#which might've been interesting

[aura-bug]

my son lucas was dealt such a dirty hand by the whole franchise man. like he's arguably one of the more important characters lore-wise and they never did ANYTHING with him!! they just refuse to acknowledge his existence

please please PLEASE give more attention to my boy. he deserves it methinks

[lunar-wandering]

THIS FUCKING EXPRESSIONNNNN

[sysig]

whoops i asked in the wrong place. would you be willing to do a request of the vargas boys in a SAW trap? thank you in advance <3

Day 2 - Was it not obvious enough

[gellavonhamster]

a haunted house with a picket fence

One Piece || gen || Perona & Mihawk || set before the Egghead Arc ao3 link rus || ao3 link eng

The transponder snail booth is just across the street. Perona keeps glancing at it out of the cafeteria window as she eats her dinner. After finishing it, she carefully wraps a napkin around the salad leaf she had taken out of her sandwich, takes it with her, and steps out – and stops in indignation when some guy jumps out of the nearest back alley and slides into the booth right before her. The gall!

“Would you look at that,” Perona mutters, and releases a Negative Hollow.

The guy has already closed the door of the booth, but walls are no obstacle for Hollows, and a moment later the jerk drops crying to the ground. Perona has to give it to him – it’s really nice of him to lean against the door in despair and open it on accident. It’s not like she’s going to stoop to throwing coins into the machine, after all! What a humiliation for a pirate and a princess!

“Oh, I’m a wretched worm,” sobs the stranger, smearing snot all over his face. “I deserve no love, no happiness…”

“Uh-huh, that’s right. Move it, mister,” Perona steps over him into the booth and closes the door behind her. The snail stares at her with indifferent round eyes. Perona offers it a salad leaf from the sandwich and, while it is chewing, dials a number from memory. After the first tone, a sudden urge to hang up washes over her, and she moves the handset away from her ear; then, after a slight pause, presses it back.

“Yes?” a cold voice finally speaks. Not a wary one – not a hint of unease, just clearly expecting no good.

“Hey, Hawkeyes,” Perona says, trying to sound as carefree as she can.

“Ghost girl,” the voice gets about a degree warmer. Half a degree. “To what do I owe the pleasure?”

“No reason, just saw your ad in the paper and decided to call. It’s so cute that you finally have friends your age. I’m happy for you!”

“They’re not my friends,” Mihawk says through his teeth. Noise is coming through the receiver – someone’s arguing unintelligibly, someone’s yelping. “What is it that you really want, ghost girl? The Marines may trace where you’re calling from.”

“You think I’m scared of them? Ha! And besides, they won’t get here in time.”

“I am asking you, what is it that you want?”

Perona herself isn’t sure why she’s calling him. When the idea to call Mihawk had just crossed her mind, she was about to cast it aside in anger – what is this, is she scared? She, the Ghost Princess, and scared? However, on reflection, she concluded that the disturbing feeling that won’t leave her alone wasn’t fear. She has no doubt about the success of her venture, although she sees that it won’t be easy. It is true that she’s got no army of zombies anymore, and in the past couple of years she fought weeds and mole crickets more often than she fought other pirates, but is she a general or what? So no, she isn’t scared, but something keeps gnawing at her relentlessly and won’t let her focus on her plan, and she has to focus. And for some reason she feels like it’ll get better if she talks to somebody. Terrible. The two years and a bit that she spent on Kuraigana made her too soft.

Oh, right. Kuraigana.

“I was just gonna ask, what news of the castle? Not a word in the papers or on the streets.”

“As far as I know,” Mihawk’s voice turns icy again, “the Marines conducted a search there and commandeered it for the needs of the World Government.”

“Whaaat?!” Perona is so furious she almost drops the handset. She snatches it, uses her shoulder to press it to her ear, adjusts her hat that has slipped down to her eyes. She had four more hats back on Kuraigana – wait, no, five. Five hats. And so many dresses! The black lace one, but not the kind she’s currently wearing – the other black lace one; the black one with balloon sleeves; the pink one with skulls. The wine-red one she and Zoro sewed from old curtains – or rather, she sewed and Zoro just sat on the floor helping her mark out the hemline in chalk, and did it lopsidedly, at that. And a good many more. Not to mention the rest of stuff she didn’t take with her when she went looking for Lord Moria because she thought she could come back later and pick it up. Apparently, she cannot. “How dare they?! Those dicks! And the garden?”

“And the garden what? Did you expect me to pack it in a bag and take it with me? Let us hope they haven’t burned it down, at least.”

“Our vineyard,” Perona murmurs confusedly, and the fact that Mihawk does not correct her that actually it is his vineyard, his garden, his castle, as he never tired of reminding Zoro and her for two years, is a testament to his own low spirits. “And the wine cellar… oh, they must’ve been so pleased…”

“Indeed. For once, they are going to have some quality alcohol. Have you ever been to any functions organized by the top brass of the Navy?” She doesn’t need to see his face to picture the exact way he rolls his eyes in disdain. “Pathetic.”

“I guess everything’s gonna wither and overgrow without us…”

“Those are just garden beds,” Mihawk says firmly. Like he’s trying to convince himself. “One can always make new ones.”

“And the castle? Can you find a new one too?”

Silence hangs on the line.

“No,” Mihawk replies at last. “No, hardly another one like that.”

Homesickness. That is what’s gnawing at her: homesickness. She failed to recognize this feeling at once because she has never experienced it before. Her memory was gracious enough to erase her entire childhood before meeting Lord Moria, leaving her just the vague images that sometimes caught up with her in her sleep. As to the Thriller Bark, it was great, of course – but it was not a dream come true. When Bartholomew Kuma asked her where she would want to go if she could go anywhere, she described to him her perfect home – and it turned out it existed. It turned out she could live there the way she could never imagine before but found truly enjoyable, with people she found nice to stay under the same roof with. And now her dream has been… commandeered. Zoro also left, but he had another home waiting for him – his crew, his ship. She and Mihawk, on the other hand, were now homeless. No, she didn’t call him because she was afraid she would fail and needed an adult – as in, more of an adult than herself – to tell her it will be all right. She did it because she knew he was going to understand what it feels like. Because he misses Kuraigana, too.

Perhaps picking at her wounds will make the matters worse, but the pain it causes energizes her, weirdly. A powerful, very powerful blast of rage. If the Marines who barged into their home were here, the sheer tsunami of her hate would have knocked them down, no Hollows needed.

“We will return yet,” Perona says, and her voice isn’t even trembling, for the most part. She tilts her head, and a tear falls on the floor; she steps on it with the tip of her boot. “We’ll take it back from them.”

“And what plan of action do you propose, pray tell?”

“Oh, I have a plan.” She giggles. “But I won’t tell you yet. Because first I have to secure a gift for you! I don’t wanna ruin the surprise.”

“Perona,” says Mihawk. Not ghost girl, not young lady – it is her name that he says, and it is unbearable. Like when they were bickering right before she left and he dropped a be careful out there and she wanted to sit down on the floor and cry because she was leaving home. Such a short time since she’d found it, and she was already leaving. “Whatever you’re up to, take care.”

“Yeah, you do too.”

“Thank you.” He doesn’t even act outraged that she dares to imply that the world’s greatest swordsman has to watch out for something or someone. 

If they keep talking, she’ll burst into tears for sure.

“Well, gotta go,” she says with affected cheerfulness. “Bye-bye, Hawkeyes! Tell your new friends I said hi!” and she hangs up before he can answer.

A queue has already formed by the entrance to the booth, and when Perona swings the door open, the first person in that queue gets hit on the forehead.

“Oops!” Perona cries out and soars into the air before he can grab her. “Watch where you stand next time!”

If she ought to apologize to someone, it is to Lord Moria. But he’ll never know she called him a gift. And she is sure she’ll be able to persuade him to join the Cross Guild – he has lost his crew again, which means that new allies could come in handy. The World Government shut down the Warlord program far too late. By now, as proven by Mihawk and his new partners, the mightiest pirates in the world have learned to sit down at the same table, even if with their teeth gritted, and join forces if necessary. Where there are three, there is room for a fourth – and then they’ll see how it goes. The Marines will regret driving them out of Kuraigana yet.

But first, to Hachinosu.

[pynkhues]

Okay, out of yoga and just because I was percolating on it as I was incorrectly using meditation at the end of the class, haha, but I do think the show is also saying something very specific when it has Louis unable to create art instantly turn around and seek to own, then profit off it without any respect for the artist who made it.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

@tinybigfoot no i love information! which is unfortunately often in conflict with "i'm not looking up shit," like might be found on wikis easily lmao, except for when i'm having an "i'm extremely looking up shit" moment. love the drama of the scene having a known time via Newspaper b/c of the accurate contemporaneous headlines rather than being able to simply read the date; didn't know about that event! and this is me just yesterday looking at bits of paper in the backdrop of one of the Introduction comic pages like ooh can i read this (no) imagine it if had Clues (don't think it would & doesn't seem to anyways)

another zany fact to remember that yeah according to those character profiles mitzi Would Have It Be Believed she's at all younger than mordecai, ft. the implication that since yeah he was born in '99 & mitzi Was born in the nineteenth century too, she's either the same age or slightly older. let's go Circa Thirty Characters....which is mostly just mitzi who'd deny as much & mordecai having a couple years to go, fingers crossed. then we leap over to people born in the '80s lol

[fideidefenswhore]

@bunniesandbeheadings I might misunderstand the text you linked. How could Mary call Edward a bastard? KoA was dead by then, and of course widowers can remarry. Calling Jane a legitimate Queen in no way would take away KoA’s status as Queen?

all of hviii's marriages after catherine of aragon were not recognised by the catholic church/pope. when he needed dispensations for these marriages, like for affinity (his marriage to jane was one of them), they were granted by the anglican church, whose authority the pope and other catholic monarchies of christendom did not recognise (the last real 'papal' henrician appointment, irony of ironies, was thomas cranmer's). there was also the matter of all marriages taking place when the realm was in schism, thus "all other women of henry concubines and not wives". prince edward was (legitimate) heir as reified by parliament; both retroactively from the succession act of 1536 and in name by the one of 1543.

foreign dignitaries of course, when they visited, would honour whoever henry's wife was as queen to maintain good relations and as matter of diplomacy (this wasn't, of course, done by the imperial until the last weeks of AB's time as queen, but otherwise, she was, even if 'frostily' by the french as in 1534). but they were often under instruction to treat this status as transient, as lauren mackay has summarized in her biography of chapuys, for example, charles v was rather mercenary in his attitude towards jane seymour, continually referring to her as henry's 'mistress' well into their marriage in his own instructions to chapuys:

"It appears Charles [V] was at times rather ruthless in regards to Jane, despite the fact that her being in power benefitted Mary. Charles referred to her in several dispatches as Henry's mistress rather than queen [...]" Inside the Tudor Court, Lauren Mackay

[empressofthewind]

Do you think Near has ever wanted to turn back the time? Like he had something he regretted and wanted to change it?

I was listening to the song “The scientist” - Coldplay and I kept wondering, especially for someone as practical as he is 🤔

Ooh this is a really interesting question, thank you!! Personally I’m inclined to go with no, because I don’t think he’s really the type to have regrets. Things absolutely can and do go wrong in his life (case in point, him becoming too complacent towards the end of the Kira case which necessitated the situation that got Mello killed), but I couldn’t see him ever wishing to go back and change outcomes that have already happened. I think he’d see it as a waste of his time to dwell on past mistakes, so when things go wrong, he will deal with the consequences and move on.

[flowery-king]

Idk what type of denial I'm in but the defanged au is a fucking Philip redemption au what was I on to be constantly reassuring people it's not a redemption plot lmao open your EYES Flowery

[humanveil]

you guys ever dip your toes back into old fandoms out of curiosity and immediately want to die

[forgaeven1]

perhaps i'd be more articulate the next time i'll write this down, but just know this - my portrayal of neville will always love hermione quite whole-heartedly. i wish i have the brain capacity to describe just how much hermione means to neville, but let's just say it encapsulates beyond even a romantic notion; it's everything. loving, respecting, being around hermione simply to enjoy her company is purely a selfless act that brings immense satisfaction and enjoyment for him. again, his actions [for any hermione portrayals] may came out incredibly romantic, although please be forewarned that this is in no way of me pushing for a ship — for i, too, much rather build a dynamic than forcing one — but simply the way i've interpreted his mannerisms when it came to the witch. i hope this may clear some things up!

[museenkuss]

miss dior absolutely blooming reformulation?

[celiaelise]

Just watched Chainsaw Man, it was pretty good. Feels very Written By Men but 🤷🏻‍♀️🙄

I liked how efficient the characterization was! Like within one or two scenes of knowing a character, you'd have a pretty good grasp on what their deal was. The whole "we kill devils except for when we use their powers ourselves except for when we just straight up become them" thing is definitely intriguing! Obviously lots of room to explore there. I have questions about them representing different fears/scary things, mainly about what happens when they get killed?

It was funny how Hayakawa was like, "🙄OBVIOUSLY we kill every fiend, they're just the same as other devils, they're not like people at all, are you stupid?" only for there to be like five fiends on his personal team. And, "we don't talk to or make friends w devils, we ONLY violently murder them," only for everyone he knows, including himself, to have active business deals with them. Like, I get that we're doing the whole irony thing, here, but it just seems like that worldview would be a little difficult to maintain. Also the fact that he got mad at Denji for killing the guy TOO efficiently?? Again, I get that we are establishing the character and the world, but it was a little baffling imo. But I guess he also did jump Denji in an alley following their very first conversation for literally no reason.

(I tried really hard not to find it off-putting that Denji was groomed/sexually harassed/assaulted by almost every woman he worked with, because I'm pretty sure that wasn't the context intended by the story 😬)

Anyway, I get the "morally dubious gov agency that uses people, including children, like pawns as a means to their greater good-motivated ends" thing they're doing. I can dig it.

It was a little wild in the season finale when they were like "okay Division 4 is going to go in the building now", showed the four characters we've become acquainted with entering the building, and then were like, "okay here are the members of the Division", and started introducing four completely different characters. Like, okay, yeah, surprise reveal or whatever, but at least a hint that there was even something to reveal would've been nice? (I remember the comment at the dinner party, but that didn't register at all) I guess I also just don't get what is even narratively gained from that surprise. Like, "there are several other members of this group, who we haven't met yet", doesn't seem like that weighty of a reveal, or to big of a hint to drop. Maybe I just didn't follow something, though. I'm not great with fast-paced stuff even when it's in my native language, so 🤷🏻‍♀️😅

Normally stories like this bother me by throwing around trauma, violence, and murder so lightly, but I feel like this one does a really good job of being like, "these people are Fucked Up, their world does not look like ours and they do not function the way we do." And, like, everything annoying or frustrating about the story or characters is justified. That redhead is on a different level though lol.

I liked Power just as much as I thought I would! 😊 The duo she and Denji have become by the end of the season is really sweet. I was excepting to see Pochita much more than I actually did. Visually, I find a lot of the animation really cool, including the ending sequences. It feels like the artists really like the color orange/amber, which, as an Orange Appreciator, I can appreciate. I think the "suits with sneakers" look that everyone has going on is pretty cute, though it does get a little boring.

Honestly, I think my favorite arc was the hotel level 8 one? idk why but it was very interesting, and gratifying to see Denji get such a definitive win.

[skrunksthatwunk]

very funny that tonight is the night i dyked too close to the sun and at dinner my conservative grandpa asked me (sorta) if i was seeing anyone and then we get home and almost immediately start watching streets of fire to his enthusiasm when i kinda only remember that movie for the butch deuteragonist

[demigirlboss2girlrotboogaloo]

While failure rates are lower in sub-i7/i9 SKUs, they are not entirely absent. Some Core i5 SKUs *are* affected. Specifically, anything with the K suffix. If your CPU's name starts in a 13 or 14 and ends in a K, and you've been having stability issues lately (random crashes and whatnot), you're eligible for a warranty claim. Regardless of whether that happens though, your warranty *is* extended by two years, and this applies to both proccessor-in-box (PIB) products, which can be warrantied directly from Intel, and to tray processors found in prebuilt PCs, which can be warrantied directly from the manufacturer of your prebuilt PC.

Also, Intel has not yet released the patch to fix this. They're currently validating it internally (i.e ensuring it won't fuck everything up even worse) and will be releasing it to motherboard manufacturers shortly, who should be integrating it into a new BIOS update. The patch is slated for release to manufacturers by mid-August, so we can likely expect BIOS updates a week or two after that, start of September at the latest.

Do you know if the thing about Intel 13 and 14th gen CPUs dying is true?

Yeah there's a major flaw in some very high-end 13th and 14th gen processors. If you just got an off-the shelf computer (not a gaming computer, not a high end workstation) you're probably fine. If you got a high-end processor but are not having issues with this, Intel has released a patch. If you ARE having problems, Intel extended the warranty of those processors and you should replace the processor.

It is a big deal, however it is a big deal that impacts a small but disproportionately loud subset of computer users, so if your computer cost less than a thousand dollars basically you're cool, this isn't going to be an issue for you.

[pain-is-too-tired]

I think more fics should include lil bits of southern accent coming from characters from the south.

Will, Leo, Hazel and Annabeth all start talking to eachother and suddenly you're hearing four different southern accents coming out

I mean already talked about the big three boys and them all having a partner from the south. But add Frank in there who's not even from the US and they all just starring like :0

Will and Leo with different Texas accents,Leo's probably with the added hispanic accent mixed in

Annabeth' Virginia accent hardly noticed cause she left there when she was pretty young, only to come out with certain words

Hazel's having a New Orleans accent is *slept* on y'all.

Which, also means on the Argo II anytime they were discussing and accents might've go thicker as they spoke faster you had the other four just starring like "mhm-yep-"

But like you also had a new yorker and a Canadian there as well as a guy that was raised by wolves so- accents must've been interesting on that ship XD

(Also-southern Lee Fletcher hc, mainly cause I'm shocked none of the children of Apollo we have a birth place for so far are from around Nashville. Come on, it's literally Music City. )