabs until he runs his mouth about her mother. He's already between them holding her back, preventing her from making it worse for herself.

When he teaches her the butterfly hug method, he does it simply because he's professionally in a position to help. It has nothing to do with her. But when she turns herself right back around pulls him closer, telling him trauma should be dealt with head on, his breath hitches.

3. He's aware that he has to move, and honestly, it feels exhausting but it's something he has to do. When his brother doesn't seem to have any qualms about moving back to their hometown, he thinks, it's not a bad idea. Besides, he thinks there's an advantage to putting as much distance between them as possible. She's unpredictable and a force of nature he can't match, won't match.

So he moves and does the motions of unpacking, resettling and going to work. In fact her absence is so much more familiar than her presence to him he's comfortable with it. He goes to work and he's fine because his brother is happy to be free of the butterflies. He expects it to be peaceful. It's a tiny town in the middle of nowhere and it's pleasant when the sea breeze hits him when he takes his breaks. In all honesty, he likes it here. He doesn't yet dare to call it home because he knows he'll move soon enough anyway or even indulge in the nostalgia of being from here. He's comfortable.

As if he's cursed his own luck, that very night she shows up at the hospital. Something about being fated occurs to him before he pushes the thought away immediately. He blames her for putting the thought in his head.

4. She's teaching a class here. It's just once a week, he thinks. His routine is not so fragile that it can't withstand her, he thinks. It's chaos soon enough. She's run away with a patient and he tries to stop her only for her to speed away and he swears she's just doing this to spite him.

Maybe there's nuance to her yet, he thinks. As he watches the Assemblyman's son dance around the stage and he recognizes it immediately. What the Assemblyman's son is craving, reaching so desperately for isn't just attention. That's skin deep. He's just looking for some version of happy. Kang Tae wonders what it's like to touch it. A version of happy.

He would've dismissed it to her having given this man the one gift he really needed as an outcome of simply sowing in his life the seeds of disorder but she looks at him knowingly and smiles. She knew. He wonders if she's made a habit of saving people. Should I just play with you? He wonders if he even can. If it's an option he's ever had. Would it be nice?

5. I hate spring flowers he admits. It's not what he craves but it's all he can share with her right now. It's enough. They're in a convenience store and Lee Sang In warns him- she'll eat you up alive. He's reminded of her fingers running up his body. Steeling himself, he goes back into the store and she's clearly not a fan of his choice for where they'd "share a meal". It's amusing.

He's partly just making small talk, partly curious and partly seeking permission, he thinks when he asks her about her book. She's not aware of his weird cheat to hold on to some part of her and he thinks maybe if she just tells him herself it's not reaching for it, the non-existent something he's held close for some time now. You should read it. He doesn't really know how that applies in his complex self imposed framework. It's annoying and he just rebuffs her I'm too old for fairy tales.

It never goes the way he expects with her. Because I can see that you want to be loved. It's so completely disarming. Her hands run through his hair and he's never felt so seen.

6. She won't walk her father. There's more to it, he can tell, but she hasn't volunteered the information to him. He knows enough about painful memories with parents to not pry. He back off. Heads to work and she demands he walk with her instead. She's throwing a fit and he's not engaging with her. So he walks away and he's not even bothered until she yells at him. I love you. It's powerful even though he knows there's no intent to it. She doesn't mean it. So he walks it off.

7. He sees her again with his brother. He's already raging from the interaction with the Assemblyman and he's trying his best to suppress it but she's actively gone against his wishes to leave his brother alone. So he pulls her aside to tell her to leave his brother alone but she spots the mark on his cheek and is immediately defensive. For him. He just wanted her to leave him alone. He knows he can't have this in his life. He's not going to play this game with hope and trust and he's definitely not playing it with her. You're like an empty can. He can see the hurt in her face as she looks back up at him silently. He hates it. But maybe she'll stay away now.

8. It was curiosity that got the best of him. Zombie kid is definitely set to a harsh backdrop and he doesn't really think he can predict where it's going. Doesn't think he'll relate to any of it until he reads the ending. He's so struck by it. He's craved warmth his whole damn life. He can practically see his mom turning away from him.

So when he goes downstairs and Jae Su tells him about how her father tried to kill her, the image of her walking along the road while he'd taken the bus hits him. What if she didn't have anyone looking for her? What if she had been looking for warmth from her father? He doesn't really think it through, he just runs out on instinct looking for her in the night.

9. He finds her in the rain and it feels...momentous, meaningful even. In that moment, as she falls into him, he doesn't think of what he can and can't do for the first time.

He ends up hiding her in his room. This feels stolen, like a moment he never had the rights to but has somehow accessed and so when she keeps rolling over onto him that night, he puts her in a corner to stop himself more than her. We're like Romeo and Juliet. It's a petulant thought but he believes it still. Him and her, they were ill fated too. He can't have any of this.

10. Jae Su asks him if he likes her. He could've lied. He should've just said no but he can't bring himself to. So he deflects but Jae Su is so sharp about these things. He reminds him of the knife she'd put in his hand the first time they met. It's a slip up, in all honesty, the smile that creeps onto his face at the memory. He's growing forgetful of himself. Of his brother, of the butterflies. He remembers her though.

11. Of all the terrible ideas, his brother would not be living with her. He's almost tempted. A version of them as a family manifests itself in his mind unprompted and he's exhausted of putting these invasive thoughts away. He's trying his best to reason with his brother that it isn't an option but his brother will not listen. So he yells and throws the contract away only for his brother to get furious at him. It hurts. It hurts so much as his brother keeps hitting him not realizing how hard he's hitting and Kang Tae doesn't expect it to stop anytime soon until she holds his brother's hand over him, stopping it in it's path. He's too beaten down to do anything about it. Moon Sang Tae belongs to Moon Sang Tae. He does. Kang Tae's always been the one trying to be owned by Sang Tae. Anything to make up for it. Anything for whatever adjacent to forgiveness he's got. But it's so difficult sometimes. She offers him her hand to get back up and he wishes she'd stop offering him help. It's not going to last and he doesn't want to start expecting it. So he turns away from her and walks home.

12. He schools himself to not get attached. He's excellent at it, but he walks into her house with their stuff and Sang Tae apologizes instantly and suddenly it feels like home. His previous ambition forgotten, he just settles his brother and himself into the house. The next morning he's set up breakfast while his brother cleans the house. Moon Young is all but shocked at it. He wonders if she likes it, the house like this. I want a lot. He thinks it's cute.

13. He's never seen her look like that. Mrs. Kang is talking to her in hushed tones but he can hear her anyway. She's claiming to be her mother. And she looks... vulnerable. Is it really you? He should've stopped it earlier. He can hear the hope in her voice. So he splits them up and takes Mrs. Kang away. He was going to go find her when Lee Sang In asks to speak to him. I'm her man. So stop taking up my spot.

He has no right to feel the jealousy that tightens his jaw. He wants to say very different words but he can't dare to say them yet. So instead he says a different truth. I don't want to. I won't move aside. It feels like fighting for her somehow and he's going to keep doing it as long as he can.

14. She's shut them out. She doesn't come down for dinner and he sees she hasn't touched the food he left her. He gives her the space she needs. He isn't sure they're close enough for him to ask her to let him in. So he takes on the passive role of waiting for her to let him in. Like Bluebeard needed, he thinks with a fondness.

He can't sleep. He's worried about her and she's shutting him out and he's driving himself up a wall. Until he thinks he hears her crying. He's on his feet inching towards her room, not sure if he's allowed to but opening her door anyway. He recognizes it instantly. She's having a night terror, possibly sleep paralysis and he runs to her shaking her awake as gently as he can. Go away right now. She's inconsolable, yelling at him terrified of something neither of them can see right now but she's clinging to his shirt for dear life. He's never had the strength to deny her when she was like this. Vulnerable and terrified. So he holds her close and promises he'll stay. He means it.

15. He wakes up to a Moon Young he's much more familiar with. Shut off and defensive and she asks him what he's doing there. He takes the day off for her. It's a tiny fraction of his life he's reclaiming for himself and it feels stolen but he doesn't care. He drops his brother at the bus stop and returns to find Sang In trying to pull her off a post on the stairs. He's uncharacteristically upset and the moment she requests it, he moves to throw Sang In out. She won't take medicine so he suggests fresh air to remedy her mood. He apologizes for calling her an empty can. She's let his outburst colour her view of herself and he immediately needs to set it right.

Their "date", he doesn't call it that, she does, he justifies, is eventful. She asks him difficult questions he doesn't really have answers for. Could he have dated her if he wasn't him?

16. He's emotionally exhausted from purging his resentment towards his mom and he's about to leave when he remembers Mang Tae. So with unsteady feet he embarks on a quest to find the doll before taking a cab to head home. She's demanding as always in her texts, telling him to come home rather than ask but it feels so familiar. Like they're something. And he replies and forgets in his drunkness as he tells her to wait.

She's on the stairs and he's not sure why she has chosen to sleep there. She snaps at him that he told her to wait. It's warm. The feeling of someone waiting for you. He simply smiles like a fool and offers her Mang Tae before she can entice him into drinking with her and crossing some line that he can't even see clearly when he's sober.

17. She's remarkably good at spotting people's leashes. At the baggage that traps them and she's got an extraordinary skill for setting people free. He's impressed, when he finally walks over to her looking at his brother's mural, he's really proud.

18. She's cut her hair and she looks messy and ruffled but she looks so happy when she runs down the stairs to greet him, he can only laugh. She's cut off her own leash, she says and he wonders how long she's had it on her. How long she's been aware of it. So he helps her make it presentable and when she says he's the only person allowed to touch her hair, he feels softly possessive. The fact that he's claiming back more and more of his life as his own when it's still indebted to his brother in lieu of forgiveness is forgotten. She smiles at him and it's stunning.

19. They're eating jjampong and he remembers that his mother never even got to eat a portion. It hits him so hard because he's so starved for memories where she was warm to him. She's always so sharp with these things and between her and his brother they have him laughing.

He's holding his umbrella over his brother s he walks zigzagging the the street. He's used to getting slightly wet until Moon Young yells for them to wait for her and suddenly he's shielded from the rain too.

20. He's jealous. He's starkly aware of it and he's annoyed that he's jealous and it's only a vicious cycle that exacerbates itself. He had meant to subtly alert the man to back off when he'd mentioned his hand on her waist and she just pulls it closer to her, her gaze back at him almost challenging. How many people is she fated to be with? He doesn't really begin to calm from it until he lets loose at Sang In. Once he's calmer, he wonders if he'd rather have her around once a week at the hospital than not. So when the opportunity presents itself, he asks for her classes to be reinstated but really it feels like some proxy for permission to be with her. Even if it was just once a week.

21. It was a fucking pen. She's been fawning over some pen not the man and before he can even start to feel the relief settle in she leans over and says he's prettier sending a shiver down his spine. She's lying on his lap drifting into sleep and he's gingerly getting used to the feel of it. She's always so alluringly close. He reaches out to hold her hand because he's wanted to all day. Until it feels wrong. He shouldn't be reaching for people he can't really hold.

22. She's so fucking pretty. It messes with his head as he watches her before he goes to work and when she asks him to come home early it feels so domestic he doesn't dare to do anything with the feeling but remember it. He's sitting during his break and all he can think about is her. He really must be going crazy. He's talking with the patient when he recognizes it, and get doesn't even dare to think the word love.

23. He snaps when it happens. She's doing the right thing, protecting a patient who needed help and he's heading their way quickly but not too quickly so as to not alarm the patients when the man suddenly hits Ko Moon Young. It makes contact hard enough to send her tumbling down and Kang Tae is running immediately. The man has his fist raised to hit her again when Kang Tae reaches him and he hits him with everything in him. He's furious enough for his ears to ring and he's raised his fist to hit him a second time as a nurse held him back. He can't think through it yet and shoves the nurse off of his arm and moves to punch him again. The patient he originally intended to attack begs him out of it. And he finally lets the man go. Are you okay? He's so worried when he picks her back up and it's the first time she yields vulnerability to him. No, it hurts.

He's in trouble. By all accounts, the head nurse fuck you Park Haeng Ja is furious. He might get sued. Or fired. But all he can think is he's broken past his impulse to not want her and it's so freeing. So when he runs to her and asks her to go on a trip with him, it's glorious when she smiles back at him.

24. He hadn't thought through the logistics. She makes him forget everything but them and he's terrified about not measuring his expectations. She says it feels like he's taming her. He's glad to have any meaningful impact on her, really. He keeps doing things he wouldn't have done because of her. She says he was magnificent. And he really feels magnificent. Because she's said it. He's been chasing this something between them that's sprouted into existence from the non existent state he's tried quite hard to keep in. It's instinctual, he leans towards her, seeking purchase on her lips and they're so, so close when the deer screeches in the woods. He's lost his nerve and backed away already. The moment is lost and he's sprinting away from her with a quick let's go tomorrow then.

25. She's terrified of the bridge. It's such a funny juxtaposition on Moon Young, who saves people from what they fear all the time masquerading as a witch. Her strength is so integral to who she is. But she does it anyway for him and it's warmth. So that night, as she jumps onto him and he deflects and tries to escape before he gives in to letting her sleep on his arm, running his fingers through her hair, he gives up. He's never had enough resistance to quit her anyway.

So he gets her flowers and a quick kiss and it feels like closure of something from so long ago because it is. As they're walking back, her holding the flowers she's finally accepted from him and him holding her hand, he really thinks they're fated.

26. It crashes down around him. His brother hasn't forgotten and he's not going to take lies or half truths and he's locked outside the room his brother is in waiting to be let in. Being with Moon Young is not an option. It never was and he's been a forgetful fool running after a pipe dream that shouldn't ever even have been his. So he tells her to leave his life, that this has been a mistake and none of his promises held water. He wants so badly to be able to reach forward and take her hand. A firecracker. A one time event. He's hurting her on purpose and he's half terrified that she'll genuinely walk away from him forever but he's so much more terrified that she'll stay and he won't be able to fix things with his brother ever.

That night his brother finally, finally forgives him. Moon Kang Tae belongs to Moon Sang Tae. He misses her. It hurts and it hits him in waves. He's looking at photos of them and says this is enough over and over and over but there's a lump in his throat that he's trying to breathe over and the whole damn apartment feels stuffy when he thinks of her. He's sitting outside and the sea breeze is pleasant and he thinks her absence hurts him so much more distinctly than her presence. God he misses her and as he sits in the open air, still letting the breeze wash over him, he thinks, he can't breathe.

27. He's sick all day. He knows it and he doesn't want to acknowledge it because it feels like the lack of her is physically making him ill and if he acknowledges it he'll have to acknowledge missing her. So he tries his best to work through it without interventions and ignores her texts and just wills the day to end. He can't keep himself from looking by the time his shift ends. So he goes through her texts, not still daring to reply and he's on his way out when he spots the nurse with the head injury. Park ok Ran attacked him and left saying something about it being a special day. His blood runs cold. What if? What if she's going to Moon Young. What if she got hurt while he wasn't there, while nobody was there because he's decided to leave her alone? And he's honestly terrified beyond articulation. And he's rushing into her car trying to call her.

The house is so fucking silent. He's burst into it yelling for her but is not patient enough to wait to see if she'll come out and he runs into her study only to spot blood. He can't even get her name out of his mouth without his voice breaking and because what if she was bleeding out somewhere in this massive fucking house? And he runs out to look for her in a different room, panic rising in his blood as she calls his name. She's here. And he's hugging her and asking her if she's okay until he spots the wound on her hand and she's barely started explaining how Park Ok Ran gave it to her. He's not quite settled yet and he's terrified she'll be back but he's passively aware he's yelling at her asking her where she is. He's rushing to find her immediately until she asks him if he came for Park Ok Ran or her.

He can see in her expression that she's convinced it was Park Ok Ran. And he reaches out to grab her hand that had been holding his just moments ago and he's looking for the words to explain himself when she pulls away from him and goes back upstairs. He waits a few moments, looking for the correct words but he couldn't really come up with any. He goes to her room anyway, reaching for a handkerchief to patch her wound but she's hurt and furious and she tells him that his words hurt so much more than this and he's terrified for a moment that he's broken them beyond repair. She's escalating, working herself up and he can see the hurt in her eyes and he just tells her to count to three. He's done this so many times. He's always used it to stop himself from doing things he might regret. So he counts with her. One. She says, fiery and still angry. Two. And she's mellowed already, calmer and he thinks, preparing for him to hurt her again. Three. He says with her. And he doesn't hesitate. Because he's sure he'll regret not doing this his whole life. She's the closest thing he's got to a potential for happiness and she's here and they're fated after all, he thinks. So he reaches out for her and kisses her with everything he's got. Stay with me. Please. And as she kisses him back, he feels it in the rush of her gasp against his lips as he pulls her up, he can breathe again.

28. When Sang Tae finally accepted her, he's ecstatic. He gets to stay with her without hurting his brother anymore and he's free, for the first time from his heavy, heavy life. Of course it catches up and he finds out her mother is the person who killed his. And he's upset and terrified of hurting her by telling her when he's already hurt her so much. He'll carry this for them all, he can do it, he convinces himself

She finds out and she's distraught. She blames herself, and he tries so hard to get her to stay, to not leave but the words don't come out and all he can say is please. Please don't go. She's out of his grasp anyway. She's out and she's gone and she cries in her room and he waits for her to let him back in. He confesses I forget everything when I'm with you. And he's never missed a person so badly while being so near to them. He's terrified she'll leave.

29. He remembers it, her holding him, crying, begging him to wake up. When he wakes and she tells him to leave and leave her alone again, he's already decided he's going to fight for them. But it still hurts when she says she wants him gone. It hurts a lot.

She isn't eating. He notices it with increasing concern and he wishes she'd just let them heal her too. He knows she can't live like that again even if she's willing to make the sacrifice for them. So he tells her Sang Tae's story and tries convincing her and yelling at her but she isn't responding. At least not correctly.

He watches her walk her house like a ghost but he's gonna follow his older brother's lead on this. He's going to win. So when he asks her to eat dinner and she just asks him when he's leaving, he ignores the fact that she's asking him to leave and lies about the water pipe. She doesn't buy it. But she leaves him alone. He finally gets her to eat the next day it's a multiple man mission but he's happy she's eaten.

30. He's following her. He wonders if this counts as an ambush if you live with the person anyway. She's apologizing to the tree he's dedicated to his mom and he promises the tree silently that he'll try as long as it takes. So when she moves to walk away again, he's clutching at straws, what about my injured hand, he asks and she apologizes. I love you. He's fairly sure that'll do it. But she looks at him and then walks away and all he can try is to say it again. It's not until much much later that it strikes him that she did the same to him once. He follows her home and he's still saying it to her. It feels like he's held back on saying it for so long that he doesn't even mind saying it so much. Particularly if it'll get her to stay. So her asks her if that's not it, what was it then and she snaps at him If you say I love you one more time I'll rip your mouth . And it's not much but it's a reaction that emboldens him. Do what to my mouth ? He asks boldly before kissing her. And she stills looking at him more surprise than malice. That's all the indicators he needs to pick her up and put her on the table. They're fated after all, he thinks. And leans forward chasing the ghost of a kiss between them. Until they're interrupted by the god damn cockblock of the year deer. He just yells at it instinctively and he realizes he sounds so much like Moon Young as they laugh. So he tells her he loves her one more time and finally, finally kisses her again.

This, Kang Tae thinks, makes it all worth it. When he wakes up the next morning, for the first time, he's holding Ko Moon Young and there's nothing stopping them from being together. He's happy.

#psycho but its okay #it's okay not to be okay #it's okay to not be okay #ko moon young #moon kang tae

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Yaaasss!!! Jelous Ben was si cuteee and we love a supportive mother, her mom is fantastic and a savage. I hace a question, how did you come up with reader's character in x-men?? I legit googled it as I thought it was a real character, so welk done.

i love her mum so fuckin much, dude, she’s supportive but can still be embarrassing at times. i wrote her, not like my actual mum, but like my dad now that i think about it. dude literally told me over the phone that he’d physically fight people for shittalking me (not just in general, there’s more context, but the point still stands). idk i think it’s disingenuous to not let parental characters have certain flaws, like they’re allowed to be overprotective and spiteful, as well as caring and supportive. i love her too.

oH SHIT DUDE LEMME TALK ABT MY GIRL CASSIDY TEMPLE I LOVE HER SO FUCKING MUCH AND I”VE PUT SO MUCH THOUGHT INTO HER THAT THIS WILL HAVE A READ MORE

so cassidy’s powers are actually based off of an xmen oc i’ve already written 70k about, Aoibheal Cassidy, younger sister of Banshee, Sean Cassidy, and Cassidy Temple’s name is a reference to her, since originally I was going to essentially have Y/N playing Aoibheal (because it’s my fic and i can include an homage to my xmen oc as a treat). the powers themselves are based loosely on Multiple Man from X-Men: The Last Stand, except Cassidy’s clones can’t live a life of their own like his can. In the xmen fic, aoibheal starts off with having unlimited clones, and they can explode because i thought it was neat tbh.

From the original fic, Molotov Heart, chapter 3, rubatosis:

[Context; humans experimenting on mutants between X-Men First Class and X-Men Days Of Future Past have caught Sean and Aoibheal and they experiment on them even though Aoibheal’s powers have not manifested (she is approximately 13) and they kill her brother in front of her]:

Stunned into silence, she can feel something white-hot building inside of her, all the rage and fear and pain becoming almost tangible.

She mutates.

Copies of Aoibheal, clones, appear around them, filling up the space between the now screaming and bewildered 'doctors'. Aoibheal herself doesn't seem to notice the clones, bawling her eyes out, an action the clones themselves are mirroring, and she thinks of nothing but freedom and escape, focusing on the white-hot feeling inside of her until it overwhelmed her. With the force of a bunker-buster bomb, the clones began to combust, began to explode, first a few, and then all at once. Killing the human personel who had kept her hostage, the blast reduced the warehouse to mere cinders, freed Aoibheal and left her clothing in tatters, but she was alive damn it.

The reason Cassidy has a limited number is because i needed a way to have her powered up as a horseman, like a distinct power up, rather than just something unseen like heightened reflexes and strength.

I would like to point out also, that it’s not stated, but Cassidy’s explosions (NOT AOIBHEAL’s) are never to do with heat, they’re always about force. the explosions themselves are never hot, never have anything to do with fire or anything like that, she builds up force inside of the clones, and lets it tear her apart from the inside out as a wave that destroys the things it comes into contact with.

The scream was originally hereditary, like Banshee, it developed as her secondary mutation.

From the Marvel Wiki:

The Secondary Mutation (or "Second Mutation") is a phenomenon in which an existing mutant undergoes another mutation, gaining additional powers, such as healing, or a change in appearance.

Secondary mutation is noted as the appearance of new powers, or an increase in existing powers.

It was stated by Beast that the secondary mutations usually occurred in the twenties of the subjects, and generally appeared in time of great stress.

From the original fic, chapter 8, nodus tollens:

The appearance of the secondary mutation:

The world falls apart in a blur of movement. The gun goes off just after Raven jumps and makes a break for the window, the bullet curves as she crashes through the glass, following her on the way down. Tackling Erik earns Hank a mean right hook to the jaw, but Aoibheal’s there, looking at Trask like a dear in the headlights, memories whipping through her head like a hurricane - the sick fuck looks pleased to see her – her mouth falls open and she screams. She and the clone scream in tandem, their voices supersonic as the surrounding people clutched their ears for dear life; struggling to keep a hold of the feeling in her chest that caused her to explode, the clone detonates like a firework, scorching the wallpaper while Trask is stumbling to the door. There’s blood leaking from his ears but Aoibheal can’t move, can only scream and relive the memory of her brother’s murder over and over again.

Hank discussing it:

"I've never seen a secondary mutation so vastly different!" No longer blue or furry, [Hank’s] smile is excited as he looks over at her. Sharing the cockpit feels almost familiar by now, with Aoibheal curled up in the passenger seat nursing a glass of water. "It makes sense though, your original mutation – the explosions – would be an extension of your temperature immunity, but your secondary mutation is hereditary."

Cassidy’s scream, however, unlike Banshee’s, only effects things with ears, not inanimate objects like glass. Of course she could learn the right pitch to get glass to shatter like an opera singer, but generally speaking, her scream only effects things that can hear.

OKAY LETS TALK ABT THE STUFF I FABRICATED FOR THE FIC

oh GOD I WANT TO TALK ABOUT HER RELATIONSHIP WITH MAGNETO

not as in romantic, as in he is literally her character’s main inspiration in the films. i’m literally making a fake trailer right now that’s intercut with moments from his DOFP speech that was broadcast to the whole of america.

i love dofp (possibly to my detriment) but i always thought it was weird that no-one was ever like.... magneto has a point. BECAUSE HE HAS A POINT. he’s speaking directly to disenfranchised and SCARED mutants across the nation, and yet everyone’s heralding Mystique as the new face of mutant kind. YES she made a point, but like.... did no-one vibe with magneto when he promised the destruction of mankind? i would. anyways.

so i thought it would be interesting for this character, Cassidy, to have this hero-worship of Magneto, taking his words to heart like scripture, ultimately making her a foil for Phoenix, Xavier’s protege.

it’s why i specifically included this:

“You should be,” you hissed, putting your all into the words as you spoke them, and you hear Ben inhale sharply beside you, “we shall inherit the Earth.”

“What follows is a struggle as Cassidy and the figure – revealed to be her clone – proceed to kill the man. When they’re finished, and the man’s dead on the ground, Cassidy straightens her outfit, and we hear –“ as the director reads, Michael begins to slowly clap, “a slow clap, and it’s revealed that Apocalypse, as well as Storm, Angel, and Magneto, had all witnessed the event.”

“We are the future, we are the ones who shall inherit the Earth,” Michael reads as he stops clapping.

“Magneto,” you breathe reverentially, and when you look to him, you and Michael share a sharp smile.

which is a direct quote from magneto’s speech in Days of Future Past:

You built these weapons to destroy us. Why? Because you are afraid of our gifts. Because we are different. Humanity has always feared that which is different. Well, I'm here to tell you, to tell the world, you're right to fear us. We are the future. We are the ones who will inherit this earth, and anyone who stands in our way will suffer the same fate as these men you see before you. Today was meant to be a display of your power. Instead I give you a glimpse of the devastation my race can unleash upon yours. Let this be a warning to the world. And to my mutant brothers and sisters out there, I say this; no more hiding, no more suffering. You have lived in the shadows in shame and fear for too long. Come out, join me. Fight together in the brotherhood of our kind. A new tomorrow, that starts today.

which ALSO is what turns her into the next big villain for the franchise, because she sees Magneto, the man she kind of thinks of like a god, turn on and help kill Apocalypse, the man who claimed to be an actual god, and side with the people who, ultimately, don’t want to destroy the human race like she does, and also killed the man she loved. she takes Magneto’s ideologies and turns them up to 11. he fucks off to create a mutant paradise away from prying eyes and is happy, she won’t be happy until all humans are punished.

it’s why, in the beginning, she and raven can’t still work together, because raven wants to rescue mutants, but not at the expense of unnecessary human lives, and cassidy sees all humans as complicit in the torture, and therefore deserving of punishment.

she has deemed herself judge, jury, and executioner of human kind, and they have all been found guilty.

i’m so excited to see if i get around to writing some of the next film because i really want to explore the dichotomy of Xavier’s ‘no-one is ever really gone/there’s always hope’ and magneto’s ‘you were right to be afraid of us, we are the ones who shall inherit the earth’. Everyone has given up on Cassidy in one way or another, whether it be by betrayal or death, and so when she finds this symbiote who literally becomes a part of her, makes her stronger, and is happy to kill people with little regard for who they are, she’ll take it.

EDIT: here’s the first 26 seconds of the fake trailer (Y/N here is played by Jurnee Smollett, aka Black Canary from Birds of Prey)

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ANGEL & RIOT

i wanted y/n to kiss ben hardy that’s literally it.

actually no that’s not it 100%, i think it’s super amusing in a kind of bleak way that he got fridged for her, like his death, both in the “””comics””” (as in the comic universe for the fics) and in the film, causes her to seek out a force that would help bring him back to life. in the “””comics””” she originally seeks out a mutant, but when the mutant who can bring people back refuses to help her, she’s told of experiments at The Life Foundation, who are working on engineering the next step in human evolution, and she’s thinking that they’re experimenting on mutants again, like trask, and goes in guns blazing, but instead finds symbiotes. she bonds with a symbiote, thus becoming Riot Control, and the symbiote initially promises her all these things, including being able to find a way to ressurect angel, but eventually (in the “””comics”””) the power he gives her overtakes her need to ressurect her love, and riot ends up using her to try and build a ship to bring more symbiotes to take over earth.

IN THE FILM

okay OKAY okay OKAY so she’s looking for a way to ressurect angel at first, but riot’s in her ear while he’s seeing all her memories, and is convincing her to get revenge on the people who are responsible for his death (nightcrawler, jean, and Magneto specifically) so its not that the xmen are just in the plot by happenstance there’s like actual beef, love it.

I also love that Cassidy’s powers are handicapped when she’s got Riot, since her scream would injure or even possibly kill him. Yes i specifically paired her with a symbiote for that reason, which is also the reason why her clone explosions aren’t heat based.

but anyway, can i spoil the ending? i wanna spoil the ending;

so there’s this big showdown between riot control and the xmen, and jean confronts cassidy, trying to talk her down like ‘what would angel think if he saw you? What you’ve become?’ and Cassidy’s furious, thinking that jean’s trying to guilt her, like, angel would be so ashamed

“Keep his name out of your fucking mouth, you have no idea what he’d think-”

“He’d be terrified of you.” And it’s so fucking like, cruel and cold coming from Jean.

“Shut up.”

“You have become a monster; you have maimed your idol-” [we cut to a shot of magneto looking all fucked up and bloody, watching with anger in his eyes] “and you have left Angel for dead. If you’d really cared about him, you would have already gotten him back. Instead, you come for revenge against the people who could have helped you -”

or something like that, and riot control has a whole breakdown, lashing out, snarling that no-one could help her, and when they tried, they ended up dead (angel, apocalypse) and she starts losing control, and her voice starts to distort in and out of riot’s, making it clear he’s taking control of her completely.

there’s this big, final fight, which culminates with jean grabbing cassidy’s face and trying to burn riot out of her.

“No-one is beyond help.” And Jean’s like, got tears in her eyes, desperate to save this girl who’s caused so much pain, but who sees herself as so wretched and beyond help, and we see the symbiote burning away and screaming, but also the physical signs of cassidy’s mutation as like, peeling away in embers, like the black scales around her eyes, and the way her whole eyes are seen as black is now clearing away, and she takes both of Jean’s hands and forces her to keep holding on, to keep looking in her natural fucking eyes for the first and last time as she burns out too.

“You can’t save everyone.” and then Cassidy’s just ash in the wind.

also this ending, in a meta-sense, makes sense, because after this Disney buys Fox and there’s no more this-universe X-Men films, so they had to do a self-contained story, there couldn’t be things left super unresolved.

OR maybe she’s fine, maybe she gets saved and riot burns out of her (spoilers, he fucks off and doesn’t die, hence, Venom (2018); it takes him about 20 years to recuperate) i haven’t decided.

#the angry lizard speaks #hyniels #dreashappyworld

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Any idea why my reblog wouldn't go through? Since I obliterated every single point you made, you ought to read it. The reply I posted tagged you instead.

No idea. As far as I know I haven’t blocked you and I don’t know what post you are talking about since I haven’t been tagged in anything.

Never mind. I realized that you were in fact were a racist and I blocked you’re other account so you got bitter and tried to argue using information that is innacurate. And if anybody would like to know the other account of this person, it is thoughtsandreplies.

So I’m going to go over each statement the person made with the exception of what originally began this, Immersion (Piss Jesus). Art is a very personal experience, but how you interpret art does not give you the right to use it as an excuse for racism.

So 1) No one is actually saying that Lincoln was a racist. They’re arguing whether or not the depiction of the Black man in the Emancipation Memorial, a real former slave named Archer Alexander is racist and if it should be taken down because of that. This specific instance is not about the white man involved, but the black man being represented and if his representation as someone physically and what could be taken as symbolically lower than a white man is degrading. This is a complex issues that even two of his descendants are have opposing opinions on. Muhammad Ali was a direct descendant of this man and his third cousin, Keith Winstaed, and his oldest daughter, actress Maryum Ali, have opposing opinions. Winstaed is in favor of keeping it because he is more focused on the historical context, that the sculpture of Alexander was meant to be seen as empowering because has broken his chains and beginning to rise. However, Ali is viewing with the eyes of someone living in the 21st century who expects better representation for minority communities that have historically been vilified in art, literature, television, and politics. She believes the statue is degrading and offensive because even if Alexander’s chains are broken, he is still below Lincoln, a white man, and is in a position that can be interpreted as him bowing to him. As I said before, art is personal and both people have valid interpretations of this piece. This is not the same as tearing down statues of actual racists. We put up statues of people to honor them, but we must be able to recognize that we can no longer honor people who were legitimately horrible. I don’t see any statues of Hitler in Germany so what’s your excuse for why you want to keep up sculptures of racists?

2) off the bat I could tell you were a racist who hasn’t bothered to examine their words and actions by referring to the Black Lives Matter Movement as a “historically illiterate mob”. Most of the people in the movement are black so I can assume you are perpetuating the stereotype that black people can’t read which is enforced by the fact that it was illegal for slaves to be literate and black and brown communities have historically and continue to receive less funding for their schools, which leads to lower quality books and teachers, which leads to students who have difficulty in their studies, which leads to students who have lower grades, which leads to black and brown communities being forced to accept work at lower paying jobs, which leads to black and brown parents that are not able to spend time with their children in order to make enough money for food, water, electricity, and housing, which leads to kids who don’t receive the attention they need, which leads to students who are being taught by these same lower standard teacher with old outdated books, which leads to students being frustrated over not being at the level of their studies that they should be but are unable to seek outside help because of a lack of tutors and familial help, which leads to students who “act out” because they were not able to develop the emotional tools necessary to monitor behavior and are then forced into prisons by teachers who have called the police on them, which leads to another lack of education because the U.S. prison system does not want to rehabilitate prisoners and help them become better people, it just wants to find a way to legally continue slavery.

3) It does not matter if someone had doubts about whether or not someone had doubts over their racial superiority. What matters is that they still willingly continued to be a part of that system that benefitted them because it was more convenient to not do anything. Also, nice job on conveniently leaving out the fact that Jefferson was known to have raped his slaves and produced multiple children with slaves, but still did not bothering freeing any of his slaves.

4) Don’t bother bringing up almost any of the other founding fathers also since they were also slave owners perpetuating the system because it helped them make money. And don’t try to excuse it by claiming that it was just accepted at the time. Abolitionism was a thing during that time. Even when Columbus began raping and pilaging, there were people who knew what he was doing was bad. There is writing about how people already knew Columbus was fucking insane and even Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, you know, the ones who started the Spanish Inquisition, was so disgusted by rumors about Columbus that they had him investigated and took away his titles when they found out about what was happening. They’re not off the hook though because they were still, you know, the reason for why many Saphardic Jews were imprisoned, killed, and forced to run away.

5) No, I don’t use the word “racist” too lightly, you’re standards for what count as racist just don’t include enough things that are racist.

6) Black people live in fear because they have historically and systemically have had legitimate reasons to, not because I’m calling out things that have been blatantly racist.

7) Yes there has been property damage. Yes there are people who are going to use these events as an excuse to do whatever they want. That will always be a part of protesting. But don’t act like cops aren’t doing this same thing, intentionally planting themselves in protests and then creating violence or causing property damage in order to give other cops a reason to attack protestors. If you know enough, you can spot them based on whose wearing shoes that can be run in or heavy combat boots, whose wearing nondescript clothes that you can see protective gear under, and who is wearing the “color of the day”, a tactic cops have used in order to disguise themselves among protestors but signal that they are cops to other cops by wearing matching accessories like armbands, headbands, or wristbands.

8) Funny how you don’t want to bring up the fact that these are populations with large black and brown communities that are usually overpoliced. Also, just because someone is a Democrat does not make them a liberal. The only reason I’m in preference of Democrats is because of the multiple marginalized communities that will hold them accountable for anything they do.

9) Not every single time a black person is killed is it because of racism. That “black-on-Black crime” people like to bring up? That’s not racism, that’s just the fact that people in close proximity to each other are more likely to kill each other and there are still heavily legally segregated parts of America due to wealth disparity. That example you brought up about a black cop killing a black man? That’s not racism. That a person knowing that they are untouchable because of the power that they have because the only good cops are cops that have quit. If you haven’t quit or been fired, you are likely a member of the blue wall of silence that refuses to condemn offices who intentionally act violently knowing that they will not be punished. Also, let’s not forget that people can also be prejudiced against people in their race or ethnicity because of the shade of their skin and the socio-economic class.

10) When have you seen any white man being bashed for having a black wife or being a “big brother” to black children? Often the only people who have problems with black women getting married to white men are black men who feel like they own black women and then claim they are “betraying their race” when they seek love from men in other races and ethnicities, but expect black women to stay silent as they chase after snow bunnies who fetishize mixed children. The only other case I could think of would be racists not wanting races to mix. And the “big brother” thing? The only reason I could think of would be complaints about wanting more black men to be “big brothers” because white men just cannot relate to the experiences of being a black child.

11) You conveniently left out that despite being one of the smallest racial communities in the U.S., black people are also the most policed, and will get arrested for things cops would let a white man go with like weed charges. Look no further than lovely white wonderbread comedien John Mulaney saying in his second comedy special “the comeback kid” “it’s (weed) always been legal silly goose”. This means that they have a disproportionate amount of black people in their records because if black people only make up 13% of people in the entire nation, they should only make up about 13% of all crime to, but they make up more because policemen have quotas to fill for how many people they arrest in order to receive more funding, and its easier with a racist system backing you up to arrest Black than white people.

12) Again, people in close proximity to each other are more likely to kill each other than people who do not know each other and people who live far from each other. Also, it’s the ultra extremists who really want to abolish the police. I still think we need a protective system, but we need it to work for the common people, not corporations and politicians. I think that every district should use the same system as wealthy white neighborhoods, where anyone who wants to be a policeman must be assigned a position in the neighborhood they are from because anything they do wrong will make them accountable to their neighbors, family, and friends. Also I believe that all cops should undergo mandatory psychological evaluations every 3-6 months, especially cops who have worked on extremely traumatic cases. I also believe that the U.S. should require at least 3 years of school for anyone wanting to become a cop because no one is actually able to learn the law, learn to enforce it through peaceful means unless in dire circumstances, and care for the wounded, mentally ill, physically disabled, or anyone mentally impaired by drugs and alcohol in 6 months.

13) Another example of how this person is racist because they are actually suggesting that we enforce racial discrimination and black poverty. Also, if you want to bring up gangs, the biggest gang in the U.S is police force using propaganda that promotes the idea of “belonging” and economic stability in order to entice people who do not feel like they belong wherever they are, and then giving them a gun and badge that basically means “kill whoever you want because we will cover it up for you”.

14) Unless a woman feels like she is able to provide a stable enough home environment for her and her child, NO ONE WILLINGLY CHOOSES TO BE A SINGLE MOTHER! Single motherhood is caused by multiple events. A woman was impregnated by someone who left her, a couple with a child divorced because of legitimate reasons because divorce is a long and financially exhausting process, a woman was raped and decided to keep the child, and woman was raped and forced to give birth because she lives in a state that limits women’s healthcare, which includes abortion.

15) Fatherless homes do not equate to a rise in criminal culture. If that were the case, all wlw couples and single mothers would raise criminals. Do you know what does equate to criminal culture though? Teaching people that they are superior to someone else because of their race, gender, ethnicity, religion, or sexuality and then promoting violent behaviors in that child.

16) Black families were never more intact during slavery than after slavery. Slaveowners and slavetraders intentionally worked together to make money and create a lack of unity among slaves by selling individual families members to different regions. One of the first things that former slaves did after they were freed was go out and find their stolen family members.

17) I can’t say anything about economics since I don’t have much knowledge about the economic system before the New Deal. However I will say that this is the only valid point you have made. Politicians have historically tried to get as many black votes as possible when they realized what a reliable voting community they were and then never actually done much to help the black community. However this is a very general statement.

18) How is group called Black Lives Matter that is focused on gaining racial equality attempting to sow discord in a nation by basically say “can you stop targeting us just because you’re racist and don’t like the color of my skin”.

19) How is a group asking for racial equality a lie? Are you really going to deny racism when we have seen shootings, lynchings, and people getting run over by cars all within the last month and a half?

20) WTF IS A LIE ABOUT A CHANT THAT MEANS “I HAVE NO WEAPONS, DO NOT KILL ME”

#black lives matter #blm #black women matter #black lives are human lives #black lives are important #black lives have value #black lives count #racism #race #oh look i found another racist for you Tumblr

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