#yapping time

[thelesbianluthor]

So we were blessed with Margaret Encino, got to see Amanda Maillard in action and also had a little Kristen in the end.

We witnessed the incredibly quick first date to marriage pipeline of Cody "Night Angel" Walsh and the quangled Loose (Duke) Baron from the Baronies.

Fig tried her best to propose and be the one to marry Ayda and even sent her an 80 minutes proposal album. She was only stopped by the unfortunate reality of not being of age.

Gorgug was having a not very good day as usual but at least he got it easier than Fabian last time so there's that!

Adaine and Pinocchio were mostly chilling and having a great time even with the weird circumstances all around.

Love how the more we quangle the more crack pairing and alternate universe ships we get. Sklonda and Sandra Lynn are canon in another universe and that's wonderful really

The more we go on the weirder and more insane the quangles get I swear and I love it immensely

[clownakai]

Guy who told Ran to call the police and an ambulance but realizes very very soon that help won't get there in time. Guy who looks at the blood on his hands and at the woman actively dying in front of him and realizes she has no time left. Guy who realizes she's going to take everything he tells her to the grave whether she wants to or not. Guy who tells the truth, guy who explains his deduction, guy who tells a stranger his real name because she's out of time anyway— might as well be honest.

Guy who is so used to arriving on the scene when it's already too late for the victim, but not this time. This time, he watches someone die.

[forkbirtuna]

Since Ludwig is sometimes depicted wearing glasses, I like to think that the reason why he furrows his eyebrows so much is because he's squinting and just trying to see without his glasses, because wearing them all the time can get inconvenient in some situations

[manjirosanosrealwife]

WHY IS KM!MIKEY SO PRETTY???? I SWEAR I JS NOTICED THIS NOW IS THAT HE'S PRETTIER THAN ALL THE OTHER VERSIONS OF MIKEY (except for Manila Mikey and the other one with the dragon tattoo) OR MAYBE IT'S JUST ME, I LOVE KANTO MIKEY SM

[t-posing-ibuki]

Honestly V3's best piece of worldbuilding is establishing a second school dedicated to Ultimates (with the assumption it's operating at the same time as Hope's Peak).

Like sure, you could portray HPA and the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles as rival institutions. Their sports/academic teams competing against each other is a given, but with the added drama of the two schools trying to recruit more talented students to further their own mysterious goals.

OR

you could imagine the UA as a bargain-bin version of HPA. HPA has nearly a century of renown and glory that overshadows all other institutions, which could also mean they have the ability to scout for students and enroll them before any other academy.

The UA ends up with all the leftovers and dropouts that the HPA turns away or expells, meaning you get some... less than ideal Ultimates. Penultimates, if you will.

Kaito has the title of Astronaut, but has never been to space

Shuichi is branded the Ultimate Detective, but only after solving one case.

Kokichi declares himself a "Supreme Leader" over a gang of delinquents who pull pranks.

It makes sense for these second-stringers to be turned away or ignored by HPA, and wind up at a less prestigious school. However, sometimes the UA manages to get their hands on genuine talent (like Kirumi or Maki) first.

[skepticdoe]

i personally feel like elf king Kyle wouldn’t be that confused by human culture because he’d be the type to study the behaviour of other species and their culture

but interacting with Cartman makes Kyle question his studies everyday. For a while he’s convinced that Cartman is some mutated version of a human because there is no way that his Stan and Cartman are of the same species 😭

[yapping-kaou]

I AM SO EXITED

first of all

Paris is alive yay!!! Can't wait to see her kick even more ass!!

Greg Tarzan (just look up and his name is Degas, which slays but I don't remember it being said in the movie) joins the team too!!!

And it seems that we get some political trouble in this one ! Usually the mission take place in some more undergound place hiden from the public i wonder how this will take play out !

Them :(((

Them :(((

They really are a family.

I put this shot here because it's beautiful and I can't wait to see it in the theater.

If anything happened to them, I will do something drastic (nothing but I will think about doing something drastic really hard).

[prefixerism]

New hc dropped theyre silly

[deadskiesandlemonlime]

I’m gonna be honest I have really mixed feelings about raitana, the fans I’ve seen are super nice and stuff and its not a bad ship in the lore, but it just feels like NRS is making Kitana be a prize that the ‘chosen’ one of each era gets. Along with not giving her a lot of screen time except for being ogled or the sister moments (which I love don’t get me wrong) in the newest game it adds on to the feeling of just making her this bland trophy.

If they’re going for it being a canon relationship I hope they atleast let her have some scenes to shine on her own like they did Mileena or Li Mei before they get together.

Now that I think it over I think I’m just troubled by NRS’s possible handling of it, not the ship itself lol.

[leadandblood]

Fun fact that i just made up: when Edward was younger and didn't have muttonchops yet, people would mistake him for Thomas sometimes.

They would also tell Thomas he looks a lot like Edward when he was younger. He acts like it bothers him, but it really doesn't, because he thinks Edward is handsome

[thelesbianluthor]

Kristen Applebees is a mess of a character in the most realistic way.

The thing is that I understand why people got to a point where they got tired of her chaotic and careless behaviour but that's the point isn't it?

I laughed at the bits and chaos of JY so much but I understand that things can be nuanced. I can laugh at the bits while also thinking about the implications of her actions in the story.

Kristen is a mess, she is spiralling, because she is a teenager who was faced with either choosing herself and being kicked out by her family and community or forever living a comfortable lie that would have inevitably made her lose herself.

She brought back a Goddess and she found her truth in Cassandra's domain, but she is also a teenager who just went through her first breakup with the first girl she ever loved and whom she experienced the highest of high and the lowest of lows. She has a right to mess up and fail and hit dead ends. Yeah Cassandra depends on her and Kristen needs to step up and take her role seriously but at the same time, it's so fucking unfair that the weight of a divine being's entire existence falls on the shoulders of a teen girl still in high school who is trying to find herself and learning how to handle life while also still recovering from a lifetime of trauma.

Whenever I think about that scene where Kristen says that her brain feels kind of liquid and she keeps failing to hold on to stuff I feel so incredibly connected to that feeling. I struggle so much with doing things that require a prolonged effort for a long term goal. My brain fails to hold onto stuff so I genuinely don't perceive how much time has passed, time feels so blurry and I inevitably end up failing at things I should be focusing on because my mind latches onto other things.

I relate a lot to Kristen on her struggles with commitment when it comes to important things and her latching onto fun and excitement that inevitably causes her to lose track of what matters.

The thing is that Kristen relied a lot on Tracker and how stable her presence was in her life. Tracker kept her anchored while also giving her a way to channel her energy and attention so I am not surprised that when they broke up Kristen lost most of her drive towards establishing her religion. It's not Tracker's fault of course and it is something that Kristen had to learn so JY Kristen was an inevitability

[clownakai]

Hi! Let's talk about: Conan's terribly kept secret, and how come he doesn't seem to mind that Akai has pretty much figured it out (and teases him about it)

I'm not going to lie, I think about this a lot and I've wanted to make a post dissecting the whole thing for a while. It's one of those details within two characters' relationship that says a lot about their overall dynamic, in my opinion.

So, to start off, let's address the secret in question and what it means to Conan. Basic stuff, but it's a useful starting point.

The first and greatest motivation behind Shinichi's efforts to keep his situation a secret from Ran is that he doesn't want to endanger her (good idea in theory, not so easy in practice, but this post isn't about that).

In time, this also becomes valid for everyone who associates with Kudou Shinichi and/or Edogawa Conan, given all the stunts he pulls as the latter. Just to be on the safer side, those two identities should remain separate.

Now, here's the first real "outsider" who figures out Conan is Shinichi.

I'm kind of reading this as Conan attempting to call Hattori's bluff, but as soon as he realizes that the guy is serious about telling Ran everything, he drops all pretenses and comes clean about the APTX.

Now, since this is still pretty early on in the manga, we can argue that Conan's identity hasn't been solidified just yet and Shinichi doesn't know how dangerous the Organization actually is, and combining that with the fact that Hattori is pretty much a stranger, the pros of conceding defeat on the matter and explaining himself to a fellow detective definitely outweigh the cons.

(This also gifts us with the funniest swaggest most whimsical duo ever, but I digress /silly)

And after Heiji, we have the man, the myth, the legend. Hondou Eisuke. His case is kind of particular, in that he doesn't really try to get the secret out of Conan. The truth is presented to him due to something unrelated (asking Ran out), which is apparently reason enough for Shinichi to out himself.

I do believe that Shinichi felt secure enough in doing this for a couple reasons: first and foremost, Eisuke is at least marginally aware of the Organization and the danger it represents, and he knows the importance of keeping secrets given both his sister's situation and his career choice. Secondly, Eisuke is leaving Japan: sure, there's a chance he might stay in contact with his friends via text, but he has no reason to tell Ran about Conan's real identity in the first place.

The real "danger" here was the possibility (very, very small. Basically non-existent, to be honest) that Ran would say yes to Eisuke's proposal to go to the States together (where, in Shinichi's mind, he wouldn't be able to follow, where he wouldn't be able to watch over her, where he felt he would lose her in every way that matters), and that chance, no matter how small, warranted an intervention. Not exactly pure logic, but that's teenagers for you (affectionate).

Alright, so what about people like Masumi? She even has an advantage in that she already knows about the existence of a drug that makes people shrink: her own mom looks like a middle schooler because of that. She's in danger no matter how you look at it, and she's clearly been keeping that secret the same way Agasa, Hattori, and the Kudous have for a good while. So how come she doesn't get to join the club?

The answer is, of course, the risk factor.

Masumi, as we all know, wouldn't know the meaning of subtlety if it hit her in the face with a baseball bat. We love and cherish her regardless, but admittedly, that's not a trait that would inspire trust in a pair of teenagers hiding their continued existence from an evil syndicate.

That's right! We have her timing to keep in mind as well. Masumi is added to the scene well into the main timeline's events, which means multiple things:

Conan's identity is finally well-established and separate from Shinichi's. Ran has had her suspicions in multiple instances, but they've been assuaged every time. Still, that balance is hard to maintain.

Shinichi is now fully aware of just how dangerous the Organization is: he's now much more reluctant to just share his secret willy-nilly with random strangers, even though they might prove to be useful allies in the long run.

Conan isn't the only shrunk teenager running around anymore: Haibara has just as much reason as him, if not more, to want to keep the number of people in the know as low as possible. By revealing his own secret, there would be virtually no way for Shinichi to keep Haibara out of the metaphorical line of fire.

Therefore, a variable that behaves like this...

Or this...

Isn't very likely to garner much favor from either of these two.

Something to take note of, though, is the fact that Conan pretty much only ever panics when Masumi brings up his identity if she's making an active effort to also bring the matter up with people who are firmly on the "Absolutely Cannot Find Out" list (Ran especially).

In multiple other instances, when Masumi alludes to being aware of Conan's ruse but talks to him one-on-one and makes it clear that the comment is a one-off occasion (and that she's not going to push it this time), Shinichi doesn't really lose his cool.

He may stumble over his words a bit, but the moment isn't played as dramatic or high-risk, per se. It's more as if he were being privately teased about his situation— sort of like as inside joke. It's not exactly welcome, but it also doesn't raise any alarm bells since it stays between him and Masumi.

Now, would Conan's problems with Masumi's nosiness be solved if he gave up and admitted the truth she already knows? Of course, but that's not really the point.

The issue is that this wouldn't be happening on his terms. He would be giving in to someone's else's demands, and in addition to that, Masumi has been asking non-stop about the antidote that Shinichi intermittently uses to get back to normal.

That, above all else, is what makes the endless dance of denial necessary, I think: admitting the truth also means outright admitting that prototypes of an antidote exist, and that means exposing Haibara (both her past work and therefore criminal background, and what she's been working on these past few months: letting Masumi have even a single pill would mean the MI6 getting their hands on it in turn, and that's pretty much not something anyone wants), which in turn would probably set off a very unpleasant chain reaction for everyone involved.

When Shinichi conceded defeat with Hattori, it wasn't on his terms either, but at least he knew the guy didn't really have any ulterior motive apart from his one-sided beef with the Detective of the East.

With Masumi there is no such certainty— quite the opposite, in fact, which is why I think this is the reason he's been so insistent on denying the truth even when he now knows full well that Masumi's can be no mere suspicions.

With all that said, let's get to the point of this bad boy! (I did not think this analysis would get so long. Holy shit)

Let's start with the fact that Akai operates on a pretty simple need-to-know basis. If something isn't relevant to what he's trying to do, he tends not to mention it. Still, he's not exactly strict about this: when Conan mentions Akai and Masumi's familial relation, he takes it in stride and gives his own confirmation because he sees no reason not to.

Now, this of course doesn't mean that he can't get curious about things himself, or that he won't conduct his own investigations on said things. His M.O., however, is very different from that of, say, Hattori or Masumi. It can probably be chalked up to maturity and years of experience, along with the simple matter of his personality, but Akai doesn't exactly make a spectacle of things.

He knows when to push and when to let go in a manner that still gives him the answers he seeks. He easily manipulates Conan into giving himself away as Shinichi while still making sure to be the only one witnessing that moment.

And then he decides to be a bastard and give Conan a heart attack... for about a tenth of a second, since as he does that he also carefully words things in order to give the kid an easy out.

All Akai wanted was to figure out the mystery in front of him (he's by admission a curious guy. He likes solving puzzles): now that he has his answers, he's not really going to do anything with them because he has no reason to— Conan is already willing to cooperate with him and the FBI (and has already done so before), after all. They already share intel more or less freely. He's literally living in the kid's house. For free. Why would he jeopardize any of that by falling out of favor with him?

This, I think, is a pretty solid basis upon which I can build my beautiful sandcastle.

Of the couple times in which Akai respectively asks Conan about his identity outright and mildly teases him about his circumstances, the context always plays a huge role.

In the first scenario, the two are speaking in public, yes, but at the same time the conversation is:

Pretty much kept private

Initiated by Conan (he asked for information first!)

Framed as a proposal of a mutual exchange by Akai, who also backs off immediately as soon as Conan turns him down

Of course, Shinichi is already reasonably sure Akai has him figured out anyway, so the point is moot, but it's still nice to get plausible deniability and still be somewhat in control of when he's going to come clean to the guy of his own volition.

In the second scenario, the situation is even more "secure" so to speak, as:

They're sitting in Okiya Subaru's car

They're completely alone

They're in a hurry to do something else (God fucking dammit, Shuukichi)

In this case, Conan doesn't outright react to the jab. Maybe it's because he doesn't really know what to say, or maybe it's just that he doesn't have enough time to come up with a reply before Shuukichi picks up the call. Either way, he does perhaps look a little put on the spot, but there's no real panicked reaction, no telltale change in what Conan's pupils look like in true DetCo fashion, which I'd say confirms he doesn't feel threatened at the moment.

(If we really must give it a critical interpretation, maybe the bit feels a little like a joke falling flat because it was made during an otherwise tense moment and it has nothing to do with the bigger issue.)

It's also worth noting how Akai's dig directly ties into his own circumstances, which possibly helps with lowering the "offensive" charge of the words. It's not a direct accusation, but rather a mildly humorous, harmless observation about their shared status (presumed dead by the enemy).

The biggest thing about both scenes is still, however, the fact that Akai unfailingly frames the subject in a way that leaves the choice of whether to actually talk about it completely up to Conan. He definitely recognizes his position as privileged/advantaged, but actively chooses not to make use of that, and he hasn't treated Conan any differently ever since verifying his suspicions either.

(Sidenote: I do believe that keeping the kid's identity from his own colleagues is also a strategic choice. Like I mentioned before, outing Conan would mean outing Haibara, and I do believe Akai's promise to protect Shiho also includes keeping her far away from any government agency who may be interested in what she knows— and what she's done.)

In conclusion: I am extremely normal about random interactions between these two and also I think that Conan's unshakeable trust in Akai stems from how the guy has been treating him ever since they started collaborating— with genuine respect (and even admiration) and never actually making him feel cornered the way so many others do, whether intentionally or not. This results in occasional sillygoofy privileges because Akai can recognize the time and the place in which it's acceptable to tease the Cone.

[forkbirtuna]

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[luifaro]

listening to o superman by laurie anderson and just remembered why that song makes me think of flowey and toriel. before you click off just HEAR ME OUT.

NOTE I'M GONNA YAAAPP... WATCH OUT LITTLE GUYS!!

i have other parts of it i'm up interpreting but this post is specifically about flowey t flower and his mom so we're skipping those.

the "Hi, I'm not home right now, but if you want a leave a message, just start talking at the sound of the tone." makes me think of flowey like mocking toriel after he killed her. or maybe him just walking through her empty house after he killed her.

"Hello? This is your mother. Are you THERE? are you COMING HOME?" makes me think of like toriel's failed attempts to help flowey. once she finds out his identity she wants to take him in, to take him HOME. but she doesn't realize she can't save him, nobody can.

Then we leave the boring ass memories behind with this next one!

"Hello? Is anybody home?" makes me think of toriel encountering flowey after hearing him making noise or something.

"Well you don't know me, but I know YOU. And I've got a message to give to YOU." is what i think flowey replies, wanting to talk to her. tell her something important.

"Here come the planes." an ominous warning...

"So you better get ready, ready to go. You can come as you are, but pay as you go. Pay as you go." i'm not 100% sure with this one but i'd think he's talking about general hardships she's already faced like having her kingdom betray her, leaving to the ruins, and losing her children. can you tell i'm a yapper at heart yet

Unsettled, Toriel asks "Ok, who is this really?"

Flowey replies "This is the hand. The hand that takes." Which I imagine as him telling her he's Asriel before tearing her apart and killing her. As he tears her apart there are flashes of brighter times, of toriel holding asriel in her arms. asriel hugging her tight.

"Here come the planes." He repeats, revealing he was really warning her about himself.

In another run, he finishes his thought.

"They're American planes, made in America."

"Smoking, or non-smoking?"

Flowey laughs at such a meaningless question. After all, it's not like there's much of a difference.

"Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." Is Flowey warning Toriel that monsters won't stop at anything to be freed from the underground. Even including murdering a future human themselves instead of getting the kid to Asgore.

I think this next part is Flowey having some sort of meltdown, desperately wanting his mother to hold him even though he knows she can't help him. He just wants to believe for a little bit that maybe everything can be ok.

"So hold me, mom, in your long arms."

"So hold me, mom, in your long arms."

"In your automatic arms."

He calls them automatic arms because one of the first things she'll do to comfort him is hug him tight.

"Your electronic arms,

in your arms."

Flowey doesn't care if her arms hurt him. He NEEDS her.

"So hold me, mom, in your long arms."

"Your petrochemical arms."

"Your military arms."

"In your electronic arms."

It ends with him laughing, maybe it's at himself for wanting, hell, even thinking for a moment there was anything toriel could do for him. Maybe it's at Toriel for even trying to save him. Perhaps even both at the same time.

[t-posing-ibuki]

I know everybody and their mom has expressed their distaste of V3's Chapter 3, but I wanna yap about it now.

Korekiyo shouldn't have killed Tenko.

For one, Angie's murder is nearly perfect. The only clues outside of Angie's Lab would have been the sawed beam in the empty rooms, but:

Nobody had any reason to look there for clues.

Nobody would realize its a clue even if they found it.

Nobody would suspect Korekiyo because of it.

Practically speaking, Kiyo could have just killed Angie and gotten away with it during the trial. Killing Tenko wouldn't have helped him win any sooner, and killing her actively left more clues behind to pin Angie's death on him.

Making Kiyo a serial killer didn't justify it, either. He had the choice between risking his own death for the sake of +1 to his body count, OR laying low, escaping as the sole survivor, and returning to the outside world so you can continue to kill.

But I get it. It's a video game; these murders need to be solvable. It has to be that way.

But what if it didn't?

What if Kiyo wasn't the one to kill Angie? What if the two murders happen independently from each other, with two different culprits? What if Angie's killer is executed, but Kiyo gets to live?

Or maybe Kiyo was a victim instead? What if, during the ritual of the Caged Child, Kiyo was killed while the lights were out?

[lorili-ch]

I have made a realization

I need to put my OCs and my favs together I think

Putting Archer and Arthur in the same room would cure my ailments Look at how similar they are its crazy

awww are you also dirty blond, known for fake names, on the run from the police, claustrophobic, have died at least once, carrying the guilt from the blood of countless people on your hands, and also spent time in a hellish dimension that changed you forever?

Congrats! You are either my OC Archer Flinn or Arthur Lester from hit podcast, Malevolent!! Good luck!