#everything will be fine (:

[free-my-mindd]

[champagnexowishes]

[favalerite]

congrats on chapter 109

[penguinkura]

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[enthusiasteditor]

"Well then, I expect it will be fine. Most things are fine in the end"

- Jim, S2 E1

Neil, are you talking to us? Yes, you are talking to us! I want to believe it... I have to believe it!

[hikato-chan]

An AU where SY actually was SJ is so interesting, especially with it's implications about the system!

So the villain of the story the system is trying to fix dies. That's not it's fault! Likely, that was a butterfly effect from having dragged the writer into Shang Qinghua's body. No one could have expected this! They barely even talk!

But it happens- and the System tries it's best to fix it. It manages to keep the body alive, but the soul slipped away. That's fine, it's fine! The System just has to find it before it... Nope, it got reincarnated already. Damn. But, it will be fine. It can manage!

It keeps the body asleep and goes to find just where the soul ended up. It will be able to return back with no time passed, it's sure! And it does find the soul. In a sickly boy who is constantly reading.

That's... Not so great. Because the System will have to catch the soul before it reincarnates again, and this boy barely even knows how to run! But it's fine, the System can work with this. It just needs to figure out how to get the theoretical knowledge to him. The rest it can figure out once he's back where he should be.

So, what better way than to let the soul read the story? That would surely be helpful for more than one reason! But the story doesn't exist yet. But that's fine. It knows the Author! Just a nudge or two so he starts writing, and just a nudge or two so the Soul starts reading! It works great!

So it waits, and the story goes on and on before coming to a close. That's as much knowledge as that soul can have, it supposed. Now it just needs to go and retrieve it.

[arirovi]

“The Girl Who Loves Smiles” is an evocative and provocative chapter, which “shows” before “tells.”

I think most of the reactions I saw about the chapter reflected that.

From the first moment, the chapter was evoking memories of the plot and the characters in us and with great ease. We all wanted it to be about Ochako, because the title alluded to her and consequently, also to Toga, and it was (but not in the way i'd expected).

On a personal level, I was hoping for a more direct and concrete resolution on them. I wanted to know if Toga is still alive or not. Find out if Ochako knows anything about her current state and how she is facing the end of her own battle.

Would the chapter present a final confrontation between the two?

Looking back, I think expectations played tricks on me again, but that's because, as a human being, I look for patterns everywhere. The pace of resolution of the previous two chapters had been just what I expected from this last one: a direct and concrete resolution, both for Todoroki facing Touya with his family, and for Izuku facing Spinner.

The change of narrative pace in this chapter, I think, affected many of us quite drastically and I have the feeling that this abrupt and unexpected change was put there with the intention of provoking us, but not in the sense of making us anxious (for the idea that there is not enough time to tie up all the loose ends), nor addressing the typical revenge speech of those who like a certain ship (we all know which one).

I think it was intended to evoke Ochako's motivation as a hero and provoke a real emotional connection with her in her process to endure that weight (at this particular moment).

The first time the chapter shows us Ochako, she is literally and figuratively silent (her mouth is covered), as they talk about Shoto, Kacchan, and Izuku's central role in the war. Of course, she was also a part of it, so why isn't she also included for her merits? And so, the first hint that someone is feeling pain appears in the form of an sfx, which is evocative of his own battle with Toga. The way of showing this, in white, invites us to remember what she did almost by force (since there are no flash backs), rather than focusing on the present plot.

Then she disappears from the scene for a moment and what are we supposed to do with these seemingly inconsequential pages? While I was glad to see how things improved on a social level; how Kacchan, Edgeshot, and the rest were inching forward, I was still bothered by why now?, when there's a bigger part about Ochako to address? Then Ochako returns to being the focal point and her first words are in response to what a civilian said, reaffirming what we already know: that everything is going better. However, just as she appears falsely cheerful, we as readers are forced to place our attention on these distractions instead of the pain (like Ochako did to).

It's frustrating and it's painful that everything seems to move so fast but in slow motion at the same time, that everything feels so superficial and mundane, when there is something more important that should be happening under the surface. And why does everyone seem so optimistic so quickly? Where is the feeling of the aftermath of something so terrible? The guilt? The trauma? The emotional resolution?

The thing is, we've been provoked to feel like Ochako all along. The narrative, so far, shows us what Ochako wants to see, the day-to-day life that Ochako struggles to experience, because it's what she supposes she should do and feel about it no matter what (and us with her).

And then, Tsuyu comes to tell us other thing that we were already shown before: Ochako is not responding, but not only to the most obvious thing, the text message, but to her surroundings and not to her friends either.

Now is when the “telling” becomes the center of everything: Ochako directly explains to us why she was not included in the group of heroes, her companions, who gained admirers (there were no recordings). She tells us, like an echo while reaffirming it to herself, that everything is improving, that the city looks like before, that it is time to be optimistic and positive because the war is over. She reminds us that he has been hiding his own pain because she loves seeing people smile, since that is a sign that they are happy moving forward.

However, even though she is saying it, she does not remember any smile of her classmates in particular (the words are on a black background) and instead, the only smile she remembers is Toga's, but whose image is tinged with the pain of his battle scar (which at the same time represents special, intimate connection with her).

In a few pages, all the evocation and provocation increase in a crescendo until reaching the point of no return. Ochako can no longer suppress the truth and neither can we: that the one smile she apparently couldn't save weighs more on her than all the other smiles she can see day after day.

It is a very intimate chapter, which seeks to incite a feeling of empathy and vulnerability with the character.

I don't know about you, but I felt very vulnerable too while watching her break down.

With this slow and almost artificial, forced rhythm, I felt that she invited me to live this repressed pain with her and to hope that, somehow, there is a kinder way out that does justice to everything she is having to endure.

And yeah, i hope the next chapter goes well.

[ineffableofficer]

What I think will be like after the teaser trailer for S3 is released :

[kaaya-d]

Take a rest, love. When you wake up, we'll be home.

[befuddledcinnamonroll]

This episode... I can't even. So many feels.

Ok, first things first, marking down another cameo! They goddamn better be deliberately saving our Trapped boys for the end at this point.

I know I did say I wanted Chen Yi to be suffering while Eddie was in prison

but then they made us relive Eddie's suffering for YEARS

*sobbing* I'm fine, really.

But then, oooh

This man is so damn sexy

And he's smirking because not only has he already broken his restraints, HE SPENT THE LAST FIVE YEARS PRACTICING EATING SPICY FOOD JUST SO HE COULD DO THIS

And then the way he's petting Eddie while they're talking....

and being so damn sweet

And he's so damn happy when Eddie says he's possessive of what's his!!

Just... pure poetry

Good thing their story line ended right there, with absolutely nothing bad being implied!

[sanctaignorantia]

it's so crazy to be daniel molloy, right? on the verge of his 70th with a life that's probably lonely and miserable in a nutshell. recovered from drugs, married twice, had two daughters and is now alone. he's probably questioned himself about everything during his time of solitude and also during the time he was married to these two women, and maybe that's why they're his ex-wives now...

so he wakes up one fucked up day with a package from a vampire he swore he'd forgotten about, page turned, gets on a fucking plane to dubai to fuck himself up even more and then ANOTHER vampire comes into play, this guy's literally got his memories fucked up too, but just to spice things up and now we've got a “secret agent” from a “super secret and ancient order”, a flying vampire apocalypse coming and probably some supernatural shit in his body thanks to fareed!

and he's just an inferior species, human… yeah, we're good

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

About to print out 7 people's main gifts in full colour on the printer we have not used in 3 months 12hrs before the gift exchange

Surely nothing will go wrong

The printer cannot sense the importance

[rocketrouquine]

With the renewal and everything, we seem to have forgotten about the finale in two days, people.

Personally, I have so many expectations about all the threads connecting and exploding the narrative ; but at the same time the preview doesn’t reassure me on this.

I really thought we would have covered the trial and the fall out last episode so I’m worried that it won’t have time to explore what’s left before season 3. I thought we would have a segue into next season in the finale. But I really am not sure anymore…

Anyway, It’s a Schrödinger situation in my brain, where I can’t wait to see it and at the same time if it turns out to be frustrating AF, we will have to wait so long for the rest.

[rosstrytobe]

WE CAN FINALLY CHEER PEOPLE GAY EDDIE IS COMING HOME 😫😫😫

[victusinveritas]

[bildadthefuckingshuite]

How much longer until the next ineffable boyfriends chapter? I’m dying to see it

I just finished all the sketches for the next post and tomorrow i will start to colour them (It is the last step) :)

It's been a while since the last post, maybe I've dissociated a little