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[incorrectpuyotris]

Klug: You onerous little usurper! That was my explanation to give!

Source: Final Fantasy XIV

[notokra]

[review-anon]

The only weakness we know the Void Juice has is light, but it is a fast learner, because the second monster it spawned had the ability to create a dark mist that absorbed light that we had to disperse with wind, and tried to kill Aliza because of her light powers.

If a third monster is spawned from Kokoro, I'm not sure which new tricks will have under its sleeves...

-✨🌌✨ Anon

W-WHAT?! Another monster was spawned?

Y-yeah...it came from Kyoji's lab...it seemed to be some tiger-like monster which had a lot of things going on with it.

There was the mist as that Anon mentioned which had to be dispersed with wind, but it also had tentacles to ensnare and crush anything that opposed it....that's how Aqua got their injuries.

But what was even more alarming then that was the intelligence and the ability to adapt, since it very quickly learnt about its light weakness and the fact we had Flashback Lights and developed means to counter those.

Then there was the fact this thing identified Aliza as a threat and tried to get her removed....

That's definitely not something that can be allowed to exist on the Voidship. And its steeled my resolve to talk to everyone about this once my brother and Iruma have finished what they are doing.

[incorrect-puyopuyo]

Ringo: The lady at the gas station said, "Have a nice day!" Ringo, cracking up: And I said... I said-- Ringo: "No, thank you!" Ringo, laughing: I thought she was gonna ask if I wanted a receipt!

[laugtherhyena]

You know what i think i have pretty unique Dr fankids solely out of the fact that they exist post tragedy and aren't at all tied or involved in anything killing game related

[incorrect-idolmastersidem-quotes]

Isn't this just wonderful? I mean, all you youngsters getting together to tell naughty jokes.

Mario

[taiey]

Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.

a webweave for @muriers, based on Game Over. Try Again? by @irrealisms, with the @mcytrecursive exchange.

image sources: Kreislauf des Geldes fountain, Dietmar Rabich; Navaro Rapids, Ando Hiroshige; Hubble Space Telescope image of Whirlpool Galaxy, Pablo Carlos Budassi; Page 68r, Voynich manuscript; Whirlpool at Balonna creek, Alboychenko08; Hiroshige ibid.; "Solar Eclipse" rotunda ceiling, U.S. Custom House, Carol Highsmith; Annular solar eclipse Manzanillo, Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz; French or English manuscript ca. 1250s; photograph of Irish manhole cover, Leimanbhradain; manuscript of the Kitab al-Tafhim, Al-Biruni; Solar Eclipse, Howard Russell Butler; Solar Eclipse May 20, Brocken Inaglory; Beltane Triskelion, Giulia Coli

text sources: Phillippe Gaultier de Lille ("D. Chatillon"). Alexandriad, Book V. 298; Søren Kierkegaard, in Repetition : A Venture in Experimental Psychology (1843) Part One: Report by Constantin Constantius; Cicero, Orationes In Verrem, II. 1. 15.; Langdon Smith, in "Evolution" (1895); François-René de Chateaubriand, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893); Walter Kaufmann, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist p. 327; The Tower, W. B. Yeats; E. C. Bentley and H. Warner Allen, Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XV; Frank Herbert interview, 3 February 1969, California State College; Sonnet 107, William Shakespeare.

[viktorbezic]

Tadao Ando - Langen Foundation, 2004 - Source via @spvcemnd

[purpletyrant]

au chises that have been bumping around in my brain like my own personal multiverse of madness. they needed to be exorcised. i recognize and respect the adage that your au may as well be an oc at a certain point, and i think these two cross the threshold, but consider this: i like to play with chise like a paper doll and see how she reacts to situations. so there

for their faces i sorta referenced off of haruka kudo, who played chise in the stage play

attack dog chise is the "living weapon" trope. i imagine that the witch bought her just as elias did, but chise is under the impression that she was taken in out of the goodness of her heart. her master has taught her very little in the means of practical magic, instead focusing all of her training into inflicting as much damage as possible. the witch has no expectation that chise will live very long, so has no intention of raising her up to be an equal. so, this chise has only been taught the power of incredible violence. if she isnt using her fists, shes using low-level curses and other magic considered to be kind of a dick move

design wise, all the o-rings are meant to evoke arc 1 chises adder necklace. she was probably inspired by the knife-wielding punk chise with attitude from the merkmal. since this chise has no ruth, you could say that she sort of embodies both of them

i imagine the dynamic between her and her master as sort of a ~*twisted and dark*~ version of kimihiro and yuko from xxxholic... which ive never read, but still. i dont have a design in mind for the witch shes beholden to, but she isnt dissimilar to hiroe ando from the she who travels au. maybe she IS hiroe. hm

soothsayer's daughter chise is the golden child of her family and has lived a life of relative comfort since being taken from her mother. still, her bleeding heart causes her guilt when she thinks back on the mother she can barely remember. in the last couple years, this chise has tracked her down and set up the means to meet in secret with the intention of apologizing to her and gaining closure. her family does not take kindly to this, and when chise meets chika in the tiny, filthy apartment shes living in, magic is used to force chises mother to commit suicide in front of her. chise is left shaken to the core by this event, especially by chikas words that she "should have never come back." she attempts to maintain a brave and serene exterior, believing that no one else knows of chikas death

since yuuki is still considered a traitor to the family, this chise has a polite if distant relationship with him, having been mainly raised by uncles and aunts. fumiki is supremely annoyed by her. shes very protective and patronizing

her silhouette is based off of a shrine maidens, but i didnt want to dress her exactly like one, since thats... kind of on the nose, isnt it? regardless, the focus of her magic is in purification and exorcism - her soothsaying skills are not quite so refined

she who travels chise is she who travels chise, she comes with her own fic series, read it or dont. i do have thoughts about her older offshoot, though. this chise is in her 30s. she picked up smoking from master onishi - HE TRIED NOT TO INFLUENCE HER, REALLY - and took over the theater when he died. even though she owns it and its a good source of income, shes moved on and is trying to be a more respectable mage beyond the sideshow reputation of her early career. shes essentially cosplaying a put-together businesswoman, and is kind hearted but comically serious. she probably has a niece or nephew and is constantly giving them enchanted gifts. her elias received an untraceable check for five million pounds - adjusted for inflation - several years ago and has not been able to track her down. her anger has cooled, but its now been so long that she feels too awkward to contact him. she still maintains contact with angelica and simon, though - maybe one day shell show up in his yard in a shiny black car

i think it would be soooo fun to throw them all in a room together with canon chise and watch them fight. or maybe they would just cry it out? soothsayers daughter thinks shes above all of this and will condescendingly preach about how attack dog has a "wounded heart"... until attack dog roundhouse kicks her in the head

[izfaish]

wanna read kaiju no. 8?

not sure how many anime-onlys follow me, but here's a reading list of kn8 content, including spin-offs and interviews:

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kaiju no. 8 [main manga]

by naoya matsumoto! at the time of writing this, the manga is ongoing with 106 chapters. (new chapter soon tho djksksh)

available on shonen jump here.

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kaiju no. 8: mitchaku! dai san-butai (exclusive on the third division) [light novel]

by naoya matsumoto and keiji ando, with illustrations by matsumoto. the novel covers events after ch.22 (and presumably before ch.23).

an eng translation will release sep-nov 2024 (source) (it may already be available for preorder in your country).

you can check out an untranslated preview here.

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kaiju no. 8 b-side [manga]

spin-off! first published january 4, 2024, at the same time as ch.100 from the main manga. story by naoya matsumoto and keiji ando, art by kentaro hidano. so far, the b-side has covered stories from the light novel. it's ongoing, and might cover stories that the novel doesn't.

you can technically read it after ch.22 (main manga) but since it might feature plot points in later chapters, i recommend starting it after you've read ch.100.

available on shonen jump here.

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kaiju no. 8 relax [manga]

a spin-off manga that will cover stories in the characters' off-duty days. set to release june 4, 2024!

an announcement tweet here.

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extra reading

manga plus editor interview with seijiro nakaji (q&a with naoya matsumoto) here.

linternaute.com interview with kn8 background artist and prod. collaborator koiwai osamu here.

[baenyth]

We need more Danganronpa characters as evil groups, but not the Ultimate Despair or its remnants. Too abstract. Too bland. Fuck despair. Fuck Junko. I'm either killing her off or she doesn't exist. Danganronpa villain groups completely distanced from the Ultimate Despair:

Makoto Naegi is the charismatic head of a dictatorship. Perhaps he believes this is what's best for the world. Or he just wants a throne to sit on. This is an alternative timeline, maybe he's evil here. Either way, he managed to rope in his 14 other classmates into joining him in his empire. Byakuya uses the Togami Corporation to clench Makoto's rule and fund projects wherever he can. He's also a consultant, alongside Yasuhiro Hagakure. Kyoko Kirigiri is the head of the espionage department, with Chihiro as the second-in-command and head of data management. Kiyotaka manages the police force, acting as judge, jury, and executioner. Mondo, Sakura, Aoi, and Mukuro all work in Makoto's army. Sayaka, Leon, Hifumi, and Toko work in the entertainment (or in other words, propaganda,) division. Genocider is allowed to kill any pretty boys the espionage department lets her. Celestia rules over her own chunk of land as gothic lolita queen and is arguably the loosest link, but ultimately still abides by Makoto's laws.

The Danganronpa V3 cast has been corrupted into animalistic monsters, think Steven Universe. Gonta's body has been converted into a flying hive for all manner of bugs, all sorts of flyers coming from his eyesockets and mouth carrying centipedes, spiders, and other flightless bugs so they all can feed and bring food back to the husk that was once a gentleman. Kirumi now resembles a marble statue with a blindfold over her eyes and a clock on her backside, where her four arms and four legs move in orderly, yet seemingly random fashions. If you come across her, you have to play a game of following her increasingly complex commands, often akin to a game of Simon Says, or risk searing throbbing pain. Kiibo is one of the more threatening ones. With his body inorganic and unable to be distorted like the others, his mind was merely warped into malware that can possess anything with a computer inside it. This includes cell phones, calculators, thermostats, cars with built-in GPSes and cameras, etc. His body, the source of the malware, is still unknown. A two-faced gorgon obsessed with creating rudimentary-yet-effective deathtraps. A gorgeous and colorful false angel. A blob of goo that somehow knows how to use various machinery. Perhaps the three survivors are akin to the Crystal Gems here, survivors in a different sense here, the ones fighting their former friends for the sake of everyone else.

Ruruka Ando as the queen of what is essentially candyland, with Sonosuke Izayoi as her knight in sweet, delicious, and surprisingly durable armor. All citizens in her expanding country are given free sweets to devour, and those who don't are punished for their insolence.

Finally, the cast of Super Danganronpa 2 are a team of mercenaries. Evil goons for hire, as that's what they've been typecast as at this point. Maybe life has just been really harsh on them and NezumiVA was right. Or maybe this is similar to canon, where they got puppeted into evil and were eventually freed, only to annihilate their reputation by continuing to pose as villains, effectively pigeonholing themselves into evil from society's eyes. As for what they could do: Kazuichi could build a robotic army or just machines for the lower mooks to ride on. Sonia, Fuyuhiko, and Twogami could all rule conquered provinces in the empire. Nekomaru could command minions while Akane and Peko act as elite troops. Ibuki could too, considering the lethality of her music, or she could act in espionage alongside Mahiru and Hiyoko, considering her hearing skills. Gundham could add various animals to the armada. Teruteru can produce food for the army. Mikan is literally a medic. Izuru Kamakura lives on, and is the Ultimate Ultimate. Possibly even more, considering the timeline. Nagito Komaeda is the equivalent of one of those really small cylinders of play-doh that are wider than they are tall. I can't imagine Chiaki being in the group, however. Either way, I can imagine this quirky miniboss squad having various unique interactions with our heroes, whoever they may be. I'd imagine Nekomaru would befriend the heroes in an odd way, being supportive of their strength and a fair fighter despite being on the villain's side, while Teruteru would repulse our heroes for being a sexual harasser, for example.

Also @goshdangronpa I want you to look at this, girlie. Read it all. Soak it up.

[ofhouses]

1077. Tadao Ando/// Iwasa House /// Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan /// 1982-90

OfHouses presents: Japanese Architects, part II - Tadao Ando.   (Photos: © Shinkenchiku-sha. Source: ‘Jutakutokushu’ 04/1991; Francesco Dal Co, ‘Tadao Ando: complete works’, London: Phaidon Press, 2000; El Croquis 44+58 'Tadao Ando 1983-1993’.) — This project will be published in our upcoming book: Japanese Fields | OfHouses.

[ronnie-p]

In my quest to catalog my doujinshi collection, I've come across one of my favorite AkiJun comics. Futsou no Hitodesu by Ando Koishi.

More below the cut.

Presented in no particular order.

I really enjoy this one for the cute interactions between the boys. You have Junpei trying to express his feelings for Akihiko over time. Akihiko being, well, Akihiko, as he discovers how he feels for Junpei. Ando-san's art is great for the serious moments and comedic ones as well. I'm still grail hunting for more of their Persona work. I'm hoping something pops up. These 00s works are hard to find.

I'm not sure how much interest anyone might have or what would be appropriate to post at the moment. While researching for sources for mfc, I have found that a lot of these works from the old fandom have kind of been left to the sands of time as websites die or posts get deleted. It's nice to have some recording and to share. If anyone has something they're interested in, please feel free to contact me. I might have the physical book.

[eri-pl]

Tengwar <3

It's the best thing Feanor made. Seriously. Nobody will murder you for using Tengwar. Nobody will hack your brain when you use Tengwar in the wrong moment. (The lamps are ok, but kinda meh, Tengwar is better)

Did you know, just did you know, that every consonant has a name, and the name is a noun, and some are really cool (and foreshadowing)? (chart and translations below the cut)

So, if you want a chart, here is a chart. And the names are (I don't have diacritics, so I just double the long vowels) (Quenya mode, with some historical notes from LotR appendix and elvish.org):

"Normal stuff Feanor had on his desk" row:

T tinco - metal

P parma - book

K calma - lamp (like those Feanor made? Or... like those Aule made)

Q quesse - feather (birds are important!)

"Things that keep you trapped" row:

ND ando - gate (like... the Door of Night?)

MB umbar - doom (doesn't need a comment...)

NG anga - iron (also, used in sword names, even for non-iron swords)

NGW (in TA changed to NW) ungwe - spider's web (foreshadowingsight on Feanor's part? :) )

"Mountain things???" row

S suule - spirit or breath (Manwe Sulimo... king of winds and stuff...) | TH thuule - spirit or breath, but I'm a Feanorian, or at least I'm a linguistics geek and love the phonetic scheme (me! but otoh it sounds dumb :( ), or I love the Teleri and/or Sindar, who use it as th (Finarfin, iirc).

F formen - north

H (h before t) harma (voiceless velar fricative phonetically /x/... I think. the sources are confusing. In TA mostly softened into a breath h.) - treasure (my precious Silmarills...) | aha (later renamed, idk when) - rage (my Silmarils! and, even more importantly, my father!)

HW (like "wh" in "why" especially the fancy British way of saying it where it's actyally h-w, not w-h) hwesta - breeze

"We need to name a row after places of articulation" row

NT anto - mouth (couldn't you think of a better name? I get it's a place-of-articulation row, but i don't like it anyway)

MP ampa - hook

NC anca - jaw

NQ unque - hole

"Things that Melkor likes" row:

N nuumen - west (Numenor...)

M malta - gold

NG (by TA: N) noldo - Noldo, as in type of Elf. Yes, it was initially Ngoldo. I mean, initially initially it was a gnome, so...

NW nwalme - tornment

"I have no idea but vaguely positive-metaphysical?..." row

R (pre-consonant or end-of-the-word R | non-vibrating r, whatever this means. My bet is that it's "r" as in Japanese --- position like "r", movement like "d") oore - heart (or: rising. Guess whose name includes this component. funny that it's the same word as heart, especially given that heart is also defined as conscience here)

V vala - power (duh.)

Y (? it has some history) [there was a consonant here]anna - gift (totally not made into a sus word by now...)

W/V (Initially W, by TA changed to V) wilya - air / lower sky (funny how those two names are next to one another. )

"Really, I think Feanor ran out of ideas for coherent name sets" row

R (vibrating, typpical "rrr") romen - east (the same sound being written with "East" and with a word alternatively translating to "heart" or part of Melkor's name --- I love it! Why? See my recent post. I love that. Call it a coincidence, but I love it)

RD arda - realm

L lambe - speech

LD alda - tree (!)

Now we are not in regular rows, so, the extra letters:

S silme - starlight (or... metaphysically important light in general? because guess what word is connected to this one. Also, funny how it's just after "tree"). It's always S, never TH.

(nuquerma is just "flipped" or something I guess)

Z aaze - day / sunlight (in Noldorin changed to Z - aare) | SS esse (Numenor and later, because they did not use the "z" sound, I think) - name

HY (Numenor and later: H) hywarmen - south

I yanta - bridge

U uure - heat

(doesn't have a sound, in Sindarin it's A) osse - terror (I guess he isn't a very nice Maia?)

H (voiceless h: /h/ not /x/; in TA replaced by harmen) halla - tall | gasdil - stop

(short wovel carrier) telco - stem

(long carrier) aara - dawn

The Tengwa names after directions are also used as marks in the compass (like we use NSWE) And snarky comments aside, I love the schema and how the names connect into many interesting and often Silm-events-related patterns. I love how each (almost) row is named after a set of similar things.

I'm not an expert, and if I made some mistakes, I'll be grateful for corrections.

[agrymonia]

another paralive blog aaaaaa yess *huug* ... if possible I would like fluff headcanons for shiki, and bae (separate) about mc fem seeing that they look stressed so she decides to extend her arms so that they can snuggle together like they go to bed on top of her chest while she scratches their head or gently strokes their back ksnsk Thanks in advance <3

notes:

- allen sugasano, anne faulkner, hajun yeon, shiki ando

- warnings: none

Comforting your s/o when they are stressed

Allen

• Allen really enjoys making music, it isn't unusual to catch him stuck to his computer trying new sounds in different softwares or writing down in red ink every verse that comes to his mind.

• But inspiration is not always on his side, and those days when he wasn't struck by it were a little frustrating for him.

• You can tell that he's getting stressed when he's discarding too many papers or scratching written words in his notebook with a little too much strength.

• In moments like that, you would approach him and gently stroke his hair since it never failed to help him feel more relaxed.

• Every time you stroke his hair, he closes his eyes and lets himself take a well-deserved break. Sometimes Allen loses his senses while composing, so you always help him come back to earth.

Anne

• Anne's patience sometimes wears thin pretty quickly.

• Especially when they put a lot of effort into something, only for it to not turn out good enough.

• Things like an outfit they spent a lot of time on not turning quite right can easily frustrate them and will most likely end up with their room filled with different pieces of clothes everywhere.

• And this is your cue to enter the scene.

• Whenever you see Anne too stressed, you surprise them with a comforting backhug, your thumbs softly stroking their stomach.

• Most of the times this act alone will help Anne to calm down, but sometimes it isn't quite enough.

• And in those cases is when you invite them to bed to take a break. If a hug doesn't help, maybe a cuddle session will.

• When cuddling in bed to relieve some stress, Anne is the one hugging you, their head resting on your chest while you stroke their back up and down, which will usually make them fall asleep.

Hajun

• The times Hajun looked upset were rare, not because he doesn't get upset often but because he's usually good at hiding it.

• But even then, he could never fool you. Unfortunately for him, as his partner, you knew him too well.

• As much as Hajun actually loved his teammates, living together with them always gave him one reason or another to be stressed out about.

• More often than not, they would forget to clean or untidy things that were just neatly arranged.

• He should be used to it by now, but when caught in a bad time, things like these can really drive Hajun over the edge.

• When something is wrong, you never fail to notice the way his eyebrows slightly twitch or the subtle change in his voice.

• And before things escalate further you take his hand and guide him to his bed.

• Once there you both sit down next to each other and you offer him your shoulder so he can rest his head to cool down.

• That's the perfect moment to gently play with his hair and leave small kisses at the top of his head, it always helps him to stay grounded.

Shiki

• Even though his confidence had significantly improved lately, your boyfriend has always been a bit of a nervous wreck.

• Which means that it isn't weird to find him stressing out or getting anxious over different things.

• Sometimes is school, sometimes is work, sometimes is socializing and sometimes it is cause of the awful trap reactions.

• But whatever is the source of his stress you will be there to comfort him when it's needed.

• When things get too hard you invite Shiki to lie down in bed with you, encouraging him to rest his head on your chest so you can softly run your fingers through his hair to help him calm down.

• While snuggling sometimes you whisper sweet words to him, reaffirming that everything will get solved soon and things will be fine.

• Shiki always feels the safest with you, he knows that if you're around things will truly be okay.

[sophieinwonderland]

I heard an anti-endo recently did a poll that showed that many anti-andos wouldn't change their stance even in the event that proof came out showing unequivocally that endogenic systems existed.

This just goes to what I've been saying all along. Their bigotry has never actually been about not believing.

If every single major psychiatric organization released statements tomorrow affirming that endogenic systems existed, the vast majority of anti-endos would not change their minds. They would still hate us for what we are.

The post said that syscourse would never end. And it's right to an extent. We will never be able to convince all of the hateful bigots out there that we are people deserving of respect.

They only hide behind their lies about what they claim the science says because it gives them an excuse to be awful human beings.

What the bigots don't realize is that we don't need them. We just need to outnumber them.

There are a lot of ways to do this. If we could change the mind of a hateful bigot, that would be nice. But we can also just spread awareness before someone becomes a bigot. We can reach out to different communities or just be ourselves in those communities. And we can spread techniquea for creating new systems. And what will they do?

They'll come at us probably. They will come at our communities and try to destroy them. Just like they did with the Yaelokre Discord.

But how many allies do you think they won by destroying the whole community for just being neutral? If they want to be hateful, let them. When they harass people, make an example of them. When they lie about the science again and again, cite sources to prove them wrong and humiliate them in front of the world.

I don't care about changing their minds anymore though. 🤷‍♀️

I don't think they are that important. I don't think the plural community needs to convince them to change their minds when we could just talk over them.