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First Time Reading Girl Genius Novels 2
I am not surprised Agatha thought Lilith’s reaction to being told her lack of uniformity made her like Judy so it was fine was a bit odd. That is a weird interaction for her on so many levels.
Agatha’s gradual realisation as a child of the way the world around her discriminates against people like her parents gives me emotions.
She has a much more vivid memory of Barry than I expected, ‘seemed worried about things he couldn’t talk about’ is spot on and also heartbreaking
Agatha’s joy at having a home and stability for the first time is a lovely thing to add, she misses Barry of course but it’s interesting that they clarified he wasn’t in a good place or position to be raising a child
The late night argument and Barry’s collapsing mental health and possible death told through three increasingly rambling letters also giving me many emotions
The Heterodynes as an almost religious presence, an ideal people aspire to, like, ‘we should live our lives as if they will return’ is such a spiritual way to put it which I kind of love worldbuilding wise.
Jägers and Boris having an intense rivalry is one of my favourite running jokes and the backstory of Klaus enforcing a time limit on their fights before he has to mediate really reminds me of the ‘it’s like running a kindergarten’ line.
An opportunistic doughnut seller seeing the Baron engaged in a total and hostile take over of his town with his heir, second in command and soldiers and deciding they might not have had time to grab breakfast is exactly the kind of batshit insanity I expect from this setting.
Gil and Klaus just running madly through the streets, dodging crates and jumping on to walls in sync while keeping up a conversation like this is just about Tuesday (which it is for them) must be a pretty weird sight even for bystanders in girl genius
The older jäger grinning at Adam is a nice bit of foreshadowing
Just generally loving the fact that the jägers saying weird shit and arguing over things that make no sense is so normalised that it allows them to get away with hiding basically anything even if most of them have no idea what subtlety is
Gil and Klaus taking a moment to discuss how best to cover the undressed girl in front of them before proceeding further is kind of hilarious to me
Also every iteration of this exchange ‘You don’t find the fact that the girl is running about in a machine shop in her underwear to be unusual? Red fire, boy, what sort of lab did you maintain in school?’ Plus Gil’s blushing and ‘Father! please!’ is comedic gold.
The jägers finding loopholes to secretly give Klaus a guard when he’s in one of his moods (which are apparently a known and regular thing) where he wants to do everything by himself just because, is both wholesome and funny
The tavern song. Oh my god.
I need more information about how Agatha wandering around in her underwear makes Sleipnir assume she’s English.
Interesting that she’s calling her the Von Pinn. I never noticed that happening in the comic.
Descriptions of the school are nice to have, especially the bulletin boards covered in drawings, letters and so on, really makes it feel like an actual primary school.
Extremely rare Klaus feminist moment on the trousers front, though it’s definitely more about practicality than anything else
Agatha was shocked at Sleipnir referring to Wooster as a codfish, Girl Genius characters’ weird idea of what counts as swearing is so much fun
Children cycling around the airship delivering messages is a nice touch as are all the other details about Castle Wulfenbach, it really drives home the whole nerve centre and capital city of the empire thing
Saying you refer to your boyfriend as Herr Nice to justify not recognising his name is certainly one approach
Mowgli. Agatha you are fooling nobody here
Them ripping a machine apart while they’re plummeting to the ground and grinning maniacally should not be as adorable as it is
Khrizan gently cradling Agatha, calling her sweetheart and checking that she’s alright should have been a clue to someone that there as something special about her
Morbid children’s songs my beloved
Theo’s little interactive bit where he chases the children around during the story is so absurdly endearing.
“He nodded to the girls as he passed ‘RHaah,’ he said conversationally.” Did I mention I love Theo?
PRT is a genius bit of worldbuilding and I love it. That whole section is amazing especially the fact that personality shifts going more insane is only a tricky hypothetical on a test paper because Sparks are already like that to start with
I love that the tables are designed to be constantly replaced because they let the kids try out their new gadgets at mealtimes for serving the food.
They all bring different dishes from wherever they’re from which is also nice
The school is a lot bigger than I thought if they’re implying what we see is only a tenth of its normal capacity.
Klaus insisting that they go and oversee or assist in the harvests themselves to try and curb the culture of elitism is great and the way the kids actually look forward to it as opposed to their parents who hate it shows its actually working
The fact that Lucifer Mongfish’s conflicts with the Heterodynes are considered the cause of Bill’s marriage to Lucrezia rather than an obstacle tells you a lot
The logistics of family gatherings where every family member wants to and has tried to kill each other
Agatha comparing an argument between two twelve year olds to one between two teachers at her university is very in character with sparks
The Large Dangerous Mechanical Lab being the real name is kind of funny
#Girl genius#live reaction#live reading#gg novels#Agatha heterodyne#gil wulfenbach#klaus wulfenbach#sleipnir o’hara#Theo dumedd
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Once again thanks goes out to @nincopyjasb and @brainchoco for their hard work~
#GG Novels#The Butterfly and Her Gale#BaHG#Butterfly and Her Gale#Links#Chipp Zanuff#Erica Bartholomew
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⁺ 𝟵𝟵𝟵 𓂂 ۫ ⭒ Let's meet again, Yoo Joonghyuk.
It was a really great story. Isn't that right ? ✶ ˖ ࣪ ⭒
#orv#omniscient reader's viewpoint#kim dokja#omniscient reader#kimcom#joongdok#yoo joonghyuk#han soonyoung#biyoo#dokjoong#kdj#yjh#jung heewon#lee jihye#hsy#novel#manhwa#manhwa icons#black moodboard#gg moodboard#moon#star#messy layouts#indie moodboard#aesthetic moodboard#alternative moodboard#messy moodboard#grunge moodboard#random moodboard#layouts
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Oh yeah every ad in the back of Begin is for the Blazblue novels lol
#photopost#How did BB get more than twice as many novels as GG in like half the time#Maybe BB fans buy more books or something
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I know you said you have a lot of GG prompts already but, if you’re feeling inspired, I’m so curious what you’d come up with for brio: 28 feeling for each other in the dark
L for the minifics being: a stolen kiss.
Our Endless Numbered Days Beth x Rio. NBC Good Girls. 6k words. M. -
For a minute, it’s hard to see the source of the blood, rivulets running down the thin lines of his abs, pooling in the hollow of his belly button. It smears red across too much of him, and Beth has to lean in a little closer until the metallic scent of blood hits her nostrils and it’s all she can smell. She curls her hair behind her ears, traces her gaze until she finds the wound that’s still weeping. A round little puncture about the size of a watch face, a newborn’s yawning mouth, a golden dollar, in the normally honeyed skin at the edge of his left hip.
Beth exhales, and she’s close enough it hits his side, if the shiver that runs through him is any indication, and she shifts back onto the couch as she looks back up at him. -
A blackout rolls over the city and Rio shows up at Beth's in need of a little care. Set post-s4.
#everyone's going to think this is the pregnancy scare fic and look#it's not#hahaha#but omg it's my first fic since june last year and my first brio fic since december 2021#which is lowkey blowing my mind#tentatively trying to write more fic again as warm ups for novel writing#which has worked this week as you can see haha#hope you like it!#beth x rio#nbc good girls#gg fic
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the way ailette and tesilid never talk about their dislike for the strict order is so funny and GNRHRNGHRHGH because the comments sections have been going "hey tesilid have you heard about this banging new religion!!!" since like the first chapter tesilid was introduced. and she still hasn't said a thing about it.
like. "tesilid is a strict follower of the strict order", "tesilid is part of the heretical judgement bureau", blablabla listen!!! when you asked him to hide your identity as saint he said okay without hesitation!! it wasn't a flimsy decision either, he said "go home to your family"! that's what he believes in, not in the rules in and of themselves!! shakes ailette by the shoulders he was TEN when he did that, he's been a rule breaker and heretic shielder and strict order disliker since before you met!!!!!! and he's only going to become moreso when he grows older and the strict order and heretical judgement bureau puts him through more and more shit! !
and then tesilid himself doesn't make it super duper explicit that he's a strict order hater because he wants to stay on ailette's good side. and she's a huge fan of the god she serves, who as far as he can tell is the strict order bc there isn't any other god in-universe.
GAH!
#a transmigrator's privilege#the perks of being an s class heroine#girlie is mischaracterising the blorbo#not that i blame her tho she doesnt have anyone else to discuss her interpretations with :(#and tesilid in the novel prob doesnt get the chance to express his real self as much#since ailette doesnt exist. we get to see his real self a lot more here#i dont blame ailette for dismissing all the signs that tesilid is diff from her interpretation either bc#she read the novel for more than 10 years#and she first read it in middle school#any misconceptions she had the first time round are gg to be SO entrenched by the time she actually meets tesilid again#but like well i want to see tesilid knowing he has the option to convert 😔
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When they drop a light novel about raven thats in 100% middle english well. Then youll be sorry.
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Guy who woke up covered in blood and is about to have the worst day of his fucking life
#guilty gear#sol badguy#hi its me again. im so fucking normal about gg begin. i read it and literally could not stop thinking about it for 2 weeks afterwards#picture of me with a shirt that says dont talk to be about begin i WILL be autistic about it#me when sol fucking dies 3 times in one novel and i just have to sit with that information. forever#soltober 2023#j doodles#not much effort work was rough today and i still have to make dinner lol
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BIG kpop stan ick of mine is anyone who has a superiority complex because they only stans boy groups/girl groups & loudly HATES on groups based solely on their gender, I fr cannot hit the block button fast enough
#kpop#here comes my comment novel#ppl who hate on svt because pledis mismanages fromis_9 like HOW is that their fault?? pledis just sucks we all been done knew that#same person also called zb1 a bunch of twinks who need to “leave gg songs to the ggs” then said “bring real men back to kpop”#okay so you're just homophobic? i get it.#bg stans who do they exact same thing piss me off so hard too but those were thet 2 statements that pushed me over the edge#OH they also hate wooah pom pom pom so i automatically just don't trust them or their opinions#sorry you hate fun noise 🤷♀️#FIN posts
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Fellas,
Is it just being “pals” saying things like this to your “partner” ?
“Even if one day, we can’t have each other���s backs, our hearts will always be together. That’s all.”
I mean, both Shamir and Catherine cannot support F!Billy, so it means they are very straight, and this line here is just how people express their friendship.
BTW, I still like how this “ Scared? …You? The one who isn’t afraid of anything? The great ”Thunder Catherine,” who’s [so terrifying that] even a crying child would shut up and run away still naked?” was lolcalised to “The terrible “Thunder Catherine,” afraid? I thought you weren’t afraid of anything.”
Oh well.
#cathmir#it's just incomprehensible how some people can see this and think 'they're gals being pals'#I guess it's because not a lot of people who write about catherine actually bother to read her supports#but damn#Shamir who's supposed to be a loner comes up with this corny line#she read too much Faerghian novels about knighthood#then there's this talk about going 'beyond partners'#FE16#which is why SB's Nopes where Shamir doesn't backstab Hubbie doesn't make any sense#especially how she can be sent to kill the wife she sacrificed herself to save!#but otoh#gg you two even Hubert knows you're married lol
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There's a post that explains it way better than I do but. I'm currently thimking about A.B.As frankenstein influence
Aside from the obvious "concept art refs frankenstein by name, so one could assume the head key worked as her electrodes/bolts" I don't see many people mention how her strive boots are black platforms a la creature's movie depiction's (roadworker if I'm not mistaken?? I probably am) boots. Also yknow they have lil bolts
#one of my funny unserious theories: while we only see a little bit of frasco I assume it's quite big. idk it's a mansion lab.#so there were a lot of keys#for its many rooms#WHICH think abt it seems to be kinda implief since aba had a key collection even before meeting para#one could argue she took em in her lil escapades but we don't know how long they could be (cause she couldn't go too far n frasco was prob#isolated since it was in the mountains imo. maybe there couldve been a nearby mountain village but still imo it was prob kinda hidden)#SO my goofy theory is that the creator was. wait. we can be pragmatic. we have some big keys here. those could work as electrodes yup#though it'd be interesting if they also had a key obsession fsr mirroring hers#'if it was already a normal key why did it have a skull design“ this is gg so I choose to believe frascos interior design even before getti#thrashed by the military already had a creepy monstery vibe. the creator played into thst I think cause come on.#frascos caged monsters were either made by the creator or.. aba herself#guh I'm procrastinating#worth noticing that while all of abas franken-refs are based off the movie version (which makes sense. it's the more iconic afterall!)#did u know book creatures skin was transparent. That's right. I can tie that into my 'slightly transparent skin aba“ n not look absurd lmao#look I don't even feel that strongly abt that hc I just think it's cool and adds to her vibes hence I tend to discuss it. sorry#a.b.a#text tag2b named#I rly need to read the frankenstein novel sometime...#I feel it'd be up my alley of empathizing with 'seen as offputting and shunned artificial mimicries of humans that can be oh so tragic“#edit: fuuuck I forgot ggworld confirms it's a key-shaped screw not a straight up key. but still my silly theory can work 'okay guys we need#a big chunk of metal to make a screw for my homunculus OH WE CAN RECYCLE OUR BIG KEY“#frankentag2b named
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Okay, let me get this straight. In GG Strive, the USA president is... Anti war? Like, omg, WHAT, like, how did one of the most pro war countries in the entire world even voted for a president like that? Don't get me wrong, I would love to see that in real life, but it's honestly incredibly funny just thinking about that posibility even if it's just a fictional story LOL
It's a bit complicated, but in-context it was explained in the Butterfly and Her Gale novel.
Basically, the Assassins' Organization (yes, Venom's group) was hired to set up America to go to WAR with Zepp.
The details are kindof fuzzy about whom would stand to gain from a war between America and Zepp, but regardless, the Assassins basically intended on putting a "puppet President" in the White House.
That's where Erica comes in… she was an orphan who was essentially put in that role against her will.
The Assassins posed as Zepp Soldiers who would effectively attack and kill Erica, using her Death as the trigger for the War.
This makes even less sense when you consider the idea they CHOSE her to be President and THEN CHOSE to kill her.
It's not like the public were even remotely aware of her being installed in-office (nor was she elected normally).
But well… it makes a BIT more sense if you consider what the Conclave wanted to do: put America in its pocket.
The United Nations Members had a lot to do with placing Erica in her position as well, even giving her Presidential authority. And of course the Conclave controls who works for the U.N. (as if they didn't already control the Assassins directly on both sides).
Still, as stated, they wanted a "Profitable War" that could drum up conflict and weapon production, but what they DIDN'T count on was a certain heroic rogue NINJA.
So how does a single Ninja like Chipp Zanuff play in to all of this?
Well, in basic terms, he saved Erica's life BEFORE she was going to be assassinated, so regardless of what roles they planned for her, Chipp's interference basically nullified any plans the Conclave or even the Assassins had for the American Government at that time.
Not only that, but Chipp used his connections with ZEPP to broker a Treaty WITH Erica and basically turn the tables on anyone who would want a war between the nations.
Of course, Chipp also had to deal with his archnemesis Volf (the man who indirectly killed his master Tsuyoshi), but for the most part Chipp's involvement in the faux conspiracy nipped it in the bud.
Erica was saved (even despite getting nearly fatally wounded, which Dr. Faust promptly treated), her Foster Matron was saved as well, and anyone involved in the U.N. debacle that was connected with America, the Assassins, and the Conclave, were effectively neutralized (it was also a major bust thanks to Ky Kiske's efforts working as International Police Commissioner at that time).
So, Erica served her term as an "actual President", Chipp finished his training, and a few years later, Erica works in the White House alongside current President Vernon E. Grobitz.
Vernon's policies for Peace are very much the same as Erica's… of course, his predilection for Football might be his own personal tastes.
#Erica Bartholomew#President Vernon#GG Politics#Chipp Zanuff#Assassins Organization#United Nations#GG Novels#The Butterfly and Her Gale
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Humongulous! like it's good to pass back and forth this things attentions, and you are the only one in the room that can tank more than one strike- but not for her. She would absolutely not pull the same courtesy, in fact we can be 100% sure because she had the opportunity like 2 or 3 pages ago
Like it's noble of you and all, but still!
#girl genius#page react#I'm on time today Isn't that well on it's way to being novel#and conventionally I don't like to advocate for the villain's death it's just not my speed#but in GG Wyrmhaut is really pushing the narrative to find death#I specifically pointed out at least one of the death flags she planted
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What could I do about my heart having rotted?
And 𝗶 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 like no other.
#The S Classes That I Raised#the s classes that i raised#s classes that i raised#han yoojin#sctir#tsctir#han yoohyun#sung hyunjae#manhwa#manhwa icons#manhwa moodboard#novel#webnovel#black moodboard#white moodboard#white layouts#black and white#gg moodboard#indie moodboard#messy layouts#alternative moodboard#aesthetic moodboard#random moodboard#grunge moodboard#messy moodboard#layouts#moodboard#cottagecore moodboard#coquette moodboard#clear moodboard
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Do you think the characters who haven't been in Strive's story may be written into the story in a future chapter, in a similar vein to another story? It just will feel weird for another story to write May, Faust, Ram, ect. back into the main plot, but Test, Bridget, and whoever's in S3 get passed on.
Guilty Gear's lore is utterly unpredictable, honestly. It feels like Testament and Bridget's stories are wrapped up so if they came back they'd have to have some kind of new plot thread to go after, but it felt like Ram's story was done too and she came back in Another Story.
Eventually I think we're going to get another really big animated story DLC like how Xrd Sign and Rev both had pretty long story modes and it's going to focus on whatever nonsense Chaos has brewing. Xrd brought in a LOT of the cast for its stories with the shorter Rev2 animations filling in on some of the side guys (Daryl, Venom, etc) that didn't get much screentime. It would make a lot of sense for Strive to be building up to something like that, a huge ensemble giant Backyard clusterfuck thing that requires 2 hours of studying the in-game encyclopedia to unravel haha
I suspect most of the characters they've introduced in the season passes that weren't a major part of the day 1 launch story will feature in this new, big, story. Especially Bridget. Good god Bridget carried season 2 sales so hard, there's no way they're not gonna put her in like EVERYTHING going forward hahah Good for her.
#asks#My GG animated story wishlist has 'in-depth Crusades flashback' in the number 1 spot but that's a pipe dream#My other GG story wishlist thing is MORE NOVELS PLEASE ASW PLEASE FEED ME NOVELS AND MANGA VOLUMES ARHGARGHAGRHGRGR
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