#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!!!

[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!

[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.

[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

[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.

[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!

[sessrin-eternity2]

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﹏<。)

[rebornthestage]

[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.😂

[sizzlingpatrolfox]

Hello! Hope you are doing well. Wanted to ask what you thought of Jikook’s rainy day fight?

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I have some thoughts about it, but honestly I feel like there's not much to have any opinions about the fight in itself because we don't really know the details. There's literally no context to it.. We barely know when did it exactly happen T_T I feel like there's a huge difference between 2015 jikook having an argument vs. 2016 jikook having an argument. Even if I don't think they were together or in love in 2016, feelings seemed to be more intense than in 2015. So, yeah. Idk maybe it's not a huge detail to others but to me it would make a difference. (Not that it matters but, in my mind, it happened in 2016 hehe 😛)

More than giving me any idea about their relationship or dynamic as a whole, honestly, it just gave me a bit more insight into their own personalities. We don't really know what they were fighting about or reacting to, just that those reactions (JM telling JK that he wouldn't care about him, JK crying and going after him, JM waiting for him) happened.

I think it conveys how strong Jimin's feelings for JK were. Or just how deeply he feels in general, to be honest. Jimin did say in his latest bday live that the feelings he has for the members are not a matter or liking them or not liking them, but they're far more complicated than that. I think his words (the translation) were something like "I've developed feelings [for the members] that I can't explain". If he's in love with JK, and has been so for a few years, imagine the intensity... just IMAGINE. Like, all those complex feelings he has for the other members but if what he feels for JK is romantic love (which I personally believe it is) then it's 10000 times worse. When you think of it like that, him being the way he is with JK on public just makes so much sense. He's more calm these days, but yeah... think Jimin and the way he acted with JK in 2014, 2015, 2016. There are jikook clips from those years I can't watch without dying from the second hand embarrassment.

Jimin getting so upset as to tell JK he would cut all ties with him and walking away just makes so much sense. They could've been fighting about the pettiest of things and it would still make sense. Just because the feelings in between were probably already not exactly platonic.

JK cried when Hobi was about to leave the group before they debuted and he had only known Hobi for a couple of years. He cried when he fought with Jimin, and even though he had already known him for more time, I think that too is a testament to JK's personality, how deep his feelings for the members and Jimin were already, and that he probably doesn't cope well with loss. In the case of the fight with Jimin, he also was at fault (I mean, he said he was sorry for it) and JK maybe now doesn't seem to care as much about what people think of him, but back then he cared a lot. So I think guilt and the fear of loss plus his kinda complicated, probably on-the-verge-of non platonic feelings for Jimin pushed him to run after him.

I've always believed that for a long time before maybe getting together, their relationship was one where that possibility was always present. I don't know how to explain it but it's something that I've experienced, too and I can't put it into words. A kiss me are you joking yeahhh hahaha... or am I? Kind of relationship. And that's one of the reasons they've always had such a sizzling 🤪 chemistry. There's people you just have that with, even of you're not dating or in love with them. Whether that develops into a romantic relationship or not is a whole other topic.

It's why I think the "you will only understand jikook if you've been in a long term relationship married since 1780" it's kind of lame... There are so many types of relationships, I've been in long term short term friendships that were way too flirty friends that I've hooked up with and never actually dated, etc. I see all that in jikook. I don't always see long term couple. Sometimes I don't see a couple at all. Sometimes I just see two guys who aren't straight and are attracted to each other and having fun because they can and they want to. I don't think people who see them as long term are wrong, I just think it's dumb to believe that only people in long term relationships can "validate" jikook as a couple. Like I could also be petty and say maybe all of you haven't been in enough relationships and can't see all the other possibilities. You could even "understand" jikook just by having had a beautiful, fulfilling, functional, close friendship. Sometimes friendships are even more special than romantic relationships.

I think of the same scenario of the fight with JK and any other member and like... I seriously can't imagine JK running after some members. I won't name them but yeah, take your guesses. Maybe I'm wrong, tho.

I can't help but to think also about how JK is probably the type who reacts to ultimatums more than he reacts to familiarity lmao. I've mentioned before about how I think that JK took Jimin for granted for a long time, when they were younger. They had that argument and Jimin made a serious threat of not caring about him anymore and JK reacted to that. For most of the time, people are there for us and we don't really think about what they mean to us until their presence in our lives is compromised. I think that was the case for JK. Losing Jimin, something he probably never had to worry about because JM was just always there, suddenly became a reality and he didn't want that to happen.

So, yeah. I never saw it as something that was directly an explanation for their relationship or dynamic back then but like I've said, to me it's more about what their reactions during that fight say about them as people, as two separate guys. And as a sidenote, it says a bit about their relationship but I've never felt that was the focus.

[eagles-translated]

Answering Eagles questions before the season 3 finale (Part 2/2)

I've received a bunch of questions since 3x08 and 3x09 dropped, so I compiled all the questions into two posts. I had to split them up because Tumblr only allows 10 images per post. Anyway, keep reading to see my answers and enjoy! 👇

There might be some kind of collaboration between Amie and Ludde like last season—we have only heard snippets of Ludde's song submission to the music school and it wouldn't surprise me if we saw Amie perform the song in its entirety in the last episode. I touched on this a little in part 1 of answering these questions.

It seems like Amie singing at the end of the season has become kind of a recurring theme. She performed “Follow” in 1x08 and “Second Sight” in 2x10 (on the radio, but my point still stands). I wouldn’t be surprised if they followed this trend by having Amie perform a new song in the season 3 finale.

I'm not sure if she'll recommend Ludde to the record label, though. I honestly still feel like Amie's whole storyline with sending in a rather basic demo written by two teenagers with little to no experience and then getting praised on it with comments such as "it's going to be a real summer hit" felt so unrealistic to me. Maybe they only said that so Amie would accept their offer or something, but that's still very strange because she would have still said yes without a doubt.

I can understand that they thought Amie was marketable as a person and there was this bonus with her having gone viral before on Felicia's Instagram, but that demo did not seem good enough for me to be immediately released as a single and then have them decide on the spot that Amie would be given a contract.

I mean, come on. It never felt earned because we never really saw Amie struggling with her songwriting journey to achieve this dream. Sending in one demo to one record label and having them immediately want to make a whole album with you just doesn't happen in real life unless the song is extremely good or you have a very unique voice. Amie is really talented but there are hundreds of people just like her, if not thousands. I was never convinced by her getting signed so quickly in season 2.

I understand that they wanted to establish her as a successful artist, but that felt so rushed. I was so sure that the record label would screw her over and steal the song rights to record it with another artist who was already established, and that we'd have to see Amie work even harder to achieve her dreams. But we didn't get that at all. Where was the struggle?

Anyway, I'm getting a little off-topic here. To be honest I have a lot of problems with the writing sometimes, even if I still love the show and its characters. Of course I wanted to see Amie achieve success (and I was happy when she did), but the journey there was so bizarrely easy.

She didn't start to seriously work on making her music career become a reality until season 2. Amie had dabbled in music prior to that, like when she auditioned for the school band and did that performance of Follow, but she didn't truly start to work towards it until season 2 when she decided to have her work sent to professionals in the business. And then, just five episodes later, she gets contacted by the record label in Stockholm.

To put this into context—season 2 took place somewhere around March, and episode 5 around three weeks into April. So when Ludde first started helping Amie it took less than two months for her to get signed. You could argue that the song was just that good or that Amie is just that talented, but it never felt like a realistic storyline to me.

So, back to your question! I need to stop getting so sidetracked while answering these haha. I don't think it would be realistic for the record label to hire a teenager with no professional songwriting experience, likely a very small portfolio of his own work in both size and variety, having a criminal record, and on top of that being infamous in the press for abusing his ex-girlfriend. If Amie offered the ultimatum to her label that she'll only return with Ludde, who has an incredibly bad reputation right now, it feels like she would be running the risk of losing the contract entirely.

There's only so much her label can put up with. We've seen Amie ignore their calls with no intention of reassuring them that she's coming back soon. Honestly, with the way things are looking right now it makes the most sense for the contract to be dropped. By Amie or by the label, I don't know.

The episode description for the season finale says that Ludde will get some sort of justice and it could be about his music (or something related to whatever Andreas is doing).

I believe Amie will be doing a live performance of Ludde's song at a New Year's Eve party in episode 10 but I doubt that Ludde will be picked up as a producer. If he actually does I would find that to be a very unrealistic plot point, to be completely honest with you.

This is an issue I had with 3x08 and 3x09 as well. I had a hard time actually enjoying the moment between Felicia, Klara, and Amie knowing that her family was getting increasingly worried for her and even thought for a short moment that Felicia was lying dead at the bottom of the ocean. All that could've been avoided.

To add, it didn't make a lot of sense to me that when Klara finally decided to call someone she called Amie instead of Elias. An ex-friend of Felicia's instead of her brother who could've helped a lot more. What was Amie supposed to do when she showed up at the hotel, exactly?

I know there was the thing with Klara only knowing Amie's number off the top of her head, but there is no reason why she couldn't have gone down to the reception while Felicia was sleeping and asked to use a computer just to get a quick message to Elias. Like, "hey, Felicia attempted something bad but she's safe with me, we're at this hotel in this room but she didn't want me to call anybody, I don't know what to do". That would've been so much better than keeping quiet about the situation for nearly 24 hours.

I know that Klara probably has trauma from leaving her dad at the hospital after his suicide attempt and that she probably didn't want to go against Felicia's wishes. I understand the first part 100%. But Felicia was in a very bad place emotionally and was thinking that her whole family hated her when that wasn't the case. I feel like in a situation like that you kind of have to be the bad guy just to ensure the family that Felicia was safe. Even if everything turned out alright in the end, it could've gone so much worse if Felicia had wanted to be kept hidden for longer.

The ending of 3x08 was super tough to watch and I can't imagine the feeling of thinking your only daughter/sister drowned herself after you just yelled at her and showed no support. Klara couldn't have known any of this, but I feel like she should've at least contacted Elias if she wasn't taking Felicia to a hospital.

Elias calling Amie would've been an easy solution to this whole debacle but we would've lost the drama. It's still somewhat of a plot hole though, like you said.

Thank you for reading that whole post @detectivejulesohara!

The clip you're referring to was posted on Yandeh Sallah's Instagram account, so not in a trailer for this season.

I think that was either just fanservice or it will appear in season 4 since it was posted in May of this year, and I believe the filming of season 3 had already wrapped by then.

It might indicate that Elias and Amie will be a couple by season 4 (this actually seems very likely regardless if this is actually part of a scene or not).

I think Elias is getting increasingly frustrated with hockey and the fact that he doesn't really have any other ambitions to strive for. He was raised with nothing but hockey surrounding him and it's in his blood. Elias got drafted to the US at around the same age as Mats, but Elias left after a year because he just wasn't progressing.

That must feel like a huge step back, and on top of that Mats was probably thriving in his successful career around the age that Elias is now. It's a tough difference in success to have weighing on your shoulders when you're in a team that's second to last in the rankings.

There's even the accusation in the press that Mats paid for Elias to advance in the rankings, and I'm sure that's going to affect his career negatively.

I think Elias overworking himself could also be the result of him feeling like he has to prove that returning to Eagles—a small club that is probably having their worst season ever—was in fact the right choice and not the death of his elite hockey career. That choice was very questionable from the very start and his agent advised against it. Even Mats found it strange. Elias said that he didn't really have a choice most likely because of the clause in his contract, but then he also claims to Mats that things just turned out that way.

Ludde: You don’t regret coming back [to Eagles]? Elias: I didn’t really have a choice.

The idea that he didn't have a choice in the matter doesn't seem accurate. His agent told him there were other alternatives like Jokerit (a professional ice hockey team based in Helsinki, Finland) and that they could find something better than Eagles. Elias seemed kind of defeated already and the decision to return to Eagles didn't feel thought-through at all. It's almost like he just didn't care.

Agent: [...] Jokerit has called and I’ve had a great conversation with them, so they’re on. Elias: You know what? Let’s skip all the trouble. Let’s go with Eagles, it’ll be great. Agent: What? Elias: I’m so tired of moving all the time anyway, plus I’ll be close to my family. Agent: Wait, I thought that you— Eagles has big economical problems, and… Sorry, but their season started awfully. We can get a better team. You understand, right? Elias: Yeah, but we can’t get a team that needs me as much. Plus— If they say they want to see development, I’ll give them that. Agent: Wait— They’re under the line. We’re talking about qualifying down directly. You can’t in earnest believe you’ll change that on your own. Elias: It’s perfect. I’ll only go up, as you like to say.

It also seems like he's maybe realizing that hockey isn't everything and that there are other things he might want to explore and pursue in his life. I think Elias is feeling kind of stuck right now. He's been training his whole life for one purpose which is a professional career in hockey, and maybe he feels like Mats wouldn't allow him to quit. That option doesn't exist to him.

Like you said, Mats had that comment where he labeled Ludde a "quitter" and Elias stressed the fact that there shouldn't be anything wrong with losing interest and deciding to pursue something else.

Mats: Can you imagine that he’s just quitting? I mean, I’m completely— He really didn’t strike me as a quitter. So fucking close. [...] Elias: [...] Ludde, he’s… He’s not a quitter, he’s just didn’t want it anymore. That should be fair.

However, quitting is seen as failure to Mats. Mats dropped everything when he got drafted. He left his relationship with Petra seemingly without a second thought, because hockey comes before everything for Mats. Felicia even mentioned back in season 1 how her father was just a voice in a telephone for most of her childhood. He barely had any presence in her life because he was busy with hockey.

When Klara tells Elias that he's always putting hockey first, he gets angry but he doesn't outright deny it. In fact, he kind of changes the subject to shift attention away from Klara's claim.

Klara: This— You haven’t changed at all. You’re always putting yourself first. Elias: Excuse me? Klara: Yes, it’s either you or hockey. Elias: Stop! What the— Klara: I can’t take this. Elias: Are you leaving now? I wasn’t the only one you dumped. You’ve been acting like shit to Felicia. Yeah, and Amie and Ludde too, for that matter. You haven’t thought about that? So don’t come here and say I’m the egoist.

This is kind of an interesting thought—that maybe Elias subconsciously knew that was Klara is saying is true to some degree and that he has been putting hockey first. He decided to get on the train to the draft combine in Seattle instead of staying with Klara, and a year later he realizes that things didn't turn out the way that he'd planned and he returns to Eagles.

Maybe Elias is trying so hard to be someone who he just isn't, and it's affecting so many aspects of his life negatively. He lost Klara, he had to repeat almost his whole last year in high school because of moving to the US, and now he seems to be stuck in Oskarshamn. He's previously expressed to Amie that this isn't necessarily where he wanted to end up.

Elias: [...] Hey, is it just me or is there something about this town that… It sort of feels like no matter how much you try to get away, it… It pulls you back somehow.

It's kind of strange that he doesn't want to be in Oskarshamn, and yet he was the one who chose to return. Maybe he somehow feels like he has some purpose there because it keeps pulling him back. He just doesn't know what that purpose is.

Elias tried coming back to Eagles to turn things around for them, and they did win a game against the Capitals but that victory was later tarnished by the fight that broke out between the two teams (and to add to this, the loss of Ludde who used to be one of the star players and Klara as a sponsor). That kind of overshadowed their whole victory. Elias was very determined to do something to help and it very much feels like he needs Eagles to succeed—he needs to sort of "redeem" himself.

Elias: [...] Can I do anything? Can I go talk to— I could go talk to the sponsor. Mats: Let’s deal with it later. I’ll solve this. You have to go to school now. Elias: But we can finish talking— Mats: You can— No. Try to think of something else. Alright?

I think that Elias's desperation for Eagles to do well could absolutely lead to him eventually deciding to be a coach. He doesn't really seem to want the life that Mats had after seeing how success turned out for him—a broken family that he barely cares about because hockey occupies his mind more than caring for his children or repairing the relationship with Leila.

I think Elias being a hockey coach could suit him, but I would also love to see him exploring things outside of hockey—maybe even his interests outside of sport entirely.

I kind of agree with you on this. Klara has apologized to Felicia and been forgiven, but we've never seen her properly apologize to Amie for filming that video of her and posting it on social media. Amie and Ludde were in the wrong, yes, but that video being posted was humiliating for both of them. They had to deal with the ramifications of that for months after with the whole school judging them in silence.

To be fair, the video was posted a long time ago in the show's time frame (nearly two years ago if I'm right?) and they all kind of moved on from it. To add to this, maybe she felt it would've been kind of awkward to apologize with Felicia in the room.

Felicia was so hurt by that video being posted and I think it would feel very weird for her that Klara would apologize for posting the video when it's the sole reason Felicia found out what had been done to her. Without that video, she would've probably gone a few more months without being told what happened at the Halloween party.

I'm waiting for a Klara and Amie reconciliation in this season finale. I feel like this is something that should be discussed between just the two of them, and maybe they'll sneak in some blessing from Klara with the whole budding Elias and Amie relationship? I'd be happy with just a reconciliation, though, but I'm unsure if we'll get one. I have a feeling they'll start the season finale with a time jump and I don't know if Klara is even going to be in Oskarshamn by that time.

If we don't see them reconnecting in the season finale I will be pretty disappointed, to be honest.

Thank you! I really appreciate you too @lunawedlers (your gifsets are absolutely magical)!

This question was sent in a while ago but as season 3 had just started airing I was very excited to see the development of Elias and Amie, mostly because the director had been hinting on Twitter that something would happen between them this season. I've been really interested in them ever since 1x03 and so far the wait has been worth it.

I think all episodes have great visuals, but if I had to pick one I would probably say 3x06. All those shots of Elias and Amie on the walk through the park, the drone shots, and then the view from that bench spot were so gorgeous visually. That answer is more of a scene rather than a whole episode haha, but I think they really made the beauty of Oskarshamn stand out in those shots.

I think Amie will have some sort of performance in the final episode of a new song and that Elias will be watching her! After reading the episode description for the final episode and seeing that there will probably be some New Year's Eve party going on, I have a feeling that Amie will be performing. She's always had a performance of a new song in every season finale and this one should be no exception.

They tricked us a little in the season 3 trailer with us thinking that Elias would be at one of Amie's concerts in Stockholm, but now I'm sure that this scene fits in at the New Year's Eve party.

I think we should keep our expectations low for a kiss between Elias and Amie. They just started developing their relationship, and I like the slow pace they're going in. They're not rushing anything. I also have this feeling that their development has deliberately been so slow because they're sort of "saving the best for last".

Elias and Amie are fan favorites and their relationship has been very talked-about from the beginning. I can see the writers maybe having decided to push their relationship more towards the end of the show, which is why we haven't really gotten any Elias and Amie content until now. That's frustrating if you're impatient and I've seen some people thinking that maybe Elias and Amie won't happen at all, but I don't think we need to worry at all. The fact that Elias and Amie's development has been so slow should indicate that they're much more likely to be endgame.

A kiss in episode 10 could definitely happen, but I don't know. Maybe they'll drag it out further. As I've said before, if they don't get one in season 3 they will absolutely be getting one in season 4. I've noticed that it's always best to keep your expectations low when it comes to this couple.

The episode description for the season finale said this about Elias, which some have interpreted to be about Amie.

New Year’s Eve is here. [...] But is Elias brave enough to say what everyone else already knows?

This could mean anything, really. I'm actually leaning more towards this being about an individual thing rather than Amie being involved. It could be about Elias admitting that he's been overworking himself and not eating properly, or coming clean about the fact that maybe he doesn't want a career in hockey. This is something that everyone else already knows, so I think it might be about hockey.

Felicia has observed the overworking, Mats has told him to stop with it, and Ludde might've had some inkling about it while he was still on the team. Even Amie has probably also noticed that he's been spending a lot of time at the gym lately.

I could absolutely be wrong about this though.

Thank you for the question @lunawedlers!

This is a hard one because season 3 has had so many strong episodes already, and usually my favorite episode ends up being the season finale because it's basically the culmination of the whole season. I really loved 2x10 for this very reason since the ending montage was so well done.

If I had to pick between 3x01 - 3x09 though I would probably have to say it's a tie between 3x04 — Date night and 3x05 — Wounds! These two episodes showcased what Eagles should be all about so well, which is relationships plus the struggles you go through as a teenager in a small town, and then of course hockey. The hockey game episodes are really good, even if I don't think 3x05 topped 2x05 (the game where Ludde got tackled and knocked out).

I loved the contrast in Date night of the budding relationship between Elias and Amie and then that fight between Felicia and Ludde on the cliff. That whole scene between Felicia and Ludde on the cliff was actually really beautiful, especially when the sun had gone down.

It was interesting to see how this sweet gesture from Felicia turned into a fight between the two of them. I thought that was very realistic, because no matter how big of a gesture Felicia made to apologize there were still underlying problems that they needed to talk about.

I also loved the "non-date" between Elias and Amie in this episode. It was cute to see them goofing off before the movie started and then talking about it on the way home. I liked how Elias could connect to her on how they had both returned to Oskarshamn.

The recent episodes that dropped last week (3x08 and 3x09) were very strong and discussed some important subject matters, but I had a few problems with them that I discussed in a question above. They were dark, but not necessarily bad because they needed to happen.

However, I have to say that I prefer Eagles when it's about hockey and teenage relationships. 3x04 and 3x05 made me kind of nostalgic for season 1 and I liked the vibe they both had.

I agree, but I think we could maybe get a combination of both! Relationships can have all these romantic and sweet traits like you described, but also be more passionate and show public displays of affection.

I think Elias and Amie fit the more laid-back and sweet characteristics, but we have yet to really see what Amie is like in a relationship. We've seen her with a crush on Ludde and we got a glimpse of that thing she had with Robin (which was apparently a relationship but I did not pick up on that at all), but we don't really know what Amie is like in a relationship. Maybe she's never really had a "real" one, either.

Nevertheless, I'm excited to see what's in store for Elias and Amie. I'm very positive that they will eventually become a couple in season 4.

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Interview

BB: welcome back everyone! So good to see you all here today! We're back for a 3rd time here on BB Channel! Like before we're joined by the lil cuties of Ed and Mari. But this time their parents have come to join!

Rex: hello...

Quetz: Hola!

BB: that wasn't a very strong greeting Rex!

Rex: I'm tired right now. Can't this wait?

BB: time waits for no one and neither does BB!

Mari: already this is super annoying! *sigh* so why'd you decide to bring them into this anyways?

BB: the people who follow this blog need to see how they're doing so long after Chaldea too! You two have had the spotlight for a while, so now you should share.

Ed: I mean... guess that's fair.

Mari: should anyone be dealing with this?

Rex: I'd rather not be here either.

BB: aaaww, don't be like that! This will be fun!

Quetz: that's a very hard sell BB.

BB: just humor me at least.

Rex: ...fine

Quetz: what are we even doing anyways?

BB: some of your interdimensional buds have sent in questions about how you guys are doing, and I'm here to get those answers for them!

Quetz: that actually sounds nice...

BB: what'd I tell ya!?

Rex: yeah yeah, pls get started.

BB: fine. First few are from my precious bombardier beetle! First one she asks: do you have any pets?

Mari: oof! Do we!

Rex: currently we have four dogs: 1 German Shepherd named King, a Pitbull named Sparks, a Dogo Argentino named Duke, and a Corgi named Marshmallow.

Quetz: but also we have a habit of adopting older dogs who aren't likely to get a home because of their age or rescues to give them a nice place to stay.

BB: aaawww, well ain't that wholesome?

Mari: we also have mom's bigass pterosaur!

BB: less wholesome. Next one from my dear yellowjacket: favorite foods?

Rex: PIZZA!

Mari: CAKE!

BB: whoa! Pump the brakes you two! No need to get too excited!

Quetz: ...honestly? I don't really have a favorite food. Just a bunch I like to eat and some I don't. If I had to choose, I'd say chocolate.

Ed: I'm a steak man myself.

BB: 2 sweets, and 2 savories. Next up! Who wakes up earliest?

Rex: Quetz

Ed and Mari: Mom

Quetz: ...I guess it's me... hehehe.

BB: honestly I'm not surprised. She's so damn athletic and even used to be a professional.

BB: next! Where do you all like to go for vacations and such?

Ed: mom and dad have a vacation home in Alaska.

BB: Alaska?! Why?

Mari: when warm weather is the norm for you it's nice to go to the cold to change things up.

Rex: yeah, it's actually very nice. Not too many people and beautiful nature sights.

BB: well to each their own. Another from my dear antlion: how long does it take to pick a movie or TV show to watch?

Quetz: hehehe, we're all so indecisive it takes ages to pick. It's not uncommon for us to give up after taking so long.

BB: you should work on that. This next one's interesting. My precious army ant also suggests a round of common household jobs and the like from each member.

Rex: hmmm

BB: she gave an example of like, who does the cooking?

Quetz: well it's both me and mi amor in that case. The kids aren't very creative.

Ed: hey! We're plenty creative!

Mari: no we're not, don't lie.

Rex: we only really ask that the kids clean their rooms and any messes they make. We handle most everything else.

BB: they should really show some independence tho. Can't coddle them forever.

BB: in the next one, Cadence asks about a house tour and if there's a jacuzzi.

Quetz: a house tour feels like it should be it's own thing.

Rex: yeah, but we do have a jacuzzi dude, so don't worry.

BB: next one's from Reen: she asks what would life be if you weren't in chaldea,

Rex: y'mean like now? I mean... it's a relatively normalish domestic life? With less work tho.

Quetz: si, I've made plenty from my lucha career before retirement we don't have to worry about money much. But mi amof still makes money just in case.

BB: well after that she asks: how was your life before and after meeting each other?

Rex: ...kinda sad. Aside from chaldea and saving the world, I was kinda just... stagnant. Go to work, go home and so on. Not much to my life before then.

Quetz: ...honestly, for me it was the same. After the age of Gods ended we didn't do much of anything. We mostly watched over humanity, I've been summoned in modern day before but that was rare and infrequent.

Rex: ...after I met Quetz tho... I dunno things felt... better? She kinda forced her way into my life after I summoned her and... I was more then ok to accept her... before long we had something beautiful...

Quetz: aww, mi amor! I'm so happy to hear that!

BB: ain't that sweet? Like me and my dear centipede. Final one from Reen: if you could build a dream home then where? (Can be in fantasy)

Rex: I mean... where we are now is good.

Mari: yeah, right at the border of a huge rainforest in the Yucatan sounds fine.

Ed: but what about the fantasy bit?

Quetz: hmmm... we don't really look at fantasy much. But maybe a castle of some kind?

Rex: or a Mayan temple? But with electricity and Wi-Fi.

BB: that's fair. Need those memes in your life. Now some from Kaz! First she asks: what kind of gifts do you give each other?

Rex: uuhh, well I like getting mi corazon custom things. Like some personal clothes, or even a portrait of the two of us.

Quetz: ehehehe, I like to spoil mi amor with extravagant things! Golden treasure and the like!

Mari: concerning...

BB: next, how would you spend the day if it's raining outside?

Rex: I actually enjoy rainy weather, so I like to chill near a window or even on the porch listening to the rain.

Mari: it's very soothing.

BB: how quaint. Last one from Kaz: whose good at cooking and baking?

Quetz: hehehe, that'd be me. Tho it might be considered cheating since I use my goddess power to help.

Mari: well no one else is the greatest normally so it's fine.

BB: a good 'ol better then nothing kinda attitude! Now we're back to Cadence but with more relaxed questions: what's the current house look like?

Rex: ....big.

Mari: like three stories tall with a DEEP basement.

Ed: like... 5 rooms too many.

Quetz: we also have an indoor pool.

Rex: the outside looks almost gothic, but partially taken over by nature.

BB: all this near a rainforest?

Quetz: si! Despite the size, all the nearby trees still tower over it.

BB: nature can get scary. I've seen worse and have been worse but still. Another one: how do family events function? Any specific holidays?

Quetz: ...most family events are just us... going somewhere nice to eat nice food...

Rex: do they mean bringing extended family? My family lives too far to visit often

Quetz: ...and I'd rather not speak of mine... things have gotten rocky as of late.

Mari: right, well for holidays we celebrate most standard one, like Easter and valentine's and such. For October we kinda try to combine Halloween and Day of the dead.

Ed: but Christmas is the most important for us! Mom and Dad always make the biggest celebrations for Christmas!

BB: gotta love the holidays! Especially when your mom is santa... still weird to say that. Next one! Any plans for the future?

Rex: eh... not really? I mean I want to prepare Maria to continue the family magecraft, since Ed has no interest.

Mari: someone has to continue on this lost practice.

BB: good to know it won't be lost to time like we thought. Next one! Daily life?

Rex: I wake up, eat, work on magecraft, spend family time, spend time with Quetz, go to bed.

Quetz: I wake up, workout, eat, workout, spend time with mi familia, lovely time with mi amor and then I sleep.

Ed: I wake up, take a walk, eat, practice soccer, spend family time, sleep.

Mari: sleep, sleep again, dragged to breakfast by mom, eat, eat again, mess with magecraft, eat, sit with everyone else, scroll thru my phone for hours, sleep.

Quetz: *sigh* mija, you need to change your priorities.

Mari: mmmmm... No.

BB: bad habits there Mari. Next they'd like to know if your in contact with anyone from chaldea? Other then me!

Rex: here's a real quick list: Marie, Mash, Kiara, Penth, Astraea, Martha, Ishtar, Gorgon, Jalter, The twins, your kids BB, etc etc.

Quetz: too many to list...

BB: nice you haven't lost contact! Next! About that Wedding?

Rex: well... it was eventful to say the least. Not long after completing the china LB. Most of the servants were invited, and most of Quetz's family showed up.

Quetz: si, Martha officiated it for us. Most of my family were so nice at the time... too bad that hasn't lasted.

Rex: let's not mention that...

BB: it was such a nice wedding! You two were so "nervous" you had trouble with your vows! How adorable!

Mari: why the quotes?

BB: no reason... now we're at the home stretch! Good 'ol Ash has some for stuff that technically hasn't happened yet, but you should still be able to answer! What responsibilities will Rex take on when he joins the pantheon?

Quetz: ...well he'll be largely a guardian of life on earth. Authority over things like the jungle itself, volcanos, and even snow... for some reason.

Rex: well it still snows in mexico... occasionally.

Quetz: and we'll be sharing authority over Venus! I wanted to share it with mi amor!

BB: cute! Hmmm, not sure if you cananswer this one just yet? Adjusting to God hood?

Rex: well I got to try it out a bit. Summoning lava and snow is... interesting. But also... my mind felt... odd... but also clearer? Not sure how to put it...

BB: I'm sure when you get there you'll get it... took me a bit after servant fest. And how did the other divinities react?

BB: actually I have some recordings of that to answer, so play the clip!

A screen appears showing recordings of some servants, one at a time.

Ishtar: eh! She's turning you into a god!? ...I guess you've earned it master...

Eresh: what!? Can you do that?! ...guess I won't see you in Kur... then again I don't think you have any link to Kur anyways.

Kama: do you really think your cut out for it? I mean... if it's just for you two to be together then I guess it's fine.

Astraea: godhood is a very big responsibility master. Are you certain you're up to it? Saving humanity is also a big task but at least that has an end point. This is... eternal.

Qin: oh! So you have decided to go for immortality after all?! Tho not the same as my methods, it is still good to see you two will be happy together!

Scathach: immortality? I've strived for death for so long... to see you go for immortality... Hopefully you'll find happiness, where I couldn't...

The screen turns off.

BB: very interesting! Most seem hesitant of it all... I for one think it's cute! Imagine in a thousand years you guys have a double date with me and my dear stag beetle!

Rex: ...a thousand years...

Quetz: still having trouble processing it all?

Rex: yeah... maybe when I get there... it'll be easier.

BB: now for today's final one! A scenario! One of you two goes berserk! What does the other do to calm them down?

Rex: well that has happened before... usually a nice hug is more then good enough.

Quetz: si! I've almost destroyed a few servants a few times until mi amor caught me in a hug! I can't bring myself to harm him... so I stop!

BB: sounds too easy... but I've seen that before so... I'll let it slide.

BB: well that's all the time we have for now! Hopefully you all are satisfied by the answers! We'll be doing this again, seeya!

Screen cuts out, the show's over.

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G1 Climax final preview

It all comes down to this, the final show in the G1 Climax tour, headlined by the final match of the tournament. The winner of A Block will face the winner of B Block, and the winner will get a world title shot at Wrestle Kingdom 16 in January.

The show takes place Thursday at 5am Eastern time, streaming live with English and Japanese commentary. You can watch live or on-demand at NJPW World by paying 999 yen ($8.74 US) for the whole month of October. Or, if you'd rather get a full month's worth for your money, wait till November 1 to pay and you'll have plenty of time to revisit the whole damn tournament.

Per tradition, the card for this show is not revealed until a few hours beforehand. The gimmick is that they can't book the main event until the block winners have been decided, and they can't book the undercard until they know for sure which guys won't be going to the tournament final. Not that it makes much difference, since they usually just book a lot of eight-man tag team matches, because this is really a once match show...

Kota Ibushi vs. Kazuchika Okada - This is the final of the G1 Climax; there is no time limit and there must be a winner. Traditionally, the G1 winner receives a contract for an IWGP heavyweight title match in the main event of Wrestle Kingdom on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome. However, the IWGP heavyweight title has been replaced by the IWGP world heavyweight title, and Wrestle Kingdom is scheduled for January 4 & 5 in the Tokyo Dome and January 8 in Yokohama Stadium. Regardless, the winner of the contract will be expected to defend it--probably at Power Struggle on November 6. If Okada wins I expect him to be challenged by Tama Tonga; if Ibushi wins, he'll likely face either face Yujiro Takahashi or Zack Sabre Jr.

Ibushi reached the final in 2018, and he won it in 2019 and 2020. So it's his fourth trip to the big dance and his big chance to threepeat. He's looking to get back in the hunt for the world title after losing the belt to Will Ospreay on April 4, and being pulled from a July 25 title shot due to aspiration pneumonia. Okada has only been to the final twice, when he won in 2012 and 2014; he too has a chance to become a three-time winner. Aside from a losing effort on June 7, Okada hasn't had a top-level title match in nearly two years.

During the tournament, we saw a number of A Block wrestlers adopt a new counter to Ibushi's kamigoye knee strike--he holds you up by your wrists and knees you in the face, so if you can keep your arms crossed he can't do it effectively. In response, Ibushi has taken to doing a blindside version of the kamigoye, where he knees you in the back of your head, which looks way worse frankly. Meanwhile, Okada has stopped playing around--instead of looking for any excuse to try his money clip sleeperhold, he's more willing to bust out his rainmaker clothesline, which is super effective. Not that he's abandoned the money clip--he's actually developed a variation where he rolls you onto your belly and cranks your head back for added leverage.

These two are such big-time stars in New Japan that I was sure one of them would win the G1, but I wasn't sure both would be in the final because I wondered if they'd save the match for a bigger show. That we're getting it here and not in a stadium show is a special treat. That said, with Wrestle Kingdom spanning three stadium shows, I tend to think Okada and Ibushi will each get world title matches on that stage no matter what happens here. That could end up weakening the importance of the G1 Climax, but at least we get a big-ass match to make up for it.

It feels like picking Ibushi to win for the third year in a row is too easy, like he has to lose to avoid being predictable. The problem is, Okada winning is so predictable that I always expect him to win, because it saves time. So no matter what they do, somebody's bound to say "oh, this again." But I'd rather look on the bright side--we've got ourselves an irresistible force meeting an immovable object. Nevertheless, when the smoke clears I gotta stick with Okada. When Ibushi talks like he wants to become God, and I try to picture what a wrestling god would even look like, Okada is the dude I actually think of.

Shingo Takagi & SANADA & Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI vs. Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato - Takagi's team is Los Ingobernables de Japon, minus their leader Tetsuya Naito, who was injured at the start of the tour. This match may bring up the question of what LIJ will do for next month's World Tag League. I would've expected Sanada and Naito to enter as a team. Does Shingo now enter with Sanada, and potentially pursue the tag team title even as he prepares to defend the world title? Or do they both sit out WTL this year? I assume Tenzan and Kojima will be entering, mainly because I'm not sure New Japan can get any better teams to fly in.

As for the four juniors in this match, Hiromu, Bushi, Taguchi, and Wato are bound to be in the Best of the Super Jr. tournament, running concurrently with World Tag League. It'd be nice to see Wato actually make something of himself, but I doubt he will. And I'm pretty sure this match will reinforce that, with the others running circles around him.

The LIJ team should win, and really any of them could potentailly score the fall on any of the other team.

Hiroshi Tanahashi & Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma & Tiger Mask vs. KENTA & Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa & Chase Owens - This will likely advance the story that Owens scored a huge upset over Tanahashi in the G1, and is now in line to challenge Tana for the IWGP United States championship. I can't remember the last time I saw Makabe or Honma wrestle, and I hope this means they'll be teaming together in World Tag League. Tonga and Loa obviously have to be in there too. Tiger Mask is probably gearing up for BOSJ. No idea if Tana, Kenta, or Chase find partners for WTL; it's possible any or all of them could skip the tour to appear on a US show or something.

Feels like the Bullet Club side should get a win so Chase can gloat over Tanahashi ahead of their next one-on-one match.

Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI vs. EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi & SHO - Ishii's team holds the NEVER trios championship, but that title is not at stake in this match. Their faction, CHAOS, was shaken up a few months ago when Sho turned heel to join Bullet Club. That led to Sho feuding with his ex-partner YOH, but now he's gotta deal with some of the other guys he walked out on.

The other brewing issue here is the "House of Torture," a subgroup within Bullet Club consisting of Evil, Sho, Yujiro, and Evil's henchman Dick Togo. It's not clear if they want to break away from Bullet Club or what, but whatever they're up to can't be good. If they get a win here, they should be in line for a trios title shot, which might be a good way to keep them occupied for a few months.

Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan vs. Yuji Nagata & Toru Yano - Cobb and O-Khan represent the United Empire, which hasn't been very united lately since the rest of the faction hasn't been in Japan for a while. I assume these two will enter World Tag League as a unit, for lack of any alternatives. I'm not sure Nagata and Yano have ever had anything to do with one another before, but pandemic travel restrictions make strange bedfellows. It'd be funny if Yano and Nagata managed to win here and then became a regular odd couple in World Tag League, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Cobb and O-Khan need to regain momentum after coming up short in the G1, and this is the place to start.