nalualoha

[bts-trash-blog]

Hi, I’ve been trying to find this series & think it was on ur blog idk if i have the wrong blog or maybe you’ve deleted it ? but it was like the mc x jikook & I think jikook were hybrids & first it was her and jimin and then jungkook joins them & she works at this shelter/help facility ?? Jungkook was initially in the facility & then he goes to stay with them & I remember jimin was very subby & mc gave mommy vibes

Hi yes that’s me:] it was called Humanity and I deleted the series a while back and sometimes last year I started to edit and revamp it-but I hit a huge creative block on like my life lol so I haven’t been writing till recently-yay🎉- so hopefully sometimes this year it will be back!

[hypexion]

Death in Heaven is the big finale of Series Eight, which is why it puts the main plotline on hold for half the episode for no good reason. Then it finally gets round to bludgeoning you with the series’ “theme“, and then ends.

When we left the Doctor, he was aghast at finding out that the Master was back, as Missy. Also Clara was about to Get Got by Cybermen. In true Doctor Who style, the first cliffhanger is completely disolved by having UNIT show up and abduct everyone. Then they make the Doctor be the President of Earth, which is actually a really stupid and extraneous plot detail. You could excise the entire plane ride and the only change would be that Osgood doesn’t die. Hooray for padding! Also would all nations agree to put a space alien in charge during an alien invasion? Our survey says no.

While the Doctor is jetting around and being ineffectual, Clara decides to pretend to be the Doctor to not die. She pretends so hard that the title sequence changes! I don’t know why, given that the audience knows that Clara Oswald does exist, and is an actual real person with a true real backstory. It was a whole thing last series. This act also goes nowhere, as Clara fails to achieve anything beyond “staying alive“, and is then abducted by Cyber-Danny. Dark Water had a lot of talking, but at least was advancing the plot. Death in Heaven, on the other hand, spends a lot of time not getting to the point. So much so that it’s longer than a normal episode.

Once again, it falls to the Mistress to actually achieve things. And by “achieve things“ I mean “trim down the cast”. Although contrary to her claims of being “bananas“, Missy’s plan and reasons for killing people are actually quite concrete. Osgood doesn’t die because Missy felt like a spot of murder - Osgood dies because Missy is jealous. It’s the same reason Kate Steward gets dropped out of a plane and why Missy wants to kill Clara. Anyone who gets between Missy and the Doctor dies, because the Mistress has a questionable idea of what friendship is. In fact, her whole plan is to give the Doctor an army as a gift, and threaten to kill everyone to make sure he accepts.

Really, Missy is doing a lot of work trying to tie together the disparate themes of Series Eight into something coherent. She wants the Doctor to choose a friend, uses an army as a tool in that choice, and has a Big Mistress Speech about how only “good men” need armies. It’s a neat trap, since there are plently of times when the Doctor absolutely would have accepted. However it turns out that the Twelfth Doctor’s constant angsting about whether constantly saving lives or not makes you a good man is useful for something, and he refuses. So Missy kills everyone.

No, wait, that doesn’t happen. Danny is still here. Rather than confronting the horrific state of technological undeath he’s been forced into, Death in Heaven instead uses Danny as fix-it button. This isn’t really a Cybermen episode, it turns out, they’re just here to give a recongnisable face to Missy’s army. Apparently, inhibiting Danny’s emotions doesn’t cause him to become part of the Cybercollective, implying he has an equally hardcore devotion to something as Yvonne Hartman did to Torchwood, which we all know he doesn’t. He rattles off some big speech about the promise of a soldier, then self-destructs. The world is saved because Danny did a child killing. Yaaaaay.

If Danny’s backstory had actually been relevant to the theme, this might have worked. But no, he’s still complaining that the Doctor... wants to save the world? How terrible that the Doctor refuses to removal the essential essence of humanity from Danny, even when it would help to save the world. The Doctor gives Clara and Danny exactly what they asked for, and Danny has the audacity to complain that the Doctor do it himself. The Doctor, who was willing to destroy his own people with his own hands to stop the Time War, knowing full well the consequences of such an action. Meanwhile Danny has apparently decided to shift the blame for his negilence onto the command structure of the army. Our “hero“, everyone.

But it doesn’t stop there! Once the Cyber-army is Cyber-defeated, Clara decides it’s Missy’s time to die. The Doctor, not wanting Clara to do a murder, commits to killing his oldest friend and enemy in order to save one person’s soul. Will he do it? Can he do it? Lol it doesn’t matter the Cyber-Brigadier blasts her. Because it wouldn’t be Doctor Who without the moral cop-out, now would it? The Doctor salutes him for taking the difficult decision out of his hands, and then the Cyber-Brig flies away, never to be seen again. Such writing, truly unparalleled.

Death in Heaven ends with everyone being miserible. The Doctor tells Clara he found Gallifrey, but he didn’t. Clara tells the Doctor that Danny escaped from the Nethersphere, but instead a child came out. Thus, the tragedy of errors occurs, and Clara leaves Doctor Who dejected and defeated. So Father Christmas himself intereupts the end credits to say that it isn’t actully over, and that it can’t end this way.

Honestly, Death in Heaven is about ten minutes of a good episode buried in filler, misery and the end of Danny Pink. But is it a good ending? Does it wrap up the themes of Series Eight? Not particularly. Sure, the Doctor realises he’s an old guy in his Blue Box, but that’s not news to the audience. Lots of pointless things happened, and it’s just not that statisfying.

[saltypepperspice]

Pokemon Sword and Shield Review (Rant if I'm being honest with myself)

This is the Pokemon game that finally broke me. The one where I began to realize that pokemon is on a steady stream of "do the same fucking thing. It doesn't matter. They will consume the product". That's not to say I didn't enjoy the game. I had fun. But it just feels like I've seen it all before, and even as they have tried to mix it up, they just do the same thing, which will bring me into my first major issue with these games

Dynamaxing. I remember right before I got the game I asked my friend what it did in combat, and all he said to me was "it's basically just mega evolution and z moves". He was right and it's really stupid. Dynamaxing is such a lazy mechanic because it's just what they did the last 2 generations, and they market it as one of the big changes that was going to revolutionize the way we think about the game. It wasn't.

The wild areas were cool. For 5 minutes until all I realized there was to do was to camp (which gives you meh xp), grind dynamax fights (which grows boring after like 2) and lose track of where you are because god damn it, theres a sandstorm. In the middle of a fucking grass field.

My main issue with pokemon is it's lack of new mechanics or gameplay styles to excite, it feels like they won't spend a lot of time trying to create a game so unique from the last that it makes it feel like a whole new experience with the series we love. I'm gonna use my favorite game as an example. Team Fortress 2. If you look at Team Fortress Classic, it looks almost like a spin-off for Counter Strike. But then you look at Team Fortress 2 and now it looks completely different. Style-wise and gameplay-wise, and it's because the game stands so unique from the competition that it's fanbase has carried on so long, pushing the limits of all the techniques. But pokemon is just the same thing day in and day out.

Not to mention, for a game that was 20 more dollars then Ultra Sun, it took me 10 less hours to beat (in comparison to a play through of Ultra Sun where I also knew how to do everything already, going from arra to area quickly) and had a lot less challenge. Ultra sun didn't have much but it did have a few moments where I needed to actully think if I was gonna win the battle. Shield had that once for me. I only even got close to a loss once, and that was post game too. Whenever the gym leaders dynamaxed they did these animations that made it feel like the next part of the battle was going to get really hard. But then it didn't.

Also fuck Bede. The guy starts off with an ego and ends with an ego. My friend told me he had a good redemption ark, but.. like no. He destroys a historic monument, loses permission to do gym battles, but then the fairy gym leader yeets that chance of an actual redemption ark, by having him disappear for most of the game, so he can reflect on his actions, and he just becomes a gym leader, who still had an ego.

Team Yell sucks (like, the weren't even evil or interesting. At least Team Skull actully has a redemption arc, and when they are evil, they are evil. They may not be good at it, but their trying, and I actully got some laughs from the way these characters acted as they went for a stereotypical gangster vibe, which worked. Team Yell honestly feels like there suppose to represent the bad side of the pokemon fandom, always shouting when someone questions whether the games are stagnating.

The story is saved for like the last 5 minutes of the game, and then the game gets stupidly slow, and it kills the pacing, once you become champion, you might as well call it a game and shelf it. I've only picked it up once or twice again, and that's because my friend wanted a battle, and then I grinded raid battles with him for a little bit.

Reasons why I think pokemon is going downhill from here.

1. National Dex controversy

2. Shorter game for more money

3. The animation is fucking shit. See the legendary dogs for example

4. This game is fucking easier then Lego Star Wars (at least I had to think in Lego Star Wars)

5. Very little puzzles, which are needed in these kind of games to cause some excitement.

5. New mechanics are just the same things but just repackaged

6. Why is it that none of the cities do anything to excite? That was the best thing all the way in pokemon black, just how memorable and extremely different all the locations were.

7. The music was alright, I still think Unova has the best beats, I've even heard some gen 1'rs say Black and White has some of their favorites. I remember the main battle theme and that's all. I heard the one Toby Fox did, and all I could think was "Yea sounds like something he would make"... and yes that is a good thing

8. I thought that this game was gonna be kinda of BOTW, with a big open world, one big free area and the cities were just attacked to them. But no. What we got instead kinda sucks.

8. I like gen 7, but it was hand holdy. But in gen 8, it's so linear it doesn't need to do so.

9. Pokemon is a franchise that completely relies on us to act like mindless drones consuming the product.

Pikachu has mastered capatalism, and he's gonna watch the world burn now.

Look. All pokemon really needs to do is to switch it up. They did a pretty good job of that in gen 7, what with totem challenges and the ultra beasts. It did a lot more to excite. So with that, heres a list of how I rate the pokemon games I have played. Best to worst (note my personal bias of being a Unova stan. Take that one with a grain of salt) also if I I had played several from one generation I'm gonna only name the ones I played.

1. Pokemon Black

2. Pokemon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon

3. Pokemon Gold

4. Pokemon Red/Yellow

5. Pokemon Shield

6. Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu

[panimoni]

My Naruto Characters as Actors AU ( Naruto to Boruto)

This is going to be the Sasusaku version first since I couldn't fit all the characters in here. If you wanna read more please comment! - Sakura is a year older than Sasuke so when they became close Sasuke would calls her ' Big sister ( Oneechan)' - Sasuke is not a calm collected boy like the series, he actually smiles a lot and goof around with Naruto - Sakura got the role when a casting crew took her photo and asked her to come to the audition. - Sasuke was given the role to him since he was already a child actor and model - When Sakura had to act crushing on Sasuke like a fan girl, she thought of fan girling over an idol and watched a lot of fan girling videos - When it was Kakashi's birthday, team 7 pretended it was Naruto's birthday and did the same on Naruto's birthday two years later. It was Sakura's idea - Sasuke would bring a skateboard to the set and show off to the boys - Sakura doesn't like Sasuke showing off and would read books of do homework and hangout with the girls cast or with the crew - They got close during the forest of death arc. - When they shoot Sakura taking care of Naruto and Sasuke, Sasuke actully fall asleep - During the Snake attack scene, they used CGI so they used a laser to tell team 7 where the snake was and a guy with green suit attacking him - When Sakura had to cut her hair, she asked if they could use a wig but the crew said no - They had to shoot Sakura cutting her hair a few shoots because a single swift couldn't cut her hair off - Sasuke and Naruto teased Sakura when they saw her new choppy hair - Orochimaru accidently bite Sasuke and he flinched but the directors thought his acting was very good but didn't know it was real - When Sakura ran to hug Sasuke ans cried, they ended up laughing and had to shoot again - When the crew decided to go on Holiday to a beach, Naruto teased Sasuke that he'll be excited to see Sakura in a swimsuit. Sasuke blushed - When they shoot Sasuke's departure scene. Sakura laughed when Sasuke said thank you behind her neck. She said it felt funny when someone said something to her neck - They originally had Sasuke holding a knockout Sakura and carried her to the bench but Sasuke would end up laughing when he carried Sakura bridal style - When they came back to shoot Shippuden, Sakura was already in Highschool but she became the shortest in the trio - Sakura teased Sasuke that his open shirt makes him look gay for Naruto - Sasuke made fun of Sakura in return when she had to cut her hair for the shooting - When Karin got into the picture, Naruto would call her ' Glasses Sakura' - Sakura brought more books to the set to study for her admission exams - When Sasuke got into Highschool, he wore his uniform to show off to Sakura and she would tease him by acting like a proud mother - When they shoot the war arc, they would use dirt to do 'make up' for each other and gang up on Naruto and then Kakashi - During the Kaguya fight, Sakura was hung up in a sling when she jumped down to punch Kaguya (Doll) and was hung in the air when the directors said cut. Naruto told everyone to take pictures of her hanging there - Sasuke was the one who got her down using a ladder to tease her and have Naruto lower the sling - During the Shinden arc, Sakura was in her last year of Highschool and her exams was near so she didn't appear much - She could finally have her hair long but she had to cut it again during Naruto's wedding arc so she asked the crew to wear a wig instead - Sasuke poked Sakura too hard to tease her and they have to shoot again to have it romantic - When Sakura got into medical school, it was when the Last movie started shooting and there goes her holiday - Sasuke only appeared in some scenes since it was his turn to study for the entrance exam and he had some family problems at that time - Sakura called him during her break on set with Naruto and would some times call him when she's home to make him feel better - After the last was finished, All the Naruto crew went to a dinner together and Sasuke asked Sakura out on that night, a little drunk but still sober - Sakura rejected at first but Sasuke started courting her until she gave in - Boruto was not planned until they found out that Hinata and Naruto married and so did the other actors whose characters are paired in the series - Sarada is the oldest - When Sarada was four, Sasuke let her enter the entertainment industry - They have another child but he doesn't want to enter the limelight so they kept him a secret - When they start shooting Boruto when Sarada was nine, Sakura was busy with her medical work and can only appear a little - After the movie, Sasuke and Sarada continue on the series with Sakura supporting them as she now works as a doctor and actress

[shui-xi]

p.o. : shadowhunters

i kinda really wanted to write about this one, because..tbh i had some sleepless nights because of it, so hear me out, well, in case you care. if you don’t know it’s a teen tv series based on a series of cassandra clare books. as being a teen show i knew what i was diving in and don’t tell me older people can’t watch it. i actually fully enjoyed it even if my teen times were like 10 years ago, despite all the flaws and stuff. to be clear i came for malec* and actually stayed for it. (*malec is how everyone calls magnus+alec ship, they’re an actual gay couple in the series ufufu).

by “i knew what i was diving in” i mean that i’m aware of all the cliche stuff that might be going on. and let’s be real a girl who lived a normal life suddenly finds out she’s can’t be that anymore and many amazing things but also sad things wait for her on her adventure, and the series are like that, with clary finding out that once she was just an art student, but now she finds out that she belongs to a totally different world and all the bullshit like vampires and werewolves and mages are all real. and with that i was right actually, but that’s what made me giggle all the way. the cheesiness was overflowing. you know how you sometimes watch something that isn’t that well done, but you actually like it for it XD i had the same experience. last night i thought it would be a great challenge if i actully watched the entire series with a bottle of alcohol and took a shot every time they asked - are you ok? or - we need to talk.

but as the show unfolded it actually developed by folds. you know if you have an eye for such things you’ll see how first season didn’t have much set, swords were funny as if they stole star wars prop, they saved money on cg like, for example, in scenes when fight between wolves happened not right in front of characters but behind something else, yet you could hear the sound instead. my favorites are when they fake-stabbed and it was like a knife in an armpit trick, i even took screenshots to savor the moment. and there were many things like that. yet i’ve read ppl still really liked it. not to mention i liked it. i know i didn’t take it as seriously because it made me giggle, but i’m still pretty positive about it. while in next seasons you could see that they got more money they could spend. on emotional side everything developed too. and malec got better too ufufufu but jokes aside it really had scenes where i was sitting and wiping tears away.

i have no idea how different the series are from the books, because obviously i haven’t read them. for malec alone i could actually read everything to find out.

to sum the whole thing up to me it was more like - it’s good, because it’s so bad. that was at first, the cheesiness stayed but with the next seasons it got better. i’m on season 3 already and i started watching just few days ago it seems XD and that should speak for itself.

but honestly i’d love to know if any of you guys ever watched it, or more than that - read it. i really want to know how malec is in books. and sorry for the interest, but i like strong relationships. others had like a change of heart, seeing different people for different reasons, but malec stayed strong, and i like that XD you are free to message me :)

and while i’m at it, i really liked this video on youtube, one of the funniest i’ve seen

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ok, i’m done, like fully done watching all the episodes released to this day and what can i say...tbh i’m pleasantly impressed. it did get better and better, the only like big complain i have is that this show is cramped af. because even if all the seasons are behind me i’m not really sure about entire universe and questions left hanging. well, name me a perfect show without a flaw though))) yet, still confuses me like why they made cary special, because as far as i remember they divided themselves into worlds of light and dark, and shadowhunters as they claimed were like half-angelic beings, while later the emphasis was brought only to cary who has blood of angel, so the earlier mention of entire structure kinda ruined the impression. i may be mixing things up, but it kinda stuck with me from earlier stages. like where she really receives this strength from, why is she so blessed as if her dad is god himself. and other questions as well. like why they don’t have a special thing that allows them to mass-spread the word quickly. fights sometimes looked tedious because of all the “throwing around”. also weapon choice, many times izzy was like overpowered and put in a difficult position because of her whip. at times i wished they’d use guns XDDD i can go on for a long time

also it was such a pleasure to speak with few people on this show and find few things out. i’m impressed they actually did a lot of changes. impressed, but not surprised since changing things, sometimes entirely, is a common thing, especially with “based on” shows and movies. and if i were a reader and saw it was tailored differently my mind would be fucked too. yet, looking at it as a piece of its’ own is actually not a bad thing. because in season 1 i was honestly almost cackling all the time, i couldn’t immerse in the feelings of the characters, but by season 3 i was thinking to myself - wow, that’s a good move, that was powerful, i wonder how it’ll impact him in the future and so and so forth. one thing i’d agree for sure is that characters are older. sorry for sentiments but if the graphic scenes will involve love and sex, then making characters older is a wiser choice. it’s a tv show after all.

anyway, i was pleasantly surprised in general. and yes, malec is like the best thing here))) no doubt. it’s really worth watching it just because of them.

[animewolfgamer]

Does anyone Remember Onani Master Kurosawa?

If there is ever a manga that has the biggest attempt at possible bait trying to be a story, it would of been this one. I honestly thought this was gonna be garbage like every other story that claim that it will be super serious ecchi only to just disappointed me threw and threw. This being that its focus on a Onani, i thought it was gonna be the same. Now you may ask what an onani is? Well according this word definition here.   

Yes you read it right there folks. This manga is reaching the hard core r rated ecchi which means your going to get a lot of censors and lots of heavy sexual themes. I read many terrible crappy manga that follows this trend of being super serious with sexy stuff in it but after reading this. Holy shit, Isa Katsura and Yoko actually did a good job on this. Ok so lets start with a quick summery. Our story follows  Kakeru Kurosawa who is basically a introvert and doesn’t like interacting with people and likes to think of hot girls while he....does his business in the girls rest room because that is how he manage to get off pleasuring himself. Plus in a very creepy expression as well. 

Wow has he really lost all sense of human interaction. But things soon get heated by the fact that a girl by the name of Aya Kitahara saw him at the girls bathrooms. 

Oh shit. Now you won’t be able to pleasure yourself any...Oh wait she didn’t suspect a thing. Well that was lucky but later on, he saw the same girl only getting bully by the other classmates and boy did he suddenly not like them at all. So he thought he go risky and just....well....put his man made power juice on her Swimsuit as a act of revenge for her.

Ya....talk about getting back at a bully like that. This however catches the attention of Aya and she even finds out what he does in the girl’s bathrooms. But instead of ratting him out like any normal girl would do, Instead she makes a deal and that deal being that he use his white justice on all the girls that wrong her. 

Yes because this girl is going to get them all with a pervy guy. You can see why this reminds me of a hentai plot or at least shows that it could be a heavy hentai. But anyway that is the story.  Now if you can get pass the hentai esc plot you see here, You can see that the mangaka actually build a really good story about a teen who never like interacting going threw a lot here. The main protagonist of the story isn’t a huge looser in this one as he is very cold blooded and doesn’t give a shit towards interaction. Many chapters we are instally getting a lot of insight on the guy and how he feels towards people who tried to be friends with him. 

Ya instally at first glace, you’ll pretty much hate the guy yet someone out there can see a bit of it him within every single one of us. Most of us who tend to not have that much interaction or just have bad memories of hanging out with the wrong crowd, tends to be that way. Now if the main character just stay like this with a random change of heart of the end, it would of been pretty dumb. But luckily the story actully shows that he has some common decency. There are a lot of times that he even question if this was a good idea in the first place, showing that he does have a very sympathetic side to him. This comes up a lot when he starts to hit it off with a girl who goes by the name of Magister Takigawa.

This scene alone shows that the guy isn’t all bad and is not so introverted like the early chapters want you to believe. He just can’t hit it off with people he probably doesn’t have much interest in with which is something I think people could relate too. We have ton of interactions and some just don’t click with each other which is something that you rarely see in these types of mangas. The series tone is stick threw out the series and there is no over exaggerated faces to distract us from that. Thank goodness because a story like this really doesn’t need them and even if they have funny moment, it would of been so distracting. That is another thing this manga has going for it. It knows its tone very well and doesn’t add all the bullshit cliches you expect from school focus stories like this. Now that isn’t to say there are some of those expressions and over exaggerated character types but they don’t go super overboard with this. This story shows us how Kakeru start from being a selfish horny brat who just wanted to feel his man dong to a guy who actually wanted to improve for the better. The best example that I can think off is the school trip. Now he had a job to do and that is to mess with the one girl who bully her since she is having a good time with her boyfriend. The moment when that happens, he....chose not to do it. 

The guy basically saw the shread of humanity and he did this on his own accord. He wasn’t gonna let people tell him what to do and that is what makes a really good character. Now as expected for these kind of characters, they do break down when reality hits them hard and one of the best examples is when he finds out his crush was with someone else and that can make anyone having a bad day. But This leads to one of the most rarest moments that any school manga would do and that is the main character getting punish for what he did. I’m not kidding that the guy did a grown up thing and own all the shit he did when he put his justice on a girls bathing suit. The best part is we have enough time to see the effects on him and how he feels about it. Now if your worry about it becoming edgy because now everyone hates him, no later on the same people who be befriended him a while back start to see the side of him opening up, knowing what he did is wrong. its a really good scene and had lots of build up after all the crap he endures.   

This story not only touches on the hardships especially on the sexaul stuff, but they also manage to do it without going so ecchi that no one will take it seriously. The characters really drive home the plot and it manage to be such an engaging story. It really saddens me that the guy who made this never went to make any other works. Or maybe he has and I didn’t know because I check his bios on Mal and this is the only thing he worked while the artist of the manga worked on 4 other smutty serious story mangas which I’ll probably check and hope that the other three are good. Also can I say the art is pretty damn good too. Its basically pencil sketches but the amount of detail it has is outstanding. Now is there anything bad I can say about this? Hmmm I guess the only time I can see that is when the manga did direct references for other anime’s and manga. 

Really they just distract from the main story but luckily you wont see that everywhere thank goodness. Also this manga isn’t afraid of showing his very dark side and considering these are young teens at the age of 14-15, if that stuff offends ya then ya don’t read this. I know what I am saying might be hyprocrital but one, this manga has no force in sex and two, all of them relate to the plot and not thrown in as cheep sex thrills thank goodness for that. 

Overall this manga is pretty damn underrated being that its rank around the 1000′s on the manga score online sites. I think this story really resonates and gives a long impression for how it manage to make a story like this to be taken seriously. I highly recommend this and it will go down as in my top ten manga of all times.  This is animewolfgamer and I hope the next day will be even better. See ya.   

[its-me-im-coraline]

Archie Andrews | One step at a time (part two)

Count of words: 737

Warnings: sad and fluffy ♥♥

A/N: will defenitely make a part three. Like this is going to envolve into a mini-series guys and I hope you like it byeee♥♥

(One step at a time part one)  (One step at a time part three)

MASTERLIST

PROMPTS

AND REQUESTS HERE

hannahz3

Can you do a part two? Where he helps the reader become happy again but she has like a minor slip up and it ends up all cute?

beenfangirlingsince1997

Please Continue!!! I need more!!!!

After finally managing to save the girl, the group ended up in Veronica’s house. Archie was holding the (hair color) haired girl in his arms, attempting to warm her up as the fire didn’t seem to help as much. The blanket around the two allowed his to trasfer warmth from his body to hers. He had removed his shirt previously and placing her in it after removing her soaking wet clothes, so the warmth of his body radiated to the girl easier. Jughead was sitting behind them in the couch with Betty in his arms trying to get her out of the shocked state of watching her friend attempt to kill herself, and Veronica was standing next to her mum discussing about the incident. “It’s gonna be ok.  I’m here. I love you.” Was all Archie could manage to make himself say to set the love of his life at ease. “We’ll do this. Together. One step at a time.”

It had been a while since the Sweetwate incident and the mental state of the girl was not any better than that day. It was actully worst. Horrible nightmares, presenting her images of the dark, freezing lake, the cold eveloping the girl and the fear consuming her after the fall. She would wake up in the middle of the night, tears streaming down her cheeks. She had tried everything, nothing worked. She tried therapy, she tired meditation and medication and many more things but the probplem didn’t seem to be solve. That gave the girl only one solution, one that she didn’t want.

On the other side of the story, the one when she wasn’t alone, inside four walls, where her sleep was not disturbed by the cruel memories of scary river, the girl’s loving boyfriend seemed to do anything in his power to make her feel better. He was indeed oblivious of the nightmares his girlfriend had, that not being his choice, but he could not preassure her into telling him everything. He gave her space and time, but he never stopped showing her that he would not give up on her, that he would be there when she was ready to reveal her secrets and he would hold her in his arms and love her, still. But love alone was not enough to mend her scars and Archie would learn that when accidently the beans would be spilled.

It was a cold shivering night, the air managing to enter the previously warm room piercing through the fragile girl’s skin. Fragile, oh how she hated that word. It made her feel vulnerable, as if she was depending on other people to save her from the doom she called mind. Another nightmare awoke her, but this time she couldn’t hundle it by herself. She didn’t have enough time to process what she was doing when the voice of the infamous red head was heard from the other line. “B-babe? What’s wrong?” Archie asked, his voice raspy from the distorted sleep, but worried for his love. “A-arch... Can-can you come over?” She questioned with a cracked voice. “Of c-course. Is everything ok?” He asked back, checking at the time, seeing it was 3.04 am. “No. J-just come over,” she stuttered and hang up the phone, embracing her body with the cozy comforter.

It wasn’t long until the boy knocked on her window. Well, it didn’t come as a shock since as soon as he heard her voice crack, he was already sprinting out of his house. Not giving her any time after she opened the window, Archie enveloped the girl in a bone-crashing hug, allowing her to let every fear escape. “It’s ok. Everything is going to be ok.”

The next day was different than the rest. After spending the previous night talking, secrets being revealed, fears and insecurities thrown at Archies face, the mighty couple decided to spent the day off school. When the sun invaded the small room, both of them groaned and simply hugged each other closer, if it was even possible. Some kind of understanding began to involve from Archie’s side, working alongside all the love he had for the gorgeous girl inside his arms. You know, love and understanding always go together when you are trying to stitch up open wounds, and even if hers were deeper that normal, and even if they needed a little bit more time, they would heal. I was hard to believe, but she could do it. Everything she needed to do so was in her arms, and with the love recieved from her friends, the time would be cut in half and the results would be better.

The day was spent simply. The two of them were laying in bed, Archie’s delicate hand brushing through her hair. No words were needed in this moment, just his presence was enough for her. It was euphoric feeling, really; being in his arms. It was enough to make her forget everything, as long as she didn’t move. Her body was limp, her small hand resting on his now bare chest, her head was resting on his shoulders and at some points she would leave some peppered kisses on his soft neck. He wouldn’t mind less. For a moment it was a truly out-of-the-ordinary good moment, the couple wishing it would last forever. But knowing it couldn’t they decided to savor it; and so they did.

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Day 5: Amazing Spider-Man #4 - ‘Nothing Can Stop... The Sandman!’

Hi there! I’m Ryan and I’m taking on a challenge to read a Spider-Man comic for every day in 2017. I’ve fallen slightly behind, but that’s okay, build it back up!!! Read on to see what I thought of Amazing Spider-Man #4 Nothing Can Stop... The Sandman!...

From looking at the cover and the way it’s sets up Spider-Man getting another beating by another new villain- to the point it kind of shows the beating on the cover - I was expecting this issue to follow a similar pattern to the last one. Spider-Man fights new bad guy and loses, learns a lesson and then comes back stronger to win in the end. While it did have at least some version of most of those elements, that’s not what this issue is about.

The most noticable thing about this issue when you first read it is that the first couple of pages are on a nine-panel grid (I noticed it at least in part because I’ve also just finished reading the recent Omega Men series) which immediatley gives the issue a really distinctive look. What I felt it did here, by filling the page up with a lot of images that look similar, is give the impression that Spider-Man is starting to get into the groove of this crook chasing thing. The repeated images conjouring up the idea that this is just one of a number of similar times he’s done this recently.

This sequence really sets the tone for the issue. It’s about Peter trying to save the day but the whole world always being seemingly against him.

He goes to stop some criminals from robbing a bank, only for them to point out that he isn’t allowed to stop them before they’ve begun to commit the crime and that actually, he’s the one technically causing problems. One thing I thought was particularly interesting about this argument is that it’s ina comic that came out in the early 1960′s but this particular scene actully feels like it’s answering questions people would start to ask about superheroes much later on about how they might finction in the real world. It’s not the first time I’ve noticed this reading these comics and it goes to show just how ahead of their time these early Marvel comics actually were.

From there we’re introduced to the Sandman and some erm....slightly uncomfortable framed/phrased demonstrations of his powers...

Before Peter’s mask is torn in the fight and he decides it’s best to retreat in case his identity is discovered - though I’m not quite sure how the mask gets torn.

This is always one trope I’ve been unsure about when it comes to superheroes potentially putting people in danger to keep their identity a secret (partially because I’m a person that watched A LOT of Smallville). It can often come across as selfish. Here though, while it doesn’t come across totally unselfish it does a better job of showing us the stakes. Or More Specifically, how Peter views the stakes.

I feel like what sells it is that the things that the final thing isn’t about Peter, it’s all about Aunt May. It doesn’t feel selfish because Peter isn’t worried about himself as much. It also helps that in the panel Aunt May is forced to sell shoe laces and that’s just so upsetting!!!

From here the issue gets really interesting because it stops being about Sandman. Sandman is still the villain of the piece, but he becomes just one of a number of things Peter has to juggle. Others include: Aunt May not finding out he’s Spider-Man and making him stay in bed because in trying not to let on to her he tells her she has a cold; Peter struggling asking Jameson for an advance so he can do web experiments; Peter being so busy with the Sandman that he has to cancel a date with Liz Allen; the Sandman himself who needs capturing and finally he’s been asked to take some water bottles to a janitor because all of the above was on his mind so he didn’t listen in class (is that a real punishment?).

I mention that one last because whilst talking to the janitor we totally get introduced to Chekov’s new King-size vacuum cleaner.

I’m sure we’ll be seeing that again later.

So then Sandman decides to hide out in School, there’s a really nice moment where the school principal stands up to Sandman and refuses to let him hurt the schoolkids under his care. Then Spider-Man shows up with a super satisfying punch -

The two fight for a while and it looks great on the page and then....yep....vacuum cleaner...

  There’s a really nice moment after the fight too, where J. Jonah Jameson is demanding to the police that Spider-Man is a bad guy but the police keep telling him ‘I don’t tell you how to write newspapers. It all leads to an almost triumphant ending for Peter, but then he almost gets into a fight with Flash Thomson once he’s changed back from being Spider-Man but he holds himself back because he’d totally kill Flash Thompson.

It brings what should be Peter’s triumphant vistory right down and is only made worse by people speculating Spider-Man might be a MENACE! We end in te most Spider-Man place possible, where Peter should be happy with himself but is instead questioning whether or not he should even carry on being Spider-Man. It’s a fantastic ending for both getting you on Peter’s side and really pulling the rug from under your feet. I really expected it to be a happy ending after the Sandman fight. This issue was so good at making you feel the ups and downs that Peter is experiencing and it’s also the one that I feel has done the best job so far at getting me to understand why Spider-Man became a character that stuck around so long. Similar to last issue, I think this was an issue that really laid out how things are going to be from now on.