#jonny talks

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

there’s a japanese new years tradition called 初日の出/hatsuhinode, ‘first sunrise,’ which is when you drag yourself out of bed while it’s still dark on new year’s day and go out to a bridge or somewhere else you’ll have a good view of the horizon to the east.

and then you stand, and you wait.

if you’re me, today, you’re up on a bridge over a river coming off tokyo bay, and the cold ocean wind is vicious in the pre-dawn dim, and even with a good coat and gloves it feels like your nose and ears are slowly freezing off. the sky will get lighter by degrees as it gets closer and closer to sunrise, lines of color forming all along the horizon, and eventually you can pinpoint just where the sun will rise, a splotch of faintly brighter orange against the watercolors. you stare at it until your eyes start to blur.

and you stand, and you wait, and the bridge gets crowded around you, everybody leaning against the rail and looking for the sun and holding their breath, and even if you know to the minute when the sun is supposed to rise, it still feels like it takes longer than it should. in the dim january cold, it can feel like it’s taking a very, very long time.

and then the sun rises, and you realize that you’ve almost forgotten how bright it is.

happy new years, everybody. i hope it’s kind to all of you. あけましておめでとう!!

[dangerousdesiress]

[gunpowderdtim]

Have you ever wanted to listen to the fabled Port Mahon 2011 variant of Gunpowder Tim vs The Moon Kaiser? Well! Now you can, in slightly better quality than before!

Or at least, you can... if you go into the archive. Unfortunately, the whole thing is too large for tumblr to handle. You can find it here!

In the meanwhile, enjoy Tim Goes Crazy & Teatime With The Kaiser, because those will fit!!

not my best work in terms of audio editing, but the last time i tried for crisper vocals i accidentally deleted brian from the track entirely. that was in 2023. im a better man now. and i did not delete brian from the file.

Regardless! Enjoy!

[podcast-official]

whenever i make a post about a podcast and the creators reblog it i'm like. overjoyed. my thought was good enough for the people who made this piece of media to look at it and go "oh that's cool"

[clawfootcoffin]

the drowned woman's poem seemed like a recounting of her time spent in a vast & buried collab oceanic hellscape ??!?!?!?!?!??!?! the drowned woman & alice's encounter being recorded via a fucking tape recorder?!?!?!?!

and, lady m? excuse me? another giant beautiful woman in MY magnus protocol? they really made this show for the Women Lovers

and, finally, lady m finding celia different. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. if she isnt careful, someone is going to Figure her Out and she'll have plenty of explaining to do

[thunderjackal]

im trying desperately to find individual refs for each of the mechanisms and the only pictures i can find that include gunpowder tim and toy soilder's shoes are these

please someone what genre of photo is this

[majorvagabond]

I love how some performances of the mechs have some tidbits about their characters

This has some implications that I really want to think about, Jonny aims his gun at himself during the like instrumental part of One Eyed Jacks then gets startled and aims at someone else.

I think it's just pretty neat

[behindthesefangirleyes]

Alice: Love! Pain! Healing!

Me, a whimpering mess on the floor: … okay

[reegis]

What do you think is Johnnys (devil not the writers) reasoning for loathing Orpheus so much? It just feels so strong yet I can't pin down an exact reasoning

I feel like narratively Jonny and Orpheus are complete opposites;

Jonny’s whole persona is openly, aggressively (& frequently homicidally) detached from any sort of sentimentality. Has to kill his dad? who cares, he totally wasn’t effected by that. Doc is gone? couldn’t give less of a shit, no emotional turmoil there. All of the people he’s lost, and the painful deaths he’s suffered over uncountable centuries as an immortal? dust in the wind, couldn’t matter less.

Meanwhile Orpheus is sentimental to the point of being boarderline useless without his lady love. He tried Absolutely EVERYTHING to reach her again, from requesting to speak to her mind in the achaeron, to unsuccessfully attempting unaliving himself, to stockpiling HIGHLY ILLEGAL BRAIN MELTING ACID as a backup plan, and then eventually asking Hades for help and joining the UDAD plot as we know it. He’s a loverboy through and through and wears his heart on his sleeve.

To me i think that Jonny is, at heart (lmao ironic), much more similar to Orpheus than he would like any of us to believe- and there are definitely moments where I personally feel that you can see glimpses of that. but he has spent eons creating this untouchable, unaffected “captain” persona (that absolutely None of the mechs are buying btw but he is trying so lets all give him some points for effort) and seeing someone living that life so openly and authentically without any subterfuge is bound to strike a nerve.

[lethisfleshnotbetorn]

HOW ARE PEOPLE NOT MORE EXCITED ABOUT THE INEVITABLE FIYERO WHUMP THAT WILL BE IN WICKED PART 2???? like do you guys not know??? whump community you are in for a treat next november

[ceaselessims]

being reminded that jon and georgie's break up was actually really messy and they ended on bad terms has me soooo curious about them and their history as a couple

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

ok i am caught up again ✌️

[mechanical-v1scera]

this came to me in a vision

[transmimir]

To those with multiple F/Os:

Have you ever imagined two or more of your F/Os meeting? Do you think they would get along, or would they despise each other? Would they share you, or fight over you? Let me know your thoughts!

[skeletor-n-a-meatsuit]

I'm totally normal about things.

SO. NORMAL.

Sometimes my atoms vibrate so loudly that Sherlock Holmes & John Watson trivia erupts from my brain into the lives of my friends who did not expect it and have no idea why I'm telling them.

[theholmwoodfoundation]

INCIDENT REPORT Document Number HF-97-0211 Dated August 5th 1997 RESEARCHER’S NOTE: The below document has been altered to accurately describe the persons’ involved current identities. On the request of upper management, names have also been redacted, due to the severity of the incident.

What are you reporting?: Injury to Civilians, Damage to Property, Containment Breach. When did it happen?  Afternoon of August 4th. Where did it happen: LWB. Basement Level. Cold Storage. Witnesses:  JH and PVH did not witness all of the event, but did arrive near the end to stop the breach with the Extraction Team. Who was involved:  Two children, 15 and 11. What happened: Two children entered the Cold Storage area, which is off limits to all civilians. [REDACTED] knocked into one of the Asset Containment Pods, waking Asset Six from her comatose state and causing her to break out of her containment. She attacked both children. This event was caught on CCTV, and an Extraction Team was able to intervene before she could cause any further damage to the room, or to the children. The youngest, [REDACTED], reports that he became lost in the building, that [REDACTED] went looking for him, and that it was his fault the incident occurred. However, [REDACTED] has been made aware on multiple occasions that Cold Storage is off limits and should not have allowed his younger cousin to indulge in exploring the Westenra building. Was there any injury to account for: [REDACTED]’s chest was severely lacerated. He was taken to hospital for assessment, but the damage is mostly cosmetic. [REDACTED] sustained a large cut across his right arm, which has been tended to by one of our medics on standby. Actions going forward: -THF will cover any private medical costs for [REDACTED], with the proviso that he is never allowed to enter the Westenra building again. -The Asset Pods will be evaluated for any future sleep disturbance.  -All Asset Containment Pods will be assessed for further ‘wear and tear’. - This will not be allowed to happen again.  Form completed by: JH