#I’m personally more partial to the post 5 doctors console

[buildoblivionthenwewilltalk]

we absolutely do not talk enough about how gorgeous the tardis is at the start of enlightenment

[thedoctornumber11]

Munday post

I figured maybe this week I’d do a different type of Munday.  Most of my long time roleplay partners already know me quite a bit and I also try to introduce myself to newer partners as well, however I figured this could be a good chance for everyone to really get to know me.  I’m including everything under a read more not because long post and also because I know not everyone likes seeing this type of thing.  It’s just a bunch of random facts about me and my favorite things along with a munday pic under the cut.  I didn’t want to just throw out a munday picture like most would do.  I’ve done that plenty of times before and there’s nothing wrong with it, I just felt like doing something a bit more unique and different this time that might really give people a chance to get to know me :D

So long post under the cut.

So, first off, my name is Derek.  I’m the mun.  I just recently turned 30 and I’m from Indiana.  I work in a preschool, essentially as a glorified baby sitter.  I help the teachers get their breaks.  

I’ve been interacting on here since November of 2013 and I’ve had this exact blog with this exact URL the entire time.  I wanted something really generic and not just a quote or something like that.  I first tried TheEleventhDoctor, but obviously that was taken so this ended up being what I went with.  As for the theme, it too was made a VERY long time ago.  The TARDIS theme with the opening doors on the TARDIS actually used to be quite popular when I first started interacting on here, particularly with the Doctor Who RP fandom.  Although I’m the only one I see with it these days, if you go looking for older Doctor Who blogs that have gone inactive you are actually likely to find a few other blogs with it.  As for the background picture, I found that one myself except for the part with Matt Smith/The Eleventh Doctor edited on.  That part was done by someone I used to interact with who just surprised me with it one day and unfortunately isn’t on Tumblr anymore :(  Having been on this platform for so long I’ve obviously seen a lot of blogs come and go and I miss every single last one of them :(  However I also enjoy everyone I currently interact with and would recommend almost any of them.  Seriously, if anyone is looking for new people to interact with, let me know you are looking for people and what fandoms you enjoy and I can probably recommend a few blogs!

Outside of Tumblr RP, I enjoy video games, yugioh, reading comics, general super hero related stuff, watching movies, playing Pokemon Go (I help run the local PoGo community) general board games, watching my shows, figure collecting, and cosplay, most of which I’m sure is stuff many of you also enjoy.  My fandoms include Doctor Who (obviously), DC, Star Wars, The Legend of Korra/ATLA (I’m one of the few that likes LoK more than ATLA), Marvel, Star Trek, Firefly, Power Rangers, The Walking Dead, Yugioh, Pokemon, Sherlock, general Nintendo fandom, Digimon and Harry Potter.

Here’s a few things about me in list form.

My favorite musician is Weird Al Yankovic.  

My favorite book is Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robbison.  As someone who’s been diagnosed with aspergers syndrome myself, this book really spoke to me in my original read through and since then I’ve purchased it multiple times.  I own at least three or four different copies of this book, partially because I kept loaning it out to people.

My favorite book series is the Harry Potter series.  Don’t ask me for a favorite book in the series, I love them all about equally.  

As for comics, right now my favorite thing I’m reading is the Power Rangers series that Boom is putting out.  Some of my favorites of all time include Power Ranger Soul of the Dragon, the Star Trek TNG/Doctor Who crossover, the Power Rangers/Justice League Crossover, the original Spider-Gwen series, Poison Ivy Cycle of Life and Death, The Dark Knight Returns (I know anything Frank Miller related is a bit controversial but I enjoy it for what it is) and Batman: Hush.

Favorite movies include UHF, Scott Pilgrim VS the World, Captain America The Winter Soldier, Captain America the First Avenger, Avengers End Game, the Justice League movie, anything and everything DC animated, anything and everything Spider-Man related (yes, I even like Spider-Man 3 although it wasn’t as good as the others), anything Star Wars related although I’d say Force Awakens is my favorite one, the 2017 Power Rangers movie, Serenity, The Lego movie and it’s sequel, Yugioh Bonds Beyond Time, Mystery Men, Galaxy Quest, all the Star Trek movies, the corny 90′s Mario movie, the Doctor Who movie, and Detective Pikachu.  Really, any of the Marvel and DC movies could probably make this list as well, I’m not super picky when it comes to movies.

Favorite TV shows is something I am a bit pickier about.  Doctor Who is obviously on the list, and I’ve watched and enjoyed most of the Marvel and DC live action stuff although I have a huge preference for the arrowverse and 70′s Wonder Woman.  Animated stuff tends to vary but a lot of the older stuff from the early and mid 90′s seems to be best for that.  Power Rangers is obviously on the list as well, along with The Walking Dead, Digimon, Avatar the Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Sherlock, Yugioh, Firefly, and off the top of my head that’s about it.  Everyone always assumes I’m huge into anime as well, but I’m not actually that into it.  Just not my thing.

Now video games has potential to be my longest list as it’s easily my favorite medium of story telling due to the interactivity.  First off, Nintendo and Playstation are my general consoles of choice.  Nothing against Xbox, I have a lot of respect for the brand but I can’t really afford to have three consoles (even though I wish I could) and Nintendo and Sony have more offerings for me personally.  I also do dabble on PC a bit, but I don’t really have a high end PC and it’s mostly just for Sims.  That being said, my favorite games and game series include Watch_Dogs, The Sims, Mario (mostly the “main series,” 3D games and 2D platformers but I do enjoy some of the off series stuff like Mario Kart and Mario Party as well) , Pokemon, Super Smash Brothers, The Force Unleashed series, Injustice, most of the Spider-Man games, The Last of Us, Tomb Raider, most of the Batman games, Wario Ware, The Last of Us (still haven’t played the sequel yet.  Waiting to get it for cheap after seeing reviews), Days Gone, Control, Horizon Zero Dawn, No Man’s Sky, 51 Worldwide Classics for Switch, No Man’s Sky, the Tony Hawk Games (still haven’t played the new one yet), Time Splitters, The Movies, Hulk Ultimate Destruction, Zombies Ate My Neighbhors, Kirby, The Legend of Korra game (the 3d one, not the really bad one for 3DS), Donkey Kong, Street Fighter 2, Punch Out, Metal Gear Solid 5 the Phantom Pain, Sonic Heroes, and the list could go on and on.

My favorite drink is root beer or chocolate milkshakes if that counts

My favorite alcoholic drink is probably just a basic screwdriver tbh

My favorite food is Cheeseburgers, although Chicken Pot Pie is also a top contender tbh

My favorite color is green

My favorite Doctor is Eleventh obviously, but Thirteen, Two and Twelve are tied for second

Favorite companions are Amy, River (if she counts), and Donna

Favorite New Who episode is The Eleventh Hour

Favorite Classic Who story is Genesis of the Daleks

Since I’ve mentioned super heroes a lot, my favorites are Batman, Wonder Woman and Spider-Man, although Supergirl, Batgirl, Captain America, Scarlet Witch and Black Widow are also pretty high on the list.

Favorite game in the Pokemon series is X and Y

Dragonite is my favorite Pokemon

Favorite 3D Mario game is Odyssey although Sunshine would be next up on the list.

This is my only Tumblr RP blog.  I also have an ask meme blog and I used to have a personal but I haven’t logged onto it in years.

I’m on discord and I do add people from Tumblr on there, but I mostly only use it for Pokemon Go tbh

I spend every Wednesday and Sunday at the local comic book shop playing Yugioh

For anyone wondering in relation to that last fact, my current competitive deck Barrier Stun.  Some of my favorite casual decks that I play or have played in the past are Lightsworn, Blue-Eyes, E-Heroes, Greed, Sacred Beasts, Penguins and Six Samurai.

In the last decade I’ve moved about 3 times

I own pets!  I have one dog and one cat currently, but a few years back when we lived in a more country like setting, we owned 7 cats and 2 dogs at maximum.  Most of them died of old age over the last few years.

Before my current job I used to work at Walmart.  Long time followers of the blog may remember that I hated it there.

I don’t have a whole lot of writing experience outside of Tumblr tbh.  While I do enjoy writing on here, it’s the interactions itself that makes it fun for me and while I’ve tried to write a few things myself, it’s just not the same as roleplay.

Anyway, I just sort of wanted to do something different for munday besides just posting pictures of myself so I hope anyone who read this enjoyed it.  Here’s a pic of the mun to go with it.

[scyllua]

The 200th chapter of Golden Kamuy has been released this week; being the last chapter to be compiled in the upcoming vol.20 and following author Noda's narrative pacing, it also closes the current miniarc. Apart from chap.200 being a serialization milestone for the manga, this chapter was highly anticipated by many fans because of its probable resolutions... even though at least part of it had already been guessed by fans (I'm specifically referring to the Japanese fandom, since that's the one I follow). In any case, the chapter's highlights would be as follows:

1. It's not stated outright, but the hints given should be enough as to figure out who was behind Koito's kidnapping. The Japanese fandom had even correctly identified the masked kidnappers, ie. who White Hat and Black Hat were. I must confess I got their identities the other way round. 2. Koito Heiji (otherwise referred to, in justly earned respect and awe, as Koito Papa by the Japanese fandom), adding to all the badassery he boasted in the previous chapter, manages to pay a homage to Freddy Mercury in the middle of a rescue mission. 3. Tsurumi, on the other hand, makes a very Tsurumi-like entrance, including the added effects of back lighting and several undone buttons on his inner shirt - though the lighting was mostly a Koito's Vision filter. I couldn't say about the buttons for sure, though he does have them done in the previous panels. 4. I was correct in my theory, more or less. As That One Character We Were Eagerly Expecting To Know The Fate Of (you know who he is) had no current active role in the plot and his presence was a literal obstacle for it to progress, I'd assumed Noda had one viable option for him: to make him leave the current manga events, either by having him disappear/escape/flee (...he's done it in the past...), or by killing him. And, well, it turns out that he [beep beep]... 5. SUGIMOTO HAS TERRIBLE AIMING. I've always thought so and this chapter serves to further prove my point. No wonder he usually resorts to strike (or pierce, if the bayonet is affixed) with his rifle rather than to actually shoot.

This chapter is mostly action-driven and no new piece of information for the plot is given (save for those that can be deduced... and the resolution, of course), so this post will mainly feature my fan comments. With my standard warnings about possible mistakes and mistranslations applying to the whole post, of course.

Heiji and Tsurumi make it to the Goryoukaku on foot and then go their separate ways to enter the building Koito is being held in. Upon entering in perhaps the least subtle way to carry a rescue, Heiji is knocked unconscious by an unseen attacker. The other two, the ones in the white and black hats, flee the place, and Tsurumi finds Koito. Father and son reunited, Tsurumi will later explain that he killed one of the kidnapper in his way there, and the other two just then, two unknown but presumably Russian men. Some not-at-all-suspicious-but-very-familiar soldiers then clean up the place... Fast forwarding, Koito is shown to have joined the army instead of the Navy, as he'd first intended because of his father and late brother. Back to the present, Ogata flees the place on a horse as Sugimoto silently asks him to get well and come back... so he can kill him then.

Jumping onto the action and the fan comments...

If the previous chapter was Fast & Furious: Drift in Hakodate, I was looking forward chap.200 to being Lethal Weapon 1902, 1902 being a reference to the year the story takes place and not any numbering, of course. Koito Sr. and Tsurumi were a badass (military) duo, after all... but there's practically no further action involving the two of them. I was just wondering why Heiji didn't let go of the tricycle's handle... until he makes it to the Goryoukaku and intends to rescue his son in the least subtle way possibly devised for such a goal:

With a Freddy Mercury homage and yelling his son's name. I must admit it's a very stylish appearance, though. ...Unfortunately, Heiji is knocked unconscious by an unseen attacker, but given that yell must have been heard across the fort (I'm fan-assuming here Koito got his lungs and vocal chords from his father), the boy realized his presence in the place. His two kidnappers, a bit of very suspicious gun-action involved first, flee the place, but one of them has the time to sort of bid him farewell in a particular way...

VERY FAN COMMENT HERE! In the previous chapter, when Koito is led to the telephone so he can talk to his father, the Man in the White Hat reaches to him and places a hand on his back. He might have just been intending to lead him away, but the gesture does seem even friendly, as though he's trying to console the boy. That was why I assumed that was Tsukishima, who in spite of his seriousness, is a very empathetic person... though it didn't sit well with me that Koito could have broken his nose in that occasion. It turns out (IMPLICITLY STATED, OF COURSE) it was Ogata, so I can't but be a bit amused that, well, Koito must have flattened his nose at the very least.

Back to the chapter, this is the part when Tsurumi decides to make HIS appearance...

And I should color that panel for RavenTears with at least some use and abuse of sparkles and probably a rose undertone (because of the Koito's Vision filter, I mean). And, by the way... have you noticed how Tsurumi has several buttons of his shirt undone? If you check the previous panels featuring him, he seems to have all of them properly done under his torn coat. Why, yes, I'm going to fan-assume he just took his time to undo a few buttons and run a few laps in order to appear sweaty just before making that entrance. Coldly calculated to the last detail. Including what his best angle could be for the occasion. We can expect nothing less of him.

A little skip here. Father and son reunite and we're shown the bodies of the dead kidnappers, the men in the white and black hats. Quite conveniently, Tsurumi explains he killed one of the kidnappers in their way to the Goryoukaku... in a very clean shooting for the standards of the bloodshed fighting scenes of this manga, may I add, with the alleged accomplice taking his time to perform a very histrionic scene of him falling from his horse. Oh yes, and let us not forget that Tsurumi was the one who pointed out to Heiji -and the readers, by extension- the man was one of the accomplices and that he must be trying to reach the fort to alert the others, blah blah, all the while the apparently unarmed man did nothing to actually hinder them in any way. Hmm. There's also a passage with Koito and Tsurumi talking about the anpan, the sweet the latter gave the boy in their first meeting. It's explained it was part of the food served for a ceremony held for the 25th Regiment (remember the Goryoukaku served as a military training grounds), and someone... must have just forgotten the anpan in the place. Well, I tend to suspect Tsurumi as a principle in this manga, but I must also say the anpan being in the place does seem to be a coincidence. A coincidence plot-wise, but included in the plot so that fans could speculate as to the identity of the kidnappers (or the mastermind behind them), in any case. I've seen Japanese fans wondering about the meaning of the anpan, but I personally think it has no purpose other than to hint at Tsurumi, at least as far as the plot has gone up to this point.

And now in the chapter! And because the dead bodies of the kidnappers must be taken care of! A small group of the less suspicious soldiers in the vicinity takes care of the clean-up!

That's it. No words needed. Partially because there's no text in the above panels, of course... but if anyone can think of a more subjective panel (speaking of the one with Tsurumi in the front and the rest of this men in the background), please let me know! Oh, and do note that Ogata seems to have some abrasions or minor wounds on the face. I wasn't expecting Kikuta to have been part of the ruse, but the mastermind aside, there indeed seems to have been at least 3 people involved: a) Three men ambush and kidnap Koito in chap.198. b) While the men in the white and black hats kept Koito in the Goryoukaku, there was the rider who wins the Award to Best Fall From Horseback After Being Shot in chap.199. Let's assume the latter already planned he wouldn't make it to the fort after intercepting Tsurumi and Heiji... c) So the mastermind would be in charge to knock down Heiji upon his arrival at the fort. Quite conveniently and even more suspiciously (two adverbs I tend to use too much when talking about Tsurumi), Heiji's assailant isn't shown. The above about who Heiji's assailant was is my speculation only, of course. When I was going over the previous chapters, though, it did add up that the whole ruse could have been carried out by three people only at the same time if the correct situations took place.

And now, in another skip all the way to Asahikawa... The Stairs of Fate. Well, not really. Koito joins the army instead of the Navy, and in the day he presents before Tsurumi with his father, he crosses paths with a certain someone in the stairs. My sister and I dub it the Stairs of Fate because the scene reminds us of Yuusaku's first meeting with Ogata, but of course, nothing seems to indicate it's the same staircase (...though I haven't compared the scenes so closely, either...) Fateful encounters in staircases and instant disliking on second meetings, I suppose.

Back to the present, or more specifically, to tense situations between life and death that took place in the closing years of the Meiji Era and featured a psychotic one-eyed sniper and a young swordsman from Satsuma... Upon hearing Shiraishi and Tanigaki in the vicinity of the hospital room he's still in, Ogata literally kicks Koito in the face, threatens the doctor and nurse to keep quiet, and makes his swift exit from the current plotline, or so I'm assuming.

And here's the reason why I'm complaining about Sugimoto's awful aiming: he intends to shoot the horse (which, as you can see, it's way larger and theoretically, an easier target), but he misses and almost hits Ogata instead.

Meaning, if Sugimoto went for Ogata's head instead, he could have shot the horse...? In any case, and upon studying the scene more carefully, I suppose there's always room to speculate whether Sugimoto doesn't change his mind at the last moment and actually tries to shoot Ogata. The panels don't suggest it, at least not to me, but as I wrote... we can always speculate. And lastly on that regard: Sugimoto is a formidable hand-to-hand fighter, but for the sake of this manga, I'm hoping he keeps away from high precision guns and resorts to pummel his opponents to a pulp, as at the very least he never seems to miss his targets with that approach.

This is the fourth Ogata's "HaHa!" scoffing moment I remember, though I haven't thoroughly checked the manga and might be missing on a few. ...Sugimoto's last line (thought, in fact) literally says, get well and come back because I'll kill you. The idea behind the line would be, "recover and come back to kill you", if I'm being clear enough about the meaning I think this somewhat poetic death promise entails. The caption (which is featured in the chapter as it's published in the Young Jump magazine, but removed in the compiled volume) is 殺意と決意の約束, lit. "a promise (full) of killing intent and determination"... with the detail that the reading given for 約束 (yakusoku) is the English word "engage". Please note that the main meaning for 約束 is "promise", but it can also refer to any kind of such a pact or arrangement... a date or an engagement included, depending on the context. It's also a pretty common word in Japanese, hence there's no actual need to add its reading in a seinen manga... unless, of course, the given reading of "engage" has been done deliberately because, well, it's Sugimoto and Ogata.

Indeed, I think the added reading of the term 約束 as "engage" would be deliberate for the sake of the fans, but I won't dwell that much in the canon when I can add more fan comments instead.

As soon as I read the Golden Kamuy weekly chapter, I send a lengthy summary + many more fan comments + any speculative theory I might have to RavenTears. We both thought it was very likely Ogata could die by the end of this volume precisely, or otherwise (if Noda felt like building up the arc) in the next: apart from being fan-mentally prepared to accept the fact, we also came up with our scenarios as to how these chapters could unfold. And I must say that, even though this arc has given us no dead cat (not yet, at least) and thus, we were wrong in our assumptions... RavenTears did describe one scene exactly as it eventually happened in the manga.

...The above WhatsApp chat screenshot doesn't have to do with that scene, though, and it's been resized so the text can't be read. I didn't think you'd be interested in knowing how much I can swear when writing in Spanish about GK, after all. Instead, we were discussing as to how the above scene of Sugimoto silently telling Ogata to come back (to kill him) would become another of the key moments for this pairing in the Japanese fandoms... as a favorite scene by Japanese fans of this pairing didn't make it to the anime when that whole manga arc was omitted from the second season (Hint! "I don't particularly like you either, Sugimoto."). I'd render Sugimoto's line as, "recover and come back to me... so I can kill you," but given my limited inspiration in this regard (because of my limited Japanese and the pairing itself, which I'm not actually a fan of), I asked RavenTears for her version. She said, "go, get well, and come back to me [sparkle emoticon]" but as you can see, she didn't include the last "kill" part. My next message, as seen in the screenshot, ends with a [heart emoticon] because I then added something in the lines of, "(come back to me) so I can fxxking beat you to a pulp, make you bleed, tear you apart with my teeth and suck off... your other eye". That'd be more or less how I've come to think of their canon interaction, thus I can't deny that I also find said relationship (in the canon manga) to be oddly sexual in spite of the violence involved.

I have many more things to write about this chapter, my fan comments and speculations (and how RavenTear's made a lot of sense to me and are pretty interesting to take into consideration, at any rate), but since this post has gotten rather long already, I should be leaving all of them for another entry.