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The living are messy.
#dead boy detectives#deadboydetectivesedit#dbdedit#edwin payne#crystal palace#charles rowland#george rexstrew#kassius nelson#jayden revri#mine#once again. me when i lie#not feeling the colouring of this show just yet :/ but eh im trying
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holy shit is this gonna be the year of creators-of-a-thing-i-like-finally-releasing-something-new



#worf opens their big mouth#YES I KNOW THE CAKE THING ON WILLIAMS TWITTER ACCOUNT WAS A LIE#I STILL THINK A 2025 RELEASE IS LIKELY‼️‼️‼️#hk#hollow knight#silksong#deltarune#knights of guinevere#it makes me so sad when a creator of a show i like just goes dark after their thing is cancelled/ended/complete etc#hamish steele where are youuuuyu#mark andrews please awaken once again (he sorta did recently but still)#headless i know is doing something at laika rn but i wanna SEEEEEE#20#30
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okay as an admitted did-not-watch-NTTD'er who got, like, all of their info from uhh recappers, the wiki synopsis, the specific clips with Q I watched, and whatever I osmosis'ed from fics.
I finally watched the beginning of NTTD at @prismatic-bell's nudging. And I was like. Okay wait. wait wait wait. This is... well-written? And shot and directed & acted?? In a hollywood movie lmao?? Like. The way it's set up w Madeleine's backstory, and then the Bond & Madeleine stuff that does a much better job of establishing their relationship, the goooorgeous wide shots.
I admittedly was rather "I close my eyes I do not see" to a lot of canon - coming from partially a comics fandom background I'm very aware, well-versed, and well-practiced in the 'canon is your pick-and-choose buffet no need to feel like you have to 'respect' the 'sanctity' of 'canon' esp when it's Bad (like it contradicts other canon or you can just Tell this character was Not Written Well and it's like, here's what it could be that is better)' - and from opinions I saw on NTTD I was expecting to be very pick & choose about it.
But okay, wait. wait wait wait. It works. The beginning at least which I watched. Works. Like, it establishes a key character moment for Madeleine that Explains Everything about her behavior, actually - like she just like Bond is actually also very traumatized & has been locking it down/deflecting it vs processing it, and the whole like Vesper thing is (to me) very obviously her misdirecting Bond away from her own Goin Thru It. I can see how it can read as very suspicious to Bond esp with everything else but it, like, is a Narrative and Makes Sense for her character and Works. wild.
Even the Bond stuff makes a ton of sense. Like, when I hadn't watched it and was going off second & third hand information, one of the things I was hrrrm ?? about was the. How do you get from the guy who says "I miss you" at Vesper's grave, to the guy who put Madeleine on the train. The man who, even after finding out Vesper betrayed him, still wanted to save her? Would... send Madeleine away? In what, a fit of pique? Surely he's more of a "run to me and I will handle it" if it turns out not to be true or a "if it is, I'll handle it" kind of guy.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IT WAS. YOU KNOW WHAT IT FUCKING WAS LMAO. I WAS MISLED BY THE FUCKIN. BILLIE EILISH SONG LMAO. The lyrics of it make it SOUND like it's a like "you betrayed/cheated on me how could I have ever trusted you" break-up song kind of situation. BUT IT ABSOLUTELY FCKN WASN'T LMAO.
It's like. two traumatized individuals who trauma-bonded and honestly maybe should have spent time apart healing/learning themselves again before re-evaluating if they think a relationship could work, but like. they both were Goin Thru It and let themselves get carried away with it ig. And then right when Madeleine was like. hm I've been Not Dealing with this a Lot (tbh her being a psychologist probably made it worse cuz I think it made her more effective at Not Dealing With It and deflecting/misdirecting, but like. I don't think she was doing it intentionally, I think it was just a "combination of circumstances" thing. But this also works cuz I think before the like why did Madeleine push him towards Vesper again even though he said she was in his past. And it's like. She was delaying dealing with HER shit and probably unconsciously deflected his attention by poking at waht she thinks is still HIS equivalent to her baggage) where was I. Oh yeah, Madeleine is like. hm. yeah. the whole letting go of secrets thing. I. need to come clean to him...
but then all of the Spectre stuff happens.
Even the him sitting in the car thing is soooo so so. Cuz Craig absolutely put his whole pussy in the acting for this scene. he's got that like. wrong side of overstimulated so you shoot past being in the zone and instead are zoning out lowkey thing going on, mixed with the like. agent faced with a hopeless situation Observing Everything still but like vaguely morbidly amused about it, probably what's running through the brain rn is "lmao, wonder which bullet will be The One" kind of deal. And cross-cutting the shooting & wide shots with the bells was *chefs kiss* genius.
Even Madeleine not managing to tell him was well written/paced. Cuz it was very believable that she (not trained for this) was scared/shocked & couldn't get a word out. Until the "JAMES. I'd rather die than have you think I--" and then the fucking. tragedy of the bad timing. god. And then even her not just saying it later is like, it all makes sense with the way it was paced, shot, & edited. It was beaaautiful oh man. This also where I was like. damn lmao. miscommunication in a movie where it. feels like it makes sense and isn't just a stupid macguffin lol??? In a hollywood movie?? wild
but yeah this is also where it was like. hey wait. the man who, in the face of sort of a morbid (passively?) suicidal emotional blowout due to the Everything, but was able to break through it when she got through to him enough for him to look at her, and her to cry & shake her head like no, it's not true/no don't do this/please/(w.e). and go, "Okay." and take action. How does he put her on the train??
BUT. BUT FUCKING. BUT THEN. MY GOD. *Actually* watching the fucking scene I was like. Ooooh. ough ough oh god. This isn't him vindicatively cutting her out of his life "the bitch is dead" style. This is his Vesper in the elevator cage moment. He's fucking drowning in the cage but he doesn't want to take her with him. He's locking her out of the cage. god.
And the fucking. devastation on his face while he's on the platform. THAT'S HIS FUCKIN. VESPER HOLDING HIM ONE LAST TIME AND SHOVING HERSELF TO TH EBACK OF THE CAGE AAARGGGGHH BARK BARK BARK
Which, a-fucking-gain. THEN MAKES THE NO TIME TO DIE SONG. ALL THE FUCKING MORE EGREGIOUS LMAO. "was I stupid to love you was I foolish to trust was it obvious to everybody else" WHAT ARE YOU ON. THIS IS A SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY THIS ISN'T FUCKIN. 'THE BITCH IS DEAD.'
God this is like when ppl are convinced QoS was Bond going on a revenge rampage when he was (1) not even rampaging (2) not on a revenge quest/storyline - that was Camille's story!!!* caveat I did not watch QoS either lol, but I did watch a video essay breaking it down which I found Very Compelling and have since incorporated it into my worldview lmao. Like, in light of me actually watching the beginning of NTTD, and then it launching into the title sequence and the song. IT ACTIVELY. REWRITES HISTORY YOU JUST WATCHED ON THE SCREEN AAAGGGHHH BITE CHOMP KILL. IT UNDERMINES THE WHOLE. ALL OF THE WORK THE FILMMAKERS DID UP TO THAT POINT IN PLOTTING OUT ACTING OUT & ESTABLISHING THE STORY TO THIS POINT.
Like. The problem of the song isn't even oh it's a limited POV thing. IT'S NOT EVEN WAHT BOND'S POV WOULD HAVE BEEN/SHOULD HAVE BEEN BY THAT POINT. Again, this is the "the bitch is dead" edit of the scene, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. THIS IS BOND LOWKEY SPIRALING AND LIKE. OVERSTIMULATED-EXTREME-EMOTIONAL-AMBUSH-IN-A-VERY-SHORT-TIME LOWKEY EMOTIONALLY SPINNING OUT. BUT THEN BREAKING THRU IT ENOUGH WHEN MADELEINE CALLED FOR HIM. TO LOCK HER OUT OF HIS SINKING CAGE. BRUH. BE SO FORREAL RN.
also lmao she clutches her torso WAY too high up, bruh that's her sternum not her belly... but ig the idea translates across still.
but yeah. god. And here I thought No Time to Die the song was just. boring & musically uninspiring. but no. it's so much worse lmao. god.
#like. skyfall has parts where the lyrics are. not very lyrical (/poetic) lmao#which NTTD at a rough scan seems to avoid. but it does that by genericizing the lyrics so much that again. this could be#any pop girlie im so edgy and betrayed breakup song#but. again. IT SHOULD. ABSOLUTELY NOT BE THAT.#also I think I'm still holding a grudge from the recapper I watched who said they liked this song but found Writing's on the Wall 'whiny'#bruh be forreal lmao. NTTD is the whiny one. WotW is like. *plaintive*. but what the hell do you call#'was it obvious to everyone else that id' fallen for a lie you were never on my side fool me once fool me twice *are you death or paradise*#like cmon now.#but god. so not only is this song lyrically generic musically uninspired. but it actually also actively undermines the#entire pre-title sequence. and lowkey ultimately the whole movie. if the lyrics of this song are the last thing on your mind going#into the rest of it...#(then again. I can't speak to the rest of it lol. but I just. don't think Bond is a man who is wangsting#given what we see of him in Jamaica. Like. this is a very different man from his first time around there#as Nina pointed out. he has hobbies and things and is like. Doing Things. this is a man living a life#like it very much is the 'he needs to take time to himself & try to recenter & heal & recover'#vs the first time in Skyfall when his life was like. drinking. woman. Scorpion.#blgh god the perception gap. of. 'this is what people think James Bond' is vs who he actually is lmao. man)
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So fucked up that obimaul is a rarepair. What do you mean not everyone is obsessed with enemies to lovers with a Force connection, where one side is completely obsessed with the other who barely acknowledges him (but is just as affected)
#hm i should make an original post tag#obimaul#like. say what you want but obi-wan saw a random dathomirian zabrak and immediately went 'maul?? alive??'#he DOES care about maul he just doesn't actively seek him out like maul does#post prompted by this song that makes me think about Maul in his crime lord era‚ all the luxury of the world within his reach‚#but none of it satisfies him because what he really wants is to find (and kill) kenobi#'another night up in the best suite; everything's gone wrong already‚ my body admits; dreaming so high the floor is the limit;#once again i got lost.. [...] another night i give myself‚ top of a skyscraper; i'm the king of the world‚ dreams for rent;#and when i look at myself i sigh with a low voice‚ 'i don't feel bad i just feel nothing''#(<- song is são paulo‚ 2015 by jão)#it's a song about feeling dissatisfied with the life of fame because there's an emptiness he can't fill with sex drugs or luxuries#and from the context of the album it's likely he's thinking about a past lover he's still not over#so. imagine with me.#i might make something out of this. maybe.#but like. posting about songs that make me think obimaul thoughts. not very productive. almost no audience.#... and while making this post i've been attacked by yet another song with a very obimaul words#'lie to me‚ run from me‚ we swear it doesn't count‚ in this way of ours‚ but it's not because i hate you that i can't kiss you anymore'#<- pilantra by jão and anitta
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lesbian masterdoc and the unforgivable damage of making people hear compulsory heterosexuality and think of "can lesbians have crushes on men?" (no) instead of "are heterosexual women settling in unhappy marriages with men bellow their worth because of economic and social pressure?" (yes)
#not claiming the theory was without flaws but it sure didn't describe some virus mental affliction that exclusively plagues lesbians#for starters the theory was primarily about marriage. so it did recognise the historical fact of lesbians forced into marriage to avoid#honor killings and the still present possibility and threats especially when it comes to cults and strong religions#(once again mentioning as a Jeová's witness in a brazilian periphery my girlfriend accepted the tool of losing her entire family and social#circles to reject an arranged marriage at the age of 17. and she's bisexual. but THAT is what compulsory heterosexuality alludes to)#but more often than not when it addressed lesbians it was as the inherent threat they pose to heteropatriarchy#that they mere existence proved women were not all born to serve men. and that their lives often proved women are much happier and#accomplished when away from the burden of men.#and this acknowledging just how much loneliness was a reality through lesbian's experiences#at the same time I can understand the frustration of that feminist theory being reduced to 'comphet is when lesbians in high school were#pressured into picking one of the Backstreet Boys to lie about finding attractive'. and even more so when that non universal and much less#serious example somehow morphed into 'comphet is when bisexual women either lying or confused about being lesbians have sex with men and#find it unfulfilling' because accepting that narrative erases and harms lesbians#so I understand the 'comphet isn't real' posts especially because written like that it tends to refer to lesbian masterdoc and following#fiasco. but at the same time that wasn't the original intent of compulsory heterosexuality the actual feminist term#this is just me complaining about how social media butchers theory tho unless they are specifically naming Rich and the many other feminist#who wrote about heterosexual marriage as an institution I won't bother lesbians for venting frustration about neoliberal erasure of lesbian#the original theory sure didn't claim lesbians were immune to all this misogynistic violence but the term was never exclusively about them#and tended to ask more of 'where do we stand as women and feminists as a group much more interested in destroying heterosexual marriage than#simply making it more bearable?'#this got a little messy and senseless I'm tired#.txt
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Osamu who puts his cap in sports mode (backwards) when he wants a kiss
#and back in relaxed mode (shield facing to the front) again once he gets one#when you fluster him enough he tips it down to hide his blushing#or tips YOURS down#all of that with a towel thrown over his shoulder and arm sleeves…….#OR turns yours around when you ignored him for too long (how dare) (it’s been 3 minutes)#‚new order just came in its 3 kisses for the chef can you take over?‘#arm sleeves. i'm so normal about the arm sleeves#me when i lie#lale.txt
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yes baddies i have seen that reddit post talking about the mistranslations of sylus and the difference in localizations and ive read a lot of interesting things and ill do a deep dive on that some time later this week
#i really want to talk about it#because once again: IT ALLUDES TO HOW MY THEORIES/IDEAS ARE CORRECT#divination doesnt lie to me when it comes to these men i told yall this time and time again#but being a full time college student kills me.#thank yew#sylus#love and deepspace#love & deepspace#lads#lnds#l&ds
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I haven't done one of these in forever but welcome back to Sketch Rambles About MCSM Stuff at an Unreasonable Hour of the Night 🎉🎉🎉
Tonight, I'm gonna discuss one of my favorite songs from the Minecraft: Story Mode OST, "Redstone Baby," and the potential lore that it holds. And why that's very Sorengaard related.
Disclaimer: this is me interpreting silly block people. Unless otherwise stated (or in the game), it ain't actually canon. Also, I am a teenage girl. I am not versed very well in the specifics of how music theory works and how it's used in media. Also also, I wrote most of this like two months ago and completely forgot about it.
(In case you needed a reminder of how it sounds)
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This song appears twice in the season 1 episode 3: when you arrive in Soren's lab area, and again in the end credits. It can also be heard through the closed secret entrance wall in the Wool World™, and it gradually becomes clearer as you approach the door to Soren's lab, where a music disc is playing the song inside.
The instrumentation of "Redstone Baby" consists of guitar, piano, and violin. It feels comforting and cozy, whilst also giving a sad, longing sort of vibe. According to a comment written 6 years ago by Antimo on the linked video, they were going for a sorta "Fallout: New Vegas" vibe when they wrote it. The song holds an air of nostalgia, of better times. An idealized dream of how the world could be.
To get to the point: it's cute, it's cozy, and it's a love song in a game where they weren't allowed to explicitly write any canon ships (if I'm remembering correctly). Also one of the few songs in this game to be given lyrics. So, of course, we're gonna talk about this. Or rather I'm gonna write about it and you're gonna read it.
The lyrics go as follows:
In a marshmallow world, you're my sweetheart.
In a marshmallow world, you're my sweetheart.
You're the bed to my rock,
The flint to my steel.
My redstone baby doll...
My redstone baby doll.
(music)
In a marshmallow world, you're my sweetheart.
In a marshmallow world, you're my sweetheart.
My sugar baby...
aaaah ladada, awoah...
The lyrics are pretty strange, right? It seems nonsensical at first, but I (and many others) believe that it has more meaning than meets the eye.
This is a love song addressed to a someone proficient with redstone. Funnily enough, Soren's old friend group did have one of those. A brilliant Redstone Engineer: Ellegaard. And quite interestingly, these two were pretty close, as is said multiple times in canon. I think Magnus mentions their little "Nerd Club," in episode 3 at some point. Another fact to back me up on this: Soren calls the song "Symphony in E" in-game on the little radio-disk-program-thing.
And for whatever reason, Soren and Ellegaard didn't stay close or end up together. There's not really a way to know for certain what went down between them. All we do know is that Soren wishes it was different.
The "marshmallow world" that is talked about in the song is Soren's perfect world. It's safe, sweet, and fluffy. I am of the opinion that it could possibly be an indirect reference to the wool world that Soren built. It's bright. It's safe. No monsters can get him there. He can just build things and be happy. In a perfect, marshmallow world, Ellegaard is with Soren.
The metaphors Soren uses here, "the bed to my rock, the flint to my steel," they're both iconic, inseparable duos: bedrock, and flint and steel. In Minecraft, bedrock is the unbreakable foundation beneath all else in the Overworld. Flint and steel is used to set things on fire, and is most often used to light Nether portals, which is way less symbolic (unless someone can find something? maybe the whole flaming heart being a metaphor for love thing?) but still iconic and the phrase has a very nice rhythm to it.
When we first hear the song, it feels like normal wishful thinking. It's more just fluff and poetry than full-on wants and desires.
But when we hear it in the end credits of episode 3... We just saw someone die after sacrificing their safety for Jesse's. The monster that they died to help kill isn't even dead. Someone we thought was dead is actually alive and doesn't remember anything. It's loud, dark, and burning. A sickening storm of death and destruction. Anything but the marshmallow world.
Without considering which of the two died, this song is already quite jarring in comparison to what was just witnessed. This "marshmallow world" that seemed somewhat close just a moment ago now feels implausible, and thus it'd be worth so much more if it were real.
I will never not love when something in a piece of media is treated as a good sign or motif or something and then it gets recontextualized and hurts ya right in the feels.
And with Redstone Baby combined with Ellegaard dying, it's just that extra brutal.
Because now it's not just, "in a perfect world, we'd be together." It's "in a perfect world, you wouldn't be dead, and we'd be together."
If only Soren wasn't so much of a coward. How differently things could've gone.
#in summary: i love this song#we need more minecraft-themed love songs pls#i respect the other ships for soren and ellie but i will always ship them together because i'm a sucker for nerds in love#i'm not projecting i swear#< me when i lie#actual soren analysis post needs to happen at some point tbh#mcsm sorengaard#sorengaard#mcsm#mcsm headcanons#minecraft story mode#mcsm soren#mcsm ellegaard#ah yes the cowards of mcsm being far too relatable once again#hopefully my 3 am writing makes sense#mcsm analysis
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here’s your downright diabolical multifandom post. I’m so sorry if this randomly comes across your tag scroll
#AHEM. IN ORDER.#super mario#limbus company#dr stone#omori#cowardly ocs#sorry. I’ve been writing mp10O fic but I got really upset that I wrote teru ooc so I went on a. Random other fandom tangent#I HATE when I (ME THIS ONLY APPLIES TO ME) jump from fandom to fandom it upsets me. STAY STILL GODDAMNIT#do I gotta tag all this. god I’m so sorry passersby#ahab lcb#at least tagging her for hungry ahab fans (me)#super mario sunshine#demsin#for blacklist I guess? They only feature Once sorry guys#byakuya ishigami#for the hungry byakuya fans (me)#SO MUCH NICHE SHIT HERE.#hey btw. The kid with Kogoro (bird man oc) is his son and I love them very much#yoshi#mario#smb fanart#please tell me that’s actually a mario tag and I didn’t just tag some wild shit#cowardly draws#I’m also not gonna lie. This isn’t even all the stuff I’ve drawn recently. You should see what I get up to with crayons#sorry guys. Probably will happen again </3
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"You'll come back," Manon said.
It sounded like more of a threat than anything
Dorian smirked. "Would you miss me if I didn't?"
Manon didn't reply. He didn't know why he expected her to.
He'd taken all of a step, when Asterin clasped his shoulder. "In and out, quick as you can," she warned him. "Take care of Narene." Worry indeed shone in the Second's gold-flecked black eyes. Dorian bowed his head. "With my life," he promised as he approached her mount and grasped the dangling reins. He didn't fail to miss the gratitude that softened Asterin's features. Or that Manon had already turned away from him.
A fool to start down this path with her. He should have known better.
The hours that passed were some of the longest of Manon's existence.
From anticipation, she told herself. Of what she had to do.
Abraxos, unsurprisingly, found them within an hour, his reins sliced from the struggle he'd no doubt waged and won with Sorrel. He waited, however, beside Manon in silence, wholly focused upon the gate where Dorian and Narene had vanished.
Time dripped by. The king's sword was constant weight at her side. She cursed herself for needing to prove-to him, to herself-that she refused to let him go into Morath for practical, ordinary reasons. Erawan wasn't at the Ferian Gap. It'd be safer. Somewhat. But if the Matrons were there … That was why he'd gone. To learn if they were. To see if Petrah truly commanded the host there, and how many Ironteeth were present. He had not been trained as a spy, but he'd grown up in a court where people wielded smiles and clothes like weapons. He knew how to blend in, how to listen. How to make people see what they wished to see. She'd sent Elide into the dungeons of Morath, Darkness damn her. Sending the King of Adarlan into the Ferian Gap was no different.
It didn't stop her breath from escaping when Abraxos stiffened, scanning the sky. As if he heard something they couldn't.
And it was the joy that sparked in her mount's eyes that told her.
Moments later, Narene sailed toward them, making a lazy path over the mountains, a dark-haired, pale-skinned rider atop her. He'd truly been able to change parts of himself. Had made his face nearly unrecognizable. And kept it that way.
Asterin rushed toward the mare, and even Manon blinked as her Second threw her arms around Narene's neck. Holding her tight. The mare only leaned her head against Asterin's back and huffed.
Manon hadn't dwelled long on what she'd say.
And as the three hundred Ironteeth witches filed into the hall, some coming off their patrols, Manon half wondered if she should have. They watched her, watched the Thirteen, with a wary disdain.
Their disgraced Wing Leader; their fallen Heir.
When all were gathered, Petrah, still standing in the doorway where she'd appeared, merely said, "My life debt for an audience, Blackbeak."
Manon swallowed, her tongue as dry as paper. Seated atop Abraxos, she could see every shifting movement in the crowd, the wide eyes or hands gripping swords.
"I will not tell you the particulars of who I am," Manon said at last. "For I think you have already heard them."
"Crochan bitch," someone spat.
Manon set her eyes on the Blackbeaks, stone-faced where the others bristled with hatred. It was for them she spoke, for them she had come here.
jacket, then hoisting up her white shirt. Rising in the stirrups to bare her scarred, brutalized abdomen. "She does not lie."
UNCLEAN
There, the word remained stamped. Would always be stamped.
"How many of you," Asterin called out, "have been similarly branded? By your Matron, by your coven leader? How many of you have had your stillborn witchlings burned before you might hold them?"
The silence that fell now was different from before. Shaking shuddering.
Manon glanced at the Thirteen to find tears in Ghislaine's eyes as she took in the brand on Asterin's womb. Tears in the eyes of all of them, who had not known. And it was for those tears, which Manon had never seen, that she faced the host again.
"You will be killed in this war, or after it. And you will never see our homeland again."
"What is it that you want, Blackbeak?" Petrah asked from the archway.
"Ride with us," Manon breathed. "Fly with us.
Against Morath. Against the people who would keep you from your homeland, your future." Murmuring broke out again. Manon pushed ahead, "An Ironteeth-Crochan alliance. Perhaps one to break our curse at last."
Again, that shuddering silence. Like a storm about to break Asterin sat back in the saddle, but kept her shirt open.
"The choice of how our people's future shall be shaped is yours," Manon told each of the witches assembled, all the Blackbeaks who might fly to war and never return. "But I will tell you this." Her hands shook, and she fisted them on her thighs. "There is a better world out there. And I have seen it."
Even the Thirteen looked toward her now.
"I have seen witch and human and Fae dwell together in peace. And it is not weakness to do so, but a strength. I have met kings and queens whose love for their kingdoms, their peoples, is so great that the self is secondary. Whose love for their people is so strong that even in the face of unthinkable odds, they do the impossible."
Manon lifted her chin. "You are my people. Whether my grandmother decrees it so or not, you are my people, and always will be. But I will fly against you, if need be, to ensure that there is a future for those who cannot fight for it themselves. Too long have we preyed on the weak, relished doing so. It is time that we became better than our foremothers." The words she had given the Thirteen months ago. "There is a better world out there," she said again. "And I will fight for it." She turned Abraxos away, toward the plunge behind them. "Will you?"
Manon nodded to Petrah. Eyes bright, the Heir only nodded back. They would be permitted to leave as they had arrived: unharmed.
So Manon nudged Abraxos, and he leaped into the sky, the Thirteen following suit.
Not a child of war. But of peace.
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i am watching some older (like 2000s-2010s) kpop performances and. brain just said "what if idol au"
and i'm like Fuck cause... toumyu almost gives a lot of that anyway but . oh my god lol
sengo would thrive i think tbh... he'd be SUCH a dancer i know it in my heart ... i think about idol!sengo a lot actually oh man...
fudou would be a trainee struggling to get his shit together so he can debut ???
sada would either be a trainee with him or in a new group idk (with urashima!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
hachisuka of course known for his visuals more than anything lol (maybe also his group's leader idk)
i can't decide if taikyuu would be in a group or a soloist... i suppose he could do both
of course the gous are the gous
if yuichi was an idol (lord help him lol) he'd have been like... either scouted randomly when he was out somewhere (i guess for his looks? he'd never believe that askdfkfd) (OMG if they saw him among a garden and the agent was like 'shit... flower boy...' LOL) or he'd work for the company in some capacity already and get put in an on-the-spot audition or something idk. what i'm saying is he'd never go out for an audition himself he'd have to be thrown into it.
otherwise he could perhaps be a makeup artist or something? idk. or maybe a fan lol
the genji bros would def be in a group but have their own duo unit too
oh man oh my god HEH.......HA... *dies*
#as;ldfj plz dont judge me lol#ONCE AGAIN I DON'T HAVE ANY INTELLIGENT COMPREHENSIBLE COHERENT THOUGHTS#I'M JUST WATCHING TVXQ MIROTIC AND I'M LIKE. FUCK......#i'm not gonna lie as a boyband fan since forever and kpop stan since 2006 ...#when i found tkrb and learned they did like... idol type concerts and songs#i remember being like “swords? action? fantasy? .... IDOLS?????? GOD THIS IS SO FOR ME”#also i'm not really purporting to rp this LOL#i mean i Would if someone wanted#but i don't know really how it would be interesting as far as my brain can come up with HAHA#idol-au
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* dont want 2 b needlessly mean in pnf post tagz but damn i do not care 4 the doof/perry plot in primal perry at ALL , what do u MEAN ppl dont think of it az the Army Of Baljeetz episode u guyz r so BORING
#phinz wordz#like YES i already UZUALLY dont care abt the doof/perry plot#but like . i feel like ppl oversell primal perry a bit like ‘WOAG this episode is SO BIZARRE this AUSTRALIAN GUY HUNTS DOOF AND PERRY 4#SPORT ????? LIKE HE ACTUALLY TRIES 2 KILL THEM’ when like . iz that actually a good plot or iz it just weird n shocking b honest#uzually thoze plotz r at least KINDA FUNNY . but i am SO bored by primal perry i cant lie#not the backyard kidz plot ofc that slapz . i LOVE baljeet im baljeetz number 1 fan and supporter#wish ppl were more willing 2 look at bujeet critically also bc that episode showing how jeet iz powerless against him#unless therez literally an Army of him (‘put together thirty nerds and you can make a giant bully’ and all that)#2 me showz just how unbalanced their relationship iz n how when jeet iz prezented w the power and the opportunity 2 stand up 4 himself#he choozez 2 Become The Bully#like i DONT THINK THIS RELATIONSHIP IZ HEALTHY 4 HIM . I DONT THINK ITZ TEACHING HIM GOOD THINGZ#the way he haz 2 cower and submit again once hez back 2 normal n every1 acting like hiz anger waznt justified but just The Mob Mentality#idfk it fuckz me up . can some1 check on baljeet PLEAZE
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lrb applies (to a far less dangerous extent) to homophobia also you will tell ppl yr gay (umbrella) and ask them to be discreet abt it and they'll literally go oh nooooo :(((( but why do you want to Hide Yourself :(( surely you're deeply ashamed and repressing yr identity for Social Norms :(( well dw bc im going to tell everyone and if they have a problem that just shows you they suck. and now you have to explain yourself five times over or just risk getting outed when there's a lull in the conversation and they want to laugh at you and your weird suppressed desires in the name of honesty and openness like allyship can so easily so effortlessly be wielded as a weapon and it's not just through the traditional model of betrayal or conditional friendship/acceptance. but whatever
#r's#and no i dont go around telling ppl im gay they usually ask me first when we're talking about related shit. which is on me i should stop#bringing up related shit. but once they ask its felt wrong to lie LMAO. again. stupid decision ! and now of course i know to lie. oh well
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i told my mum i wanted to get a cat and she shut me down completely and now i kinda want to cry
#i know my apartment is small and it's also a temporary solution...#but like. i feel lonely now not in a year or two lol#i've been used to having cats since i was 8 and now it's been a year without one and i swear i miss it so much#i know it will sound dramatic but it feels like i'm missing a part of me#definitely doesn't help that the way we lost my last cat was really really painful#but just... sometimes i lie in my bed and start crying bc i wish a cat was curled up next to me lol#it's lame i know but i don't really get any physical affection and i didn't even before i moved out but when i had puccio it was like a#light in the darkness to be able to cuddle with him and feel his warmth...#and i just wish i had that again#i'm well aware it's a commitment a pet is not a toy it's a living being who needs care#but i've been thinking about it so much and it just keeps feeling more and more like it'd help me so much#and i know how to give a cat love and taking care of someone other than myself would also help i think...#idk. maybe my mum's right but it breaks my heart. i would also have to ask my landlord and he could say no#god lol once again no place feels like it's home which might sound unrelated but it's not#anyway too tired to explain that one i'll just go cry more
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Y'all aren't ready for OUAD (Abby's version), you're just not.
#I haven't even finished yet and I can tell you it's already so much better than it was and it was already good aksksk#but listen you don’t understand how much I am just cleaning UP right now like what even are some of these sentances bruh 😭😭😭😭#this is what happens when you read your own stuff you can never let sleeping giants lie cuz you notice stuff and after a while it's too much#then you just gotta go fix it and that leads to remastering the entire thing 😭#I CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS YOU GUYS HAVE TO STOP ME 😭😭😭😭😭#but also this is what happens when you find yourself suddenly unemployed again and you've had too much time on your hands and nothing to do#abby's just rambling don't mind her#abby's fanfic writer power hour#once upon a duelist
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