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au where for whatever reason Dokja does choose Secretive Plotter as his constellation, only for the entire Star Stream to get an error message and crash for like an hour

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some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

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Something I imagine the revival might reference

Ok now with the hundreds of bonus/alternatives I made lol Bonus 1:

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Bonus 3:

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Do you think Perry ever mixes up being mindless and sentient?

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I’m rewatching Detective Conan again and low-key wish Kaitou Kid was also a victim of APTX 4869

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One of the most fascinating things about Furuya Rei is how deeply unsettling his Amuro persona actually is, at least to anyone who truly knows him. I would argue that Amuro is even creepier than Bourbon because while Bourbon is a cold-blooded killer, at least with him, what you see is what you get. There's no darker side hiding behind Bourbon's mask because Bourbon is supposed to be evil.

But Amuro Tooru is meant to come off as (at least mostly) harmless. To anyone who only knows Amuro, it's easy to like him. He's friendly, charming, handsome, smart, maybe a bit dorky, and he's good with kids. Add the fact that he's also a customer service worker, and you've got yourself a man that most people would be completely fine with letting their guard down around - which is precisely what makes him so dangerous.

Because at the end of the day, Amuro is just a mask that Rei created to help further his mission. And Rei, as we all know, is the very opposite of harmless. We've seen time and time again that he has no problem with potentially destroying innocent lives if it benefits him in some way. None of the charming friendliness that Amuro Tooru displays is sincere because Furuya Rei has almost no one left alive in the world that he genuinely cares about. Arguably, the only people left alive that Rei cares about are Akai, Conan, Kazami, and maybe the Detective Boys (granted, Akai is more in the sense that it's impossible to hate someone and not care about them). And even then, Rei would have no problem with screwing them over for the sake of his mission and letting them get themselves out of trouble. Sure, he might hesitate a little if it was the DB since they're children, but he would ultimately still be able to do it, and he would leave it up to Conan (and Haibara) to save them.

I mean, he would fuck Akai's life up for a Klondike bar, but that's beside the point.

When it comes to everyone else, though, Rei couldn't care less about any of them. He would kill or at least majorly fuck them over for his own benefit in a heartbeat, and more to the point, he would care very little about ensuring that they had a way to save themselves or had someone that could save them. If they do, great, if not, well, sucks to be them, but it was for the greater good. At any given time, anyone who knows him as the cheerful, dorky, nice guy (no, not that type of nice guy) Amuro - Ran, Sonoko, Azusa, Hattori, the Poirot customers who keep fawning over him, anyone - could find themselves on the wrong end of one of his schemes, and the odds of him feeling any remorse if they die or have their lives permanently ruined in some way are slim to none.

TL;DR: Amuro Tooru is the type of guy who pretends to be a friend and lures people into a false sense of security while holding a knife to their back, and that, at least to me, is far more disturbing than a man who's just an outright ruthless criminal.

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My beloved chisana detective ✨🩵

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Never follow through on a thought process that begins with ‘might as well lick it and find out.’

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Oi, oi.

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So I was watching episode 129, which is when Haibara was introduced and in the episode, they show a list of names of people that have been given the drug, all being confirmed as dead besides Shinichi (At least until Haibara changed his status to confirmed before she took the drug).

Now I don't know Japanese but I was curious so I put the image through a few image translators and two names in particular stood out to me because they were the most consistent in the different translations were 'Haneda Koji' and interestingly enough, 'Ooka (or 'Oka') Masahito'

Now we already know that Haneda Koji was killed by the BO but the Ooka Masahito part stood out to me. The name isn't fully in the image so it's likely it's a mistranslation but I also looked at the manga versions of the list and all the ones I found either don't have the name or don't fully show it.

Now we only know one character with the surname Ooka and that's Ooka Momiji, whose father is not mentioned in the series despite the fact that we met her mother and butler. We also know that her retired grandfather is a former Prime Minister and that the Ooka family is the third most wealthy after Karasuma Renya and the Suzuki Family, so they're fairly influential.

What does this all point to? I think Ooka Masahito is Momiji's dad, who died when she was young because he or her grandfather discovered something they shouldn't have about Karasuma Renya or the Black Organization and he was killed to permanently silence him or to serve as a warning for the grandfather to keep his mouth shut unless he wanted his whole family dead. I think Momiji also suspected that there was something more to her father's death and that's why she's such a good detective and is interested in other good detectives (i.e. Heiji).

TDLR: I think Ooka Momiji might have some actual plot relevance besides being a second love interest for Hattori Heiji.

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Reverse Aptx-4869, Conan stumbles upon the Black org's deal and he's poisoned but miraciously he ages 10 years and now introduces himself to Ran as Kudo Shinichi.

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thinking about conan and shinichi again. what if he could never be 'himself' again? who truly is kudo shinichi? the detective prodigy who is known for being smart and arrogant? what does he have other than fame and enemies? what makes shinichi better than conan? (other than a very suitable name) if not for ran, would shinichi return to his old body?

if he is back to his old body, how would he adapt? how would he see the girl he has been calling his elder sister as his lover? will he be back in the private detective business which will in turn reduce ran's father's business? or would he silently solve crime? would he still not take credit for the crimes he solved? can he really get rid of all the crows? he would have to lay low anyway.

and conan will never truly leave. how will he interact with people he knew as conan and not as shinichi? will ran forgive him for his lies? would the shounen tantei dan accept that conan has left and will treat shinichi as a friend rather than an adult who will not take them seriously? will the network he built as conan stay the same as an adult shinichi? i doubt that. how would the division one react?

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Was having some thoughts about Shinichi and Shiho and how they view their other halves, Conan and Ai, and whether or not they accept them as another version of themselves. With Shinichi, we obviously know that he doesn't accept Conan Edogawa as himself at all. Whenever he goes back to being Conan, he thinks to himself "I'm turning back into that kid.... Into Conan again!" as if Conan were a completely different person. Which, in a way, he is a different person than Shinichi. Shinichi and Conan live two very different lives. One is a high school detective and the other is a seven year old first grader. Shinichi has Ran as his childhood best friend and now girlfriend, being a high school student who will eventually graduate and move on to college, his classmates, the fame that comes from being a high school detective, etc. But Conan? He has none of that. You can even argue that Conan has even more than Shinichi does. Conan has more friends than just Ran, and he's made a bunch of meaningful connections with a lot of different people. Different people who Shinichi doesn't know and should not know, but he does because he's also Conan. And yet, despite this, he doesn't accept Conan as himself. He views Conan as a reflection in the mirror that he doesn't want to look at.

This part from opening 4 was always interesting to me, because it shows Shinichi and Conan on the opposite side of a mirror. A mirror that Shinichi doesn't want to look into. There's an ending theme song that also does this (I think it's ending 49) where it shows these two in different cracks of a mirror. We only see Shinichi in one crack, but we see Conan in the other cracks. Then it shows Shinichi behind a gear that makes a clock move, but the gear isn't moving. It's stuck. It's interesting how Shinichi is behind it, showing how he can't get around the gear. Almost as if he's not allowed to, because time has essentially stopped for him. Shinichi is still stuck in the past, in that night at Tropical Land that changed his life forever. Conan is his future, living a different life than Shinichi, a life that Shinichi never wanted to begin with. For him, Conan is sucking up the life that he wants, which is why Shinichi refuses to accept him as being another version of himself. The manga does this as well, showing Shinichi and Conan on opposite sides of a mirror. It's an imagery that shows how Shinichi has an identity crisis when it comes to who he is and who Conan is. It'll be interesting to see how he reconciles with all of this when he's back to being Shinichi for good, but he doesn't have all of the connections that Conan had anymore.

Now what I find interesting with this when it comes to Shiho and Ai, is that this imagery doesn't exist with them. Whenever we see the two of them in the anime, they're always shown side by side. Not on opposite sides of a mirror.

In the few anime endings that's focused around Shiho, we don't get the sense that Shiho Miyano is lost in time, unable to move because Ai Haibara exists. Rather, we're shown how much her past haunts her. She has a lot of trauma from her time in the organization, which is to be expected. And as a result, she's terrified. Terrified of a past that constantly catches up to her. In a way, Ai Haibara is an escape from that past for Shiho. She doesn't view Ai as a curse the way that Shinichi views Conan as a curse. Which I think makes it easier for her to accept Ai as another version of herself, instead of a completely different person who she hates and wishes didn't exist. It's why we don't see that same desperation that Shinichi has when it comes to returning to her original body. Not only would it be extremely dangerous for her to do so as a former member of the organization who they are currently hunting down, she also doesn't have much to go back to. Akemi was the one positive thing in her life as Shiho Miyano. And when Akemi was killed, Shiho basically died along with her. Which probably played a part into Shiho's decision to take her own drug in the hopes that it would kill her. Shiho Miyano has nothing to return to, other than a past that she desperately wants to get away from. Shiho Miyano has nobody waiting for her. Ai Haibara does. Shinichi Kudo does have a life that he wants to get back to, as well as people waiting for his return. He doesn't have that same problem with his past like Shiho does. Shinichi has a problem with his identity, meanwhile Shiho has a problem with her past. Even though we only see Shiho return to her original body twice, both instances being a life or death situation, it doesn't seem like she would have that same problem that Shinichi has: an identity crisis. When she shrinks back down to the body of a child during the Haido City Hotel case, she doesn't think "I'm turning back into that kid.... Into Ai again!" the way Shinichi thinks about Conan whenever he shrinks back down to his child body. Which makes me feel like she accepts that part of her. I really wish that Gosho would give us more moments of Ai returning to being Shiho, this way we could actually confirm if this is the case for her or not. But it really doesn't seem like she would have that same issue that Shinichi has. This honestly reminds me of Persona 4, where the main characters all had shadow versions of themselves, because they didn't want to accept the parts of themselves that they didn't like. And in order for them to defeat their shadows and to make peace with them was to accept them as being their other half. Their true self. It's pretty much the same thing for Shinichi and Shiho (minus the whole shenanigans that comes from fighting their own shadows, of course) but especially with Shinichi.

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The “That’s immoral you shouldn’t write that, we need to get that taken down” discourse on tiktok right now is PISSING ME OFFF

Wdym you want censorship for a literal ARCHIVE are you fucking stupid

Ao3 was literally founded to preserve works that were largely getting taken down due to censorship

Censorship is the opposite of what Archive of Our Own stands for

The TAGS and WARNINGS are there for a REASON. Use them and stop complaining

The universal rule—don’t like, don’t read

It’s THAT simple

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ha hah get blorbofied idiot