#Oops I rambled again

[imaginariumwanderer]

That haunting chorus of violins that fill the dark, those words– Pure Vanilla looks back over the space and finds exactly what he'd feared. Expected. There they are, gliding across the void so, so terribly intertwined they almost appeared as one. In some ways, he supposed they were. Pure Vanilla watches himself be led in a dance so improper and aimless and… Had Shadow Milk's expression truly been so… adoring, that day?

Fanart and coincidental birthday gift for the talented off1cially_done who wrote this (the fanfic is pretty heavy, remember to look at the tags before reading!)

Shadowvanilla fanfics are so rare, I gotta show my appreciation for them when I can(!) There was plan to draw a different scene but this chapter was too good, came for the toxic stay for the Eternal Sugar. I refrains from drawing the unreleased beasts in fear of messing up their designs but her depiction in the story was amazing I just had to draw her! Like ughh, pretty pink angel pls be my winglady <333

Also, the dancing scene was my favorite scene in "the light continue". For it to come back and confirm to us that yes this was PV's first spark of love is so aaaa- Anyways, here's something extra!

Denial.

Newly-wed woes.

[iguessitsjustme]

Fadel never planned on killing Style. He might have thought about it on a surface level, but he never truly planned on killing Style. He might not have even planned on killing Kant. I also think Fadel knows that Style isn't the one to blame for the start of the lies. At least subconsciously he knows this.

Bison told him how Style got involved. That Kant brought Style in at his request in order for Fadel to let them date.

Fadel is probably now skeptical about how involved Style is with the cops. This gave Fadel a line of doubt for Style's betrayal and that's all he needed. Then Fadel's actions for the rest of the episode betrayed his words about killing Style.

While Bison was fantasizing about killing Kant (though I don't think he actually wanted to kill Kant either and he was just in the middle of being supremely hurt by Kant and that was his way of processing but that's another post that I will probably never write tbh), Fadel was planning how to betray them the way that they felt betrayed. That is not the thought process of someone who wants to kill. That is the thought process of a lover who wants to seek equal justice for the hurt caused. Eye for an eye and all that. If Fadel wanted Style and Kant dead for betraying them, he would have had a different plan. He would have planned a quick death for Style and Kant and mourned his lover but moved on. He would have had Bison kill Style while he went after Kant. That would have been the cleanest and most surefire way to kill both of them.

But the thing is, Fadel and Bison are ultimately good people. They are hit men, yes, but they only go after people that they fully believe are bad people. People that they believe are hurting others. They believe the world will be a safer place without the people they kill in it. Which is why they will struggle to kill Kant and Style. Not just because they love them but because they are not bad people tha are deserving of death. It is also why Fadel and Bison stopped that abusive ex boyfriend, not once, but twice. They should be keeping a low profile, especially after that botched hit. But by helping and stopping that abusive ex, they made themselves known and they made themselves seen. They got injured in the process of helping. Now more people are involved and seeing their faces. That is not what two hit men hell bent on getting vengeance on their lovers by way of death are going to do. They are going to kill them first and leave. But they are incapable of not helping others when they know they can help.

Fadel, specifically, seemed to be searching for ways to not kill Style. First, by having just a lousy initial plan. Then, when at the bowling alley, he took his time getting that poison out. I thought it was odd how obvious this professional hit man was being by looking around so much. But then it hit me (pun not intended), Fadel was searching for a reason, any reason, to not use that poison. He was searching for something to stop him, and he found it. It was just a second, but it was enough to stop him. He thought he saw someone concerning and he stopped. Had he really wanted to kill Style, that brief glance would not have been a deterrent.

The thing that I've been most obsessed with though is in the hospital, after Bison has been stabbed and Fadel has decided to drop the mask, he warns Style:

He is giving Style a chance. He is telling Style as subtly as he can that he is a dangerous man and he already knows Style knows that. This line is Style's chance to run. This is Style's chance to be paranoid and look around every corner to see if his hit man boyfriend is waiting for him. Why drop the mask? Why warn Style? Why give Style a chance if he wanted to kill him? Fadel is capable of many things, but I don't think he could ever kill Style. When he told Style that he loved him, he meant it with his whole heart and soul. It was the truth of him and no matter how big the betrayal was, not matter how hurt Fadel is, he cannot deny the truth at the core of his being: he loves Style. And he cannot stop himself. He is trying, but to deny his love for Style now is to deny a fundamental part of who he is.

And that is why he doesn't kill Style at that pool. Why does he need Style to find Bison? He doesn't. Fadel already has the skills he needs to track them down. We could argue he needs Style to drive the car, but that's not really true. He got Style to that pool somehow and it is definitely possible to drive with a broken arm (please do not drive in a sling though please please please do not do that). So making Style help him find Bison and Kant is just another reason for him to keep Style alive. A justification to put off killing the one person he cannot bring himself to kill. Style knows this. Style knows that Fadel loves him. Style also knows that he loves Fadel. The lies have come out and the road is rocky but they both know deep in their being that they love each other. And that is why Fadel lowers the gun and rests his eyes. When he is in the car, alone with Style, with no one around to judge or to demand Style's death, he can relax. When it's just him and Style, Fadel doesn't need to worry about pretending to try to kill him (though I don't think Fadel realizes he was pretending). Alone, with Style driving them towards his brother and Kant, Fadel finally, finally rests.

And despite himself, Fadel does.

[twilight-deviant]

so I just watched the daredevil shows and I caught the fisk flu... do you have any kingpin-centric comic recommendations? perhaps something with vanessa, although I don't think she ever got a lot of limelight in the comics.

I'm going to read the main daredevil runs eventually but I hauve so much covid about willie right now.... I wish he was more popular in this website, I'm parched 😔

Oh, thank you for asking me! (◕‿◕✿) And I agree, not enough Fisk love in this fandom, despite being such a big (double meaning) character. One of the best villains of all time, unappreciated! But I'm happy to help with some recs where I can. You may, in fact, regret asking. xD

I wish I had better news on the Vanessa front. The unfortunate thing about her character, especially in Daredevil comics, is that she spends most of it in a coma of sorts. So you're very right about her never getting as much focus as you'd think, given her undeniable influence over him. But I'll try to give some suggestions with her and then mention my fav Fisk comics overall.

I'm admittedly guilty of not fully reading every Spider-Man comic with his origins. (I need to do that.) But if you wanna see this man be an absolute simp for his wife, I love The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #197. Vanessa gives him 24 hours to quit crime, or she'll leave him. Fisk tries using his limited time to finish off Spider-Man and comes close, but at the last second, time runs out and Vanessa puts her foot down. He caves and they leave New York for Japan, where he legitimately quits crime to be with her. ♥

.......He quits crime until Daredevil #170. Which is another rec from me. Fisk planned on being good and turning past accomplices over to law enforcement. Vanessa goes ahead to NYC to help coordinate this (at the law office of Nelson & Murdock, of course), but she's kidnapped by the accomplices Fisk would betray. Needless to say, he immediately falls into old patterns to get her back safely. However, she is presumably killed in the fallout. She IS alive, of course, but not only does Fisk not know this (yet), she has lost her memories. Which sets the unfortunate tone for most of her character for the rest of her time. Even when he gets her back, she is mostly confined to a bed, having little presence other than moments when Fisk visits her and is sad.

But an amazing one-off comic about the conclusion of this dynamic is when Fisk hires a professional to help her mental state. Daredevil: Love and War (1986) is art in every way. It's a long one, but so good about showing Fisk's love for her, putting her own well-being over what he wants. Matt ends the comic somberly remarking that Fisk will never see her again, and sadly, this is pretty much true. So yes, despite Fisk's love for Vanessa being a very big deal due to how he feels for her, we never get to see it very much. I remember being surprised just how little there is.

Vanessa isn't really seen again until Daredevil (1998) #29, when she finds out Fisk was nearly killed. (Ironically, he's unconscious in bed this time.) There's a good bit to read in the middle, but Vanessa's arc comes to this wonderfully dramatic and tragic conclusion in Daredevil (1998) #92 and #93. The latter is good Fisk angst. 👌

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But for recs specifically about Fisk, I got you, anon. 👍 I'd say def hit the ones in red. The ones in blue, I leave up to you.

I'll warn you now that Fisk does appear a lot in Spider-Man and Punisher comics as well, but my personal reading bias skews very obviously towards Daredevil. (Though I have occasionally read others.) I like how he's portrayed in it best. SM goes a little too over-the-top with Fisk imo (understandable since he's physically weaker than a hero with vibes that demand camp), and Punisher... idk. I think SM comics want a vintage Bond villain and Punisher comics want a more flat, evil, thriller movie villain. If that makes sense.

If someone knows really good Fisk content I'm missing out on from other comic series, let me know!

Definitely pick up at Daredevil (1964) #170 where he's introduced in DD. I would especially recommend #170-#172 about him getting re-established as Kingpin, but reading some after that can't hurt. I adore the dynamic Fisk had with Daredevil for a time. It was so interesting for both their characters' sake. Especially in instances like #190. I highkey mourn what we lost from this comic era, when Matt would go to him for information and they would have their little tete-a-tete with mutual backscratching. It was so much more interesting (imo) than the deep hatred they usually display.

And then starting at #202, there's a character named Micah Synn who slowly becomes a mutual antagonist to them both. (Fisk is involved in #206 and #210-#214.) I wouldn't say it's "required" Fisk reading, just an interesting arc I like. It has great moments like this one from #211 of Fisk and Matt agreeing to work together. (I know I'm a shipper, but even taking my glasses off, this is so gooooooood!)

There is, of course, the notorious Born Again arc from issues #227-#233. It's a staple of their relationship taking a sharp turn, with Fisk trying to destroy his life. (Crazy how things between them change so much in just a dozen issues? But, ya know, different writers gonna write different.)

Here is where to read Daredevil: Love and War.

I recommend picking up at #254 with the introduction of Fisk hiring Typhoid Mary. Since Fisk and Mary are married now in recent comics, I think it's somewhat important to see how things started between them. (Maybe hit #254-#257 then #259-#263.) #261 is... ahem... not not hot. 👀 They absolutely destroy his office. lol.

If you ask me, #297-#300 feel like the very delayed conclusion of Born Again. It's really good from the ironic outlook of Fisk losing everything after he tried destroying Matt's life. With #300 culminating in this one page I love. I love. I love sooo much.

After that, Fisk begins his slow rise back to power, coming up from literally homeless on the subway. I love his perseverance to always work his way back up. It's one of my favorite qualities about the character. You can follow his ascent if you choose.

I'd say the time to really clock back in for Fisk is in Daredevil (1998) #10-#15 with the Echo arc and how he raised Maya. But if you read no other issue therein, read #15. It finally details his origin from childhood poverty. It's different from the tv series but also clear how they were inspired by the comic to write episode 1x08. Fisk is blinded at the end of this arc (basically the Hawkeye tv finale), so he is taken out of play for a time, so to speak.

In Daredevil (1998) #27, he is stabbed on his son Richard's orders. This is when Vanessa comes back into the picture. Admittedly, I have not read this whole arc through, just bits and pieces. ^-^; You can read it for the Vanessa parts. Her retribution towards Richard, dismantling Fisk's empire, and having Fisk sent overseas for treatment (that also restores his sight) is important. But Fisk himself is not in it very much.

Another rise to power starting in Daredevil (1998) #46 as Fisk takes back the empire Vanessa sold off. Kinda ends with him going to prison in #50, so you could say there's not much to gain from reading it as we're at square -1 with not enough about Fisk's character to make it worthwhile, imo. (Not my favorite writing with him, to say the least. Like wtf?)

Starting in Daredevil (1998) #76, you have the Murdock Papers arc with Fisk trying to cut a deal to incriminate Matt as Daredevil to bargain for his own freedom. Admittedly, it's another I haven't fully read through. Some arcs just don't hit right for me. You could feel differently though. My favorite part is how this concludes in #81 with them both going to prison. lol.

I do like where it immediately picks up in Daredevil (1998) #82. Prison arc is good, and you can see where the Born Again tv series took inspiration all the way up through #93. For Fisk reasons, I like #85-#86 with Fisk and Matt working together to break free and not die. And then #92-#93 where you see Vanessa was behind trying to kill them. At the end of #93, Matt represents Fisk as his attorney to get him out of prison, Vanessa's dying request. Definitely read #93.

Following his agreement with Matt, Fisk leaves the country. I love where we pick up with him in Daredevil (1998) #116. It's been two years following Vanessa's death, and Fisk is still mourning. But in Spain, he meets a woman and her two children and begins to sort of be happy again. It reminds me a lot of how Fisk was at the beginning of Daredevil #170, content to leave crime behind and be happy in love.

I wish things ended better, of course, but I also love the following issue #117. (I think #117 is notable for another reason, and it's that Charlie gave a physical copy to Vincent as a gift that he keeps in his office. ♥) And then you'll possibly want to read that arc to its conclusion, but definitely read #116-#117.

Not DD but Savage Wolverine (2013) #6-#8 is good for Vanessa and Fisk angst reasons. Fisk becomes the leader of the Hand but they test him by resurrecting Vanessa to kill him or make him kill her. She's a bit zombie-ish, but it's a good/tragic little character arc.

I feel weird saying it because there are parts I genuinely do like, but I also sort of feel like the San Francisco arc (with him and Matt "coincidentally" on the other side of the country) could be skipped. If we're strictly going for Fisk highlights that I like most and recommend. I think the biggest point for me is that his memory is erased along with the rest of the world and he no longer knows Matt Murdock is Daredevil.

So insteeeeead... I'd suggest jumping right into the Mayor Fisk arc, tbh. Technically begins at the tail end of Daredevil (2015) #28, but all you really get from it is a page of Foggy telling Matt over the phone that Fisk just won the election. You're fine to pick up at Daredevil (2015) #595. (Don't let the number fool you. They switched to counting total number of DD comics instead of being broken up by different volumes.) I much prefer the comic Mayor Fisk arc to... what Born Again tv was. (Deputy Mayor Murdock, yes!) Matt tries to overthrow him but sorta has to accept Fisk as mayor by the end of the story in #605. I think I'd suggest reading all issues between the two.

Getting closer to modern comics and the numbering convention changes again. You can probably hit Daredevil (2019) in its entirety as Zdarsky builds on his own writing. 36 issues, so I'll leave it up to you. It's hard to suggest what to read or not read as it's all very interconnected. Difficult to skip around. My favorite Fisk parts are him vs the Stromwyns (powerful rich family) starting in #12 where he soon becomes afraid of them. Which comes to a head in #20 when he disobeys them and fights with Daredevil to protect citizens. I do like that within this run, he begins to fall for Typhoid Mary on an emotional level, where before it was more physical. At the end of #35, he proposes marriage, and in #36, they get married. This run is also notable for bringing in Butch (Fisk's illegitimate son he didn't know about) as a character, who is trying to become a criminal kingpin.

The Devil's Reign (2021) arc is undoubtedly what the Born Again tv series is working towards for S2, but I kinda doubt they'll do it right. (How can they?) Anyway... it's about Matt finally removing Fisk as mayor once and for all. Six issues, fairly dramatic, probably best to read the whole thing. Ends with Fisk retiring from Kingpin yet again.

It's difficult to suggest anything past that. Fisk has shown up in some stuff, and while I like parts of what we've had, nothing so far has really wowed me. I do feel they might have something in the works with him though, and I'd really like to know what the heck it is. (He may have found religion after being possessed by a demon? idk.)

Non-Daredevil Comics

Big recommend for Kingpin (2017). Obviously. It's a 5-issue run about him. I've read it a few times. It's Fisk trying to get a journalist to write a biography about him. He tries to play her, of course, by exaggerating his good side while she tries to dig deeper. But there are interesting bits that clearly aren't just for her sake, like learning Fisk has built a children's hospital he named after Vanessa. But still with plenty of dark Kingpin bits to balance things out.

I think Civil War II: Kingpin (2016) is a good one to read. Yet another instance of Fisk regaining power from nothing amidst a Minority Report-style plot where an inhuman is capable of predicting crimes before they happen. Which obviously makes crime difficult. But Fisk finds a little guy who negates that effect, allowing him to do his criming again. There is a non-zero chance I just like this intimate handwashing scene.

Kingpin (2003) is another short run about Fisk. It's an origin story as well, detailing him first rising through the ranks to be Kingpin, but this is NOT 616 Fisk. It is another, similar reality. I don't know why I don't care for it very much. If I'm being truthful, this one doesn't grab me like I wish it did, and I may have mostly skimmed it. But you might like it.

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #32-#36 is a more cartoonish Fisk, but I don't mean that in a bad way. I don't think you really need to know much about the juvenile hero Moon Girl to jump right in. (Smart science girl has a dinosaur.) I like this arc with Fisk because we suddenly learn about an adopted daughter he has named Princess. She's a brat and I love her. I love how Fisk spoils her. I am the target audience for this silly little plot.

Doctor Strange (2015) #21-#24 seems like a weird choice. Because it is. But I like Fisk's inclusion in it. The city is overrun by monsters and he joins the heroes to try and set things right. He flies a limo into a giant creature, he comes out as a Lord of the Rings fan, he gets a possessed skull to play with. It's fun.

I like Spider-Man: King's Ransom. There are some comics leading up to the event, but I'm really just in it for the very end where Fisk has a magic tablet to undo death. He makes the selfless decision to forgo resurrecting Vanessa and bring back their son Richard instead.

Love What If...? (1989) #73. I've actually thought about uploading the whole issue into a tumblr post because it's 24 pages and who's going to stop me? Basically an AU where Fisk adopts Matt after Jack is killed. I think it's interesting from both characters' perspective how much they grow to care for each other. With Fisk even promising to quit crime after years of adult Matt defending him in court.

Daredevil Noir (2009) is okay. I'm gonna be real with you. I just like this Fisk. But a 1930s AU is always fun, right?

1872 is a western AU where Fisk is mayor of the small town. I really like it, but I like westerns so I may just be biased. I just wish we had more leading up to the events of the four-issue series because it says Fisk was a good man before, and I would have enjoyed watching his corruption arc.

Again, if I'm leaving out any good Fisk canon, I hope people let me know. I'm always on the lookout.

Thanks again for asking, and I hope I was able to help!

[paldean-ranger-brandy]

How do you handle a spicy yena?

All yenas are "spicy". They are a wild, non-domesticated species. They have extremely high and specific enrichment and social needs, and tbh the vast majority of people who raise them aren't meeting those needs. Which is why they have a reputation for being difficult.

Your yena isn't gonna be satisfied doing one on one battles. They're pack hunters, and will need to have an outlet to pack hunt. People will often say that you can pair them with other dark type dogmons for them to get the necessary socialization/play but that's also not true. They look similar, but yenas aren't dogs. They are their own unique category, and use different cues for communication than other dog mons.

They also are always gonna bite. It's part of their nature. You can't train that out of them any more than you can train a charmander to douse their flame tails. It's how they communicate a lot of things. What you can do is teach them where your specific boundary is for how hard they can bite you, but tbh even the sweetest yena is gonna push past that boundary every now and again, just to see what'll happen.

Yenas are not easy pokemon to raise, and the vast majority of the ones that are in trainer care are not having their needs properly met. Despite the visual similarities, they are not dogmons and you can't use the same toolkit for raising them as you would for a houndour. And even if you are meeting all of their needs perfectly, quite frankly they are still gonna be little assholes because that's just what they're like.

[starry-bi-sky]

on a completely separate note; shizun luo binghe with a disciple shen yuan who fell into the abyss??? *thinks about LBH canonically stealing SQQ's corpse for 5 years* he'd hallucinate i think. like, like visual and audial hallucinations.

Keeps thinking he's seeing SQQ in the corner of his eyes, or wandering between the trees, amongst a group of disciples. Thinks he hears him calling for him, but its just the wind or another disciple.

Gets Xiu Ya reforged but patently fucking refuses to make a sword mound. Because his disciple Is Not Dead :))) There was No Body. He's Not Dead. And If You keep Insisting That He Is, He's Gonna Skewer You :). He's holding onto Xiu Ya so he can return his most favored disciple's sword when he returns. It's on his hip right next to Zheng Yang where it's supposed to be.

Also this motherfucker?? does not sleep btw. He has the image of SQQ, wide eyed and hysterical and standing at the mouth of the abyss burned into his fucking eyelids. Can't use the dreamscape to escape it either because he keeps trying to save him and either he does and it's an incredibly cruel trick to wake up to, or he doesn't and he gets his heart broken in several different pieces again.

There is no convincing this man that Shen Qingqiu is dead. Absolutely nothing at all. He is buried so deep in denial that moles would be jealous of how deep he is. He keeps making tea for two in the bamboo house only to remember that it's just him. SQQ's fans are hiding everywhere, little reminders of his presence. He goes to wake up SQQ on the mornings he sleeps in-- only to find the room empty.

[misc-obeyme]

Hello, for supernatrual what episode did you dislike? For me any episodes invilving Leviathas throughout season, i just had a like compared to the other villains for example Azazel.

I always thought there were two leviathans?

Well it’s been a minute since I watched it, so I don’t know how great my memory of it is, but I seem to remember there being a whole race of Leviathans in spn? They had a leader but there were a bunch of them? I think maybe the writers just picked a cool name from the Bible and did their own thing with it. Weren’t they shapeshifters that ate people? I’m pretty sure they just made all of that up lol.

To be fair I think Supernatural always took a lot of artistic liberties with their source materials.

There aren’t any specific episodes that I remember not liking, but I did get a little tired of the way they seemed to have a similar conflict all the time. I mean, there was kind of a monster of the week quality to a lot of episodes and I didn’t mind that at all. But I felt like the characters never really got to grow. Especially Sam and Dean. They would go season after season doing the same stupid stuff. One of them would always get into some kind of trouble and lie to the other guy about it until the secret was revealed and they’d get into dramatic fights. I just wanted them to actually learn something from that experience at some point and then not do it again lol.

Though I would also say I didn’t particularly care for the stuff with the alternate dimensions that happened in the later seasons. It kinda felt like they were running out of ideas.

I liked the Azazel story line though. It felt a lot more personal for the boys than the Leviathans who were basically just trying to take over the world so they could eat people.

[frm9pm]

He’s playing beatmania

[rainy-day-13]

Can we just talk about the fact that Neal implicitly trusts Peter from the very start?

I know I mentioned this in my other post but it's been plaguing my mind and it warrants its own post.

Peter is an FBI Agent. Not only that, he's the FBI Agent who took Neal down. He tracked him for years, arrested him, got him convicted of bond forgery, and got him locked up in a supermax prison for four years.

By all accounts, Neal shouldn't trust this man. He has no reason to.

And yet

From their very first on screen interaction together, it's absolutely clear that Neal does trust Peter, completely. His body language and posture don't change at all when Peter finds him sitting in Kate's empty apartment. He doesn't tense. He doesn't try to run. He remains sitting on the floor and calmly keeps talking to Peter like he's an old friend.

Before Neal even asks for his deal. Before they start working together. Their whole history up to this point is their cat and mouse game and Peter trying to catch Neal, and yet Neal already trusts him. Enough to stay completely relaxed when Peter comes to arrest him. Enough to ask him to hold on to the bottle, his last connection to Kate. Enough to ask Peter to keep him under his custody so he can get out of prison.

That's a lot of trust for a man who put him in prison in the first place.

I don't know if I have a point here, I'm just rambling, but don't even get me started on Peter's trust in this scene.

He walks in to arrest Neal, alone, and is completely casual about it. He never once draws his weapon, he just knows that Neal is nonviolent and doesn't like guns. He trusts that hasn't changed in the nearly four years he's been in prison. Peter asks if he's carrying, but he didn't need to ask because "You know I don't like guns." When else is an FBI Agent going to go in, alone, to apprehend a fugitive completely unarmed? Okay not technically unarmed he had his gun on him but drawing it was never even a thought in his mind.

I can't with these two and how much they trust each other despite their history.

Once again many thanks to @tocappuccinosintheclouds for the gifs! (and for always letting me yap about these two) ❤️ You're wonderful and I'm so glad this show has put you in my life!

[iamhereinthebg]

Spoilers Tbhk chapter 126

The end of the new chapter appears with a brand new question: Who is this Akane?

Is he the same one as the one Nene just tried to kill in the last Timeline?

I had a lot of random ideas about it, so let's talk about it! Disclaimer: It will be a little bit all over the place, some ideas will contradict each other! It's mostly to see what we have right now.

One of my first idea is: Nene doesn't exist in the Present anymore.

At the end of the chapter, Nene appears during the 103rd festival which takes place in 2005, 10 years before the main timeline, and for once, she doesn't seem to wanna use the sandglass right away.

Which means it may be a timeline where Akane and Teru remember, like in chapter 112, and Akane realizes that Nene doesn't exist as she should. It may be even coming from before this after all since she was born in 1999/2000, she should be 5/6 in 2005. He then decided or is asked by Kako to check each festival from 2014 to older years, to see when she is.

It also seems that the Clock of the clock keepers only functions during the three days of the festival. I won't go into details but I am pretty sure they can use the clock keepers biggest power at least only during the festival, which is why time is also so fragile at this period and would also explain the three days limit for the memories.

Second Idea:

Nene is 'stuck' in the hourglass.

This is Kako's reaction to Nene using the hourglass, he is shocked and angry that she wants to use it despite saying his Tale but here he seems just 'mildly annoyed'. The hourglass did disappear with her though. It's great to keep in mind that The sanglass wants to get more and more people into it, probably gaining power like this like the God Pit. Contrary to the God of the pit who at least gives people wishes in exchange, the SandGlass only set people to fail. Its malicious intention way more present than the other Kami the god pit.

It always make Nene go back to the Sand everytime, never allowing her to say she wants to get her old timeline back, to stay there, never giving her a break into the loop, driving people quickly into madness and losing all senses of self.

'It's alright, you can try again and again and again' until your lose your life and soul so you can join us. The Sandglass already knows what's waiting for anyone who uses it, it's never offering a solution, just forcing her to go back until she completely loses it. Making her thinks she has a choice in any of the decisions when she has none. After killing all her friends, I am pretty sure only a few more loops would be enough to make her take her own life or die by becoming much more reckless, and finally be part of the sandglass.

All stories told by Kako end up with the person using it dying. Either by their own hands or by others. The only one who ''didn't kill himself'' is the ClockMaker, putting a curse onto his own soul so it could never rest, so his soul would remember what he did and create a supernatural born from grief. So he could prevent people from doing the same mistake as all those people. The clockMaker is the only one who didn't use the sandglass 'one last time' to get what he wanted.

The Sandglass doesn't care what the present will look like, it only wants to empower itself by using greedy humans.

Which is why I think there is a possibility that the timeline Nene is in right now, is 'stuck' in the sandglass. I can't explain exactly how it would work tbh, maybe that just the sandglass 'create' false or alternatives timelines, enough to make the human using it go insane. Like it's a sandglass who can ''travel'' through timelines? I don't really know how it would work, but the dimension Nene is in is clearly a different space like the Nowhere where rules don't apply as in the real world.

But only humans can have access to it, hence why Akane is the one at the end who appears to potentially get her out, not Kako or Mirai, but a human, who can break the rules that bound the supernaturals and can fall under curses more easily, who can be cursed so can lure the sanglass to allow him to use his power. The sandglass would allow a human to use it, not a supernatural.

I already said here that I think there is a possibility Akane was already going after Nene since some times. The question now is: from which timeline it is? This this will be even harder to explain.

I personnaly think that Akane from the first new timeline (chapter 112 to 125) and from chapter 111 are the same, or at least, share the same memories.

Everything he says in chapter 113 is just so personal.

Which add to my idea that Nene is in a different timeline, that is not the same as the one she just left. She is not trying to change the timelines she is in, she is in a brand new one. The last twos were way more linked together than the ones Nene is in.

Because Teru and Akane don't remember anything, compared to the old one where the clock keepers used their powers.

Like when Kako uses its power in chapter 27, or when people are stuck in boundaries.

People with high spiritual energy always have better chance to remember.

Which implies to me that Nene hasn't really gone back in Time in the same way as they did previously. The Sandglass works differently that the clock keepers's clock. Kako and the Cat stayed in the real hourglass/clock.

Nene only has a part of its sand. The big part of it is controled by Kako and is what helps going back in Time, the clock keepers' powers over the Past.

I just wanna note that for the new timeline, only those who were present during the changes, ended up remembering right away (Nene and Teru). But it still happened at one point for others characters like Kou and Mitsuba/Sousuke. Characters like Tsuchigomori aren't shown remembering anything, but it's hard to say how much it may affect him since he is an old supernatural. His three days of memories left may have already passed, this memory thing is really wonky and only works when AidaIro want it to work though so I have no proof.

I also personnaly don't think the Akane from the many timelines Nene goes through, is the same as we see at the end of chapter 125. I don't think this Akane is supposed to remember the timelines. For a lot of different reasons that I think don't make sense, but Nene is pretty obvious in the way she acts that something is happening.

Akane doesn't change anything in the way he acts at all. He even worries for her because she acts differently and says non sensical stuff. There is no way he remembers all those timelines here. Or he can have the Oscar for the best actor idk it makes no sense. The only thing where I am not sure is the last one, the only time for me he would finally remembers all of it, is when he is dying. But I still think it's a weak plot point, really random and would go against the idea that he has been looking for her for some times.

(Funny note: Akane is a character who is always shown with half lidded eyes when ''''dying''''compared to the others like Teru. He is dying/losing conciousness, not dead/inconscious, right away.)

I still feel like what Kako did is way different than what Nene is doing with the hourglass. Nene is under the sandglass's influence, Kako uses its power only once to get things right (from his pov), never using it without taking precautions and doing his own investigation before acting.

Nene has a part of the sandglass, the core that wants it so bad to be used by human, but Kako still has the biggest part of its power with all the sand present when Nene enters the Clock.

And Kako, is supposedly working with Akane.

Let's go over Akane's role as a clock keeper.

This is more of a personal preference, but it would be insane to me that Akane has been stuck in the old timeline, in the boundary, alone, not doing anything when he has one of the most ''pro active'" personality of the cast. And especially that all this last arc, was for nothing. This arc already makes me mad that apparently no one will remember, this is just unfair to all others characters.

The idea of memories is important for the Clock Keepers in general. The idea that Nene is here using a hourglass creating different timelines and Kako being able to remember the first timelines/changes don't seem like a big stretch to me. They can't pinpoint exactly where/when Nene is and what she has changed since Akane implies that he has been looking for her for some time, with the 'Finally'.

But they know and remember that she is traveling through Time.

Which still begs the question of: why is Akane here in his clock keeper outfit if he doesn't remember/if he is supposed to be dead since he died in all new timelines? And I will be really honest with you and says that I have no clues which make really sense.

If we go into a more of one of the Meta sense of the Present, Akane may have something like Shijima's power.

A kind of power of Ubiquity power, but accross Timelines. There is the human Akane from the new Timeline, and the one from the boundary.

And the one, stuck in the clock keepers boundary, gain the memories of the others once they are erased, like a safety net so the supernatural part of him can still exist like Kako wants him to. By creating new timelines, it create new Akanes, that shares all memories before the changes were done by Kako but the clock keepers of the present is still out there. And with those memories he can see if something has gone wrong, that multiples bad timelines are being created, which is why, he finally acts now.

The only thing that point to this, is the fact that it's implied that Akane has two bodies. And that we don't really know how it works. But it's pretty clear that these two bodies are separated, they only share the same soul. (and we know that souls can be cut too)

He is way stronger and resistant as a supernatural.

If he kept his injuries, Akane should have died when the severance happened, or at least be not okay but he was. His injury only coming back when he gained his clock keeper form back in chapter 85.

Throughout the manga he is one of the character that has taken a lot of injuries, but only in his clock keeper form, and it never interferes with his human body, not even once.

(disclaimer: it may only be just a choice of Aidairo to absolutely refuse to show consequences btw :)) I will put it here because for all others characters it worked like this too when they went back from the far shore, humans go back to how they were when coming back from a boundary)

It's also shown that his power don't work when he wants to use it, because another Kami is in front of him. But he also supposedly know that it doesn't work outside of the school? And he thought that it would give Nene his autorisation but it broke?

We also know that his watch works outside of school in supernaturals prominent places, like the far shore.

I honestly don't really know how it would work, but I at least really think that Akane from the new timeline and the one in the boundary in chapter 111 have the same memories that's for sure. Is the human Akane able to use travel in time if he doesn't go himself 'free the clock keeper Akane'? I am not really sure how it would work once again.

The Akane in the new timeline is still Akane, like every other characters. I am just not sure about the timelines Nene is going through in the loops though. But I can't explain it more than 'it may be something the sandglass is trying to copy the way her friends are/to give her a sense of false security'. Is it some kind of tests to see how long Nene's soul would break? The sandglass don't even need to really travel back in time, it just needs to break Nene's soul to get her in the sand. But tbh this would be a weird choice too. So I am not sure about this, just that the sandglass definitely doesn't work the same way as Kako's clock.

The last option is, Akane at the end of chapter 126 is the one from chapter 111 (so from the old Timeline) and he absolutely doesn't share memories with Akane from the new Timelines, only Kako told him to go after Nene in the Timeloops. But once again it would kinda strange and really underwhelming from AidaIro, the writing for the characters this arc were... not really good for most of them, Nene being the only expection. I at least want one of the character to remember the Timeline we have been in since 1 year (10/12 chapters) for us readers. And Akane is the one who would make the most sense.

Last insane theory is Akane is the cat and he already tried to travel through time without being allowed to and Kako punished him but I won't expand on this because I don't like it much and would add a layer of 'wtf is happening' to this already really confusing arc.

New insane theory: he has another body that's made like the one of the clock keepers since they can cut souls. (I don't like it but here it is)

The clock keeper of the present can see through the eyes of people using the hourglass (no proof at all for this too jut random ideas)

And for the question: Will Akane pay the price to go back to the old Timeline? I already talked a little bit about it : here

I will be really honest but the only way it could have worked for me is: if it was confirmed that Akane was supposed to die at 12 and that the clock keepers extended his life with the contract, in the condition that they can take it back if needed.

But once again, we have no infos, Akane would have known this and I personally think it would be unfair to do that. To Akane, and to the clock keepers as characters. And for the loop Nene is stuck in, why would Akane pay for this? He isn't Kou or Hanako, Akane is a kind character, still he woudln't do something like this right away as the first solution expect if he had no choice, it's not Akane's place to pay for this. Nene shouldn't either but it would make more sense for her to pay a price to me for her timeloops.

I will end all of this to say that AidaIro's writing has... not been the greatest for me in this last arc. I understand the need to keep a lot of things mysterious, but they often put setups they never use after (*coughs* the key Nene got from Amane from the past *coughs* Akane's weird body thing I absolutely don't understand) and now we have so littles informations that we can create anything we want if we cross random informations.

I don't think it's too bad if people guess stuff from time to time, if it means the writing is less blurry. Being able to do theories is cool, but like the broadcasting club I just think it makes everything way more underwheling. Right now, absolutely everything could happen, and we could only nod. Because we have absolutely no informations, on Akane's contract, on how time travels really work in tbhk, wtf is going on with Amane and the big clock, how boundaries and the fare shore really work, why tf is Tsuchigomori a supernatural that can appear to human and not some of the others, why Nene is so special and what is the limits of her ''powers'' etc... They refuse to acknowledges some of the early rules they put, and absolutely don't make the characters deal with consequences. I really hope I will be proven wrong this time and to note that this is my opinion btw, but it's been a long time I've had this feeling with the writing and it's even worst with this arc.

I am glad Nene was proven wrong in this chapter (and it ties to something I talk about here more in details with Kou's character too), mostly because it's good to see something that has been implied since some times.

Nene is a good person, a really nice person, but play with the rules when they have been said explicitly, and see how they answer you.

Supernaturals are bound by rules and I truly think humans characters will be the ones who help them all in the end like it has been happening in the manga, even if humans are also the causes of a lot of their sufferings.

I think a human, will be the one to break the curse and the timeline from the clock keepers who are too stuck on their own rules, because it's still not fair. Nene is absolutely right on this and we understand why she took this risk. But I am still glad Nene was proven wrong this time. You can't expect to play with something as powerful as Time and think you will be okay after it.

They were against Death and Life in the last arc, trying to play by the rules and go out of it without consequences. Now they are against something more powerful than Death, something that can controls everything and suposedly exists everywhere, Time.

And the last thing they will probably be against, with the 7th mystery, will be something even more powerful than that.

Something probably close to Omnipotence, Creation and Destruction. Something that doesn't exist by the rules.

Little detail:

It's important to note that the Future still hasn't woken up yet contrary to the Past, since the Present isn't fixed/isn't here :)))

I can't wait to see if she will have a bigger role now, I am excited for her to appear at least. I also don't think Kako said the full truth and we will have the rest of their backstories a little bit later.

[caramellody]

Yall i dont think im gonna be able to stop thinking about usha and g13, actually.

Ushas an old old woman, clueless with tech. Lived long enough to develop various bonds with a LOT of people and relies on them a lot for help. In turn, shes VERY loyal to her close conpanions (a great example would be how she tends to back paula up a LOT, the way she sets up russel and paula to 'fake date' wink and all). She's very warm and very emotionally intelligent even if she's a bit clueless sometimes. Her logic is borderline incomprehensible, but it has heart.

G13 on the other hand, is a hacking prodigy. Hes young, hes sought after for his skills for better and for worse. But in turn, he's essentially lost himself in the process. He may be able to scrape nuke codes, but he'll never make a friend. He lacks any loyalty for anyone and anything except for himself and his interests, and if they dont satisfy those two points, then its worth nothing to him. His logic may be sound, but its cold.

[deviouz]

. . . mean jason todd !!

jason todd is the type to fuck you so good tears seem to permanently stain your cheeks and leave your skin feeling raw after all is said and done. he’d have your body contorted and folded in, knees pressed firmly against your chest and legs thrown over his broad, scarred up shoulders. he smirks so cruelly as he absolutely destroys your poor cunt, tip of his cock kissing your cervix with every thrust of his hips.

“‘s the matter, pretty girl? you’re crying so pretty for me. got you drunk on my cock, don’t i?”

jason todd is also the type to grab your jaw and dig his fingers into your cheeks, pushing them together and laughing at the embarrassed whines that garble out of your throat. he’ll stare down at you with those pretty eyes of his, his gaze stern and unwavering, hips still snapping away without much thought. you’re practically drowning in pleasure as jason is ever so in tune with your body, what makes you tick.

“you gonna look at me when you come? i don’t want you lookin’ away from me, not even for a second. let me see that pretty face when i make you come on my cock, doll. that’s it, just like that.”

jason todd is just so mean to his pretty girl. he’ll mock your pleas just to make you repeat them loud enough your voice shakes and broken, desperate sobs push past kiss-swollen lips. if you don’t beg just right, he’ll show his thrusts, eyes focused on yours, as he smiles down at you, all sharp and all teeth.

“what was that? don’t think i quite heard you. say it again for me, yeah?”

jason todd will deny you of your release endless times, simply because he can. he gets a giddy joy at seeing how unabashed you can get at the continuous denial of release. you shake and cry and beg and thrash in his grip, but nothing ever seems to persuade him.

“you can come when i say you can, do you understand? now, be a good girl and shut the fuck up and just take it.”

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[angel-e-v-a]

11.23 — Alpha and Omega

Sam being unwilling to accept that Dean wants to give him Impala's keys, after going to sacrifice himself for the world... again.

[hopeful-n-sad]

See, I love him because I also went through a phase where I said I hated everything and everyone else was stupid, but I was just traumatized and desperate for someone to actually care about me. And since no one cared about me, why would I care about anyone else?

So I guess Astarion is like resonating with someone else’s issues and getting deja vu. Like “I’ve seen this before! I can do something about this!”

And then just forcing him to understand that he is actually loved and it’s not a trick and it’s not because of his looks

Astarion “I’m not one for literature” Baldursgate. Sir. You have a book in your hand literally every single second you’re at camp.

[ribbononline]

Still trying to finish other things but in the meantime- updated design for my older May! She's an Ace Trainer

[critter-covenant]

"ooooh thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!"

They'd be good friends I like to thinmk

[gingerdusk]

Thoughts on the thunder wizard again.

Genuinely, I find Gale's relationship with Mystra to be fascinating when you consider all its facets. Unhealthy, imbalanced, definitely poisonous, but also very, very intricate with a lot of blurred edges to it. One of those things where you're both like "wow, what the hell, that's horrible" but also "that makes perfect sense for their characters, and while I would NEVER, I know why they would, and why it happened."

You've got a wizard who doesn't know what real love is, who thinks he's finally being shown it by the person he adores most. His greatest fantasy, his most potent joy, his most heartfelt aspirations, and they were all offered to him.

And he wants to see what all she's hiding from him, because of course he does. She's the keeper of all things forbidden to him. The empire of Netheril reached magical heights that will never be touched again, and all that knowledge is beyond her curtain. She loves him, right? Surely, if he proves himself enough, she'll let him grasp that power he so desperately wants.

And not even in the power-hungry sense! All that magic Mystra's locked up was accessible during Mystryl's reign. Think of all the answers to theories about the universe that are back there. Every question of "can this be done, and what would it do" would be answered, if he could just bargain hard enough.

She loves him, right?

Surely, if he proves himself enough...

And then, on the other hand, Mystra. Once Midnight, her human personality has been subsumed by the goddess of magic and her duty to the Weave. She has a responsibility to magic, she IS magic.

Then along comes this mortal boy who knows how to handle her Weave. Who doesn't try to wrestle with and dominate, who sings to it. He handles it with such ease and grace—it's not just that he could be Chosen, but he deserves it. To put her Weave in the hands of someone so intrinsically in tune with it, who understands its potential with a wonder like no other. Few enough can handle the raw power that comes with being Chosen, but this one? This one is perfect.

And he adores you. And you adore him, like one would a beautiful butterfly that's landed on their finger. And he's willing to be devoted to you in all things, not out of transaction like most of your worshipers are, but out of love for you, your craft, your magic. You're so deeply and utterly charmed by him.

And it's not like Mystra hasn't walked this path before.

She gives him what he desires, because what he desires is her. And, in a different way, she desires him. She wants him to be her representation in the world. She indulges his adoration with her own presence, and takes indulgence herself in mortal comforts. He's never satisfied with her answers, but who could blame him? She keeps a whole world away from mortals, because she knows what such unfettered power might bring about (again).

And the wizarding prodigy's ambition is lit (again).

And the height of power is reached for (again).

And she stops him (again, again, again).

She does care for him. She doesn't want to see her little butterfly burn himself, and she doesn't want to be the one to ruin those wings.

But then he's not a butterfly. He's a mortal, wielding a weapon of murder, of her murder, and he's brought it to her doorstep because she told him "no." And he's cut himself on it, he doesn't know what it is, but it's hurt him—and it's only a fraction of the hurt it could do to her. How dare he want her help after threatening her?

(He didn't mean to.)

(He only wanted to help.)

(He only wanted. How human.)

She doesn't help him. If he wants to pursue Karsus' weaponry, it's his responsibility, his hubris, that led him to injuring himself on it. She's furious. She's hurt. She's cold.

(What fools these mortals be.)

But then, there's a greater threat to her. Something that could drown the Material in Karsus' failings. And that little boy, who nicked himself on the sword he lifted, still wants her help.

It's a fair trade, isn't it? She'll forgive him, let him into her domain again, if he accepts his punishment and goes into battle for her. He picked up a sword, it's appropriate that he learns to use it in her name, right?

If he was telling the truth, he wouldn't hesitate. If he really wanted to serve her with the Netherese Orb, he would jump at the opportunity to do so. He would have to give up a few petty things in the process, ("petty," she calls mortality, as if family and home mean nothing, as if friends and love are finite. Because to her, they do mean nothing. Because to her, they are finite.) but it isn’t atonement without sacrifice, is it?

It's the tactical move. She's not above hurting one man to save a nation. It's not even the first time she's done it.

(Dornal Silverhand sends his regards.)

If he loves her, he'd die for her, because she'd let him into her paradise. If he doesn't love her, he won't, and she was justified in removing him from her grace.

He doesn't love her. Not anymore.

Does he hate her enough to try to take his dues?

Ambition has always been man's greatest folly.