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[thecutiecollective]

Iriya Take ( 武 イリヤ), a sweet cutie!

IG: Take_Iriya

[kaetheii]

「JJK 265: YUUJI & THE MORNING GLORY」

[Beware of SPOILERS]

So, I’m sure that everyone who read chapter 265 has noticed Yuuji mistaking hydrangea for morning glory. And I feel like it’s just more than a ‘subtle detail’, especially when the crayfish panels next to this also symbolized something. Not saying this is canon or anything, but I'm going to analyze the connection between Yuuji & the Morning Glory.

(This is gonna be interesting, I assure you ;)

THE MORNING GLORY

Morning Glory, or 朝顔 [Asagao] is an extremely popular flower in Japan. Although it is believed that they were introduced to Japan in the Heian period (794 - 1185), it was particularly loved in the Edo period (1603 - 1867). Books were even illustrated about it back then. 朝顔三十六花撰 (Asagao Sanju Rokka Sen) is a famous book that dates back to 1854, which displays beautiful illustrations of the Morning Glory.

But what does it symbolize, you ask? Well, in Japan, the Morning Glory is known for its momentary beauty, with the early bloom and decline of the flower. It blooms fresh in the morning, however, its petals close at noon. It is also associated with passionate love:

Even today, the Japanese morning glory is seen as a symbol of strong, unyielding love, making it a beloved choice in romantic gestures. Tomoko Kamishima, A Passion for Morning Glories, 2019

The Morning Glory also symbolizes the hot summer in Japan, with the Morning Glory Iriya Market Festival taking the lead place every year from July 6-8.

With all these details in mind, how does it connect with Yuuji?

THE CONNECTION

Well, the momentary blossom of the flower can represent the fleeting happiness in Yuuji’s life.

Yuuji’s lifetime wasn’t the best, but before Sukuna trampled on his everything, he was a fresh boy who was carefree and enjoyed life in his own way. The small period between him enrolling in Jujutsu High and Shibuya Arc rose as a happy experience for him with his newly made friends.

Also, remember in this chapter that he was recalling little happy moments in his childhood before Sukuna interrupted him.

Moreover, he lost every loved one he made through Jujutsu High. Nanami exploded, Kugisaki’s head blew up, Gojo split in half, Choso vanished into particles. The only one left who’s actually close to Yuuji is Fushiguro. But Sukuna took Fushiguro too. And he’s about to kill him as well, meaning that the last strand of Yuuji’s momentary happiness is about to disappear.

It could also mean that Yuuji’s life is slowly coming to an end, with the petals of his lifeline slowly closing, despite being so young and fresh.

In this chapter, Yuuji makes a bargain to Sukuna that if Sukuna let go of Megumi, he’ll let Sukuna live inside him with Yuuji as the host. This is quite a good solution on its own. However, when you remember their first plan back in the beginning of Jujutsu Kaisen, it becomes a huge possibility that Yuuji will kill himself along with Sukuna to ensure everyone’s safety this time.

Even if Yuuji is convinced to stay alive, not a lot of people would be in his favor because he’s holding in the very person that was about to kill all of them, so he’ll probably get executed in one way or the other.

For now I’m here, but can one trust the future? No, not in a world that teaches us its ways with the morning glory

ari totemo tanomu beki ka wa yo no naka o shirasuru mono wa asagao no hana Izumi Shikibu

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 7.6

Holidays

All-Star Game Anniversary (Baseball)

Aphelion Day 2023 (Earth farthest from the Sun)

Arbor Day (Chile)

Battle of Frederica Day (Denmark)

Buy Yourself A Toy You Always Wanted As A Child Day

Capital City Day (Kazakhstan)

Constitution Day (Cayman Islands)

Day of the Capital (Kazakhstan)

Eino Leino Day (Finland)

Ettelbruck Remembrance Day (Luxembourg)

Formal 706 Day

Festival of San Fermín begins (Pamplona, Spain) [thru 7.14]

Fill an Aquarium Day

Great American Wicnic

Hairy Vetchling Day (French Republic

International Compassion Day

International Day of the Stolen Kiss

International Kissing Day (a.k.a. World Kissing Day)

Iriya no Asagao-ichi (Morning Glory Flower Festival; Japan)

Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic)

King Mindaugas Day (Lithuania)

MHIP Day (Mizoram, India)

Name That Tune Day

National Air Traffic Control Day

National Daniel Day

National Day (Comoros)

National Wedgie Day

Old Albums Are Frisbees Day

San Fermin (Spain)

706 Day

Take Your Webmaster To Lunch Day

Teachers’ Day (Peru)

Time of Music begins (Finland)

Treat Your Webmaster or Webmistress Day

Umbrella Cover Day

Urs Shah-I-Hamdan Sahib (Jammu, Kashmir; India)

Valstybės Diena (a.k.a. Statehood Day; Lithuania)

Virtually Hug a Virtual Assistant Day

World Tibet Day

World Zoonoses Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Malted Milk Day

National Corn Dog Day

National Fried Chicken Day

National Hand Roll Day

National Pickle Festival

Sliced Bread Day

Independence & Related Days

Capital City Day (Kazakhstan)

Comoros (from France, 1975)

Jockromasa (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Lithuania (Statehood Day)

Malawi (from UK, 1964)

Ünie (a.k.a. Ünieazwati; Declared; 2002) [unrecognized]

Varcetia (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

Muharram (Islamic New Year) [begins after Maghrib at Sundown]

1st Saturday in July

Buxton Wells Dressing begins (Derbyshire, England) [1st Saturday, ends 10th day]

Dnieper Day (Belarus, Russia, Ukraine) [1st Saturday]

Fiesta de San Fermin begins (Pamplona, Spain) [1st Saturday; until 14th]

Friendship Day (Peru) [1st Saturday]

Hop A Park Day [1st Saturday]

International Cherry Pit Spitting Day [1st Saturday]

International Day of Cooperatives (UN) [1st Saturday]

International Free Hugs Day [1st Saturday]

National Corn Hole Day [1st Saturday]

National Meadows Day (UK) [1st Saturday]

National Play Outside Day [1st Saturday of Every Month]

National Virginia Diverse Business Networking First Saturday (Virginia) [1st Saturday]

Satyr's Day (Silenus, Greek God of Beer Buddies and Drinking Companions) [1st Saturday of Each Month]

St. Pauls Carnival (Bristol, UK) [1st Saturday]

Wayne Chicken Day [1st Saturday]

World Firefly Day [1st Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 6 (1st Week of July)

Ivan Kupala Night (Belarus, Russia, Ukraine) [thru 7.7]

Festivals Beginning July 6, 2024

Bristol Renaissance Faire (Kenosha, Wisconsin) [thru 9.2]

Great Lakes Medieval Faire and Marketplace (Rock Creek, Ohio) [thru 8.11]

Sandpoint Beerfest (Sandpoint, Idaho)

San Fermin Festival (Pamplona, Spain) [thru 7.14]

Sterling Renaissance Festival (Sterling, New York) [thru 8.18]

Taiwan International Balloon Festival (Luye, Taiwan) [thru 8.19]

Taste of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) [thru 7.7]

Truckfest (Malvern, United Kingdom) [thru 7.7]

Wine in the Pines (Pine Mountain Club, California)

Feast Days

Alexander III (Positivist; Saint)

Arthur C. Clarke Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Bessie Head (Shamanism)

Day of the Horned Goddesses (Deer Mother, Europa, Hera, Io, Ishtar, Isis, Juno, Luna, Nephthys, Pasiphae, Selene; Everyday Wicca)

Dog-Lion Beast (Muppetism)

Dominica (Christian; Martyr & Virgin)

Festival of Buddha's Eyetooth (Sri Lanka)

Frida Kahlo (Artology)

Goar (Christian; Saint)

Godelieve of Ghistelle (Christian; Saint)

John Byrne (Artology)

José María Velasco Gómez (Artology)

Juan O'Gorman (Artology)

Julian (Christian; Saint)

Ludi Apollinares begins (Roman games honoring Apollo)

Macaroni Day (Pastafarian)

Marc Chagall (Artology)

Maria Goretti (Christian; Saint)

Millennial Fairy Olympics (Writerism)

Modwenna (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Moninna of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Old Midsummer Day (Ancient England)

Palladius, Apostle of the Scots (Christian; Saint)

Pelagius (Celtic Book of Days)

Rick Sternbach (Artology)

Romulus of Fiesole (Christian; Saint)

Sexburgh (Christian; Saint)

Sisoes (Christian; Saint)

Solstitium V (Pagan)

St. John’s Wort Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Taxi Drive McGillicuddy (Muppetism)

Tzom Tammuz (Commemorating Braching of the Walls of Jerusalem before Destruction of the 2nd Temple; Judaism) [17 Tammuz]

Will James (Artology)

Islamic Lunar Holidays

Muharram (Islamic New Year) [begins after Maghrib at Sundown]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Ant-Man and the Wasp (Film; 2018)

Assault and Flattery (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1956)

The B-52s, by The B-52s (Album; 1979)

Blue Moon of Kentucky, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1954)

Butterflies Are Free (Film; 1972)

Cave Man (Ub Iwerks MGM Cartoon; 1934)

Die Hard 2 (Film; 1990)

Forrest Gump (Film; 1994)

A Hard Day’s Night (Beatles UK Film; 1964)

Higher and Higher, by Jackie Wilson (Song; 1965)

I'm OK - You're OK, by Thomas A. Harris (Self-Help Book; 1967)

Inner World, by The Dalai Lama (Album; 2020)

Invincible, by Pat Benatar (Song; 1985)

Jetsons: The Movie (Animated Film; 1990)

Jumping’ with Symphony Sid, recorded by Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra (Song; 1949)

Keep Yourself Alive, by Queen (Song; 1973)

The Naughty Nineties (Abbott & Costello Film; 1945)

Paradise Hawaiian Style (Elvis Presley Film; 1966)

A Prairie Home Companion (Radio Series; 1974)

Precious Time, by Pat Benatar (Album; 1981)

Queen, by Queen (Album; 1973)

Slip Us Some Redskin (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1951)

Sorry to Bother You (Film; 2018)

That’s All Right, Mama, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1954)

What’s Opera, Doc? (WB MM Cartoon; 1957)

Who’s On First, by Abbott and Costello (Filmed Skit; 1945)

Woodman, Spare That Tree (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1942)

You Oughta Know, by Alan’s Morisette (Song; 1995)

Today’s Name Days

Goar, Isaias, Marietta (Austria)

Agata, Marija, Suzana (Croatia)

Jan Hus (Czech Republic)

Dion (Denmark)

Sulev, Sulo (Estonia)

Esa, Esaias (Finland)

Marietta, Mariette, Nolwen (France)

Goar, Isaias, Marietta (Germany)

Lykios, Satryos (Greece)

Csaba (Hungary)

Antonio, Domenica, Maria, Romola (Italy)

Andzs, Anrijs, Arkādijs, Druvvaldis (Latvia)

Domė, Dominyka, Ginvilė, Nervydas (Lithuania)

Torgrim, Torgunn (Norway)

Agrypina, Chociebor, Dominik, Dominika, Goar, Gotard, Lucja, Łucja, Niegosław (Poland)

Sisoe (România)

Patrícia, Patrik (Slovakia)

Goretti, Isaías, María (Spain)

Esaias, Jessika (Sweden)

Felix (Ukraine)

Godiva, Isaiah, Isaias, Isiah, Jamaal, Jamal, Jamel, Jamil, Pallas, Shea, Shyanne (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 188 of 2024; 178 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 27 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 28 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 1 (Xin-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 30 Sivan 5784

Islamic: 29 Dhu al-Hijjah 1445

J Cal: 8 Red; Oneday [8 of 30]

Julian: 23 June 2024

Moon: 1%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 19 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Alexander III]

Runic Half Month: Feoh (Wealth) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 17 of 94)

Week: 1st Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 16 of 31)

Calendar Changes

荷月 [Héyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 6 of 12] (Lotus Month) [Earthly Branch: Goat Month] (Liùyuè; Sixth Month)

[hawksongwrites]

Writer Game

Rules: post the first sentence of your last ten fics. If you haven't written ten fics, share as many first sentences as you have.

Tagged by @mirrordaltokki

I don't think I can tag anyone who hasn't already done this... Also, I apologize in advance for not knowing better ways to do links.

A small disclaimer that I'm very much a “multi chapter” writer so I'm going to take first lines from first chapters, not first lines from most recent chapters (with one exception). Also, plenty of my work is NSFW, so if you choose to read the fics in full mind the tags please!

Light Rampant: Latest in a long running series (the sixth volume to be exact); this part is retelling some of Shadowbringers as Berylla goes through it.

The Calling was different this time.

A True Gift: An exchange fic from this past December; Theodis attends the Leveilleur Starlight party. Quite wholesome actually.

Starlight Season had come once again – the first one since their journey to the edge of the universe.

Faire Play Fireworks: A fic made of mostly unrelated porn drabbles, VERY NSFW. I'm breaking my pattern here, and showing the first line of the most recent chapter.

“Berylla – what are you doing here?” Alphinaud blinked at me, lowering the book her had been looking at. “Not that I mind – quite the opposite!”

Wanderings (FFXIV Write 2022): As is the nature of FFXIV Write, a fic of ficlets. Some were NSFW.

The alley was well lit, and therefore not as dirty as many others in the city.

Restoration: A commissioned piece; Iriya sits with Estinien after the Final Steps of Fate battle.

The infirmary within the Congregation of the Knights Most Heavenly was full to overflowing; every large ward-room was packed with cots, and even some of the large indoor practice-grounds in the neighboring Tribunal building had been pressed into service to accommodate the hundreds of wounded after the battle against the Horde.

Shadowed Heart: volume 5 in the long series; concluding Stormblood starting halfway through the Omega raids, so the first scene picks up there. Not as much NSFW as some of my work...

I stood on the deck of the Excelsior with my arms crossed, while Cid stood at the helm.

Shine Brighter: A commissioned piece; Iriya and Estinien admit to their feelings for each other.

Iriya stood alone on the edge of the world, and looked out across endless stars.

The Big Questions: Nightbird has to talk to Estinien. Not NSFW but there's discussion of pregnancy.

“Are you packed?”

“Estinien, I've been packed. I was waiting for you...to...” Nightbird's mouth went dry as she turned to look at the dragoon. “Why are you half naked?”

Voidsent Inflorescence: Fair warning that this one's all-around WEIRD. Written almost in a fever dream, not NSFW just kind of strange, not even really horror I guess?

Under the elderberry clouds the trees grow in the breathless heat.

Not Again! (WoW/FFXIV crossover): This has some NSFW in later chapters but mostly just a halfway silly crossover “What if Alphinaud got dumped into Azeroth, how would that play out?”

“Khadgar, are you in here – oh good, there you are.”

[keeznutzx]

My Yuugen Romantica HC's That No One Asked for!! :)

Hifumi :

- watches whatev he want (hecc even he doesn't care abt what genre of anime he watched lmao, depends on MC if they want to watch it together).

- listens to RnB musics, or nostalgic ones. Or whatev as long as it had a beat to it.

- when he first saw the MC, he actually dosen't understand how love worked. But after hanawo explained EVERYTHING, he starts to understand and well...he is him now, lol.

- he always watches vine comp with utashiro. They did the 'i can't forget you' vine and hanawo laughs his butt off.

- Probs love to take selfies (from his official pic where he do the peace ✌🏻 sign). In every chara's phone, you will see pics of them with Hifumi on it/or them taking a selfie with Hifumi.

- He had a sweet appetite, like- not only crepes. He probs likes cakes, pudding, candy. Those things.

- Saves everyones phone numbers w/ his own nicknames

Ex. : Utashiro is "prankster bff" Zakuro is "tsundere" or Hanawo is "Hanamom".

- Problem Child #2 in the Youkai Gang

Utashiro :

- he loves pranks because he is easily bored, and if he doesn't do it. Then he sleeps.

- He is the type of people who dosen't really ate much because they think 'it's enough' so he always left a lot of food and it's always hifumi who ate the leftovers.

- nightmares are delicacy for him, if the MC had nightmares. He'll ready to maul those like a lion catching the prey.

- music-wise, he loves slowed songs, literally opposite of hifumi who likes pop-upbeat musics. Orchesterals and calm Anisongs (like 'Your Lie in April's Opening) would be the thing that he listens to in spotify.

- he actually would be a akatsuki stan (from ensemble stars) he would follow their dance moves, and will straight up sing the songs out loud.

He would be biased towards keito, because he is very cool in his opinion

- he eats whatever, for him, human food are good as dreams that he has ate.

- He actually had a different tactic for pranking the MC. But he changed it anyway after hanawo explained why he shouldn't played pranks too much on a Girl like MC.

- Problem Child #1 in the Yokai Gang because of his pranks.

Zakuro :

- he thought that humans are pathethic creatures at first because of how he thinks living immortality is better than living mortality.

- he is easily embarassed if there is something flirtious. This includes seduction ofc.

- he will probably blasts My Chemical Romance songs secretly because he is been through a lot of things that made his mentality go low.

- or maybe like : maneskin, cigarettes after sex, metallica, or maybe some hollywood undead since he be vibin to the rock vibe that they have.

- somewhere in the room : TEENAGERS SCARED THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ME!.

- hates his tail because it's kind of blocking his way whenever he walks. And it disturbs his sleeps too.

- rather calm while eating. But still, if you bothered him, he'll go mad lol.

- he likes learning about chemicals. And he is also interested on theories too.

Iriya :

- He likes having a chill time beside a pond/lake. It's just the sound of the waters that kept him calm.

- he loves to pray on people and paralyze them. He always see the paralyzed people being his succeeds.

- hifumi saved his number as "sadist paralyzer"

- but you know, that sadistic personality is tiresome for him. He just want to relax, okay?

- really likes drinks A LOT : like, Soda, Cocktails, Sparkling water? Yeah this dude is quite a beverage lover. And he is a cola person, so yeah.

- ever got dragged by toneri to watch a H genre Anime. (And he dosen't know why tf he was dragged)

- Really likes ✨seductive✨ songs. Like you know "Careless Whisper" or any song with Sax included? That is his thing.

- he even used that song for an idea to tease zakuro lol.

- Make sure your house had an air conditioner since he hates heat.

Merry :

- likes softcore and elegant aesthethics. Esspecially if it has a beige colour because it's his vibe.

- he creates the group chat and named it "Yokai Gang".

- he likes physical touch eventhough he is shy. He is a huge cuddlebug to MC.

- he is rather shy about sensual things, which is why him and toneri's interactions are wacky as hecc.

- he'd use some emojis like : 😉, 🤗, 🥰, 😳, 😅 based on his reactons.

- music-wise, he listens to idol songs. Like Perfume, Poppin' Party, Happy Around!. Just these because he founds out about idol franchises in accident.

- cue dancing with toneri until toneri changes the song into a flirty song.

- "Toneri, why do you changed the song?" Merry Says, "Well because i'm not a huge idol fan so i decided to changed it!" Toneri said w/ a grin.

- he is always seen buying hamburger skewers in festivals.

- he does like woman's curves in the back. But he hates it when her undergarment would shown.

Arahagi :

- likes kittens so much, would even hold it in his hands and nuzzle the kitten.

- probably had tiktok and twt. He be like . "hey everyone, it's arahagi and it's just another day that toneri and zakuro argued".

- would painted his nails ✨beautifully✨.

- listens to material gworl. Like srsly, i bet he would be memeing about it to others.

- listens to cupcakke for fun and memes.

- feisty shortie.

- gets crazy if he saw a ball. Or a wool.

- loves thicc thighs, for him, it's a good lap for a pillow.

- hates water because he is a cat himself.

Toneri :

- does anything to make the MC happy.

- he is dependent on things that the MC wants. Sensuality? He'll do it, Romantic? He'll do it.

- Watches H Animes and Animes w/ Fanservice. he is really into busty girls so much that he actually would dream of having it with MC.

- Listens to Dirty Musics. Like any music that is sussy, that's his alley.

- Would watch AnimeFesta bullcrap. (If you know 'sweet punishment' you'll know what i am talking about rn) and would even drag someone to watch it (either MC because he thought it was a good idea liking someone like that, Iriya because of him being 'adult-like', and lastly hifumi because he doesn't care lol).

- because of this, hanawo lecture him so much that it was TOTALLY WRONG to love someone like that way.

- Him and Zakuro often argues a lot on situations/disscussions about sensual shit.

- would join tiktok trends with arahagi. And most of it are pretty good.

- He dislikes all vegetables in general.

- he is the one who recommended Holywood Undead to Zakuro. He probably listened to 'Everywhere i Go' many times.

Hanawo :

- Sassy Boy Material.

- The Mom of the Group. Even Hifumi calls him "Hanamom".

- Would do tiktok trends with arahagi. Mostly about beauty or cosmetics though.

- he would vibe along with toneri. Like srsly, he doesn't mind the song being sussy at all at least it's a bop.

- also listens to cupcakke for meme shit.

- the one who is pretty experienced when it comes to relationship. He would gave dating tips to others so they could love MC in the Correct Way.

- he would even search it in the internet for that lol.

- a clean freak. If there's anything dirty, he would probs call others to help him cleaning smth (Reference to one of his line stickers).

- Listens to idol hell songs like merry, but he likes western artists too. He loves Sam Smith, Katy Perry, or any other artist/rappers with Bop-y songs.

- "You've been falling in love, oh oh oh oh. CALIFORNIA GIRLS WERE UNFORGETTABLE DAISY DUKES BIKINIS ON TOP SUN KISS SKIN SO HOT WILL MELT YOUR POPSICLE-"

- others will joined the callifornia girls dance meme. Especially Hifumi, Utashiro, or Toneri.

- he will go like "m'lady" and straight up throws rose petals dramatically for his entrance. And has done it when MC came into his place.

[nowhere-pics]

To cut down on travel cost, I looked for the cheapest place I could stay for a week. I ended up in a slightly old capsule hotel at Asakusa, near Iriya station.

It was a rather chilly December morning, the night after I arrived at the city. I woke up and walked out to the fire-escape to take a good look at the streets. Then I came across this scene, high school students presumably having a PE lesson.

I feel peaceful, seeing those students probably having the 20th PE lesson in this year, and the various sounds brought to me by the wind. Distant sound of car engines, siren, the collective murmur of the city.

I suppose only a visitor visiting a foreign land could romanticise something as mundane as this. Or perhaps it's Tokyo, the city always has a special place in my heart.

December 2022 (Tokyo, Japan, Nikon F2, Kodak E100)

[brookston]

Holidays 7.6

Holidays

All-Star Game Anniversary (Baseball)

Aphelion Day 2023 (Earth farthest from the Sun)

Buy Yourself A Toy You Always Wanted As A Child Day

Capital City Day (Kazakhstan)

Constitution Day (Cayman Islands)

Day of the Capital (Kazakhstan)

Eino Leino Day (Finland)

Ettelbruck Remembrance Day (Luxembourg)

Festival of San Fermín begins (Pamplona, Spain) [thru 7.14]

Fill an Aquarium Day

Great American Wicnic

Hairy Vetchling Day (French Republic

International Compassion Day

International Day of the Stolen Kiss

International Kissing Day (a.k.a. World Kissing Day)

Iriya no Asagao-ichi (Morning Glory Flower Festival; Japan)

Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic)

King Mindaugas Day (Lithuania)

Kupala Night (a.k.a. Ivan Kupala Day or Kupalle; Belarus, Russia, Ukraine)

MHIP Day (Mizoram, India)

Name That Tune Day

National Air Traffic Control Day

National Daniel Day

National Wedgie Day

Old Albums Are Frisbees Day

San Fermin (Spain)

Take Your Webmaster To Lunch Day

Teachers’ Day (Peru)

Time of Music begins (Finland)

Treat Your Webmaster or Webmistress Day

Umbrella Cover Day

Urs Shah-I-Hamdan Sahib (Jammu, Kashmir; India)

Valstybės Diena (a.k.a. Statehood Day; Lithuania)

Virtually Hug a Virtual Assistant Day

World Tibet Day

World Zoonoses Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Malted Milk Day

National Fried Chicken Day

National Hand Roll Day

National Pickle Festival

Sliced Bread Day

1st Thursday in July

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

Ommegang Pageant ends (Belgium) [1st Thursday]

Thirsty Thursday [1st Thursday]

Independence Days

Comoros (from France, 1975)

Jockromasa (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Lithuania (Statehood Day)

Malawi (from UK, 1964)

Ünie (a.k.a. Ünieazwati; Declared; 2002) [unrecognized]

Varcetia (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Alexander III (Positivist; Saint)

Arthur C. Clarke Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Dog-Lion Beast (Muppetism)

Festival of Buddha's Eyetooth (Sri Lanka)

Frida Kahlo (Artology)

Goar (Christian; Saint)

Godelieve of Ghistelle (Christian; Saint)

Julian (Christian; Saint)

Ludi Apollinares begins (Roman games honoring Apollo)

Macaroni Day (Pastafarian)

Maria Goretti (Christian; Saint)

Moninna of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Palladius, Apostle of the Scots (Christian; Saint)

Romulus of Fiesole (Christian; Saint)

Sexburgh (Christian; Saint)

Solstitium V (Pagan)

Taxi Drive McGillicuddy (Muppetism)

Tzom Tammuz (Commemorating Braching of the Walls of Jerusalem before Destruction of the 2nd Temple; Judaism) [17 Tammuz]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

Ant-Man and the Wasp (Film; 2018)

The B-52s, by The B-52s (Album; 1979)

Butterflies Are Free (Film; 1972)

Die Hard 2 (Film; 1990)

Forrest Gump (Film; 1994)

A Hard Day’s Night (Beatles UK Film; 1964)

Higher and Higher, by Jackie Wilson (Song; 1965)

Inner World, by The Dalai Lama (Album; 2020)

Invincible, by Pat Benatar (Song; 1985)

Keep Yourself Alive, by Queen (Song; 1973)

The Naughty Nineties (Abbott & Costello Film; 1945)

Paradise Hawaiian Style (Elvis Presley Film; 1966)

A Prairie Home Companion (Radio Series; 1974)

Precious Time, by Pat Benatar (Album; 1981)

Queen, by Queen (Album; 1973)

Sorry to Bother You (Film; 2018)

What’s Opera, Doc? (WB MM Cartoon; 1957)

Who’s On First, by Abbott and Costello (Filmed Skit; 1945)

You Oughta Know, by Alan’s Morisette (Song; 1995)

Today’s Name Days

Goar, Isaias, Marietta (Austria)

Agata, Marija, Suzana (Croatia)

Jan Hus (Czech Republic)

Dion (Denmark)

Sulev, Sulo (Estonia)

Esa, Esaias (Finland)

Marietta, Mariette, Nolwen (France)

Goar, Isaias, Marietta (Germany)

Lykios, Satryos (Greece)

Csaba (Hungary)

Antonio, Domenica, Maria, Romola (Italy)

Andzs, Anrijs, Arkādijs, Druvvaldis (Latvia)

Domė, Dominyka, Ginvilė, Nervydas (Lithuania)

Torgrim, Torgunn (Norway)

Agrypina, Chociebor, Dominik, Dominika, Goar, Gotard, Lucja, Łucja, Niegosław (Poland)

Sisoe (România)

Patrícia, Patrik (Slovakia)

Goretti, Isaías, María (Spain)

Esaias, Jessika (Sweden)

Felix (Ukraine)

Godiva, Isaiah, Isaias, Isiah, Jamaal, Jamal, Jamel, Jamil, Pallas, Shea, Shyanne (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 187 of 2024; 178 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 27 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 19 (Yi-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 17 Tammuz 5783

Islamic: 17 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444

J Cal: 7 Lux; Sevenday [7 of 30]

Julian: 23 June 2023

Moon: 85%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 19 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Alexander III]

Runic Half Month: Feoh (Wealth) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 16 of 94)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 16 of 31)

[veworgrand]

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Julian then arrives, telling Shirou that he had been looking for Miyu for the past five years in order to finish the ritual he had started. Feeling guilt for his past actions, he takes her to the ruins of her original family's home where he admits that he and Kiritsugu originally took her in to exploit her powers, not save her. Shirou decides it is time to let Miyu experience the world outside their home, with Miyu saying she wants to see the ocean. During this, Miyu's powers have disappeared with age as Kiritsugu had originally feared.

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Regardless, Shirou begins to bond with Miyu and Kiritsugu passes away before he can learn how to use Miyu's powers.įive years later, Shirou is living as a regular high school student with Miyu as his adopted younger sister and attends school with his classmates Julian and Sakura. Shirou and Kiritsugu take Miyu back to their home, where Kiritsugu makes it clear to Shirou that they should only consider her a tool and not a human. Kiritsugu declares that he will use her power to save humanity. Kiritsugu explains that Miyu has the power to grant wishes unconditionally, and that the storm was most likely caused when she was inadvertently exposed to humans thoughts and desires. They enter the ruins of the city where they find and rescue Miyu, the child they are looking for. However, they arrive to find the city engulfed in a massive black vortex which is banished by a mysterious light. Critical reception to the film has been positive for its handling of an alternate take of Shirou and his battles in the Grail War.Ī young Shirou Emiya and his adoptive father Kiritsugu travel to Fuyuki city in order to investigate the Sakatsuki family, who are rumored to be harboring a child with powerful magic abilities. Sentai Filmworks released the film's Blu-ray in English regions during July 2020. The film grossed $1,118,410 in Japan while the home media releases were also one of the best selling Japanese DVDs and Blu-rays by 2018. Singer ChouCho performed two theme songs that are played in the film's ending primarily centered around Shirou's actions.

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Shin Oonuma and Silver Link returned from the anime series to direct and produce the film, respectively. The film was first announced on Septemwhen the finale of the anime's fourth season, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 3rei aired. The plot follows a teenager named Shirou Emiya who becomes involved in the Fifth Holy Grail War to protect his foster sister, Miyu Satsuki, from being used as a sacrifice by the Ainsworth clan. The film stars multiple voice actors including Noriaki Sugiyama, Kaori Nazuka, Rikiya Koyama, Natsuki Hanae and Noriko Shitaya for the main characters. Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Vow in the Snow ( Japanese: 劇場版Fate/kaleid liner プリズマ☆イリヤ 雪下の誓い, Hepburn: Gekijō-ban Fate/kaleid liner Purizuma ☆ Iriya Sekka no Chikai) (also known as Oath Under Snow) is a Japanese animated fantasy film prequel of the manga Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya by Hiroshi Hiroyama, released on August 26, 2017.

[thecutiecollective]

Iriya Take ( 武 イリヤ)

IG: Take_Iriya

[faintwalker]

✧✦✧  COMBAT ✧✦✧ IDIOT  ✧✦✧

[0rainy0muses0-moved]

Relationship Tag Drop

    { These are uhhhhhhhhhhh...severely overdue. }

Hawks

{☄} It comes at last; from ages past. The madness below; beyond all that we know ~ dcay {☄}

{☄} Unless we're riding side by side; don't wanna depend on no-one else. I'd rather rescue myself ~ fatgumtm {☄}

{☄} Sometimes I have dreams. I picture myself flying; above the clouds; high in the sky ~ curiouskinetic {☄}

Rui

{🕸} What do you want from me? Why don't you run from me? ~ nezukoo {🕸}

{🕸} You're dripping like a saturated sunrise. You're spilling like an overflowing sink ~ fiibbing {🕸}

{🕸} Bury the hatchet or bury your friend right now ~ tenthousandmusesmaybemore (Iriya) {🕸}

{🕸} But now take me home. Take me home where I belong ~ kleinemeine {🕸}

{🕸} You took my heart. Deceived me right from the start. You showed me dreams. I wished they would turn into real ~ ensangvines {🕸}

{🕸} Copycat tryna cop my manner. Watch your back when you can't watch mine ~ pasttorn (Kyogai) {🕸}

Sabito

{♆} You found me. When no one else was lookin' How did you know just where I would be? ~ aquxtic-beast (Giyū) {♆}

{♆} When you commit to a path. I guess you were on your own ~ huboaris {♆}

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 7.6

Holidays

All-Star Game Anniversary (Baseball)

Aphelion Day 2023 (Earth farthest from the Sun)

Buy Yourself A Toy You Always Wanted As A Child Day

Capital City Day (Kazakhstan)

Constitution Day (Cayman Islands)

Day of the Capital (Kazakhstan)

Eino Leino Day (Finland)

Ettelbruck Remembrance Day (Luxembourg)

Festival of San Fermín begins (Pamplona, Spain) [thru 7.14]

Fill an Aquarium Day

Great American Wicnic

Hairy Vetchling Day (French Republic

International Compassion Day

International Day of the Stolen Kiss

International Kissing Day (a.k.a. World Kissing Day)

Iriya no Asagao-ichi (Morning Glory Flower Festival; Japan)

Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic)

King Mindaugas Day (Lithuania)

Kupala Night (a.k.a. Ivan Kupala Day or Kupalle; Belarus, Russia, Ukraine)

MHIP Day (Mizoram, India)

Name That Tune Day

National Air Traffic Control Day

National Daniel Day

National Wedgie Day

Old Albums Are Frisbees Day

San Fermin (Spain)

Take Your Webmaster To Lunch Day

Teachers’ Day (Peru)

Time of Music begins (Finland)

Treat Your Webmaster or Webmistress Day

Umbrella Cover Day

Urs Shah-I-Hamdan Sahib (Jammu, Kashmir; India)

Valstybės Diena (a.k.a. Statehood Day; Lithuania)

Virtually Hug a Virtual Assistant Day

World Tibet Day

World Zoonoses Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Malted Milk Day

National Fried Chicken Day

National Hand Roll Day

National Pickle Festival

Sliced Bread Day

1st Thursday in July

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

Ommegang Pageant ends (Belgium) [1st Thursday]

Thirsty Thursday [1st Thursday]

Independence Days

Comoros (from France, 1975)

Jockromasa (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Lithuania (Statehood Day)

Malawi (from UK, 1964)

Ünie (a.k.a. Ünieazwati; Declared; 2002) [unrecognized]

Varcetia (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Alexander III (Positivist; Saint)

Arthur C. Clarke Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Dog-Lion Beast (Muppetism)

Festival of Buddha's Eyetooth (Sri Lanka)

Frida Kahlo (Artology)

Goar (Christian; Saint)

Godelieve of Ghistelle (Christian; Saint)

Julian (Christian; Saint)

Ludi Apollinares begins (Roman games honoring Apollo)

Macaroni Day (Pastafarian)

Maria Goretti (Christian; Saint)

Moninna of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Palladius, Apostle of the Scots (Christian; Saint)

Romulus of Fiesole (Christian; Saint)

Sexburgh (Christian; Saint)

Solstitium V (Pagan)

Taxi Drive McGillicuddy (Muppetism)

Tzom Tammuz (Commemorating Braching of the Walls of Jerusalem before Destruction of the 2nd Temple; Judaism) [17 Tammuz]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

Ant-Man and the Wasp (Film; 2018)

The B-52s, by The B-52s (Album; 1979)

Butterflies Are Free (Film; 1972)

Die Hard 2 (Film; 1990)

Forrest Gump (Film; 1994)

A Hard Day’s Night (Beatles UK Film; 1964)

Higher and Higher, by Jackie Wilson (Song; 1965)

Inner World, by The Dalai Lama (Album; 2020)

Invincible, by Pat Benatar (Song; 1985)

Keep Yourself Alive, by Queen (Song; 1973)

The Naughty Nineties (Abbott & Costello Film; 1945)

Paradise Hawaiian Style (Elvis Presley Film; 1966)

A Prairie Home Companion (Radio Series; 1974)

Precious Time, by Pat Benatar (Album; 1981)

Queen, by Queen (Album; 1973)

Sorry to Bother You (Film; 2018)

What’s Opera, Doc? (WB MM Cartoon; 1957)

Who’s On First, by Abbott and Costello (Filmed Skit; 1945)

You Oughta Know, by Alan’s Morisette (Song; 1995)

Today’s Name Days

Goar, Isaias, Marietta (Austria)

Agata, Marija, Suzana (Croatia)

Jan Hus (Czech Republic)

Dion (Denmark)

Sulev, Sulo (Estonia)

Esa, Esaias (Finland)

Marietta, Mariette, Nolwen (France)

Goar, Isaias, Marietta (Germany)

Lykios, Satryos (Greece)

Csaba (Hungary)

Antonio, Domenica, Maria, Romola (Italy)

Andzs, Anrijs, Arkādijs, Druvvaldis (Latvia)

Domė, Dominyka, Ginvilė, Nervydas (Lithuania)

Torgrim, Torgunn (Norway)

Agrypina, Chociebor, Dominik, Dominika, Goar, Gotard, Lucja, Łucja, Niegosław (Poland)

Sisoe (România)

Patrícia, Patrik (Slovakia)

Goretti, Isaías, María (Spain)

Esaias, Jessika (Sweden)

Felix (Ukraine)

Godiva, Isaiah, Isaias, Isiah, Jamaal, Jamal, Jamel, Jamil, Pallas, Shea, Shyanne (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 187 of 2024; 178 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 27 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 19 (Yi-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 17 Tammuz 5783

Islamic: 17 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444

J Cal: 7 Lux; Sevenday [7 of 30]

Julian: 23 June 2023

Moon: 85%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 19 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Alexander III]

Runic Half Month: Feoh (Wealth) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 16 of 94)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 16 of 31)

[ki-fi]

*drops and runs*

In all seriousness, these drawings were my first attempt at using procreate, so i’m gonna say this could be much better but i am somewhat proud with how that turned out despite the fact i’m not pleased with it, you know?

Anyway enough rambling about my issues with my work. These drawings, like i said are my first on procreate and i wanted to make something meaningful so since this was on my mind from the time i read regeneration by @crithir i decided to finally make this exist.

You could say i’m the type of a person who sees a fic and goes: „is someone gonna make fanart out of this?” and then not wait for an answer

So i gathered some scenes from regeneration and added some more for my own indulgence and by this i mean more azula-iriya relationship cause i love them very much.

You also have captain gamuo and azula (on the fourth) which also is one of my fave thing about this fanfic and that gamuo was there, for like, 2 chapters.

Overall this is my take on iriya’s quote as i think it perfectly captures the whole spirit of this masterpiece

Also please be gentle on me, this is my first time posting my drawings :DDD

[hdcnism]

HEDONISM DISCOGRAPHY !

hedonism debuted in 2014 with the single CAT&MOUSE, gaining popularity due to their experimental concept and popular faces in the lineup. they came back later that year with the single I'M A BIG GIRL. after the release of their second single, allegations that they were copying 2ne1 began to rise.

taking advantage of the spotlight these allegations gave them, they came back in may of 2015 with I'VE GOT A CRUSH. the girls got their first win, along with five more, with the song. member leiya was absent from promotions due to bullying allegations. after leiya's return, hedonism simultaneously released a korean and japanese mini-album, with LET'S TALK and BOOMERANG as the respective title tracks.

in 2016, the group came back with their first full album and title tracks IT'S A RED LIGHT and AIRPLANE. both tracks were produced by member sora, and it's a red light got four music show wins. a year later, in 2017, they released the single SUPERHUMAN. the track got little to no promotion, however, and slipped under the radar.

after the failure of superhuman, hedonism released SUPER SONIC, earning them eight music show wins and an increase in fan base, finally settling their fluctuating popularity. later that year they released LIKE A TANK, which wasn't promoted on music shows, but became popular nonetheless, even winning song if the year at mama and charting at number one. member iriya was absent from group promotions for unkown reasons.

with their ever growing popularity, hedonism released SO ICONIC, which still remains as their most popular song today. six months after it's release, hedonism released a mini-album and title track NEXT LVL. fans, however, boycotted this comeback as it was produced entirely by member sora. again, iriya was absent from promotions.

iriya finally returned in 2020 and the group had their first ot5 comeback with INCANTATION, soon after promoted the single STEP BACK. while fans were happy to see iriya back, once again fans boycotted the comeback due to step back's lyrics. hedonism tried again with the release of BAD DRACULA. the song charted decently, but didn't get any 1ins.

finally in 2021, the girls came back with the single HEART B-B-BEAT. again, the song charted number one and the girls spent five weeks promoting it and bagged a total of eight music show wins. their most recent comeback was FLIPP!NG A COIN, released november 2021. insiders say the girls are preparing for another comeback.

[giorno-plays-piano]

Last one, I promise. MonsterHunter!Bucky or Steve where you’re the rare creature they’re after. You don’t have to write any of these, I just feel like you would appreciate these 💕 keep up the good work giorno, I’m so proud of you bb❤️

Thank you for your requests, hun! I haven’t worked on other ones, but I’m happy to present you this story 😌❤ Hope you’re going to like it!

Daughters of Persephone

Pairing: monster hunter!Steve Rogers x vampire!Reader

Warnings: yandere-ish Steve, kidnapping, death of minor characters, mentions of torture and suicide, gore (a severed head), general vampire stuff.

Words: 4109.

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Suddenly waking up in the middle of the night, you fell down your bed, desperately trying to turn on the small lamp on your bedside table and reaching too far, soon ending on the cold floor. Trying to get up, you hit your head on the table and moaned. Saints, what on Earth was happening? You barely realized you were laying on the floor in the dark, but you knew for sure you were woken up by someone's agonized cry.

Who was that? The closest rooms to yours belonged to Iriya and Alice since mother lived in the north wing in a room she once shared with her late husband. Who screamed? Was it Iriya? Why was she screaming in the middle of the night? Was it just a nightmare? You had no time to think, finally standing up and rushing to the door, abandoning the idea with the lights: window curtains in the corridor had never been kept closed, so you would be able to see something thanks to the moonlight.

Hurrying to the point you ran barefoot, shivering in the dark - the floors had always been cold despite mother doing her best with all those expensive carpets - you reached Iriya's room and banged on her door, hoping it was just a nightmare.

'Iri-"

Before you called her name, the door opened by itself, and you froze in fear: Iriya was always closing her door at night, explaining that it all started when drunk Alice mixed the rooms and then woke her up with her angry shouting. Why was the door open? Was it better to go find mother rather than go there all by yourself?

No. What if Iriya needed help right now? You couldn't risk it.

Nervously getting in, your fists clenched painfully, you peaked inside your sister's room only to find her beheaded, her body laying on her spacious bed, Iriya's head on the carpet with her face caked in blood, her mouth open as if she was still screaming, pleading for help. Despite total darkness, you could see the white bedsheets soaked in her blood, the rich crimson fluid seeping through the fabric and dirtying the floor. You felt the bile rising in your throat, almost throwing up and barely containing yourself.

Iriya was dead. She was dead.

You were horrified to the point you could hardly move, your hands trembling as you wept, then getting on your knees and trying to reach out to Iriya's head but failing to do so - you didn’t have the courage to take her head in your hands, blood spreading further and almost reaching your long cream-colored nightgown Alice always mocked you for. You needed to run and find help. The murderer was still in the house, you were sure.

The thought of burglars breaking in had crossed your mind before, but you had never imagined some madman to get into your house and kill your poor older sister in such barbaric, horrible, revolting way, cutting her head off as if she was a character in some sick videogame. Why would anyone do this? How could they murder a harmless young woman sleeping in her bed?

You needed to get to Alice. The murderer could already be there.

Letting out a loud cry, you got back on your feet, hanging on to the large dark jacaranda drawer with nice thin metal legs - mother had it customized specially for Iriya on her 20th birthday. Thinking what would mother say once she saw her daughter with her head chopped off, you covered your mouth with your hand, unable to hold your tears. How could it happen? Who could commit such atrocity?

"Alice? Alice!" You could see the light coming from beneath her door.

Kicking it with all your force, you prepared for the worst, ready to jump at whoever you saw, but the only one there was Alice herself standing close to her desk. She was holding a revolver in her hands.

"Alice, Iriya-" You muttered, unable to say your sister was dead out loud and just pointing to the corridor with your shaking hand. "Iriya, she..."

"I know." Your other sister said through gritted teeth, her eyes still on the revolver she was holding. "It's not like I'm deaf."

You always had a hard time understanding her even when she was perfectly sober and in a good mood. Alice was strange: she reminded you of girls in Nirvana's music videos, either pretty angry or too energetic for you to keep up with her. She had been drinking as long as you could remember her, always silently protesting against mother's lifestyle and probably having a grudge against her and you. When you asked Iriya if you'd done something that upset her she just brushed it off, saying the youngest sister had always been a little monster in the family.

Now she looked like a monster, too.

"It wasn't you, right?" You whispered, holding your hands against your mouth. "You didn't do it to Iriya, did you?"

"Of course, I didn't!" She shouted angrily but shut her mouth as she saw you trembling, all of a sudden her expression guilty and grim. "Sorry, it's too late to explain. I don't have much time."

You nodded eagerly through tears, holding the door and ready to leave, "We need to run!"

You didn't miss a dark chuckle escaping Alice as she smiled at you bitterly, bringing the revolver's barrel to her head, her hand not shaking the slightest bit. "No. I've been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, and now is my chance."

Your head was spinning from shock and confusion. Iriya's chopped head, her bed full of blood, Alice pointing the gun at herself... Was everyone mad? Were you mad? Was it some nightmare you were seeing in your sleep? It felt damn real.

Seeing your horrified expression, your younger sister lifted the corners of her mouth, a broken smile on her face. "I'm sorry it turned out that way, but no one of us has been given a chance. This is how things have to end."

"Alice, please-"

"I have a full magazine. I know it sounds terrible, but after I'm done you have to shoot yourself, too. Believe me, it's the best you can do."

Before you opened your mouth to ask for an explanation and demand her to stop, Alice had pulled the trigger right in front of your eyes, blood and something that reminded you the insides of her brain smearing the wall to her left. While you screamed louder than you ever done in your entire life, her body landed on the floor with a loud thud, the left side of her head completely destroyed as you stared at the bloody mess, red liquid gushing out of the deep wound.

You felt like you were losing your sanity, crawling to her and cupping her head, unable to believe your eyes. She couldn't do it to herself. She has never seemed suicidal! What would she end herself like this? What did her words about some chance meant? Was it really her who cut off Iriya's head?

Wrapping your hands around her shoulders, you tried lifting her suddenly heavy body, crying and demanding your sister to stand up and stop pretending. It just couldn't be true. This madness couldn't be happening.

"Please, please!" You kept weeping, your nightgown soaked in her blood as her head laid on your lap. If body wasn't warm and heavy, you could believe it was all a nightmare, a frightening dream you saw, but Alice's empty eyes staring at you were making you painfully aware of your insane reality.

You cried so hard you missed the heavy steps of the intruder, realizing someone's here only when he opened the door and came in as if he weren't bothered by you screaming at all. It was a tall, wide-shouldered man in his thirties, his hair shining like gold in the bright light of Alice's room, a sharp blooded knife in his hand - the one he used to cut Iriya's head off. You reacted surprisingly fast, reaching out to revolver laying on the floor close to your sister's lifeless body, and tried shielding her as if it mattered, as if she didn't take her own life minutes ago. Your head was hurting, your thoughts mixed up: you barely understood what was happening, but you knew this man wasn't here to help, standing in the doorway with a stony expression on his handsome face while you pointed Alice's revolver at him, your hand shaking.

Who was he? What did he want from your family?

"Go away," you cried, hoping he wouldn't get closer. "Go away! You won't have her!"

You clenched the fabric of your sister's black tee, barely seeing the figure of the intruder as tears were making everything seem blurry.

The man was silent, staring at you with a blank expression as if he weren't interested in cutting off Alice's head and then murdering you, too. He made no attempts to come closer, although he didn't leave the room either, simply standing on his place and not moving an inch while you struggled to keep what remained of your sanity. Could you ask your mother for help? Should you yell so she'd hear you? Would it be better to challenge the murderer yourself since your mother certainly wasn't a super soldier to deal with someone like him? No, no, you couldn't shout to catch your mom's attention. Even if she'd hear you from the other side of the building, you couldn't let her end up just like your darling sisters. You needed to shoot the man.

But as you kept your gun aimed at him, you slowly realized you couldn't do it despite him clearly being a culprit of this madness. It just wasn't in you. You weren’t made to kill other people. Maybe that's why Alice told you to shoot yourself? Maybe she knew you couldn't protect anyone even if you had a gun in your hands?

"Please, don't touch her." You pleaded him, your hand aching from holding a heavy revolver for so long. "She didn't do anything bad. Please, please just go."

"On the contrary." The man suddenly said, and you froze on your place, frightened to the core. "She was the epitome of bad, but it wasn't her fault. Can’t blame the both of you for what your mother has done.”

“Mother?”

Looking at his blood-stained black pants and leather boots with dry blood on them, you opened your mouth but didn’t utter a word, watching his grotesquely big figure relaxing against the wooden frame, a silver cross hanging from his neck, drops of blood on the shining metal looking like dirt. Oh God. He didn’t do anything to mother, did he? He didn’t kill everyone in the mansion, did he?

Wailing like a wounded animal, you kept your gun aiming at the man, praying for him to just leave, vanish, let you call the ambulance and police, let anyone come and help you. What did he wanted? Money? Mother kept them in the bank like any other human being. Did he want her jewelry? Her collection of antique service? He didn’t have to kill your mother and Iriya for it, they would give him anything willingly if he didn’t hurt anyone. Who was this lunatic? Did he do something to Alice, too? He did, undoubtedly. She wouldn’t commit suicide just like that. She might have had issues with alcohol, but your younger sister had never been suicidal.

... however, well, considering you barely remembered what had happened before your fall from the bridge, she might have been.

“Sorry, little girl.” The man suddenly said, landing on the floor and dropping his knife as if he weren’t planning to attack you - you were much doubted it, though. “I know it’s not your fault. You’ve been for how long with the family? Around three months, correct?”

Still shielding the dead body of Alice with yours, you whispered, tears still falling down on your nightgown wet with your sister’s blood, “What are you saying?”

A dry chuckle escaped him as if he knew you were gonna reply exactly like you did, his left cheek resting against his hand caked in crimson fluid, but it didn’t seem to bother him much as he rubbed his skin with his dirty fingers, smearing the blood.

“I’m saying your darling mother adopted you when her second daughter had committed suicide just like Alice. Couldn’t stand what she had to do to stay alive after she was turned, you know?”

Gritting your teeth, you felt the rage raising deep within your chest: the bastard had the audacity to mock your family and you after he had probably killed everyone but you in the mansion. He probably tried to make you drop your revolver and finish you off as fast as he could and run before the police arrives - if anyone was going to come at all. You lived all by yourself with no one but a cleaning lady coming once a week to help you take care of the mansion; it was Friday evening, and people would start wondering why both Iriya and Alice stopped attending university only after a couple of days. Police will probably discover your bodies only when they start to rot.

Clenching the gun in your hand, you pointed it directly to the man’s head, ready to pull the trigger. If you were gonna die or lose your sanity tonight, you had to make sure you kill the murderer of your family before. You could do it. You had to!

“I won’t make it difficult for you.” The man said calmly, seemingly unafraid of your gun. “One day you woke up here with no memories whatsoever, and that creature played a role of your loving mom, saying how she’s scared about you after some incident has happened. She forbade you to leave the mansion because it was doctor’s orders purely for your own sake. Of course, she said something about a rare genetic decease and forced you to drink your medicine before every meal like your sisters, didn’t she?”

Yes. Yes, she did. Although she refused telling you what had happened to you, later Iriya confessed you jumped off the bridge because of some bastard you loved once you figured out he only dated you because of your mother’s money. Of course, they destroyed all your photos with him and anything he gave you so nothing would remind you of that despicable man. You didn’t question it. You didn’t question your mother’s decision to make you study at home just so she could keep an eye on you. It was reasonable: what mother would leave her daughter unattended after a suicide attempt? Naturally, you didn’t question her words about the genetic decease running in the family thanks to your blue blood ancestors marrying within a family. In the end, both your mother and sisters were taking the medicine every meal.

How did he know that? Was he spying on your family?

Oh. A silver cross, a knife made with something that look a lot like silver, cutting the heads off... this madman thought he was a vampire hunter. He was a lunatic who had murdered your family because he decided you were vampires!

“Are you mad?” You shouted angrily at him, unable to believe someone would go so far for something so stupid. “Do you think mom gave me blood, and I couldn’t figure it out?”

“You think she’d give you pure blood to make you freak out?” The man grinned at you, and you felt nauseated: he was fucking insane. “Of course, she didn’t. She diluted it for you and added some supplements, sweeteners and artificial flavors.”

“You lost your mind.”

“Huh, you wish, little one.” He cocked his head to the side and took off his cross, you raising your gun and almost firing it at his sudden movement, but the stranger did nothing else, throwing the cross closer to you. “If you doubt my words, just take it. It’s pure silver. Your mother didn’t stand it, did she? Probably said something about it bringing bad memories.”

Yes, she did, but thinking it was because she was a vampire who could burn herself with silver was ridiculous. What, now all women wearing gold were considered monsters?

“Why would I do that?” You said, your damp from tears cheeks finally becoming dry. “What if you put some chemical on it?”

“Then it would burn me, too.” Showing you his hand, he proudly demonstrated you his fingers that looked perfectly well.

Maybe you were really going mad, but you had touched the cross laying close to Alice's arm and immediately regretted it since it stung as if it was hot as a frying pan on the stove. What was that? Why did it hurt? Unable to believe it, you grasped it in your hand and cried out, dropping it and bringing your hand closer - a large burn was spreading out on your skin, bleeding on the floor, your blood mixing with your sister's. How did it happen? What was that?

"See? That what happens when a vampire touches silver," before you opened your mouth, the stranger continued, "and no, vampires aren't scared of sunlight or garlic, that stuff is straight from the novels."

Crying from pain, your hand shaking, you still didn't lower the revolver despite your other hand already starting to hurt from having something so heavy for a couple of minutes. No, it couldn’t be. He tricked you, surely. Vampires didn't exist! Besides, how would mother get so much blood to feed all of you? It's not like some truck was delivering you blood packs from the hospital every day! And, of course, you had never seen any other human being coming to the house other than a family doctor treating you and a cleaning lady. Where would the blood for your medicine come from?

"Your mother has a nice dungeon with a few iron maidens, little one."

Bullshit. It was all bullshit! Did he expect you to believe your kind, intelligent, loving mother who donated money for building a school in the village would kill innocent people? It was outrageous! From the day you woke up after the incident she had been nothing but a caring parent, always worried about your wellbeing and willing to give you everything you asked for. A week ago you joked about getting some super expensive haute couture dress for your graduation ceremony, and the next evening your mother invited you to her cabinet with her laptop open to show you the designers she found suitable to make you a dress. A woman like her just wasn’t build for murdering others.

The man snorted, “I can show it to you, actually.”

“I’m not going anywhere with you.” You whispered, your other hand now clenching the gun, too. “If you won’t leave, I will shoot you, and no jury would convict me after they found out you cut off Iriya’s head.”

“I wouldn’t be violent if I could neutralize her any other way, but Iriya had accepted her vampire nature a long time ago. Alice, on the other hand, ended her own life. I didn’t do anything to her; it was her own choice.”

“It’s a lie! If she really hated us all for being vampires, why didn’t she do anything? She had a gun, she could shoot us!” Desperate, you yelled at the man seemingly unfazed by your behavior and waiting calmly when you’d get back to your senses - if it was possible in a situation like this, your sister’s body long cold on the floor.

“I bet she wanted to, but, you see, Stockholm syndrome is a funny thing. After 5 years in the family she grew to love her mother and sister, this always happens at one point or the other. I think she probably loved and pitied you, too, since she couldn’t prevent her mother biting you.” There was no pity in his voice, but you could see something compassionate in the way he looked at you, a girl who had no idea who she had become or who she was before that, getting mixed up with dangerous creatures feeding off humans like cattle. “Bet she was scared of the mother, too. But when the opportunity presented itself, she decided it was enough and shoot herself before I came for her head.”

His words were scaring you because it was all making sense now: her addiction to alcohol mother could do nothing about even with all her money; that attitude of hers as Alice had always been unhappy and never agreed to anyone; her constant desire to be left alone and locking herself in her room...

“But why would mother bite us in the first place? What would she need daughters for?” Getting overprotective to prove all this wasn’t true, you asked him.

“All ancient vampires like your mother were human once. They have the need to reproduce as much as we do, but what they don’t have is a physical ability. So, at one point they want to adopt a human and turn them into a vampire, raising them like their own. I’d find it sweet if only they weren’t making more blood-sucking bastards killing people.”

“I DON’T KILL PEOPLE!”

Your deafening scream could probably be heard even in the garden, but you didn’t care, your aching hands gripping the revolver with 5 more bullets in it. You had done nothing wrong in your entire life! You didn’t hurt anyone! You didn’t break into someone’s house to cut off people’s heads! You were just a girl who had now have to live on her own after all your family was brutally murdered by some lunatic thinking you were vampires. It was him who was a true criminal, not you!

“Sorry, little one. I know you don’t, but it doesn’t change the fact you will have to sustain on human’s blood, and then I will have to take care of yo-”

Unable to listen to him anymore, you moved your hand a bit to the left, and the revolver fired, bullet getting into the wooden drawer, a poster with Alice’s favorite rock band hanging on it. “Just move once more and I’ll shoot you. I swear I’ll shoot you! Get out and leave me alone!”

But before you had time to react, the man had disappeared from your sight, and the next second you felt his hot hand on your throat, the other one forcefully taking a gun out of your arms as you screamed, crying and shaking beneath the stranger who felt even heavier on top of you than he looked. Why was this all happening to you? What have you done? Would he cut off your head just like Iriya’s?

“Mama! Mama!” You shouted, crying, his grip suffocating you. Knowing he would have no issues murdering you, you had nothing better but to plead for your mother’s help even though she had been most likely dead. “Mama, p-please... argh... hh... mama...”

If you could look into his face, tears not blurring your vision, you’d see Steve’s expression distorted with what seemed like guilt or maybe empathy when he was slowly, but surely making you lose consciousness, his knife laying on the floor far from you. Did you think he got pleasure from murdering little girls like you? Well, he might have been happy while killing the creature calling yourself your mother, but not the daughters, never the daughters.

You had finally fainted, your body now close to your sister’s. Unlike her, you were still alive, and watching your lay beneath him, unarmed and harmless in that nightgown covered in blood of your beloved ones, Steve thought he may have leave you alive - you really were new to the family, it couldn’t be more than 3 months since you had been bitten. Maybe there was something he could still do. He heard Tony found a way to stop the turning mid-way.

Anyway, keeping a pretty girl like you didn’t seem too bad. You certainly wouldn’t like waking up in his lair, but it was still better than ending up with your head cut off, wasn’t it?

Grabbing your revolver with a couple of silver bullets, Steve showed it into his pocket and carefully lifted you up, his knife in its sheath. Carrying you like a bride, both him and you drenched in blood, the man quickly disappeared in the corridor, heading to the dungeon beneath your mansion. His job was done.

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