#*eyes chapter 16*

[suntails]

dance of dreams

[manga-meow]

[paynomindtotheinsanity]

Chapter 16: Blind Spots

[cynosra]

At first glance, the whole peaches thing is incredibly stupid. But, if you really think about it, it's almost ingenious – albeit in a very stupid way.

The last time Mirio pulled this off, he tried to make Eri laugh. Unfortunately, everyone (including Eri) seemed to be confused rather than amused by his antics.

And now, in the middle of a battle against the world's most powerful man, he does the whole full moon thing again – and somehow it works. Somehow it manages to be a complete success in every way. Not only does Mirio achieve his actual goal of buying some time for the heroes before Izuku arrives, but he apparently also managed to make Tomura Shigaraki genuinely laugh – probably for the first time in 16 years.

Kudos, Mirio. Just Kudos.

This entire scene may be ridiculous, but it also did quite a good job at further humanizing Tomura. It once again drove home the point that Tomura and Eri are narrative foils (with Eri being the child that got saved (but didn't get Mirio's sense of humor), while Tenko is the child that has yet to be saved (and seems to be into Mirio's sort of humor, I guess)). Moreover, it gave us the first taste of Tomura's real laugh.

So, I don't care what everyone else says. I absolutely love this scene.  

[retellingthehobbit]

New Hobbit Comic chapter tomorrow! In Chapter 14, Bilbo Baggins finally learns what the work of a burglar truly entails. This will be the last "normal" ten-page chapter of this arc of the comic. Every chapter after this will be part of the five-part "finale," and will be far longer and more elaborate. >:3

[singsweetmelodies]

your lips, my lips (apocalypse)

"Do you know," Pierre says, thoughtfully, "that kissing is supposed to help with stress relief?"

Pierre and Charles begin a new thing in the 2023 season: making out after each new race. And then also... before it. And then at random times, too, just because they feel like it. And then they do a lot more than just making out. (It all goes about as well as you'd think.)

it just occurred to me that i've never actually made the tumblr post for this one, so here we go now! this is my new WIP project for the 2023 season 🫶 in which i make pierre and charles comfort each other after shitty races (and also vent my own feelings about the matter by writing smut. very therapeutic, that!)

updates: at some point after every new race/before the next race weekend. currently, we are at 4/20 chapters, with the monaco chapter being the latest ❤️

[bbygirl-aemond]

I'm intrigued by your idea that Helaena and Aemond are somewhat genre-aware and have some knowledge of the canon, non-divergent timeline. I've been trying to comb through the fic for the instances of this but feel like I'm probably missing some. Can you please list them out?

Haha sure! This was a fun lil scavenger hunt for me because I knew I wrote this down somewhere but simply could not find it. Anyways, here's a list of the different references I made to the canon timeline, in chronological order. I managed to fit in a decent number of people, but obviously a bunch have been left out since the Dance had SO many deaths. You'll notice right away that Helaena's glimpses are all very obvious, while most of Aemond's were disguised partially or completely by their context and because he misinterprets them every single time.

(Chapter 6) Aemond foresees Joffrey's canon death: When telling Joffrey it's dangerous to ride a claimed dragon, he notes that "the dull thread of alarm wound through his belly, a flash of a broken body against the ground, rendered his tone a little more sharp than he’d intended." He's not clear on whose body it is, and since Joffrey was suggesting Aemond ride Tyraxes maybe you'd assume it was Aemond's, but nope!

(Chapter 8) Aemond foresees Rhaenyra's canon death: When thinking of her with a dragon, he feels "uneasiness, a flash of dragon's jaws and a sense of overwhelming wrongness". He dismisses it as irrational, particularly because the dragon in question was Syrax and it's not super explicit, but again we know better.

(Chapter 8) Aemond foresees Jace's canon death: "He could see it in his mind already, blood gushing from punctures littering the boy's torso." He thinks it's an intrusive thought related to him needing to fight and potentially stab Jace, but nope! Arrow wounds.

(Chapter 15) Helaena mentions Blood and Cheese: “I chose him,” she says of Maelor. “Only I didn’t, so he doesn’t know. But I do.” See how this is like super explicit compared to Aemond's portion, even though it's Aegon's POV? It's because Helaena knows what's up.

(Chapter 16) Helaena foresees the canon deaths of Lucerys, Jaehaerys, Aemond, and herself: "Rhaenyra’s boy fell to meet the sea in pieces, his dragon tumbling alongside him. Darling Jaehaerys’s body fell in one direction while his head rolled in the other and her vocal chords screamed themselves raw. Her dearest Aemond fell backwards, his beautiful eye glazed over in death, the other pierced through by a blade. Helaena herself, eyes closed against the image of her brother’s impaled face, fell happily to her death, that she might meet her boys once more." Again, like super explicit.

(Chapter 19) Aemond foresees Aegon's canon death: "Images played out within his mind of poison slipped within a glass, of his brother’s hand, limp in death against the arms of his seat." He associates this with Aegon's suicide attempt, but we know it's referencing canon. (Also, he doesn't even question how he knows it must have been poison.)

(Chapter 19) Aemond foresees Jaehaera's canon death: When he sees the spikes in the dry moat surrounding Maegor's Holdfast, he thinks of how "he'd been terrified that little Jaehaera would somehow manage to tumble out of the window and fall to her death upon the spikes below. He says this was an irrational fear, but we know better. This also proves that he's had these dreams for years.

(Chapter 20) Helaena foresees Jaehaerys's canon death again: When she's smelling Jaehaerys's hair, she thinks that "in another life she’d clutched his head to her weeping body and his beautiful hair had smelled of nothing but blood." So again, a very explicit reference to Blood and Cheese.

This should be the complete list! Happy hunting. :)

[fourteenthz]

LOVE AND PEACE ON FUCKING PLANET EARTH

[beeceit]

[hourly-yugi]

[tightjeansjavi]

Can’t forget our favorite trash panda 🐼

In The Hills Have Eyes

guess we’re gonna find out if extra dirty martinis really do make everything better, baby ;)

[the-devil-in-the-details-666]

“Plot bunny” bitch no, I’ve got a plot White Rabbit, in that it leads me along and suddenly I’ve fallen into a rabbit hole and am about 50k words into a story that was supposed to be a maximum of 2k words

[manga-meow]

[paynomindtotheinsanity]

Chapter 16 in a nutshell:

Gaz: "Don't come back until you've fixed it!" 😤😡

Zim: 😐 "Okay." *doesn't come back*

Gaz: 😧 "Wait not like that-"

[thesparrowfliessouthforspring]

I hope I get to read more this year. It's been like 3 yrs since I read a new book n ab 2 yrs since I reread one. I'll be busy w school for a while but it would be nice to find a good book again

[thespacelizard]

sometimes when i'm editing i simply have no choice but to exclaim RIZETH PLEASE out loud