#re ch 68

[kyanitedragon]

So I think everyone accepts the "Kaneki and Hide kissed in the sewers" headcanon at this point, even if its just in the most basic and unromantic "can't eat someone's face without brushing lips" sense.

But this panel??

Feels a lot like how Ishida always draws his kisses offscreen.

I can't unsee it anymore.

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball Super manga Ch.68-70

It’s Granolah time.

Let me start off by saying I’ve only read the first six chapters of this arc, and I can already say that this one is leagues better than the Moro saga that came before it.  I’m sure this story won’t be flawless, but seeing how much better Granolah is makes me realize just how crappy Moro was.  I thought I was being too hard on the manga, but no, the Moro arc was just a hot mess.  

Anyway, I’m digging this Granolah story, so I feel a lot better about liveblogging it.  Let’s dive in.

We open with a moody flashback of Saiyan shock troops attacking Granolah’s home planet decades ago.  Turns out this is a recurring nightmare he has. 

Granolah’s been haunted by the invasion ever since, but there’s nothing he can do about it.  Frieza wiped out the Saiyans a long time ago, and then Frieza got killed after that, so there’s no one left for Granolah to take revenge upon, even if he were powerful enough to take revenge.  When I first heard about this guy, I was skeptical of the concept, since his vendetta would be forty or fifty years old by this time.  But with Granolah, that’s the point.  He’s been holding on to this grudge the whole time, and when he gets his chance to act, he grabs it with both hands. 

Meanwhile, Goku and Vegeta are still training on Beerus’ planet. Goku learned to use Ultra Instinct at will during the Moro crisis, but Whis explains that this is only the beginning.  Goku still can’t sustain UI for very long, while Merus could do it all the time.  And Whis is even better at UI than Merus was, and the Grand Minister is even better still.  So Goku has a long way to go, which is fine by him.

Vegeta, however, has no interest in learning Ultra Instinct, since he concluded some time ago that the ability doesn’t suit his tendency to overthink things.  He wants to surpass Goku in some other way, and Beerus offers him a glimmer of hope, saying that there’s more than one godly technique that he can learn.  The angels uses Ultra Instinct, but the Gods of Destruction follow a different path.  Beerus says he’s not interested in teaching Vegeta, but then he teaches him anyway, because Beerus is tsundere.  “I-it’s not like I want to teach you how to use destruction ki or anything, baka!”

Back to Granolah.  At the end of the Moro arc, we met Granolah as he was stealing Seven Three’s remains from the aliens who built him.  Seven Three was part of a whole series of similar androids, but he was the only one who spent any time in the field, so he’s a lot more powerful from the life experiences he had.  Granolah’s client, Elec, could use Seven Three as the template for an army of unstoppable androids, but that’s not why he wanted the android.  Elec’s what you might call an information broker, and he plans to mine Seven Three’s memory banks to find some useful data.

Granolah asks about his next assignment, but Elec doesn’t have any new work lined up, due to Frieza’s return to the galactic stage.  We’ve only gotten glimpses of what Frieza’s been up to since Whis re-revived him at the end of the Tournament of Power.  But apparently his activities have upset the status quo, and that’s hurting Elec’s business.  That doesn’t matter to Granolah, though, and he immediately demands to know where Freiza is.  Elec has his associates clobber him a little to get him back in line.  He convinces Granolah that he doesn’t need to run off half-cocked, and Granolah backs down and heads home.

After he leaves, the rest of Elec’s group, the Heeters, ask Elec why he would tell Granolah about Frieza at all.  They know how he feels about Frieza, so why stir the pot?  Elec explains that Granolah’s getting too powerful, and if he ever surpassed the Heeters’ strongest member, Gas, then that might lead to trouble.  The Heeters doubt that anyone could surpass Gas, but Elec still doesn’t want to take any chances.

So he wants Granolah good and riled up, so that when the time is right, he can manuever Granolah into a fight he can’t win, and Frieza will finish off Granolah for him. 

Meanwhile, on the way home, Granolah gets ambushed by one of his fellow bounty-hunter guys, who wants to steal the big payday Granolah just scored.  But Granolah has him completely outclassed.  First he uses his eye-piece/computer, Oatmeel, as a decoy, and then Granolah picks off all of this guy’s allies with his sniper technique.  Granolah’s species, the Cerealians, have a specialized right eye that gives them exceptional vision. 

So Granolah’s powerful, sure, but he’s no match for Frieza, right?  Well, Granolah plans to do something about that.  As he schemes, the Oracle Fish on Beerus’ planet has a prophetic vision that the “strongest warrior in the universe will soon rise up.”

Back to Granolah, we find that he’s still living on Planet Cereal, even after the rest of his people were wiped out by the Saiyans.  Since then, the planet has been re-populated by another species, the Sugurians, who lost their own homeworld at some point.  The Heeters brokered a deal to settle them on Cereal, and their domed cities are built right next to the ruins of the Cerealian cities.  I really like this imagery.  Like I said, I was kind of wary of the idea of an alien seeking revenge after so many decades, but this story really uses that passage of time to full effect.

Meanwhile, Beerus talks to Vegeta about the Saiyans, and Vegeta admits that their destructive tendencies led to their downfall.  Frieza accelerated the process, but his own father, King Vegeta III, is the one Vegeta holds responsible. 

I’ve often noted this, but I find Vegeta to be an unreliable narrator for Saiyan history.  In most stories, he’s literally the only one who remembers the Saiyan race, so his perspective is treated as gospel simply because there’s no one else to dispute it.  In this case, I think Vegeta’s putting too much blame on his dad.  I’m sure Vegeta I and Vegeta II bear their own responsibility, and it probably goes back even further than that.   But Vegeta III is the leader he remembers, so it makes sense he would see it that way. 

But he’s still wrong.  Remember the Super Saiyan God legend from the Battle of Gods movie.  The hero of the tale was trying to wipe out the wicked Saiyans, and he failed.  That story was so ancient that Vegeta didn’t even know about it, which just goes to show that the Saiyans’ problems are far older than his dynasty.

And I guess this is what sets off Beerus’ bullshit-meter, since he dismisses Vegeta’s answer as ridiculous.  He accuses Vegeta of putting the sins of his people on his own shoulders, and even if he were responsible, why do those old crimes have anything to do with his life now?  He then reveals that he was the one who gave Frieza the idea to destroy Planet Vegeta all those years ago.  Vegeta flies into a rage, but he can’t beat Beerus any more now than he could when they first fought on Earth.

Beerus’ point is that Vegeta will have to let go of the past if he hopes to master the style of the Gods of Destruction.  This is kind of like what Toppo had to do when he transformed into a Destroyer in the Tournament of Power.  He had been trying to avoid that step for a long time, but when he got desperate enough, he finally crossed the threshold, and Vegeta mocked him for it. 

And now Beerus is mocking Vegeta for failing to understand this.   Toppo got stronger because he put aside the irrelevancies and focused on what mattered.  Beerus says he only focuses on destruction, which keeps him sharp.  His advice to Vegeta is that he’ll have to destroy his own stray thoughts to build himself into something better.

Meanwhile, the Heeters go through Seven Three’s memory records and learn what they wanted to know: the location of Zuno, the galaxy’s greatest information broker.  But they also learn about Moro and the Dragon Balls, since Seven Three was involved with that business before he got captured.  Elec realizes that the Dragon Balls might explain how Frieza came back to life, and Macki recalls that there used to be Namekians on Planet Cereal before they got wiped out.  But Elec knows that there’s one left: Granolah’s housemate, Monaito.

Back on Cereal, Granolah discusses his latest job with Monaito, and informs him of Frieza’s return.  The two of them live in this remote house, far from the Cerealian ruins and the Sugurian cities.  Even though they’re on friendly terms with the Sugurians, they prefer to be removed from their tragic past.  I find it off that their house doesn’t look much like the Cerealian or Namekian architecture.  Maybe the Sugurians built it for them. 

Anyway, Granolah considers using the Dragon Balls to become powerful enough to defeat Frieza, but Monaito warns him that the Dragon Balls aren’t meant for revenge.  Besides, they don’t have a complete set on planet Cereal.  One is in Monaito’s house, but the other was lost a long time ago.  Wait, what?

To explain how Monaito has his own set of Dragon Balls, we cut to a lesson on New Namek, where Moori explains how Namekians have settled on other planets.  Those communities would have their own elders, just as Moori is the elder of New Namek.  And those elders would be empowered to create and maintain Dragon Balls. 

This isn’t exactly news, since this is exactly how we have Dragon Balls on Earth.  The Son of Katas came to Earth as a refugee, then eventually ascended to the role of Kami and created a set of Dragon Balls without remembering where he learned to do it.  Monaito’s basically the same deal, except he had a whole group of Namekians with him on Cereal, and he’s the only one who survived the invasion.  This story just confirms that there could be other Namekian communities in the universe, and any of them could have their own sets of Dragon Balls. 

What I find more troubling is that Monaito’s set of Dragon Balls is just a pair.  I guess there’s no rule that their must be seven, but it’s kind of weird how we’ve always seen them in groups of seven before, and yet this one is just two. 

Anyway, as fate would have it, Granolah turns on the local news and learns that some Sugarian kid just happened to find the lost ball and took it to a lab for study.  And maybe this is why they went with just two balls, in order to simplify this moment, but they could have just as easily put six Dragon Balls on Monaito’s shelf. 

So Granolah immediately makes his move, stealing the second Dragon Ball and sneaking off to make his wish.  I like the design for Cereal’s Shenron, or whatever he’s called.  The dragon is willing to grant Granolah’s wish to become the greatest warrior in the universe, but Granolah’s body isn’t sturdy enough for that kind of power.  However, the Dragon can make it possible, if Granolah is willing to accept a compromise in exchange.  Granolah doesn’t even wait to find out what it is.

Meanwhile, Vegeta has finally achieved some success in using the Hakai technique.  He can only destroy little grains of sand, but he can destroy them, which is a big accomplishment.  And he’s not going to rest on his laurels.

Satisfied that his wish has been granted, Granolah immediately heads back to the Heeter’s HQ and demands to know where he can find Frieza.  The Heeters don’t understand what’s happened to him, but Granolah quickly defeats Oil and Macki in combat, and Elec realizes that Granolah’s not just blowing smoke.  Maybe he really can defeat Frieza, but he can’t just tell him where to find Frieza, because if he loses, Frieza might take revenge on the Heeters.  So Elec asks for some information on how Granolah got this strong, and Granolah explains the Dragon Balls and the condition he had to agree to.  Normally, Cerealians live for two hundred hears, and Granolah’s 50 now, but in order to get his wish, he had to let the Dragon shorten his lifespan.  Granolah now has only three years left to live.

Elec convinces Granolah to wait on Planet Cereal while they track down Frieza’s position.  In reality, Elec hatches a scheme to neutralize Granolah first.  Elec wants Frieza out of the picture, but he’s worried that if Granolah does the job, he might wipe out Frieza’s goon squad, and Elec wants to take them over for his own organization.  Wait, why didn’t the Heeters take over the Frieza Force before, when Frieza was dead? I mean, it’s just as well that they didn’t do this, since Frieza would have returned and killed them, but they didn’t know that at the time. 

So how can Elec stop Granolah from wrecking his plans?  Simple, he’s going to get Goku and Vegeta to do it for him.  Having studied Seven Three’s records, Elec knows that the Saiyans fought Moro, and they should be powerful enough to defeat Granolah, and Granolah won’t turn down a chance to fight Saiyans, since he wants revenge against those guys too.  Elec is confident that Goku and Vegeta would win that fight, but what if he’s wrong?  Well, I guess he’s got nothing to lose by trying...

So yeah, to repeat what I said at the top, this is way, way better than the Moro arc. There’s a lot fewer characters, and their motive are more complex, and their plans aren’t nearly as convoluted.  We’re not sending Goku and Vegeta on a wild goose chase to like five different planets for this one.  No dead-end subplots about Majin Buu or those space crooks who tried to rob that space train. 

I also really like the way this story uses Frieza without featuring him in the plot.  The problem I’ve always had with bringing back Frieza is that he just does all the same stuff he did the first time around.  The only novelty to Frieza these days is less about what he’s up to, but how everyone else reacts to his return.  The Heeters, Granolah, Monaito, and the Sugarians have been trying to build a life for themselves in a post-Frieza universe, but now he’s back, and that upsets everything. 

Also, it’s refreshing to see Goku and Vegeta actually learning something on Beerus’ planet, as opposed to just sparring there as an establishing scene.  I’m looking forward to seeing how this plays out. 

[ilikeyoubetterthisway]

Vol. 16 - The Romance Volume: A Ryuumo Analysis (with a bit of Rinshi)

Part 6

Now, I wanted to explain how this volume is all about romance and it is represented in the titles.

I'm gonna proceed to analyze some of the names of the chapters in the different languages I am familiar with, which is the Japanese, English and Spanish version.

Starting with ch. 68 "Naked Festival" and remembering the incidents that occurred there is more than obvious the emphasis given to the physical attraction of the boys towards the girls. We are also presented with the idea of hidden feelings in relation to love and romance. Thanks to the three wise monkeys, their job is to make people be honest about their deepest feelings and desires, and coincidentally, the one who confronts the monkeys is none other than Ryuuji.

We skip ch. 69 which is "The knights of round table" and is more plot driven than anything else, about the artificial gate to Gehenna and all that. (The end of the world? nahh, we got romance here guys) (also I bet you already know the joke of this specific number so i guess there's that too..?), eh, whatever, moving on.

Then we have ch. 70 "Ambition" which is all about the Ryuumo confession on the balcony, with Ryuuji and Izumo blushing at each other for two consecutive panels and later Ryuuji finding his reason to continue becoming and being and exorcist: which is doing it for love.

The following chapter is ch. 71 with the English title of:

Now I will go deep into analyzing this title.

This phrase means that everyone's view of beauty is subjective, and there's no general standard of beauty.

I like this phrase but is not as intense as how I feel the original Japanese nor even the Spanish one.

Here is the Spanish version, since I own that volume, and I also feel like the title in Spanish is more faithful to the original Japanese, and it reads as follows:

Which translated to English it will be read as:

"Causes and effects of falling in love".

This title is a lot more intense than the English version and is being a dead giveaway to the entire romantic situations happening in this volume.

Then in the Japanese version we have this:

Which upon looking it up on a dictionary app, I found that is a proverb that means:

"No matter how unfortunate it is, you cannot stop love"

or also

"Falling in love is an unfortunate fate".

惚れたが因果 - 「ほれたがいんが」 [ho re ta ga i n ga]

>惚れた (ほれた) meaning "to fall in love" in past tense.

>が is the particle that indicates the sentence subject (occasionally object).

>因果 (いんが) has many meanings which are:

As a Noun:

Cause and effect, casualty.

Karma, fate (Buddhism).

Unfortunate, unlucky, ill-fated.

As an Adjective:

Unfortunate.

Doomed, ill-omened, ill-fated, unlucky, ill-starred.

So, 因果 (いんが) means Cause and Effect and at the same time Karma (fate).

(The first definition being completely loyal in the Spanish translation of the title).

Now, I'm sure you all remember about the character's general info on the second volume of the manga, in which Ryuuji's favorite word was stated to be "Karma".

We know how serious he was on the topic of "Fate" as in related to Buddhism and romance during the Weekend Hero novels that had everything to do with him having a love interest and him believing that this random and weirdly specific girl was going to be his fated one. (Pls also note Izumo's presence in the entire chapter, gee, I wonder wHy).

[Here's the link to the novel and credit to the translator @/harezora, thank you very much!]

And also, if you kindly made sure to pay attention and remember (from my Analysis of Ryuuji's Feelings during the Illuminati Arc), the shirt he was wearing in the hospital hallway, had the words "Cause and Effect" on it.

So, he was wearing a shirt with his favorite words on it, of Cause and Effect that could also be read as Karma and Fate, the same chapter where he blushed cough fell in love cough, for this girl, the moment where he learned he shared the same reason for doing things (love for his family and loved ones), and then seven chapters later (ch. 63 -> ch. 70), we have him confessing his feelings to the same girl with the phrase "I like you better this way" on a romantic balcony, the two of them alone, right after being honest with each other, sharing their doubts, thoughts and worries, showing how much they understood each other, feeling calm and safe enough to talk about that kind of deep and intimate emotions, then having him realize his reason to do things was the same as the girl he told he liked better this way which was also why and what he liked from her, and also remember how he was against anything to do with love and romance stuff and then on the chapter title following his direct confession it has the proverb of:

"No matter how unfortunate it is, you cannot stop love".

(It makes sense that is the following chapter since is about "the causes and effects of falling in love", about him realizing his own developing feelings).

Isn't all this trying to tell us something..? As if the whole a$$ balcony confession wasn't clear enough, Kato sensei rlly added intricate fateful symbolism, that was introduced in the second volume, revolving around Ryuuji and the girl he has been paying attention to since the beginning.

Then ch. 72 is "On the way" which is about how the guys are starting to find their paths: Konekomaru being a system developer for a pokedex- Imean, an app that can identify the demons one is fighting against and give you their general info. Shima decided to apply for the Knight position, Rin is doing his best to study, Ryuuji is becoming a great manager with Lightning and Yukio is finding the truth about his eyes.

And finally for ch. 73 is literally "Love Awakens" and is centered around the Rinshi confession, and Rin finally confessing his feelings to Shiemi and Shiemi realizing that he's talking about love and not just friendship.

So we first got the confession for the secondary couple followed by the main couple just three chapters later, this backed up by a tense moment of physical attraction and long staring on the first chapter of the volume.

This entire volume was about physical attraction, whole a$$ confessions and romance as well as finding your place and role for the future.

And just throwing one last symbolism in here, the number 16 in numerology means introspection, intuitiveness, wisdom, independence, family and self-achievement, representing all the new changes and development that all the characters have been getting, both in their personal (goals), and social (romantic), aspect.

Thank you for following these analysis!! If you were wondering where is part 4 and 5.... ._. I haven't written them yet, lmao, the motivation and inspiration doesn't appear and I had this part on my drafts for months by now (is literally my second draft starting from the beginning) but they will eventually come.

In the meantime, thanks for reading! See you in the next one~!! <3

[a-z0-9-i-n-gram-completionist]

1:    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p r s t u v w y    33/36    (23/26)    (10/10)

2:    00 01 02 10 11 12 13 16 17 19 23 34 36 41 51 68 85 ab ad ak al an ar at au av be bl bo bs bu by ca ch co cu de di dn do dr ea ec ed ee el en ep er es et ev fe fo ge gi ha he hi ho hu ib ic id ie ig ik il im in io is it iv ju ke kn ld le li ll lo lu ly ma mb me mi nc nd ne no nu oa of ol on or os ot ou ow pe po rd re ri rr rs rt ru ry se sh si so st su ta te th ti to tr ts ul um un ur us ut ve vi we ye yo    136/1296    (119/676)    (17/100)

3:    000 001 100 102 119 123 136 234 341 412 abo abs ade ake all and are art ate aus ave bec bel ber ble bou bso bsu but can cau coa cul dic did dig div don dre eat eca eel eli ely enc epe ers ery eve evi fee fou get git hat hav his hou hun ibl icu idi iev igi ike ill ime ion isi its ivi jus kno ldn let lie lik lio lli lou lut mad mak mbe mes mil nch ndr not now num oat olu one orr ost oul oun our ous out pea pos red ren rep rid rry rte run sho sib sol sor sou sta sts sur tar ted tel tha the thi tim tre uld ulo umb und urd use ust ute ven ver vil vis yet you    140/46656    (130/17576)    (10/1000)

4:    1234 2341 3412 4123 abou abso absu arte ated ause aven beca beli bers bout bsol bsur caus coat culo dicu digi divi dred eate ecau elie ench epea even ever evil feel four gits have houl hund ible icul idic ieve igit illi imes isib ivis just know liev like lion llio lous lute made make mber mill ndre numb olut orry osts ould ound peat post renc repe ridi rted shou sibl solu sorr soun star surd tart tely that this time tren uldn ulou umbe undr utel very visi    92/1679616    (88/456976)    (4/10000)

5:    12341 23412 34123 41234 about absol absur arted becau belie bsolu bsurd cause culou dicul digit divis eated ecaus eliev epeat every haven hould hundr iculo idicu igits illio isibl ivisi lieve llion lutel mbers milli ndred numbe olute ouldn peate posts rench repea ridic shoul sible solut sorry sound start tarte times trenc ulous umber undre utely visib    59/60466176    (55/11881376)    (4/100000)

6:    123412 234123 341234 412341 absolu absurd becaus believ bsolut culous diculo digits divisi ecause elieve epeate houldn hundre iculou idicul illion isible ivisib lutely millio number olutel peated repeat ridicu should solute starte tarted trench umbers undred visibl    38/2176782336    (34/308915776)    (4/1000000)

7:    1234123 2341234 3412341 4123412 absolut because believe bsolute diculou divisib epeated hundred iculous idiculo ivisibl million numbers olutely repeate ridicul shouldn solutel started visible    24/78364164096    (20/8031810176)    (4/10000000)

8:    12341234 23412341 34123412 41234123 absolute bsolutel diculous divisibl idiculou ivisible repeated ridiculo solutely    13/2821109907456    (9/208827064576)    (4/100000000)

9:    123412341 234123412 341234123 412341234 absolutel bsolutely divisible idiculous ridiculou    9/101559956668416    (5/5429503678976)    (4/1000000000)

10:    1234123412 2341234123 3412341234 4123412341 absolutely ridiculous    6/3656158440062976    (2/141167095653376)    (4/10000000000)

11:    12341234123 23412341234 34123412341 41234123412    4/131621703842267136    (0/3670344486987776)    (4/100000000000)

12:    123412341234 234123412341 341234123412 412341234123    4/4738381338321616896    (0/95428956661682176)    (4/1000000000000)

13:    1234123412341 2341234123412 3412341234123 4123412341234    4/170581728179578208256    (0/2481152873203736576)    (4/10000000000000)

14:    12341234123412 23412341234123 34123412341234    3/6140942214464815497216    (0/64509974703297150976)    (3/100000000000000)

15:    123412341234123 234123412341234    2/221073919720733357899776    (0/1677259342285725925376)    (2/1000000000000000)

16:    1234123412341234    1/7958661109946400884391936    (0/43608742899428874059776)    (1/10000000000000000)

all of the numbers that are divisible by 17 sound so absurd. 51? 68? 85? ridiculous. 102? absolutely not. and don't even get me started on 119

[flowflowflowflow]

Boat is in reverse position for word 'Enthusiasm' in escaping to Rivendell

EN~514

+3 (In such case flipped position of boat as assumed as normal)

EQ~517

Let's check EQ (Sick Bubblegum)

SV, red, 6.58 AM, related to very rapid and extremely enthusiastic attempt to escape to Rivendell (Keeping this in mind)

19, 22

41 (41st victim, + 1 from red as 2 halves of children of Zuckerberg. Catherine explains to second Ariana Grande that Mark is unable to erase her, whereas she has already married to me, who is the only person who can erase her, in such way demonstrating her difference between them)

This slightly suggests 30 (CHS)

1+9+2+2~14

Looks as

A((CA)<-W)~A(AC)~113, 14, 3 and looks as chemistry (Suggestion about 'GO' as 67+3 in post with Where Crawdads Sing) and CH as Catherine Horodnitskii

In other words she enjoys behaving as my little bitch with whom I can do whatever I want, who can do whatever she wants with you, while she is unreachable for you because she is CHSBW

30 seems as (17+12+1)

6.58~64/19

Not TP (Because TR probably)

And adding red, 64+1, 19+1

65 seems as 66-1, where 66 from 1966th year

20 seems as 17+3 where 17 is 12.17.1966

Whereas in New York it was

2.58 AM

60 and 2.02 and 2.42

Let's add red

61 seems as either forever (Drained) or 139 (Drained Nyarlathotep?) and 29 as 26+3 or just 12+17

While 2.02, Bob, PE: DK, EDward

3,1,23~3123~54

Adding red, 2.03, as Boc

We see escape to Rivendell and let's look in "Back to Shire'

2.03 + 3 negators

1112.03~212.03~

BABOC as БАБОС as БАКС and those huge bucks of money from which Chris Wray was turning away his head in my collages

21203~baboc, БАБОС, money man

Rivendell

189

-4

185, RE, well, 86

But 19+66+17+12~114~86

We have 86 and we had 87 from 186 in Earthquake

While 193~7 (3+2+3-1)

And 8, Earthquake

And 1+7 and 3+2+3

Whatever

Okay, further

There was 84, and red

85 as 1(86)

Flipped boat is not negator

This is reference to excessive enthusiasm

Omega + 3

What's in Rivendell?

RI~189, number of countries with Grand Lodges under jurisdiction of UGLE

Why exactly Rivendell?

Because there are High Elves

PE: DK had height 1.85 meters

I and Chris Wray have height 1.80 meters

So Chris Wray tried to escape in Rivendell to seek for help of high elves to deal with ongoing events (+5 centimeters, as 5th position of PE: DK)

With absolute enthusiasm

BOAT~2+15+1+20~38/11 and 23/5 as

38 as CH in Chris

It's flipped

62/89 and 77/5

3 negators

65/92 and 80/8

65 as 66-1

92 as Illusive Man eyes, Chris's eyes

80 as Nyarlathotep, 323

Boat got flipped on enthusiasm but there are 3 negators to fix it

Seemingly link to Lily Cole, very big IQ value required

Anyway, let's forgive (65~135~25, BE, 'I am sorry') flipped due to enthusiasm boat

There was attempt to escape in Rivendell

But it totally failed

Let's check post

3+22+20+22~67 as (1+2+1+7+1+9+6+6~33, 133) and 3+4+2+4~13

67/13

Let's remember about 3 negators or 4 if without enthusiasm

71/17

71~129 (12+17)

17, Q (17th birthday, but 1(29), specification, adjustment, strike)

If with enthusiasm, then 67+3~70, GO, Catherine says that she wants to do what I previously said

And 16

(CAW)~13+3

BABOC

Sell out

Remember this from 10.21.2022?

Let's add one more

See you Soon

We remember there was number 189 and 'not elvian language (About sigils)'

Enthusiasm is very important (Remember extended version of Teardrops on My Guitar at Bacon Theatre or Beacon)

Let's apply same +3 or +4 here

We see 'BE~135~65'

Let's apply +3

5+18+42~65

+3~68 (132)

And there is closed marriage mentioned

A appears

5+9+6~20

+3~23 as 26-3

Or 33-10 or 33-90~123 because wife

But mine, not of Chris Wray

Let's check

33123

Don't CC yourself

133123~67/13 (67~133)

Let's check Earthquake

6.58

My timezone

+3

6.61~67/13, exactly

Look at 661 as (66)1 where 66 from 1966

Written in cool way

And escape in Rivendell done on a boat

This presumes it was done by Lily Cole or Greta Thunberg

There is enthusiasm, boat is slipped but still moves

Looks like rather Lily Cole

111(123)~11(1(323))~21(323) seems as drained Lily Cole!

21+323~344, Sick Bubblegum

But why did Lily Cole was running from somewhere (Seemingly USA) in Rivendell which is Grand Lodge of UGLE?

So it was not Lily Cole, possibly, but somebody very enthusiastic

Yes, there's 71~129

11.58~13.58

Ignoring red

84, 136

Within mind of not Lily Cole

Finally, 2.58~60

Red, 59~7 (3+2+3-1)

Finally SV

VS under Wreification

3 negators

Very strong anal sex

Fist Fuck (66 from 1966th)

Bad luck (BL, 212)

We remember about BABOC

XOR

OC remains

18~17+1

And ML as 25

Now let's again check 3.22 post

With escape to Rivendell

Escape to Rivendell failed (Bad luck)

11(1,19)~220

Remember about 41

220~28 as C+A+W+1

Escape to Rivendell, also Galadriel

Ending of LOTR 3

No rush, no enthusiasm

Seemingly 71+-4

67~133 and 75 (84)

125~1335 (Yes and, and 336, Black Whore, 223~1(323))

No Or~67

Without Jenna Ortega

However

However

Escape to Rivendell failed

4 wives, right

And 6.2~138 (ACH, CH from Chris)

Escape was to Rivendell

And person was returned back to Shire

SH as A(SHer) if we use incorrect usage of first 3 in prefix

And RED(SV), 19+22 as 23+18~41

Seemingly blood transfusion at farms (Hoboken Hollows)

We can add seemingly last post from first Ariana Grande

Also

31231 (Cool way)

31(231~My Nothing 8(Th))

31(1314828)

31214828

(312~Cab, Ml/Bl)

148~EB

Cab eb Th (Seemingly adventures of second Ariana Grande and second Taylor)

312+52~364

392~c 92~c Jenna Horodnitskii, in other words, second Ariana Grande fucks second Taylor Swift, whereas Jenna Ortega dies right after formal marriage to me, because I am not OS but OC and OC is in open marriage so we don't need to care about multiple linked identities)

Not dad

Vi is alive

Vi Go

VG

V govno

+

228

And there's Lily Cole somewhere

Jenna appears to be a Charlotte, in other words Chris Wray

ML/BL + 5 bottles of vodka

5222~74

Both 74 and 84

While Jenna Ortega is the real Taylor Rothschild and gots drained because of being in mask, since I search for people only visually and can't remove mask with my hands

Ultraviolance + Wrong

Feel this? Not good enough

Next step was escape to Rivendell to Ascended Masters yet it completely failed and led to disaster

Which appears to be

3((3123)1)

33+12+31~76~124~LD(chka)

In other words, Chris Wray was playing scenario of his funerals in 'cool version' of filming

Where he died in cool way and then there was modeling of situations

Yet, in process he decided to escape in Rivendell for actual Master's advice

And it led to fatal for him consequences

3123(1+3)

31234

c GKAT

Iksik in

GKAT is of course in this interpretation is EB

c EB~352~3513~48/12

How the hell you can get 48 from 11.58?

Take 58 and subtract 10 as 'for 90 days'

Because not marriage

Seemingly second Taylor to Putin for 90 days because marriage was not official while Taylor Rothschild was undercover and Jenna got drained because of wearing mask of Taylor Rothschild, after she got married to me officially, since I am not OS but OC, whereas as Chris Wray tragically died in catastrophic events during his way to Rivendell (Diana in reference, 49+3~52) he couldn't help to finish starring of Jenna Ortega in this wonderful movie as well as was unable to bring advice from Rivendell on time

As the result, I need to check on Jenna Ortega and Lady Gaga, yet there's one irreversible tragic event: death of Chris Wray

And, as he was escaping at boat (38~62 and 65~66-1, bad sign, as in Eclipse and burning tree in the Ring, BT~220, cab, somewhere, as father of Brian Hugh Warner in corresponding video for WE ARE CHAOS)

Lily Cole is referenced

So unfortunately Chris's Wray body was unrecognizable and had to thaw out

An tai

Tai wan

Af ca

Af w

AFW

1623

61~139~29

My nothing

200+27

227

VG

GO

Let's check post with 67+3 again

(Feel SKG? Even though Chris Wray didn't reach Rivendell and PE: DK is dead

)))))

You still have me

There was 13+3~16

Seemingly 17-1

Ехал грека через реку

В реке рак

Galadriel

As we remember, water doesn't add negation

Cancer is 71~129, abi

So cancer (Second Ariana Grande) started to f*** second Taylor Swift but she was doing this without pleasure

129~30

Second Taylor, I don't understand whether you are victim or source of problems, is it clear?

10.05~10.55~65~66-1

Let's check transfusion part

SV

RW

WR

177~1123~1323, A(CW), yes, Chris Wray tragically died and had to thaw out

Go

Yeah

[stateofsport211]

Francavilla al Mare Ch F: Titouan Droguet [1] def. Jacopo Berrettini [WC] 6-3, 7-6(4) Match Stats

📸 ATP official website

Jacopo had his fair chances to turn the match around as he tried to absorb some pace from the French first seed, but the latter still managed to stay steady under pressure as he nailed the critical moments through his passes. This way, he managed to convert 43% of his 7 break points thanks to his point construction, while Jacopo could only convert 33% of his 6 break points throughout both sets.

On the other hand, it appeared that both players had their own service game strengths. T. Droguet served 3 aces compared to Jacopo's 1, winning 16% more first serve points to get himself out of more troubles. However, Jacopo turned out to stand out on his second serves by 6% with a 68% winning percentage compared to T. Droguet's 62% despite the latter's consistency as his second serves looked 4% lower than his first serves, even though both players double-faulted just once.

This turned out to be T. Droguet's maiden Challenger title after becoming the runner-up to Chun-Hsin Tseng in the Szekesfehervar Challenger 2 months ago, propelling his rank with a career-high of 131 live, with his next tournament being the Tunis Challenger as the third seed to face Billy Harris in the first round. On the other hand, Jacopo steadily re-entered the Top 600 by ranking 531, earning a Special Exempt to compete in the Oeiras 4 Challenger, facing third seed Emilio Nava in a possibly highly-anticipated competitive encounter. Could be a neat week to follow, in their regard!

[iamdefinitelynotonincognitomode]

Tenseishitarashii Nodesuga, Zensei no Kioku ga Mattaku Arimasen

I was shocked after knowing the mc's backstory.

Poor MC was beaten to death by parents ch 68 so you know why he knows how to take a hit. It just hit so hard when I re read the part where the ml talks about the mc being someone who can take hits. He knows how to, he is used to it. sob sob

The other guy, Haruka has it bad too. He is beaten heavily by his husband. Even on Earth he lived a terrible life. He says these lines which make my heart go sob again. I in my mind knew what it was to ne assaulted. I was lucky, my parents may have not accepted me, but they never hit me. Even my partners never laid a hand on me. No wafter coming to this world, I finally know just how mind numbing being beaten is, you are rendered incapable of even thinking. But I am thankful, this is my punishment for never realizing what you were going through Oh btw these are not the exact wordings, I wrote that down from my memory. Gosh I'll k*ll the person who told me this is a slice of life. This story is pretty so dark.

[a-z0-9-i-n-gram-completionist]

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3:    000 056 087 104 105 108 128 131 136 152 179 212 213 256 283 313 315 392 421 433 443 482 483 493 516 550 569 639 680 715 775 824 835 843 900 941 989 ach aga ain alf all als and ant any app are ari ars art asi aso ati bas bee bei bel bin bob bpa bsp bsq but cal cen cha cis clu com cte ded der din div dua dvd eac ear eas ebo ece ect een ein ele elo emi ent epa era erc ere eri erm ese esp esq est ete ets eva exc exe exp fal fir for fro gai geb gep ges get gin gle goo hal har hat hem her hes hin his hit hos hou how ica idu igi ike ime ind ine ing int ion iou irr irs ise ite ith iti itl itp its ive ivi kin les let lev lik lin lit lly low lse lso lud man mbi men mes min moo mpl mut nda nde ndi ned nes nge ngs not nte nts nyw obp obs ogl omb omp ond one ong ons ood oog ord ori orm ose osi ost oth oug ous out pan pea pec per ple pon pos ppe put qua ral rci rde rds reb rec rel rem rep res rig rim rin rio rms rmu rom rre rst sbo sea see shi sic sit son spo squ ssp ssq ste tat ted ter tha the thi tho tim tio tit tiv tle ton tpo tps tsb tss tub two ual uar ube udi ugh uta utu van var ves vid way wha wit wor xcl xer xpe yea you ytp ywa    285/46656    (248/17576)    (37/12960)

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7:    antsbob antsspo antssqu appears arepant arespon asicall basical bobpant bobspon bobsqua bsponge bsquare cluding combine complet dividua elevant eminded erested eriment ermutat esponge esquare excludi exercis expecte experim gepants gesquar hitpost individ interes irrelev iterall ividual literal mutatio ndering ndividu ngepant ngesqua nterest ntsspon ntssqua obpants obspong obsquar ombined omplete onderin ongebob ongepan ongesqu orderin osition ositive pantsbo pantssp pantssq perimen permuta ponderi pongebo pongepa pongesq positio positiv quarebo quarepa quaresp rdering relevan reminde repants respong rmutati rreleva shitpos sically sitions sitives spongeb spongep sponges squareb squarep squares ssponge ssquare tations terally tereste tsspong tssquar uarebob uarepan uarespo utation various xcludin xercise xpected xperime youtube    105/78364164096    (105/8031810176)

8:    antsspon antssqua arepants arespong asically basicall bobpants bobspong bobsquar combined complete dividual ermutati excludin exercise expected experime gesquare individu interest irreleva iterally literall mutation ndividua ngepants ngesquar ntereste ntsspong ntssquar obsponge obsquare ondering ongepant ongesqua ordering ositions ositives pantsbob pantsspo pantssqu periment permutat ponderin pongebob pongepan pongesqu position positive quarebob quarepan quarespo relevant reminded responge rmutatio rrelevan shitpost spongebo spongepa spongesq squarebo squarepa squaresp terested tssponge tssquare uarepant uarespon utations xcluding xperimen    72/2821109907456    (72/208827064576)

9:    antsspong antssquar aresponge basically bobsponge bobsquare ermutatio excluding experimen individua intereste irrelevan literally mutations ndividual ngesquare nterested ntssponge ntssquare ongepants ongesquar pantsspon pantssqua permutati pondering pongepant pongesqua positions positives quarepant quarespon rmutation rrelevant spongebob spongepan spongesqu squarebob squarepan squarespo uarepants uarespong xperiment    42/101559956668416    (42/5429503678976)

10:    antssponge antssquare ermutation experiment individual interested irrelevant ongesquare pantsspong pantssquar permutatio pongepants pongesquar quarepants quarespong rmutations spongepant spongesqua squarepant squarespon uaresponge    21/3656158440062976    (21/141167095653376)

11:    ermutations pantssponge pantssquare permutation pongesquare quaresponge spongepants spongesquar squarepants squarespong    10/131621703842267136    (10/3670344486987776)

12:    permutations spongesquare squaresponge    3/4738381338321616896    (3/95428956661682176)

anyway that put me in a Mood, and combined with my other recent post it reminded me of an experiment I’ve been pondering for years

google hits for the various permutations of ordering the individual words within ‘Spongebob Squarepants’:

Spongebob Squarepants - 35,900,000 but that one’s kinda expected, not what I’m interested in. Squarepants Spongebob - 843,000 but see below Bobpants Spongesquare - 3,680 Spongepants Squarebob - 2,550 Squarebob Spongepants - 989 Spongesquare Bobpants - 516 Bobsponge Squarepants - 443 Bobsponge Pantssquare - 433 Bobsquare Spongepants - 128 Bobpants Squaresponge - 104 Pantssquare Bobsponge - 83 Squaresponge Bobpants - 55 Pantsbob Squaresponge - 54 Spongepants Bobsquare - 53 Bobsquare Pantssponge - 36 Pantsbob Spongesquare - 33 Spongebob Pantssquare - 10 Spongesquare Pantsbob - 7 Squaresponge Pantsbob - 6 Squarepants Bobsponge - 5 Pantssquare Spongebob - 5 Pantssponge Bobsquare - 3 Squarebob Pantssponge - 1 Pantssponge Squarebob - 1

Squarepants Spongebob gets a ton of false positives from things like The Origin of SpongeBob SquarePants. SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete First Season (DVD)

also literally like half of these are the titles of YTPs or other forms of youtube shitpost

here’s a chart of all the positions and how many times each word appears in them though (again, excluding those first two lines for being basically irrelevant to this exercise):

1 2 3 4 Sponge 3136 941 4835 283 Bob 4824 1087 715 2569 Square 1056 775 3152 4212 Pants 179 6392 493 2131

[tilbageidanmark]

Movies I watched this Week #133 (Year 3/Week 29):

First watch, finally: Louis Malle’s seminal debut feature Elevator to the gallows shot when he was only 24. Blacker than the blackest French Noir and with the groundbreaking, stand-alone score by Miles Davis, "The loneliest trumpet sound you will ever hear".

4 years after Agnès Varda made 'La Pointe Courte', but still a year before Truffaut's 'The 400 blows', 'Ascenseur pour l'échafaud' opened the gates for the 'French New Waves'. All the drama was on Jeanne Moreau's face, as she wanders desperately all night across the dark streets of Paris.

🍿

2 more from Iceland:

🍿 "Welcome to the world"....

My 4th re-watch of Rúnar Rúnarsson's Icelandic masterpiece Echo. It is now one of my all-time favorite great movies. 10/10.

(Photos Above).

🍿 Godland, my 2nd film by tremendous director Hlynur Pálmason (after 'Seven boats'). This ambitious story dominated last year's Danish Bodil awards. It's slow-moving visionary epic, like some of cinema's greatest works.

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Limbo, a new Australian thriller shot in stark black & white in the vast, sparsely-populated outback. A laconic film with even more laconic people. Simon Baker, who was so suave as Jared Cohen in 'Margin call', plays here a character as far from suave as possible, a broken-down, dope-shooting, heavily-tattooed police investigator, sent out to re-open a 20-year-old cold case of a missing aboriginal woman. And the people he encounters are pained like the dying opal-mining town they occupy. Haunting, empty slow-burner. 7/10.

🍿

2 by Louis C.K.:

🍿 Surprise! I love you, daddy was an accomplished and funny look at a father and daughter relationship. Some crude CK humor + a story about creepy 68-year-old John Malkovich seducing a 17-year-old girl, it still stayed warm and real. Very much like the best of Woody Allen, he even wore his traditional glasses, filmed it in artistic black and white, referred to themes from 'Manhattan', and even used the music with a similarly superb ear. But like Allen himself, art followed life, it opened with a jerk-off scene at the office, and you have to separate the 'artist' from his 'art'.

This is my second Outrage CK from the period after his Me-too Masturbatory Fall From Grace (The first was 'Sorry'). He must be an unpleasant jerk to be around, but the two films were great. 8/10.

🍿 Apparently he made a bunch of short films in the 90's. Ice Cream was his second, an absurd piece about a man, a woman, 3 babies and a Mariachi band.

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Re-watch: In 2011(?) Philips ran an international contest called 'Parallel Lines' in which they asked people to create a three-minute short film using only six lines of dialogue: “What is that?”, “It’s a unicorn”, “Never seen one up close before”, “Beautiful”, “Get away, get away”, and “I’m sorry”.

Director Ridley Scott picked the winner, Porcelain Unicorn out of 600 entries. One of his protegees submitted The Gift, a Russian-based sci-fi about a mysterious box. I've always loved them both.

🍿

While waiting for Alexander Payne's latest film, The Holdovers, I watched his debut feature Citizen Ruth, the last of his films I haven't seen before, about religious fanaticism in America. But even though it's a black comedy, my dislike for religious extremism is so intense, I couldn't take it at face value.

🍿

Also, while waiting for Nolan’s 'Oppenheimer', I watched the 1980 documentary The day after Trinity, to fill up on history I didn't know. A useful overview done in informative & sober oral history style. 9/10.

“Peanut butter and Vienna sausages and whiskey…”

🍿

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is a 1993 Canadian anthology about the famed pianist. It's true that Gould was a God walking among us mortals, and listening to him play Bach any time of the day or night is the best thing one can ever do. But this artsy, stagey literary hand-job was boring and tedious. Like a religious veneration, it was not interesting. 2/10.

🍿

Les Biches is supposedly one of Chabrol's most famous films from that period. Apparently it's loosely based on Patricia Highsmith's 'The talented Mr. Ripley', with the main characters genders being switched. But I found their motivations confusing and the bi-sexual love triangle shallow and unconvincing. WHY, indeed?

🍿

Whenever I get bored by too serious films X2:

🍿 When my watch list of 1000 art films gets overwhelming, I just revisit the 2005 TED talk that chaotic Swedish doctor/magician Lennart Green gave in 2005. This rumpled sleight-of-hand master is one of a kind. 10/10.

🍿 Or I pop in Mike Judge's Office Space, and enjoy this perfect black satire one more time. "...The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care..." 10/10.

🍿

Wes Anderson visited the iconic JM Vidéo rental store in Paris, and pulled out a bunch of his favorite movies from their shelves. [This 20 min. tour was actually more enjoyable to me than any of the 8 films of his I had seen!]. I jotted down some of his picks for future watches (Kurosawa’s 'Drunken 'Angel', works by Rouben Mamoulian, musicals like 'Meet me at St. Louis', Renoir's 'The Crime of Monsieur 'Lange', Etc.)

The first from his list was Hollywood (1980), a 13-part history of the silent era in Hollywood, by British archivist Kevin Brownlow. Narrated by the distinct voice of James Mason, this YouTube series is, unfortunately, only available in low-res 360p, so I watched only the first episode. It reminded me that I never saw Griffith's 'Birth of a nation', which I need to, at one point. But not today, Satan, not today.

🍿

I didn't like Adam McKay's Don't Look Up the first time I saw it, and I didn't like it again now. I wanted to see a comedy about the end of the world, but this was way too noisy and "Netflix-hip", and still very fake. 2/10.

🍿

A recent 1-hour conversation between Paul McCartney and Conan O'Brien at the Tribeca Festival, in connection with McCartney's new books of own photographs from 1963-64. Lovely, in spite of Conan being extremely self-centered.

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First attempt to watch Empire of the sun, my 17th sentimental movie directed by Spielberg. A sweeping saga, with his usual epic scope & dramatic score, told from a child point-of-view. Also, 13-year-old Christian Bale's breakthrough role. But the distorted white Orientalist focus of the story made it unwatchable for me, and I had to stop after an hour.

🍿

Throw-back to the "Art project”:  

Adora with Glenn Gould.

By the way, Adam Ellis, who drew the second-only Adora illustration in March of 2011, has a new horror film coming up in a few months, 'Dear David' - Yeah!

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(My complete movie list is here)

[thequietmanno1]

Thelreads, MHA 275, Replies Part 1

1) “The stakes are high, so let`s jump in, on chapter 275: Encounter, part 2.

wait, 2?

When was the first part? let me check.

…

oh

holy shit, part one was back on chapter 68, when Midoriya and Shigaraki had their pep talk on the mall

fucking hell Hori”-  Oh yeah, this face-to-face rematch has been a long time coming. And to think, back then, we thought Midoria was gonna be the one who was overpowered compared to Tomura’s strength and speed. 2) “Ah, so that`s how you got him on your sights, I see. I thought the fact you had seen him before was enough, but that also explains it. Kinda.

Would that technically classify the search quirk as a stockpile one?”- In a sense, yes, though the fact it retained the data also further necessitated AFO stealing Ragdoll’s Quirk, because then he wouldn’t need to go to the trouble of adding Midoria’s info to it himself. Truly, the man will put no effort into a task if he can simply trick others into doing it himself and reap the rewards of their hard work in an instant. 3) “Now I had forgotten the part about the weakness being also on display on his HUD, that is kinda OP we need to nerf it in the next patch

Fate… The word makes me shiver in fear, considering what I now know…”- TBH, I’d be interested to know what it lists as Miidoria’s ‘weaknesses’, because that might allow us further insight into what his total powerset with be with all of OFA – or on the other hand, if it still retained the data from the training camp, what weaknesses he might have had might simply have been overcome by the present. And as for fate…well, it all comes back to that question: How much of this fight is destined because of Izuku and Tomura’s opposing natures, and how much of it is AFO’s controlling hand from the shadows? 4) “Anyway, that might indicate that Aizawa is going to join the fray earlier than expected… which might also mean he`ll be at the risk earlier than expected. Oh boy, that ain`t gonna be good.”- Not good, but also, not the worst. He is basically the only reason Tomura can be attacked at all right now, especially with physical blows. Still not an overwhelming advantage, but not as much as it would be if he had his full powers on demand. 5) “And Shiggy is landing, it`s time for the next leap, if Endeavor don`t get to him in time.”- For a given value of ‘landing’. Graceful and dignified, it was not. 6) “oh jesus what the fuck is that Shigaraki? What you`ve done with your body, I can`t even process what is what in this image”- Still not used to his own immense power, so when he tried to twist his upper body to the side to follow Izuku’s path, his own momentum partially buried him from the inertia. 7) “Shiggy, why does it look like you`re glaring at your own crotch? At least that`s what the previous` panel seem to point at”- Glaring straight at izuku all the time, through all the buildings and dust clouds between them, never once taking his eyes off the target, not unlike Aizawa does in a moment. It just helps sell how deadly focused he is on getting to Izuku above all else, at the whim of his master’s compelling voice. 8) “did he slinked his spine back and used it to catapult himself the other way? At least that`s what it looked like to me”- He might have somewhat used his upper body as a fulcrum to launch himself sideways asap- hasn’t quite figured out how to fly yet, so he’s doing what he can to keep moving towards Izuku in the shortest possible time, no matter the method he has to work with to achieve that. 9) “Anyway, I think Shigaraki is about to deploy an EMP on the battlefield, which might be a considerable problem for the heroes, because that mean they`ll have to fight him without reinforcements.”- Not that there’s any reinforcements leftto call for anyway. The radios’ best function is keeping track of where Tomura’s heading, and now he’s taken that out, once he gets ahold of Izuku he can rush anywhere he wants to and appear without warning.

(MHA ch 246)

10) “Yeah Endeavor, those are the soldiers of tomorrow, they will be the one fighting for justice and all that. You better train them right, because there’s a good chance they’ll end up saving your life one day, unfortunately.”- Some day’ wound up being ‘less than 4 months from now’. If not for Izuku’s presence as a massive piece of AFO bait, Tomura would have dusted Endeavour a long time ago by now.

11) “I mean, he did hear it Midoriya, he`s right behind you, and he has a communicator as well, I know we theorize he might have some hearing loss from his own explosions, but I do believe that he would hear endeavor shouting on his ear.”- Also, a disability like that would have limited his effectiveness as a hero, especially if he’s incapable of hearing cries for help over the sound of his own blasts.

12) “WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN MIDORIYA HE WAS RIGHT THERE ALL ALONG HOW DIDN`T YOU NOTICED HIM BEFORE”- He did notice him, he just expected that Bakugou would hang back and look for the opportunity to blindside Tomura from his blind spot whilst he focused on Izuku, not stick right by his side the whole way. 13) “WHY ARE WE STILL SHOUTING MIDORIYA WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR EYES”- Sheer shock at bakugou’s character development. 14) “But yeah, there`s also that point, Bakugo has this rotting inside his soul for quite a while, his last, erm, “talk” with Midoriya brought this to light, but wasn`t enough to solve it completely. Now, the chance to finally pay back All Might for his sacrifice is here, and Bakugo won`t let it slide”- On the other hand, his actual chances of victory/payback against Tomura as slim to none at present, even with Erasure limiting him. 15) “Been quite a while since we last saw a murder face, but this time it is more than welcome.”- Bakugou’s murder face vs Tomura’s. Who wins?.... Tomura. His serenity over killing you is far more intimidating than Bakugou’s eagerness. 16) “Yeah definitely didn`t catch that, but alright… let`s see if this is at least a more positive way to look at it than the previous outlook you had in your own strengths and weakness.”- It’s at least pushing him to improve himself and his strengths and weaknesses more, to become a better hero capable of catching up close to Izuku, even if he may never quite surpass him 17) “Oh, alright, that`s even better. He didn`t had an specific quirk for that, but he quickly put together other options that could be used to serve the same purpose.

which is a good sign of his own potential with the pile of toys he was given, but is a terrible news for the heroes.”- Izuku always had a lot in common with AFO’s usage of his multiple powers, what with his ability to combine his classmate’s strengths together for effective strategies. It makes sense that now Tomura has the same power, he’d also be likewise inventive with his various different options.

18) “HE GOT HERE BUT WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT WHY IS MIDORIYA DECAYING HE DIDN`T EVEN GOT HIT BY THE QUIRK YET WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING AIZAWA ARE YOU THERE WE NEED SOME HELP HERE”- The body’s natural instinct reacting to a superior menace that’s focused on killing you, as depicted creatively by Horikoshi. Fight for flight, but neither one will save you. @thelreads

[inevitably-johnlocked]

hello i love your blog!

i was wondering if you had any any bamf sherlock fics?

Anonymous asked: hello do you have a list of bamf sherlock fics?

Hey Nonnies!

Ah, not many, but I think you will enjoy these! I also added some MFL’s tagged as such so I can have a longer list, LOL. 

I know I’ve missed a bunch, so please add more, friends! :)

BAMF SHERLOCK

See also:

Protective Johnlock

Protective Sherlock

BAMF! But Insecure John

BAMF and/or Soldier John (July 2020)

White Blank Page by SarahCat1717 (M, 11,936 w, 7 Ch. || Post-TRF, Clever John, Reunion Fic, Pining Sherlock, Letters, Fantasies) – Post-fall, Sherlock is off eliminating Moriarty's crime web. He finds he misses John. He can't divulge that he still lives, but he placates his need to communicate with John and still feel a connection with him by sending him blank letters. But over time, this writing exercise lends itself to Sherlock exploring his feelings for his friend. What will happen when Sherlock returns to London and the man he has been "writing" to regularly for the past two years? NOT S3 compliant. Mary who? 

Domestic Matters by ohlooktheresabee (M, 29,404 w., 6 Ch. || Fantasy AU || First Meetings, Developing Relationship, Fluff and Angst, Domestic Fluff, BAMF Sherlock, BAMF John, Idiots in Love, Misunderstandings, Supernatural, Elements, Implied / Referenced Child Abuse) – All flatmates need to work out domestic matters between them - who does the dishes, who takes out the rubbish, how often does the carpet need to be vacuumed - these are part and parcel of sharing a living space together. However, when you’re an elf and your flatmate is going to be a human you just met, this rather complicates things…Very loosely inspired by 'The Elves and The Shoemaker' by The Brothers Grimm.

Sunday Evening 6 p.m. by Silvergirl (E, 30,712 w., 6 Ch. || Post-TRF / TEH Divergence, Grief / Mourning / Stages of Grief, Mutual Pining, Dreams, Reunion, Love Confessions, First Kiss / Time, Alternating First Person POV, Smart John, BAMF Boys, Emotional Love Making, Song Fic, Referenced Suicide, First Kiss / Time, Touching, Sleepy Sherlock, Blow Job, Villain Mary) – Six months after Sherlock jumped, he learns that John is dedicating songs to him on a requests-only radio programme. Is John just working through grief? Or is he—communicating? Fixes the hell out of S3 by pre-empting it altogether. Remember, as TAB told us, John is Pretty Damn Smart.

The Real Great Perfumers by shelleysprometheus (E, 45,355 w., 68 Ch. || Case Fic, Alternating POV, Gay Sherlock / Bi John, Canon Compliant with Divergence at TRF, Friends to Lovers, Oral / Anal, Pining, First Kiss / Time, Dev. Rel., Drugging, Body Worship, Bathing, Love Confessions, Travelling, Bottomlock, Cranky Sherlock, BJ’s, Alternating POV, Jealous John) – The case, this case. This extraordinary, fascinating, scintillating case. A house. Designed entirely by its eccentric owner, built by no less than five hundred expert tradesmen in the heart of Marrakesh. A house that had, seemingly not only driven its owner out, but also to his quite unpleasant death. And a perfumer, a chemist no less, the very thought of the secrets that house could reveal, would reveal was irresistible. Sherlock had to have this case ... and it seems, he also had to have John! Part 1 of the Forethought and Fire series

Perdition's Flames by i_ship_an_armada (E, 63,435 w., 21 Ch. || Treklock AU, Est. Rel, Genetic Engineering, Angst & Fluff, BAMF!John) – Sherlock would do anything to save him. Risk anything. Give anything. His money, his life. His soul. What he does, though, is change both of their destinies forever. Genetic re-engineering is the only option left. It turns out researchers underestimated the life expectancy and potential abilities of genetically re-engineered subjects. The British government and what would eventually become the United Federation of Planets, however, had not. Part 1 of PF Universe

The Vapor Variant by 88thParallel (CanadaHolm) (M, 72,684 w., 18 Ch. || PODFIC AVAILABLE || Post-THoB, John Whump, Protective Sherlock, Guilty Sherlock, Anxious/Worried Sherlock, Virgin Sherlock, Angst with Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, PTSD John, Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Suspense, Virus, Sick Fic, Big Brother Mycroft) – They stood face to face in the middle of a clearing. The dim light of the moon barely allowed Sherlock to see the glassy terror in John’s eyes and the sweat that glistened off his forehead. His nose was bleeding again, blood dripping in a slow stream from his right nostril. They were both gasping for air, John’s eyes locked on Sherlock’s. There was no recognition there, just wild animal fear. Time stood still for an eternal few seconds, and Sherlock took a shaky breath. “John—”Spell broken, John spun and bolted back into the woods. Still heaving for air, Sherlock took off after him. 

Secrets and Revelations by Hisstah (E, 83,535 w., 9 Ch. || Sentinel / Guides Omegaverse AU || Adventure, Violence, Anal / Oral, Omega!John / Alpha!Sherlock, Case Fic, Politics, Mild DubCon) – Dr John Watson has some major secrets that he's kept from his flatmate, Alpha Sentinel Sherlock Holmes. Now the Sentinel Tower is after him. Can John stay out of their hands until he can reveal his secrets to Sherlock? Part 1 of Secrets and Revelations

A Further Sea by i_ship_an_armada & ShinySherlock (E, 125,492 w., 23 Ch. || Historical Pirates AU || Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Doctor John / Pirate Captain Sherlock, Sailing, UST / RST, Masturbation, Action / Adventure, Mild Angst & Peril, Romance, Shaving, Molly/Janine, Bottomlock, Hand / Blow Jobs, Past Drug Use, Slow Burn, Mild Violence, Facial Shaving, Happy Ending) – Here be a tale of adventure for both body and soul, but beware if ye be not of stout heart, for this be piratelock, ya savvy? Luckless ship's surgeon John Watson takes a chance, and finds himself eye to eye with The Ghost, the scourge of the seven seas and a definite thorn in the side of the blaggard, James Moriarty. But when John finds there's more to this most cunning pirate than be meetin' the eye, he has to choose... is it a pirate's life for him?

Against the Rest of the World by SilentAuror (E, 151,714 w., 20 Ch. || PODFIC AVAILABLE || Post-TRF, Hiatus Fic, POV First Person Sherlock, Present Tense, First Kiss/Time, Big Brother Mycroft, Escaping from Capture, Soft Sherlock, Toplock, Insecurity, Infidelity, Travelling, Introspection, Pining Sherlock, Depression, Fantasies, Yearning for the Past, PTSD Sherlock, Suicidal Ideation) – Sherlock has been away from London for nine hundred and twelve days and counting, and has no idea what sort of reception to expect when he finally returns. 

A Fold in the Universe by darkest_bird (E, 152,869 w., 26 Ch. || Omegaverse / Prime Universe Crossover || OmegaJohn / AlphaSherlock, First Kiss / Time, Friends to Lovers, Established Relationship, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Dubious Consent, Humour) – Alpha Sherlock and Omega John are in a relationship. Prime Sherlock and Prime John are not. So what happens when a freak fold in the universe switches one John for the other?

MARKED FOR LATER

Running Obliquely by Raina_at (M, 4,288 w., 1 Ch. || Post-TRF / Hiatus, POV Sherlock, BAMF Sherlock, BAMF John, Friends to Lovers, Idiots in Love) – Sherlock just wanted John to know that he isn't dead. It doesn't go as he expected. That's mostly a good thing.

The Last Case of Dr. John Watson by Susan (E, 14,468 w., 1 Ch. || Post-TBB / Pre-TGG, Poisoning, Hurt/Comfort, Illness, BAMF Sherlock, Case Fic) – If he really had less than twenty-four hours to live, was it too much to ask that it be sunny? Being poisoned and soaked to the skin on the same day seemed to John a bit of cosmic overkill. Sherlock's only hope of saving John is finding the antidote before it's too late. But where does he start?

Until the End of my Days by chervilspotatoes (M, 20,272 w., 20 Ch. || Merlin Crossover / Medieval Magical AU || Sorcerer Sherlock, Prince John, Pining Sherlock, Developing Relationship, Teenlock, Servant Sherlock, BAMF Sherlock, BAMF John, Heroic Sherlock, Misunderstandings, Alternating POV, Protective Greg, Love Confessions, Soul Bond / Mates, Happy Ending) – Sherlock learns to embrace his destiny as Prince John's protector, but soon realizes he is in love with the unavailable prince. However, this knowledge does not stop him from staying by John's side as John becomes king and faces unforeseen circumstances.

Octopus by ohlooktheresabee (T, 20,778 w., 3 Ch. || Fluff, Light Angst, Fluff and Angst, Developing Relationship, Asexual Sherlock, BAMF Sherlock, Hurrt/Comfort, Feels, Romantic Fluff, Canon-Typical Violence, Injuries, Happy Ending) – Sherlock is starting to get used to the idea of being in a romantic relationship with John; slowly becoming more and more comfortable - that is until he overhears John say something that makes him question it all... Meanwhile, the boss of a foreign crime syndicate is not exactly thrilled to find out that Sherlock Holmes and John Watson have foiled his latest scheme - but with Sherlock suitably distracted, he wonders if he might just be able to pull of his plans after all...

Other Side of The Moon by love_in_mind_palace (T, 23,446 w., 7 Ch. || Post-TRF, BAMF John, BAMF Sherlock, Mutual Pining, Suicidal Thoughts, Angst with Happy Ending) – After the fall Sherlock goes away to dismantle Moriarty’s network while living through different identities and hiding. But then something unexpected starts to happen. After a while of everything going according to plan, he’s suddenly just too late everywhere. Because someone was there before him, and took care of everything. It takes him a while. But then he realises. It’s John. Avenging his death.

The Man in the Crimson Cloak by Aelaer (T, 25,968 w., 6 Ch. || Dr. Strange Crossover || Post-S1 / Post Avengers Endgame, No Johnlock, Action / Adventure, POV Sherlock, Dimension Travel, BAMF Strange, BAMF Sherlock, Bratty Sherlock) – Sherlock’s terribly ordinary and outright dull day turns into something well beyond his wildest dreams when a most interesting stranger enters his flat. Part 3 of the Adventures Throughout the Multiverse series

4 Weddings and a Funeral: A Johnlock rom-com AU by MorganeUK (T, 28,983 w., 11 Ch. || Four Weddings & A Funeral AU || Alternate First Meetings, Mike Stamford’s Wedding, Matchmaker Mike, Friendship, One Night Stands, Weddings, BAMF Sherlock, Dream Sex, Pining, Mystrade, Happy Endings) – What happens when you have found a Mr Right who doesn't do commitment? Hope to meet him again and again until he changes his mind, of course! A John & Sherlock AU (loosely) based on the famous British comedy: 4 Weddings and a Funeral. Part 2 of the Rom-com adaptations...

Signs of Life by LiviKate (M, 39,160 w., 17 Ch. || BAMF John/Sherlock, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Caught in the Act/Voyeurism, Jealous John, Fluff and Angst, Cuddles, Hurt/Comfort) – The Yarders have a pretty well developed view of Sherlock Holmes. Cold, cruel, dispassionate and robotic. He simply doesn't register as human. As Sherlock and John fall farther and farther in love with one another, however, the proud men and women from NSY find themselves facing irrefutable evidence as to the true existence of a heart in Sherlock Holmes. These are a couple random drabbles in which the Yarders see some pretty damning signs of life.

Stolen by All_I_need (M, 39,415 w., 14 Ch. ||  Post T6T, Pining Sherlock, Angst, Child Abduction, BAMF Sherlock, Clueless John, Case Fic, Broken Friendships, Rosie) – "He'd rather have anyone but you." - These words, and a letter, is all Sherlock got from John after Mary's death. Devastated and heartbroken, he leaves London behind ... until a case drags him back. And this time, it's personal. To save his goddaughter, Sherlock will have to confront his demons - and the man he left behind.

Consulting for Christmas by ohlooktheresabee (G, 40,153 w., 6 Ch. || Far Future Post S4 / Older Rosie, Thriller, Case Fic, Pre-Relationship, Christmas, Paris, POV Alternating, Fluff, Light Angst, Mutual Pining, BAMF John, BAMF Sherlock, Friends to Lovers, Idiots in Love, Jealousy, Misunderstandings, Mistletoe, Ice Skating, Heist, Awkward Romance, Developing Relationship, For a Case, Background Mystrade, Angst with Happy Ending) – The Louvre Museum in Paris is planning to host the celebrated Winter Fabergé Egg for its winter exhibition - quite the feat as it has not been on public display since 2002. However there is a snag: whispers of a world-renowned master-thief with his eyes set on the valuable prize. The curator has asked the famous Sherlock Holmes to consult on security, but the detective needs a lot of convincing: he is after all a bit busy with trying to woo a certain clueless ex-army doctor… At the same time, John is attempting to balance work, missing Rosie who is off on her gap year, a volunteer gig at a local London orphanage, and seething jealousy upon the arrival of an apparent old friend of Sherlock’s. Attempting to foil the heist of the century while remaining friendly and objective might just be a step too far... A Christmas crime caper packed full of misdirection, miscommunication and mistletoe, set against the romantic backdrop of London and Paris in the winter. Thrown into all this, will our two idiots finally manage to see what has been right in front of them all along?

The Other One by PurpleHydrangeas (G, 80,612 w, 6 Ch. || Female Sherlock AU || Male John, Spy John, Pre-Relationship, BAMF Sherlock, Meddling Mycroft) – Sherlock Holmes isn't anybody's fool. In fact, she's regularly six steps ahead of Mycroft. That is, until his meddling knocks her through a loop, and before she knows it, she's adding a wing to her Mind Palace to house a not-so-aged Army Doctor. John Watson doesn't know what to make of this mad genius with blue eyes, but he knows working for Mycroft Holmes is, within the span of 24 hours, the biggest mistake of his life. Part 4 of Johnlock Fills

I want to go home. Series by IwillbeReichenbach (E, 82,514+ w. across 3 works || Series WiP || TEH / Post-Serbia, Canon Compliant, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Rape/Non-Con, Sherlock-centric, Torture, Violence, BAMF Sherlock, Sherlock Whump, Canon Compliant, Mycroft To The Rescue, Dark, Pain/Hurt, Injury, Waterboarding, Electricity Misuse, Rape Aftermath/Recovery, Humiliation, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Physical Abuse, Broken Sherlock) – A version of the events that occur in Serbia and shortly thereafter. Sherlock is in for a rough time. I have tried my best to keep it canon compliant. 

The Killing Principle by Vulpesmellifera (E, 90,151 w.+, 40/44 Ch. || WiP || American AU || Gay John, Serial Killer Mary, Bum Appreciation, Sherlock is William, Dating Difficulties, BAMF Sherlock, Slow Burn, Thriller, Confessions, Whump, Angst with Happy Ending, Minor Character Death) – John Watson served twice in AmeriCorps, married his high school sweetheart, and then entered med school. A sudden arrest and accusation of multiple murders ends his promising career, irrevocably altering his life's trajectory. Acquitted of his wife’s crimes, John spends the next ten years as the maligned ex-husband of convicted serial killer Mercy Mary. A job offer draws him out of hiding and back to Connecticut - the very state where the crimes were committed. He needs the money, and the job is a dream. Then he meets the brilliant William Vernet, and it seems like he has a second chance at life and love. But the past has a way of catching up.

Mutual Attraction by meet_me_in_samarra (M, 93,899 w., 20 Ch. || Different First Meeting || Pre-BBC Canon, Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Idiots in Love, BAMF! Boys, Injured Sherlock, Drug Addict Sherlock, Sherlock’s Past, Drug Use, Prostitution, Suicidal Ideation, Sherlock-centric) – The day when a homeless drug addict and a suicidal ex-soldier met was the beginning of something until then unheard-of: Mutual Attraction. Of course, not all was what it looked like in the first place but the days of boredom, loneliness and lack of purpose were history. A case had to be solved, lives had to be saved and a developing relationship had to be tackled.

Riptide Lover by jinglebell (E, 114,090 w., 20 Ch. || PODFIC AVAILABLE || Merfolk & Victorian AU || Mermaid Sherlock, Human John, BAMF John/Sherlock, Possessive Sherlock, Oral Sex, Hand Jobs, Mild Gore, Dubious Interspecies Consent, Stockholm Syndrome, Dark Romance, Dubcon and Morality, Rough Sex, Abstract Mentions of Rape, Size Queen, Switchlock, Foot Fetish) – The year is 1866. When John becomes swept overboard, he never expects to encounter a living creature of myth. When the merman absconds with John, the lost sailor must use every tool at his disposal to convince Sherlock not to kill him. But it seems that killing John Watson is not what the deadly, beautiful creature has in mind at all...

Did you feel it? by MorganeUK (G, 126,752 w., 58 Ch. || Soulmates AU || Growing Up, Angst and Feels, Protective Greg, Whump, Mutual Pining, BAMF Sherlock/John, Protective John, Implied/Referenced Torture, Loosely Follows Series) – In a world where 0.01% of the population have a soulmate with whom they share pains and violent emotions... what are the odds that an ex-army doctor and an ex-addict detective open their heart and soul enough to found each others?

Scheherezade by sgam76 (G, 197,576 w., 45 Ch. || PODFIC AVAILABLE || Post-TRF/Pre-TSo3, PTSD Sherlock, Implied/Referenced Torture, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Humour, Protective John, Papa Lestrade, Big Brother Mycroft, BAMF John, BAMF Sherlock, Aftermath of Serbia, Past Child Abuse, Childhood Memories, Drunk Sherlock, Canon Compliant, Suicidal Thoughts / Attempt) – Sherlock is home, he and John are returning to cases, and all's right with the world--right? But a series of minor mishaps and injuries makes two things very clear to his friends and family: first, Sherlock's time away wasn't the grand adventure everyone has assumed it was; and second, that time has left Sherlock with a legacy that's bleeding into his life today. Sherlock is Not Okay, and it's not going away. Part 1 of the Scheherezade 'verse series 

[lollypopsx]

51, 53 & 68 plz.Love ur writing so so much girl!💕

Prompt List Request

51. “Did you eavesdrop?”

53. “How was I supposed to know?”

68. “We were never prepared for this.”

Warnings: very very very brief smut

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Touring with your boyfriend, Harry and his best friend’s Liam, Louis, Niall and Zayn was…interesting to say the least!

The hyper boys, the adrenaline, the snoring, the pranks and the testosterone levels really tested your patience sometimes. But they were your best friend’s too, and you wouldn’t be without them for the world.

“Mmmm my baby…I saw you dancing in the crowd tonight…shaking those hips f’me” Harry pulled your hips towards his, his lips pressing gentle kisses against your neck. You couldn’t help but let out a soft squeal. Naturally, as two 19 year olds, you were unable to keep your hands off each other, especially when he was sweaty and full of adrenaline from the stage.

“Shhh, the others will hear us” You mutter, wrapping your arms around him tightly, as he shakes his head.

“Louis and Liam are in the front half of the bus at the lounge area, and Niall and Zayn went to get food” He mutters against your skin, his hands snaking under your shirt and pressing against your bare breasts. He lets out a small gasp and a smug smile. “No bra today hm? Naughty...naughty girl” He whispers, pinching gently at your nipple as you let out a gentle moan.

“Fuck...H, the others will hear” You mumble and sigh. 

“You’re wet though aren’t you” He smirks, his hand slipping gently into your joggers and his fingers pressing against your damp spot. “I knew it” His teeth gently nibble at your neck.

“Why don’t you go and get us some water from the lounge while I hop in the shower, and I’ll meet you in the bunk in 10 minutes” His boyish grin showing his gorgeous dimples.

You just nod gently, heading into the lounge and grabbing water, speaking to Liam for a few minutes as the boys came back with mountains of food...as usual!

“Hey Y/N, you want any of this?” Niall asks from the table. “Erm, yeah maybe later, I’m quite tired actually. Harry might have his, I can re-heat mine later” You smile softly. “Night boys” You call as you head to yours and Harry’s bunk.

Sex on the bus bunks was practically a no go, purely and simply because there was no way for you to have sex without banging your head...or not in any way you had yet worked out. So it was mainly saved for the hotels.

You heard some rustling around outside the bunk, assuming it was Harry, and a few minutes later Harry’s strong frame was slipping into the bunk beside you.

“Now...time to take care of my girl...” Harry smirks, pushing the duvet away and hooking his fingers over the waistband of your joggers and underwear, pulling them away slowly.

“H...what if someone-Fuck” Your thoughts were interrupted by the warmth of Harry’s tongue pressing against your wet clit. “Shhhh baby” Harry whispers softly, as you cover your mouth with your hand, your spare hand tangling in Harry’s curls.

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The next morning, you woke wrapped in Harry’s arms, with light chatter coming from the front of the bus, which meant all the boys were awake. You felt your stomach growl as you peeled away from Harrys arms and wandered into the lounge area.

“Morning” You greet the boys tiredly as you open the fridge, rubbing your eyes.

“Morning Y/N” The boys greet, with a slightly teasing smile.

“So...I take it you guys are pleased we’ll all be in hotels tonight” Louis smirks widely.

“What are you talking about?...” You raise an eyebrow as Harry emerges, shirtless and just wearing his joggers.

“Alright Harry...or should we call you...oh fuck Harry” Niall smirks, mocking your moans from last night.

You let out a gasp, your eyes widening. “Niall, did you eavesdrop?!”

“I wouldn’t call it eavesdrop! I was in the bunk right next to you two!” He defends himself

“What’s going on?” Harry furrows his brows in confusion.

“You. You said the boys were all in the lounge last night!” You growl, pointing your finger to Harry’s chest.

“Er yes...they were...What’s going on?!” He raises his brow.

“Er no they weren’t...Niall heard everything!” You frown, blushing deeply with pure embarrassment.

“Niall!” Harry groans.

“What?! I wasn’t purposely trying to catch you guys in the act! That would be weird!”

“You said they were all eating in the lounge!” You cross your arms over your chest.

“I thought they were! How was I supposed to know?!” He sighs softly and pulls you into his chest.

“We are never ever going to do anything on this bus ever again.” You mutter into his chest.

“Good!” Niall groans “We were never prepared for this! Now I’m going to burn my ears off.” He jokes, drinking his tea.

“Save it for the hotel room next time lovebirds!” Louis smirks.

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APJFM returns July 31, 2022

I have a coherent rough draft of APJFM all the way to the end -- which means I can get started posting soon. Join me on July 31, 2022 for chapter 68: rewind. My intention is to post every two weeks after that.

Now’s the best time to start re-reading! In the days to come I’ll also have a summary, revised tags and some fun ask games.

We’ll start with this one:

Send me a word. If it appears in the post ch. 67 chapters, I’ll post the sentence it appears in. (If it’s not too much of a spoiler.) If it appears in multiple sentences, I reserve the right to choose which one I post, and also be aware that sentences may change between now and the time they’re posted to AO3.

I started writing APJFM because of my strong emotions and personal situation. All that has largely been resolved, and it’s not those obsessive emotions that have brought me back to it and kept me writing. It’s my love for the people who still care about this story and will follow me wherever I take it. (And it’s going to get weird, and dark, and tragic. But I’ve promised you a happy ending.)

[pokeharvest]

I have a question re: ch 1060 color spread below!

does anyone have the original color spread the coloring page in ch 68 was based on? i can only find the lined version :(

[writingrose29]

Two Birds (1/?)

Pairings: Steven Grant x fem!Reader, Marc Spector x  fem!Reader, Jake Lockley x  fem!Reader (Slow Burn, Post-Moon Knight)

Summary: Her life was a continuous cycle of good and bad things. Anytime things were good she knew for a fact some shitstorm was going to hit her. However, she never could've predicted the mess her adoptive father's death would bring.

AN: Welcome to the official sequel to "Strangers", now in the reader's POV. I just wanted to give you all the heads up that I have written up to Ch 3 and I will most likely be updating there first followed by tumblr. This story will contain dark themes (such as suicide, self harm, experimentation, etc) and I will be placing TW on each chapter when appropriate. I will also note that reader goes by Alessandra, due to the fact she doesn’t remember her birth name. If you want to know the full tag list, including characters, you can see it here on Ao3

Word Count: 4419

TW/CW: references to substance abuse as unhealthy coping mechanism, implied suicide attempt, and reference/implied past child abuse

Ao3

Prequel: Strangers

Summary: Sometimes the best person to talk to is the one that you will never meet again  

Two Birds Masterlist

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Essex Corporation

Those two words seemed to be taunting her with every list she went through. Funding this and that, from Military Operations to Mutant Re-Education Centers to even Archaeological Excavations. Thousands of different companies, corporations, and the occasional individual name with only one thing in common.

Essex

No matter how many times the money got transferred, in the end it all trailed back to that one corporation or one of their children corporations.

She wasn't sure why Erik gave all this to her, she wasn't his secretary. Shit she wasn't really that involved with ninety percent of the shit he did. Though it was most likely his pride prevented him from bringing it straight to Xavier. Typical, just like two divorce parents.

Alessandra thought about asking him how he even got his hands on this dossier, but ultimately decided to have some type of defense of ignorance. Though, if he had it and if he wanted her to do some digging on it, well that just meant something bad was happening.

She glanced away from the files to the stack of ungraded class work that rested on the other side of her coffee table and groaned, leaning back in her office chair. She should bribe X to let her have a TA.

Alessandra rubbed her eyes, going through several more lists of names. After all, she wants to see if she can find something she recognizes in these lists before her appointment with Hank.

The words slowly blending into gibberish the longer she scanned over them. Until one name in particular.

$3 million to Percival Beaumont

She pursed her lips, tapping the paper. Sadly all of this information was useless, just showing where the money was heading too and nothing else.

Why was Beaumont getting money? Fuck how long was he?

She went to keep checking before going back through the previous files. To see if she had missed anything important but she paused as her phone started vibrating.

A loud sigh escaped her lips as she grabbed the phone, unlocking it to only reveal a simple text.

Ollie: BBC 4 News

Ollie: Now

Alessandra frowned slightly, clicking her phone off and turned the TV on. Lifetime started blasting one of their murderous ex girlfriend movies before she quickly switched the channel.

The news headline caused her to freeze in her seat: One of the World's Greatest Philanthropist, Scientist, and Inventor Found Dead at 68

"In the early morning of November 5th, Sir Percival Arthur Beaumont. Was found deceased in his countryside manor in Chilterns, England. He was found by his employee who was the one who reported his death to the police. It is being reported that Sir Percival passed away in his sleep due to an apparent heart attack. Today the world mourns another magnificent life gone too-"

She turned off the TV, allowing the silence to permeate the air. An odd numbness fell over her as she stared blankly at the dark screen of the TV.

Her eyes went back to the list that held his name before a short laugh escaped her lips as the news truly started to sink in.

He was dead. The fucking bastard was actually dead.

A scoffed escaped her lips as she stalked to her liquor cabinet, ignoring the now constant flickering of lights and pulled out  her Remy Martin Louis XIII, the very bottle she was saving for this exact occasion.

She took a large swig of it, sighing as the liquid burned her throat and warmed her stomach. Probably shouldn't be drinking before class, but it wasn't like she could get drunk and if any situation called for a drink it would be this.

She did promise herself a celebration after all.

She slammed her hand against the kitchen counter, a laugh bubbling out of her mouth as tears streamed down her face.

It wasn't long for her to feel the slight tingling in her eyes, one that always felt like her eyes themselves were burning. Quickly Alessandra closed them, she didn't need that vision to turn on right now, she really didn't.

This moment, this very event was something she had been dreaming for her entire life. To see that evil waste of a person fucking die. She should be out making a reservation at her favorite steakhouse in celebration. She should be feeling joy, relief yet she just felt nothing. Endless numbness.

How pathetic, she wished for his death for years and now all she wanted was for him to come back so she could yell, scream, give him a piece of her mind for everything he did to her, to them.

And now she can't. He didn't even die in pain, he would never feel the pain he put her through, put all of them through.

Alessandra wasn't sure whether to laugh, cry, or scream. So she did all three.

She also wasn't sure when she threw the bottle of liquor, whether it was before or after the lights in her apartment shattered leaving the entire room in darkness.

You could've let me have a drink before you destroyed it

She glanced up. Through blurred vision she saw the familiar stout robotic figure of her brother.

When did she decide to sit on the cold kitchen tiles?

She sniffled, a choked laugh escaping her throat. "With what mouth and body dipshit?"

Her brother, and freeloading roommate who was stuck with her as she was the only one able to translate his bio-electrochemical signals, stood above her, a machine controlled by a consciousness stuck within an metal brain that rested in the 'chest' of the machine. The family's own robot Mike Wazowski. He held out his robotic claw, helping her up as the pixelated face on the screen merely rolled their eyes at her.

I thought you be celebrating

She rubbed some of the tears away and sniffled. "Yeah, so did I." Alessandra took in several deep breaths, shaking her head as to rid herself of any feelings involving that news.

Suck it up. All she had to do was suck it up.

Didn't expect it to be a heart attack

She snorted, "Didn't know he was human enough to die."

Did you really have to destroy a $3000 bottle?

Alessandra rolled her eyes, sniffling once more as she shook her finger at him. "This is why you don't get a voice box. Nag nag nag."

She waved her hands, the lights and bottle were fixed as if they had never been touched in the first place.

Did you know about his move to London?

Alessandra merely shook her head, "My goal was to avoid thinking about him," she glanced back at the files that rested on the table, "It was fun while it lasted."

Lou shifted his body, the screen that made his face now facing the files.

…What are those?

"...Papers?"

He shuffled closer, picking up one of the pages with his clamp-like hand.

I thought you stopped contact with Lehnsherr.

"Who said Lehnsherr was involved? Implying I can't do…accounting?"

Slowly he turned to face her. Three thin lines on his screen.

You can't even figure out how to do taxes. Why would you be handling dossier maintenance?

Alessandra opened her mouth before closing it. Instead she merely grabbed the files and her phone from the table before ripping the sheet from his grasp.

Al, what happened to no more terrorism?

"Okay one, this is merely research. And two, I have no knowledge of how this information was obtained and I have no involvement in said matter so not sure where the big T word is coming from."

Anything involving Le-

"Okay, love you and all, but maybe start questioning why Congress is debating whether mutants are considered human or not under the Constitution, instead of bitching about my quote on quote terrorism?" She slipped the files into her backpack then shrugged the backpack on her shoulder.

A simple question mark appeared on the screen.

That is not relevant to this-

"Or is it?" She glanced at her empty wrist, "Oh look at the time, McCoy is waiting for me gotta go. Uh, keep your…attention on the news or something."

She closed the door before he could respond.

As she stood in the hallway, she released a deep breath. Shove the emotions inside and lock them away.

Alessandra was the queen of healthy coping mechanisms.

Sometimes lying to yourself brought peace, if just for a fleeting moment

There were many pros and cons to living in New York City. Such pros being many options for public transportation, a lot of restaurants, Broadway, and how it kept her mind busy. She hated being stuck in her mind, nothing good came from it. The cons being stupidly expensive, NYPD, the Avengers (super cops), stupid insurance plans (she continues to count her blessing that the Hulk never threw a car through her apartment yet, that plan was too expensive) and the fact that it kept her mind busy. Especially in moments like this where all she wanted was to enjoy her bus ride to her other bus ride to Westchester county but everything was so loud. Every bioelectric activity, radio, tv, computer clouding her mind resulting in a pulsating migraine.

Fuck, she knew she should've taken the shot beforehand. While the doses were growing more and more ineffective, it would've given her some respite.

Alessandra rubbed her eyes behind her glasses, taking deep breaths just like how Erik told her. Imagine something calming, something to drown everything out.

Like the sound of a waterfall.

Like the one she shoved Allen off of when they were 15 and sent to Chile.

At least she managed to get her sight back to normal. She didn't need a visual overload as well.

When she opened them, she was pleased to see no one staring at her. At least New Yorkers minded their damn business, a trait she had found a lot of respect in during her time living here.

It was then she realized her thoughts were now just her own. A relieved sigh escaped her lips. When she was positive that a relapse wasn't coming, she pulled out her phone quickly searching for her boss's contact.

With a deep breath she pressed the green and white phone icon. Alessandra rested her head on the window, listening to the phone ring.

"Hey Alessandra, everything alright?" Alessandra always had a soft spot for her boss, Dr. Janssens. She was one of those people who were just kind, something that was not too common in Alessandra's life. Even her thoughts were gentle, either worrying about work or fondly thinking of her daughter and grandchildren.

"Hey Annette," Alessandra kept her voice soft and had it wavered slightly, "Not really."

"Oh, what happened?" Her concern was evident in every word she spoke.

"My father," she paused, "He uh…he passed away today and," she added a sigh, "everything is just a mess. You have my siblings, and the funeral, and…" Alessandra trailed off, making sure she added the right amount of panic and grief in her words. She had to sell this correctly, hook and line.

"Oh my, I am so sorry for your loss. I know how difficult it can be to lose a father."

Alessandra let out a sniffled, "Yeah, it just hurts so much," she choked out, "It was just so sudden." Well, her words weren't completely false, it was sudden. "I just…I don't know when I will be able to come back in with all this. Especially since it is out of the country."

Dr. Janssens hummed, "I completely understand. How about this, you can just keep me updated on when you think you will be back alright? I don't want to add even more stress on you."

And sinker.

"Oh thank you so much. I truly appreciate it." The honest words flowed easily from her lips, as easy as her previous lies.

"Of course Alessandra. Take care alright."

"I will, thank you."

She exited with a small smile, sending a quick text to Hank to let him know that she would be arriving slightly earlier than expected.

Alessandra always liked kind people, they were far easier to manipulate.

She rested her eyes, smiling as the sunlight brought a sense of warmth to her skin.

It took about two hours for her to end up on the shuttle that brought her to the X Mansion. After exchanging pleasantries with the driver, it was a quiet ride with her being the lone passenger. It made sense, considering it was a school week so it wouldn't make sense for any students to be shuttling anywhere away from the school. The fact it was still during school hours removed the presence of any other professors arriving or leaving the grounds.

Alessandra felt her heart lighten slightly when the large mansion came into view. She wasn't sure when this place started to feel like a safe haven for her, only that she realized it when it was far too late to back away. The students and her colleagues latched onto her heart, allowing her to have a soft fondness over them despite any irritation they caused her. Not that she would let them know that. Then again, she was sure that some of them already knew. Pesky telepaths and empaths.

"Thanks for the ride Robbie." She sent him a smile which he returned.

"It's no problem Andy. Imma guess you'll need a ride back?"

"You know me so well."

He waved at her, "Until then," he said as he closed the doors behind her. She sent him a short wave and started making her way up the path.

The foregrounds were empty, yet as she peered through some of the opened windows she could see filled classes of students of varying ages and appearance. Alessandra always felt some pity for those whose mutations were physical, she was lucky that she could bullshit her way into seeming human without too much difficulty.

She waved at several students who met her glance, only recognizing one of them as one of her students. Andrew she believed his name was. He was a kind boy, three eyes and with the nifty ability to spit out corrosive acid and stick to walls.

The mansion was mostly silent when she entered, only a couple students scattered around the hallway, some going up or down the stairs to their next class or to their rooms.

Alessandra gave everyone who glanced at her a polite nod as she made her way to Hank's lab.

It was impossible to miss him, especially in his very sterile lab.  The curse of being very large, very blue, and very furry.

She knocked on one of the metal tables, catching his attention away from one of his many computers.

"Hey Doc," she waved at him. Hank glanced down at her, his typical stern and no-nonsense expression resting on his face before cracking a small smile.

"Alessandra, I heard about your father. I'm sorry-"

She shook her head, "Don't be, he was a piece of shit." She walked past him, sitting in one of his spare office chairs with her feet resting on one of the arm rests. "So what's up? My next doses are in?"

Hank let out a sigh as he took the seat across from her. Alessandra frowned at his reaction.

Well that can't be good.

"My doses are in right? I'm almost out."

"When was the last time you took a dose?" He asked instead.

"Yesterday, I got sidetracked today. Why?"

"And how are you feeling?"

Alessandra sighed, sitting upright in her seat and leaned forward. "Annoyed that you are being evasive. C'mon what the fuck is going on?"

Hank rolled his chair to his desk, picking up a folder before rolling himself back to her.

"Alessandra, you know how long I've been studying your blood work right?"

She nodded slowly.

He opened up the folder, showing her the results from the past several months.

"Here is the baseline." He handed her a page. "The bloodwork for the first time you taken the doses." Another sheet. "The first time you were off the doses." Another sheet. "And the rest are every time since, off and on, up until your most recent blood work." He handed her the rest of the file.

Alessandra glanced through each one, glancing at the raising and lowering numbers.

"At first it looks like a success, yeah? Complete suppression of the mutation."

Alessandra nodded, "Yeah, but there is something off with the numbers on the other sheet?"

Hank nodded, a grim look on his furry face. "From what I can tell, it seems that your mutation is constantly fighting off the medication. Which in turn is causing the new doses of the medication to suppress normal organ and hormone function in an attempt to suppress the mutation which in turn is causing your mutation to attack those same functions as a result. A constant cycle."

Alessandra scoffed, "I wasn't aware that was in the realm of electromagnetism."

"On the subatomic level it can be," he pointed out.

She sighed, closing the file and handing it back to him. "So that's why it is growing less effective."

Hank nodded, "And it's why you see a surge of instability afterwards. Your mutation is working hard against it, the moment it is out of your system it is way above normal activity."

"Okay," she sighed, "So how do we adjust the cure?"

"We don't. It is a failure and far too dangerous for consumption."

"Hank," she shook her head, "Hank I need this cure to work. I…I can't keep fucking living like this."

His eyes were hard, yet carried a hint of sympathy.

"Alessandra," he said softly, "If you keep taking this drug it will not end up well for you or for anyone in your vicinity." He placed one of his large hands on her lap. "Listen to me okay, I'm telling you this because I care about you and I don't want you to get worse. If you continue taking this drug you will die."

Alessandra scoffed, a harsh laugh escaping her lips. "You and I both know that's bullshit."

Hank winced, "Fine, maybe not actual death but something far closer to it."

She threw him a confused look as he rubbed his face once again.

"Remember what you told me about the Chicago incident, with the man you suspect had DID?"

Alessandra nodded, a small smile appearing on her lips as she thought of the kind man from the park. His soft, expressive eyes, the soothing presence he brought that eased the pain she felt that day, his odd mind which held two oddities she couldn't place that stood out amongst the crowd of people. "The Brit."

"You mentioned throwing up blood followed by the inability to smell, taste, and feel touch hours afterwards."

She bit her lip, wincing at the memory.

"Then the incident you and Wilson got into a month later. Total vision loss for a week."

"Okay, so what you're saying is I'll become a walking nuke with temporary sensory deprivation."

Hank shook his head, "I'm saying that you'll become a walking nuke with permanent sensory deprivation. No sight, smell, taste, touch. Permanently. With the addition to having your mutation on overload and actively on the defense. It may be able to repair the damage now, but I refuse to see how far we can push it."

Alessandra felt herself freeze, his words stuck in her head. Permanent deprivation.

She cried out, clawing against his wrist as he tightened his grip on her underarm. She tried to shove herself backwards yet he continued to drag her along as if she was a ragdoll.

"Please, I'm sorry. I'll do better. I'll be better. Just don't leave me there again." The cold metal collar rubbed against her neck with each movement she made.

Her father-Mr. Beaumont said nothing, he just continued to drag her through the depths of the basement until they arrived at that room.

She watched with tear filled eyes as he slowly unlocked the door before turning the hatch to open the door.

He looked down at her, his cold beady eyes looking at her blankly. No emotions, just two pair of coals staring back into her. As dark as the room she was being forced into once again.

"Four hours shall do," was all he said before tossing her inside.

Into Oblivion she became nothing.

"-ndra!"

She came back to see Hank in front of her, his eyes wide with worry as he held her shoulders.

When did she start breathing so harshly?

"Uh sorry," she cleared her throat as she relaxed her grip on her thighs, "Zoned out for a moment. What were you saying."

The look of worry and concern did not leave his face but he relented either way. "I was merely saying you should give yourself more credit. The fact you didn't turn that man's brain into mush and that Chicago is still intact is a miracle."

"Okay, I got your message loud and clear. No more drugs."

Hank nodded his head, a triumph smile on his face. "Which is why you will be returning the remaining doses to me."

Alessandra sighed and nodded in agreement.

"And you will keep me updated with any symptoms of withdrawal and side-effects?"

"Yes yes yes, I'm not a child you know."

Hank stood up and patted her shoulder, "I know. Now let me take one more blood sample and you can head to Charles.

Alessandra quickly turned to look at his retreating back. "Xavier wants to talk to me?"

Hank nodded as he brought his supplies to her. Alessandra quickly rolled up her sleeve for him as he sat back down in his chair.

"Did I forget the pass on that message?"

Alessandra narrowed her eyes at him, not missing the smile he had.

"Conspirator," she muttered, scrunching her nose quickly as she felt the needle pierce her skin.

She made sure to take her time going to Xavier's office. Making small talk to Ororo on her way there.

However, she couldn't delay it forever. Especially when he was waiting for her.

Exhaling deeply, she knocked on his door. Only opening it when she heard him say "Come in."

His office was the same. Everything neat, filled with books on the bookshelf on the side. Charles Xavier was facing his tall window, staring outside with a thoughtful expression.

She closed the door behind her, the noise catching his attention. He smiled warmly at her, his light blue eyes warmed.

"My condolences for your loss Alessandra. I know you must have conflicted feelings given…" Xavier trailed off, rolling his wheelchair towards her.

She scoffed, shaking her head. "Okay, first of all you're not my therapist so just don't. Two, cut it out with that 'I know how you must feel' bullshit. You don't. Just because you can take glimpses of it in my mind doesn't mean you understand shit. You didn't live it, I did. You can never understand so cut it out. And three, let's cut the bullshit yeah? You want to talk about Erik I'm guessing."

He sighed, rolling behind his desk. "Indeed. How is my old friend."

Alessandra rolled her eyes, taking a seat in front of his desk. "He's fine, I think he misses the chess games with you. Can't you two just make up already?"

Xavier gave her his standard look, one of parental warning.

Typical divorce dads.

"He found some information dealing with the Essex Corporation." Alessandra unzipped her backpack, shoving the files on his desk, "I will do more research on it but something does seem off."

Xavier frowned, "Never heard of them," he said softly as he started scanning through the lists. "Your adoptive father-"

"Is listed there, yeah I know," Alessandra bit her lip, "Funny timing."

Xavier sighed once more, "I will not try to dissuade you from investigating this matter," he said finally as he handed the files back to her, "All I ask is for you to use caution and to inform me of anything important"

Alessandra blinked in surprise but nodded, placing the files back inside her backpack.

"Will do. It would be nice if you and Erik can cooperate though."

"We shall see. I have missed him."

Alessandra hummed, tapping her fingers on his desk.

"Can I ask you for two favors?"

Xavier raised an eyebrow, but stayed silent.

"Can you get me a train ticket to Philly and a plane ticket to London. And could you possibly put some mental blocks up, limit me to bioelectric and biomagnetic instead of," she waved her hands.

"Any reason for Philadelphia?"

She shrugged, "Old bastard is dead now, might as well say goodbye to the old stomping ground."

Xavier merely gave her a skeptical look but nodded his head anyways. "As you wish."

He rolled towards her, placing two fingers on her temple. A pressure she didn't even notice lifted.

"Thank you," Alessandra meant every word.

"Of course my dear," he gave her a smile. A smile that almost made her feel guilty for snapping at him. "They will come undone if you are in any serious danger, do remember that," he warned gently.

She nodded her head, standing up from her seat.

"Logan can cover my teaching shifts while I'm gone. The man is basically a walking relic so he should be fine."

Xavier let out a small laugh, "I'll keep that in mind."

She could've sworn she saw his eye twinkle.

"Also, I'll have Wade deliver the student essays to you."

Xavier winced, "Must you?"

Alessandra shrugged, "Anything to keep him busy. Plus, he loves you guys."

She was almost out the door when Xavier's voice made her stop in her tracks.

"I know that I will never understand the pain you went through my child and I'm sorry I am unable to alleviate the burdens of your past. But if you ever need to talk, we are here for you. Every single one of us."

Alessandra turned towards him slightly, one foot out the door. "I-" she paused, unsure what to say. Unsure whether to snap back or to remain silent.

"Thank you," she whispered as she left his office. She made her way down the stairs, his words still playing in her mind as she called Wade Wilson to inform him of the new jobs she had for him.

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