#plot deduction

[wojtekaneko]

Knives Out: 13th century edition

[kyouka-supremacy]

Again the sickness speaking but here's something that has been going through my mind since forever:

I feel like a good way to mitigate a lot of discontent with the doa arc ending and in general the whole Dazai-being-flawless issue bsd has going on is by comparing bsd to Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. Please bear with me for two minutes.

When Sherlock Holmes was being published, people were intrigued and enamoured by Holmes' brilliant and charming, crimes-solving figure. People read the stories for the pure joy of being left gaping at his superhuman wits again and again; they didn't want to see him fail, they wanted to be shocked and amazed by his genius. When Holmes died and then came back, nobody lamented it being unrealistic, because realism was not what people were reading the books for! They were reading to be impressed, to cheer for the hero and then take satisfaction in seeing him turn out victorious. That's the author-reader deal that was made there: to impress and to enjoy being impressed.

As of recently I feel like we've been asking from bsd something it never promised us in the first place. Maybe it's just not that kind of series! Maybe it's more about surprising the reader with how the hero is going to make it and less about highlighting his flaws and insecurities. And like, that's okay! That's why Dazai getting away with it isn't it him getting away with it “again”, it's just how bsd is; in a way, it's what makes bsd bsd.

I think it really clicked with me like it never did before when I watched the last episode of season 5; because the arc ending felt so shocking and unpredictable, very deus-ex-machina trope, a little underwhelming in its lowering the stakes that were there the whole time, and yet so extremely on brand with bsd, I didn't even have it in me to be disappointed. It was so similar to the Guild's arc ending and even more to the Cannibalism arc ending, and maybe it really is just a pattern, maybe it really is what bsd aspires to be, and that's okay too.

Also, I can't stretch this enough: if it's not your cup of tea, that's fine. I can't say it's mine either. But I feel like criticizing bsd now for how it's always been falls quite short, because it really feels like demanding from it what it never promised to deliver in the first place. That's just as far as my current perception of the series goes, though, so feel free to disagree with me on this.

[peri-hellion]

So I've been watching Poirot reruns (returning to the primordial comfort media in the wake of the implosion of the US) and S1 Poirot and Hastings always struck me as vaguely Jooster-y, in a post WWII we swap narrative positions way (obviously this is because they're both variations of ACD's Holmes and Watson, but go with me here). I'd love to write a post-WWII Jeeves and Wooster in which Jeeves sets up shop as a private detective (on the back of his network/reputation as a war intelligence officer and probably because he had some sort of blowout with his governmental superiors) and Bertie is just kind of his aristocratic hanger-on who is steamrolling over the "can we be friends even though you're no longer my employee" question by just showing up everywhere. There's something about the way Suchet portrays Poirot's fussiness and kindness that melds with how I always imagined a postwar Jeeves who still has rigorous standards while also struggling with the inequity of his history of service (foreign and domestic).

[respectthepetty]

I'm going to keep it real with y'all.

Moonlight Chicken was amazing, but the second the ending credits started, and I hadn't gotten the infamous wait-until-the-last-episode-to-kiss EarthMix kiss, I was a raging monster. I turned on this show so quickly. I called it everything but its name, then *oops*

Oh, oh, okay. Excuse the fuck out of me. Sorry, my bad.

9.5/10. Deduct .5 for roping me in with a cheating plot when it wasn't cheating and for waiting until AFTER the credits to give me that sweet sweet EarthMix kiss. I came for the mess but stayed for the heart and color coding.

Also, the open declaration of relationships was the perfect ending.

And primo 'Leng teasing the one we all cared about. A banker, I see.

ALAN X GAIPA NATION RISE!

Aof, you did it again, you sly bastard. Good for you, sir.

[zryexal]

Everytime I go back to M26 scenes I feel like I find something new to eat.

Conan thought ai chan was suffering from decompression sickness and rushed to give her CPR. But if you think about it, CPR doesn't really help decompression sickness. Simply breathing into someone only gets air into their system. It doesn't help get rid of the nitrogen bubbles inside the person.

So why was Conan's first reaction was to perform CPR?

Because he might be desperate. He doesn't know if he can get help immediately; he only just resurfaced and broke the huge wave, I bet he doesn't even have his phone on his person and would it work after a dive in the ocean? Does he know where he is exactly? On which part of the Pacific bouy? He can't count on his surroundings well, and he has no diving tools on himself. Also a personal guess but he probably can't just do nothing by ai chan's side either, her unresponsiveness is going to drive him insane. So the only thing he can do at that moment, because it's also on his mind perhaps (I mean it only just happened a few moments ago too) is to give CPR.

Now for someone as rational as Conan, the sweet point isn't whether their lips touched or not, it's the fact that Conan didn't even stop to check ai chan's symptoms. He didn't check her breathing, her pulse, anything, he just immediately grabbed her head and moved in to perform CPR. You can see at this point how he really can't let anything bad happen, much less lose her (cue the edogawa rampo [江户川乱步] scene where he stumbles on the way around the hotel corridor right after ai chan's kidnapping, how he yelled at Sato and gripped his knees with shaky hands, etc)

They're so real and for what.

[miabrown007]

at least we now know that neither Marinette or Adrien are aware of him being a senti. after the S3 final we all assumed Adrien knew Rena Rouge and Carapace's identity, because it was so evident: cue Rocketear. after Félix and Kagami's theater kid nonsense we all thought Marinette finally knew Hawkmoth's identity, because how could she not? : cue Confrontation.

almost makes it look like our main characters are not allowed to learn or deduct anything that isn't explicitly spelled out for them

[itzr4v3n]

I brought out a fanfiction!

It's also available on Archive of Our Own under the "Murdle (video game)" tag, though I'm still figuring out how the share links work there-

I linked the Wattpad on here because Wattpad, in my experience, is known to be giving inaccurate results

I tried posting this multiple times today and it all didn't work Tumblr you little notherfu-

[convxction]

ooc. LMAO I IMAGINE EVERY TIME CHROM IS SO CLOSE TO ARREST SYLUS HE SENDS MEPHISTO WITH A MESSAGE THAT SAYS "close. next time, blue hunter." AND CHROM GOES ON HIS WANDERERS DESTROYING RAMPAGE BECAUSE THIS ASSOHOLE IS CRAFTY HOW CAN HE READ HIS MOVES.

also chrom who gets tricked by sylus' pranks every time because he will stop and help everyone even if they are just 'hinderances' haha. suffer krumb.

[silicon-tmblr]

Do you follow the DR light novels? If so what do you make of them?

I don't, no, though I have read some summaries. My impression of them is that they're really over the top (unnecessarily and unrealistically so, perhaps), but they seem like they were a lot of fun to write and exciting for the target audience to read!

For me, with the exception of when I'm sleep deprived, I'm prone to calling things melodramatic haha... I feel like the light novels would fall victim to that if I read them...

[vashti-lives]

So I know I'm showing up like two years late to this show with my Starbucks in hand but Cherry Magic is so fucking cute and i want a beings AU where Kurosawa is part dragon. And maybe where Tsuge is part werewolf.

[kaoharu]

i watched the first ep of the rkdd anime nd its sooo sillies

[muslimintp-1999-girl]

Very true

[erstwhilesparrow]

sorry i know i was just saying i'm really excited to do this paper but no i'm not actually it's too much work and i would like for things to stop from keep happening constantly and also did you guys know there's so much good fic in the world and that ao3's filtering functionality is a fucking gift and also why did we stop doing fic rec lists we should do more of those those were great

[dionysiaproductions]

Benoit Blanc pronounces "transgender" in a way no human ever has before or ever will again. Then, he helps you prove your transphobic, billionaire father committed a murder and attempted to frame you for it.

sherlock holmes deduces you are trans before you've figured it out yourself and refers to you with those pronouns and then when you look confused is like "ah...had you not arrived at that conclusion yet?" and wafts away in his dressing gown to smoke seventeen pipes, leaving you in a gender crisis

[durzarya]

Okay I realize that I am on the piss on the poor website and that media literacy is dead. But sometimes my own "Was that not obvious???" is not apparently obvious.

And I have to step back because no girl most people don't interpret a text correctly while only understanding half the words

[fishyartist]

Grandmas watching Sherlock, that series really is a few interesting scenes interspersed with a lot of bullshit huh