#gloss over entire scenes with a sentence

[foxghost]

I'm writing and I'm writing and it never seems to end? And then it occurred to me that I should maybe go check the word count on that outline and

the outline has 8000 words in it

[belleshub]

prompt 4

yanking them by their..

satoru g. — ear.

it may sound weird at first. satoru never lets anyone touch him. the strongest. he can’t be touched by his usual means of infinity.

so why did he let you do so? it’s a conundrum to him as well. why does he touch you, put on his flawed personality for display and be so vulnerable? because as much as he’d want to deny, he loves you.

he loves you so much, to the point where he in fact invited you to go shopping with him! sure, he probably would’ve done it with himself or someone else if you were to decline, but you didn’t.

that’s what matters.

youre glossing through the crowded mall, turning a head at anything that catches your eye - and that’s when you see it.

the perfect outfit, clad on the stores front mannequin. you’re just hoping and..

“that kid there has a digimon card—“

“you are such a nerd.” you throw your head back with a exasperated groan, fingers pitching the lobe of warm hearing vessels.

“cmonn, you’re not even buying anything.”

he whined. he knew very well that he was giving you an inch.

and you knew too.

immature, much?

“I was literally just looking at somethin’, what are you on about?” you bark back.

“okay, but like, I didn’t..”

“do you even know what you’re trying to argue about?” you furrow a brow.

“can’t you mentally bookmark it?”

“…” you two shortly find your way over to a gamestop. an embarrassing scene.

suguru g. — hair

more often than not, suguru doesn’t like when other people touch his hair. he meticulously grooms it, and takes care of it to the fullest. and if someone were to touch it - they’d have to be on the list of people he can tolerate. like his parents, or maybe shoko and gojo.. and without a doubt, you.

how could he not? suguru any touch of yours to be a grounding anchor to the reality he sometimes can’t even process himself. you’re his safe space. and he means it in every definition his brain could fathom.

and with you, it’s the same. you two were simply hanging out after school, and with how sassy he was - you two were prone to indulge in some banter.

sitting on some bench next to some convenience store, you chow down on some chips - him, observe the general public. it was one of those moments where, there isn’t exactly a set plan for the day - but rather more of a reprieve from your usual treacherous schedule.

so in short, you were just.. chilling.

while you were relaxing, you rant to him about your latest fixation, and then.. he gets a text message! from.. who?

“are you listening?” you lean forward, squinting as you tried to look at his screen.

“no, yeah..” he replies monotonously. you didn’t like that.

“I dare you to recount what I just said within three sentences—“

“I think satoru set me up, that snarky bastard.” his eye twitched as he tightened his grip on the flip phone. was he gonna break it?

“dude, relax, maybe he’s like.. I dunno..”

then you pause when you read the message.

“who the hell is misaki sato? and why does she have your number?”

“I told you, satoru set me up, I don’t know that girl!” he frowned, and you gently grab a tuff of hair, tugging just enough so you don’t place tension on his oh so tender scalp.

“oh shit! I think I know her!” your eyes widen, an accomplished smile gracing your features.

“was pulling my hair necessary?”

“shut up.”

yuji i. — arm.

you two were relaxing after just exiting from the movie theater. yuji just convinced you to watch a boring, dramatic and theatrical slasher. given that you genuinely had no other pastime, you took him up on his offer.

rookie mistake on his end, because for you, your knack for unconventional garbs was going to be the death of him.

“oh my god, oh my— yuji!” you exclaim. “it’s a flash sale, you know how much I love this stores stuff.”

“are you gonna even use half of the things in there?” he said sheepishly - until he saw merchandise. merchandise of his favorite movie!

“oh..it’s..its!”

you give him a side glance.

“oh, human centipede…”

“that’s like an entirely different thing!” he complains, and you simply push his back and your hand lands on his arm. circling around it, you pull him forth.

“my bad, that weird murder shit you like..” you correct yourself. awkwardly.

“it’s not weird!”

megumi f. — collar.

to be frank, megumi wasn’t to chatty type. he was more for the tiny things, the things that made it matter.

acts of service. that his niche. so.. why was he here.. crafting all these.. origami gifts.. why? because he wanted to surprise you. particularly because you just passed exams. he’s been routing for you, studying.. buying your energizers..

yuji brought up the idea, and megumi decided to entertain it. for once.

he presses the youtube video back, navy eyes narrowing further as he scrutinized the screen just one more time.

pink hair blurs his vision, and immediately, he’s over it again.

“maybe we should ask nobara. she’s a girl, she probably knows a lot about—“ yuji fell short of his exclaimation as megumi pressed him off to the side. he may or may not subtly have elbowed him in his side as well.

“I think I know my girlfriend, yuji..” he rolled his eyes, maybe at this point, he should give up. but if it’s one of your favorite..

clink.

the noise of a door unlocking throughout the dorm room sounds, and megumi feels like his soul has been snatched. hastily, he slams it close.

yuji, on the other hand, turned to the side, front obscuring the accumulated supplies in the front of them.

“ohh, heyy! we didn’t know you were..coming so soon?”

with your arrival, you don’t exhaust haste to trot your way over to megumi.

“the air in here doesn’t feel right.” you say.

“what the hell is that even supposed to mean?” yuji barked, hurriedly pushing the papers under the bed.

“I meant what I said! you guys are doing somethin’, and it’s suspicious! why else would yuji be in here?”

“I mean, he’s not always an unwanted presence..” megumi looks off to the side, a snicker escaping his lips.

“are you insinuating there has been times where I was a unwanted presence?” his friend yells, jaw hung low in appall.

you tsk, and pull his collar, trying to see what was behind him.

he didn’t seem.. particularly bothered by your proximity.

“now, what exactly are you guys try’na do?”

[tomomiisasleep]

notes on Harryanthe which I am crazy about, in HtN

this dumb little interaction just stuck with me. I mean they're almost always high-strung in the detailed plot, like in almost every one of the Ianthe-centered scenes one of them is in some kind of pain

but I know they have chill moments. mundane moments. petty arguments, like the one in the post scrips of the letter. And I so badly want to read those!!

anyways. I'm gonna start collecting scraps here.

you might have given Ianthe Tridentarius the pleasure of opening the note labelled Upon the death of Harrowhark Nonagesimus. Your only hope for that note was that it contained a single sentence along the lines of, Get what joy you can from my corpse, you devious bitch, but it was written by a previous self and you could not risk a guess.

Harrow: what if I didnt hate her and that makes me wanna have a lobotomy yeah that makes sense

Once, vilely, from Ianthe; she had ensconced you in fat and rolled you down the hallway out of danger, and still laughed whenever she thought about it.

ok this is just Ianthe being a little pest, but it also means that she talks about this and laughs in Harrow's face, which makes her a little bitch, but also like it means they often chat and Ianthe would be like: Yeah today I tried the theorem on apples again, but I tweaked it by directing the flow of thalergy from- hey Harry do u remember the time I saved your life hahahahahaha

The mockery you endured for needing her proximity was exquisitely painful, but humiliation was steadily becoming your existence whole and entire.

I want to know what exactly this mockery entails

It had been very nicely matched to the original until she had ceased using it altogether, and the difference was more pronounced each day. Unconscious of your critical eye, she scratched fretfully at the line until red hives appeared.

Ianthe squirming under Harrow's gaze for once

She was in a filthy mood, if she was wearing that thing, with her arm exposed.

Harrow has been keeping tabs on the state of her arm problem ever since she first woke up on the Erobos. Same as how Ianthe has been keeping tabs on the results of her lobotomy.

she said, blue eyed, those oily little freckles glittering almost pinkly above the dress. They reflected the red rims of her eyelids. You thought that she had been crying.

yeah stare at her eyelids Harrow, and sniff her discreetly all the time, sweat musk vetiver am I right (also have I expressed how crazy it drives me that she wears masculine perfume??????????? no well IT'S SO *faints*

You got better autopsies of her encounters with Beasts than you did from your own, as Augustine was wont to explain significantly more to her than either he or Mercy did to you.

Ugh why why why in this whole book I have not seen them talk shop with each other even once??? Except Harrow showing off after making the arm. Harrow has discussions with Pal all the time in GtN. clearly she trades notes on necromancy with Ianthe frequently. but no, gloss over Ianthe's intellect and just write her freak(fond) moments

You had once been fool enough to recommend that Ianthe take them down, at which point she had rustled up another from the bathroom and hung it in pride of place above an overpainted dresser.

love her

“Oh, heaps,” said Ianthe, who appeared not to have taken offence at your rejection. It was so impossible to tell, with Ianthe. “I made it. It’s vile.”

Maybe she really doesn't care about the rejection or even likes it, but "so impossible to tell" kinda hints that, well she might be hurt,maybe, there just isn't any proof

It was not a connection formed of any mutual admiration; if anything, the more you saw of Ianthe the less likely you were to mistake her for likeable. She made herself like an overdecorated cake: covered so thickly in icing and fondants and gums that it would take serious excavation to find any bread. As a necromancer she was a genius, though you thought she relied too much on shortcuts and circumventions. She had an exceptionally fine mind. She was not afraid of rigour.

If Harrow doesn't have the hots for her at least I do.

Honestly on my first read I took stuff like "not likeable" and "“Tell me to stop breathing,” she said. (“I have, on multiple occasions,” you said.)" at face value and actually thought Harrow genuinely hates her and is forced to interact with her because there's no one else. Which is true. But she's also very attracted to her and I kinda overlooked it at because I thought those feelings were mutually exclusive. And they're not. which I'm obsessed with.

Or she won't think Ianthe's beautiful and note details about how she dresses all the time.

Seriously Harrow's special fixation on "how Ianthe's clothes make her look" is hard to ignore.

for example:

The mother-of-pearl made Ianthe’s hair a lurid yellow and threw up all the mustard tints of her skin; her face was blotchy, and her eyes were sleepless pits. She looked like shit.

The skirts and waists were all beautifully cut for someone of a different height and body type than Ianthe possessed. They were tight where they should have been loose and loose where they should have been tight. They looked like her burial clothes, and she looked as though she had emerged fifty years after that burial.

she answered after a long, scuffling minute, with sleep in her eyes and her hair in dilute whey tangles over her neck and shoulders, wearing a bewildering short garment of violet chiffon.

The back was open, and you could see the fine dents of her spine—her bleached skin bluer and sweeter against the pallid gossamer—and the twin blades of her shoulder blades looked strangely nude and vulnerable to you.

Ianthe was training in her nightgown—a grisly floor-length concoction of pale golden lace that made her long, limber body look like a green-veined mummy

a lone wax figure in pale purple chiffon, tall and colourless—except in the greasy metal of her bone arm, which the lights rendered all the colours of the rainbow.

Ianthe rose soundlessly to her feet, and the long skirts of her nightgown—a brilliant ruffled canary-yellow silk that made her look like a formal lemon—rustled restively around her calves.

Note that Harrow focuses on Ianthe's clothes for how they shape Ianthe's appearance. in contrast:

she ignored your sister, whose pallid eyebrows had shot up so fast and so far that they were in danger of breaking the atmosphere. Mercymorn wore a long slip of peach-coloured silk, and her white Canaanite robe was tucked over her forearms and had slipped entirely off her slender, aggrieved shoulders. She had scraped her hair into a merciless and shining coil at the back of her head, and she had no eyes for either of you.

Obviously Mercy is SUPER HOT here, if Ianthe's reaction means anything. But Harrow only describes her clothing and not how she looks. Same with Augustine's party outfit.

With Ianthe, it's always: she's wearing ..., which makes her look gross. And I did not understand at first but now I know and feel stongly that Harrow is totally into her gross-hotness. well at least I am. the grosser she's described the hotter she is.

[monbons]

Stitches and Sentences Sunday

Thanks for the tags @confused-bi-queer and @roomwithanopenfire. I am excited about all of your projects!

STITCHES Now that y'all know Beautiful Things is a collab, I can share that all my stitches have been going towards making TWO sets of smutty Baz and Simon. The second is a gift for @rimeswithpurple to thank her for all the effort she's put into the beautiful art for the fic. (Y'all are truly not ready for how amazing it is!) Since this is a new body design, the second set is all about perfecting mistakes from the first.

As you can see, the first Simon had very skinny calves. I used the Baz pattern as a base and fattened only a little, which was truly dumb of me, I know. For the second Simon (and the one I am gifting Arianna), I redid the entire pattern--both width and length--and the leg looks SO MUCH BETTER.

I suppose there is a lesson in there somewhere about taking shortcuts or constant improvement. Either way, I am excited for how much nicer this second set is turning out, even if Arianna has nowhere to display them since she has Little Purples in the house! 😆

SENTENCES So, in the spirit of sharing an actual WIP, I don't think I will preview more of my EGF. The fic is so short that I don't want to give too much away, but I do have a WIP I've been trying to workshop the last couple weeks.

After my Cheer AU for COC, I couldn't get cheer Simon out of my brain. So, I decided to try to tackle it as my next long fic. It is still very much in the planning phase, so literally everything could still change. With that said, here is a snip of a scene I've partially drafted trying to get a sense of the story and narrative style I'd like to adopt.

I cackle maniacally and shove my finger against Baz’s lips. The corners droop in distaste. “Lick it, Baz,” I insist. “You know you want to.” Baz closes his eyes and shakes his head, smearing orange dust all over his mouth like some kind of psychedelic lip gloss. He looks ridiculous. His face is all frowny and his arms are curled against his chest like the fetal position can save him from being soiled with fluorescent Cheeto crumbs. Like this doesn’t make him an even better target for the ill-considered antics of his favorite person in the whole world.  (I’m his favorite. He’s told me so.)

Happy Sunday to all. May no one smear you in cheese dust. Unless you want it, I suppose. @alexalexinii, @argumentativeantitheticalg, @aristocratic-otter, @arthurkko, @artsyunderstudy

@best--dress, @blackberrysummerblog, @brilla-brilla-estrellita, @bookish-bogwitch, @bookishbroadwayandblind,

@confused-bi-queer, @cutestkilla, @drowninginships, @emeryhall, @harrie-leithillustration

@hushed-chorus, @iamamythologicalcreature, @ic3que3n, @ileadacharmedlife, @katatsumuli

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@orange-peony, @prettygoododds, @raenestee, @rbkzz, @rimeswithpurple

@roomwithanopenfire, @run-for-chamo-miles, @shrekgogurt, @skeedelvee, @stitchyqueer

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@thewholelemon, @valeffelees, @whatevertheweather, @you-remind-me-of-the-babe, @youarenevertooold

[reelvibes91]

Thoughts after watching Mr. McMahon

This one won't be a traditional review of sorts that people have come to expect from me. Recently, Netflix released Mr. McMahon a look into the mind of the most recognized face in the wrestling business.

Netflix decided throughout the documentary that they wanted to reiterate that almost all of this documentary was made before the major allegations against Vince in 2022. That felt a little bit like a cop out at times. For me instantly, that is the story. It is how Vince will be remembered now, and there is no way around it. It basically made the serious accusations levied against Vince feel like just another throwaway moment in the life of an eccentric billionaire.

They immediately can say well we addressed it with the little blurb saying that the events within the 6 episodes are now skewed. Yet they awkwardly chose to edit one of the very first sentences of the documentary to essentially be Vince saying "I wish we could talk about things but I have to be silent."

The issue that arises from that is at what point in the process did Vince say that? Was it a harmless throwaway when asked about locker room talk? Was it in a means to try and get him to elaborate on the known affairs that he himself made public.

While personally I won't go as far as to say Bruce Prichard is right when saying this doesn't paint the portrayal of Vince, it certainly allowed too much of Vince to keep speaking while their was damning evidence mounted against him over the last two years. They should have switched the focus of the documentary when that information came out. They should have made it life with vs life without Vince. Of course, we still don't know exactly what long-term life without him looks like, but we should have had more superstars interviewed about how they felt. These were people who clearly prior to the allegations coming out that were still trying to blur the lines between reality and fiction. Including Vince himself. It casts shadows on most of the people who worked so closely with Vince over the years. It made the Mr. McMahon character the center piece of a story that is about real-life debauchery and trying to get away with it.

It felt like the real story here, which was the deaths of Owen Hart, Chris Benoit, and Ashley Massaro, were simply glossed over because while making the documentary, they still wanted to paint Vince as this creative mastermind. As said both are true. He did this. He brought this to life but there should be no celebrating the man that brought his real life depravity to the screen.

After Janel Grant filed her lawsuit, the entire focus of this documentary should have changed. There was truly never a Mr. McMahon character and if seeing the way he treated Ashley in one scene they used didn't leave you feeling sad and lost then this documentary failed to highlight the true nature of how evil and vile this man could be. It should have been about why one person controlling so much of one entity is never a good thing. Vince McMahon is the ultimate definition of power, corrupting the mind and having your way in life because you feel untouchable. If nothing else, please let this documentary serve as a means to let young women and men know that money never gives a person the right to dominate you.

[simptasia]

Tell me all about LOST all I know is from Dane Cook

that is. such a funny sentence

aw shucks, its tempting, but i don't wanna give ya spoilers. and there are truly things in lost that must be experienced by your own flesh

...yes im aware of what my blog is like

so i guess i'll give a vague spoiler free overview

so. a group of plane crash survivors find themselves on a mysterious island and have to deal with the strange happenings + their weight of their individual traumas

the show is serialized and one ep more or less flows into another, so literally no ep can be skipped (no matter what anybody says) or else you'll miss something

its a large ensemble cast, ranging from the 13 to 20s range, all in all i think theres like 35 main characters

the show follows a flashback structure, each episode dedicated itself to a main plot on the island intercut with flashbacks to one character. we call these centric episodes. eg. this is a jack centric episode. sometimes an ep will have multiple characters have flashbacks in one ep. while this show didn't originate the concept of a large cast or flashback storytelling, it did popularize it in the early 2000s. so a lot of post 2004 shows wanted to be lost so bad and it shows

at first lost was a survival show but they gloss over this very quickly and its more about the weird shit going on. as time goes on, plots and mysteries stack up. this is to create intrigue, as the shows main focus is an endless parade of character studies. with the added bonus of some cool and twisty shit going on too

but because lost had so much plot, over time it got accused of being confusing and convoluted and Not Answering Questions and well. your mileage may vary. but i think its confusing if you watch it too slowly. like, it aired over a 6 year period, no wonder people got confused. its better to watch nowadays, way easier to handle

the genre of lost is: drama mystery action paranormal sci fi romance with a dash of comedy. lost is full of the saddest fucks you'll ever meet but the show contains enough levity and great colouring to make it not a huge misery fest

pretty decent racial diversity. next to no LGBT rep. more women than the average tv show. then and now

the score FUCKS

not a single bad actor in this entire show, the performances on display are fucking outstanding. and every emotion is like up to 11, which is great for my autistic brain

for those of you who find sex scenes to be tedious, i have a bit of trivia for ya: all sex in LOST happens off screen. not a single sex scene to be found. pre sex, yes, post sex, yes. making out, yes. but sex itself? footage not found. i'm neutral on the concept, i just thought that was something to point out

i highly recommend lost to, like, anybody. ever. its a masterpiece of television. even the low points are better than most shows. sometimes i take lost for granted and then i watch any other drama series and im like "oh right, lost is incredibly good"

its my third favourite show. and thats only cuz star trek and doctor who exist, and nobody is beating those fuckers

anyways do you like to see beautiful people cry and scream but it isn't cringe?* well, i've got a show for you! *okay there is some cringe. as a treat. the leading man of this show has the social grace of a cold pancake (affectionate)

thank you for your time

[bumblebeerror]

It’s so wild to me that school boards are actually trying to ban John Green’s books because of their “sexual content”.

Every last scene where sex takes place in a John Green book it is awkward at best and laughably unsexy at worst.

Hazel and Gus’s sec scene is awkward, they’re teenagers and virgins, Gus is missing a leg and Hazel has a nasal cannula, there’s more time spent on Hazel figuring out how to take it off than there is on the actual sex. Anything explicit is glossed over. Hazel describes the act in vague flowery language and waxes philosophical on the beauty, but there’s no sexual content here besides Hazel letting us know that they did in fact fuck.

Lara and Pudge’s sex scene is downright painful. They fucking fail to do a blowie and have to ask someone else how to do it. It’s meant to underline just how disconnected Pudge is from Lara and it is excruciating. The language is clinical, and the entire act is written in like 3 sentences. At one point there is dick in mouth and they both just sit there and stare at each other. It’s comical just how unsexy this scene is.

Like if these scenes turn you on, I don’t understand how.

[cvsmixnaya]

i love you

pairings: eren yeager x reader

pronouns: she/her

cw: angst. literally lots of it. queen charlotte au

a/n: i had this idea for a while but never got myself to write it but here i am and i hope y’all like this cause it’s the best scene in the show

“Do you love me?” Y/n asked Eren.

“I’m trying to protect you.” He answered right away.

“Do you love me?” She asked him again with a bit of aggression in her voice.

“I…I cannot. We cannot… This conversation is- I cannot do this-” Eren said but got cut off by Y/n

“Do you love me?”

“I never wanted to marry-”

“Do you love me?” She asked him again and again.

“Y/n please stop!”

He begged her to let it go but she couldn’t it. She just could not.

“Is it because you do not believe that I could love you? I do.”

Of course she did. How could she not? She’s always loved him and will never stop loving him.

“I love you Eren.” All he could do was look at her. What Y/n didn’t know was the fact that he loved her too.

He will always continue to love her.

“I love you so much that I will do as you wish. If you do not love me, all you have to say is you do not love me and I will go. I will go back to Buckingham house and we can live our separate lives, and I will have this baby alone and I will make do and fill my days and survive. I will do that. But first, you have to say that you do not love me.”

Y/n said and Eren didn’t say anything yet. He couldn’t stop looking at her and how beautiful she looked in the dim lighting.

Even in the dark he would find her beautiful.

She tried to push him to respond by saying, “You have to tell me that I am utterly alone in this world.”

“I am a madman. I am a danger. In my mind there are different worlds creeping in. The heavens and the earth collide. I don’t know where I am.”

He says but didn’t answer the question that was asked and it was killing Y/n from the inside. She just wanted a simple answer.

“Do you love me?” She asked him again just waiting for him to answer the damn question.

“You do not wish a life with me. No wishes that.”

“Eren!”

Y/n called out to him.

“I will stand with you between the heavens and the earths. I will tell you where you are. Do you love me?”

“I love you!” Eren yells out. His eyes are glossing up showing that he is going to cry.

“From the mo-” She very clearly heard his voice crack at that sentence he was trying to say.

“From the moment i saw you trying to go over the wall… I have loved you desperately. I cannot breathe when you are not near. I love you Y/n. My heart calls your name.”

As soon as Eren finished his confession, he immediately pressed his lips on Y/n’s. The kiss was slow, passionate and full of love.

She finally got her answer. Eren loved her. He loved her so much.

They broke the kiss and he started to break down. Tears falling out of his beautiful green eyes.

She said nothing and just held him. Allowing him to let it all out.

Their foreheads were against each other with comfort. Her hands were resting gently on his neck while his hands were on her waist going up and down.

He seeked comfort. So badly.

“I wanted to tell you. I wanted you to know. This… madness has been my secret my entire life. This darkness is… is my burden. You bring the light.”

He said while pulling away from her tears cascading down his cheek.

“Eren. It is you and me. We can do this. Together.” She told him in an reassuring tone.

All Eren could do was kiss her again but it lasted shortly and the couple just hugged each other in comfort.

They were so glad to be in each other’s arms and didn’t plan on letting go anytime soon.

[meganechan05]

"Rita of Gokkan"

TTFC's original webcomic from Rita's POV.

First 10 Chapters are available on TTFC to read. First 3 Chapters free on BookLive and Piccomo.

(Spoilers ahead)

I'm surprised they managed to create a webcomic in Rita's POV as well as having a weekly release to show more of what was going on in their head.

The chapters are rather short to fit the format of a weekly series (especially a full-colored one), but shows enough of what is going on in Rita's POV. The first Chapter is 43 pages compared to the 14 of other chapters simply bc it goes over the entire opening monologue of the pilot.

(Please note that I am not fluent, the lack of furigana makes it hard for me to read kanji, but I know enough to use context clues to get a general yet vague grasp of what is happening).

The first chapter takes place during the events of episode 4 given it's before arresting Gira but about a week after episode 1. It starts with Morfonia running and Rita then fights off Sanegims outside the castle reminiscent of Episode 5's first fight scene. Even down to Rita's speech as they enter the castle as well as sentencing someone to a -10° cell during a trial.

The rest of the chapter would show a little more insight on Rita and Morf's relationship as Morf does seem to show concern over Rita's behavior after the first Bugnarok attack. The chapter ends with Rita entering their office and cuts to the events of Chapter 1 as Rita recalls it after picking up Gira's Wanted flier (cut to Chapters 2-9)

This is where we actually get more of Rita's inner thoughts and perspectives of the other Kings in the first episode. Specifically Racles and Yanma as those two were the ones causing the most problems for the Chief Justice. Not so much Kaguragi, but there is a moment during the fight where Rita and Himeno kinda butt heads because Himeno jumped into the line of fire after Rita takes a shot at a Sanegim.

I won't say much else as a good chunk of the comic is retelling what happened in the first episode, but it does confirm my headcanon of Rita being way too suspicious of Racles in the early episodes prior to watching "Racles's Secret" which led to them being more than happy to get a DNA sample by smacking the absolute shit out of him. It also shows how Rita is sick and tired of each King's selfishness when all they want is for the Alliance to work for the sake of the people but learn none of the Kings can work together. Something that explains why Rita was so close to throwing hands with Yanma and Himeno in Episode 5 while going "i don't give a fck if you're a royal" to their faces 😂

Chapter 10 is more of Rita going over their past and shedding details on how they grew up after becoming King at 10 years old. It also features a chat with Moffun that is a 180 in style which is very fitting for Rita's mental state (i love it so much~). The chapter ends with Morf calling Rita before Rita heads to Toufu for the arrest.

Honestly, the webcomic is pretty good at being very close to how the episodes played out while also bringing in another perspective of the whole situation. Some details were added in that weren't in the show simply because it makes more sense to know now rather than putting random tiny details together and have a huge theory board throughout the show.

I mean I do have one, but y'know. KingOh lore is insane.

What I do appreciate about this webcomic is how it touches on Rita and Morfonia's relationship in more detail. Even down to Rita's thinking whenever Morf's laid back personality and disrespecting authority makes them hold back a scream mid-meeting 😂

I do wonder how much input Kamihori and TakaMina have and how much discussions made with the artist to bring this side project to life. Or at least how much was planned or if TakaMina was just begging for his little autistic blorbo to have some shining moments that were glossed over in the show in favor of getting the plot moving.

[retromotherfuckers]

just finished Mockingjay and here are my thoughts.

i’m late to the game, i know. i’ve already seen the movies but when they came out i wasn’t into reading. as i am now, i decided to read the thg series and in hopes of finding someone with the same opinions, i’m posting this here because i don’t know anyone who’s read the series.

first of all, one of my biggest pet peeves is when authors tell and don’t show. just because peeta planted the primroses to take to prim’s grave does not tell me they reconciled. it tells me peeta’s not determined to kill katniss and forsake everything about her. it’s. not. enough. “we found our way back to each other,” NOT. ENOUGH. i need a reconciliation scene, i fucking need more for them. i’m not asking for a happy ending, i’m asking for closure. show me how they found their way back, show me how she finally realized he was back and ready to be there for her. show me how he realized she wasn’t there to kill him. SHOW ME. DON’T TELL ME. it really felt like peeta went from wanting to kill her to them having kids together. like huh? i have no closure.

katniss’ depression? absolutely heartbreaking and very realistic. like when she runs from peeta after she sees him planting the flowers because she can’t handle it. the scene where the cat comes back and she looses it? had me in tears. the fact that she hasn’t bathed in weeks, the being too exhausted to even walk back to her home from town.

FINNICK’S DEATH BEING COMPLETELY GLOSSED OVER WAS A CRIME. HE DESERVED BETTER THAN THAT. i get it, they were in the middle of trying to get out alive but i needed it to circle back and it just didn’t. this man just got married, he was one of the only people katniss trusted and he’s killed off in three sentences and we almost never hear of it again.

the ambiguity of it being gale’s bomb that killed prim and katniss knowing it could’ve been was enough for her to absolutely destroy gale. i was waiting for her to beat the shit out of him and she barely reacted??? just seems ooc for her. her entire life was devoted to protecting her sister, prim dies, and the person possibly responsible goes unscathed? unacceptable. if it was anyone but gale they’d be dead on the spot and coin was. i understand katniss not killing him, that’s her childhood best friend. but where’s the anger? hell should’ve been raised. the argument could be made that she was depressed and couldn’t even begin to try to be angry at him with the numbness that she had going on, and while that’s valid, it just seems ooc

i don’t want those negatives taken as me hating the books. because i actually really enjoyed them. i’m really just not happy with that ending. what does it take to put a few extra scenes in there? i love peeta, i love katniss and i love finnick. i’m happy 2/3 of them ended up happy, but i wanted more for all of them.

[brielarsonist]

Why do you dislike the marvels?

ok so I talked about this already kinda in this ask and this ask and I know I'm going to repeat some of what I've said in those in my response to this. but also there are actually many many things I dislike about this movie, and I don't think it's even possible for me to sum it all up in any one ask, and there will definitely be things I'm forgetting, but I will do my best...

but first!! I know a lot of fans enjoyed the movie and had fun with it, and I'm glad they liked it! I didn't want to talk about how I disliked it at first, because I just didn't want to put my negative thoughts out there about a movie that was going to receive so much criticism even if it had been perfect. but I personally just feel like I did not experience the same movie as everyone who enjoyed it so much, and I really wish I felt the same way as them, but I don't think I will ever fully enjoy this movie.

so continuing on to the rest of my thoughts under the cut...

like I talked about in that first ask I linked, this just did not feel like an actual sequel to the first captain marvel movie. to me it felt more like a movie that should have come after at least two captain marvel solo movies, so that more of what was set up in the first movie had time to be addressed. and, personally, I just don't think there was ever any way that this movie could possibly have time to balance all three leads in a way that was fulfilling for any of their storylines.

but focusing on it just as a sequel to the first captain marvel, I personally think it failed. tonally, it completely shifted. like the anon pointed out in the first ask I linked, it became much more family friendly, taking away from the seriousness of everything carol went through in the first movie. when they did address any of carol's trauma or past experiences, it was incredibly brief. and everything that had been set up in the first movie was merely glossed over, or just ignored completely. carol's story has decades of blank space in the mcu, and this movie refused to do anything but scratch the surface of what she's been up to. the conflict of the movie revolved around solving an issue that should have been its own movie entirely, not something summed up in a few sentences before moving on.

it was also disappointing that instead of getting to see carol finally at the height of her powers for more than a few minutes, this movie chose to once again hinder her. the swapping was, in my opinion, very annoying. it served as a tool to make sure carol, monica, and kamala all had to interact, but it felt more like uninspired writing to me. and there were inconsistencies in how the swapping worked (sometimes it swapped just the two women using their powers, sometimes one would use their powers and swap with both of them, sometimes they swapped in their own clothes but then conveniently kamala swapped into a space suit) which just made some of the sequences painful to watch, in my opinion. I think there could have been more compelling ways to get the three of them to work together, rather than a contrived swap that didn't really make any sense or even have much pay off in the fight scenes.

and forcing the idea that carol was "finally working with a team" just did not land with me, since we have only seen her working with other people in her mcu appearances so far. if they wanted this idea to make any sense, they could have done so by actually taking the time to show her working alone in a proper sequel.

and I also personally just did not like any of the scenes on the space station with nick fury's crew and the flerkittens. I think they did nothing for the story. the flerkittens were very gimmicky and seemed like a ploy to sell merch, except there was hardly any merch of them available. so it was a waste of screen time in a movie that was already lacking on adequate screen time for its characters.

basically I generally just thought the movie was poorly edited, poorly written, incredibly choppy and way too fast-paced (I felt like I had whiplash from how fast some of the scenes transitioned), and tried to take on too many things in the runtime it had. I think the actors all did great, but in general I think it's one of the mcu's worst movies and another victim of their decline in storytelling quality.

and also I didn't like how it this movie was generally handled by the studio??

when it was announced that this movie would be a team up, I thought it was sus of the mcu/disney to not make the captain marvel sequel a solo film before doing a team up, because how often have they done that in the sequels for their male superheroes (not including avengers team up movies)? I think the only other one was ant-man and the wasp, but most of the main male avengers had plenty of their own sequels. so why does the first sequel to a female-led movie have three leads in the shortest mcu movie so far?

I think this particularly goes along with how the mcu has been introducing as many heroes as possible in as little time as possible, and this movie felt like another way for them to do as much as possible without taking the necessary time to prioritize character or plot. the mcu is certainly consistent in choosing quantity over quality whenever it can. but with the marvels in particular, it seemed like marvel/disney wanted to impress people with the cover of a girl power team up, when they're just cramming as many female leads into one film to more or less avoid having to make actual sequels for each of the characters, essentially killing two (in this case, three) birds with one stone.

and speaking of killing!! the fact that they did actually film a death scene for carol danvers I think could say a lot about what they might have wanted to achieve with this film. from the way carol has been handled in the mcu so far, it feels like the executive powers that be either wanted to get rid of brie larson as carol danvers by killing her character off, or by having the movie flop, essentially doing their dirty work for them. this may be me being a crazy conspiracy theorist fan, but I'm not convinced the studio actually wanted this movie to succeed.

first of all, the marketing felt lacking. remember when the marvels happy meal toys were at mcdonald's? it was over the summer, when the movie wasn't coming out until november. what good was that as a marketing tactic when you can't even go see the movie that's being advertised right in front of you? if you have to wait literal months to go see the movie being advertised to you, chances are that most people are simply not going to remember. I know the movie was originally slated to come out in july, but I don't entirely believe disney doesn't have the ability to push the release of something like happy meal toys if they really wanted to properly promote the movie.

and also in general, there was so little merchandise for this movie. the first captain marvel movie had so many toys for little kids and cool merch for adults to collect. but this movie had basically zero presence in toy aisles or in more high-end collectibles, like hot toys sixth scale figures and such. there's so much merchandise for marvel/disney movies, but not for this movie? why make this movie much more family oriented than the first one and not make any toys? no dolls for carol or monica or kamala? no flerkitten plushies? for a franchise that pushes so much merch, I don't get why there was so little for this movie.

and also they decided to release the movie in the middle of a strike that would not allow the actors to promote the movie. movies like dune: part two, which had been originally set to release around the same time as the marvels, had its release pushed back due to the strike, and the movie then got to be properly promoted by the cast in the last few months, which helped create buzz. but disney, despite having already pushed the release of the marvels multiple times, chose not to follow suite in the wake of the strike. so there was mandatory radio silence from the actors during the crucial time of promoting the movie.

anyway, with the lack of proper merchandising and promo, it didn't seem like the studio cared about letting this movie actually succeed. and that, coupled with the fact that carol's story was basically sidelined in this movie and that they literally filmed her death scene, I think just sums up what they really wanted this movie to achieve: no more captain marvel movies.

and now that the movie flopped, there are rumors that another captain marvel movie will not be pursued. after the lack of adequate promotion and plans to kill off captain marvel, it doesn't shock me that the studios would smother any potential captain marvel sequels and blame it on a box office flop, despite her first movie making a billion US dollars.

to me, it felt like the studios are giving in to all the meaningless, sexist hate that brie larson and captain marvel get from the incel "fans" that constantly hate her for no reason other than their own bigotry. in reality, carol danvers as a character truly resonated with so many people, but the studios seem content with sidelining and/or killing her off. it seems like too much of a coincidence that she gets so much unwarranted hate online and now the studios are treating her character this way. disney thinks they can formulate a movie that will please everyone, but who are they actually trying to please by minimizing captain marvel in the mcu?

hopefully I'm wrong about how the studio feels about captain marvel's future in the mcu, but I just do not feel optimistic at all about it after this movie.

so after all of my complaints, I realize I might be asking too much from a fucking marvel superhero movie, since they're not generally known for their excellent treatment of plot and characters. if you pay too much attention to a marvel movie, you will most certainly not be rewarded in its sequels, as they seem to like to punish the fans who care about consistency. but all the same, I still love carol danvers as a character, and despite everything, I hope she gets better treatment in the future.

[eyra]

1 My favorite fic of yours

Ahhh okay this is such a hard question but I think it's beneath a big blue sky?! I honestly think I haven’t read a single fic of yours that I didn’t love, they’ve all been so, so good, but beneath a big blue sky was probably my favorite, I just love everything about this wonderful world you've created for them, and the Remus and Sirius of that fic are so important to me! <3

7. What made me the most emotional after reading

Okay so I read a dark and silent overture when I was at a very low point and that fic felt so cathartic and real and good, and it made me so emotional but in a good way, idk how to describe it but oof!! That fic!!! I loved it a lot and it was the perfect fic for me to read at that point!!

8. What I like the most about your writing

I just love everything about the way you describe people and settings and scenes, your lyrical, beautiful language and the way you can create such an amazing, distinct atmosphere with just a few sentences or paragraphs of descriptions is so fucking good!!! It really makes me as the reader feel like I am there with the characters and I can see and feel everything that’s happening to them. I also love the way you can write super wholesome, fluffy fics as well as maybe a bit more toxic relationship dynamics and both are so, so good (like in seventeen hours which I reread recently and LOVED as much as the first time I read it).

I don’t know how I missed this in my inbox! sorry mate - this is all SO KIND. thank you for the seventeen hours love (a fortnight ago I would’ve been glossing over that mention entirely, look how much I’ve grown)

and I’m glad a dark & silent overture came along for you at the right time! it was a very cathartic project for me too 🩶 x

[pbaz7]

I have never been so early or so excited

sexual content

knowing "Yeah… I don’t know what the hell you’re going to do when I start doing everything else.” was in the last part I have a feeling this gonna be GOOD

Azzi was lying across Paige’s chest, her head tucked beneath Paige’s chin

of course she is. author if you break them up ill cry

Azzi was about to make by grabbing her hips and pulling her up so she was straddling Paige’s waist. "This is more entertaining."

damn already?!?!

Paige tilted her head, feigning offense. "That’s not what you were saying this morning."

LMAO PAIGE

"Since you started calling me annoying every two seconds. I gotta get something out of it."

I mean get urself a dub out of it

Nika strolled in, completely unbothered by the scene in front of her.

god I miss that girl

"Maybe I just like them better now," she said, glancing at Paige with smile.

better now that you don't have to go with that fugly cave woman

Paige, not liking the space between them, pulled Azzi back down for a kiss. Her hands found their way to Azzi’s waist, holding her securely as she deepened the kiss, her lips moving slowly in a way that made Azzi melt.

the things id do for this kind of love

Paige tipped her head back slightly, giving her better access, her breath hitching softly.

don't leave me in a room alone with neck kisses

"Your clothes have too much fabric,"

oh?!

"I like when you’re drunk," she added, her tone carrying some playfulness.

Azzi Fudd I know your tricks

Drunk Paige had no problem pulling her close in public, leaving lingering touches that sent sparks down Azzi’s spine, and when they got home...Well, Paige couldn’t keep her hands off her, and Azzi loved every second of it.

well damn I mean she's gotta get WASTED now

"I’m definitely getting you back for keeping me up all night the other day."

Nika omg who's the lucky gal (don't even mention that she has a bf im in mourning)

"I mean, Azzi’s loud, sure, but she’s not that loud,"

oh Nika you don't know what you've just walked in to

Paige thought for a moment before leaning forward. "$200."

damn she's CONFIDENT jeez

if there was one thing Paige knew, it was how to get Azzi to let go of her inhibitions.

proof or it didn't happen

the sweatpants hanging slightly loose on purpose

I would put this sentence on a hear me out cake

a black long-sleeved crop top that showed her entire stomach, only falling low enough to cover her chest.

someone check on Paige and make sure she's still breathing

“I move quiet when I want to,” Paige replied

certainly won't be doing that tonight

“God, can y’all not do this in public? Like, at least give the rest of us a chance to have fun without feeling single as hell!”

Aaliyah is me

wiping her lip gloss off of her.

good god ill cry

“Why do I feel like you tryna get me drunk?”

cuz she is😊

“But when you’ve had a few drinks, you don’t hold back. You’re all over me—” her voice dipped, “—and I like that a lot.”

azzi doesn't even know that she's setting Paige up for success in this bet already

Paige had her arm slung casually around Azzi’s waist or shoulders for most of it

bro p is so touchy in this I love it tho

She leaned into Paige’s touch, letting herself be pulled into her orbit completely.

FOURTH WALL BROKEN

Paige tilted her head, her eyes dark as her hands rested firmly on Azzi’s waist. “What can I say? You make it hard to behave.”

she's been practicing that line in her mirror for sure

“Because your neck is exposed,” she said, her voice dropping lower. “It’s so sexy.”

someone take away her alcohol

Azzi mumbled, her voice soft but with a slight edge of warning. “You need to behave.”

I mean you are the one who said u wanted her drunk

“Like you’re mine,” Paige replied smoothly, her words so confident and sincere that Azzi’s cheeks warmed more.

SMOOTH

Kayla plopped down on the couch, completely oblivious to the intensity of the moment she had interrupted.

Kayla ur ruining the freak for all of us

Paige sat up, her lips brushing Azzi’s ear as she said, “It’ll make you feel euphoric baby.”

oh god she's already drunk enough

Kayla watched the exchange with mild interest, still completely oblivious to the tension that was in the air.

OPEN UR EYES KAYLA BABE

Paige leaned in close, so close their lips were just a breath apart but didn’t quite touch.

Kayla messy as hell for this one

Azzi’s lips trailed over Paige’s neck as she mumbled about how pretty Paige was.

Nika might as well cough up those 200 bucks right now

Paige groaned softly, leaning her head back against the couch. “Feels too good.”

so go home! let's get this freak on the road

“You’re lucky you’re pretty,” Paige muttered.

literally azzi after getting away with a foul and just smiling her dimpled smile

“You have no idea how hard it is to be around you and not...you know”

omg these freaks I cant

Amber.

guys I thought this party was a cave man free zone who let her in

Paige exhaled, her body relaxing slightly under Azzi’s touch. “You’re right, I’m sorry” she admitted, her voice quieter now.

anything for the precious princess

“Azzi,” she called, her voice loud enough to cut through the haze. “Can I talk to you?”

no! hope this helps

Paige, meanwhile, didn’t even glance up. She stayed exactly where she was, her lips still brushing over Azzi’s neck, her movements unbothered by Amber’s presence.

this is giving Paige kissing Azzi's neck in against the tide while she was on the phone with that other ugly cave woman. omg wait I've just had a thought... elle and amber would be best friends

I was... immature, and I didn’t treat you the way you deserved to be treated.”

correct! you may go now

But… do you think maybe we could try again? Like, really try?”

you do realize she was kissing her girlfriend not even two minutes ago... right?

“Are you and Paige even serious? Or is this just some… thing you’re doing?”

are you... being for real? do you... want me to snatch your wig?

Paige smirked, brushing it off. “I wanna dance.”

oh god

"Don’t start something you can’t finish, P,"

oh she'll finish it. trust.

In one swift motion, Paige turned them around, pressing Azzi’s back against the wall.

public environment guys! other people are present!

“Make me,” she whispered, her fingers now lightly tracing along the waistband of Paige’s sweats.

absolutely should not have said that

Then Azzi leaned in, her lips brushing Paige’s ear as she whispered, “Take me home.”

someone unlock the car door! right now! remote start!

small I go

“Don’t hold back tonight.”

I don't think she was planning on it

“You’re already worked up,” Paige said softly. “And I haven’t even really started yet.”

good lord

update: my life has been forever changed

“M’sorry, baby,” her voice soft and muffled.

her immediately apologizing im crying

“I’m sorry for making you cry, beautiful.”

guys stop this cuteness I can't take it

“Meet me in the shower when you can walk again,”

omg did yall not get enough?!?!

“I don’t know how you go from that to this.”

don't we all azzi. don't we all

Without saying a word, she walked up to the counter, grabbed a banana, and slapped $200 onto the counter in front of Paige.

SHES SO PISSED LMAO. HAD TO GIVE UP HER SLEEP AND HER MONEY

Azzi sighed, shaking her head as she took a sip of her coffee. “Unfortunately for me, I really do,” she muttered.

this has been said irl I dare you to tell me otherwise

holy crap author. oh my lord. the freaks in ur requests better be satisfied after this.

as always, incredible writing. lysm!

-🍉

Nika strolled in, completely unbothered by the scene in front of her.

god I miss that girl

i miss Nika so bad

Nika omg who's the lucky gal (don't even mention that she has a bf im in mourning)

exactly you get it

azzi doesn't even know that she's setting Paige up for success in this bet already

she clearly got her own thing going on 😭

FOURTH WALL BROKEN

oops

this is giving Paige kissing Azzi's neck in against the tide while she was on the phone with that other ugly cave woman. omg wait l've just had a thought... elle and amber would be best friends

why did i lowkey forget about this lmao they would be besties fs

update: my life has been forever changed

you’re hilarious 😭😭

the literally better be satisfied because it’s not happening again lmao

ilysm thank you like always 🫶🏼

[anosrepasi]

Book Review: The Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman

The Museum of Human History is Bergman's debut novel, having been released only a month ago as of Sept 2023 and is a relatively quick read at 241 pages. Summarized in a few words: it's strikingly similar to being unintentionally hit on the mouth, no harm intended but the impact is there nonetheless. I'd give it 4.5/5.

in a few more words:

This is a novel where you don't love the characters, but you'll still cry for them. There's no purely favored characters here and they are all ugly in their own ways, but its the flaws of the characters and the personal tragedies they experience that really drive deep the impact of their story. This is a book about grief. It's a book about remembering and knowing your loss, rather than forgetting the loss.

At it's core, its a very simple book. The cast of characters extends to roughly 15-20 at most, they cycle in and out of book from start to finish. The breadth of individuals scenes and moments in the book is also strikingly limited. Bergman builds up her story through palimpsest, revisiting the scenes from earlier chapters in later chapters from another characters view point. She builds up the emotion of the story through the precise use of poetic prose, packing more punch with some of her two sentence lines than many of her paragraphs.

This is not a book you will "like" or feel good about having finished, it ends leaving many characters feeling unresolved, but much like the central theme of grief- that's kind of the point and should not be seen as a flaw to the narrative.

For a debut novel it's impressive, clunky, definitely clunky in some spots that don't hold the same attention as other chapters, but over all it's a great example of writing a harrowing story that can cause tears with a very very simple toolbox of scenes and characters.

It is also, in my opinion, one of those novels that demands a reread at a later point in time once you've seen the complete story. Spoilers following, but there's two specific narrative threads that make a reread make the cohesive story all the more impactful.

The first is that Bergman has enough clues for the reader to know exactly what the algae is and what it'll do from chapter 4. The clues are all their and in my first reading I completely glossed over them all until later in the book when Bergman starts making the connections far more explicit. But when you do connect them, it completely changes the scope of the book. Naomi spends one paragraph wondering about "how much destruction she helped bring in, unwittingly," and at the time of that sentence it's played out as being overblown, an overzealous statement of an environmentally minded person before she realizes the truth. Then you read the whole novel and realize that she actually did exactly what she feared- but if she lived to see it might not have cared? Because the impacts were mostly human centered rather than the literal destruction of the environment she cared about. Which is awful, but is a pretty consistent theme in the entire novel. The characters care and they love, but that love constantly seems to be overshadowed by their apathy or their pain, and how in being unable to accept what they love with pain they lose it completely instead.

The second narrative thread of interest is Evangeline and Mauve and their shift from mirror images/defined set of twins to being considered an individual and the individual's ghost. Especially considering that the title of ghost seems to get passed back and forth between the characters. I got caught in this thread with one of the side character's Dr.Dean mentioning running into Naomi on the beach and "She was with her daughter." Both girls were present in that scene, but in memory they've already been reduced to one. I'm sure there's multiple occasions where this happens in the book and I find the tension between one very living child who is a shadow to her comatose static sister and vise versa over and over to be incredibly captivating.

Overall, if you enjoy poetic prose, lots of grief, and a healthy dash of environmental and medical science fiction? Chances are you'll enjoy this book, even if enjoy feels like the wrong word here.

[systematicallycapricious]

Just musing about a couple small oddities I noticed while going through the Japanese version of Ultimax. Disclaimer: I still don’t know a super-ton about the Japanese language, so these observations might not actually mean anything of importance. >_>

(And if anyone with better Japanese knowledge than I comes across this post and wants to help elucidate things, I’m always down to learn more.)

                                                            [1]

In Labrys’s arcade mode, Minazuki introduces himself as purely “ミナヅキ��, while in every other instance I can find in both story mode and arcade mode, he always introduces himself fully as “ミナヅキショウ” (like shown below with Chie).

The closest thing I can find to the contrary of his usual pattern is how he introduces himself to Adachi in “Episode Adachi” (pictured below), but even then he still gives his full name after a moment.

Meanwhile, in the English translation of Labrys’ arcade mode story, this discrepancy is entirely glossed over as Minazuki just introduces himself in his English-typical “Minazuki. Sho Minazuki”.

I haven’t checked through the manga to see if this pattern holds there too, ‘cause I’m not as familiar with its sequence of events as I am with the game and so would have to comb through it more meticulously. So there might be something there that affirms or breaks this pattern?

So yeah. I don’t really have enough sociocultural knowledge to know if him doing that is indicative of a closer relational position, of him being more disrespectful, or of it being some purely grammatical variation with little characterization meaning, though I do find it interesting from a “well, it’s an oddity of behavioral pattern if nothing else” perspective.

(Oh- and for additional context, in that scene in Labrys’ arcade story, Minazuki makes mention of how he and Labrys are the same, something that’s reiterated in one of his “spectating Labrys’ dance” voice lines in P3:DiM. Thus why it seems plausible to me that he might consider himself relationally closer to her. Though on the other hand, he might still see her as an inanimate tool as well, so not treating her with the same formality as he would a person could give credence to it being a more disrespectful form of regard instead? There’s not really enough context to tell, as even his Labrys-specific battle lines and DiM lines could be read either or both ways. :P)

                                                            [2]

In EpP4, when Minazuki stabs General Kagutsuchi and demands to know what he’s planning to do with Sho, he seemingly goes to refer to Sho as “this child(この子を)”, then pauses for a moment before changing his address to “Minazuki(皆月を)”, with “を” being a grammatical marker for the “direct object” of a conversation or sentence I think..? If there are more nuances to it than that, I haven’t learned them yet, haha. Anyways, after changing the direct object that he’s referring to, he then goes on to say the rest of the sentence.

Meanwhile, in the English translation, this is just simplified into “this boy” with no further distinction between the two apparent forms of address that the Japanese version has.

As for the manga, he just outright uses “皆月を” from the start, though, aside from dropping Kagutsuchi’s name from the dialogue boundaries, says the line exactly the same (どうするつもりだ). The English fan-scanlation on Mangadex follows in the footsteps of the English game translation in writing the line as “Just what do you intend to do with this boy?”. (Edit Aug 2024: the Udon official manga translation translates it as “What were you going to do with [Sho]?”)

Also, just for context, I think usually any other time that any character uses “皆月”, it’s translated as “Sho” rather than “that boy”? (With the exception of the manga ‘pronunciation subtitles inform you that the spoken word is entirely different than the written word’ thing where sometimes “皆月” is written but “この子” is spoken, I think.)

So yeah. I’m not sure if this is supposed to be an important characterization detail on Minazuki’s part, since this happens right after Yu gets him to realize that he's a person supporting Sho rather than Sho being totally alone, or if it’s just a negligible grammatical thing. Though, since I don’t think Minazuki ever calls Sho “皆月” outright outside of explaining Sho’s past to other characters, in which even then I think he uses “皆月翔” specifically, it kind of makes me think that him using a more direct form of address for Sho rather than an indirect one might hold some significance?

Although, as a counterpoint to that, we also don’t ever really see him directly conversing or interacting with Sho outside of a couple scenes in the manga and a couple lines in P3:DiM, so maybe he does call Sho by name more regularly and we just don’t get to see it. For example, in the P4U2 DNA Comics anthology, there’s quite a few times where Minazuki directly addresses Sho by his family name, but the anthology is non-canon as far as I know, so I can’t really count it. :T

Also, I haven’t extensively combed through every last instance for this point, so you may want to take it with a grain of salt, as some things may have fallen through the cracks. ^^;

                                Addendum: P4U2 Stageplay

I’m putting the stageplay in a separate section here mostly because 1) I don’t know how “canon” it’s considered and 2) my phonetic Japanese comprehension still needs a lot of work and I don’t have subtitles like I do with the game. Also I kind of wrote-up everything above before remembering that it existed. <_<;

Anyways, going through it with my limited comprehension, I can say that Minazuki sticks with his “ミナヅキショウ” full introduction and sticks to referring to Sho as “彼(him)” and “この子(this child)” throughout his appearances... with a single exception. In a flashback to when Minazuki confronts Ikutsuki with Tsukiyomi, Minazuki at one point says “翔(Shou)” specifically. However, as I don’t know the rest of the words preceding it, I don’t really know if he’s referring to Sho, of whom he kind of yeeted out of the body a bit beforehand, or if he’s referring to himself since he shares a name with Sho.

And as for what he says to Kagutsuchi just before he gets possessed, he actually seems to say just “どうするつもりだ、カグツチ？”, bringing the three variations full-circle by keeping Kagu’s name but nixing any direct reference to Sho.

[ghoulodont]

im trying to power thru this boring scene because i think its probably the least interesting thing i have pending in this wip right now and so once its done it will be easier. as i was initially writing this i glossed over it with like a 2 sentence description of the entire series of scenes but then i felt that if i did that it the relative densities between all the scenes inthe whole fic would be too much of a range. i cant summarize that hard. and it makes me think of all the times ive read a fic and thought i wish there was more of any particular scene. i dont want to do that to people. my thing since the beginning has been writing too much description