#liveblogging something i guess

[unmotivated-student]

Ken asked Makoto/Minato if he could take care of his hamster in case he "hypothetically speaking" doesn't make it back to the dorm in the future...

I'm not okay...

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[completeoveranalysis]

OK!

UNHINGED THEORY TIME:

WHO ARE LAVA LAMPS PARENTS?

Criteria for candidates include: (a) his mother's name is Sakura, (b) his mother is a dream seer, (c) they are vaguely Sakura and Syaoran shaped, (d) they end up in the Jam Jar

Potential Answer 1: Cardcaptor Sakura and Syaoran Li, from Cardcaptor Sakura

Hints in favour: Almost everything. Clamp drop constant hints that imply Cardcaptor Sakura, including but not limited to: the world Lava Lamp is 'from' resembles our world, his father's name is Syaoran Li, his mother's magic circle is the same one from Cardcaptor Sakura, his father's sword is identical to Cardcaptor Sakura!Li Syaoran's sword, his magic circle, Touya and Yukito (in 216, his relatives) are shown in ordinary clothing resembling our world, Lava Lamp's mother gave Yuuko the Star Wand, Lava Lamp's grandmother looks like Nadeshiko, Lava Lamp's father is descended from Clow Reed.

Counterpoints: Lava Lamp doesn't seem to recognise Touya and Yukito in the Clow Kingdom, CLAMP wouldn't need to hide their faces if we already correctly know who they are, Lava Lamp doesn't seem to know how Cardcaptor Sakura is related to Clow Reed.

Also: It's a bit dark! Even though Clamp are OVERFLOWING with hints that Lava Lamp's parents might just be the Cardcaptors, it would be a bit of a downer for the main characters for such a sweet and uplifting manga like Cardcaptor Sakura to end up here.

Theory Status: The one the narrative most strongly backs up, but still doesn't feel quite right

Potential Answer 2: Someone from Tsubasa

Hints in favour: THEY DON'T SHOW US THEIR FACES. EVER. Why leave their faces out unless we would recognise?

With this in mind, let us narrow down the potential Syaorans we have seen who could be considered JUST KIDDING THERE'S ONLY ONE: CLONE SYAORAN. He's the only one with an appearance distinctive enough to be immediately recognisable: he has heterochromia.

What if Clone Syaoran is Real Syaoran's father? Which would make Lava Lamp's mother either Clone Sakura or the new Fusion Sakura we just met.

Counter point: That's completely batshit.

Counter Counter Point: Logic in the universe is dying. Also this is CLAMP. It should be completely batshit.

Another Counterpoint: Hiding their faces could be a red herring just to torture us on purpose

Which I have no defence against that is 100% what they would do

Yet Another Counterpoint: Clone Syaoran and Clone Sakura are currently dead.

AND OK I HAVE NO EXPLANATION FOR THAT ONE.

Unless? There is a gap in the timeline where they could have disappeared for a long period of time? Ie, long enough to disappear to another dimensions, have children together, raise them, and then hop in the Jam Jar for an undisclosed number of years? And then time travel to still make it back into the narrative on time?

And - sure! There are MANY holes times where Clone Syaoran disappears from the narrative entirely. Most notably, his magic growth is extreme between the end of Nihon and his reappearance in the Reservoir. Also that was arguably when his soul was restored. So he MIGHT have disappeared, done all that, and still made it back in time to die in the Reservoir.

Also, if that IS the order of events, that would explain why we can never see his face AND ALSO why he still has Fai's eye when fighting in the Reservoir. Because he hasn't died yet.

Big Counter point: Yuuko has never met Lava Lamp's parents. Also, Lava Lamp's parents don't have the power to cross dimensions.

Which, yeah. That seems to rule them out entirely. Yuuko has met Clone Syaoran.

(Unless she means technically, since she wasn't in the same dimension as Clone Syaoran when she first met him in Chapter 1/2, but surely that's splitting hairs.)

So that seems to... rule them out pretty solidly?

Unless Yuuko HERSELF doesn't know exactly who they are, which seems even more unlikely than anything else.

Theory Status: Doesn't compute but I kind of want it anyway

Potential Answer 3: A completely unrelated pair of Sakura and Syaoran

Hints in Favour: It wouldn't counteract with any other facts we have so far, since we know nothing about them.

Counter point: It's boring.

Theory Status: It would work but it would be disappointing.

PS - no confirmations or denials in either direction please and thank you :D

[milesdadworth]

WHAT was the point

WHAT. WHY WOULD THEY SPECIFICALLY HAVE APOLLO TURN TO PHOENIX AND ASK HIS OPINION WHEN SUPPOSEDLY IN CANON THE MAN IS UNMARRIED.

FUCK OFF, THE ENTIRE WAA KNOW THEIR BOSS IS MARRIED TO THE CHIEF PROSECUTOR LMAO

[atopvisenyashill]

IN THIS LIGHT SHE COULD ALMOST BE A BEAUTY IN THIS LIGHT SHE COULD ALMOST BE A KNIGHT.

“in this light” that they’re both in, to be clear - twin flames fighting in the darkness. fighting against the darkness. brienne looking at the ghosts that haunt jaime, from the very real physical threats of the war he helped start to the metaphorical wounds of knighthood, chivalry, and oath-keeping , from the betrayal of realizing your father is not the man you wanted him to be, from his own stupidity, and saying “this is nothing. i can fight them all.” to help him remember the ideals of his youth, to BE the ideal of his youth; an oathbreaker to save the lives of innocent children but it won’t break her soul the way it broke his!! she’s got a beauty that goes deeper than his, and the soul of a knight much more unshakable as well. he dreams of her fighting with him, beside him, saving him, facing down the wrathful dead, and watching as he fails, but knowing she is there and she will do what he cannot!

HE DREAMT IT. HE DREAMT OF HER.

[arthursfuckinghat]

Father and son - Horseshoe Overlook

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Why out of every doctor who plot to do twice did kill the moon make the list

[kushanna]

what gets me about the ushiromiya western names is that they're christmas themed. kinzo sir you do understand you named your sons after santa klaus and rudolph the reindeer right. you cannot have the names klaus and rudolph together and not evoke christmas. i hope you're aware of that cause if my father had named me santa klaus i would also not hesitate in keeping his dead body a secret from the rest of the family

[slimedblr]

i love writing qspiderbit because i get bullshit lines like "The earth turns, the clouds move, Cellbit loves his husband. Go figure." and i have to be normal about that and act like they aren't so in love they'd combust the universe

[regallibellbright]

“Miles was not even to the end of Act I when the two guardsdragged him back down the lift tube and threw him roughly back into his prison room.”

… You know, the fact that Duv Galeni is like, genuine friends with Miles after this is all the more stunning remembering he didn’t just have to deal with Miles Naismith Vorkosigan as a subordinate, he also had to deal with Miles having an idiosyncratic truth serum reaction that caused him to perform most of Richard III as a high-speed one-man show at Duv.

Poor dude. At least it works out for him long-term, but. Man.

[chompe-diem]

game changer s6 finale teaser rlly said 'i have 30 seconds to make all these collegehumor cast members look as hot as possible. yeah okay i can make that happen'

[noel-levine-fan]

this line has always baffled me genuinely what is she talking about. what book

edit: anon helped me with this one, apparently this an idiom...! oops lol. see, i have heard things like "you could write a book on x, you know so much about it...!" but never "you wrote a book on x," like, in the past tense, like you actually wrote it. perhaps this is common and i just don't know about it, but either way, i'm happy my question is finally answered...

i'm afraid i do look a little silly now... but that's alright

NOOOOO GUYS STOP LIKING THIS POST ITS EMBARASSSINGGGGG (not genuine go ahead I find it funny)

[unmotivated-student]

what if I liveblog the rest of this episode of la rosa de Guadalupe? [i'm bored]

Quick summary of what had happened: some guys bullied a girl because she was "ugly". one of the girls in her class convinced her boyfriend [aka the same guy the other girl is in love with] to make her believe he liked her back just to humiliate her later. After this she wants to take revenge on them.

There is a time skip from many years later where they show the guy who played with the other girl's feelings, they show how basically he is miserable since he had to marry the girl he was boyfriend of [yes, the bully] because he got her pregnant

Then at the guy's job [I think this guy's name is Vince] they announce that a new director would arrive and.... dun dun dun.... [*drum roll*] yes it's the girl he humiliated, but now she's "pretty" [wait, this girl's name Is Marcela].

From here it looks like her plan is to make him fall in love with her to get revenge on him.

"This is where it begins... The revenge of the ugliest girl in the world.." yep, she said that, in a voice-over as she kissed this Vince guy.

Okay, this guy is trash he wants to divorce his pregnant wife [after cheating on her with Marcela I remind you] and then calls her ugly, comparing her to the young/"ugly" version of Marcela even though all she did was say "hey, you're acting weird and our marriage is dying"

everyone here is trash [except the mom... I kinda like the mom...]

outside: "hey, I'm already divorcing my wife, soooo... do you want to marry me?" "yes, i love u (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)" Marcela's inner thoughts: "you fell into my trap you bastard 👹"

Oh, after so many years she's finally lore-dumping her mom about the whole humilliation

THE ROSE HAS APPEARED shit's about to happen

what a great wedding, she revealed everything and humiliated them both AND the other guys who bullied her.. this is how you add excitement to a wedding with a plot twist

Now she's crying, she feels bad for what she did... [a little late for that but what do I know?]

Now the Vince guy is apologizing because he didn't know how much he had hurt her back then and now he didn't want to "lose her" cuz' he loves her [remember guys? they were going to get married about two paragraphs ago] but she said "nah i'm good, good luck with your life and I'm leaving this company."

Marcela is happy now I guess and it's someone's birthday

wait, why did the mom received the divine breeze of enlightenment? shouldn't it be Marcela? *sigh* y'know what? I don't know, I didn't even see who found the rose in the first place

[completeoveranalysis]

[6]

And we get... SOMETHING! Something sure did happen!

Is there an immediate explanation or -

NOPE.

OK END OF CHAPTER.

LET'S SEE.

The Jam Jar versions of Sakura and Syaoran are OUT, but can we piece together anything else?

Aside from the obvious visual differences (ie, covered in blood, asleep) there are a couple of things that make them look different to the present day Lava Lamp Guy and Super Sakura that we have in the middle here.

Their faces are SLIGHTLY different. Almost identical but not quite! The Jam Jar Syaoran also doesn't appear to have the goggles, and isn't wearing gloves either. Which is probably not significant, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.

Oh! Also the Jam Jar Sakura is slightly transparent! You can see the other Sakura's dress through her feet!

Wild!

What does it mean? WHO KNOWS, but I sure will wait patiently for CLAMP to tell me eventually without suffering every single day in the meantime :D

(lie)

[agnesandhilda]

haha wow when I acknowledge that everyone around me has a rich inner life with their own individual histories and motivations, I can find out how their perspective ("protagonistdom") limits them, and exploit it! which, of course, makes me the protagonist! surely this will never backfire

[blooky8]

HELLO THATS SO FUCKING BASED???? CAN WE ALL DO THAT

[sangfielle]

you gotta stop talking like this man