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thethirdromana · 2 years

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Ten modern Dracula covers, rated

(by request of @mysticalspiders on my previous post of older covers)

A poor start from Penguin Classics, who seem to have confused their Dracula with their Nosferatu for this 2006 edition. Piddling little castle too. 2/10.

I had to look at this 2013 Vintage Children's Classics edition several times before I realised that their Dracula does not, in fact, have a man-bun. I'm a bit disappointed, and also adjusting the contrast settings on my laptop. 7/10, hope this unabridged edition leaves the children suitably traumatised.

Fair warning, we're going to see a lot of covers from assorted Penguin imprints - this is the 2003 audiobook (read by Richard E Grant, which sounds delightful) but the print edition had the same cover. It's Love and Pain by Edvard Munch, also known - not by him - as Vampire. Gains points for thematic relevance, loses them again for not depicting a specific scene in the book. 6/10.

I like this (Penguin Vintage Classics, 2011). It's subtle, it's a little bit sexy. It has the confidence that the reader knows what Dracula is about (after all, who doesn't?) and will put things together for themselves. 8/10.

More Penguin Vintage Classics, this time from 2007 (I did warn you). I'm getting strong vibes of the 2020 BBC Dracula, and the less said about that the better. 3/10.

OK. I might need to be a bit petty here. I get what they were going for at Modern Library Classics in 2002, I really do, BUT I do need to note that Lucy did not wear a crucifix on her choker. (She wore a diamond buckle, given to her by Arthur). She very much did not wear a crucifix on her choker. The story might have gone rather differently had she worn a crucifix on her choker. 4/10.

I'm a bit conflicted on this one. On the one hand, I like Edward Gorey, whose Dracula stage designs illustrate this 2021 Sterling edition. On the other hand, I'm not at all sold on the wings, and my favourite Edward Gorey illustrations are his wolves, e.g. in his cover for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. There are wolves in Dracula, there could have been wolves here. 7/10, would have been 9/10 if it had wolves.

The art style on this Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition (by Ruben Toledo, 2010) reminds me a great deal of the art style of a girl I had a crush on when I was at school. So it gets extra points for bringing back happy memories. And it needs those points, because otherwise Dracula-as-Edward-Scissorhands is decidedly Not For Me. 3/10.

I mean it does the trick, doesn't it? Nothing to write home about, nothing to complain about. Except that this is a Collins Classroom Classics 2021 edition - for the A-level set text, no less. Can you imagine hoofing this back and forth from your house to your locker to your classroom, every day for a term or more? Can you imagine how revolting this off-white cover would eventually become from months-long exposure to school desks and teenagers' rucksacks? No thank you. 4/10.

It's BLUE!! Thank you, Puffin Clothbound Classics (2019), for finally providing an end to the monotony of red and red-tinted Dracula covers. There are a lot of covers that follow the castle-and-bats motif, and I haven't included most of them to keep this from getting samey. But imagine having the strength and courage to say no to the endless tyranny of red and make it blue. BlueBLUEblueblueblue. I feel refreshed, I feel restored. 20/10.

#dracula daily #dracula #2001 still counts as modern right?#right??

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fayes-fics · 1 year

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Upper Hand [Drabble]

2k Celebration Masterpost

Pairing: Benedict Bridgerton x fem!reader, Modern AU

Summary: Who wins in a game of dirty talk?

Warnings: 18+ smut, minors DNI. dirty talk, talk of cunnilingus and blowjobs.

Word Count: 536 (ah well)

Authors Note: Sixth of my 2k follower celebration drabble request fills for @queen-of-the-misfit-toys (ask here). Prompt: "if we weren't in public, I'd have my head between your legs". I have actually used this prompt before for a regency drabble, so I went modern this time. Unbetaed. Enjoy! <3

“If we weren't in public, I would have my head between your legs.”

It takes all of your abilities not to spit out, or indeed choke on, the olive you just popped in your mouth. You have to roll it between your molars and take a deep breath before you can do anything, your mind haunted by the spectre of a head of wavy chestnut hair framed by your thighs, strong large hands wrapped around your thighs, holding your hips down forcefully as he feasts on your body.

“Stop it! Your mother is right there!” you hiss indignantly, looking around the large table you are gathered at in a sophisticated London restaurant.

“You don't think she had her fair share of such moments? I do have seven brothers and sisters, you know,” he points out dryly, a hand landing heavily on your hemline, mid-thigh.

“Yes, but maybe not in front of her parents?” you contend, your temperature notching up as that hand travels further up your thigh.

He just chuckles, the sound rich in your ear. “Let’s not talk of my family, shall we? Not when all of my thoughts are of sucking on your clit, until you grab my hair in that way you do. Almost suffocating me with your gorgeous little cunt, grinding just so hard. I didn't shave before coming out this evening, just for you, so I have that little bit of stubble I know you like right on my upper lip; that really sends you over the edge, doesn't it, my sweet girl?”

Perhaps to those around the table, you look like a young couple in love, heads together, whispering sweet nothings. Not attempting to school your expression in the face of the utter filth he is spouting.

“Benedict,” you murmur, trying to sound disapproving, but it's far too husky.

“Yes?” his hand is under your hem now, toying with the soft skin between your legs, leaving little ticklish trails that burn so hot. “We can go out the alley if you need a little preview?” his offer smooth like velvet.

Deciding that is all you can handle, your body just so alight and needy, you know the only way to get the upper hand is to give him a taste of his own medicine. You twist your head slightly so that your lips are right next to his ear, and you wait for him to pick up his glass before you exact your revenge.

“I don't see how you will be able to do that when I'm going to be on my knees choking on your cock in about two minutes,” you lobby back.

You can't help the triumphant smirk as he splutters and chokes on the mouthful of wine he just took, having to apologise to his family for distracting their attention.

He is still gawping at you, absolutely flabbergasted, as you excuse yourself on the pretence of the bathrooms. But you pass by that door and turn around, still in his eye line, his stare blistering. You tilt your head at the emergency exit sign with a raised eyebrow.

He almost trips over his own coat on the back of his chair in the rush to get up.

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saint-starflicker · 11 months

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5 Dark Academia Movies That I Don't Find Too Many Other People Posting Very Frequently About

Note my definition of Dark Academia: dark because somebody dies (at a stretch, the darkness can be oppression or abuse from which no one necessarily dies but it still gets pretty dark—or if someone attempts suicide or murder then I count it as dark); academia because they go to uniform school or prepster university (the academia part can be an intense study, discussion, or research of a subject even though they are not at a campus.)

1. The Moth Diaries 2011

The book was better, more detailed, but the movie is still pretty good. The campus is peak neoclassical splendor, the uniforms are on-point aesthetic, and the darkness is gruesomely bloody and also it's on fire. The book is set during the school year of 1970 to 1971, but the movie is set in 2010 thereabouts.

2. "O" 2001

A modern retelling of Othello by William Shakespeare set at a prestigious boarding school. Adapting classical literature in a high school was trendy at the time, trying to capture the magic of Clueless 1995, and in my opinion "O" was the most glammed-up production with the most dark academia atmosphere out of all of them.

3. Educating Rita 1983

A working-class British young woman takes a social enrichment outreach education opportunity to study literature, in hopes that a study in the humanities will give her a better sense of self. Her tutor is a "failed" poet who struggles with substance addiction. Unbeknownst to them, both their lives are at the crux of change. In their consistently non-romantic conversations together, they unpack class discrimination in academia and society, as well as argue about the meaningfulness versus empty pretensions of studying humanities.

Nobody dies, well all right somebody almost dies for pretentious academic reasons...but the conversations leave a lot between the lines.

4. Private Romeo 2011

A modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare set at an all-boys military school. Sure, it's not the Oxbridge-Camford or "Hollywood New England" collegiate aesthetic...but it is very gay, a feature that I hope lends the movie some compensatory merit in this context. Juliet's a boy. Romeo is still a boy. Nurse is a boy. Juliet's mom is a man. Paris is an abstract concept. They are studying Romeo and Juliet at the military school English class at the same time that they are living and speaking the lines in Romeo and Juliet, so it gets surreal and I recommend getting more into the emotion of it than get caught up in what the lines they're saying are supposed to mean.

This should be chaotic academia or frenzy academia, but there's homophobic hazing and bullying so I think that's pretty dark.

5. Bare: a Pop Opera ???? There was supposed to be a movie but I deduce that it's stalled in development purgatory. I have not liked a movie adaptation of a stage musical since Chicago 2002, so I guess I don't really like movie adaptations of stage musicals—but I definitely want my current hyperfixation to be more accessible than a Spotify album oh hey while waiting for this adaptation to happen you can listen to the Spotify album. It's an operetta, so it's sung-through and you won't miss out on any story dialogue unlike with other musicals. Here's my argument for B:APO being Dark Academia.

DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE #5 SPOT ON MY LIST DOES NOT EXIST...WHAT DARK ACADEMIA MOVIES DO YOU THINK SHOULD BE IN THIS SPOT IN THE MEANTIME?

I CAPSLOCK IN ANGUISH THAT THE B:APO MOVIE DOES NOT EXIST YET AND PROBABLY NEVER WILL.

YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS ARE CONSOLATION.

Honorable Mentions:

The History Boys 2006 had one subplot I was bothered by at first and then grew to despise which is really too bad because this movie had racial diversity, directly addressed misogyny in academia, and had canon gays in a love triangle — but it is dark and it doesn't really seem to know that it's dark.

The Children's Hour 1961 "dark academia is mlm while cottagecore is wlw" WRONG watching this movie to consider evidence of dark academia wlw is part of your yuri duty! remember our history!

Never Let Me Go 2010 I can't describe objectively because I read the book at a time in my life that I was having a time at that time. The movie is a faithful adaptation. I re-read it recently and I think it's more Dark Academia than I gave it credit for, but if you're not into Contemplative Dystopia then I completely understand it not being your thing.

Like Minds 2006 — Huh, so 2006 was a busy year for this genre that did not yet exist at the time. Witness the folie à deux of 21st century teenaged Templar Knight kinnies who are also homoerotic serial killers. (Waves to the people that introduced me to this movie, who—contrary to the header of this post—actually do post about it.)

Rope 1948 does have some activity that I've caught recently enough, but I thought maybe it wouldn't be considered Dark Academia right away because it doesn't take place at a school. It takes place at a dinner party where ex-schoolfriends talk to their philosophy professor who they remain well-acquainted with after graduation, an interrogation of putting this professor's morally heinous philosophy into practice. Also there is a corpse at this dinner party. There's your academics and your darkness, so there's your dark academia.

#(yes BAPO fandom i am using the colon in b:apo for the benefit of the uninitiated)#If We Were Villains #<- tagged due to ALL THE SHAKESPEARES IN THIS LIST #dark academia #The Moth Diaries #O 2011 #Educating Rita 1983 #Private Romeo 2011 #Bare: a Pop Opera #The History Boys 2006 #The Children's Hour 1961 #Never Let Me Go 2010 #Like Minds 2006 #Rope 1948

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thefudge · 1 year

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Hi dr fudge do you have any favorite films that were released before the 1980s??

1979 still counts right? because i want to jump in first with the dreamy "my brilliant career" (dir. gillian armstrong). then go for an obvious one, "space odyssey 2001" which is really worth the hype and will never go out of style. then i wanna jump back in time to some screwball classics, like "it happened one night" (1934), "bringing up baby" (1938), "his girl friday" (1940). delicious and timeless, the wit & craft in these comedies is unbelievable. speaking of banter, i'm also fond of zefirelli's "the taming of the shrew" (1967) with elizabeth taylor and richard burton; in that vein "who's afraid of virginia woolf" with the same pair is also great (1966) (the order of these two films staring the same acting couple is very interesting). "gentlemen prefer blondes" (1953) is another feast for the ears and eyes. i like to think of "sunset boulevard" (1950) as the eerie and bone-chilling fate of a lot of old hollywood starlets. "city lights" (1931) and "modern times" (1936) by chaplin hold up more than ever today (chaplin's exaggerations of exploitative capitalism are now almost quaint). i must admit i have a soft spot for "annie hall" (1977) and "love and death" (1975), even though woody allen is persona non grata these days. i even fuck with "last tango in paris" (1972) by bertolucci, as terrible as it kind of is. "a streetcar named desire" (1951) with a much younger marlon brando is also great. speaking of age difference, i really like "love in the afternoon" because gary cooper is so fucking old and charming next to audrey hepburn. a sharp shift, "the night porter" (1974) by liliana cavani is not for the faint of heart but it goes into some places where not many venture. "the beast" (1975) by borowczyk, is also a lot to take in, but a visual splendor.

there are probably way more i'm just not recalling right now, but i have to end it on the one and only, "the heiress" (1940), starring olivia de havilland because what a performance that is.

#replies #film recs #films #pre 1980 films

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marinerainbow · 2 years

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OOOH okay.

Fic starters up for grabs! ^^

1. Poppy could not believe it- was Greasy defending her from a Pervert??

2. Looking him now... though he was horrified and mystified as to how this could be... Launchpad could tell without a shadow of a doubt; Negaduck was definetly Jim Starling.

I know you're more of a 91' Ducktales person (At least I think?) but... I... couldn't think of any non-jim starling prompts 😅

3. "You're cute, and I want you... but Stupid sweetheart, I so do not deserve you."

4. Harper was as shaken as anybody when they finally found the woman he slept with 2 months ago- who managed to get away from them- hidden away under one of Pleasant Valley's houses, looking dirty and tired, and pregnant.

Possibly one of the more unhinged ideas 😅 But hey, 2001 Maniacs is unhinged. You don't have to do this one though! XD

I might be back with more if you still wanna write after this! ^^ Also you don't have to any/all of these if they don't do it for you! Just suggestions ^^

One of the starters is my girl Poppy!? Omg thank you so much!! That sentence starters in particular was so exciting to do (but of course, I love them all!) ^^

Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out what to do for Harper, and really struggled with Jim Starling. I tried! I really did! But I just couldn't figure it out! And that makes me so sad because I love the starter you wrote for them both! (And BTW, from what I've seen of modern Duckyales/Darkwing Duck, I do like it! I've just only watched a few episodes and am more familiar with the older Darkwing Duck, so you were right ^^)

But anyways, without further ado, here are the blurbs! Like last time, I had a hard time sticking to just one sentence... I'm not even bothering to keep track this time, I'm just counting by paragraphs XD (which is a good thing because I went way overboard with Stupid's XD)

Poppy stared in shock, wide-eyed and shaking as her... Acquaintance finished taking care of the offender. She was just too surprised and scared to say a word as angry Spanish poured out of Greasy's mouth, fists flew, and the terrified toon babbled out apologies desperately before he finally hobbled away.

She was still shaking and huddled against the wall she had been cornered in when the weasel finally turned back towards her, his dark eyes filled with anger as he wordlessly just wrapped an arm around her shoulder and personally escorted her out of the building, still muttering words in the language she was just barely able to understand, "Ese bastardo, atacando así a nuestro amigo... El jefe y el loco tendrán que enterarse de esto."

The rabbit still hadn't said anything as she was, technically, forced to briskly walk with Greasy, no doubt he was taking her back to his place where the others must have been waiting... Honestly, that sounded good right now. After what that man did, she couldn't imagine being alone right now.

Greasy must have sensed her fear- or just noticed how she was still trembling and clutching her coat tightly around her body, since he stopped mumbling to himself and looked down at her and tried to be soft now for her, "Hey, he isn't coming back for you. Nos aseguraremos de ello."

Poppy, realizing he was talking to her, looked up into his eyes. Was this really the same man who would make comments about her ever since she grew close to him and his group? The same man whose eyes lingered on her and made her want to use the couch as a barrier between them? Granted there were moments between them that she didn't mind, but for the most part, she had preferred to keep her distance from Greasy.

But he defended her, he saved her from whatever that toon was going to do- she preferred not to think about that- and he wasn't teasing her in the slightest. He was showing genuine care for her well-being...

She was still too spooked to speak, but she did reach up to hold the hand placed on her shoulder and leaned a bit closer to the weasel for protection and comfort, something she had never expected to ever find in Greasy. And thankfully, he understood and didn't try to press a response out of her, and just focused on getting them both home.

When Launchpad and Drake had heard about some deranged duck terrorizing the city, they both had loaded up in the Ratcatcher- which Launchpad built himself with Drake!- to find this new criminal.

However though, nothing could have prepared him for the reveal of who this lunatic was.

Drake was forced to face his former idol once again, now wielding a chainsaw and a grim and gritty version of the iconic Darkwing Duck costume, with nothing but resentment and bloodlust in his eyes now... Actually that wasn't too different from their last encounter, but it was still horrifying to witness, let alone be a part of.

Launchpad had hoped that his speech would have gotten through to Jim. It certainly seemed to, when he pushed both him and Drake out of the way before sacrificing himself. But now, it was obvious anything that resembled a hero within the fallen star was gone now.

And the pelican refused to just stand back anymore. He wasn't going to let Drake, the true Darkwing, fight this new villain alone. He had to step up to the plate right alongside his hero and friend, and save the city from Negaduck... And hopefully, himself as well.

Stupid, the big, cuddly weasel he was, just tilted his head curiously to the side at you; apparently not understanding the reason you just gave him to why you couldn't accept his valentine, "Duh, what do 'ya mean? You're the specialist person I've ever known!"

Oh... Oh God did he have to say that? It was just making this worse! And it wasn't like you didn't want him, you really did! But... You didn't want to hurt him either, and you would ultimately do that if you accepted his adorable flowers and box of chocolates he may or may not have stolen in your name, "Stu, sweetie, it's not... I mean..." You had to find a way to make him understand you were no good for him...

So, sighing, you placed a gentle hand on his shoulder as he just blinked at you, "Stupid, if... If you and I were food, you would be a sweet, warm, fresh-out-of-the-oven cinnamon roll that everyone would love to have!" You smiled and resisted a chuckle as the weasel licked his lips at the delicious imagery, though you frowned as you continued, "And I... I would be some nasty, moldy, bowl of leftover spaghetti left in the back of the fridge that nobody wants to even look at. And if you eat me, you'd get sick. Do you understand?"

Stupid just stared back at you, his brows furrowed in thought and his tongue sticking out in a way only he could make adorable- God, why did you have to fall in love with this dingus? You thought he would have agreed with you, until he then looked straight into your eyes and said, "But Y/N, I like spaghetti!"

... Did... Did he follow you? "Stu, that's not what I-"

"I wouldn't let you get moldy!" Stupid interrupted, his big smile only making your heart skip a beat, "And even if you did, Psycho says that mushrooms are fungi, which is a kind of mold, and I like mushrooms! And he also said that mold grew on cheese, and I like cheese too! So... I guess I like mold!"

"Stupid-"

"And if I'm a cinnamon roll, and your spaghetti, then you're a dinner and I'm a dessert! And everyone loves it when dinner and dessert go together!" He proclaimed as he set the bouquet and chocolates in his hand down to hold yours, his black eyes practically sparkling as he stared into your own E/C eyes with his big, loving smile only meant for you, "I love it when we can have dinner and dessert together, and I know you like that too! So... Maybe you and I are destined to go together?"

... That had to be the most romantic thing anyone had ever said to you. No really, it was. Your eyes were stinging and your heart was practically melting as you glanced between the paws holding your hand and your long-time crush's eyes, now finding it harder to say no.

Thank you so much!!! I loved all of these! Sorry I couldn't do much with Launchpads and nothing with Harpers though. I hope you enjoy them! ^^

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xellychan040 · 2 years

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Slayers Fic: you escape with a smile

Fandom: Slayers Characters: Main Slayers Crew, no pairs unless you squint Word Count: 2001 Warnings: Gen. Lots of Food (breaks). Little 'Actual Driving' for a road trip, silliness and slice of life vibes

Summary: Three stops, no destination. You and you and you and you and me.

Notes: Written during the 2022 Slayers Secret Santa with @slayersweek for @dazzelmethat for the prompt "or a modern human au of them all going on a road trip. This prompt would focus more on them all as friends". I haven't written much at all this year, so I'm sorry it's a little rusty! But I really had fun trying to imagine the group questing and traveling together with modern conveniences! As per usual, I'm also posting this in the middle of the night, right after my birthday haha, so marry belated Christmas and Happy bday to me! Hope I got everyone's voices more or less right! ***

.hotel.

"Are you all packed up?" Zel knocks on the door frame, an eyebrow arching under his fringe as he peers at the disarray in the room.

Lina blows her hair out of her face, huffing as she wrangles and fights with her suitcase. A snarl twists her mouth, a triumphant war cry escaping her as she shoves in a shampoo bottle and manages to zip her bulging suitcase. "It's all the same crap, so why is it so much harder to put back the second time around?" Lina huffs, passing her arm over her forehead, wiping away the sweat not caught by the headband. "God, I wouldn't need to pack the value-sized conditioner if Gourry remembered his."

Zel rolls his eyes, pushing into the room, patting the top of her head in passing. "You say that like you don't have as much hair as he does." Grabbing the suitcase handle, Zelgadis ushers her out of the room, hand on her wiry shoulder. "C'mon, check out is soon-- I know you want to dive into the breakfast bar before we go. I'll toss this in the van while you save me some coffee."

Immediately perking up, Lina cheers and hops in place with a fist pump. Bad mood entirely evaporated, Lina bounces up to hug Zelgadis briefly, dropping the handle of her suitcase in his hand. Letting go, she skips down the hallway, waving as she sing-songs, "Don't take too long, Zel! Or else, I can promise you'll have any toast to go with that coffee!"

Zelgadis snorts as he watches Lina's mane trail behind her before she disappears down the other hallway. "Hnn, at least she won't be irritated until lunchtime today."

Making his way down the elevator and into the parking lot, Zel patted his pants for the keys to the van Gourry had fixed up over the summer. However, there was no need, the Van's back was already open and occupied. Zel made a face as he drew near enough to see who it was.

His exasperation didn't go unnoticed by the occupant as Xelloss covered the speaker of his cell phone and smiled one of the smiles that best dug under Zel's skin. Any other time with any other person, he was made out of stone against many annoyances, big or small, but something about Xelloss that never failed to get a rise out of Zel. And Xelloss knew that. Pitching his voice low so the person on the other end of the phone call wouldn't hear, Xelloss trailed his eyes up and down Zel, then winked, "Ah, doing our Majesty's bidding again, I see." Before Zel could retort, the conversation must have begun again as Xelloss straightened up and uncovered the phone, "I'm right here, I'm listening," Xelloss says, sliding down off the van and moving to lean up against the tire well instead. "It's fine, there's some connection through most of the roads, so I can still keep an eye on things. No, that won't be a problem, Miss."

Glaring at Xelloss through the corner of his eye, Zelgadis kept quiet out of respect as he organized the back and played luggage Tetris to get all the bags fitting without taking up too much space.

"Uh-huh, yes. I already sent in my research. And I made sure to tell Mr. Phibrizzo to kindly, as you put it, 'eat it'. I sent the gift basket you specified, as well, Miss Zelas." Xelloss laughs, the sound of it instinctively making Zelgadis' hackles rise and his shoulders bunch up around his ears in preparation for a snide remark, but a moment later Zelgadis relaxes, letting his shoulders drop. For once that laugh wasn't at his expense.

Xelloss' conversation seemed to wrap up just as Zelgadis finishes up with his self-appointed chore. The cell beeps softly as Xelloss hangs up, a faint, lopsided smile tugging at his mouth.

Knowing he shouldn't, Zel still opens his mouth, eyebrow arching as he comments, "Sooo," Zelgadis begins, voice desert dry. "What were you saying about Majesties?" Dusting off his hands, he motions for Xellos to lock the van before leading the way back inside.

"What can I say, I admire strong, driven women." Xelloss laughs easily, tossing Zel the spare key to give back to Gourry. "The difference between my mother being my actual boss and Lina is that Lina thinks she's everyone's boss." Xelloss' eyes crease at the corners as he hides away a smile. "Not that you seem to mind. Neither do I, for the record."

Zelgadis rolls his eyes, but nods in agreement, albeit reluctantly. "Well. We've got a long trip; maybe you'll get your chance to be bossed around next if you enjoy it so much."

Laughter was Xelloss' only response as they walked into the hotel's dining room.

.rest stop.

"Woooooow!" Amelia exclaims, sticking her head out of the window as Gourry guides the van slowly through a curved road to the rest stop. "I can see the ocean from here." She closes her eyes, tilting her face up towards the sun's rays. Taking a big gulp of sea salt air, Amelia launches herself out of the van the moment Gourry parks. "Ohh, goshhh, feel that breeze..."

Stretching like a cat on the grass, Amelia made small noises of contentment as she shook the numbness out of her legs from sitting still for so long. Going onto her tippy toes, her tank top rolling up to show a patch of smooth belly, Amelia loosened a knot hiding between her shoulders.

Back in the van, Lina was groaning too, but not with relief. "Ughhhh, I'm not stepping one foot out there if there's nothing to eat." Flopping against her rolled-up window, Lina let out a theatrical sob. "Everyone hurry and pee so we can get some good seafood soon."

Fanning her like a devoted servant with a tourist brochure from the hotel, Xelloss pats her back and makes a sympathetic sound. Despite the obvious amusement towards Lina's dramatics painting his face, he almost sounds sympathetic. "Aww Miss Lina, it's only another forty-five minutes to the beach. Oh! But by then, I wonder if vendors will still be open..." Xelloss contemplates aloud, his finger tapping his bottom lip, a little too gleeful at the moan of misery leaving Lina.

"Oh you guys," Gourry laughs, slipping out of the driver's seat to stretch his own legs. Sliding open the side door to let in fresh air so the van doesn't heat up, Gourry tugs Lina outside with a little smile, patting her face to get her to perk up. "Xelloss is looking at the dashboard clock! It's a few hours ahead, so the restaurants should still be open."

Not fully convinced, Lina drags in a weepy sigh, leaning limply on Gourry like a man with no strength to continue on. "R-really? Will I still get fresh from the ocean seafood?"

Skipping over, putting her gymnastics skills to use, Amelia vaults herself onto the van's hood. Peering down with a wide smile as she kicks her sandaled feet, Amelia gives a thumbs up to Lina. "Most definitely! And even if we did get there late, Mr. Zelgadis and I double-checked when all the seafood places close, so we're good Miss Lina!"

"Sweet, hear that Lina?" Gourry high-fives Amelia, his other arm looped around a slowly reviving Lina.

Cutting a look Xelloss' way, Zelgadis rolls his eyes when the older man seemingly pouts when he can no longer tease Lina with imminent starvation. "Oh...joy," Xelloss says, voice heavy with a sigh as he slides out of the van, already rummaging for his phone. Another call to mummy, probably. For all that Zelas hardly seems to have a motherly bone in her body. More likely a business call, for all that it was essentially the same thing for Xelloss.

Hip-checking Xelloss out of the way, Zelgadis digs out a plastic bag of road snacks he hid under his seat. Rummaging around inside, Zelgadis pulled out everyone's preferred snack, tossing a few to the guys, then handing Lina and Amelia their own. "Stop acting like you're wasting away. C'mon, if we stop, we'll just take longer to get there, so eat this."

"Zel's right," Lina says, scrunching up her nose as she tears one package open with her teeth. Gobbling her granola with crumbs falling free, Lina claps her hands harshly, shoving Gourry with her shoulder. Tapping Amelia's thigh as she passes, Lina shouts back at her group, "Chop chop people, I wasn't kidding about everyone hurrying with the peeing! Let's goooooo!"

Laughing, Gourry lets his huge frame be bullied by a tiny slip of a redhead, sharing an amused, commiserating look with everyone. "That's Lina for you, nothing gets her going like food."

.distination.

The sun was going down now, warm reds and oranges reflecting off the waters as the gloom of the evening chased the sunset. Gourry wipes sea water from his brow, feeling the sand on his forearm grit against his forehead. Trudging up the shoreline where Zelgadis and Xelloss kept watch over the towels and bags. "Getting chilly now, think now is a good time for that fire?"

Zelgadis shrugs, meticulously using a bit of broken-off driftwood as a sculpting tool for his sand sculpture. It was his fourth one of the night. "I could use the light."

Husking a small chuckle, Xelloss nods back towards the water where Amelia hefted Lina up her shoulder and tossed her into an oncoming wave. "Miss Lina might appreciate drying off soon," He says, just as Lina's scream of rage gave way to burbling and the sound of water crashing into itself.

A burst of water exploded as she rose again, spitting out a stream of saltwater, strand kelp in her hair as she roared at a cry-laughing Amelia, chasing her up the shore.

"Noooooooooooooooooo, mercy, mercy!" Amelia laughs, tears streaming down her face as Lina thunders after her, launching at the younger girl.

They both go down in a dust storm of sand, miraculously missing Zelgadis' sculptures and instead landing in a tangle of limbs beside a failed moat.

"Never!" Lina cackles, wrangling Amelia down like a hog, a vindictive, fiery light gleaming in her eyes as she brandishes her hands in the shape of claws, readying herself for the tickle of a lifetime. "Prepare to suffer, little princess!" Sand kicked and flew as Amelia let out peels and peels of laughter, failing to escape as she fought to gulp air into her straining lungs.

Gourry, knowing better than to get between Lina and prey, wisely crept around flailing legs as he gingerly stole the log bundle from beside the girls. "Lina," Gourry cheerfully admonishes, "stop picking on people weaker than you."

"Yeah, Lina, she's about to turn bluer than her blood," Zel snorts, pushing himself to stand, dusting off his legs as he gets the cooler full of corn and s'more supplies.

Tickling Amelia one last time, Lina nodded decisively to herself before finally releasing her victim. Finally registering the chill breeze and lack of warm sun, Lina shivers and rubs her prickling shoulders, scampering towards Xelloss. Nudging his leg with her foot, she plops down beside him with an expectant look. "You've got a Hawaiian overshirt, give it to me." Her nose scrunches as she glares at him into surrendering his clothes."

Seeing no harm in it, since her tussle with Amelia left her mostly dry, except for her hair, Xelloss draped his overshirt around her shoulders, smiling bemusedly at how large it seemed on her.

Before long, the fire lights and crackles merrily, eating away at the gloom of the evening. The cool air was replaced by the smell of roasting corn and the smell of melty butter. Lina sighs, happy and tired, leaning her head against Amelia's shoulder as the other girl passes around drinks. "Thanks, guys. This is just where I wanted to be."

Clacking their soda cans together, the group cheered and murmured. "Same here, Lina."

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I was tagged by the wonderful @likesummerrainn tysm <33 Post ten of comfort movies and tag ten people. Also these are in no particular order.

The Mummy (1999) This is THE ultimate comfort movie for me and my favourite movie of all time. There are no downsides: the cast, the action, the soundtrack chef's kiss. I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen this but it's been on the regular since I was six so take that as you will. Also, the first time I saw this movie, I had a really bad fever and hallucinated the scarab beetles were chasing me.

2. The Mummy Returns A solid sequel, lots of fun, and so much more Ardeth. He truly was on one of my first loves. Really set the scene for future Kirsty to develop a Type.

3. Howl's Moving Castle My first Ghibli film! Do I 100% understand the plot of this movie? No but that's irrelevant. Stunning and so beautiful. Every time I hear the music I feel so safe and happy. I recently watched this on a flight from Prague to Amsterdam and had the best time.

4. Overlord A weird tradition where I often watch this when I get ill. It's an intense horror movie set in world war two and there's nazi zombies. Non-stop action right from the beginning. Also made me fall in love with Wyatt Russell a wee bit.

5. Insidious Saw this in the cinema when it first came out and it was like they made a horror movie exactly how I would make it. It's not perfect but it's really fun and I love the aesthetic.

6. The Conjuring I think at this point we can establish the fact that Patrick Wilson is a babe. Again, very easy and fun and I love the dynamic of a husband and wife ghost hunting team that love and look after each other.

7. The Lost Boys Do I know this off by heart? Yes. Top tier vampire movie and incredible soundtrack. There is nothing bad about this movie other than it ends. I had the biggest crush on Alex Winter because of this movie (and still do let's be real). Thanks to my mum for showing me it when I was little.

8. Rocknrolla I went through a weird period in 2015-2016 during my last year of uni where I would watch this movie constantly. I think it became a genuine hyper fixation as a result of stress and keeping on top of my academic work and dissertation so it became a "safe" movie. Underhyped Guy Ritchie movie.

9. Pride and Prejudice True love is real. The soundtrack, the cinematography, the yearning, the hands!! Ugh, I love it so much.

10. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) You cannot tell me this movie is not good. I wanted to be Lara so bad (and still kinda do). I think people look down on this because they're seeing it from a more modern lens but it's really fun and FEELS like a Tomb Raider movie. It still holds up tbh.

Okay so I don't think I'm going to tag anyone just because I've been tagging people quite a lot recently and don't want to bother anyone! However, if you do want to do this, PLEASE DO and tag me so I can see because it would be so much fun to see what other people have put.

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The oddities of Old School RuneScape.

Recently (as in sometime since the time dilation got worse) a friend of mine bullied me back into playing RuneScape for the first time in a decade and some change. It was, at first, a fun little exercise in nostalgia and childhood wish fulfillment. I was unsurprised to find that I still remembered just about everything you could do in free to play given I had completed all of that content half a dozen times and when it came to the members content I was finally able to do all of the things that a young hatsforfish could only dream of doing. I never had a membership growing up, so to see the grass from the other side felt like striking off long forgotten bucket list items. What I didn't suspect when I submitted the request to recover my account was that I would stick around.

RuneScape has gone through a handful of iterations since it first went online in early 2001. The version I grew up playing was RuneScape 2; the version that the modern Old School RuneScape (from this point on OSRS) is based on and the version that was revived due to some of the player base's dissatisfaction with RuneScape 3 (R3). My original character, which I had made in my elementary school computer lab and whose name was a misspelling of the name I had at the time wished my parents gave me, remains trapped in R3 since it is technically the original game. OSRS is a ship of Theseus of the 2007 version of the game that got updated out of existence. It is not the original but is made of all the parts that the original slowly replaced. Or it was at the beginning, because the devs then continued to update the new old version of the game with new content and even new visuals. So OSRS now is more what we remember RuneScape 2 to be rather than what it actually was.

The updates aren't haphazard though. Almost every change or addition to the game is polled by the player base before release and needs to meet a stringent 70% approval rating to pass. What this effectively means is that the active community in the game decides what nostalgia means to them. This helps get around one of the problems that Dan Olson pointed out with regards to WOW in this video which is that the paratext of the game, the guides wikis and technical understanding of the games systems, has fundamentally shifted the way we play the game. Back in 2007 nobody knew what they were doing, they just did what felt right to them or what a friend of a friend had said was good. The idea of a "game tick" was not in peoples vocabularies and so the devs didn't have to design around people intricately manipulating and optimizing the game the way they can now. At the same time nobody has the same amount of time they did back then so the genuinely long grinds the game used to contain are even less appealing today.

So when I started playing OSRS I remembered back to Olson's original video on WOW classic and figured that the same was going to more or less be true for RuneScape as well. Logging in to my new character (whose name ended up being weirdly prescient) I figured I would exhaust my nostalgia fairly quickly and throw in the towel the same I have for any game without a proper ending. It was sometime during the quest Recipe for Disaster that the true form of OSRS started to appear to me and I started to notice the pattern.

See, I wanted to get my combat level up, so I looked for the best way to train combat and the internet almost universally said that slayer tasks were the way to go. I jump into some of the level appropriate tasks, looking up guides along the way and it mentions an item that would help called the Slayer Helm which is unlocked by earning points from doing tasks. Well, that's convenient since I'm already doing tasks but doing tasks my level meant points came in slower. If I did faster easier tasks, then and did the high-level ones on the count that gave a score multiplier then I would have the Slayer helm in no time. That being said killing all these low-level mobs quickly mean leaving a ton of bones on the floor and it's just such a shame for them to go to waste since prayer is such an expensive skill to train otherwise. Turns out that there is an item that automatically converts dropped bones into passive prayer xp and that would be incredible to have for this grind. It is, however, locked behind the Morytania achievement diary which has a ton of requirements but they're all things I was meaning to do anyhow. So, I head off the grind agility and right around the time I start thinking about unlocking Fossil Island so I could start doing birdhouse runs in between agility course laps the whole picture finally snaps into place. The natural game flow of OSRS is just simulating what it's like to live with inattentive ADHD.

Given that I have inattentive ADHD I figured that OSRS just allowed for more floating from thing to thing than most games do so I saw my real-life tendencies reflected in it more than most other games. That was until I found out that a ton of other people play the game this way. Now that could just mean that a lot of ADHD havers play the game, which wouldn't strike me as all that unusual but either way I wasn't out of place here. What was odd was that existing like this usually makes me absolutely miserable but for some reason doing those same patterns in RuneScape didn't frustrate me at all. In fact, this sort of tangential advancement has kept me focused on the game waaaaaaaay longer than I ever could have guessed. While I never did get my bone crusher, I did just get back around to finishing the quest that I had gotten distracted from in the first place. Intentional or otherwise, the design of the game is one of the first times it felt like the way my brain works might not always be a detriment to my goals. In spite of that I do not recommend getting started on the game unless you have a lot of free time and nothing better to spend it on.

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Little Armenia Evaluation â Precisely What Do We Understand Regarding It?

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Little Armenia Evaluation â Precisely What Do We Understand Regarding It?

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Call It Even [Drabble]

2k Celebration Masterpost

Pairing: Anthony Bridgerton x fem!reader, modern AU

Summary: Just a frisky moment at a party

Warnings: 18+ smut, minors DNI, vaginal fingering, handjob, brief mention of vaginal sex.

Word Count: 444 (woo hoo under 500 words finally)

Authors Note: Fifth in my 2k follower celebration drabble request fills for @corpseoftrees-queen Includes prompts: “If you keep looking at me like that, we won’t make it to a bed.” "In my defence, I really wanted to." and “Just marry me already.” (ask here). Unbetaed. Enjoy! <3

His hand is inside your underwear, and you are slumped against the wall, your legs definitely not capable of withstanding your own weight under the blinding pleasure you are experiencing. You mutter his name and look at him, snagging your lip with your tooth, pleading eyes, desperate for him to make you come.

“If you keep looking at me like that, we won't make it to a bed,” Anthony growls, pressing his rigid cock into your hipbone as if to prove a point.

“Don't need one,” you breathe, which morphs into a moan as his fingers hook deeper in your cunt, catching that spot that makes you so mindless you feel the need to bite something, anything. Ideally, his flesh.

“You would let me?” he pants. “Fuck you? Right here? Against this wall? That door doesn’t have a lock, you know; anyone could walk in.”

You just nod and grab his muscular forearm, revelling in the flex of his tendons as he rocks his fingers inside you. He snarls his approvals and speeds up. You can hear the sounds he is wringing from your body, even above the pounding music seeping under the door and vibrating through the bricks at your back.

His lips crush yours, and it's a sinful writhing of tongues as he swallows the noises you make, your only care in the world narrowing to the sensation building, the white-hot burn around your clit his thumb is flicking.

“Just get inside me, please; I want to come on your cock,” you mutter into his mouth, so far gone you don't think to school your thoughts.

He groans thickly over your tongue, and you decide to take matters into your own hands and reach down to flick open the button on his expensive jeans and pull down the zip. He practically howls as you reach in and grasp his cock, already leaking and so warm. His fingers still inside you, his abilities seemingly going offline as you pump him in your fist. it's his turn to sag into you.

“In my defence, I really wanted to,” you whisper teasingly, swiping a thumb over his tip and swirling the pre-cum gathered there over his head.

He softly bites your lower lip, breathing ragged, pushing up into your twisting grip.

“Just marry me already,” he pants, his tone uneven, slurred.

“Fuck me, and I’ll think about it,” you retort.

And he does. Right there against that wall. Hard. So hard you leave scratches down his back as you sneak a hand under his shirt and cling on for dear life. He leaves teeth marks on your collarbone, so you decide to call it even.

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Little Armenia Evaluation â Precisely What Do We Understand Regarding It?

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I’ve seen a lot about your thoughts on Elisabeth and Tanz der Vampire, and they’ve been really helpful getting into those musicals! But you have a huge list of other musicals that people can get into…

So I was wondering if you had any musicals you hadn’t mentioned in a while that you really like or would like to talk about??? (preferably something from your lists that has a blue heart please?)

Oh if only you knew how long the list of European musicals really is... I however have only seen 9 (if I counted right) and I have a lot more that I still need to watch. Oh also, I only put the blue hearts on any musicals that I was providing multiple links for so people could see which version I reccoment the most highly. If a musical only had one link and didn't have a blue heart it doesn't mean I didn't like it.

I've watched: Mozart das Musical, Elisabeth das Musical, Tanz der Vampire, 3 Musketiers, Mozart L'Opéra Rock, Dracula (the Graz production), Rebecca das Musical, Roméo et Juliette and Schikaneder.

If you enjoyed those two you're likely to enjoy Rebecca! It's written by the same composer/lyricist team as Elisabeth and Mozart (and same lyricist as Tanz der Vampire - though if you're listening to any German musical, original or translated, 90% of the time the lyrics will have been done by Michael Kunze that man is everywhere). The Stuttgart production has my favourite set design of any musical! Well... Actually probably. There are so many big set pieces it's insane, way more than I've seen in some Broadway and West End musicals. You can tell so much work went into it and the visual effects that I won't spoil if you don't know the plot but if you know the plot you know what I mean by the effects at the end are so good and I didn't expect them at all and I freaked out so much the first time I watched it. Jan Ammann as Maxim in the Stuttgart production is the best Maxim. No I won't take any argument. Other actors feel a bit one-dimensional to me, but the way Maxim acts at times comes from trauma and some actors and productions seem to forget that, but Jan really goes for it and his Maxim is a lot more sympathetic and I just want to give him a hug. Pia Douwes as Mrs Danvers, if you've seen her in Elisabeth what more do I need to say, she's amazing. A musical goddess. Her Danny is a bit more wild than some, but she kills it. My favourite video, which I put the blue heart next to, has understudy Christina Patten as Ich/I, but I adore her she's my favourite. She adds some spunk to Ich in act 2 and her voice is so pretty and aaaa. I just love these three actors together in these roles.

Roméo et Juliette is another favourite of mine! It's hard to choose which one to recommend, but it has to be the original 2000/2001 production because of the sweetness and chemistry and voices of Damien Sargue and Cecilia Cara as Romeo and Juliet. They're so pretty and work together so well. The only reason I say it's hard to pick is Mercutio. I adore him, but in the original production they cut out a song they had planned for him and he doesn't really do much at all? In the 2010 revival they gave him two more songs and you care about him so much more and John Eyzen plays such a good Mercutio. So I'd recommend the original but if you want to like Mercutio more, which you should he's amazing, I'd recommend watching at least clips of John's. It's an interesting musical because all productions are non-replica and also change around the order of songs, add or take away characters, all sorts. The Hungarian production is also very popular and I'm sure it's great, I just haven't' gotten around to watching it yet.

Mozart das Musical was the first non-English language musicals I watched so I have a fondness for it, but it's not my favourite. However, I do realise I have forgotten most of the songs and the few I've gone back and listened to are better than I remember.

Dracula isn't super popular and I understand why, I don't love the plot of the Dracula/Mina romance in it, however. I do love this musical because despite how I find the plot lacking, the songs are so good! At least, I love them. And the actors are all doing a great job. And it's one of the few Dracula adaptions to keep Quincy Morris so they get bonus points for that.

Mozart L'Opéra Rock and modern French musicals... This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but they're often more like pop-rock operas now. So if you're not into musicals with that style of music it might not be for you, but I still enjoyed it even though I didn't think I would because of the style of music. Mozart and Salieri's chemistry is very good, Salieri's bisexual crisis song is iconic, actually all of Salieri's songs are iconic.

Schikaneder... eh. I didn't like it that much and I didn't really like any of the songs. There's no English subtitles, but someone sent me the entire English synopsis and I watched it with a German friend so I had double the help of understanding it. Doesn't mean others might not like it, just none of the songs stood out to me and I had no desire to listen to any of them again. It's by Steven Scharwz of Wicked fame and I love Wicked, but I didn't love this.

3 Musketiers!! God it's so underrated and not spoken about within the European musical fandom that I even forget about it and literally forgot to write about it earlier in this post. It's a Dutch musical (though did also have a German production) and it's really good!? Faces you might know are Pia Douwes as Milady de Winter, Stanley Burlseon as Cardinal Richeliu (Netherlands Der Tod in Elisabeth), Henk Poort as Athos (Netherlands Phantom and Jean Valjean). The dialgoue is funny, the songs are good, some of the set pieces have no right to exist in this tiny musical?? They made this giant boat and pelt the actors with rain just for one 5 minute song and then we never see the boat again? And while I recommend the Dutch one because Dutch musicals deserve more love and it has official English subtitles!! Official ones, not fanmade! I have the DVD and it comes with English subtitles (and Dutch and German subtitles) which is so nice. The German version is also good, good cast, Pia came back and Uwe Kroger as Richeliu and omg they rearranged the songs and the German arrangement of Nicht Aus Stein is insane and amazing and frankly iconic.

That's all of the ones I have watched. Next on my list to watch are Rudolf and Notre Dame de Paris, both of which I have listened to some songs from and already love (I've listened to way too much of Notre Dame de Paris and am so in love).

I want to start organising streams where I'll host the musical either by getting the video from Youtube or my own files and anyone who wants to join can come along and watch with us, chat with us if you want or just watch there's no pressure to chat. I thought about doing weekly streams? This would also make me finally watch some of the ones I've been meaning to for ages. But I keep wondering about time zones. I'm in the UK and would want to stream at about 11pm at the latest (11pm BST/GMT+1 as we’re in daylight savings at the moment, if the streams continue past the end of October which would be wild then I’ll make a note of the time change that would be to 11pm GMT), which I know can work for other UK and Europeans, but for any Americans would be in the afternoon. So, I wondered if doing it on a weekend would be better? Then it doesn't matter if it's in the afternoon? Maybe Saturday evenings then? It would either be Saturday evenings UK time or Friday evenings UK time. What do you guys think? If people are down then I'll make a separate post with a list of what we'll be watching each week and if anything happens to me that means I can't stream one week then everything will just get pushed back a week, but I don't see that as likely to happen. And I'll only be streaming those that have English subtitles, so don't worry about not being able to understand anything.

edit: am also open to 10pm bst if others want that, im just trying to think of what time works best for everyone so sorry if 11pm is a little late for europeans, i know 10pm could be a little early for americans. also in case it sounded like these are the only musicals i will be streaming, thats not so, ive got more than just the ones mentioned on this list!

(Tagging some people who I know are or might be interested in streams to see what you think of that plan: @sirona-art @ringwraith100 @tanz-der-trash @smilingwoland @the-weird-dane @witchgaye @ami-fidele @kisstheghouls @looking-4-happiness @ladysapphire928 @sloanedestler @tinywound @persephonaae @phoenixdewinter @uwucoffee @freshbloodandgothicism )

#european musicals #mozart das musical #3 musketiers #dracula the musical #retj #romeo et juliette #mozart l'opera rock #mozart l'opéra rock #musical theatre #musicals #broadway #musicaledit #rebecca das musical #rebecca the musical #answeredasks #non english language musicals

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centrally-unplanned · 4 years

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(Spoilers ahead) Partner and I finished Season 2 of the Fruits Basket modern remake this weekend. I had only seen the, uh, 2001 original anime (2001? It was 20 years ago? Fuck), with no exposure to the manga, so a lot of the plot elements were new to me. I liked a lot of the show, but I have some big complaints about it handles its villain, Akito:

1: Akito occupies a very awkward place in this story. He (don’t worry, ill get to that) is the head of the main crew’s family and constantly inflicts abuse on all of its members, and is therefore the source of conflict for the plot, both in past trauma and present attempts as control and gaslighting.

Okay, so stories often have to walk a tightrope with abusive characters like this. Stories are normally pushed along and resolved internally - the main cast is going to experience the pain and drama, and fix it themselves, because that is the arc. For many plots that is easy, but if the story revolves around an abusive sibling/parent figure like Fruits Basket does, you will always be asking yourself the question “uh, why doesn’t anyone call the cops? or why don’t they just leave?” There is a tension between realism in the setting and the needs of the plot.

You can in fact resolve this tension in a lot of ways. If the abuse is primarily mental, slowly building, inflicted out of sight of responsible parties, etc, you can make this work. Lots of people don’t report abuse to authorities, or just move out of their house, but instead deal with it due to it being normalized. Other ways include making the characters teenagers - they don’t think of the world as having authorities outside of family (or school) and its much harder for them to reach outside of that bubble - the classic highschool bully problem. So Akito can work if he is subtle, slowly ramps, and controls his surroundings to hide his abuse from relevant authorities.

Anyway here is Akito pushing a 17 year old girl out of a two story window shattering her back and hospitalizing her for months:

And here he is threatening a 17 year old boy with life confinement in a literal cage unless he, uh, wins a duel with his cousin?

These are the worst moments but they are far from alone. This person is a raving lunatic, which fair enough that the 17 year olds don’t know how to handle that, but Akito himself is no older than 20. And the cast of characters who know everything that is going on includes:

-27 year old *published author* Shigure, who directly cares for both Akito and two of his abuse victims

-27 year old completely-independent business owner, Ayame, who is the *brother* of one of the abuse victims

-27 year old licensed medical doctor Hatori, who lives with and is the physician of Akito.

Hatori is violating every ethical obligation of his profession on the daily, dude is stone cold! This again could work if these characters were bad guys, but they aren’t - they are sympathetic protagonists or in Aya’s case even comic relief! The show wants you to think they are doing their best, Shigure even has a secret “plan” to deal with Akito that he has been planning for *years* and they all have "reasons” why they feel stuck due to the Zodiac curse yadda yadda. But you have to memory hole the fact that they are functioning adults in 21st century Japan, because otherwise Shigure and Hatori in particular reach levels of negligence to the children they care for that it tips right on over into being evil itself.

These kids go to public school, guys!

Now I know what any defender would say - “its the curse!” The whole cast carries the curse of the Zodiac where God invited them in long-ago times to a dinner, Akito is the current manifestation of that God in some form, and so they are bound to him to enact that “dinner” metaphorically in some way by staying by his side (also they transform into their respective Zodiac animals when chest-on-chest contact occur from the opposite sex, because Anime). Again, you can make this work! Show Akito exerting a magical force on characters who stray too far from him, or a compulsion locking them to being forever near the Sohma estate where he lives. Something showing that yeah, the relevant authorities could not handle this and dragging Akito away in chains won’t work. But sadly the show just...doesn’t bother. There is a “curse” but we are two seasons in and any negative consequences of the curse beyond Akito Being An Asshole are Footage Not Found (Kyo is an exception, but not a relevant one), despite everyone pretending like there is. Everyone wants to break the curse? Fine, kill Akito. Then you all get to live in peace and transform into adorable animals when you’d like, curse broken. Just throw “doesn’t cuddle or do missionary position” on your OkCupid profile to make your love life work, no one is gonna bat an eye, and some people will be, lets say, readily down with your particular transformation fetish.

None of this is fatal to the show per se, you can suspend disbelief. But the show takes itself so seriously that you can’t help but think these thoughts, and it colors in particular how the older characters act. And it would be so easy to fix! They just didn’t bother.

2: Can someone explain to me, in the year of our Zodiac Lord 2021, how a character secretly being a girl is a “surprise reveal” worth ending a season on? The final shot of Season 2 is that our resident asshole Akito has some female-presenting nipples, which is apparently a Big Deal? (maybe the show takes place on Tumblr, *zing*) Its the villain, they are an abusive maniac and also metaphorically/actually a divine being. Why does doubling their X chromosome count affect or change anything? I can envision plots where that is relevant, but this was not one! Maybe the next season will build that into the arc, but they haven’t done that yet, so the moment itself falls incredibly flat.

Yet people obviously feel differently from me - as is my habit I checked the reddit threads for the final episode and they are replete with people commenting on how shocking a twist it was, how they looked forward to it as manga readers, etc. Its a classic suspense trick I think, of how you can just have an event be surprising without it being thematically relevant, and it will work as long as you add the right drama bells around it. This was just a pretty egregious example of it.

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Between these problems, Fruits Basket has this aura of laziness around its none-core characters that does drag it down. Which is sad since I do actually like how it treats its core cast, even if it is stretched out over twice as many episodes as it needs. I am just guessing here, but beyond just “not caring” and doing it for the drama, I think it stems out of adapting the manga “faithfully”.

So Fruits Basket got an anime adaption in 2001, and the author (Natsuki Tayaka) haaaaated it. It was only twenty six episodes, a ~third of which got consumed just introducing the zodiac cast, so its plot had to be mixed around and truncated, and it was much more comedic and zany in tone. It was still very popular, so demand for a “better” adaptation of the full manga was high, which eventually happened in 2019. This time around Tayaka insisted on a high degree of control and faithfulness - I would bet it was essentially a “shot for shot” adaptation, and I have seen manga/anime comparison compilations to that effect.

The problem lies in how manga are made - they are almost never planned out start to finish. You pitch like a chapter, it gets picked up, and then its being published in tandem to its own production. That means that its pretty rare for the ending to be thought out, and the story figures itself out as it goes. Early manga Fruits Basket is pretty zany! Which means it plays fast and loose with its worldbuilding and its adult characters act silly most of the time. Once the high drama kicks in you realize that doesn’t work anymore, but you have already published it all months ago, no way to revise it now, so you just have to bite the bullet.

An anime adaptation would be a good time to clean that up! Its what Kare Kano did - a manga that starts as a cute highschool romcom and ends in sexual assault, for the anime they tried to create tonal consistency right from the start and change plot details around accordingly. But when the author, burned by a past studio, insists on Complete Accuracy...well then the anime has to bite the same bullets the manga did. And so you get Fruits Basket (2019), a show destined to never rise above its source material.

But hey, if Season 3 ends with Tohru just whipping out a gun, shooting Akito right between the eyes, and walking off into the sunset with a harem of zodiac hotties, then all will be forgiven.

#fruits basket #Fruits basket spoilers #Does a 2001 anime qualify as '90's anime discourse'?

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ivyuns · 4 years

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landing in my heart: secret

han jisung

genre: angst

word count: 2.6k

warnings: lost in north korea, violence, mentions of chopping a head off, military stuff, mentions of car accidents, weapons, mentions of ending life and disorders (at the end), grammer mistakes, if i missed anything, lmk :)

part two of landing in my heart

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2001

“y/n, choose your future!”

from that day, you always made the right choices. looking in front of you, you saw items which predicted your future by grabbing an item. instead of an item, you grabbed your fathers hand.

till that day on, you successfully opened your own fashion store. cutting the ribbon for your grand opening.

now that you heard jisung telling you to take the right path, you went to the other way. the night when jisung pulled you and hid you in his chest, you looked up in shock.

“oh my. i cant believe we met again”

“i thought you left”

you start flirting with jisung to get your way with him. smiling while jisung stares at you. ‘should i just kill her’ jisung thinks.

the following morning, you wake up and see yourself in the mirror. face full of marks and cuts. grabbing a cup of water and pour it into the bucket, you clean your face. “its okay, you’ll get through this yoon y/n”

as youre telling yourself to calm down in the bathroom, jisung makes you breakfast. “i-i dont know what you guys do but we usually give the host the first bite” you said, giving jisung a spoonful of the food, he stares at you.

“what wrong?” you asked. jisung sighs and crosses his arms. “are you concerned of whats in the food? because its poisonous?” putting the spoon back onto the food, you gave you. “im sorry if i offended you. but please do understand why im acting like this. wouldnt it be ridiculous for me to be trusting someone at this point?”

“hm, i guess youre right” lifting you head, you smiled. “see! i was correct-” “but you made an emergency landing at the DMZ while flying an unpowered aircraft on a windy day. right as the electric wires were working, you crossed it and came to a military housing area. ill sound crazy to believe someone like you”

“dont tell me youre suspecting me, thinking im a - spy. in fact i believe people are looking for me considered im famous down there” you paused, “one everyone knows im here, the south korean government, military authorites, and the UN wont stay still” jisung nods his head in agreement. “then, nobody should know youre here. i wont tell them”

jisung stands up and gathers your plate. hearing a knock, you look at jisung as he goes and looks who is here.

looking outside the gate, he sees hyunjin outside. “ah, captain han. i didnt know you went home early so i looked everywhere for you. so i knew you were home when i saw smoke from the chimney” hyunjin says and goes inside jisungs house without permission.

“oh and good news. about that south korean girl-” “listen she’s” “shes dead!” hyunjin laughs. “i know youre shocked too because i am too! there was an accident on the mountain and reporters said there was a young woman there” jisung shakes his head, “no thats not it hyung-” “aye, if im wrong then you can chop off my head” jisung nods his head and leads hyunjin back to the gate “wait let me use the bathroom real quick”

as both of the boys went to the entry way of the house, hyunjin takes off his shoes and talks about you. as he takes his shoes off, you went to lean on the door frame. hyunjin turns around and gets scared of seeing to woman he was talking about.

“how do you chop someone’s head off? ive never done it before” you spoke. with hyunjin’s mind going everywhere, he manages to speak to jisung. “c-captain han, whats going on here?” after realization, you realized he was the one who tried to shoot you. “y-you. it was you! you shoot the bullet at me!”

settling down, jisung rubs his temples as you tried to explain hyunjin that youre not a spy. “do you have trouble understanding or something?” “captain, do you have a shovel i can borrow?” you explain everything that had happened when you ran away, hyunjin gets scared and sits next to jisung.

moments later, another knock comes from jisung’s gates. opening the gate, he sees seungmin, felix and jeongin with food and drinks. “captain han! did you hear the news? the one with the young lady-” “thats not true” jisung cuts off felix.

“you must be jeongin” you called out. jeongin turns around and sees you. “yes, and who are you?” crossing your arms and leaning on the door frame, “i heard you might face a dishonored discharge. that means youll lose the job that you really need” you told him with a scared hyunjin next to you. “i-i thought she died!” jeongin screams and turns to the other two men next to him.

“and ah! youre felix! so tell me, which kdramas did you watch before leaving the post?” you pointed your finger at him. “stairway to heaven” felix answers. “ah thats a pretty old one. its the one with jiwoo and sangwoo right? im close to them, they live a few houses away from me” “is that true?!” felix smiles as seungmin tells him to stop.

telling everybody to come inside to talk, you demand them to take you back where you first landed in north korea. “im afraid we cant do that” jisung answers. “captain han, just let her be. let her get fried in the fences and say ‘so this is how the fences feels like’ if she’ll ever learn” hyunjin laughs out. giving a death glare at him, he stops laughing and puts on a straight face.

“basically, we cant go back to the post because we finished our job for two months and cant return there for a few months” jisung continues. “but you have a choice; i take you to the state security department. they may let you go home. or you stay here but heres a few rules. one, dont talk to us. and two, dont leave the house until we get you back home” jisung finishes. “my dad does a boat-to-boat. where a small boat goes to the international oceans and meets up with the bigger boats to another country” felix tells you.

nodding your head and agreeing with the second choice, the boys goes and makes you food since you were begging them to give you meat. after the food is done, you all eat as jisung steps back. “we must return to our post after this” jisung speaks out. “what? so i have to be alone now?” you exclaimed. “yah, do you just expect captain han to just stay here with you?” hyunjin jokes. “if you need anything thats urgent, press 8 on the cell phone and ill answer it in the outerpost”

instead of calling him for emergencies, you only called him, asking silly stuff. asking wheres the body wash, shampoo, and conditioner and wheres the candles, he responds with the bar of soap. you then call him how to take a bath since theres no modern showers inside his house. “you need to fill up the bucket with hot water. then take the tarp and hang it up with the clothes pin above the bucket. make sure to tuck the tarp under the bucket so theres no airflow. youll have your shower after that”

doing what jisung told you, you were surprised on how they lived. finally finishing, you went in the bucket after taking your clothes off. “ah this feels nice”

jisung, who was still in the office, got another phone call. “what is it now- ah master sergeant, whats the matter?” jisung answers to the sergeant. “its about the tomb raiders. they were killed in an accident on the mountain” jisung quickly hangs up and goes to the security state department and tell cheolgang.

he shows his military id to enter the place before the other military men opens the gate for jisung. as he goes to the room that cheolgang is in, he tells him what happened. “yes, i know what happen. but what can we do” cheolgang asks. “i believe there needs to be an investigation. what car did they crash into? was it on accident or on purpose? if it was on purpose, who was behind this? and why accidents like this keeps happening. so im asking if i can look into it” jisung says. cheolgang nods his head “go ahead. you should go to the headquaters in pyongyang tomorrow morning and get more information” he answers. jisung gets up and leaves.

the senior coloniel, who was next to cheolgang the whole time, asks cheolgang whats going to happen now. “dont worry about it, we hired somebody since hes responsible for a billion won scheme”

china.

minseok and his bodyguard enters the hotel where theyre supposed to meet someone. after finding the person, they talk about how minseok should be safe in north korea after passing through the other countries without being caught by sehyeong. minseok signs the contact and goes to his new home in north korea with extra protection.

back in north korea in the village, the kids were playing outside as you were still hidden in jisungs place. the mothers came out and gather their kids since it was dark and late and was now time for dinner. however, upil didnt leave until his dad showed up.

as manbok calls his son’s name, upil goes and hugs him and enters their house with upil’s favorite donut.

meanwhile in jisung’s house, you finished your bath and the lights go out. “whats going on? havent i had enough suprises today?”

the whole village had a blackout and you were scared. making your way to the telephone, you called jisung. only to be declined. you were hearing noises and you felt like you were going to be caught soon. closing the blinds, the noises were getting clearer.

grabbing the nearest item to hit the intruder, you were stopped as you saw jisungs face. tears threatened to spilled as your emotions came down are you. “why are you here” you said, lowering the item. “you said you needed a candle” jisung grabs the candle from the bag and gives it to you. “you said you needed it when you took a bath and when you sleep” “thats just a candle. i need a scented one” more tears spilled and jisung takes the item out of your hand.

“im sorry, you probably feel frustrated right now. but i just cant believe what im going through right now” sobs left your mouth as jisung guilty.

ranting to jisung about your problems back in south korea, you couldnt help but spill more tears. feeling frustrated at yourself back then, you felt bad for jisung since you were just crying in front of him. jisung puts his finger on the flame of the candle that was on. “there, i cant see you anymore” jisung reassures you that everything will be okay soon. he gets up and grabs his hat. “where are you going?” “i need to get on a train in the morning to pyongyang” he answers

“i dont know when ill be back so i might not see you when you leave. but my comrades will help you get on the boat in a few days. heres some things i bought that you needed” jisung says and hands you a bag and leaves the house. you open the door before he could leave.

“excuse me, but what is your name? i want to remember it to return the favor later” “you dont have to, there was no favor in the beginning. so its better to not remember it. and as i said before, dont tell anyone about this when you go back” nodding your head, jisung leaves the place.

going back inside, you open the bag and its full of the stuff you asked for earlier. looking at every product, you realize its from south korea. everything that you needed was in the bag, including undergarments and medicine for your cut.

jisung arrives pyongyang. hes then stopped for an investigation. jisung is led to a torture room to be questioned about the robbers. myeongseok enters the room and sees jisung being yelled at throught the glass window. he barges into the room and kicks the person who was asking jisung questions and aggravating him. “what are you doing? this is the directors son” myeongseok yells at the person, who is shocked.

myeogseok apolgizes to jisung and leads him somewhere to let jisung tell him what he needs to know.

the person who was just yelled at calls cheolgang and tells him that jisung is the directors son of general politics and gets angry.

later the night, jisung and myeongseok are talking about how jisung was to investigate into the car accident recently. “do you perhaps think this accidents was like your brothers?” jisung thinks to what myeongseok ask, and realizes the accident could be like his brothers. the same truck that ran into his brothers car and the others that the trucks ran into.

after company five visited you, they came back to the military zone to get some rest. they happened to see cheolgang leaving the place and quickly straightens up and salutes him. “fifth company, where are you guys coming from?” cheolgang asks. “from fixing the pump in out captains house sir” hyunjin replies. “ hes in pyongyang so good job”

“yes sir. may i ask where youre heading sir” seungmin asks. “lately were have lots of runaways so im going to run random house inspections today” “tonight sir?” hyunjin asks. cheolgang nods and felix starts hiccuping. “whats wrong with him?” “nothing sir. we missed what was in front of us, therefore the runaways must be in the military base. i believe that is a wise plan sir” hyunjin responds quickly. cheolgang nods and tells them to hurry inside and get some sleep.

they quickly go inside and hyunjin calls jisung as seungmin makes sure nobody is coming inside the room theyre in. “captain han, theyre doing random house inspections tonight. but we told the south korean woman not to answer any phone calls. so theyres no way to tell her” hyunjin tells jisung. jisung then hangs up and asks myeongseok for a favor.

jisung quickly drives back to the village as cheolgang arrives in front of jisungs house since is was the next house on the list. seeing the lights on, he doesnt believe that jisung is back from pyongyang.

looking through jisungs stuff, you look into a book that seems familiar. opening the book, you see an application form. “i swear i saw this face before” you were disturbed by your thoughts when you heard knocking. “captain han jisung! were here for house inspecting!” putting everything away, you hid in jisungs kimchi cellar, which was underground. cheolgang unlocks the gate and finds jisung as he sees the cellar’s blanket off of the door.

opening the door, the investigators finds you and clucks their guns. as youre forced to get off of jisungs property, everyones asking you questions as your hands are up in defense and silent. “it doesnt matter. once shes at the state security department, these muted people will talk” cheolgang says.

as a bright light flashes through, everyone stops and looks at the car in front of them. jisung stops the car and gets out to walk towards you and cheolgang. cheolgang suddenly aims his gun at you as tears fell.

“what are you doing to my fiancee?”

“what did you just say?”

“i would appreciate if you put the gun away from my fiancee”

additional ending:

location: switzerland

“its invalidation in our institute regulations, im sorry” the woman tells you after your request. “but why? i heard i can end my life here sure i have no physical pain, but i feel extraordinary pain in my mind. depression, panic disorder, eating disorder, insomnia, what all do i have to name? ” you questioned.

“we always recommend the sight seeing of switzerland to our visitors. most of our visitors change their minds after sight seeing. i dont know why you want to end it, but im sure youll be one of them”

after doing what the woman had told you, you went to visit a place where you can paraglide. amazed at how amazing paragliding looked, a guy stopped right next to you, admiring the view with you.

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