#returing to emma

[xilamoc]

In an alternate time, S3 still has Emma on the show and Cleo still gets the same character arc of maturing and becoming more responsible, something that Emma initially approves of (while Rikki sarcasticly makes jokes out of the fact that Cleo is no longer her "Sloth buddy" and is now a "Study bee" like Emma of course), however, over time as Cleo's grades improve and it becomes easier for her to grasp concepts, Emma starts feeling Jealous and threathened by Cleo, and starts studying obsessively in order to ensure she is number one, her jeaulosy reaches a breaking point when Cleo gets better grades than her at a SCIENCE- related subject (subject that cleo historically was always bad at) at which point she does active recall (flashcards) obsessively thinking that way she will be able to "win" Cleo, whilst Cleo has developed better study methods by using more than one in order to learn better (i'm aware this doesn't happen in S3 and Cleo is still sloppy at study methods but we need Emma to be interesting ok?), Emma's jeaulosy makes her eventually despise Cleo as she views her as everything she wants to be and is not, causing her (and not Rikki) to keep the Water tentacle encounter in S3E16 a secret.

Emma's (and Cleo's) arc reaches full circle in S3E26, as Cleo receives her dux in science, Emma is visibly upset but tries to hide her discomfort as the trials and tribulations of S3 made her realize she can't always be number 1.

(Rikki can be the person that shows Emma how to be comfortable not being numer 1 i guess, she was always the more laid-back person of the bunch)

TL; DR:

Emma:

Want: To be perfect, number 1 at everything in life using the same study methods that have historically worked for her.

Need: To understand that she won't always be number 1 in life, and that she needs to step out of her comfort zone if she wants to be better in life.

[ocenitram]

@universeofmuses

Emma smiled as her mommy praised her she loved it when her parents were supportive, and she enjoyed being with them. "Thanks mommy and yeah am gonna try again and crush it when I try out for cheerleading next year. I just wish I could tryout again this year but am not sure if that's how that works." Emma said as she held on to her mother's hand still worried about what had transpire the night of her kidnapping, she was trying to stay focus on Neal's first game as she was proud of him, and she enjoyed watching her big brother and father practice and toss the od pigskin as they say. Although it still irked her that she wasn't pick which she admittedly felt a little disappointed.

Neal looked up at his father and smiled "Yeah mom's pretty good with words I bet she saved lots of butts with her hope speeches Nana once joked that mom gets a quarter from her hope speeches but you're not half bad dad and thanks you made me feel a lot better am going out there and crush it. " Neal was thankful for such a father and he was willing and ready to go. "Thanks dad your awesome okay I better go coach is calling me. Emma though about her mom's suggestion she suppose she could deal with a small snack while she waited for her brother and then at granny's she could have er favorite as a celebration. "Yes mommy," Emma smiled and bought the snacks well she ordered the snacks, the Nolan women retured to their seat as teh game was about to start. Welcome Storybrooke high this is the game we been waiting for as the Storybrook knights take on the Middleton Maddogs ," The commentary began as the intruded players and finally we have the youngest member to join he is a freshman and the son of our sheriff and our beloved teacher Miss Blanchard although know she goes by Mrs. Nolan. Neal Nolan, a freshman who stepped up and is now the quarterback of the Knights. and here comes the Kickoff."

@universeofmuses

Its been ten years since Emma got turned into a three year old now Emma is thirteen and her brother Neal is fourteen. Emma second shot at a childhood was much better then the first time around. Sure instead of being the big sister she became the little sister and it was hard adjusting to it, but as time went one  Emma quickly found herself in the role of the baby and she enjoyed a lot. As she grew older the Emma Swan was coming back with a mix of the new Emma. This Emma was far more girly then her other side for example she loved the color pink she liked wearing dresses and skirts on her free day and above all she loved going shopping with her mom and baking cookies with Snow and Regina . Now the old Emma was still in there if anyone gave her trouble she would beat the poor sap up and a lot of that got her in to trouble with her mom since the school called often due to Emma’s violent nature but her relationship with her brother was better they were almost inseparable and they loved each other dearly Emma never grow out of calling her parents mommy and daddy no matter what age she was she always called them that. 

Every Friday after school she would go down the Station to deliver some of her  homemade cookies to her dad. “Mommy am going to take the cookies to daddy now I’ll see ya later,” Emma kissed her mom goodbye and rode on her pink bike down to the sheriff station. As Emma left Neal came home late from school today and he was very happy “MOM guess what I made the team I am the new kicker for the schools football team.” Neal shouted excitedly as he came home from practice and the reveal that he had made the team. Neal had just started high-school he is a freshman in other words in the 9th grade while Emma was finishing middle-school she was in the 8th grade.

“Is daddy here uncle Thomas,” she asked the man that became her father’s deputy, Thomas pointed to her fathers location and she went in until she found her   “Hi daddy how is it going, look I got your Friday cookies homemade by your favorite little princess,”  Emma stated as she went to her father’s location giving him the cookies. “So daddy guess what happened to me at school.” Emma started to chat to her father.

[lyquynhnhu]

Dark impulse and “plot holes” analysis

Tokyo Revengers is near the end. I’m really sad and I don’t know how it will end with only 4 chapters. My option are:

Tragic ending, very unlikely but it’s an ending where everyone lose, Takemichi or Mikey will die.

Open ending: the last page is a handshake between Takemichi and Mikey. Takemichi might give his power to Mikey, but we see only the handshake. We will not know if Takemichi return to the future or Mikey went to the past. In the best case, we will have a panel with everyone smile happily, but without context (like a fantasy).

Okay, let’s go with the analysis.

Dark impulses

Dark impulses = curse = karma = impulse to destroy

Shinichiro was the first one to manifest “dark impulse”. When Mikey’s incident happen, Shinichiro felt guilty and was very angry and so he destroy the toy plane. Then, he completely lose his mind and killed the homeless man.

When Shinichiro time leaped, his karma followed him.

What is karma? Basically, karma is when some sin you have committed in your past life influence your next life.

Since you have to die once to activate your first time leaping, we can say that time leap back to the past is already your next life.

After avoiding Mikey incident, Shinichiro felt safe because he achieved his mission. However, his karma (consequence of time leaping power, maybe) cursed Mikey (the person Shinichiro wanted to save) and it is said that dark impulses can infect other people.

I think that dark impulses infect people with weak mind (Kazutora, Izana) and amplify their desire to destroy (South).

The dark impulses are born from Shinichiro’s love for Mikey. But that love turn to violence, he himself stated that he wanted to kill all the people that deceived him, he beat a man to gain information about the time leaper, he killed the homeless man/time leaper and killed himself (he destroy himself).

This curse to destroy now possess Mikey. Mikey tried to repress the impulse, but he also has a weak mind. Like we saw in Mikey’s flashback, the loss of people important to him have a big impact on him (his mother, then Shinichiro, Baji, Emma). That’s why he hate weakness, and yearn for strength (Mikey already has this way of thinking before Shinichiro time leaping, dark impulse amplify this desire of him).

Kazutora comes from an abusive family, he never had a normal life. He wanted to do something special for his friend, but in the progress he killed the brother of that same friend. He couldn’t bear the guilt, so he decide that it was all Mikey’s fault and the dark impulse amplify this conviction (and Kisaki take advantage of it).

South had a life based on violence. His violent tendency and Mikey’s dark impulse that lead him to destroy everything and everyone is not a good combination.

Separate paragraph for Izana.

Izana & Shinichiro

So, Shinichiro doesn’t seem to know about Izana in the original timeline. But I think that he knew about him, but abandoned him after Mikey’s incident.

I can imagine Izana very heartbroken when his “only” brother abandoned him (in the original timeline).

Here a schematic way of my reconstruction:

Emma was dropped in Sano family by her mother

Emma talk about Izana to Shinichiro

Shinichiro went to meet Izana

Mikey’s incident happen, Shinichiro became his caregiver and abandoned Izana

Shinichiro time leap and save Mikey

Few days after, he shake hands with Sanzu and return to 2003

In the 4 years between 1999 and 2003, Shinichiro kept in contact with Izana because nothing happen to Mikey, but Mikey was always Shinichiro’s priority

Dark impulse amplify Izana’s sense of loneliness and need for love

When Shinichiro died, Kisaki take advantage of the dark impulse inside Izana and amplify his desire to destroy Mikey

How dark impulse manifest in Izana…

When he was 12, Izana beated some kids that bullied him. As consequence, he was sent to juvie where he stayed for an year (Izana met S-62 generation when he was 13).

Well, Izana became 12 in 30 August 1999. On this date, Shinichiro already returned to 2003 (he died 13 August 2003). But, the karma could have stayed in past Shinichiro (let’s call him Shinichiro 2), too.

Shinichiro 2 is the one that went to Philippines and found the twin engine. Like Takemichi (time leaper) and past Takemichi, Shinichiro 2 could be somehow aware of the future. That’s why, Mikey is his priority and that made Izana jealous.

And Izana condition worsened when he discovers that he never was Shinichiro’s brother (I don’t know which Shinichiro Izana confronted when he discovered the truth, I like to think this happen between the day Shinichiro gave his powers to Takemichi and his death by Kazutora). I have always thought that Izana’s letters to Shinichiro was foreshadow of something.

Time leaping power

The origin of this power is still unknown. But we know that this power is double edge.

Depending on how the power is gained and used, the effect is different.

Shinichiro and the homeless man got it by killing someone, resulting in a bad karma for themselves and surrounding creating a curse.

Takemichi got it because he was chosen and he doesn’t have a bad previous karma. That’s why for him the power is a gift.

Thinking about that, Takemichi died 3 times

1 - When he was pushed

2 - When he was shot by Kakucho

3 - When he was shot by Mikey in Bonten timeline

Maybe his power to see the future is a result of all this death experience.

Little comment

I like the plot twist about Shinichiro being the time leaper, but I would have preferred for him to do more than one time leap.

And Sanzu being the trigger… to explain his obsession for Mikey, it would have been better if he remembers more than one timeline. Naoto has experience multiple time Hina’s death. How does he know about dark impulse and where was he during all the manga before the final arc? His character doesn’t convince me.

P.s. For me, Hanma was never relevant. His role is that of a prop and his tatoo served to hide the message of the karma thing.

[beastlyanachronism]

Movie Round-Up 2021

I watched exactly 50 movies in 2021, more than any other year, I suspect. Full list with two-word summaries under the cut.

Venom: terrific fun

Into the Spider-Verse: astounding visuals

Spirited Away: umm...what???

The Queen's Corgi: uhh yikes

Robin Hood: Men in Tights: unfunny trash

Megamind: exciting. original.

Matilda: absolute classic

Hotel Transylvania: nicely animated

Cats and Dogs: okay. watchable.

Ocean's 8: slick. tense.

Top Hat: dancing > plot

I Know Where I'm Going: endearing. atmospheric.

Pride and Prejudice (2005): too compressed

The Amazing Crichton: personally appealing

Kung Fu Panda 3: cute. amusing.

Murder Mystery: surprisingly good

The Princess and the Pirate: pretty funny

Mean Girls: vastly overrated

Calamity Jane: A+ musical

Vacation: silly. funny.

We're the Millers: funny. heartwarming???

St Jean Baptiste de la Salle: poor quality

The Mitchells vs the Machines: impressive. fun.

Ben Hur (last third): expected better

Paul: fun romp

Paddington 2: sweet, enjoyable

Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga: unexpectedly good

Murder She Wrote: South by Southwest: wrong genre

Death Becomes Her: gruesome. entertaining.

Thunder Force: delightful, funny

What a Carve Up!: simple. okay.

Deadpool: masterfully done

Sense and Sensibility (1995): polished. moving.

Murder She Wrote: The Last Free Man: strong message

Gosford Park: subplot overkill

The Death of Stalin: funny. overrated.

St Peter: sentimental propaganda

Risen: well done

Tur & Retur: subverts tropes

Around the World in 80 Days (2004): found family

Shanghai Noon (second half): entertaining fun

Howl's Moving Castle: fever dream

Ocean's Eleven (2001): amusing ridiculousness

Detective Pikachu: brilliant, adorable

The Current War (first third): not engaging

Enola Holmes: not bad

Wild Oats: dryly funny

The Lego Batman Movie: surprisingly good

Love, Actually: mostly enjoyable

The Breadwinner: evocative. important.

And my personal awards go to (drum roll please)...

Best actor (respectful): Emma Thompson

Best actor (affectionate): Mara Wilson

Best live-action movie (respectful): Deadpool

Best live-action movie (affectionate): Detective Pikachu

Best animation (respectful): Into the Spider-Verse

Best animation (affectionate): The Mitchells vs the Machines

[byeladyldy]

RANDOM PART 2937392

Kapan hepi endingkuuuuuuuwwww🥺😔

Saat ini sangat sangat menahan diri untuk......... juga menahan diri untuk berpikir bahwa...........

Jadi besok emma nikah. Eh sumpah apalagi orang mau nikah yak kayanya lebih drama wkwkwk. Lalu adalah gue beli kain dusty pink. Yang dateng merah dong, mana acaranya besok.

Nyoba tenang dan mau pake kulot aja lah. Tapi disatu sisi terlalu casual pake kulot, kalo yang nikah bukan emma sih gapapa bebas aja baju. Cuma gue kepikiran gimana.... sebelumnya udah gue protes ke sellernya dan sellernya nawarin retur OF KROS LAH GUE MAU, emang mau gue ajuin retur dari awal. Cuma gue cerita jelasin dulu mengenai "kok saya dapet kain warna merah cabe? Kemarin pesen warna dusty pink." Dia minta maaf banyak, karena kemarin dia sehabis chat gue katanya langsung ke RS dan yang handle pekerjanya. Sumpah ya bahkan gue nanya "ada kode kainnya ga untuk saya checkout?", katanya "ga usah, kan udah chat". Okelah. Pas dateng merah cabe?!

Seumur hidup kayanya gue ga akan make warna merah gitu deh, selain ga cocok aja kayanya sama kulit, merah tuh bukan personality gue aja gitu. Gue gapunya baju warna merah cabe, merah bendera. Lebih ke kaya mau dateng ke acara partai aing kayanya kalo gue pake tu kain 🙃

Kepikiran. Akhirnya gue cari seller di jakarta dan gosend. OH MY GOD ITU ONGKIR SEHARGA KAIN. Bisa dapet dua tu kain!!!!! Cuma yaudahlah. Rejeki yang lain. Tapi gue impulsif ga sih beli kain gitu? Soalnya acaranya besok! Besoookk. Dan kain baru dateng sore magrib jadi baru tau kainnya itu salah pas magrib, ya tuhan.

Terus, gue akhirnya bilang ke seller merah cabe minta dibalikin aja uangnya juga. Karena si seller gue tanya bisa ga kirim ONS katanya ga bisa karena dia harus ke RS. I dont even want to know dia ke RS ngapain. Dia dari awal bilang akan dikirim besok pagi dan baru bisa ngirim besok pagi. Terus kalo dia ngirim kain baru besok, dia domisili solo dan gue jakarta. Itu kain nyampe sini kapan? Acara udah bubaaaarrr lah, udah jadi sejarah tuh acara. Akhirnya gue minta balikin aja uangnya. Huft. Tapi dia mau, karena itu salah dia. Gue saranin juga pake kode tuh kain, kain gaada kodenya samsek. Kalo yang packing cewek mendingan, kalo yang packing cowok? Mana cowok ngerti bedanya fuschia, pink, dusty pink, red, wine red, maroon, ruby red? Ga ada bedanya pasti kalo dimata cowok. Huft (lagi).

Setelah perdramaan kain selesai, adalagi kok mata gue gatel ya. Okay. Eh kok lama lama kedip sakit ya. Dan waw perasaan sudah mulai ga enak, ternyata WELCOME BINTIT NOMOR 3!!!!

Baru 2 minggu lalu gue bintitan 2 bintit di mata dan lokasi yang berbeda karena packingin barang syukuran. Kali ini, bintit ketiga ini adalah karena debu kipas angin gue rasa. Karena kemarin habis bersihin kipas angin akutuuuu.

Ada lagi drama telenovela baru juga. Pengen ng.....

Terus tadi siang gue makan, terus selesai makan tangan kiri gue pegang piring, tangan kanan geser bangku masukin ke meja karena udah selesai makan. Posisi tangan kiri disenderan bangku. Dan tangan kiri gue hilang kendali begitu saja, itu piring kebanting keatas meja dan pecah 🙃 waw. Sebenernya karena ngelamun sih. Wk. Untung kaca mejanya ga pecah beb ya allah bisa diomelin gueeee wkwk.

Kapan aku hepi endingnya🥺

Nambahin. Hahaha kemarin betulin kacamata tuh wiken kan, tau ga bautnya copot lagi. Sekrupnya. Kanan dan kiri. Omaygaaaattttt akhirnya aku solasi aja lah 🙃 banyak sekaliiii cerita akuuuuuu belom keluar tayang iniiiii. Gaada yang nonton sekarang soalnyaaaahhh jadi ga tayang wkwkwkwkw

[ffschweden]

Hammarby nog en av favoriterna

Hammarby nog en av favoriterna

I dag blev det min första utflykt till Elitetan. Jag åkte till Södermalm och Kanalplan eller “Kanalen” som det heter där och såg Hammarby – Mallbacken. Hammarby dominerade i stort sett hela matchen, men segermålet kom först i den 62:a minuten när inbytta Jonna Ståhl hamrade in en retur bakom duktiga Emma Johansson.

Elitettan är det väldigt, väldigt svårt att sia om. Inte bara för att den är…

[tough-lass]

I get Jen's reasons for not returing but it still just sucks because with Jen not returning the odd's of us getting a season 7 aren't good and there was still stuff I wanted to see I wanted them to introduce Esmeralda and to give us a Moana story and I always thought it would have been cool if they had done a story in narnia plus I wanted them to bring back mulan and aurora and give that story a proper ending and I really wanted to see married life with Emma and Hook

Well, tbh, I think the fact that Jen made her statement actually means there will be season 7... 

I think the actors already got the word that it will be renewed. Otherwise she wouldn’t have posted that statement, she would have just waited to see if it get cancelled without her.

So I guess there will be an opportunity to see new characters from other stories. But we would not see Emma and Hook in a marriage life.

I respect you for wanting a season 7 for these new stories, but I prefer it to end before there would be a chance for them to ruin CS with Emma being dead, or lost while Hook is there on his own.