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Knight (derogatory) 🗡️

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But you'll never be alone I'll be with you from dusk till dawn

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you know how sometimes cats will stay awake with you late at night despite the fact you can see them almost falling asleep while sitting because they want you to go to bed with them and they're too stubborn to go to sleep on their own? that's javier. lloyd will stay up late at night working on something or the other and javier will be right at his side, being so fucking sleepy and cranky about it and yet refusing to be lulled to sleep because he doesn't want to go to bed without lloyd. if it gets late enough javier will simply. climb up lloyd's lap and curl up there. i fits i sits kinda attitude. he does not care, if lloyd wants to work at fuck o'clock in the morning instead of going to bed like decent people then he can do it with javier dozing on his lap thank you very much

lloyd grumbles about it but he never pushes him off or stops him because he still remembers how many sleepless nights he spent on his own back in korea, tired and sore from working non-stop all day but unable to go to sleep for fear of falling behind in his studies and losing one of the few lifelines he still had. and it's,, nice. to not be alone. to have someone at his side. a reassuring presence who stubbornly refuses to leave him behind even if it's only to move to the bed that's right there in the room. javier's soft breaths tickling his neck, his body heat a pleasant warmth against the chill of the night, his weight grounding him to the moment, to this reality... it just. it's nice.

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Little things I keep noticing in TGED manhwa (Part 2)

Part 1 here.

1. "Nice one, Javier!"

Awww, look, he has a special face for it 🥺💖

2. That guy who tried to assassinate Lloyd at night (Sir Curno)? Javier didn't just detain him, he cut off his leg. What a nice thing to wake up to, eh, Lloyd?

3. Apparently her being a centaur is a complete non-issue 👍

4. Magentano kingdom's money, aka magens: the paper banknotes have Mikael the Founder's likeness on them, and the gold coins have the royal palace (ironically, with the towers still intact).

5. How much did Ppodong weigh, again? 25 tons (25,000kg)? If an average knight/manaheart user can survive that, Lloyd can probably tank a building falling upon him without much trouble. Good to know.

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Inspo pic (+ wong kar wai aesthetic)

Twitter post

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The Shattering of an immaculate Dream

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If the Earth was really flat cats would have pushed everything off it by now.

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Aragorn’s reaction at seeing Lothlórien again always gets me (◠‿◠✿)

Then for a season they wandered together in the glades of Lothlórien, until it was time for him to depart. And on the evening of Midsummer Aragorn, Arathorn’s son, and Arwen daughter of Elrond went to the fair hill, Cerin Amroth, in the midst of the land, and they walked unshod on the undying grass with elanor and niphredil about their feet. And there upon that hill they looked east to the Shadow and west to the Twilight, and they plighted their troth and were glad.

- The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen, The Lord of the Rings: Appendix A, J.R.R. Tolkien

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Kwaidan - The Black Hair, 1964, dir. Masaki Kobayashi

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“Things that make the heart lurch with anxiety — Watching a horse-race. Twisting up a paper hair-binding cord. When a parent looks out of sorts, and remarks they’re not feeling well. This particularly worries you to distraction when you’ve been hearing panicky tales of plague sweeping the land. Also, a little child who can’t yet talk, who simply cries and cries, refusing to drink from the breast or even to be comforted when the nurse picks it up and holds it. Your heart naturally lurches when you hear the voice of your secret lover in an unexpected place, but the same thing happens when you hear someone else talking about him. It also lurches when someone you really detest arrives for a visit. Indeed the heart is a creature amazingly prone to lurching. It even lurches in sympathy with another woman when the next-morning letter from a man who stayed with her for the first time the night before is late in arriving.”

— Sei Shonagon in The Pillow Book (via brown-eggs)

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I love tumblr tags so much. Like okay here’s the main post and here’s my little secret thoughts and addendums for the besties

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Yes please! I love exploring historical fashion (tho I should probably sort it that way in my tags instead of just #fashion or #clothing lmao) and it’s so fun trying to parse through the lost-in-translation Rococco/Victorian/Fantasy fashion smoothie that’s common in historical manhwa :D

I forgot to take into account their financial situation 🤦🏻‍♀️ Maybe Arcos partly went into debt bc he tried to keep up with fashions/trends lol. And maybe Lloyd’s wearing some of his father’s clothes from when Arcos was a young man (which could account for that late 1700s—early 1800s mixed bag)

I hesitate to place TGED in any specific decade since it’s a fantasy world with many RL inspirations and many decidedly not (and I agree on NOT combining 1770s and 1840s looks, that’s too much of a change to reconcile in one silhouette :P ). But regardless of that (or that drastic time gap, 70ish years o.O), it would be in keeping for (usually older or less wealthy) people to continue to wear older fashions, simply because new clothing costs money, so it wouldn’t be inconceivable to see 1780s clothing in 1800 or 1790s pieces in 1820. (I love it when in BBC dramas you see characters wearing clothing two decades out of fashion—it really gives age and depth to the worldbuilding and an insight into the characters. IRL not everything is new and I low how that’s reflected in film.)

You really should do that post about Marbella! That’d be super fun to read your thoughts on that :). And I’m really liking that first photo set for her (esp the first two), the ringlets work best since she’s got a bit of wave to her bangs. (Pretty much most of the females of TGED borrow from Victorian aesthetics—Alicia’s kind of a steampunk Hussar vibe if I recall correctly… along with more 1780s men’s fashion 💀)

Ngl I feel like we could have an entire post on each of the main characters deconstructing their various outfits and possible historical inspirations and still be unable to come to a consensus. Because historical manhwa has it all.

Why, historical manhwa, WHY ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) Pick a century and stay in it.

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Would you like a historical Lloyd with a long ponytail?

Sir John Henderson of Fordell, by Gavin Hamilton, 1778.

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another ending

based on this

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y'know i wasn't gonna complain about this because like. who has time to be bitter online and it's already been a while since this dropped. but it's been bothering me so i'm gonna do it anyway lol

this was. so silly. and at this point on canon so out of character for javier. why are you making my little guy so dirty. him bringing up not getting paid if they run, even if it's an attempt to get lloyd to go back to fight the dragon, is,,, no. just no.

javier's first thought is always towards helping people. he now understands that money is necessary and having materialistic motivations is not inherently a bad reason to help others, but he's not that kind of person! he wants to help people and protect others just for the sake of it! and bless his heart he believes it's the same for others too, including lloyd.

at this point in canon javier still,,, wants lloyd to stay and protect others out of his own will. i've talked a bit before about how javier isn't exactly. disappointed. on lloyd for not staying to fight the bone dragon as much as he's regretful of having hoped better of him when he thinks he shouldn't have. as if deep down he didn't want to have hopes of lloyd being better but simply couldn't stop himself and is now regretting it because lloyd is letting him down again.

but he at no point even gave a thought about protecting lloyd's 'honey jar'. there was an entire city full of people at danger of being killed. in what world would javier even care about lloyd getting paid when the stakes are that high.

here this is the webnovel equivalent of this scene

Javier's face stiffened as he stared at Lloyd. On second thought, his face would be better described as angry rather than stiff. "Master Lloyd..." His voice was now lower than a while ago. "Why are you always like this?" "Like what?" asked Lloyd innocently. "Many people are in danger right now. And yet, you do not hesitate to run away for your own safety, disregarding everyone else's." "Yeah. You're right." Lloyd shrugged. And he replied nonchalantly, "Is that bad?" "..." "I think we argued over something like this before, right?" "It was in Cremo," Javier reminded him. "You're right. The Gigatitan." "At that time, you were-" Lloyd interrupted him. "Yeah. I ran away just like now." "..." "Is this really wrong?" Lloyd asked, meaning every word. [...] "You have not changed at all, Master Lloyd." Javier looked Lloyd's way, and there was disappointment in his eyes. No, it'd be more correct to say it was bitter regret. A bitter smile appeared on Lloyd's mouth. "I can't do anything about it," Lloyd said. "I'll always be like this." "Do you mean it?" asked Javier. "Do you think I'm lying to you right now?" "No. However-" "However?" "Then enjoy living on my behalf as well." "Eh...?" Lloyd stopped dead in his tracks. He questioned. the other man. "What? What do you mean?" Javier was now wearing a face full of resolution. And he spoke with even more determination and sincerity. "It was my honor to serve you all this time, Master Lloyd. I hope you safely escape from here." "Hey." "And please convey my message to Count Frontera that I am grateful for our time until now and to please forgive me for not being able to protect him longer." "Hey, you!" Lloyd was flustered. Why was Javier talking like he was going to die soon? Why was Javier not responding to him? What was that faint, enigmatic smile on his face before he rushed off toward the Bone Dragon without a second glance? Lloyd couldn't understand anything.

does this look,, remotely like a guy who's only thinking of his own home and protecting his master's 'honey jar'. does it.

i know this is already an old episode at this point but god do i still hold a grudge over this arc akshdakkfds

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Maybe og!Lloyd took his style and informality from his father :/ (I know I’m reaching here smh) But yes that has bothered me. Wear your coat, man! Don’t go about undressed in public!

But I definitely got late Victorian vibes from Arcos (along with some Edward Ferrars/High Grant hair) and I still can’t find a good option for him (damn his clothes 😫)

I agree 100% abt Marbella. It’s the bangs that would be difficult to find similarities for. But for the face, I’ve found a couple possibilities (I’m partial to the lady on the left, has more of Lloyd and Julian’s long features, and if she let look those curls they’d be the perfect bangs)

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Would you like a historical Lloyd with a long ponytail?

Sir John Henderson of Fordell, by Gavin Hamilton, 1778.

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any noun can become a verb if you don’t care enough

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probably i just said it but i want to say it again:

- don’t apologise if you don’t know english.

- yes, english is the most common language on the internet but you are not forced to know it perfectly.

- your own language is beautiful.

- non-english people make a huge effort to write in English everyday on this website.

- support non-english people and don’t make them feel bad if they do not know English. 

- actually support all the languages.

- spread more language diversity on Tumblr.

thank you.