#expected ‘kiwi’ tbh

[lilirari]

kachow

[flightlesskiwi]

My most controversial gay opinion is that to me S2 of good omens wasn’t that good

[aroaessidhe]

2022 reads // twitter thread

The Butterfly Assassin

set in a walled city ruled by assassin guilds

a traumatised teenage ex-assassin has escaped her corrupt parents and is trying to live a normal life, away from the guilds

good friendships

no romance

[shithitsmynipples]

I just think it’s so funny that I already had “look at the menu before we go” anxiety and the universe said yo let’s give this fucker a food intolerance while he’s at it

[foxes-that-run]

Also But Daddy I Love Him seems to be about matty and all the chaos that ensued in the fandom. Can't believe she liked being with that bigot

I don’t think Daddy I love him is about Matty. The message of the song is fans having an opinion about who she loves, which the reaction to a few weeks last year is nothing compared to how Directioners, Harries and Swifties have regarded Haylor for 12 years, she wrote a large part of 1989, reputation and folklore about it.

Yes, it did get played about again on a smaller scale last year…. I wonder how much of that was to be expected TBH. Regardless the song ends with them getting back together after it died down which clearly didn’t happen with MH they don’t speak and she’s publicly dating someone else. It did happen with Harry and Taylor in 2014 though.

She also repeats a reference Harry made about her in Kiwi with the exact same meaning, that fans and the media should butt out.

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Btw i hope i didn’t make you feel like i thought you implied stede was ugly! I just had to leap to his defense instinctually bc other ppl have been trashing my boy so unfairly and he is so not ugly lmao. I get that it’s a joke bc he’s not the pretty pretty princess that ed is, the showstealer. He’s not captain america fit, but he’s basically golden retriever kiwi nathan fillion, let him be handsome!

Hope your day is going well <3

No, not at all! I just wanted to be clear that the Roger Rabbit comparison was more personality/dynamic! I assume that folks who are mean about his looks are 1) jerks, and 2) expect all leading men and women to look like they've just been taken out of a doll box. Which, y'know, fine, whatever, but the Hollywood plastic look is goddamn boring and, TBH, not all that attractive.

Stede/Rhys is fucking adorable to a degree that enrages me. Like this:

[paradoxcase]

Chapter 40, 41, and 42 of Harrow the Ninth

I did read Chapter 43 also, so I got the explanation of what's going on here, but I wanted one post just to talk about all these, uh, AUs, I guess? I gather Harrow's dream bubble river bubble is just going a bit haywire because she's badly wounded or something

The first one seems to be an AU where Harrow was not a necromancer, but Gideon was, and Harrow's parents adopted Gideon and disowned Harrow, if I'm understanding correctly. I wonder if they just opted not to murder 200 children in this universe, or if they did do that but the thanergy somehow caused Gideon to become a necromancer instead of Harrow because they miscalculated something? TBH, this seems like a completely different genre of enemies-to-lovers than the version where Harrow is suicidal due to being told constantly about the 200 dead children

Yeah, this is exactly what Harrow would be like as cavalier, or, I guess, aspiring cavalier, since I gather you have to actually be attached to a necromancer in order to really be a cavalier. I gather the only other options on the Ninth other than becoming a cavalier would be to just become a miscellaneous nun, or to realize Gideon's original dream of running off to join the Cohort. Although, there is also a Harrow-joins-the-Cohort AU in this set as well. Harrow says it's her right to carry the blade because she was born into the noble house, so presumably it's just that there's no other respectable career available for the nobility if they aren't necromancers

Something interesting here is that they both seem to be assuming that being Gideon's cavalier automatically makes one the cavalier primary, whereas based on Judith's notes about everyone's history that doesn't actually seem to be the case for at least most of the other Houses, since a lot of the other cavaliers became cavalier primary either before or after getting attached to their necromancer. The only one I can remember off the top of my head where it seemed like becoming the cavalier to the heir necessarily made you cavalier primary was in the case of Magnus and Abigail, but I could be misremembering. It also didn't seem to me like this kind of challenge that Harrow is issuing here would be a normative thing to happen, that someone would challenge a necromancer's cavalier for the right to take their place with that necromancer, it seemed like cavalierships were meant to be a death-do-us-part thing, and a lot of the pairs seem to have been specifically selected for compatibility at birth or a very young age (e.g. Mayonnaise Uncle and Colum), and that compatibility was more important than something like martial ability

This is not a context where I expected to see the word "flog", so I looked it up:

Since the author is a kiwi, I guess she means definition 4, rather than definition 3? That's really interesting, I had no idea "flog" was used in either of those senses

Right, so, this is the cavalier!Harrow version of opening the Tomb, isn't it? Except in this case Gideon intervenes on her behalf, instead of telling on her. Or maybe she did both?

Interesting that Samael is just Anastasia's "warrior servant" here, and not specifically called out as her cavalier, or maybe that's just another way of saying it?

Harrow does know the contents of the Noniad, so presumably this is in there in some capacity, or she's at least heard Ortus talk about this. I wonder what Lyctor Nonius supposedly stood against? There's a very finite number of them

Funny that the role reversal didn't change Crux's opinion of anyone, he has no truck with this adoption nonsense and is still 100% loyal to Harrow and hates Gideon

The next one seems to be an arranged marriage AU of some sort, I feel like these are getting progressively more and more griddlehark content, or just more and more direct Gideon involvement as they go, possibly due to Harrow gradually resurrecting her memories of Gideon

I note that in the last one, Crux had a speaking part, and in this one, Aiglamene has a speaking part. According to Magnus and Abigail in Chapter 43, the major roles in these are played by ghosts in the River, but as far as I'm aware Crux and Aiglamene are still alive on Pluto. Did something happen on Pluto since the last time we saw them? Although Corona seems to be in this one, too, albeit not as a speaking part

Ianthe's soup recipe, lmao

The third one is a Harrow-joins-the-Cohort AU, but it's also... a coffee shop AU, and I guess "BARI" is meant to recall "barista"? Ok, look, the reason people write coffee shop AUs (and high school AUs, and college roommate AUs, etc.) is that those are everyday social situations that are very familiar to the people writing the story, so that's just naturally what they fall back on when they want to write an AU, they want to bring the characters into their everyday lives, or write about them in a situation that they have a lot of first-hand knowledge of. The first AU is in fact a social situation that Harrow would at least be pretty familiar with, even if it's not her actual everyday experience, and the arranged marriage thing, that does definitely seem like something that happens in this universe, it's been mentioned several times at different points, even if Harrow has never personally been involved in something like that. But I don't think Harrow has any personal experience of anything like a coffee shop, or with interacting with food service people in general? Why is there a coffee shop AU here? I guess the reason the last Canaan House episode established Harrow's familiarity with coffee was to set up the basis for this coffee shop AU, but it seems kind of odd given that Gideon had no familiarity at all with hot drinks and Harrow also had no familiarity with tea or how to drink it without burning herself

Did Isaac have earrings in Gideon the Ninth, or is this just a reference to how he died?

Ahh, 14-year-old logic

Also, speaking of mumps, why are people getting mumps in this setting? Even if the Resurrection/etc. wiped out all knowledge of modern medicine, is 10,000 years really not enough time in which to reinvent the MMR vaccine? Also, I seem to remember now that Dulcinea claimed that her breathing tube had been invented by Palamedes, which means it somehow hadn't been invented before Palamedes. You would think that the kind of anatomical knowledge that necromancy would require would mean that medical science is more advanced, not less

Is this "absolutely not, I'm not going to be part of your coffee shop AU about you and your crush", or "absolutely not, you're not dragging my poor dead kids into this River bubble"? It seemed so perfectly to be the first one when I got to the end of the chapter, but then when I read Chapter 43, I started to think it might actually be the second

[edencherries]

thank you sm @bigtiddythanos for the tag!!! ily <3

last song - Villano Antillano: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 51

the chokehold this song has on me is too damn strong and i don’t want it to let go!!! her rapping and lyrical skills are incredible and i cannot get enough tbh

last movie - thor: love and thunder

i took my dad to the movies to see it and i had so much fun!! it made me sad, it made me laugh. i want to go again soon.

currently watching - i started watching punisher again but i haven’t seen anything new after i finished ST4. mainly cause i haven’t had time cause work is kind of intense.

currently reading - Violeta by Isabel Allende

i wasn’t expecting to like it as much as i am to be quite honest. i feel like im sitting with the character, listening to their stories while bonding over old pictures and a warm drink and i LOVE that feeling.

current obsession - Cinema Therapy on YT, gandalf the cat licking a graham cracker every monday and saving for a new tattoo (hopefully three) by the end of the year!!

no pressure tags: @kiwi-the-first @steve-harringt0ns @dailyreverie @keeper0fthestars @rosemaremembrance @runawaywerewolf @spookyspiderboiii

[camping-with-monsters]

Pokeradar on Route 4 they said (they did not say this). It would be fun they said (they did not say this).

[fleshadept]

i watched boy recently and it was beautiful and i felt like i inhaled the movie and absorbed it through my skin but it was also a difficult watch and i cried a lot afterwards. so many reviews call it like a heartfelt comedy so those were my expectations and i don’t understand why they view it that way…

boy touched my soul directly, destroyed it, then rebuilt it from the ground up a little more whole than it was before. it's also a comedy! it's funny, just with the very dry kiwi humor that taika is known for. he called boy a "hilarious look at child neglect" which i think is pretty perfect tbh. it does have more drama than a lot of his other films and it is intensely personal in a lot of ways but the comedy balances that out well

[moshieee-but-evil]

I wasn't expecting grape any attention at all tbh but here we are so here's the whole family

(note this is just the family not all the pipe cleaner critters)

From left to right we have

Lettuce, kiwi, olive, grape, and mochi

Olive and grape are wives with their adopted child kiwi and their pets lettuce and mochi

[whyoneartheven]

:D 7, 8, 19, 26, 30

Ahhh thank you Reyna!! sorry it took me a while to get to this!

under the cut bc it got kinda long XD

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate:

hmm... Colored pencil, i think! I've never been good with them but some people can produce masterpieces!!

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in:

umm... well, i suppose it would be... ok tbh I'm kinda a "focus on one thing" kinda person, which means the hyperfixations i have now are pretty much the same ones i had years ago XD

that being said, i haven't lost interest in any of my projects! I have given up on a few however...

There's an animatic i've been wanting to make! but i can't get a program that works for me and trying to download straight from Procreate ruins the quality :(

also, i don't know how I'd add the music AND i'm not sure i want to begin to post on youtube! so, all in all... yeah I probably won't be doing it. I did draw out a lot of the frames tho (don't like how they look either alas)

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.):

trees! I think. XD

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

uhh...

i had to go and look back at my art for this one lol

and, shocking though it may seem! It's one of my doodles!

this one!! Everyone thought Legend was throwing his toothbrush and teethpasta away but he was just being responsible and giving kiwi a toothbrush for Halloween bc that's the Right Thing To Do™

honestly tho the way people interpreted it was far better XD

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated:

Umm... it's gotta be this one! Also the first art I posted, but that's to be expected lol

i still wanna recolor that second one actually...

[itgirlgyu]

He even eats your peel.

he's just to lazy to peel them,, kinda expected of him to eat a kiwi like an apple tbh

[ecruteakfashiondesigner]

I wasn't expecting King to be so energetic tbh

He has been running around with Kiwi nonstop for the last 5 hours

[vegapriest]

wonderful woman here. what are your times. also you have to tell me one more interesting thing unrelated to microwave times. thank you

TIMES I USE MOST OFTEN

0:22 (22 seconds is extremely good, almost universally good. huge fan of numbers ending or beginning in 2)

0:42 (optimal safest, most comfortable time. regardless of actual cooking time, i will personally add or subtract to recc'ed cooking time for it to end in 42 seconds <3 the 4 & 2 combination feels especially calming somehow)

1:01 (idk it just feels very cute and cheeky)

1:56 (it feels...gallant? heroic? not a modest time, but a fair amount of humbleness and chivalry(???))

2:23 (i HATE and i mean CANNOT FUCKING STAND!!!! the number 3 but '23' in particular is fine. making it 2 mins and 23 secs is the most comfortable, but 1 min and 23 secs is also very nice, it has a magical sensation to it. 23 seconds alone is fine but i'd very much prefer 22 seconds)

basically a big fan of even numbers. odd numbers aren't inherently bad (7s and 5s are generally good)

TIMES I CANNOT STAND!!!!!

anything in the 0:30-0:39 range (disgusting, it makes me want to start picking at my skin. emotionally slimy and revolting, 33 secs especially, it makes me feel like house centipedes and roaches are crawling on me. idk why i just don't like 3s 🤢)

1:13, 1:15, 1:17, 1:18, 1:19 (THESE TIMES IN PARTICULAR. i can't fucking stand them. so insufferable idk how to describe it. literally just so annoying)

INTERESTING THING UNRELATED TO MIRCOWAVE TIMES

uhm idk i'm kind of obsessed with personality quizzes if that counts? its kind of like a love language to me, even if the quiz maker is an absolute stranger and also their quiz fucking sucks. kind of like of "this reminded me of you"? (if tht makes sense)

anyways here's some recent results i've gotten

whale shark (tbh expected lemon or leopard shark)

morning glory

velvet fabric

pierrot clown (i wanted harlequin 😔)

earl grey

kuroo (<- took a government assigned haikyuu kin quiz despite not caring abt haikyuu at all bc i was bored and mildly curious. does this track? idfk)

kiwi fruit

hypnotic poison by dior (so true <3)

[coredrill]

edgerunners 3&4 tonite

ep3:

AYO ANOTHER LIO!!!! HI KIWI

i wanna rewatch prmr HHG

THE IMAISHI PUNCH UPWARD ANIMATION FINALLYYYYYYYYYY

AND DAVID DID THE LITTLE SIMON HEADSHAKE THING BEFORE HE STARTED THE CAR WAYYYYUDJSHDHDUBFNRHRHDUDUAHSHHHHHHHHH ;@2$$;):):):):):$:!;!($)’nrnendjcjenwnABDBBAND

i hope these words on screen are like. real physical items like they are in klk & prmr

david saying thank you after lucy sent him the route 😭

LOVE the six wheel car design

not the blue hair guy with the long sword 💀

FINALLY SOME GOOD FUCKING FIGHT SCENES

david head pat :(

the little cyberpunk hangout seems so chill and funnnnnn!!!! (altho it gives me the vibes of a place that will be destroyed)

REBECCA BELOVED!!!!!!

david’s one friend ditching him and then him just being at the party like 🧍‍♂️i like him a lot :(

boarded by amemiya yeah that tracks!!!

THIS WAS THE BEST EP SO FAR. it’s like bna5 and lwa18 (altho i don’t think the disparity is quite so large fndnsbbdbsheb)

if this was written by trigger the whole city and system would be TORCHED by the end and I WANT THAT TO HAPPEN LMAO but i still feel like david’s gonna die in episode 6-7 (i will find out tomorrow or fri) and that’s not gonna happen fndbdbbdbshdjwndbdjs

ep4:

COLD OPEN OKAY!!!

poor david is FUCKED lmao

DAVID’S SMILE WHEN HE HANDED LUCY THE CHIPS. PRECIOUS BBY

also this crew is so fun!!! david and rebecca bffism supremacy tbh

kiwi smoking thru the mask LMFAO

awwww he got a symbol on the back of his jacket :) this is not gonna last long at all

oh shit lmao (i didn’t expect it to go south THAT QUICK)

I WANT TO KNOW SO MANY THINGS ABOUT LUCY GODDDDDDD GIVE ME THE LUCY LORE TRIGGER

unfortunately this episode was not fucked up :( gdi collaborations taking my ugly lil ep4 away from me!!!!!

anyways still having fun w it :) i feel like i can’t comment too much on the story just yet so we’ll see what the rest & the ending actually shakes out to be but the animation is lovely!!!! def wish they let imaishi go more ham but good god the colors. THE COLORS!!!!!!!