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[superchat]

a history of ougi pfp's

[hallowclave]

Small but knowing wxs

[sallymew4]

trickster...

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[a-s-levynn]

"Wash me clean again before I pull myself beneath the waves" A Series of Small Offerings - III/11 - day31

[yesloulou]

I did not gif this x

[fullscoreshenanigans]

What kind of dates do the full score trio like to go on?

☆ Obligatory café dates:

(Mystic Code Book Chapter 7 Bonus Art)

↳ They run the gamut of the local one in the village closest to Alex's cabin, ones Norman and Ray visited during the search for Emma, and ones new to all of them. ↳ I love playing around with whether Emma or Norman typically get the sweetest drinks. Sometimes Ray takes them up on the offer to try a sip, and the grimace he makes from the super sugary ones is kind of adorable. ↳ Emma also tries to use a barista to legitimatize calling Ray Raymond at some point.

☆ Frequently linked with café dates are chess dates in the park. It's usually Norman versus Ray with Emma spectating or backseat chess playing when she wants to get a rise out of Ray. This results in either griping or flirting depending on the mood.

☆ Picnic dates out in the meadows or hills near Alex's cabin (or parks, again depending on if they move away), food provided by Ray. Not uncommon for them to wind up sprawled like this among the grasses and flowers:

(The Promised Neverland Art Book World - Volume 20 Cover Rough Drafts)

Sometimes they stay long enough to watch the sun set on the horizon and the fireflies come out. It's nice being able to stargaze outside together, considering they only were able to do it once at Grace Field and probably didn't have time for it during the short while all three were reunited during October and November 2047. ↳ Norman encountering any insects besides fireflies or arachnids is a fun sight to behold though, just because the other two know he's Not Fond of them.

☆ Emma takes up ice skating during the timeskip. Ray can kind of keep up with her, and Norman is just happy if he can stay upright and maintain his dignity. He can't say he minds his partners taking his hands and guiding him, though. ↳ Occasionally Emma and Ray use these outings as an excuse to get him in loud and colorful winter hats, claiming it's to help prevent him from blending into the ice and snow. Somehow he never manages to win the argument that his coat, scarf, and hat he's already wearing should suffice.

☆ I mostly see antiquing as an NR thing, but sometimes Emma will tag along to spend time with them, even if she ends up wandering off or chatting with people about other things instead of focusing on the main reason they're there lol

☆ They do escape rooms, but since it's them they usually impose their own rules, like no verbal communication.

☆ I like the headcanon of Ray turning into a bit of a pretentious foodie in the human world so he'll usually research and vet the restaurants they pick beforehand. ↳ 50% of the times Norman sides with Emma on overriding Ray's vetoes to a place he regrets it, but Emma argues it's the experience that matters most. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, and at least they'll have a new story to tell people.

☆ Even during busy periods in their lives, Ray likes to wine and dine NE with small but extravagant insta-worthy candlelit dinners at home (cooking is such a big love language for him). The two delight in the contrast between the end result and the preamble, which is usually a blunt and concise "dinner at x. Be there." text combined with a seemingly random image that he manages to tie into the meal theme or an extreme close-up of some ingredients. ↳ This is also something Ray likes to do when Norman is experiencing a flareup from Lambda sickness and they have to cancel a night out, depending on the severity. The venue just switches from their kitchen to their bedroom.

☆ They can all get competitive at places like fairs, carnivals, and arcades. Emma and Ray might banter over it, but it can be kind of wild to onlookers how intense Norman and Ray can be about it all without saying a word to each other (they do this when playing video games like Mario Kart too).

☆ Emma insists on going to the Norman Rockwell and Ray Charles museums after she remembers or finds out the boys were named after them. The Charles trip is sidestepped until after Ray sorts out some of his issues with Isabella.

☆ Due to Norman's connection with owls in the demon world as William Minerva, I'd love to see them visit an owl sanctuary or café if Vincent's owls didn't make it over from the demon world like Ayshe's dogs.

☆ Even if they have other events planned for the day, they like to take some time to themselves to watch the sunrise on Ray's birthday, wherever they might be. From a balcony or porch at their home or a hotel, a nice spot on a hill that will allow them to have a nice picnic, etc.

[ciderjacks]

canon dialogue

[domeniudulce]

The idea that Gascoigne and Henryk were hunting partners (presumably with Henryk being Gascoigne's elder and mentor) and that Viola was Henryk's daughter is the funniest shit. Like how do you think that went over.

[moe-broey]

Got inspired to revisit this FEH comic redraw I did when it first dropped! Specifically these panels:

Ended up freestyling that second Xane though LMFAOO he is just so impish to me...

If you wanna get Old Art Jumpscared I'll also include the original sketch under cut!

AAAAAAAAA JUMPSACRE AAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!

In a way though, I'm glad that I dropped it and picked it up again later... like I feel like this isn't even from that long ago (guy who has no sense of the passage of time voice), but the characterization and even design of Moe is so different. The Scrunch and :< face were game changers for it LMFAOOO (also just making it autisticer 👍)

Beyond that I think everyone looks a lot better and closer to how I envision them, esp Loki!

[myogi-nightkids]

[96percentdone]

Not to be mean, but I really do think some of hot takes about the meaning for Dahlia Boat are ridiculous. Like, the zero escape references are one thing, Uru is canonically a loser who loves zero escape, and we'll come back to them, but like.

Change the letters DAHLIA BOAT to the fourth letter followed by the original one in order of the alphabet, can get "HELPME FSEX," which could mean, "help me, female." This hints at Uru's dependence on Tokiko, or his Oedipus complex.

Like I'm so sorry; I don't think that's it. I really don't. You don't need a whole cipher to reference Uru's Oedipus complex when you can just play Nonentity Incognito exactly one time and be like "oh okay he has severe mommy issues got it." That's just explicit text for his character.

Maybe the writers would go out of their way to encode that for fun, but it doesn't work in universe as something Uru would do, which matters because Uru is deliberately saying this bullshit name to fuck with the cops. He's meticulous about hiding his identity, and Tearer is a whole persona. In Japanese, he literally uses different personal pronouns for himself when in the costume vs outside of it; it's like...inconceivable he would do this lmao I'm sorry it's just a bad theory guys I know he likes puzzles and thinks he's the smartest boy in the world but not for this.

Let's come back to the zero escape references though. Phi's character design has a black flower in her hair, which according to the designer is a reference to a novel based on the real life murder of Elizabeth Short, also known as the Black Dahlia. Elizabeth Short was bisected at the waist. Boat is a reference to 999, where the death game involves a boat sinking and makes a lot of use out of the mythos behind the Titanic disaster. Do you know what the Titanic famously did when it sank? IT SPLIT IN HALF.

It's that simple. He's referencing tragedies that involved things or people being halved because that's what he does. He's Tearer. He has a whole comment about how he studied history, and this is how he's using it. Horrible jokes about real events to avoid revealing himself. From a writing perspective, they're incorporating the 1/2 motif again; I think that's clever enough.

[parab0mb]

We in the endgame now.

[edwardshundredyearoldspunk]

the only way to watch tv shows the way they were meant to be watched is through DVDs isn't it? I keep hearing of tv shows that netflix has made major editing/aspect ratio/music changes, once again cementing netflix as my archnemesis. yes I'm pedantic, it's my only talent

[higherhell]

Miscellaneous, 2022/2023

[toastypockets]

i casually go crazy when reblogs have a little something something to them that i get to read because-

OOYSHAHAAOAOAAOOAH

(that means i have instantly fallen in love with you for providing your personal commentary and i cherish your thoughtfulness no matter how big or small the thing being said was)

maybe i should have brought this up sooner but can we get married 👰‍♀️🙏⁉️

[fadefromthelight]

Someone mentioned punk!Wataru once and it has never left my head since then