#this will make their reunion all the more heartwarming for me i think hehe

[inkedberries]

What's Nai's role in Anastasia AU? I figure he's like the grandma in that he set a reward for finding Vash, but is he the antagonist too? Is this more movie or broadway-flavored? Man, I just love this AU so much, its my favorite musical and anime blended together -Anastasia AU Anon

hellooooo!! no i dont think knives will be the antagonist in this au but in a way he did cause their separation.

here's a link to the tag if you wanna look over the asks too.

https://inkedberries.tumblr.com/tagged/anastasia%20au/chrono

i honestly have not watched the broadway version but i think i've mentioned it before that i dont want to put in rasputin's whole deal in this au. and i don't want to follow the animated movie to the letter either because then a lot of things won't make sense. i just say anastasia au because i like the deal with vash losing his memories and trying to find home. and kni's desperation to find vash again. which i think fits canon in a way. also wolfwood's there too lol

this is the deal. knives and vash aren't princes. they're something like independent plants here too but the royal family takes care of them bc they're a hot commodity and this is the royal family's way to keep their little kingdom in control. when knives found out, he staged a coup to overthrow the royal family (this is this au's equivalent to the big fall) and in that power vacuum, knives plans to take back control and use his powers for the ppl however he sees fit. all this planned with vash ruling by his side in mind.

but with all the chaos happening in the palace, you know how it went down lol.

i have this scene in my head, to prepare and test vash for a lavish lifestyle and how to meet and socialize with high society, they (wolfwood and co) crashed a party with vash in tow. it's all going great and vash is having a blast and wolfwood's falling in love but then they didn't expect that knives was gonna be there.

kni shows up just before the end of the party and they hightailed it out of there because wolfwood and co. didn't think vash was ready to meet knives yet bc they haven't schooled him about the royal family's history or something. but knives caught a glimpse of vash as they were leaving.

vash looked different but kni moved through the crowd before he could even think. elendira calling for him back is not processing in his head at all.

when vash turned a corner, kni started running and when he passes through the open doorway leading to the gardens he doesn't see him.

i want this to be the moment kni finally decides that he doesn't want to see any more of those 'impersonators'. those people claiming to be vash. he's like 'oh god im seeing things now?!'

honestly the scene could have gone either with kni doubling his efforts to find vash but i want him to be just so heartbroken that he's like 'i dont give a shit anymore' hahahah!

[fashournalist]

Thank you, Isentia Content Hub: An open letter to my colleagues.

Eleven days ago, it has exactly been two years since I first started working at Isentia. I remember feeling scared whether I’d belong, and what kind of people I’ll be working with. I remember I kept telling myself “Bawal maattach, Grace, as some alumni have said, when you enter the real world, you’re there to work. Just do your job well and be a team player, but don’t invest your emotions.” But here I am, after two years, with so many beautiful memories with amazing people. I did get attached after all, and it’s worth it. Because I did not only have colleagues, I met a new family.

This was my open letter to Content Hub, which I hesitated to send at first after writing, because it’s too long. But thankfully, two of my teammates encouraged me to send it because they said what matters is I wrote it from my heart and it’s my farewell message to my friends. (I was one of the employees who got laid off.) It was here that I learned tears are really contagious, because after sending this letter, I received texts saying they shed a tear, too. Perhaps that’s because when I wrote it, I was shedding tears myself. Why do I feel like graduating from high school? Haha! I guess this is how close we have been. So here goes my letter, and pictures of some of the memories we have made. :)

Dear Content Hub,

This August 20, it has been exactly two years since I started working at Isentia. And now, 731 days and 41,283 summaries later, I just finished my last working day as a Broadcast Monitor. Permit me to be cheesy, I just want to thank the amazing people who made the past two years a memorable journey. I apologize in advance for the length of this email, but please know this letter came from my heart.

I'm really blessed that I got to work with you. I did not only have colleagues, I had a family. That is why whenever I reached the office, my update to my parents has always been "Happy place". It meant I arrived safely, I'm at OSMA already. And I know there have been hardships, times heartbreaking news crushed me, or times I went home way past my shift. Yet whenever I was on my home, no matter how tired I got, I just looked forward to facing the next day and working again. If world news were a play, we all get front row seats, binge-watching current events for at least 40 hours a week. It genuinely excited me that our job allows us to literally learn something new every day. But, I don't feel that way all the time; sometimes I just have burnouts and frustrations. So I think the real major reason that kept me going through it all is I had colleagues as supportive as you guys are. Allow me to thank you.

To Sydney Swans, my first team. 

Working with helpful teammates like you added to my motivation as I traveled from LB to Ortigas every day for five months (when I was not yet able to find an apartment in Manila). Thank you for your devotion to Qld Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. It showed me what client-obsessed looks like, and I committed to following that example. Your compere inside jokes and reactions to news added a lot of fun to our job. Until now, I enjoy backreading the group chat just to see your new musings or memes. Thanks a lot especially to John, Julianne, Zennon, Marco, and Kuya Ronnie.

To Fremantle Dockers, my afternoon shift team for more than a year, 

Thank you for everything; for being supportive colleagues, helping me whenever I struggled, and celebrating with me whenever I improved. 

Kuya Coily’s last day at our team.

How we help one another, especially during the Christmas dinner just so everyone can go to Sambokojin on time, inspires me. This was our post-Sambo bonding at Greenfield. I am also relieved that you never judged me as “walang pakisama” even though I only drank iced tea or milkshake haha. Others tend to force me to drink, but my friends at Isentia just let me finish all the food. HAHA. I appreciate people who can respect our preferences and differences. And you are witnesses that I don’t need to drink to be drunk. Based on my energy, I am drunk by default. Haha I will miss all these sessions with you and my batchmates!

I will miss our movie nights and billiard sessions (tho I'm just watching you haha) at the lounge. I wish we played more board games, too.

Isentia Outing 2019

Thank you so much also for being there for me when I lost my mother, you had my back and that will always mean a lot to me. When my Momi was still alive, she always knew I was working with great people. Thank you to every single one of you especially AJ, Morris, Evann, Aly and Kuya Mel. 

I look forward to a Dockers reunion when this pandemic is over! 

And my favorite teammate, Czesar. The best meetings are the ones you participated in. Thank you for all the laughter you gave us. 

I also want to thank my friends outside my team, including Tomie, Zendee, LA and Nico from Collingwood Magpies. 

Thank you for the dinner sessions and conversations on life and dreams!

This was LA’s birthday salubong at Kanto Breakfast :) While the next photo is a “panel discussion” at Goto Believe haha! We talked about the news we monitored, and boi, we went home at almost 5am.

Tomie, thank you for our never-ending laughter on our way home. Normally, I just want to be quiet and regain energy while traveling, but with you, it's okay to chat all the way to Quiapo.

To my favourite comperes, who will not read this but I feel like thanking anyway because some of you might share love for them: Marc Fennell, Jan Fran, Kanoa Lloyd, Jules Schiller, Sonya Feldhoff, Anna Vidot, Dave Sutherland, Tamara Oudyn, Sammy J, Paul Barry, Jeremy Corbett, David Speers, Leigh Sales and my inspiration Jesse Mulligan. Thank you because I learned so much about the world and about life from you. I will miss blogging about your stories and reacting to your insights.

To the leaders who managed me and/or accommodated my concerns, 

This is my former TL, Kuya Coily :)

TL Coily, TL Angel, TL Rem, TL Nico, TL Nic, TL Jonna, TL Geoff, TL Alni, and Sup Mitch. Thank you for all your help! Thank you for the times you inspired me and my colleagues to grow as well as the times you coached me, gave constructive feedback, and helped me overcome my weaknesses so I can continuously improve. 

To our Trainer Rachel, who we can consider as Content Hub's matriarch, 

thank you so much because you patiently equipped every single one of us before we transitioned to live operations. To OM Dean, thank you for your feedback and praise during my regularisation.

And most of all, to Western Borlogs fam, my home for two years, I don't even know how to thank you enough. 

I'm grateful you've been my batchmates at our training--and for everything after that. 

Isentia Outing 2019

Sibyullee, farewell samgyup party for Jai (her last day in the company)

Seoulgyupsal, farewell samgyup party for Aiona (before she flew to Spain to teach)

office memories :)

Pantry catch-ups. I usually eat at my desk because of all the work but I’m grateful for the times I was able to join their dinner breaks hehe.

Sambokojin, Christmas dinner 2019

Dear Borlogs, thank you for all the memories, endless laughter, samgyup sessions (a regular segment haha), Friday nights, and times we comforted each other when some of us are facing a hard time. Thank you also for comforting me and my family when you and B visited the wake of my Momi. She has always heard about you (and I'm happy she met some of you) when she was still alive. Thank you for being such a great sounding board, a safe space where we can be vulnerable and strong at the same time. Also, I've never been a milk tea person until I met you guys, so thanks for that, too. My BM experience would not be the same without you. Naz, Janelle, Joey, Patty, Billie, Lou, Aiona, Jai, Nee, Mau, C, Ady, Sarah. Thank you, sists!!

If you've read until here, thank you for bearing with my lengthy cheesy, farewell note to Content Hub. I attached some photos that captured a few of the memories I spent with you, as well as some jokes I've randomly thought about while monitoring. I was reserving them for Christmas Party or something, but anyway, here they are. I am confident they will make you cringe.

So there, I will miss you and I appreciate you always. I will not forget the memories we've made along the way. Thank you for everything, Isentia Content Hub! God bless you all and stay safe.

Arrivederci :)

Always,

Grace / Mariel

(this was me when I graduated from training and was so excited to be part of Content Hub haha)

PS. Thank you to Janelle, Jai, Joey, Jai, Kuya Coily, LA, Zendee, Dots and Troy for the photos!

PPS. Thank you so much for your heartwarming replies!!! And the food/gifts some of you sent!! I love you guys. (There, I said it. Haha! I was too shy to put that sentence in the email I sent. But this is my blog, I can write what my heart says without holding back)

^letter from AJ with a Bebi plant. She sent me oatmeal cookies and three novels too huehue she knows my weaknesses well haha thankuu ajj

^Matchaaaa from Patty thank you sist! <33

^Carbonaraaaa from Tomiee thank you siz!!!

Thank you to every single one of you. I was emotional when I wrote the open letter, but I got more nostalgic when I read your responses. I will always be thankful for the privilege of working with you and being your friend. Keep in touch, okay? We’ll still meet again. :)

Love,

Grace

[boba-fettucine]

The Clone Wars Finale Part I thoughts:

Ok Listen, I have waited 12 years for the siege of Mandalore arc and the Anakin and Ahsoka reunion so you bet your ass I stayed up till 4am to watch it. What about it?? It also appears that they literally filmed the next 4 episodes as a movie and like just chopped it for 30min episodes which is really interesting. 

THE INTRO IS DIFFERENT!!!!

Old school Lucasfilms logo ( hehe fuck you Disney)

We hear Ahsoka's theme for a hot sec in the beginning?????

OG THEME?!?!!?

THE RED LOGO!!!!!! (DAMN WE'RE REALLY IN IT NOW BOYZ)

DEPA AND KANAN! DEPA AND KANAN!

They really playing us and showing all the Jedi in the places they're going to die in. Im not gonna make it to the end of this holy shit!

THE ANIMATION.... W O W

Obi Wan with the grey hair (a very nice touch)

I'm emo over Anakin/Obi-wan banter

Fulcrum!

Ahsoka called Anakin "master" she still respects him even tho she hates the order....we stan! Also the lil smile on Rex’s face, the side eye Obi-Wan gives Anakin...perfection! 

A H S O K A (the parallel to the first time we ever saw her? Genius.)

Ok listen, we all know I wanted a sweet too good to be true reunion between Anakin and Ahsoka and I'm like damn what could have been BUT the reunion was *chefs kiss* perfect. Also the first thing he asks her is if she's ok! Poor Ani was so happy to see her and Ahsoka was just not playing! I didn't get my hug tho so im gonna have to force choke someone but this was all just incredible. Ahsoka is still upset over what happened with the Jedi, and after hanging with people who helped her understand the public view of the Jedi she truly wants nothing to do with them. She views the order as corrupt (which lets be real, it is) Anakin and Obi-wan are still apart of the order who betrayed her. I feel like she was letting her resentment towards the other Jedi get in the way of how honestly excited she probably was to see Anakin again. Anakin is excited and just so happy to see her but I think he's still low-key mad she left and moved on and grew up with out him. Also I think he was so happy to see her he like forgot that the Jedi order literally sentenced Ahsoka to die and blamed a major crime on her without ever hearing her side or believing in her. But this is why I love Dave Filoni, Like everything is so consistent and just makes sense character wise, if they had a happy reunion and Anakin was like “I understand why you left” it wouldn't make any sense cause he's about to turn to the dark side in LITERALLY less than a week. And it wouldn't make any sense because of what we see from the two of them in rebels. Like DAMN it was the perfect mix of heartwarming and heartbreaking and I will continue forever to be sad and loose sleep over Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano and their beautiful relationship and what could have been if the Jedi order hadn't failed them both so miserably. What adds to the heartache is they both think they still have time and will get to see each other later to catch up and so there's no need for a proper goodbye... SO YEP IT WASN'T WHAT I WANTED BUT IT WAS BETTER THAN I IMAGINED!!!

Also how dare they tug on my Obitine heart strings

"Loyalty means everything to the clones" Ouch.

YOU TELL HIM AHSOKA (also that side ways glance cause she KNEW her boy would back her up...) but also this too made me sad because I always loved the relationship between Obi-wan and Ahsoka and they're literally never going to see each other again. Ouch.

COMMANDER REX! (um also Rex hasn't cut the chip out of his head yet so he might wanna get on that.....just saying)

ANAKIN SKYWALKER TOOK HIS PADAWANS LIGHTSABERS AND TOOK CARE OF THEM FOR HER AND CARRIED THEM WITH HIM EVERYWHERE FOR LIKE 3 YEARS IN CASE SHE EVER NEEDED THEM AGAIN! NO ONE TOUCH ME!

"This will all be over soon" ouch.

"GOOD THING I TAUGHT YOU OTHERWISE"

SHE CALLED HIM ANAKIN!

The next time they see each other he's literally gonna try and kill her. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. FUCK

Literally name a brotp better than Rex and Ahsoka. You literally can't. That found family brother/sister relationship really has me. His laugh....I cried. "Beat you" " some things never change" NOW IM SOBBING BROTP BROTP

AHSOKA TANO KICKING ASS AND TAKING NAMES! THE CONTENT I SIGNED UP FOR BABY! THE SIEGE OF MANDALORE WAS JUST INCREDIBLE AND THIS WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING!!!!!!!

Bo Katan a true badass!

MAUL! MAUL! MAUL! (also like damn we stan a petty king lmaooo)

 NO ENDING THEME DAMN THEY REALLY AIN'T PLAYING

They did such and incredible job intertwining this episode with ROTS. I literally have 3 more weeks of this. Im not going to make it. I'm stuck in quarantine and all I have is my thoughts. This episode SLAPPED and wow I'm ok I had to wait 12 years cause it was that good! I CANNOT WAIT to see what comes next and I’m NOT emotionally ready for watching order 66 again, on May 4th, with the 501st. Im sobbing!