#ishy scene

[beatlesandbards]

ok but can we talk about how stupidly Amazon released this preview scene for s2...literally just finished a rewatch and missed it anyway bc, yk, I knew when the show was done, so I closed it after the tidal wave......I heard about the scene and went looking only to find it wasn't posted to YouTube, it wasn't posted on the season 2 page, it wasn't under bonus content, just...tacked on to the last episode where you only find it if you're letting it play blind. Good rule of thumb: if someone who knows it's there still has to take 4 tries to find it, it's too hidden.

[waterlinkedgirl]

Musical Touken Ranbu: Michinooku ~ Hitotsu Hachisu (Michinooku ~ A Single Lotus)

Here we go! Only a few days after the archive release and toumyu's ninth anniversary (congratulations!)

Michioku, or Michihasu, is a myu I have many conflicting feelings about, both positive and negative. However, I do believe that with the right amount of care in the next Mika-related story myu, the negative can still be cleared. Plus, I'm glad about a lot of things being re-established. The writer does need to step up her game a little on the plot-writing side of things, as well as the understanding-and-respecting-past-myu side of things, but as long as she does, this can still be given a proper place within what was already established.

Keep in mind that these are only the subtitle files, timed and tled to the DMM senshuuraku and the bluray respectively. The archive version will have a talk at the start, so the starting times of the subs will have to be delayed accordingly.

You can find the subtitles and my TL notes document here!

[markantonys]

WE'VE BEEN BLESSED (link)

[theartisticdoofus]

Lazy manga coloring! The reflection in the world hater's eyes is inspired by @sasha042 's coloring. Plus, some other iterations...

[dustedbooksandreadingnooks]

Winter Day 7 of Glamtober

As soon as they arrived at Falcon's Nest, Kizuna just took off. He'd been on edge ever since they got into Ishgard proper, but Ishi never knew how to ask him and the rift between them had grown wider and wider. Luckily Ishi could keep up as Kizuna headed straight out of the settlement, climbing jagged walls of ice and rock until he came upon a tree, sideways and nearly uprooted but still growing on the edge of a cliff. He'd never felt farther away as they stood there in silence and Ishi finally realized, I don't really know anything about Kizuna's past, do I?

Maybe I don't deserve to know, but he needs someone to talk to. I just have no idea how to ask.... -Ishi'li Jusumhi

Ishi belongs to @candycryptids

Shader is Neneko Haze[Red] and Neneko Frakenstein Glams/lore/bonus shots under the cut!

Kizuna, Warrior: Head- Werewolf head (modded) Body- Anemos Suspenders (Midnight Blue) Hands- Anemos Gloves (Kobold Brown) Leg- Summer Sunset Bottoms (Kobold Brown) Feet- Anemos Expeditionary's Boots (Kobold Brown) Earring- Menphina's Earring Main Hand- Giantsgall War Axe Ishi, Ninja:

Head- Ramie Hood (Plum Purple) Body- Ramie Poncho (Plum Purple) Hands- Peacelover's Gloves (Charcoal Gray) Leg- Ramie Slops (Gloom Purple) Feet- Lucian Prince's Shoes Earring- Purple Moth Orchid Corsage

After certain events post ARR, Kizuna withdraws and starts bottling up a brewing storm of emotions. Being back in Ishgard doesn't help either- this was his home once. A home he got chased out of, a home he didn't have citizenry to, a home that he couldn't walk the streets of freely without being seen as a heretic because of the way he looked. This was his home. This tree once stood in his yard, the only thing left not burned to the ground or buried under broken land and eternal ice. Kizuna remembers failing to help a friend, and blaming himself, and the consequences of spurning the head of a noble house. Kizuna remembers his past and gets angry.

[waterblob-art]

this scene lives in my head rent free

[candycryptids]

Quick! Your OCs are being dragged to the dancefloor by a friend - how do they react? Does the amount of people around influence that reaction? Or the kind of music played maybe?

GHFNFJDJFHB!? What a fun question omfg

Chuu has a vice grip on the sofa she’s sitting on if there’s more than 5 people at a party lmao. She’s not gettin up. N o p e. (Can sometimes be lured out onto the dance floor with a Waltzing number, but will rarely stay for longer than 2 songs before she’s found a way to slither out of being an active party participant. She’d rather chill and eat snacks and watch OTHER people look silly on the dance floor.)

Tuesday is ecstatic to be invited to the dance floor- but he only really knows how to do the stuffy Ishgardian Ball Dance when he first gets invited out to a party lmfao. The amount of people present doesn’t really impact his willingness to come out to the dance floor, but once he learns more ways to dance or even how to just, ‘feel it’ and make it up as he goes he gets much more excited about dancing to upbeat or quicker songs. He is Very good at not stepping on Toes :) (almost as if somebody didn’t want to deal with smushed toes…. 🤔)

Tangy is so zazzed to dance. She is…. Not the best at ballroom dancing or like, whatever you wanna call a couples dance, so. Watch your toes! It doesn’t matter how many people are there but being the center of attention can be kinda daunting :’> she’d rather dance to more upbeat music than slow dances so she’ll probs bow out for drinks and a snack during those to take a breather sjfjdkfs … pls also imagine her doing classic ‘dad’ dance moves or something from the Peanuts x3 [cut cos it’s Long 🫢]

….. 🤔 Ishi will gladly dance with a friend (or friends!) at smaller gatherings- and even invite others out to the floor x3 but at bigger more official events? She’s probably grateful for the excuse to step away from whatever Politically Charged Chat she’s been roped into regarding allied tribes or intercity relations. (She isn’t trained in dance, but will readily learn and follow somebody else’s lead •v•)

Mochiie is someone who’s reluctant to take an invite to the dance floor no matter how many people are present if there’s already people dancing and there’s not much space. He’s uh… conscious of his tail. (Poor guy sent a lalafellin couple sprawling once when he got tangled up in his feet, so he tries to be Overly Cautious now)

😂 Colette will indulge a friend in a dance, and relies more on being able to lift/twirl/dip her dance partner for flair - it’s an All-Eyes-On-Them situation. If Eorzean weapons didn’t have a habit of cracking under the pressure she’d probably be a tank. She prefers music with dramatic flair, to match her flashy dancing style. She laughs a lot more when it’s a Smaller group, there’s less performance pressures 🤧 (I should REALLY pose her dancing with Setsuna at some point… I’ll have to bug my partner for some files x3)

🤔🤔🤔 Levraut was the hardest for me to figure out. He’s classically trained in Ishgardian Dance? But he hates it. He thinks the whole thing looks silly, and he’s not so into huge parties (since they’re usually hosted by The Rich And Influential And Expect A Certain Class Of People yk) … he’d be a hilarious ‘sexy lamp’ for someone to dance with though… I think it would take him some time to feel comfortable dancing in the center of everything but he wouldn’t mind kinda grooving in place around the edges.

Until he’s 5 cups in. And then you have to haul him off the dance floor before he makes more of a fool of himself than he currently is, and tries to start a fight with the Violinist, because it quote ‘sounds like you’re killing the cat what made the strings all over again’ (regardless of if that’s true or not; a drunken Lev craves Rowdy Brawling and will Incite It)

… 🤨 I think that’s everyone if only because I don’t have a solid idea what the Trio would be like in a Party situation

[star-babii]

y'all i found a new obscure crush from a fighting game im probably never gunna play but watched a video on youtube abt it but LOOK

weird bastard with a big smile... one of my favorite character archetypes 💦

[sw5w]

[ Fanfare ]

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace - Deleted Scene: Complete Podrace Grid Sequence 02:15

The only instrument I’m not 100% sure on is the “speetamor” found on pg 101 of the Visual Encyclopedia. It’s found with several of the other instruments that appear in this shot.

Hard to tell in the screenshot above, but in addition to the five Bith, the band also includes a Quarren playing the floonorp, a Nikto playing the kettlebox blower bell, a Pacithhip playing the podport bandfill, a Nikto playing the stompsqueezer, and an Ishi Tib playing a sort of keyboard.

Also, the podport bandfill's name derives from the bandfill instrument played by Nalan Cheel of the Modal Nodes in A New Hope (as well as presumably being made of Podracer parts).

[bad-lobcorp-aus]

Au where after canto 5 finishes theres a post credits scene where rodyas like "wow ishy i didnt know you where trans too!", ryoshu responds "Really? M.T." and so on and so forth until all the female sinners all come out as transfemme and then they all just squint at the male sinners until emil sinclair shuffles toward them very slowly.

[mugenmcfugen]

ACTION!! ANGST!! NUKE OWLS!!

Okay, joke aside, this first time ever I tried doing anything in this scope of storytelling; orchestrating fight in my head which is prone to behave like a jumpy monkey on speed is definitely not easy task.

I really struggled with couple of panels but I still wanted to push my self that, since this comic is just sketch fest and not polished, just to push to accentuate what I had imagined and get the point across.

One thing that definitely inspired that panel with Vindicta on scope was that scene of O-Ren Ishi from Kill Bill. I also hear ''Lonely Shepherd'' when I think about Vindicta and her overall character, to be this lonely renegade on one mission for so long and to be met with a resistance from unlikely source is probably big anguish. I also get the gist that she's suffering from some form of abandonment issues, I mean to be returned into mortal plane with knowing that your family is long gone and not there is definitely soul crushing.

I think 2 more chapters are after this one, I wanted to do real tear jerker for the next but it will probably be toned down a bit.

Also, I left Shiv ''transformation'' purposefully ambiguous because we know fuckall of what he is, but yeah, that penultimate panel does give the vibe of ''he werefolf''. It also reminded me of Wolverine for some reason, lul.

I hope you like it ya'll and that font is not too small or fucky to read.

[markantonys]

one time someone reblogged my gifset of the ishy/lanfear/rand TAR pajama party threesome scene and tagged it "they made wot into a tv show??????" and i still think about that. imagine if a gifset of two forsaken about to rail rand into next tuesday was how you found out that wot has become a tv show.

[bittersweetresilience]

against all odds i'm still thinking about this. renjing like in no extra toppings where blade once left jing yuan but then came back to him. they've been together for several years but jing yuan's mental health starts declining. after he attempts suicide blade takes him away in a desperate attempt to show him that life can still be worth living and he doesn't have to think about all the stressful things and the only important thing is that he is here and blade is with him and this time blade isn't going to leave him because wherever they go they go together. i have an entire outline at this point help me

is it physically possible for me to start a third multichapter wip of renjing going on a road trip? well, yes. should i start a third multichapter wip of renjing going on a road trip? NO GOD I HAVE SO MANY OTHER WIPS...

[pillowfriends]

the tension between Ishy and Lanfear in the bedroom scene in 2x08 is insane. what kind of tension, you ask? I’ve watched it four times and I still can’t tell you. any. all. I have no idea what’s going on but I’m enthralled.

[konjaku]

荻[Ogi] Miscanthus sacchariflorus

In Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's novel 芋粥[Imogayu](The Yam Gruel), there is the following passage. This is the scene where a fox captured by a general 藤原利仁[Fujiwara-no Toshihito] was ordered to deliver a message. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217513605 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara_no_Toshihito

抛り出された狐は、なぞへの斜面を、轉げるやうにして、駈け下りると、水の無い河床の石の間を、器用に、ぴよいぴよい、飛び越えて、今度は、向うの斜面へ、勢よく、すぢかひに駈け上つた。駈け上りながら、ふりかへつて見ると、自分を手捕りにした侍の一行は、まだ遠󠄁い傾斜の上に馬を並べて立つてゐる。それが皆、指を揃へた程に、小さく見えた。殊に入日を浴びた、月毛と蘆毛とが、霜を含んだ空󠄁氣の中に、描いたよりもくつきりと、浮󠄁き上つてゐる。 狐は、頭をめぐらすと、又枯薄󠄁の中を、風のやうに走り出した。

[Hōridasareta kitsune wa, nazoe no shamen wo, korogeru yō ni shite, kakeoriruto, mizu no nai kawadoko no ishi no aida wo, kiyō ni, pyoi-pyoi, tobikoete, kondo wa, mukō no shamen e, ikioi yoku, sujikai ni kakeagatta. Kakeagari nagara, furikaette miruto, jibun wo tedori ni shita samurai no ikkō wa, mada tooi keisha no ue ni uma wo narabete tatte iru. Sorega mina, yubi wo soroeta hodo ni, chiisaku mieta. Koto ni irihi wo abita, tsukige to ashige toga, shimo wo fukunda kūki no naka ni, egaita yorimo kukkiri to, ukiagatte iru.]

[Kitsune wa, kashira wo megurasuto, mata karesusuki no naka wo, kaze no yō ni hashiri dashita.]

The fox that was thrown out ran down the diagonally sloped surface as if tumbling, dexterously leaped between the stones at the bottom of a river without water, and this time, ran up the opposite slope diagonally with great force. As running up, it looked back and saw that the group of samurai who had captured it were still standing with their horses lined up on the far slope. All of them appeared to be small about the size of fingers lined up. In particular, the palomino and the gray (horse), bathed in the setting sun, standing out more clearly in the frosty air than depicted.

The fox turned its head and ran like the wind through the withered silver grass again. Source: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1214737/1/80

Actually, 利根川[Tone-gawa](The Tone River) flows beyond this colony of Ogi in the photo. In the story it says 枯薄󠄁[Karesusuki](Withered silver grass, Susuki), but when I read this, always imagine the scene with Ogi spread out. Ogi is more appropriate for wide open plains and riverbeds than Susuki(M. sinensis). The two are so similar that it is difficult to distinguish, though. And, Akutagawa would not have made such a fine distinction either.

荻の穂や 頭をつかむ 羅生門

[Ogi no ho ya kashira wo tsukamu rashōmon] As I was passing near Rashōmon, the ears of Ogi grabbed my head. By Matsuo Bashō https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashōmon_no_oni

[dustedbooksandreadingnooks]

It was another peaceful day in their little corner of Etheirys- an island in the middle of the Cieldalaes, gifted by the Chief Admiral, that only her and Tataru knew the location of. After.... Everything, Kizuna had needed it. He needed to be away from it all, from the people, the Scions- everything. Because if he had stayed, he would've kept going. There were always people that needed help, his help, but he'd been going far too hard for far too long to the point that Kizuna had to recognize how unfathomably tired he was. If he didn't learn how to take a break, it would break him. He'd made the decision when the Scions "disbanded." Everyone had kept eagerly asking what he was going to do with his down time, and he could never quite answer until then. "Nothing." No liberating Bojza, no fighting primals or weapons, no rebuilding cities, no tournaments, no helping people- Nothing. Kizuna thinks he remembers being asked if he felt ill, it was so unlike him. But he needed to do, nothing. Or else when he did need to something (and the time would come again- the Thirteenth showed him that) Kizuna was afraid that he wouldn't have anything to give. He was afraid that the Hero's Call would tug at his heart and he would be so tired he wouldn't care. And not caring was what scared him the most- it was who he was. So he'd set firm boundaries, as much as it hurt to do so. His voice cracked awfully but he managed to say it to everyone's faces himself. Don't call. Don't look for me. I can't. At the end of his rope he'd even given Tataru his linkpearl back. It was only when he went to visit his da that there was something left for him- one of Shtola's familiars, A fall back, the note she'd left with it said. So Kizuna couldn't feel too guilty and come back before he was ready. If they needed- and Shtola specified absolutely needed, the words written over thick- him and Ishi, they would know. When you come back, we will be waiting with open arms. In the meantime enjoy your vacation, Kizuna. Everyone in the realm knows you deserve it more than any help you could provide.

And finally, after a long, long time, Kizuna believed those words as well.

There is actually a lot more to this scene, but I didn’t anticipate how much I would write for just the first screenshot.

I’ll probably make at least one maybe two more posts on this but in the meantime…

Have some Kizuna emotional state and thoughts approximately 9-12 months after the post patch Thirteenth storyline! I put in a really long break in between that and the start of 7.0, especially because Kizuna doesn’t participate in msq until Valigarmanda.

Also if you ever wanna know more about Kizunas specific lore and timeline feel free to ask I love talking about how me and @candycryptids have written it ^^