Hear me out. I love all the ideas people have about Angel Dust and Alastor being able to bond over their shared interest of cooking.
However...
I raise you this scenario: instead of bonding, they go right into competing with one another. One of them being stuck up about the other person's cooking, and the other taking it like nails on a chalkboard. They start off with some backhanded quips before escalating aggressively into a Louisiana vs Italy cook-off. Beignets and pasta are flying everywhere, and the hotel's kitchen will never look or smell the same again... At some point, the Mamis and Nonnas are going to get dragged into this debacle, and people will need to start taking cover at that point because sh!t will go down. Tentacles and tommy guns are coming out and-- how dare you talk smack about my great grandmama's marinara sauce!!
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Studying some Vulcan lately, for fun and profit. It's driving me a little nuts because I've studied a lot of languages (French Latin Greek Spanish Old English Quenya (I'm only really competent in Latin though)) and made up my own languages and it is such an illogical language. Seriously half the verbs conjugate a little bit and some don't conjugate at all? And some of the pronouns are longer than the nouns? A nice graceful language like Latin can say "I said" in one word (dixī) but Vulcan can't do it without a whole pile of words (vesht tar-tor nash-veh).
I can get around this by saying it developed organically, of course, there are pre-surakian holdovers, there probably used to be different pronouns which were replaced by other things for respectful reasons,* different dialects melded.
*what really gets me is that "I" is "nash-veh," (this one), and why would you have two whole syllables to replace a one syllable name like "Spock"? But considering Mexican Spanish dropped its perfectly useful second person plural for "usted," from vuestra merced, your grace, I can't argue that this wouldn't happen in real life. It just makes it heckin annoying to say "I want my book" (Aitlu nash-veh dunap t'nash-veh).
Of course Doylistically the reason is that Vulcan was used in canon for some time before anyone actually made it up. It was just gibberish that later got analyzed and turned into a language.
But man, Klingon was much easier. I never studied it seriously but I do know a couple things and the only thing that's really hard about it is the consonants.
ANYWAY, given all that, you'd think I would lose interest but instead I'm thinking of writing a (very short) fic in Vulcan 🤣 Hey, there's no better way to learn than by doing!
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there's an essay jumbled up in my brain about dunmeshi's beginning and how clever and deceptive it is as a sleight-of-hand trick that distracts the audience from the depth and scope of the worldbuilding and foreshadowing that's being set up the entire time by dangling zany characters and wacky dishes and biology fun facts in front of us, and how that serves to catch invested viewers off guard when those elements come to the forefront, but also how it works against it with other viewers wanting "more" and not seeing it because the plot bait isn't laid out up front
how people getting frustrated with the characters "not taking things seriously" is mirrored and refuted in the confrontation between Laios and Shuro. how the characters' attitudes aren't just a result of shallow low-stakes "comedy rules" where nothing matters, but are an extension of their personalities (Laios's nonstandard expression of emotions being offputting even to people he knows) and the world and social environment (adventurers being desensitized to death and injury because resurrection magic is commonplace). the way the party refers to "saving Falin" instead of "retrieving Falin's corpse," indicating that they still see her with full personhood, and how that phrasing leads to some readers/viewers believing that Falin is alive in the dragon's stomach, conscious of being slowly digested while the party carelessly fucks around "wasting time." how the weird tonal dissonance makes sense in-universe and yet is deliberately challenged more and more the deeper the party goes
all the character building and pieces of lore slowly weaving together the shape of the larger world, laying the groundwork for the major themes that will surface later. so much is right there in the "low-stakes" early episodes if you know what you're looking for (or pass the perception checks).
it can be so satisfying to see new viewers/readers pick up on the clues even in the earliest "simple" episodes, or notice new things and make connections yourself....and it can also be frustrating to see people dismiss oddities and dissonance as shallow or bad writing because they don't expect a "cooking anime" to have depth like that. why try to question and understand and peel back the layers when you don't expect there to be any layers?
why can't laios take things seriously for once?
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Thalia stroked her lover's dark hair.
She knew it was the last night she would be able to see him, she had to return to her father. So in the safety of a dark mansion, she let her loved one sleep as she felt her heart break, leaving a fragment behind.
Although that fragment was recovered the moment she had her son in her arms, it had her nose and she could already notice how she frowned in the same way as Bruce when he concentrated.
Then she tried to separate from Damian, he deserved to live in a home where he felt loved every second. But she couldn't do it, she couldn't get away the moment the little Damian held her finger and it seemed like he didn't want to separate from her either. So she trained him to be strong, so that one day he would be stronger than her.
With her father's gaze behind her, she taught him the league's mission. She held him the first time someone took his life, letting him sleep next to her like he did when he was a baby.
Then Jason arrived (catatonic, there was nothing of that boy hiding behind Bruce's legs), so she loved him the only way she knew how. She taught him to be strong and allowed him to be with Damian, when Thalia couldn't keep her son safe she knew Jason would.
Then she heard her father say that Jason wasn't productive, something hurt inside her chest. Thalia knew the well was more counterproductive, but it was his only option.
Or so she repeated to himself as he watched Jason reemerge, a boy he considered his son with a white streak and green eyes connecting him to something heavier than blood.
The boy left, she knew that the fire of revenge was something hard to put out. Again she felt like that fragment broke.
Then something dangerous happened in the league (it had never been good for Damian, but that were the only place she could keep him safe), so she took her pain and finally let her son go. It wasn't like that time he let go of Bruce, letting go of Damian was letting go of a fragment of her soul.
Then she gave him a katana and a mission, he would grow up safe and she would take care of those who endangered her son.
Things had calmed down when she was able to see him again.
She had been kept informed of his progress but watched the boy drink hot chocolate, with almond milk. Having Titus on his leg, while Jason casually read next to him. Such a casual and soft image.
One of her shadows approached her and gave her a piece of paper. When it unfolded, she saw a drawing of her. Thalia knew Damian's capabilities, but seeing how he had drawn every detail of her face. Even the small freckle on the side of her eye.
For once Thalia heart beat calmly, she knew her son would be safe.
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There's this tweet that goes, don't correct my french I don't respect that language, and that's Claudia
With all the other languages she tries really hard to be good but french ?? Her accent is like that because she doesn't care for anything french lol
She grew up around Lestat and would have heard his accent and while the French that exists in New Orleans is different, she would have grown up around that. Out of all the languages she comes across in Europe, her french accent should come more easily than the others. She had less ground to cover. She clearly has a talent for learning
" your french is ugly" is such a funny line because Claudia is 100% not trying and doesn't care. They haven't been in France for long but she wasn't starting from zero unlike the other languages
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