#no im not retreading old ground you are

[vancruejovi]

SIR WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO WITH HIM?? If you’re not gonna make him bi, what else can you do?? YOU ARE 93??

[kousagi7hikari]

Oh… there’s no more… 😢

[grimmjowjaegerjaquez]

i should draw something for grimmjows birthday

[ardentpoop]

why do i always end up here ..................

[nicollekidman]

yeah we need an immediate press release from you on ~The Prologue~

i literally do not care about it at all like. you know my stance on the usefulness/health of taylor constantly going backwards and relitigating the emotional reality of her life in the past….. but the prologue just made me really sad and reemphasizes that for the hell the media scrutiny put her through, she made it even worse for herself (i’m not saying that in a way that Blames taylor but, she pathalogically cannot and could not let things go and find out who she was outside of rumors and reputation). imagine being 24 and deciding you can never be seen with men in case it makes rumors worse, imagine building yourself a wall of female friendship while thinking, in the forefront of your mind, this will save me. it’s sad!! but like she did fully feel like an animal in a cage constantly being hunted and that’s traumatizing. so the line everyone thinks is “slamming gaylors” reads to me more like. there was nothing i could do to escape this.

i don’t care to do another whole elementary school primer on how being gay isn’t a bad thing, being straight isn’t the default blah blah blah blah but it doesn’t matter. to her, any commentary or assumptions about her personal life made from her public life was painful. which is an extremely difficult lens to live under for so long.

but at this point it’s hard for me to be like 🥺🥺🥺 about any of this when she’s currently engaged in the most obnoxious PR stint of recent memory, swiftie’s sense of entitlement and boundary crossing has only been ENCOURAGED with the “vulnerability” and retreading of old ground in the re-records, and people on twitter are like FINALLY mother is telling those dykes how disgusting and deviant she thinks they are!!!

i hope that this exercise is somehow healing for taylor, and that she’s able to experience the reclamation she’s talking about. but for me personally? i know this music. i remember who i was and what life was like when i got this music for the first time. i know how it made me feel and how it still makes me feel and all the friendship and love it’s brought into my life. i do not care for the overall project that feels, to me, like torturing taylor’s younger self AND throwing a preemptive eulogy for her. i’ve never wanted to know less about anyone in my LIFE and i hope in general that she gets what she needs from this era so she can move on and look to the future and allow herself to experience new things in both her life and music without like. the aforementioned torture.

but at the end of the day she is a pop star. my relationship to her is as a fan of a musical artist. i don’t need all of This and it’s not my responsibility to engage with the music in a way that other fans thinks will Annoy Her The Least. i am a normal person with a healthy sense of boundaries and as such it is not my responsibility to look out for what other people think is taylor swift’s mental health. so im feeling fine ❤️

[msc137]

Hey, you okay? What happened? Would it be too private to ask what the argument was about?—Chrys

oh uh. hi chrys. im alright, i guess.

just, yesterday i turned down another adventure with rick, and he got pretty upset. said that ive been avoiding him, that i care more about the "strangers" ive met online than my own family, that i clearly dont like spending time with him as much as i say i do, that sorta thing.

it got pretty heated. i accused him of, well. a lot of things. retreaded a lot of old ground.

i feel pretty guilty, but i dont really know what to do about it.

[crystalelemental]

DUDE I JUST FINISHED WATCHING REBELLION AND I'M FEELING ALL DESPAIR, HOPEFULL AND AMAZE HOW SICK THE ANIMATION, MUSIC & STORY THEY GOT HERE.

so fucking good. Do you have any favorite scenes in Rebellion if you still remember? I like that one when Bebe went to Blender to transform and that shit got me laughing. I love the entire visuals on it. Sayaka's taking out her witch got me goosebumps more. Like damn girlie you brought the Music Conductor with a sword to stop Homulily's execution.

I finally understand Homura's plan. I can feel freely go insane my blog and put some shit to make an art soon AOUGHH i am so so sorry to put you this scream ask with blood splattered on it BUT HEEHOOO im very very normal about this.

Also when we will get Clara Doll Figurines from GSC? I like these girls! I gotta look around the wiki's translations and rebellion art book scans.

God I cannot wait for Walpurgris' Rising Film.

YEAH THERE IT IS! I love this movie it’s so good. Not to be basic, but the pivot to the ending is my favorite bit. I actually bought the movie with the soundtrack when it released, and the last six tracks still get me emotional listening to it.

I’m also a big fan of the quintet transformation sequences, the moment of Homura realizing what’s going on, and the scene in the field of flowers between Homura and Madoka. There are a lot of strong scenes.

Also I’m so glad we have another Clara Doll fan. I adore those little bastards. I won’t be able to find the old post anymore, but I actually commissioned a little plush doll of one of them. I’ll take a picture when I’m home if I remember.

I…kinda can. I dunno. The new movie might be fine, but I feel like Rebellion is a particularly difficult act to follow up on. Things are now in a state and cycle where it feels like it can only retread old ground without introducing new stuff outside of this conflict. So I’m admittedly keeping expectations low, because I don’t know how much they can really do with this cast at this point. It’s been long enough that I’m excited about seeing them come back. But I’m also not expecting to be blown away.

[sexylinoleum]

I was playing Undertale the other day when I came upon a certain line of dialogue from Papyrus I've never seen anyone discuss before.

As im sure we are all aware, that phrasing "fills me with power" appears elsewhere in Toby Fox's games...

Now, this could just be nothing, or, it could be another piece to add to the ever-increasingly large pile of evidence that Sans/Papyrus aren't originally from Undertale's world.

We don't yet know what power we are being filled with but it seems likely that it isn't just fancy language given the specificity and repeditivity of the phrasing. As far as I could discover the only time "power" isn't mentioned in a save message is when there is no message at all, with the singular exception of the castle town fountain at the end of chapter 2, which changes from "Filled with power" to "Touched the light".

Interestingly the language surrounding "power" changed between chapter 1 and 2, in chapter 1 "a certain power" and "shines within you" are the two phrases used to describe saving, whereas in chapter 2 you are "filled with" "(a certain) power". What does any of this mean? I have no idea. Does it mean something? Probably.

(the certainty of the power changes sometimes)

And what role does Papyrus play? Well assuming he is from Delatrune's world we can say he is at least familiar with this power that allows us to save, but in my opinion, we can't assume that he is. Even still the language he uses in the library is peculiar even for him...

I suppose only time will tell.

*Disclaimers: I have no clue if this has been discussed before so sorry if im just retreading old ground. I also don't know if I consider it reasonable to assume that Toby would plan something like this so far in advance, it would have to be important if he did but truly it seems more likely to me that it's just a silly line. Nevertheless it is probably a good idea to keep this in mind if toby decides to make this "Certain Power" plot relevant in any tangible way.

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Bruh

[isdalinarhot]

i feel like ive said this ten billion times so forgive me if im retreading old ground but i really really refuse to believe sanderson when hes like "even though dalinar is 53 he still has a warrior's physique! even though dalinar is old he is super in shape and buff!!!!!" like. okay. i accept that dalinar has a fair amount of beef to him despite his age. but he spent like six years not at war not doing anything but sit at home and drink all day and let me tell you from experience that is an activity that can and will pack on the pounds. i can give dalinar the benefit of the doubt and say he lost some of the weight he gained in the washed up dilf era when he started killing parshendi and shit during the vengeance pact war but once hes a bondsmith and stops being out on the battlefield and starts opening sick portals almost exclusively? forgeddaboudit hes gaining a lot of that weight back. i have horny reasons for this (i simply think dalinar having a soft jock gut is hotter) but i also have like a FUCKING DUH I LIVE ON EARTH AND KNOW HOW HUMAN BODIES WORK reason for this as well. idk.dalinar for chonker 2024 i guess idk

[endless-sketching]

Caution: I'm an idiot so many things I say here might be inaccurate

A title that describes a story accurately compared to a title that echos the feeling of the story is such a compelling case

Painoko for example, the original Japanese title is called "Senpai wa Otokonoko" and Otokonoko is often used to described girly boys, a male daughter if you will. Despite that, the word itself is shrewd in a rather undefined mystery because of how Japanese queer people, like trans people, would use it to describe themselves in some fashion. So using this word tends to beckons the reader's past history to these types of gender nonconforming people, be it tomboys or femboys, otokonoko carries history but not a solid definition. At least from what I've seen a commonly agreed upon definition. If anything Otokonoko has sort of become a code word for trans safety in Japan of sorts. I'm sure that there's more history behind this that I'm ignorant of since this is basically just the tip of the iceberg to how Japan handles gender.

In short, Otokonoko is an accurate description word but a word that echos a feeling.

And when Painoko announced their anime, I was really excited about it until I found out that the title is done different from what I wanted.

A brief background check on the mangaka of Painoko, Pom (or Pomu from certain sites). More specifically what they created before Painoko, is a manga called Menhera Shoujo Kurumi-chan and how often Kurimi is used in a lot of trans memes.

(This is going to heavily focus on the trans femme side of things so my condolences for my transmen out there)

Im sure that it's pure coincidence that the many trans girls on the internet started using Kurumi specifically and that overtime people had just associated her with being the default anime trans girl rep aside from the other ones. But to go from that manga to Painoko surely means that Pomu knew about the trans memes that's been made with their character right? That in some way these trans memes had incfluenced them into exploring and making Painoko. A story that has very heavy queer coding with Makoto with how they present themselves and the turmoil that many trans girls will heavily relate too, that's just heavily intertwined with other stories within it.

Surely Pomu at least knew about the trans memes before making Painoko right? I mean people went out of their way to get Kurumi's Line stickers to make these memes.

I'd be delighted to talk to someone from Japan's side of the LGBT community about this, but as of now all I know that Kurumi is often used in a lot of these trans memes.

So it's just rather hard to see when the chosen English title they gave Painoko is called "this is him (can't be anyone else)"

It's more accurate to a certain degree but the story never directly confirms that Makoto is really trans. We see them dressed femininely without there wig they usually wear at the end but the story still addresses them with male pronouns here and there. Even up until the last chapter.

I honestly would've munched preferred a sequel to Painoko, exploring where everyone is now rather than what the currently ongoing Encounters Arc is doing by retreading old grounds again. Y'know how Yamada to Kase-san is a sequel story exploring the relationship between Yamada and Kase after the events of Morning Glories and Kase-san? Not only did it further expand on the two's relationships but it also went back and addresses a lot of uncertainty about both characters.

So it would've done leagues of clearing up many possible misconceptions about Makoto if they just made a short sequel story having Makoto directly confirming that they are a transwoman.

You've built the story up with how Makoto questions their gender identity and how they very much prefer to present femininely so why the drop the ball at a vague ending? The hints are there but you are basically giving the general masses a deadly tool to use against trans people by making it vague enough that people can twist the story in their favor instead of what you intended.

In Pomu's final afterword for Painoko, it really did feel like they were rather scared of what it'll do to them if they directly confirm Makoto is trans.

Japan in general has a very center focused "Don't break the norm" mentality in a sense. And being trans in Japan is somehow more accepted than being gay in Japan. The push for legalizing same sex marriage in Japan is there but it's been a brutally quiet battle since 2020 but that's going into politics.

If anything I'm just nitpicking over a mere title for a story that's going to be getting an anime soon.

I'm holding out hope that we'll get an interview with Pomu once the anime is out and they'll hard confirm Makoto being trans there while still keeping everything about the story and title intact.

Crunchyroll you better not fucking mistranslate it.

[not-souleaterpost]

For a next gen era fic, do you think you need to make the next gen as relatively low level in fighting capacity as Soul Eater's Three meisters were? I had an idea for such a story, but one thing i don't plan to feature is any particular rise in power for the cast(heroes and villains alike). Most of the crew is about as strong as they can be(with all the weapons being Death Scythes), with only one character in particular not being all that spectacular.

I dont know, i know the progress of getting stronger over time is baked into soul Eater's DNA as most Shonen series, but the fact is i think the original explored characters seeking strength as part of their journey well enough that doing it for the next gen is just retreading all ground.

Im way more interesting having the fights be more like the fight pre baba yaga's defeat, with a lot of interpersonal clashes where there are objectives at stake, rather than the fighting for fighting's sake that the manga became later down the line.

That way i can also use the fights to set up interpersonal rivalries between the kids and the witches they will be fighting, ala Black Star and Mifune.

Thoughts on this approach?

Thanks for the question, sorry for only answering it know, I only try to go on here once a week so I don't waste all my time scrolling social media lol.

But back to your question:

I think one reason why Shonen has this power escalation thing, especially in the "new gens surpassing the old ones" (besides obvious reasons like marketing lol) is because one does have the hope that ones children will live in a better world than you, that they will break circles of generational trauma and shit, like that old Nas song "born in correction, he'll be my resurection"

Ofcourse one can simply say that the fact that they dont have to fight that much and can focus on other more important things hence not being so powerful IS the better world the previous gen fought for.

Guess the only problem is that in battle shonen fights and powerlevels kinda define charachter, and thats why non fighters feel useless. (But more controversially I think its partly because not many writters have that inate talent of someone like Toriyama, the DBZ guy, who for example made Bulma a charachter who was interesting and relevant without ever having to fight but eh, dont wanna derail the post lol)

Ofcourse this is a kinda trivial problem, because nobody forces one to stick to the formula of the original work, and I think kinda subverting or evolving it further is more interesting than a simple retread.

But even something that seems to be repeating the same shit can work, like the next gen having the same flaws, or remixed ones, and dealing with the seemingly inescapable cycle of it - the fact that they cant even reach the heights of their parents being one additional problem and question they have to answer for themselves and the world:

Could even be like another type of Madness, entropy, for a charachter going crazy feeling that they are just a worse version of their glorious ancestors, and then thinking that their parents were too, so they're children or the next generations in the future will be even worse or something, leading to a conflict that resolves this contradiction, maybe by showing that the next gen has some novel talent.

And so we go back to the strength thing - I think ofourse it could work, but I think it would be intersting by exploring new applications of the abilitys, like maybe they are not nearly as strong, but more usefull for more problems? Maybe they get spread to a larger population so people dont require some single institution in the middle of Nevada to deal with everyones problems lol.

Maybe even it leads to a world where Kishineggs are a rarity and that is what the next gen accomplishes without doing shit youtubers overanalyze for "Could X beat Superman videos"?

I dunno, maybe I accidentally revealed some ideas from my own Next Gen concept (that Im not sure I'm ever getting to cause I have more than enough on my plate with SE Post, and not sure if I want to spend my whole life doing derivative work lol, but maybe it will materialize someday...) but I think in the end it is very possible to make a story without having charachter strengths baloon like that Macey parade or how its callled.

So yeah go for it, I think you have a good enough understanding of Soul Eater and general "shonen" stories to not fuck up that aspect, or even if you do - its a valuable experience anyways lol. Then I only will say good luck and hope to see it be realised in the future!

Oh and a little side thing - I think its prudent to have the old cast be usefull and not just disapear to not "overshadow" the new one, and thats a way to keep the powers down by knowing what treshold not to cross, and there one can even play with the idea of strength, like to spoil one of my plotpoints, I had an whole arc for an adult BlackStar who is the officially strongest by some rank (idk why they are ranked, lets just say commercialization or new mass media lol), but is kinda unhappy, first because a mysterious second ranked individual gets all the shine but also because he kinda having matured realises that he got alienated from most of his old circle, being alone while many of them had familys and settled down. Basically it would start from there and non of the next gen kids would prolly come close to his strength, atleast physically but idk if my idea comes of good in words, but if it feels like lame "charachter bashing" - Yeah...Sorry

[gayspock]

OK the last .25 of the episode and x20 me rambling

the more i see kira the funnier it is that this is somehow at all connected to her and the child she was before

also like look.... it feels shocking to me she would ever. i guess she was just a kid. but even still. i dont know man. its nuts. i hope sarah beats her ass to hell. cuz having lived through all of THAT i just... i dont buy that anyone would even think "i can do that and i can do it well this time." like kira. your aunts were all dying of sickness. and no matter what kind of passion project it was, ever, at the end of the day if youre doing it under a company theyre all property. like theres no way you can rationalise yourself out of that. i just dont believe it. maybe if she was somehow IMPLICATED sure and in over her head? that i could get more. cuz i do agree the little we did have of kiras personality, she very much was like. so fucking sick of everything by the end and just wanted to go out on her own and i can buy that she'd fall into it that way. but like having her be alike the centre of it is insane....

and like its really weird to think of any of this happening within the same universe. again i feel like it being a sequel to OB is doing it more harm than good in terms of like what its trying to achieve, the inspiration its getting and what i myself am doing in trying to engage with it. like "dont compare it to orphan black!" can only go so far when its literally Meant to be a continuation of the story and its attempting to be that and its doing the callbacks and its retreading old ground.

i am genuinely like ok im giving this a Chance but idk i feel like its incredibly mediocre and i know its like only episode 2 but i feel like.... its just sort of exhibiting so many patterns thus far that i have no faith in whatsoever.

like stop going so fast. please just build them up. you dont have to jump immediately into all of this shit. like orphan black is not like some masterfully written piece of work but it at least earned it when it went crazy and thats what made it so good.

i seriously think jules should have been the protagonist here. im not kidding. i think if we followed her pov from the beginning and did Not Deviate like just let her tske reign and have shit slowly crumble around her... idk that feels more interesting to me. like i said before. idc that much for lucy right now. im sorry she is cool but i feel like half the time theyre just telling me facts about her and im not feeling much of her actual personality. it feels like the vague background they tried to give her of her life in between then and now is like.... nothing but an attempt to make her like sarah if anything?

i feel like when im watching lucy im not seeing much of a struggle with anything. i think thats also why i'd prefer jules. her stabbing lucy with with the makeshift toilet shank was like the most orphan black thing ive seen so far. LOL. again when we follow her it feels like some actual... tension. and stakes. and yeah shes like a kid and usually idc about kid protagonists which maybe thats why they did not go with her but... she feels a lot more realised to me.

and again you could say thats the point!! lucy is a blank slate!! but i dont know. just cuz somethings The Point doesn't make it well executio. its like i said thats genuinely such a hard thing to pull off. if you cant do it... dont make her your protag. sorry. i think she'd be so much more compelling as a secondary character. maybe more akin to what helena was in terms of presence (not in character, but again, presence). i think that would actually help her a lot and the mystery and the slower burn on who she is and what she's been through and seeing her through jules' eyes primarily would be way more interesting to me. cuz right now we're just skipping through her story and im not really feeling..., anything. like i like jack and and charlie but it went so fast with them too. i feel like they needed to draw that conflict out way more than they did. or shit man. ok i know WOMEN RIGHTS. even jack i think would be a more compelling protagonist to me or well. not protagonist. but if we followed HIS perspective first and saw lucy and then if he somehow bumped into jules.... I DONT KNOW. MY POINT IS IM LIKE. I DONT LIKE THE WAY THEYVE GONE ABOUT THIS. or lucy. sorry lucy. i feel like right now again. they just tell the camera us who she is as a fucking person . and im like ok. kewl.

anyway its sort of a shame idk if its like this is even lost potential. because like well there is potential to do a good clone show with all the stuff im talking about. its called orphan black and it ended years ago. sorry.

ok so myh thoughts after like literaly 1.75 episodes: i will watch 1 or 2 more but i dont think im sticking with this

i was like im not gonna have others' opinion kinda sway me here but from my own concerns i did go and take a lookie loo on some of the stuff ppl have been saying abt this bc im just fascinated. hows it been out since NOVEMBER in aus and its been crickets

and like i think it looks like what i was expecting of like... i dontthink theyre really going anywhre new or inventive with this. instead trying to redo certain plot elements of the original orphan black, bring in cameos and callbacks without... ughghgg... you know....

like from what ive seen so far i just dont have that much faith in it. its fine. its good. good performances. but idgaf. i feel like its just really superficial and its... inorganic? i wish it wouldnt keep pushing itself along. i wish the writing was a bit better. its not bad but i keep catching myself off with it and i feel like im not drawn in to whats happening. it all feels kinda stilted. and strange. and blah

anyways this is kinda a shame whatevwer. i mean i didnt really have high hopes for it so i guess its just met them?

[figula]

hello -

it’s my birthday in 8 DAYS! and after this fri ben is off for AGES :) (he got my birthday week off + an extra two days to take me to the funeral lol. which is less pleasant... but im v happy he’ll be there) he was also planning on seeing his family again this weekend but i was a bit horrified by this bc i wa slike ??? my birthday is a few days after that and the funeral is a few days after THAT so many dont go to a mid size gathering??????? anyway he agreed w/o a fuss so w/e that’s fine too. hopefully nothing terrible will happen within now and a) my birthday on the 26th, and b) gdad’s funeral on hte 30th

didn’t have thearpy yesterday which im v pleased about bc money + im not in crisis or anything atm so w/e and i feel like there’s not much to talk abo0ut atm that isnt retreading old ground? also, every few weeks she schedules a week off which im really curious about bc i wonder what she’s doing but i dont feel like i should ask lol like i dont want to blur the lines btwn friendship and therapy u know

made a decent amount of money today and am nearly up to date w/ commissions too so that’s good

visiting potential wedding venue on mon w/ benno. this is the one i really really want tbh so keep your fingers crossed for me... partially i want it bc it’s 1k vs ben’s pick which is 7.5k (??? does he think we are royalty what on earth) but also bc it’s just woodland and i love that. also they have wedding farm animals you can hang out with on the day, what is better than that? i would really prefer to spend less money on the wedding + more money on adventures together tbh (he was even complaining last week that we haven’t had enough adventures lol bc he was at his brother’s the other day absolutely seething over the fact that he had taken his gf to hythe AND HE WANTED TO TAKE ME TO HYTHE FIRST lmfao so like ben darling if u are reading this surely we should get married for cheaper xx and then go to hythe and/or iceland xx)

also earlier we were hanging out in bed and i made the fatal mistake of being like “you cant move me, with my incredibly strong wrists” and then the fucker took both hands and like WRENCHED my wrist off him and it didn’t hurt at the time tbf but now it aches so much -_- i have got to learn to not challenge him physically for my own entertainment + HE HAS GOT TO LEARN HIS OWN STRENGTH (bolded for ben’s benefit)

anyway sorry to everyone who is rightly anti-marriage for being deeply boring about my wedding

[zuffer-weird-girl]

Welcome back...

Tartarus was a mess. The world was a mess.

He didn't care. Not one bit. The pain on his forehead was nothing. He had been hitting that door just for someone to finally open his cell for him to get out, as soon as he heard the commotion that was happening on that prison.

He wasn't the same anymore. His pride long forgotten as he could only mutter 'father' in a state of desperation as he saw the chaos and tried to run.

His arms were missing but his legs weren't. So he ran as fast as he could. Leaving the prison as well as a bunch of criminals.

God... now that he knew it how much he fucking ruined his life... He didn't even know if the Shie Hassaikai was still working after his left. Oh who was he kidding..? Pops was in coma as he the supposed sucessor of the yakusa was arrested.

He heard the screams and shouts as he ran. The chaos was established... this was Shigaraki's plan? He didn't know neither could care at the moment.

He walked in a state of shock and traumatized as he started to see the city over a few kilometers away... Tartarus was located 5km away from the mainland and he was a tad bit impressed on how much he could run still after those hellish months he had to endure on that place.

It was the dead of the night, almost midnight he guessed, when he dragged his feet at the desert street. Maybe the city was in a state of lockdown after the prisoners of Tartarus escaped...

No single soul was in that street, walking in a state of misery. He could feel the drop of blood slidding down from the middle of his forehead to his chin... he wanted to at leats wipe it off, but oh with what he would? With the remains of his long lost arms?

He stopped when he recognized the building he once used to live. His eyes widejing as his feet moved before his mind could as he saw that even after months, the walls seemes to be in construction to repare.

He licked his dry lips as he looked at both his sides to ensure none police or hero was nearvy before kicking the door with all his force in desperation.

He stopped dead when the gate opened just a bit to show a gun pointed at his forehead.

"What?" Came a harsh voice as he gulped the thick air stuck on his throat. "What do you want damn freack?!"

"Im... I..." why his voice was horrible and hoarse liek that he didn't know, but he soon got desperate at seing he couldn't even say who the fuck he was.

"Get the fuck out." The old male groaned but Chisaki got his foot in before the man closed the gate, hissing at the sharp pain.

"I'm Chisaki Kai. The adopted son of Pops." He blurted out in panicked pants as the old man eyes widened in horror.

The male opened the gate and reveleaved himself, an old colleague of pops for sure as he checked him form head to toe.

"The one who got arrested? The one that made experiments with my friend's actual granddaughter who is now on care fo heroes?" He asked with venom on his voice as Chisaki felt almost sick to the stomach at hearing but could only nod. "How did you get here? I heard you were locked in Tartarus."

"Tartarus broke down a couple of hours ago... I.. escaped." The male narrowed his eyes at him even more but sighed, opening the gate for him to enter.

"You look like shit. Come in." He swore he almost dropped to his knees at the moment. But tahnks to heavens his legs allowed him to walk enough to enter.

"I have to take you to (L/n)-sama first." He widened his eyes once again as he heard your name being spilled from that man's mouth.

You... you were still here...?

But.. you didn't contacted him. Not even once. Ever since he was arrested he eneber heard of you again.

"Pardon..?" He almost whispered as the male lead him.

"She was your partner, right? (L/n)-sama confirmed that when you were arrested. By our traditions, if the successor or the other boss get arreste don a state of coma." He glared at him whose truly made him want to vomit "The wife or partner of the last boss takes the lead of the said yakusa."

So.. you accepted that..? But he knew you, he knew hwo much you hated his work... why would you-

"Here." He opened the door for him to enter "Take a sit and wait here." He closed the door abruptly making him wince.

The office of Pops... that guy really wanted to torture him. It was almost untouched tha place. Even the couch felt the same as usually would...

He soon perked up when he heard footssteps and standed up the best he could. Almost tripping even.

Pathetic. He was pathetic.

The door opened and he felt his heartbeat stop as appeared, (E/c)'s eyes widening as soon as they saw his figurine standing there... you havent changed a bit. Only for the appearance of someone who has been overworking themselfs to death... face scrunched from nights of crying...

It was a silence and such a tense atmosphere as you both stared at eachother... his eyes burning at seeing you there... he thought he would never see you again...

He saw how you blinked and rubbed your eyes only for you to widen them even more at seing him standing there still.

"K...K-Kai...?" You managed to finally pet out as his heart clenches.

You still called him ny his first name... his true first name.

You stepped closer to him as your hands hovered over his face and widened in horror at finally noticing the missing of his arms...

"What... happened to you? What is this?!" You gestured to both of the rest of his arms and his bruised forehead.

For some reason.. hearing your still concerned tone of voice made him break.. how could you still use that tone of voice with him after what he has done?! After he put his iwn father on coma?! He hadn't heard of you ever since he was arrested and now you were being nice and concerned to him?! Was this some other torture?!

"Kai!" He hadn't notices he had fell into his kness and started to hiperventilate. He could feel your hands on him as you wiped whatever it was falling from his eyes. "Hey! Hey look at me! Kai!"

He wailed. Dropping his face on the crook of your neck. Tears casting down from his eyes like waterfalls as he shouted and sobbed loudly on you. Breath hitching when you hugged his bigger form and brought him closer.

The moment he finally calmed down you parted away from the embrace and helped him up.

"Lets get you clean up, come on." You went to grab his hand but immediately retreading to grab his shoulder.

He could only follow you. Feeling numb and the headache coming from how much he had cried on your arms.

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The water was comfortably warm as he finally allowed to drop his shoulders at feeling the water dropping on his body. He was still in his boxers when you helped him up... he didn't even spoke a single word as you touched every part of his body just to help clean himself up since he couldn't even do that. Even surprising himself when you brought him his old clothes.

He couldn't understand... he thought that if you didn't even went to visit him, yomust had to hate him. Despise him for what he had done like everyone else... Luckily he didn't put you on the plans with eru or else the love of his life would be arrested as well.

"A penny for your thoughts?" Your soft voice manifested as he still looked down at the ground from the spot of his old bed.. it was so much comfier than the brick he was forced to.

"... is it because of pity you pushed aside your anger towards me?" His voice was so hoarse and pained himself crunched his face at hearing.

"Pity?" You giggled sadly sitting besides him "Not quite. I-"

"Why then you did all this...? You should had let me die ..." he whispered as your chest clenched at his words.

"Why would i do that with my boyf-"

"Dont. Dont say it. After all I've done you should despise me. Hell, I thought that so after being denied of even a fucking information if you were safe..." he dropped his head befoore hearing a gaso from you.

"What do you mean? I was told by the guards of Tartarus that visits weren't allowed. And I always at least send you a letter, pn your first week when I was denied entry I send you a mask and a letter." You said while arching an eyebrow as he catched what had happened.

"The guards didn't delivered... must have stocked or throw away..." you furrowed your eyebrows but sighed shakily.

Suddenly his breath hitched when you hugged his torso and burried your face against his neck. For the first time he hadn't tensed at sucha coforting touch, but felt warm after so long without it.

"I missed you so much..." you mumbled, wetting his neck with your tears as he clenched his teeth at feeling drops of water falli g from his eyes once again.

"Damn you... I already cried enough didn't I..?" He burried his face in your hair as he allowed to be hugged. For once wishing his arms were back only to pull your body closer to him.

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Dan Stevens Interview: I'm Your Man

I'm Your Man star Dan Stevens talks about what drew him to the German sci-fi rom-com and what he looks for in new roles.

BY ASH CROSSAN

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Dan Stevens plays a humanoid robot designed to be the perfect life partner in the new film, I'm Your Man. Directed by Maria Schrader, who co-wrote the script alongside Jan Schomberg, the film takes a playful look at relationships, romance, and what it means to be human. Stevens stars alongside Maren Eggert who plays Alma. She is persuaded to partake in a study that requires her to live alongside the robot in order to receive research funding.

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Stevens spoke to Screen Rant about the unique new film and how he chooses his roles.

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Screen Rant: I loved this movie, it was so darling. But this is also the moment that I learned that Dan Stevens speaks fluent German! What is your history with German, and was there a challenge in doing a romantic comedy in a language that isn't your first language?

Dan Stevens: I spoke German from quite an early age. I learned it at school, and we had some family friends who lived there, and we used to vacation there a lot, and [I] just fell in love with the language and the country pretty early on. I did a movie there about 13 years ago, so I'd had some familiarity with film German, which it is its own kind of language in a way.

It definitely improved a lot last summer, and I polished it up pretty quickly to tackle this role. The language, and the heightened language that this role requires is I think pretty complex even for a German. And it was a tremendous challenge, the physical challenge of portraying this evolving Android. But also you had the linguistic challenge of just getting my head around some of the languages, and thinking almost doubly differently. It was kind of wonderful.

My favorite characters to watch are those newborn-baby type adults, like in Wonder Woman when she's discovering the world for the first time. What was your favorite part about playing a character like that?

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Dan Stevens: There's a certain kind of naivety to him, for sure. And in that sense, it falls into a classic genre in a way, whether it's like a caveman coming back to modern-day or whatever. It's like, "What is this world?"

I think in this film, you sort of see-through both the character’s eyes, really, and I think Alma is a wonderfully naturalistic human character. And then you have this, as you say, this naive man-baby very quickly trying to adjust. And yeah, just looking and learning, and that's kind of a delightful space to be and a place to play. And just calibrating exactly how quickly he's learning, and how much he's learning, and watching him get it wrong as well. And I think that's what the film looks at very much, is about imperfections, and how human it is to get things wrong, and to be off.

You're one of those people I run to the theater for, because what I love about you so much is that you haven't fallen into this typecast thing, you're not pigeonholed into any certain type of role. How do you feel like you've managed to navigate that? And is that something that's intentional, because you're so great at every single genre, you're so funny too.

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Dan Stevens: Thank you very much. I definitely am always looking for challenges, and that's not to say that I wouldn't retread old ground sometimes, but trying to look for things that stimulate me, and hopefully stimulate audiences. And also to keep surprising people, I think, and it's as much about what you say no to, as what you say yes to. I could tell you the things that I would like to do, but I don't know if somebody out there might not want me to do those. But there are plenty of people who want me to do certain things that I've maybe already done, and I feel I've done those, or the way they're presented, it doesn't make me want to do them again yet. So, it's about just picking and choosing, it's as much about the filmmaker, and the role, and the quality of the writing as the genre, exactly. So if someone came up with any number of genres I've already done that really appealed, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Was there something that came up to replay a character, and you were like, "No, I'm not ready to do that yet"?

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Dan Stevens: I don't know. I struggle to think of specifics, but it's funny, each time you do something, well usually, there'll be a wake of similar things that come along, whatever that is. But yeah, not many German sci-fi rom-coms come my way. So yeah. It's the challenge.

If I could pitch one to you, I feel like it would really save the day if you would do a Eurovision prequel or sequel with your character, because that was my favorite role you've done. I thought it was so funny.

Dan Stevens: Oh, bless you. Yeah, it was one of my favorites too. I had a huge amount of fun doing that, and yeah, getting to learn from the likes of Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams. And it was a real treat, that one. So yeah, thank you.

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Bakugan/Wings of Fire hcs, contains a smidge of angst, and also spoilers for as much of the books as ive read i havent caught up recently i just feel nostalgic for an old au

So way back when i put a whole lot of thought into this complicated crossover au that i was going to write a whole multichapter fic about

In recent years ive since set...lower goals for myself, and just conceded to the fact that i only really want to write about certain characters that are my favs and ignore the ones i dont think deeply about while i lay awake in bed at 3am. However if im missing anybody you happen to care about I'll gladly come up with some sfw non-ship headcanons for you

Anyway,

Mira Fermin, old hc was that she was a Mudwing but i want to change her to a Skywing. Mudwings do have a sibling emphasis and i was planning to give her a whole new backstory for the au but i wanna stick closer to her canon backstory of being abandoned by her dad and brother and deciding to find new family elsewhere

Baron Leltoy, old hc Sandwing new hc Mudwing. Now Baron is the one who fits the Mudwing sibling dynamic! He's the fire-immune Bigwings who protects and nurtures his energetic gaggle of smaller sibs. Honestly, i think the Sandwing idea was just desert=haos lmao

Ace Grit, Nightwing. Idk, he's emo and edgy and he's a darkus user, i dont have any better ideas so i dont feel like revising the old idea

Volt Luster, old hc Sandwing new hc Mudwing. Kind of the same idea with Baron, but with a tragic twist. Volt couldn't save his siblings, and the loss deeply scarred him emotionally and physically. Whatever the Vexos are in this universe, Volt only joined to regain a sense of family and belonging. He dotes on the other members whenever they allow him to, which isnt often in an environment so tied up in pride and prestige in battle.

Mylene Pharaoh, old hc seawing new hc icewing. At the risk of making Mylene into an edgy Elsa I think that this would work better for her character. Icewings are very tied up in rules and ranks, even down to the lowest members of society, whereas seawings can live much freer lives unless theyre literally royalty. And since i dont want to retread ground the literal protags of the og plot trod on years and years ago, I'll go with Icewing Mylene either being banished or sent as an emissary, slowly and imperceptibly thawing out towards the ramshackle found family that calls itself the Vexos.

Shadow Prove, Nightwing. Kind of in the same boat with Ace ngl

Lync Volan, Rainwing. Idk man

Prince Hydron, old hc Icewing, new hc ??? (This ones kinda complicated) so the main thread of 'whiny teen heir turns out to be abuse victim' was going to be applied through the icewing system because i was trying to do a one-of-each-clan type thing, but i think sandwing or skywing would work better. Idk tho

Thats it for NV, heres some GI

My old hcs were to have the GI characters spread across the original 7 clans, but since the lost continent arc came out its basically

Major 12 Orders: Hivewings

Minor 12 Orders: Silkwings

Nethians: Leafwings

Honorable mentions include Ren being a Nightwing, making a tent with his wings for Seawing Prince Marucho to wriggle into so he could light up his scales and make the starry fleck scales on Ren's wings glitter while they cuddle and fall asleep, and also Zenet being a rainwing because shapeshifter

Season 4 characters are probably gonna follow GI guidelines, Silkwing Paige and Leafwing Rafe kinda slaps ngl

Uhh yea i think thats it for now thanks for reading bye