#Grading Code

[le-fruit-de-la-passion]

Ok, hear me out, Machine Herald Viktor x Reader AU with this line from Epic,,

Jayce: After everything you've done... how will you sleep at night?

Viktor: Next to my wife.

[sweetmapple]

I want what they have (I don’t but I do but I really don’t and shouldn’t but I absolutely do)

[dollya-robinprotector]

Worlds crossed! Gender bends meeting

A.k.a PCs and School LIs dress in Vietnamese student attires (modernized áo dài and áo tấc)

At this point, many have known I am Vietnamese, so I take the chance to finally do what I always had done when entering new fandom: MAKE CHARACTERS WEAR VIETNAMESE TRADITIONAL CLOTHES!!

I hope you guys can appreciate the beauty in our culture~🫶✨✨

[ryuusei-boi]

I love how Shinsuke started infodumping about dinosaurs and no one rolled their eyes or anything, there was no "funny" bit where someone interrupted him or teased him for being so passionate. they all just listened intently, smiling and complimenting him on being so knowledgeable. like I know they were about to travel to the past to meet dinosaurs and his knowledge would come in handy, but they're also just impressed and are listening happily bc he's their friend and that makes me so happy

[jalo-parker]

Grian 👍

[incorrectly-quoting-murderdrones]

Uzi: Dad, you love me a lot right?

Khan: Normally I’d say yes without hesitation but I think you’ve done something and it has gone horribly, horribly wrong.

[stargazingdustbunny]

My friend, who has only read the first httyd book, described it as "diary of a wimpy kid but with dragons".

I never read dairy of a wimpy kid, so I don't know how to feel about this.

[anto-pops]

One thing that I think is AMAZING about your writing (other than at a base level, the PROSE - like holy shit, dude, you must have eaten Austen books for breakfast as a kid) is the YEARNING? I literally went back to read your older (and newer) Sebastian works and like holy shit. I'm struck by how well you depict desire, and hunger, but also this kind of vulnerability?? with Sebastian. Like he's not just our fav morally grey horndog, but he's also so smitten and enamored with MC, and also in a way... kind of desperate? Intense, for sure. Desperate to keep her close, to have her be his. Ugh it's so good. Anyways I just wanted to send you a message about how damn GOOD you writing is. Thank you for feeding us <3

SWEET JESUS THANK YOU ???? I have no words for this beyond ‘I love you’ 😭🫶🏻

Honestly thank you for saying as much. I’ve reread some of my older fics over the past few months and I can see how my writing style has changed. It’s still largely the same as it was, but I think I’ve grown more comfortable leaving certain things unspoken so they can be interpreted by the reader in other ways. Sebastian will always be a character I hold close to my heart if only because something about him just makes writing so easy and fun for me. No clue if that makes sense but I’m THRILLED to hear your opinion, so really truly thank you so much !! 💕💕

[theygender]

Going to college as a nontraditional student with an office job is kinda funny bc now when a professor messes things up in a way that fucks me over instead of being like "omg this authority figure is so unfair 😭" I'm approaching it more with the vibe of like "if Karen from Accounting doesn't fix this mistake that's hindering my work after my third passive aggressive email I'm going to CC her boss"

[kuroarimiyazaki]

Mustard and Ketchup

[aster-saturn]

What do my comfort characters/kins have in common?

(Hint: 3 of them got their shows canceled before their 3rd season)

[eomcheong-keun-megi]

I gasped ok

[cerakuro]

WHAT the HECK?!!?!! edo phoenix in STARDEW VALLEY???

portrait done to kind of mimic gigi’s portraits since those are the only ones i use when i’m playing stardew LOL

[live-with-love]

Koji Shimazu and the Osaka Continental - A Colour Theory

This is meant to be a continuation of the previous analysis I've done on the colour grading/lighting choices for some of the characters in the John Wick movie series, but I've got to dedicate a separate post for Koji Shimazu himself (and the entire Osaka act in general).

Before I go into it though, I would like to recommend you to first check out @evren-sadwrn's analysis [1, 2] on the Marquis de Gramont, John and Helen Wick as well as @bluelolblue's analysis [1, 2] on Santino and John.

Tagging @thewhumpcaretaker, @tobytheeggo, @babayagaiscomingforya and of course @saengak the number one Koji fan on Wickblr <3.

PART I: BLUE/RED

When you see the opening shots of the Osaka Continental and Koji's scenes before the raid, the entire hotel was lit by blue and red lights. I think this is very important to note because in the post where I talked about Akira and John, Akira was bathed blue lights in her introduction while John was bathed in red lights in his first scene in Osaka. Add on the fact that Koji's outift has both red and blue colours on it, the movie is already subtly telling us that Koji's loyalty lies in both Akira and John.

I think this just adds another layer to the tragedy that is the whole Osaka sequence. The blue/red lights may allude to one thing about Koji's character but may mean different things for Akira and John's character respectively. Plucking out from @evren-sadwrn's tags:

For Akira, the blue represents the normalcy of her life before John Wick's red showed up and began symbolising her delving into the path of vengeance and violence, like John himself. However for John, those blue/red lights are just neon lights to him, the Baba Yaga persona on full display as he was beginning to realise the consequences of his rebellion, something which costed his friend's life and inevitably produced another John Wick in Akira.

PART II: YELLOW

Now, there are two scenes in the Osaka act that's bathed in yellow lights, the first one being Akira telling Koji about the news of the New York Continental being blown up, and the second being Koji confronting Chidi and the Myrmidons, which could only lead us to one conclusion.

I believe the yellow neon, in this context, represents the Marquis de Gramont and the looming threat he posed to the very existence of the Osaka Continental.

And when you mix blue and red respectively with yellow, well, this leads us directly to the next part of this analysis.

PART III: GREEN/ORANGE

The Osaka raid started, and the hotel lights changed to green and orange. (BLUE + YELLOW = GREEN, RED + YELLOW = ORANGE)

I know that people have extrapolated that the green not so subtly symbolises the start of the highly-anticipated action that is expected from a John Wick movie, like how the green light of a traffic light means 'go', but I want to extrapolate more meaning from this choice of lighting.

Green is a distortion of the colour blue, and is the opposite of red based on the colour wheel. Going by what we have established above being Akira=blue and John=red, green could imply Koji's choice distorting Akira's desire to keep the peace of their hotel in favour of protecting John and letting him go off alive.

In a similar way, orange is the distortion of red and the opposite of blue. Orange could possibly mean that Koji's choice (and his death) inevitably turned his daughter closer towards a path of vengeance and violence, the path John Wick had taken that Koji himself chastised him for during their meeting on the rooftop.

PART IV: THE EXCEPTIONS

The locations that didn't turn to green and orange lights in the Osaka Continental is the kitchen and the modern art gallery, both of which stayed blue (and yellow in the case of the kitchen), and that's because none of them featured Koji. Instead, the focus of the these two scenes are given to another character: Caine.

The yellow in the kitchen scene could easily represent Caine being used as the Marquis' weapon during the Osaka siege. For John, we know that neon lights, no matter the color, represent his Baba Yaga side. For Caine, however, what does the colour blue mean to his character in this context, within the Osaka act?

During Caine's introduction, more precisely, in the only scene in the movie where Mia appeared in (except for the post-credit scene), the location where they filmed had a clear blue sky. In trying to protect Mia, Caine was in a way also trying to protect Akira too. This is especially clear with the way Caine tried to convince Koji countless times to surrender John. Unfortunately, Koji cared for Akira and John equally and was willing to sacrifice his life to protect both of them.

And because he killed her father, Caine ironically became the person Akira held so much anger against from this whole event that happened to her. He fulfilled Koji's wish of letting John escape (hence the green colour), and he was the push that drove Akira to seek revenge (hence the orange colour). Caine was even self-aware of this since he told Akira that he would be waiting for her.

This is what makes the Koji vs Caine duel so fucking tragic and the post-credit scene even more heartbreaking.

[c17rus]

I love it when i've spent days trying every troubleshoot for a program up in to including granting access to my first born yet it refuses to work preventing me from doing any work for a project interview due in 10h (which I will be sleeping through) and has left me with no choice but the most obvious conclusion

This bitch haunted