#i can't wait for you to actually watch that clip because it's so much worse when you hear his voice

[prentissluvr]

thoughts on sam being a dad?

bc i have a quite a few ideas LOLL

i feel like what ever gender he would have, he’d spoil them rotten

but if he had a girl, oh god he’d be the softest man alive (he is in my mind and yes i’m aware he’s killed before)

i haven’t gotten to szn 11 yet but i saw that gif set with him and that baby girl and i just about sobbed with how gentle he was with her 😭😭(it changed something in me and i don’t even want kids)

but yeah the thought of sam being a dad makes me soft and squishy inside bc he’d do his best not to be like his dad but he would make one of the best dads ever

OH BABY DO I HAVE THOUGHTS ?? i do have thoughts and i also don't want children but yes that clip from season 11 also changed me!! i don't want kids but i'll have his!!!!

nah seriously i think he's just the softest sweetest dad ever. if he has kids either this is an alternate universe where he can safely have them OR he totally moves on from hunting, he would never want to be involved in something so dangerous while he has kids and he'd never ever ever want them involved in it either.

like i think he'd do his best to break the cycle of abuse too tbh like. he's so done with that shit. realistically he's maybe too fucking traumatized to be a normal dad but we can ignore that!! he'd seriously be such a soft and committed dad and YEAH HE'S A GIRL DAD and that's just me projecting because i like girl dads better HAHA like i don't even care. actually i do think he'd be an amazing father no matter what gender his kid is, he doesn't care he just loves them so so so much with everything he has like. he would do anything for his child, truly. and i read a fic where he was a boy dad and it fit very well, it was amazing fr.

yeah i love love love the idea of dad!sam. he's the softest and the most encouraging dad ever. he really likes helping his kid(s) learn and adores seeing them grow <33 emotional dad sometimes too hehe like he cries about his kids when they're not around lol he just loves them so much and is so proud of them and i need him so bad

[reverie-starlight]

this is my contribution to @tetzoro 's summer olympics collab! this is so late >.< but I can't wait to go look through all the other fics people have written for the collab!!

fem!reader, no physical descriptions. fluff fluff fluff (of course). suna and aran can't stand atsumu's antics, but what else is new? atsumu misses you and he makes it everyone else's problem.

atsumu has been staring at his phone for twenty minutes.

suna makes note of this from where he's seated in the tiny living area of their shared olympic village apartment. it irritates suna, actually, because for someone who made a such big deal of their room assignments and got a bit weepy over how it reminded him of their high school days, atsumu couldn't seem to care less about his roommates right now.

aran (the third occupant of their dorm) appears in the doorway and glances between his two juniors. "is he still on that thing?" he asks, seemingly surprised by this.

suna shrugs and snaps a picture of the blonde when he smiles at his phone, quickly sending it to osamu with a message of how much of a dork his twin is.

leave him be

he replies, making suna's eyebrow raise. osamu coming to his defence? that's new.

he's got separation issues when it comes to her, I swear. he's like a puppy.

there it is. he snorts and puts his phone away, throwing a pillow at atsumu. the setter just uses it as an arm rest and continues to ignore them.

"hey, loverboy," aran calls and finally gets his attention. "we're heading down to get some lunch, ya coming?"

atsumu's eyes widen a bit. "it's that late already? yeah, I'll be down in a minute, save me a spot."

the other two look at each other knowingly and shut the door behind them.

now normally atsumu wouldn't be so glued to his screen on the first day of the olympics, but then again- last time around they were in tokyo and his girlfriend was no more than a couple hours away at any given time.

this year, he's in paris and about a 13 hour flight away with a 7 hour time difference from his fiancée. it would still be manageable for him, of course- he's not as clingy as you or his brother make him out to be, he swears- if not for the fact that your boss denied your time off and you wouldn't be in attendance at any of his games.

as soon as he's alone, he's facetiming you and the ache of not being near you is lessened by the bright smile you pop up on his screen with.

"hi 'tsum, how's it going over there?" you're cuddled up on the couch with a blanket.

he shrugs. "there's no AC. the beds are cardboard again. but I'm rooming with rin and aran, so that's nice."

"not sakusa and meian? I thought the plan was to keep the ones who played on the same league team pre-olympics in the same room?"

he shakes his head. "we got to make room requests this time. he's rooming with ushijima this time around."

you giggle and his mind goes a little fuzzy. "I'm sure after what happened in tokyo, he'd be more than happy to be rooming with anyone other than you."

atsumu rolls his eyes. "he made it seem worse than it was. we didn't even get into that much trouble, I mean, what's a little scolding from our managers?"

you raise an eyebrow. "you almost caused the entire village to evacuate."

"anyway," he transitions to another topic before he can be reminded of that night. "what are your plans for the rest the night?"

you hum thoughtfully. "I dunno, maybe I'll watch a movie... maybe I'll rewatch that clip of you almost tripping during the opening ceremonies..." your lips stretch into a playful grin as you tease him for his blunder.

"HEY, barely anyone noticed!"

you snort. "if by barely anyone, you mean everyone watching then sure, baby. oh, what time is it for you?"

he lets your comment slide for now and addresses your question instead. "just after noon, why?"

"have you eaten yet?"

"was just about to," he shrugs.

you narrow your eyes. “miya atsumu, you’d better not be skipping lunch just to talk to me.”

he’s unable keep the guilty expression off his face when you hit him with that tone. “I wasn’t-”

“don’t even think about lying to me. as soon as I hang up you’re going to go meet your teammates for lunch and make some new friends.”

he pouts, but his heart warms at the idea that you still want to take care of him all the way across the world. although he is a little offended you think he needs to make friends. “ya sound like my ma.”

“for good reason! go eat, baby, you need to stay strong and healthy for your games. plus I’d feel so guilty if you missed out on all the fun stuff with your teammates because of me.”

he sighs, finally letting himself give into his hunger and agreeing with you. you say your goodbyes and he makes his way down to the cafeteria.

the days pass and while he’s not glued to his phone at all hours of the day anymore (thanks to practices starting up again on the olympic courts), his teammates often catch him snapping as many pictures as he can, no doubt to share them with you.

they don’t know how many texts you’ve received about how amazing the chocolate muffins are, but if it’s anywhere near the number of times they’ve had to hear him mention it in a day, they feel sorry for you.

and as the day of their first game grows closer, suna and aran can tell atsumu is more on edge than usual. he’s acting like he did in high school again, and they know it’s because he’s antsy about not having his fiancée in the stands for the first time in a while.

they’ve seen him double, triple and quadruple check the time zones to make sure he didn’t misread it. “she’ll probably be asleep…” he said when aran asked him about it one night.

they were getting a bit worried. obviously they know him well enough to understand that he’ll pull himself together in time for the game- he’d never let his feelings compromise his plays- but they’d much rather play alongside him in a good mood than a bad one.

but the problem seems to fix itself when he lights up along with his phone screen just before the game begins. suna looks over the setter’s shoulder to see a picture of you, cuddled up on the couch with your dog. your cheek has a small japanese flag painted on, and you’re wearing his MSBY jersey. it must be extremely late for you, but you’re smiling wide and holding up half a heart with your hand.

underneath the picture you sent a message wishing him luck and telling him how proud you are of him, telling him to play his absolute best.

and suna misses what your next message says, but he gets a pretty good idea based on how red atsumu’s ears get. he looks over at aran with a nod and the former inarizaki players silently thank you for your actions.

atsumu definitely wouldn’t be stepping onto the court in a bad mood now.

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I feel like this could’ve been better, and it definitely didn’t turn out how I originally wanted, but I’m still happy with how it turned out :3 hope u enjoyed !!

ty again to aims for hosting this collab and allowing me to join!!!

[xinganhao]

🍂 svt (taylor's version).

⌗ ┆love song edition ★ ��� ˚ heartbreak edition.

‧₊˚✩彡 includes: angst... so much angst, deteriorating relationships, break-ups, exes, red flags -ish, mentions of alcohol/drinking, cussing, pet names. drabbles under the cut.

🍂 hit play .ᐟ

SEUNGCHEOL SKIPPED 🎧 i'd give you my sunshine, give you my best, but the rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me. (PEACE)

seungcheol can't meet any of his friends' eyes as he grumbles on and on about you. the boys think he's drunk off his ass at this point; truthfully, he can still see and think pretty clearly. a part of him feels like he's wasting your honor, to be so openly bitching and moaning about why he shouldn't, why he can't go back to you. the short story is that seungcheol doesn't want you to be collateral damage. with the life he lives? you'll always be in the line of fire. he'd rather cut ties than have that happen. but— when someone mumbles something about seungcheol probably not being that in love with you after all? about his love being 'for show'? he almost wants to scream. you don't know me, he nearly snaps. you don't know what i'd do for them. he'd die for you in secret.

JEONGHAN SKIPPED 🎧 you said it was a great love, one for the ages; but if the story's over, why am i still writing pages? (DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS)

you don't say anything about jeonghan taking the long way home, which leaves him both grateful and frustrated. he wants you to call him out, wants you to question his intentions. anything but this. instead, you sit quietly in the passenger seat, basking in the aftermath of your last good day together. when jeonghan stops at an intersection, he dares to glance over at you. his fingers tighten imperceptibly around the steering wheel. there had been a time when the two of you kissed at red lights, when you'd quieted all his fears with the touch of your hand. there's none of that now. you keep your eyes on the road ahead, feigning ignorance at the way jeonghan is driving way below the speed limit. the light turns green; he curses the universe for it. he doesn't want to go home. going home meant sleeping, and sleeping meant waking up to a morning where you'd no longer be his.

JOSHUA SKIPPED 🎧 you had a speech, you're speechless. love slipped beyond your reaches and i couldn't give a reason. (CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS)

joshua had watched a dozen videos about how to get down on one knee when proposing. he didn't realize he'd be on both knees, begging you to stay. that's why his right knee— the one that hadn't expected the cold ground— is just a little sore. he kneads it mindlessly, watching blankly as the city flies by. he didn't even get to pull out the ring; it's still burning a hole in to his pocket. a blessing from his mother, a curse in the form of rose gold. he briefly contemplates leaving it in this train car for someone who might actually appreciate it, though he decides against it last minute. a thought occurs to him when he passes your station. it's enough to nearly make him laugh. (or burst in to tears. he can't quite decide.) joshua realizes: he's never going to be able to take a train again without thinking of you. somehow, that's even worse than the botched proposal.

JUNHUI SKIPPED 🎧 i guess sometimes we all get some kind of haunted. (MIDNIGHT RAIN)

both of junhui's hands are shaking as he takes the stage. there's smattering applause, then there's a trophy being shoved towards him, then there's the glare of a dozen cameras. he thanks his manager. he thanks his fans, his family, his friends. "and—" his breath hitches. it's a good thing that he's such a great actor. otherwise, one might've seen the flicker of pain on his expression. because he's thinking of you. wondering whether you're watching live or if you'll see clips of this on your sns later in the week. will you reach out again? or will he be left spending many midnights waiting for a text that's not going to come? he pivots, his eyes seeking out the closest broadcast camera. "and here's to getting just what we wanted," he says smoothly, flashing a grin that doesn't quite reach his eyes. this is why he keeps trying to win— so you'll have no choice but to think of him, too.

SOONYOUNG SKIPPED 🎧 choose something, babe, i got nothing to believe unless you're choosin' me. (YOU'RE LOSING ME)

"i'm the best thing at this party!" you screech, making soonyoung's face flush red with shame. he casts a glance around his surroundings to check if anybody is witnessing your outburst. big mistake. that only seems to aggravate you more. he reaches out for you, his hands closing around the groove of your wrist. there had been a time when he used to feel your pulse flutter at his touch, at his mere presence. there's none of that tonight. he's beginning to think that it hasn't been that way for a long time. you greet his hold with stormy eyes and gritted teeth, with a low hiss of "i only wanted you to see me." he wants to refute your tirade, wants to say that of course he sees you. he's looking right now, isn't he? he's— he's losing you before his very eyes and he doesn't know what to do.

WONWOO SKIPPED 🎧 if our love died young, i can't bear witness. (RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME)

"the usual?" the pitying waiter asks wonwoo. he gives her a close-lipped smile and a nod in return. when she goes in to punch his order, he feels that odd sense of nostalgia. a twisted, treacherous feeling borne from the fact that he's still visiting this damn restaurant. still asking for the seat in the corner, where the light is dim and the tablecloth is a crisp white. first real date. first anniversary. break-up. this corner has seen it all. wonwoo is twenty-eight now, but he feels twenty-three in his fantasy. as he picks at his appetizer, he imagines the new life you lead. somewhere nice with someone who's giving you everything that he can't. he doesn't blame you for leaving, for not waiting. that doesn't make it hurt any less, though. five years later, wonwoo still thinks he's going to stay here forever.

JIHOON SKIPPED 🎧 but there was one thing missing and that was the moment i knew. (THE MOMENT I KNEW)

the seaweed soup on the counter has gotten cold by the time that jihoon slips in to your apartment. you're splayed out on the couch in a fitful sleep. he realizes you haven't even changed, haven't washed off your makeup. it's all still there: the party dress, the red lipstick. all the evidence of jihoon's failure. he knows where this is heading. he sees the ending that he deserves from a mile away. still, he leaves on your coffee table a usb of what he'd been working on. he drapes a blanket over your shoulders. he considers kissing you on the forehead but he decides against it at the last minute. he doesn't think he has that privilege. instead, he takes his leave, knowing that if this was the last gift he got to give you, then he'd be somewhat content. he's always been better at speaking through his work anyway, but tonight that wasn't enough.

★ in the morning, you find the song jihoon had been working on for you:

MINGYU SKIPPED 🎧 i guess you never know; and if you wanted me, you really should've showed. (THE 1)

it shouldn't be this easy, catching up with a what-could-have-been. but mingyu still finds it to be the most comforting thing in the world. maybe too much, though, because as the two of you discuss the greatest films of all time, the alcohol makes his tongue just a little more loose. "if one thing had been different," he muses. "would everything be different today?" you know what he's asking, what he's implying. you answer his prodding with a measured sip of your own beer. he laughs, figuring he deserves that. you're not here to talk about marriage pacts and maybe's. this is nothing more than a drinking session with an old friend; mingyu tries to remind himself of that. he pushes the envelope just a teensy, tiny bit. "it would've been fun," he says as nonchalantly as he can manage. his mind quietly supplies the rest of the sentence: it would've been fun if you had been the one.

SEOKMIN SKIPPED 🎧 you can plan for a change in the weather and time, but i never planned on you changing your mind. (LAST KISS)

it's a special kind of pain, to watch someone's life unfold in pictures. it's the only place that seokmin can catch you nowadays. the squares of instagram. the tagged photos on facebook. you, looking like the life of the party. you, dancing on a rained-out pavement. he's pathetic, he knows, to be stalking an ex's sns like this. but the night is lonely and his phone has the answers to all of his questions about you. well, maybe not all of the questions. he's gnawing his bottom lip as his fingers fly over his keyboard, but it's not to reach out to you. he doesn't want to put you through that; he'll harrow everybody else before he does. the last few connections you two share have all heard from seokmin in one way or another. how are they? he'll text casually. they look like they're doing well.

MINGHAO SKIPPED 🎧 i made you my temple, my mural, my sky, now i'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life. (TOLERATE IT)

minghao waits by the door like a child reprimanded. you're a couple of paces away from him, bent over the kitchen sink— polishing plates that are already clean. it's an old habit of yours. a telltale sign that something's wrong. he almosts takes your hands in his to keep you from all your nervous tics, but then you speak. "if it's all in my head, tell me now. tell me i've got it wrong," you say, not even bothering to look up at him. minghao has never lied to you; he was not about to start now. and so he stays quiet, giving you all the answers you need. it's not all in your head. you're not wrong, his silence communicates. there's only so much of his indiscretions that you can tolerate. minghao, like always, sits and watches you— watches you learn, watches you lose, watches you leave.

SEUNGKWAN SKIPPED 🎧 sometimes i really wish that i could hate you; i've tried, but that's just somethin' i can't do. (DON'T YOU)

seungkwan will be the first to admit that he doesn't know how to be just friends with you. he wants to. wants to keep that connection in his life, wants to move past the failed relationship for the sake of your camaraderie. but as much as he tries to walk away and go on with his life, he knows it will all just be pretend. he finds someone else. that doesn't work out. he watches you try, too, with others, only for that to fall through as well. and so seungkwan is just a little guilty of smiling at you, of running in to you somewhere and staring just a little too long. he doesn't have the right to say the next couple of words, but he's also never been good at denying himself of the truth. "i missed you," he admits. past tense, he notices, so he amends. "i miss you."

VERNON SKIPPED 🎧 in my dreams, you're touching my face and asking me if i'd want to try again with you— and i almost do. (I ALMOST DO)

vernon has had a long week, thanks for asking. he would have wanted to see the city lights. and he dreams of you, too— montages where you're touching his face, asking if he wants to try again. the answer is simple; the answer is 'yes'. but he's a believer of clean cuts, of movies without sequels. so each time you reach out, there's no reply. the last couple of texts has vernon sighing because he knows what you're thinking. he knows how you think. you've probably concluded that he hates you, that he has better things to do with his time. truthfully, he's been fighting every single impulse to respond. to call just for the sake of hearing your voice. he can't say hello to you and risk another goodbye. he wouldn't survive it.

CHAN SKIPPED 🎧 dreams of your hair and your stare and sense of belief in the good in the world; you once believed in me. (HITS DIFFERENT)

chan knows he's being insufferable. he knows he's being attention-seeking, knows he's a little petty and a lot unfair. but he can't help it. the mere thought of you with someone else makes him want to hurl on the side of the street. and so he scream-sings your favorite songs in every club; he slurs your name until his friends are shoving him in to an uber. "their love was a lie, you know?" one of them tells him, one particular evening. chan only laughs in their face. that shit was not going to get him by. chan would rather have a raging hangover every morning than think you didn't love him. he'll get over it eventually, he's sure. for now, though, he orders his nth cocktail, much to his friends' exasperation. moving on had always been easy for him to do, but then came you.

[landoom]

As a long time F1 fan, it’s blows my mind how scrutinizing “fans” are these days. It genuinely feels like the drivers have to watch every little thing they say or else the internet will just take any little comment and run with it as if that driver is the worst person to exist.

I’ve seen the clip people are talking about with Lando and like? I don’t understand why everyone is losing the minds over it? Yeah alright he definitely could’ve had a little more empathy but I highly doubt he knew the extent of what they were dealing with heat wise, I can imagine it’s frustrating when he himself was not feeling well from the heat either.

If “fans” are so upset over people not having empathy why are we focusing on a little off hand comment that I highly doubt had any malicious intent behind it, rather then the insane amount of hate that goes around in this fandom instead. It gets frustrating to watch bc these “fans” anger always is so circumstantial. And this goes for any driver.

They don’t care about empathy when they’re contributing to the tons of hate about a driver they dislike or when death threats are getting thrown around but are more than willing to get angry about a random comment and preach empathy and respect only when it’s beneficial for them or fits their narrative they have of a driver. In this case Lando.

Anyway sorry for the rambles, I’m just so sick of all this hate. It’s been so upsetting to see what the F1 fandom has become over the last couple years. The hate was always a problem but it just seems so much worse now.

You don’t like someone? Ignore them. Bc hating on drivers like this is only making you a worse person.

I'm 100% agreeing with you here.

Lando's comment was not the best thing to say but we actually don't know how any of the people involved were feeling after the race nor what knowledge Lando has about what happened after the race with George and Lewis. For all we know, they could have seen each other there, George and Lewis might actually have had heatstroke or not, and Lando might have felt bad too or not. And, for me, he was more making fun of how Toto shared an update when we didn't even see an official statement about Franco, for example. But that is my way of interpreting what he said and I can understand that other people have interpreted it in another way.

Still, some people feel allowed to judge and hate when we don't have facts to base our judgment on. You can be shocked by Lando's words of course, but some comments clearly came from people who were just waiting for another excuse to hate on him.

But it goes further than just the question of was Lando's comments right or not...

Social media are wonderful because they bring people closer but are also an awful invention!

Back in the 1990s when I started really actively following F1, we had to rely on magazines and interviews around the GP. We barely knew anything about the drivers. And I'm so grateful for the access we now have to them but we still need to respect some boundaries here!

And we need to touch grass and remember that, drivers and sportsmen in general are first and foremost human beings. Which means they have flaws. Some see them as role models. I don't.

I understand that you can decide to not like or stop liking a driver because he expresses opinions you don't share. But for me, it will never excuse hate. And, like you said, you can't preach something and act the opposite when it suits you and hope you'll be respected for that!

[spiderh0rse]

freeman's mind notes part two, e6-e10.5. under cut, long. formatting is different this time. will carry on in this way.

e6

"safety's off" sir. Sir you've just said it was a Glock. You fool. You absolute buffoon.

"clip" IT IS A MAGAZINE

I cannot respect a man who watches Die Hard this much. I just can't.

love how he reacts to the houndeye teleporting in. Flat "No."

mimics houndeye noise :>

heard Gman movin around on the catwalk above

electricity doesn't do a ton to him this first go around but does hurt and seems to paralyze him for a moment. Muscles seizing and all that

rescinds his disdain for everyone who died. Admits it's a bit difficult to live under the circumstances

"white men in armoured hazmat suits can't jump" SIR

[underwater mumbling] sounds pretty damn frantic. Genuine fear of dying by his own hand. I'd wager he thinks he's the only one that could do it.

bounces back quickly!

just goes and shoves some words together. For fun!

dislikes the ammo being covered in blood. Considers leaving it behind because if that

impacts still hurt. High impact reactive armour this is Not

e7

simian instincts strike again

has seen star trek

"maybe i should've been a bug" well I can study you like one. How's that sound

Kafka's Metamorphosis mention! It's Gregor Samsa that actually turns into a bug though, so. May not have read it.

knows who Shiva is! Not sure of her origin but she does show up in ff7, which is within his range to know about

bullsquid acid tastes like dead caterpillar

yog'sothoth :>

held his mouth open in the canal. Dude.

mouth cancer...

hates puns.

Black Mesa gets money from the dept. of defense

slur count one

is this hl source? Do the crates sway in the ported version?

correctly figures out the useless crate pit room

hates elevator music

e8

audio inconsistent :(

bug murder D: I love bugs.

shouting and breaking stuff in grad school did not help him

says grody. Like a loser.

threatens a man's life again. Doesn't seem to mean it.

calms down easily enough by breakin things

wants to blow up the building. He won't know it but it will be. Your will be honored, sir

came home to a guy impaled on his window's insulated glass. Explained that to the police.

"kind of like glass in a way" fragile and lacking a smell? got it

"GYAHH" high pitched scream!

has been hit by many tasers over dates.

pepper spray is worse.

first instance of sonic damage (gun in air vent)

some guy named Jessie would electrocute himself on his bed and end up paralyzed for an hour for fun. Sounds fun tbh

Steve Irwin... Rest in peace and let's kill all sting rays now

does ask a cowering scientist if he's okay

somehow doesn't see the shotgun in plain sight waiting for him

doesn't always know when he's thinking out loud

e9

peppered steak just like OFF

visibly contemplates shooting a regular bug

actively admits he was considering cannibalism. I can get behind that. Cannibalism win.

"pew!!"

roleplays as a teacher who hits kids with crowbars

wants to be a medieval knight so bad

no vent sharks for us! fan blades instead

afraid of muppets

has whistled Twice now

has seen Jurassic Park.

wishes he could shoot electricity through his hands

has probably seen James Bond

already theorizing about Xens makeup

more bothered by a barnacles death coating him in blood and potentially jamming his gun than being choked

shot in the ear :>

whistles in time with the turret. Echolalia real

doesn't want to look gay. Too late. Even if we assume base Freeman model he does have a ponytail.

slur count two.

HEADCRAB SLAUGHTER PARTY

sounds like he likes coffee and doughnuts

e10

starts off with silly noises and repeating the word "coffee" on loop

Chainsaw noise with his mouth

jason vorhees wannabe

would love to spread bloodborne diseases via hug

has a collection that a human skull would fit right in with. Bones in general? Skulls in general? Human skulls? Doesn't matter, Eddie mention! As of him getting more skulls in cheap.

wants his funeral to be full of explosives and planes

he is not a gerbil.

feels he's only sure of his actions when killing things

watches Jackie Chan movies

and the Addams Family!

gman sighting.

thinks the guy diving through the window is cool. compares him to his own grandfather? neat!

unlike stark can do a pull-up in his suit

cannot break the vending machine glass. has change on him, though. Dorito time.

[skaruresonic]

So me and a friend decided to play shilent hill 2 for spooky moth me the original and them the remake. at first it was alot of fun watching them playing not knowing the full story and talking about changes, our expernces and their thoughts nd theories.

but then their attetude started to change. they would get all smug over how bad the smallest things in the og were and how the remake changed everything for the better. at first I could just ignore it people do get super nitpicky when comapring remakes to og but not their spewing shit about how sh2 was never scarey befoe the remake and how much of a nostalgia blind dumbass I am and should just admit team bloopers verison is the suppior and defintie version and how they can't wait for blopper to remake the other outdated og games 🙄😒

If Bloober comes within ten feet of Heather Mason, I am filing a restraining order on her behalf.

Did that really happen? Jesus, I'm sorry.

That attitude is exactly what I feared would happen following a remake. People kept shooting down those concerns with "You'll always have the original!" when

A.) that isn't true; the game is basically abandonware at this point, which is notable considering it's the only one to receive a dedicated fan enhancement; 1, 3, and 4 are considered even less worthy of preservation, and

B.) remakes influence how people interpret the original, for better or worse. SH2 revisionism was particularly maddening even before the remake dropped because people were looking for reasons to disparage the original. Sunk cost fallacy does numbers on the psyche, I suppose.

See how often "technical limitations" is cited as a reason for why OG!James is "expressionless," even though Takayoshi Sato said that technical limitations were "not important" to the game's development. And Remake!James hardly even emotes anyway so what the fuck was all that bluster about.

Folks will seriously sit there with their thumbs up their asses and try to argue that the PS2's specs limited Team Silent somehow, as if the game's design did not literally hinge on its relationship to native hardware. As if they didn't work with the hardware to accomplish technical marvels such as this:

Not to be all "old woman yells at cloud," but youngsters need to learn their video game dev history. The artistic and programming feats Team Silent accomplished were amazing back then, and that has never changed.

If you knew a single thing about how mirrors behaved in games of the era, you'd be amazed at how SH2 handles mirrors. Nobody would have blamed Team Silent for excluding one and just having the game's only mirror be the bathroom mirror, where James cannot touch it because the sink is blocking him. But those madlads went the extra mile and made a room where the entire wall is a mirror. The fact that you can mash James right up against the mirror without clipping or suffering other typical glitches proves the standard of quality with which Team Silent made the game.

All this to say, SH2's narrative may be timeless, but the actual game cannot be extricated from the PS2; that ought to be respected instead of viewed with scorn because Old Game Bad(tm).

There's a lot that future developers could learn from studying how Team Silent worked with the hardware. And not in the "muh technical limitations" sense, but in everything, from transparency to texturework to save/load times - for a 2001 game, SH2 boasts incredibly fast ones - to structuring thematic elements around the hardware (ex. PS2 memory saves in "blocks"; James' memory is likewise "blocked," represented by the red save squares). Maybe fewer games would have such huge file sizes if they took a page from Team Silent's book and learned how to juggle art direction with memory space, for instance.

But nah, old game has bad voice acting. Into the trash it goes.

Plus, it's always funny to me whenever people call SH2's combat clunky, because emulators cannot replicate the PS2 controller's pressure sensitivity. James' swings change depending on how hard you tap the button, but apparently emulators tend to ignore that and just make every swing a heavy one. Of course you're going to think the game plays shittier than it actually does when you've never played it in its intended milieu. That's like complaining that the original DOOM has bad combat compared to DOOM 2016 because you're playing the latter on PC and the former on a TI-81 calculator. What do you expect?

People make shit up about Old Product(tm) in order to justify buying New Product(tm). Otherwise, they'd have to grapple with the fact that they sank time and money into something they could have gotten for free.

Old games are not bad games, they're just different. You need to meet them where they are. It's frankly bad-faith to expect game devs to be psychic and future-proof their games when audience taste is so fickle.

And yes, I know SH2 is not some untouchably perfect game, either, but if you met the narrative in good faith, you'd see why Team Silent made the decisions they did. They did exactly what they set out to do. They did not have to "compromise" on character expressions because they peered into their crystal ball, saw future audiences liked being able to see every pore on a character's face, slumped their shoulders and went "Nothing we can do now with our primitive technology, doods." That's fucking asinine. And running away from enemies is a feature, not a bug.

This ties into a broader point about how video games are considered expendable products to consume and discard, instead of works of art worth preserving and studying so that the medium continues to evolve.

If you're wondering why modern games are now creatively bereft, this is why.

Bloober wanted to create games the public would consider as good as SH2. But instead of improving their craft so they could actually create quality games, they leeched off of Team Silent's hard work and are now reaping the rewards.

That shit is what infuriates me most. It's not like they created an original piece worthy of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with SH2... and you know what, most people wouldn't have blamed them if their efforts fell short. SH2 achieves a degree of sophistication and sense of atmosphere that has yet to be matched, let alone surpassed.

...But they didn't even try. All these chucklefucks did was ride on Takayoshi Sato's coattails while ignoring Team Silent's input. The fact that the ruse worked is nothing short of outrageous.

I don't doubt Bloober Team worked hard (or at least the texture artist did; props to them). But everything the remake does owes its existence to the original. The original was created under conditions and a zeitgeist that can't really be replicated now.

Honestly, it feels like folks have been so starved for SH content that they latched onto the first not-terrible product to come along, despite the remake suffering from the same or even more problems than the original. Once again, I must say that even cloudy water will seem like an oasis in the desert.

Your friend's attitude is concerning, although sadly, it's not an uncommon one. If even the game commonly cited as a strong argument for the idea that video games are art is not exempt from being tossed aside on the basis of "le old game bad," what hope does the rest of the medium have? What's to prevent other games from being allowed to die?

[goshdangronpa]

I'm gonna ask you about Belladonna of Sadness because i'm curious and want to read your ramble 🧡

Yeees. My other passion besides Danganronpa is movies, so I'll be happy to write a few hundred words about one of my absolute favorites. Please excuse my lateness in answering this ask, I waited until I saw it again recently.

Belladonna of Sadness looks like no Japanese animated film you've ever seen, and not just because they did things differently in 1974. This film is unusual, and might be jarring, because much of it isn't even actually animated. There's liberal use of still images. Lip movement is nonexistent. Several shots see the camera panning across a lengthy tableu, sometimes for a couple of minutes.

But it doesn't feel cheap. The limited budget meets its match in the filmmakers' boundless imagination, creating an extraordinary work of art that challenges all definitions of a motion picture. Besides, like any good anime, they save most of their money and effort for the big setpieces. It's in these impressive animated setpieces that the movie comes alive.

These scenes are not exactly YouTube-friendly. Belladonna of Sadness is steeped in sex and sexuality. Though it starts with a fairy-tale wedding between French medieval peasants Jeanne and Jean, the movie makes its R-rated nature known in the immediate next scene, when the local lord invokes prima nocta and takes the lead in a gangbang of the bride. She returns home shattered, but finds unexpected joy in a friendly little sprite ... who turns out to be the Devil, feeding on her newfound desire for power. She gains influence in her village, loses it dramatically when it threatens the lord's power, and regains it in the wilderness after finally submitting to Satan. Much of this is conveyed through the lens of sex.

Belladonna of Sadness can be a harrowing watch. While the aforementioned rape scene isn't graphic, it's arguably worse in being impressionistic, presenting the physical and psychological trauma through imagery that's just barely metaphorical. But that's at the beginning of the movie. As Jeanne's life continues, along with her connection to the Devil, she grows to realize that she wants power, autonomy, freedom. This path sees her become a benevolent witch, miraculous healer, and sex goddess who gets the whole village in her thrall. Dismal scenes give way to exquisitely vibrant and psychedelic animation, including more than one orgy scene.

I don't know how much any of these words have done to recommend the film. It doesn't help that I can't find any real clips on YouTube (besides the inspired, tear-jerking, beautiful ending), and it's so hard to screencap (the Devil's design is ... phallic). What I can say is that eight years ago, I invited my crush - a close friend who loves anime - to catch the theatrical rerelease of this movie with me. Our hands touched the whole time, side by side, none daring to go further. We soon confessed, and that friend is now the love of my life. Every year on our anniversary, we watch Belladonna of Sadness ... maybe the least likely first date flick to result in a second one.

And even without that personal connection, I believe I'd still deeply admire it. The singular and brilliant approach to animation, the richly told story of rebuilding after sexual trauma, the incredible feminist philosophy ... I hope that if anyone reading this gives it a chance, they'd admire it too.

[scenetocause]

helloooooo emptyhalf i’m about to be SO predictable but Mando x things you said that i wasn’t meant to hear &/or things you said when you thought i was asleep 💙 MUCH LOVE

(back in the cohabitation period but the timeline is probably all wacky cus I can't be bothered to check)

Thing is, he knows Lando watches his streams sometimes but he doesn't, like watch them, he sticks his head in to yell stuff in chat in between messaging girls on Insta and getting Jon to screw his neck back on after a session or whatever. Lando's busy, when he's away, he's not sitting in a house on his own thinking about Max and Max wouldn't even want him to be because, well.

He's really grateful to Lando that they're living together, that they've had all this time of working each other out but when he's alone for weeks on end things get. Difficult.

Max can see why Lando went pretty weird in lockdown, really and he's allowed to see Tom and Jacob and whatever. Could go and bother his mum if he was that desperate for company. But part of him wants to be stoic, prove he can look after the house (sort of) and be a grown up (kinda) and have waited for Lando, have been there until he got back.

It gets harder at night and some nights are worse than others, the house feeling echo-ey and all the doorways turning into spaces he can see shadows through. Which, yeah, it's only the gym equipment or the clothes airer but Max knows he's got a tendency to let his imagination run away with him. He's more trapped in his own head than the house.

Streaming helps with that, pointless wittering and keeping himself company. Can't really be scared when there's 2000 people asking you where your housemate is, as though they don't know perfectly well he's in Texas.

He doesn't think to check whether Lando's in chat before he says it because Max kind of knows he isn't. There's some instinct he's got for it, like years of knowing Lando have meant he can guess where he is, in real life or online. And maybe he wasn't, maybe someone made a clip of it or something but either way, it's Max's problem now.

papaya man???? wtf does that mean if your lonely you can call me I'm kind of lonely to it's boring

Thing is, Lando wasn't supposed to know about that. He's supposed to think Max just... does stuff when he's away. Clearly not tidying but like, gets on with whatever Max's life is, which is a shame because he doesn't really have one right now and the illusion he might have one is really starting to break down, just at the same time as the little bubble of a household they've made is coming to an end.

He wants his papaya man back but like, properly. Playing housewife is one thing but Max could be it, if Lando gave him the chance.

yeah I miss you

He stares at it just after he's sent it because. That's not what Lando said. Lando said Max could call him if he was lonely. Not that Lando missed, specifically, him.

Answering the call is autopilot.

"Hello? What time is it there, it's like. I don't know, actually - here, I mean."

Max rolls over in bed, hugs the duvet further round himself. "It's 1am, so I don't know."

Lando makes a surprised sound. "Oh - I didn't. That's so far away. It's not even dinner time here."

"1am is your dinner time, you fucking menace."

"You really miss me?"

There's a pause on the line, a quiet noise like Lando's swallowed heavily and Max sort of wishes this was facetime, even if he'd've had to turn on the light.

"Yeah, y'know, it's." He stops himself, then starts again and maybe it's the loneliness making him go mental, like people in solitary confinement or something. "Yeah, I miss you Bob."

"I miss you too." Lando sounds a bit snuffly or like he's just pulled his hoodie up extra tight, hugging himself. "I'm gonna - I wanna - come back, before the rest. We can. Y'know."

Max sort of knows what y'know means in this context, which is that Lando and him have maybe started blurring a few lines between domestic fantasy and reality. That Max can sleep in Lando's bed when he's back and they can pretend they don't know it'll lead to frotting, tentative and shy and not something they can talk about yet.

"Yeah, I know."

They breathe down the phone at each other for a bit, which probably ought to be gross but is making Max sleepy, comforted for hearing Lando. "I'm gonna - I might go to bed, Bob. Well, sleep, I'm in bed."

Lando snickers and makes a soft noise, all at the same time in a clatter of sounds. "Alright. Text me when you wake up."

Max doesn't hang up, assumes Lando's going to, just tucks himself in. But when he rolls over onto his front, a couple of minutes later, the call's still on, next to his pillow.

[twofacedtrickery]

Alright, for the sake of this argument, I humbly request that we all set aside our beliefs about Professor's feelings about me during the relevant time period. Just for this argument, we are going to assume that, at a bare minimum, he held genuine care for me and this care was to a degree that it could impact his mood and thoughts.

This argument also relies on you all having some understanding that you do not currently have. For various reasons, I cannot and will not go into detail, so you're going to have to take me at face value here, as hard as that may be.

There are three things you need to know: The Engineer is not omniscient and needs go be given information in order to be able to give relevant insight, the Engineer's insight is almost always incredibly vaguely worded and does not include specifics like dates and times, and if something is part of the Plan, then we are beholden to it, one way or another.

With that out of the way, I bring you the core thesis of my argument: I don't think Professor actually wanted to wait that long at all. I doubt he had a choice. I do have tangible evidence to support this. I do not expect it to be believed. I am not keen on finding more.

Now, I want you to imagine that for a moment, no matter when he got this information relative to any known actions, he had to expend efforts to gather enough pertinent intel, or drywall if you want to listen to the inexplicable screaming of my brain, for the Engineer to say anything. He had to then wait for not only everything that could be said at the time to be said, but all of those words to be run through the entire series of interpreters required to divine any usable information out of it. Then, after all of that, he's given some vague statement about needing to wait until some landmark event occurs. This landmark event most likely came with no meaningful description.

He knew he had to wait for something to happen with no indication of what that would look like, nor any idea when it would happen.

That 5 second clip I posted earlier this week was from the Engineer speaking on this matter. What is important, here, is that in those 5 seconds, there were mangled references to Paradise Lost and references to gazing into the abyss and the call of the void and despair. It's not hard to guess that the full statement that came from, other than the Engineer requesting water, was probably taken as an indication that he needed to wait until my faith in him was waning, to say the least.

Imagine being stuck in that position, watching someone you care for getting beaten down verbally, if not physically, from multiple angles. At best, you can give them a very vague promise to cling to in hopes that it'll be enough to carry them through and keep them from being lost, mentally. Maybe you can draw aggro for a little to give them a little reprieve, but you can't stop it. It has to happen. You have to let it happen.

You're stuck watching this as much as you can stomach as people start attacking you, saying things that simply are not true, but you can't defend yourself, because that would risk detailing the Plan, or prolonging your loved one's suffering.

Your loved one is visibly degrading by the day, sometimes clawing its way back, sometimes not. Some of the people hounding them are doing so in a way that is working against every single involved entity's interests. Still, you have to tread carefully. Because this is the Plan.

All the while, you know you have no idea how long you have to wait. How long they have to wait. All the while, you know it's inevitably going to have to get a lot worse before you can act. No one else knows, no one else can know. Your loved one isn't able to think about it in terms of "sometimes, things have to wait" anymore, let alone think about the existence of the Plan.

And you can't change it. It has been willed. All you can do is check in when you can, and hope you'll know it when you see it. And when it happens, hope your guess is right.

And then, after all of that, I stupidly started insisting it was his plan all along. Because I just wanted to lash out, to gloat, to rub it in the doubters' faces. I implied, however unknowingly and unthinkingly, that he did this of his own free will. I should have known better, but I didn't think, because I don't like thinking about the Engine or the Engineer very much. I didn't think because I just wanted to prove a point no one else has been keeping score of for a long time.

I can't begin to imagine how that must have felt.

[i-used-to-be-a-spy]

According to many I am weird though. Before my PTSD kicked in I could watch disaster movies. In fact, if an actor that I liked was in one I'd watch that before any romantic movie that they were in. But after going through a hurricane and then having my PTSD symptoms being made worse by further trauma, I just can't. My brain remembers when I used to though, because I still end up watching clips of movies that end up freaking me out and triggering so much anxiety and despair that I abandoned Tumblr for about four days.

I feel things differently and sometimes way too intensely so watching a movie like "Godzilla Minus One" in the theatre is something that I have to be really mindful of. It's one thing to watch it at home where I can easily control the volume and my surroundings (plushies and Star Wars everywhere) and I can also dive into my comfort music if I need to calm down.

But over the years I have been bullied by friends for being "weak" in getting scared by certain things on screen. So it's made me want to resist my mental state that says "maybe we should wait until it's on dvd" and see it in the theatre anyway knowing full well that it's going to mess me up. I love Godzilla. He's been my kaiju since I was little and one of the few things that actively got me through the cult. But people just don't get that PTSD does some pretty wild stuff to your mental and emotional state.

Trying to explain it to my pal though... I just feel weak and useless. It's not my fault. I know my PTSD doesn't make any sense given how my brain also is, but that's also not my fault. I'm completely untreated for my PTSD. Diagnosed with it yes, but only on one count because they wouldn't even consider the first one despite the fact that if I went in for it now it would be.

This is why I want to try and support people who also have confusing PTSD symptoms and just support people in general who are NT. I don't want people to feel as invalidated and alone as I have often felt.

I'm so sorry they bullied you for that. Waiting to watch a movie at home so you can better control your environment makes perfect sense to me and doesn't seem "weird" at all.

I'm glad you want to support NT people with PTSD. Also if someone was NT and has PTSD would that make them some sort of neuro atypical? I know that some psychologists actually suggest a lot of known Autism traits aren't actually from the autism they're just trauma from being ND in a NT world with bullies which is fascinating to me

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

I've recently watched Miraculous the show (or at least as far as I've got episodes for) and I really liked it! Soon I will be able to watch the movie as well, and I wanted to take a second and give an opinion/response based on what I've seen, both of the movie and of the audience reaction to the movie from what I can tell.

The way I see it, the movie adaptation and the show are both seperate takes on the same premise. That's quite literally what an adaptation is supposed to be.

I'm looking forward to seeing the movie, and it is very obvious from the promo material I've seen that it is very different from the show in a few ways. The kwamis and weapons have different powers, all the characters have slightly rebooted personalities, and such. I don't really take any issue with this, in fact I think it's a good thing, which in about to get to (without trashing the show)

A huge difference seems to be the fact that the movie characters have obviously taken a huge fucking chill pill in comparison to the show (With the probable exception of Gabriel because nobody with an ounce of chill would attempt to end the world in order to resurrect their dead wife who didn't want to be resurrected) the clips I've seen are really cute and wholesome and I can't wait to watch the movie! It seems like something to watch on a cool night in and have some fun.

However, this isn't to say that I hate the original dramatic weirdo characters, because unreasonable dorks in an improbably otherworldly situation is the whole reason I like the show. There's never a dull moment, because everyone is always doing something reckless or humiliating or ill-advised or ethically questionable. It's just like Chat Noir said in Gamer 2.0, playing is a fun way to do things you never would in real life! So seeing characters act in ways that may not be relatable (or even considered "good") and will very obviously exacerbate the already zany, laughably absurd situation is part of the charm of this show! It asks the question "What if we took a magical girl show and it just kept getting more and more batshit, off the walls because nobody is thinking straight!?" and answers with a resounding "You will both love and hate every single character at some point."

TV shows with all the seasons are something you watch to get invested in, to try keeping up with the lore dumps and character arcs all at once because it fills up your extra time and you can get into the zone, be a nerd about it!

Movies are what you watch to unwind, too chill with a plot you know by heart and follow-able character arcs and you probably won't end up yelling at the screen or even moving your face from its pillow until the feature is over. There is just as much artistry into a movie as any show, but this one is clearly meant to feel satisfying and calming while still being charming and funny, while the show keeps you guessing, looking forward to the next thing because the wondering about it gets to through to the point in time you get answered.

it is very obvious that the feel-good superhero film with the set time frame, and the nail-biting, toe-scrunching, edge-of-your-seat anticipation level cringe compilation fill two different niches, both of which I enjoy!

now onto the audience reaction! this is based on Instagram comment sections (aka cesspools of despair) so I doubt my assessment holds true to the tumblerinas, but here goes anyways.

There seems to be an impression that because the adaptation is not a direct reproduction (bc it's an adaptation, duh!), the new concept must be regarded as "better" or "worse" than the TV show.

Either the characters act too different or the magic works different so it must be ruined! [I'm not saying these are never valid concerns, I've yet to see the movie so the actual characters and magic system of this alternate universe are not yet familiar to me. what truly matters is that they serve the same purpose, to uphold the story. a character's core values changing or something that dictates much of their perception changing is far different from something of overhyped importance changing, for example.]

Or the movie "fixed" everything wrong with the show! I'm not saying some adaptations can't do this, but I am saying that something as morally nuetral and solely tone related as how down-to-earth and practical or irrational and excitable characters generally act is better or worse either way!

Whether they are all likable to every single person in the world is irrelevant to actual quality-let alone entertainment value- of plot and lore, or how compelling and intricate the characters are.

again this is kind of a word-vomit, opinion-y thing as a new fan, but the general gist is don't be fucking mean needlessly, take a look at the actual situation.

I will probably reblog this after seeing the movie, so check the notes if you're seeing this on a few weeks to see if I've added new thoughts :3

[kio-may]

heyyooo i've just been looking around in your blog and i just wanna say that your writing is *chef's kiss* 💕

kinda surprised that request are open but can i request headcannons of the first years (plus ortho(?)) with an mc that says the weirdest things when they're nervous? like for example "hey hey hey- do you remember that horror movie we saw? yeah this seems like the princess waiting for a rescue only a lot lot worse and with a dash of childhood trauma added into it" during an overblot when they should be coming up with a plan or sumn-

Hello <3

Tysm for the kind message 😭 ur so cute ong qkmdkend

Had a bit of fun with this one but i think the hcs are a bit short 😭 im sorry

I hope you enjoy!!

(Ortho is specifically PLATONIC. Others can be taken romantically or platonically)

---

Honestly? Impressed

"What're you doing?! We aren't watching that show right now!"

Very agitated from it

After the overblot is over he skips over to you and asks about it

Makes light conversation with you about it

Internally questions what goes through your mind normally

He admits though, it is something of a funny memory looking back at it, with Riddle going apeshit in the background and you referencing a clip from a show

He snorts a bit thinking about it

In class when he sees you nervous before a test and you reference another bizarre cli

He catches on

He immediately understands it's your.. "thing"? He doesn't know how to explain but he'd a bit amused. And a bit sarcastic.

Bastard /j

LAMSOWJSOWdeuJ

Man's already no thinky no brainy

And when you reference to something that's completely out of context?

He's short circuiting

"Eh..?.. uhh.."

Completely forgets the problem at hand for a solid 4 seconds

Snaps back immediately to the problem

After the situation is over, whether the teacher is picking on students or facing an overblot, he probably won't remember it or bring it up until a good few hours later when he's thinking back to it and your comment comes to mind

Asks you how you come up with it on the spot

He's a bit shocked at how you came up with it when everyone's hitting their brains for a plan and can't even think of anything else

A bit concerned for you

"You might get in trouble.."

"Now's not the time!"

Probably the most neutral

Kinda lowkey about it when he approaches you

"About that.." he asks you after everything's settled

"What was that?"

Just plain confused

Kinda sus too

Actually one of the more understanding ones

He still doesn't grasp the whole concept but he understands the nervousness

A bit sympathetic actually

He thinks maybe it's a way for you to calm yourself down or lighten the situation a bit

Still a bit unsettled with your choice of words though

"What the hell?!"

Shocked

If it weren't for the current situation at hand, or vil anywhere nearby, he probably would've burst out laughing then continue to add onto your references

A bit annoyed since trying to listen to you interrupted his train of thought

After everything's over he just kinda takes a moment to step back and doesn't really do much

But when he sees you he immediately lights up 

And cue him rushing over to you

Asks you about what that was because it lowkey freaked him out

"What was that?"

One of the more unsettled ones

But when he remembers it long after the situation has passed?

He's ugly snorting

It's very funny in his eyes

Wonders how you come up with it

"Human! Focus!"

If it's a dangerous situation and he's beside you, he's gripping your shoulders tightly and very firmly telling you that and to be focused at the task at hand

After the situation ends he's half blowing up

He's a bit hard headed please forgive him-

You have to explain it's a habit to him or he'll never catch on and treat it like you're easily distracted

And when you tell him,outside he puts on this showcase, "how will you complete your tasks if you keep doing that?!" But inside he's super confused and a tad bit conflicted

And whenever he's facing a similar situation your comment comes to mind

A bit annoyed but y'know how he is

"Humans, what else could I have expected?"

A bit caring in his own way though

Often asks if you need help.. indirectly

He sometimes subtly keeps an eye on you

Does not think this habit is healthy

Highy disapproving like an old strict mother

Tries to help you keep calm

"Lilia said this might help!"

Yes he goes to Lilia for advice

Goodluck babe LWNSLSJSK

"Are you okay?!"

Concerned

His brother does this from time to time when he's losing a game match or when a cutscene comes up

So he's worried about you when you do that

Makes sure you're safe throughout the situation if it's something dangerous like an overblot because he doubts you're able to pay attention or be aware of your surroundings

Approaches you after the situation to ask you about it

Searches about it, and helps you with it

Calms you down and later talks about the references with you

Amused by your creative twist with it

"You should be careful! Getting distracted may get you into more trouble"

Sometimes checks up on you

Advises you a lot from then on

---

[jenanigans1207]

(1.1) The day after Kiri's ep airs, a tweet that says "IS ANYONE GONNA CHECK IF RED RIOT IS STILL ALIVE" goes viral. Ppl who don't watch the show are so confused bc was Red Riot in a fight?? This is how Kiri indirectly gets MORE ppl to watch the show (I mean idk who ISN'T watching the show w/literally the country's top 2 Heroes, anyway 🤷 up to u) --esp those who were skeptical. I'd love to see the skeptical ones livetweet their change lmao.

(1.2)After that basically EVERYONE & their mom is watching ((Kiri replies to the tweet with "yep still good 😁👍" & a selfie of him grinning & throwing a peace sign & a very obviously livid Bkg in the background. Twitter is NOT comforted. The selfie becomes a meme & Bkg thinks of ways to kill the internet 😂))

This is actually the single funniest thing I have ever read and nobody can ever take this away from me, thank you for this. I am absolutely feral over this idea and absolutely MUST include it.

I can just see it, too. Red Riot trending on twitter as everyone is trying to figure out what on earth is happening. The clips from the show start circulating (because Kiri has some thoughts that he's absolutely about to share, just you guys wait!). And suddenly the agency's YouTube channel is hit with so many views that it nearly crashes. People start calling Kiri to ask him what the hell he was thinking, or to congratulate him on finally saying what they've all been wanting to say-- some even call him to jokingly wish him goodbye because he may be Katsuki's best friend besides Izuku but that won't stop Katsuki from murdering him.

Of course, Katsuki is getting phone calls, too. I think he's generally not involved in social media much, so people start calling him and texting him to send the clips directly to his phone-- or even worse, to send the theory tweets to him as everyone is starting to piece together everything. And maybe he was GOING to let what Kiri did slide, but he sure as shit isn't about to now! Except that the whole internet is petitioning to protect Kiri, of course, so he can't very well murder him without confirming everything Kiri said/implied during his episode on the show.

The absolute SMUGness Kiri would feel, the furious hopelessness Katsuki would feel now that the whole country (minus one particularly dense hero) are catching on to his feelings, the chaos of it all. It's just-- the flavor is immaculate, thank you for this, I will now die happy.

[ilikekidsshows]

Can't wait until your liveblog for MLB s4 especially ephemeral episode since that's the episode that people said to be the proof of adrien being a sentimonster. I'm curious to see your opinion. 👁️👁️

Okay, this is another case of: "I thought I'd made a post about that but I guess not."

Basically, my bro and I decided to put the Miraculous Ladybug liveblog on hiatus until the Sentimonster matter is definitely resolved. Because, here's the thing: if I watch season four and then season five drops SentiAdrien as canon, I will start to resent the show. As long as I don't actually watch season four, I can pretend the show just got cut short while it was still awesome and the finale was when Ladybug became the Guardian if worse comes to worst.

From what I've seen from clips and analysis, season four is not as fun for me and my bro as seasons 1-3 were. When we started to watch the show we thought we knew what we were getting. We wanted dumb fun superhero action and we love Adrien. Season four still has some of that, but that's clearly not what the show wants to put actual weight on anymore and Adrien is getting shafted from a narrative perspective. Surprise Magical Slavery with Adrien as the slave would just be too much at this point.

There's maybe a handful of episodes from season four we'd actually really want to watch and none of them are plot-important episodes. If we sunk more time and effort into liveblogging this show instead of something we actively enjoy like He-Man, and then SentiAdrien dropped, we would consider that time wasted. We'll probably get back to Miraculous if the matter of the Rings is resolved to our satisfaction, but we won't even consider that until we get a definitive answer. I already dreaded every time a new episode dropped during the second half of season four's initial run through the fandom and I knew I had to see more speculation on something that could ruin the show for me. I don't want to try commentating on the episodes while this Sword of Damocles hangs over my head.

I'm still doing Miraculous meta, especially Kwami Compatibility, and I have a bunch of really good asks on that topic to go through so I hope you guys will enjoy it!

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Yashahime Second Act Teaser PV

Yashahime The Second Act is almost here and we have a wonderful yet mysterious new teaser? This is definitely showing some clips from the Second Act preview but we've got some new ones as well because I really don't recall seeing some of these clips in the first preview, so this is interesting. We have Towa here holding the tenseiga above her head while many demons are flying upwards... not sure how they got there... from what I'm thinking someone or something may had summons them possibly for Towa to absorb demon energy to the tenseiga or something. There is still no full confirmation that Towa will keep her father's blade, she may give it back to him or he'll request for her to return it to him since he may need it for another situation. We'll have to see what really happens. I do hope we get some interactions between Sesshomaru and his beloved daughters and hopefully his cinnamon roll niece, Moroha. I'll fangirl so hard if that happens.

Moroha looks like she's ready to take down a foe of some kind, it could be those demons or another rival has arrived to the scene. She looks quite frustrated here, and who could blame her? She's also still furious about Setsuna's unexpected death, they're all family after all. I wonder if she'll be getting new power upgrades like Towa and Setsuna. I hope her parents will be able to see her in action soon.

Setsuna is looking more and more like her father Sesshomaru, this is one of his signature expressions, the eyes, the mouth and the look, definitely Sesshomaru. It appears Towa has been either knocked out or blacked out from something, you can see her down on the ground just a little bit in the top frame of this set. Is Setsuna protecting Towa while she is down and out? I want to see more scenes like that. We've mainly seen Towa or Moroha protecting her the most, now it's time for Setsuna to help protect her big sis. Her new blade is so uniquely designed, I just love it to pieces.

Wow, Riku?! We can already see him here in his newly designed attire, and I love it! Not only he has new clothes, he also has a new earring accessory or possibly the same one and he has added an intriguing sword charm to it. I really admire the style of it... Hm, that's odd to have in the federal era though, unless they did make such charms in that time. We also see some ice or crystal debris flowing around... what happened here?! Did Riku obtain new skills or did he always have these? Is he breaking something? Just what is he doing? Can't wait to see how this unfolds.

What has happened to Kirinmaru?! I don't know why but he looks like he's in deep grief or in some kind of depression... Is he remembering something disturbing of his past? His past wife? His daughter Rion? Things his sister, Zero may had done? Toga perhaps? He looks pretty distraught, almost the way Sesshomaru has been looking lately. I wonder if Zero has messed with his memories... and I do often wonder was she the one involved in causing trouble in Kirinmaru and Rion's relationship as father and daughter. I really want to know what happened with them too. There's not much new with Rion but she seems to have a hand gesture of prayer or begging... She's very beautiful, I love her design, very cutesy.

Oh my flipping Mokomoko! Zero what have you done now?! The pure look of evil and hate in her eyes... who the heck is she even trying to burn in this house?! She's certainly talking and looking down at someone. There are so many theories of what could be going on in this scene...

①️ Many have pointed out that this is Lady Izayoi's mansion and Zero may had contributed in trying to kill her and baby Inuyasha on the same night Toga died. That's a big possibility because Zero can use puppets of herself, we saw that in episode 15 of Season 1. And she may had helped kill Toga? But there was two people in battle, Toga and Takemaru... wouldn't he had of interrupted Zero to stay out of their battle? Or did Takemaru die by Toga's hands immediately... and Toga was able to survive, tried to make his escape but Zero decided to take his life away due to pure jealousy... Oh that would be such a big fat shocking twist if she really was the one who really slaughtered Toga...! Think about how even more infuriated Sesshomaru would be with Zero, he'll have more reasons to kill her... But remember this too, Zero had her other demon markings when she found out about Toga's death and they faded away after making her wish. She don't have those markings in this scene at all.

②️ Could this be Zero on the night she may had of killed or tried to kill someone else? Like... Kirinmaru's Wife? (Don't know if we'll find out about his baby mama and such, plus we don't know if Kirinmaru got married or it was one of those one night stand sort of things.) Was it another character we have no idea about? A familiar character? Or is it Rion? Or worse... possibly Rin?! Girl! You better not be trying to burn Rin after you tied your sorry tail to her beautiful soul, get a life will ya?

③️ Could this be Sesshomaru and Rin's mansion Zero is burning and she trapped Rin inside while doing so? I know there's a lot of us who really want to believe this is the mansion of Sessrin and there's some of us who really don't wanna get clowned but this is a possibility it could be true... because not so long ago Sato gave us some new artworks of Sesshomaru and Rin... and they were in a house together, it's very rare to see them in such places. I often wonder if Sato is telling us stories about Sessrin's life before Rin got into the tree through their art. The artworks they released came before the new preview and not so long ago either... could this house been a spoiler? What if this house or mansion could of been a safe place before the fire in the forest? Did you notice that the walls are almost the same as the ones from Sato's picture? Let's all wait and see if it comes together as these things.

I know for sure this scene of Sesshomaru slashing a butterfly in half has a lot of people worried and pondering about what is going on in this clip... Yes, it is just like the purple dream butterfly, they look the exact same but are colored differently. Not sure if this is the present or just a flashback. This scene actually makes you wonder are there two dream butterflies? One is good and one is evil? The purple could mean Kirinmaru's butterfly or the green one could mean Rion? Her aura is the same color as the green butterfly... however this could be just a spirit like a Japanese user mentioned on their Twitter. Is it a puppet? Is it a ghost? Is this dream butterfly dangerous and has other meanings to it that would cause Sesshomaru to slash it in half? Was it going after Rin? The girls? Inukag? Or Sesshomaru himself? And Sesshomaru, he looks extremely upset in these frames... oh no... what's happened? Please don't be anything bad about Rin, she's dealing with enough as is Sesshomaru.

So much stuff going on, I can't stop processing everything and I can't stop watching the teaser over again. Season 2 please hurry up! *Waits patiently* We're getting closer, just need to keep waiting. (Had to reupload because the other is not appearing, so I take it as one of Tumblrs issues sadly. And sorry for taking long been moving and unpacking a lot. (つ﹏<。)

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[2021.08.22] Kitamura Kento (Hibari) 17LIVE livestream

(I live translated his stream, so there may be details I'm missing/misheard.)

Starting remarks:

He wants to play Hibari more

He usually has great memories of the plays he's worked on, but not quite for this one; It doesn't feel like it ended yet.

He feels like they can do the play again, do the future arc again

His little bro is a big fan of Amano's works, especially KHR, so he's very familiar with this series

His brother is babysitting in the US, so he sends him clips of the play lol

It's only been half a year since he started Twitter and he appreciates all the support (likes, RTs, replies)

His faves are Dino and Primo in the manga. He loves their visuals. He thinks they look cool.

He actually wants to play as Primo lmao

Was excited when he heard James was playing Dino; he's worked with him in at least 3 plays (?, Hakuouki SSL, Hataraki Saibou); Met the first time in a while thanks to this stage

Q&A Section:

Q: Why do you have so many Hibird photos in your makeup area?

A: They're from Yamamoto Ryosuke! Ryosuke receives a Hibird photo from the production team every performance, so he gives them all to Kento since he's Hibari after all. He has around 8 of them. Sometimes Ryosuke forgets to give it to him and he feels unnecessarily disappointed lmao

Q: Thoughts on receiving Hibari's role A: First he wondered a lot about how he'd portray Hibari's fighting style, and tried to portray his cloud-like, untouchable feeling. Kento was set on fighting with "pauses" and "urgency" for Hibari. Hibari's the fastest in thinking and acting, like that time when everyone was panicking about Byakuran's attack, while Hibari immediately left to check on Namimori since that's where the attack landed.

Hibari can also be misleading. When the Real 6 Funeral wreaths landed at Namimori, he was first to speak. However, just when you think he was going to propose a plan, he just states that one of them landed in Namimori, which makes you wonder just how much he loves the place haha.

That unexpectedness makes him interesting to the viewers. He tends to speak, pause in the middle, and then change his tone/aura when he continues his sentence.

Q: Thoughts on Hibari before and after playing him A: He talked about this in his blog post. After playing him, he thinks of other people more than you'd expect. He acts to protect Namimori, and as a result, saves people.

Q: Have you planned the curtain call interactions with Ryohei and Lambo beforehand? A: Nope. That was all thanks to Kimeru adlibbing, and Kento has no idea when Ryohei will jump in lol.

On a tangent, but he very much admires Kimeru for perfectly playing his role. He has already perfected the role even when they just started rehearsing. He has the formula for Lambo down pat. This makes it easy for someone to copy and stand in for him during rehearsals.

Q: Can you share more info on the action parts? A: Every week he gets the stunts instructor to teach him something new, then he practices it on his own for the rest of the week.

Apparently, he practiced while facing a tree at the park, haha. A lot of people commented, saying they want to be the tree. He was like, "No way lol". There were so many people wanting to become trees that he said they were going to turn into a forest lol.

He then talks in detail about how to do a roundhouse kick properly lmao. The left leg/standing leg is important apparently lmao. He repeats this sentence a couple of times and demonstrates it with his fingers.

Sometimes he got tired after doing it so many times. However, when he started doing 1 hour stretches everyday, it became a lot easier.

Does aftercare? (Is that the right term to use here? haha) after practice because it's a lot of strain on his left leg and arm.

Q: What are your similarities with Hibari? A: He likes to do things on his own. Hyperfocused on what he likes. Is stubborn.

He likes to have a lot of preparation before taking something on...

He'll leave when he feels like leaving, lol

Q: Thoughts on Tsuna and Hibari's relationship, and your relationship with Takenaka Ryohei A: Tsuna is an important person in Present and Future Hibari's life.

Takenaka Ryohei is amazing. He has a different reaction to Present Hibari and TYL Hibari and he can really see and feel it... Ryohei's act really contributes to Kento's own acting. It's because Ryohei reacted that way that Hibari seems even more fearsome.

Ryohei can portray Tsuna's fear of TYL!Hibari, but then also show a different reaction when he stops Present!Hibari during Choice.

Usually, it should be the protagonist who would do something proactively while everyone else reacts. As the protagonist, but it's hard to give large reactions. However, in KHR, it's often Tsuna who reacts. It's because Tsuna reacts in a certain way that you can figure out what type of person the other character is. Ryohei is amazing for being able to do that role.

Q: Was it you playing as Alaude's silhouette? A: Yes. Yamamoto also played as Ugetsu.

Random tidbit: At the part where Deisy gets caught with the huge handcuffs, they didn't have those huge handcuffs until they were at the venue lol. So they've been practicing without it until then.

That's why his actions during that scene slowly started to change, since he began to have ideas on what else he could do at that scene.

Q: Thoughts on the Hibari switch scene A: He asked viewers when they realized it wasn't Kento as Hibari onstage? On their first watch? During the stream?

Daiki tried really hard to copy Kento's Hibari, like his walk so people wouldn't catch on. Was really happy when it was decided Daiki was the one who'll be his body double. He actually thought it would be an ensemble doing it, until 2 weeks (?) into rehearsals

Q: Happenings onstage? A: He doesn't really want to talk about it... However, after he turned 25, he's become more open to his mistakes so he can talk about this now haha.

When wearing suits, he wants to look suave and used to wearing them. Having the box in his pants pocket ruins the silhouette of the suit, and so would placing it in his chest pocket, even though the latter seems cool. He talked with the costume designers to add some sort of leather pouch (?) at his waist.

However, after putting the box in and out of the pouch so many times, the leather pouch worse out and became looser. In one performance, the box dropped to the floor sometime without his notice. ("Roll rolled." LOL)

During his fight with Genkishi, he stuck his hand in the pouch while talking and realized it wasn't there. He was like, Oh Shit, lmao. Then clumsily tried to hide the fact that he has no box by taking out his hand and only showing the back of it to the audience, lmao.

He watched a clip of that performance afterwards and learned that the box fell while he did a roundhouse kick.

Also, during the fight with Deisy, he can't see anything. The lights were so bright. When he twirls the handcuffs, it has to face a certain side so that the cuff would close, but sometimes it ends up facing the wrong side, so he has to twirl it back. However, it's hard to figure out if it's facing the right side or not because of the light, so he accidentally dropped the handcuffs once.

(There were actually a few fan reports saying that Kento seemed to drop his props often lol)

Q: Thoughts on Hibari unbuttoning his suit before fighting A: When raising your arm while wearing suits, the middle part scrunches open and he doesn't like that. He wants Hibari to look flawless, so he tried to make it part of the act to unbutton the suit.

He doesn't do this for the part where he trains Tsuna, since he doesn't want to make it like Hibari's doing it for appearances. He tries to make it seem like it's an act Hibari does when he expects a good fight.

Q: Any special training? A: He has a lower center of gravity because he played ice hockey seriously for 9 years. He's jealous of actors who took karate and dance since they are useful skills as an actor. He believes that playing ice hockey and balancing on ice skates really contributed to doing action scenes.

Q: Do you do any weight/muscle training? A: He used to go to the gym, but stopped because of covid. He apparently started classic ballet recently. He likes gaining strength without getting too bulked up. Before he hated wearing tight clothes, but now he has embraced it lmao

Q: Any KHR weapons he would like to try? A: He likes Japanese swords, so he likes Yamamoto's sword style.

When Chrome was handed the Devil Lens, he wondered how one would fight with it? How do you make it look like you use it often? Do you twirl it like a pen?

He's seen James' whip skills live during Secret Bullet and was very impressed that James was able to use them to the fullest. It's a weapon you can more easily hurt yourself with after all.

During rehearsals, there wasn't a center door to come out from, so he had to wait at the sides while Dino and Deisy were fighting. Hibari often comes out from the center door, so he calls Hibari a "Center Door Guy", lol.

Q: Judging from how fast you changed into the yukata during curtain call, are you the type of person who changes clothes fast? A: He has to change from suit to yukata in 1 minute and 30 seconds and be careful not to make Hibari look sloppy, so he was really worried about it... That's why you'd see him touching his collar from time to time.

Final Words

He asks fans to answer the Reborn! The Stage questionnaire and request for a rerun of the Future arc stage plays. They were able to change the future in Future arc, so he believes we can change the future in real life as well. A rerun isn't impossible in his opinion.

He'd love to livestream again sometime with others, like Daiki-kun (Glo Xinia/Dino), and Daiki-kun, and Daiki-kun.😂