#gdi i miss this whole cast

[beck-a-leck]

For the Farming Sim Ask game:

🥒🍇 🍍🥔

This game is so much fun!

Farm Sim Asks!

Cucumber 🥒 - Favorite non-human character/mythical being?

I think that might be Inari. I was not expecting to love them as much as I did when I first saw them in 3oT. For the most part I've been neutrally positive about the mythical characters in the games, but Inari really wormed their way into my heart. Something about their dialogue and the friendship they form with the farmer really endeared them to me. Also, they're cute a heck!

They're a more mature deity than Witchie and Dessie in the games, but they're also not petty/negligent like some iterations of the HG and WP are in other games. They hit that perfect middle ground for me.

Not sure if I would ever marry them, but I did enjoy befriending them.

Second runner up would be the Harvest Goddess from Save the Homeland. I love her design and her whole vibe. And she's genuinely nice to the protagonist.

Grape 🍇 - Which game would you like to see a remake of?

It's hard to pick just one, because there are a lot of games that I missed playing entirely because they were on consoles I didn't own at the time they came out and/or I wasn't paying attention to HM games. So like, any of those.

But for a game that I have played and would like to see a complete remake of, Island of Happiness. PLEASE. It had a great cast of characters and a fun setting but a lot of the game mechanics make the whole thing frustratingly unplayable. But it would need a lot of changes for me to be happy with it. Get rid of the gd water/sun point system for one. And the hunger bar! Nothing makes it harder to earn money in the game than having a farming system that does not guarantee crops, aka wasting hundreds of g, no source of actual food from the get go, and also having your available energy for doing things dependent upon whether you can find something to eat. which you cant. and I low key hated the Wonderfuls system for tool upgrades, but I can work around that.

So like. I don't want a completely faithful remake of IoH, like they did with FoMT. I want the whole game rebuilt from the ground up so it behaves like other HM/SoS games.

Pineapple 🍍 - What is your favorite art style of the games?

I did already answer that one. Short answer, (M)FoMT, SoS1, and 3oT.

But in general there's something I like in all the games. I'm not very picky about art styles and design lmao, so long as things are cohesive within the game I don't mind the changes between them.

Potato 🥔 - Favorite non-romanceable character?

Hector. My favorite sad, single dad, who I think deserves to find love and happiness again. Let me romance him gdi

That being said, I genuinely enjoy a lot of the non-romancable characters in the games. They are, imo, more important to making the towns feel like real communities than the marriage candidates. And it's kinda nice to have characters that bring life and depth to a town without their story/relation to the character revolving around romance.

[rouiettes]

raya and the ugliest fucking dragon i've ever seen holy fuck who the hell thought to give a dragon fuckiNG EYEBROWS WHY WHY—

aka the musings of a filo non-binary bisexual who feels victimized by the dragon designs of this fucking movie supposedly centred around THE LAST DRAGON???? MAYBE THEY SHOULD HAVE STAYED STONE GDI WHAT THE FUCK SERIOUSLY WHY DO THE DRAGONS LOOK LIKE THAT

let's get one thing straight.

none of the characters in this movie. rest assured. not a single straight person was in this movie. trust me.

raya and the last dragon had all the foundations of a good movie

IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO GREAT

BUT IT WASNT

AND HERE'S WHY

(in my humble opinion okay pls dont come for me)

a disney movie with sea culture at its heart and soul, i was so hyped to finally watch this movie

(not as hyped as i could have been tho bc let's be honest DISNEY DID SHIT WITH RAYA'S MARKETING)

(AND PERHAPS FOR GOOD REASON LOL I SWEAR I DONT HATE THIS MOVIE OKAY)

you had the amazing score, the amazing concepts for plot and characters, the solid solid worldbuilding???

if you just told me about how raya's setting and premise, i'd probably be "wow this movie sound like the whole package"

and then i'll actually watch the movie and have just as much trust issue as raya did :/

but i digress

A DISNEY MOVIE WITH SEA CULTURE AT ITS HEART AND SOUL

do you know how diverse sea culture is??? VERY

and one thing i was very happy to see was how raya handled it

it was by no means perfect but

the subtle shows of culture in the way the characters acted, and the environment of the movie was just CHEF'S KISS

not only that but the ideas the movie had in terms of its world and the people in it felt genuine, it felt alive

a dragon that isn't the typical fire-breathing lizard

characters who look like they could easily be my neighbours or children i've played with

instead of pandering to this movie felt like an actual homage to sea cultures

and for good reason bc seeing all those familiar names rolling in the credits had me feeling some type of way :")

also that fucking soundtrack gave me chills throughout my watch of the movie

okay now that we've got the things i actually like about the movie, let's talk about what i don't like

if there's one word i could use to describe disney's raya it would be: rushed

like i said in the beginning, all the groundwork for an astounding disney movie were already there

but all of it just goes to waste bc the plot and it's characters feel so Unfinished

the movie felt like a bullet-point presentation of the story

WHICH IS SO FUCKING DISAPPOINTING BC THE CHARACTERS SEEMED SO INTERESTING but all we got were shadows of what they could have been

cardboard cutouts of the archetypes they filled

i'm not asking for a bottomless well of depth, but i at least wanted more for the cast than just: angry misunderstood princess, angry misunderstood princess with an undercut, that one dancing kid from moana but with more spice, boss baby, and the mountain

and i get that they had to sacrifice some of their depth to keep the run time of the movie short but you have got to be better than this disney

i hate to compare but it felt like this movie tried to go beyond what moana gave us, and shot so far that it ended up back to where it started, and then stumbled back a few steps

AND IM NOT EVEN SAYING A DRAGON MOVIE WITH A BIG CAST IS IMPOSSIBLE

BC IT'S ALREADY BEEN DONE

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON DID IT THREE TIMES

and you'd think the plot for one of the few disney movies with a non-western setting would have more than just a macguffin considering how batshit sea folk tales can be

but you'd think wrong folks.

GENUINELY IT FELT LIKE THEY WERE ATTEMPTING SOMETHING BUT WERE SHORT OF BRINGING IT TO FRUITION

sure moana had a macguffin too with the heart of te fiti, but the heart itself wasn't the heart of the movie

it was the journey of moana and maui

it was that BEAUTIFUL TWIST WITH TE KA AND TE FITI

ALL DELIVERED WITH A NATURAL FINESSE THAT HAD YOU ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT

YOU WERE ALONG FOR THE RIDE OF THE STORY INSTEAD OF QUESTIONING EVERYTHING THAT WAS GOING ON LIKE I WAS

maybe this was just me but like, i felt so bad for the friend who watched this movie with me bc all i could go on and on was how the plot felt like it was getting in the way of itself

why didn't the different kingdoms (??) kept the gem in rotation or smth, when did they decide that heart would keep it and then get mad at heart for keeping it????

why didn't awkwafina dragon just show herself to the kingdoms bc everyone seems to be in agreement that dragons good right? that they would be the key to getting rid of the druun right??? SO THEY'D ALL AT LEAST HEAR HER OUT OR SMTH RIGHT????????

and yes raya has trust issues but it seems to only spring up at the most convenient times plot-wise, we didn't really see her learn to trust other people again OTHER THAN THE TIMES WHERE SISU WOULD HAMFISTEDLY SHOVE IT DOWN OUR THROATS THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE GOOD SOMETIMES RAYA

we see it with boun, but then she just trusts noi, her monkeys, and tong THE GUY WHO STRUNG THEM UP AND WAS THREATENING TO TORTURE THEM????????

i'm gonna be honest and say that if it weren't for namaari i'd have absconded the moment sisu came on screen

as far as i'm considered the actual plot of the movie is just the entire sword fight scene between her and raya

and finally

we get to the part i will be erasing from my brain for my own mental well-being

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT DRAGON DESIGN

WHY OH WHY TH  E FUCK DOES SISU SOUND AND LOOK LIKE THAT

my friend said they looked like the ponies from mlp in 3d AND NOW I CAN NEVER UNSEE IT

THEY HAVE EYEBROWS THEY HAVE HUMAN FACES

HUMAN FACES ON MAJESTIC DRAGON BODIES

THE INTERNET HAS COLLECTIVELY DECIDED THAT SISU IS BASICALLY FURRY ELSA

every time we got a sisu close up i lost 5 years to my life

disney i am suing for damages

if you want me to drop the charges i demand raya 2: electric boogaloo but it’s just raya and namaari enemies to friends to lovers ark

and also for them to never say dragon nerds ever again

AGAIN. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON GAVE US BEAUTIFUL DRAGON DESIGNS. HELL IF YOU WANTED MORE EASTERN LOOKING DRAGONS FUCKING SPIRITED AWAY??? HAKU??????????

AND YKNOW WHAT. SISU WOULDN'T EVEN LOOK THAT HORRIFIC IF THE MOVIE WAS IN 2D

im not the first person to be side-eying disney's decision to keep pumping out these 3d movies but like.

no amount of added dimensions could ever make that dragon design okay

and there so many more points i could go off on to show how this movie was rushed

how the other dragons, and even sisu's siblings whom she had been missing for the entire movie DIDNT MAKE A SINGLE SOUND???? NOT EVEN A FUCKING GROWL DISNEY???? DID YOU EVEN TRY WITH THE DRAGONS AT ALL??? THE SUPPOSED CENTRE OF THIS MOVIE'S PLOT?????????

HOW THE CHIEFS OF THE OTHER KINGDOMS WERE BASICALLY PLOT DEVICES????

THAT ONE CHIEF'S SKELETON WAS MORE INTERESTING THAN ANY OF THEM COMBINED ALIVE

kudos to that one granny chief though

u can never have enough bad ass old ladies

AND GOD THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS JUST FELT SO FORCED

ALONG WITH WHATEVER LESSON SISU WANTED TO IMPART ABOUT TRUST

LOVE THESE CHARACTERS THEY ARE FUNNY THEY ARE FRIENDS FOUND FAMILY

TRUST PEOPLE IF U WANT THEM TO TRUST U

TRUST PEOPLE OR ILL LITERALLY FUCKING KILL U

children aren't stupid disney. if you tell your story well enough, they'll pick up on the messages you want to give them. YOU DONT HAVE TO THRUST EVERYTHING IN OUR FACES

i was exhausted by the time i finished this movie

bc i really wanted to love it. i wanted to feel more for it than just: well, it's a movie :)

i dont hate this movie though like it's not even worth the energy for that

i think that ultimately, despite all my issues with it, this movie was a step in the right direction when it comes to having non-western stories being told by non-western people in big name productions

i'm glad raya and the last dragon exists

i just can't help but be dissapointed though bc this movie put so much effort into putting my people and culture at its forefront but at what cost???

good characters and story for a good setting and design????

does it have to be one or the other?????

DOES THE DRAGON HAVE TO HAVE EYEBROWS??????

[siriuslyida31]

Ok so here are random ramblings/things I enjoyed in the musical:

(mainly from act one, bc i spent most of act two sobbing and could barely see at times)

THE TRANSITIONS

THE CHOREOGRAPHY, HOLY MOTHER OF-

the whole entire cast is gorgeous, so that’s fun

pippa is perfect

angelica reading while walking during schuyler sisters is a Power Move™ and i’m here for it

peggy’s little stumble to the front omfg, TOO PRECIOUS

the guys pushing ham to the front during seabury’s speech, 10/10

the absurd amount of robes and jewels groffsauce had on during you’ll be back

NO DON’T CHANGE THE SUBJECT

Christopher Jackson.

oak’s BRRRAP during right hand man

hey hey hey hey hey 😏

LOOK AT THOSE EYES (i was sobbing there tbh)

lin’s dance when alex gets to marry eliza

oak as the flower girl

THE SOUND MIXING ON SATISFIED, 10/10

Renée Elise Goldsberry.

the ensemble repositioning alex to face eliza instead of angelica (i screamed)

drunk alex showing off his ring

the guys’ dance (is this what they mean when they say boys will be boys??)

cALL ME SON ONE MORE-

when pippa walked in at the beginning of that would be enough i started crying and did not stop sobbing until the end of that song. 

i’m so BLUE *stomps for lighting change*

dear theodosia- i just wrote down the song name?? i was broken

oh my god. leslie odom jr. incredible.

I DID NOT REALIZE THAT THE LAURENS LETTER WAS A THING. AND BUDDY LET ME TELL YOU, I WAS NOT PREPARED

non-stop will always be incredible.

INTERMISSION MINUTE

the duality of man: daveed as lafayette and jefferson (i love that man so much i stg)

the duality of woman: jasmine cephas jones as peggy aND THEN MARIA REYNOLDS??

daveed giving the reynolds pamphlet to Alex Lacamoire

ngl i spent approximately 99% of act two sobbing so i don’t have much here

eliza screaming broke me. every time.

french counting also will consistently break me.

chris jackson had tears and i was not prepared

hurricane. that’s all.

PIPPA DURING IT’S QUIET UPTOWN. NOPE NOPE NOPE. that song ALREADY wrecked me with the music alone, but with the fACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND BODY LANGUAGE???? N O P E

who lives, who dies, who tells your story- pippa. dear god. unreal.

when eliza went back toward alex and lin was just smiling so hard. gdi i’m sobbing again just thinking about it. can’t type, i’m done-

there’s a lot i’m missing but i sobbed for the majority of act two so-

idk y’all. i’ve listened to this musical a million times and this was just a whole new experience for me. i felt everything even more. it was beautiful. ty to everyone involved in this beautiful beautiful story and work of art.

[spockandawe]

Gdi. I went to go answer a second ask, and instead of hitting the reply button like a sensible human, I went through the extra clicks and confirmation to delete the message, and only paused to think ‘wait, what’ when it was already gone. So I think these were the questions marked, but let me know if I missed something :P

3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year

Picking favorites is hard :(

Wait you know what, no it isn’t. Shout out to the emilonni idiot sandwich scene, but I just remembered this existed, and this is ABSOLUTELY the winner. This is Tarn inviting Deadlock to join the DJD:

Finally he turns back to you and sighs. “It sounds amazing. Seriously. But— my real passion is killing Autobots, y’know?”

All of your offense evaporates in a moment. You blame the engex, but you have to reset your vocalizer before you can talk and your voice still sounds a bit choked as you tell him, “That’s beautiful.”

“Bro,” he says, reaching out to grip your shoulder.

Without even thinking about it, you grip his shoulder in return. “I respect that.”

14. a fic you didn’t expect to write

emilonni, lmao

Okay, so this. Was ridiculous. I didn’t even start out interested in emilonni. I was just interested in finding Onni the love he deserves, and I was running through the limited cast feeling out my options, and Emil was in the mix, but I mean. Emilalli is already a joy and a delight. But I said, ‘not that I necessarily ship emil/onni, but--’ and then one cold c. stars was like ‘ACTUALLY THO--’

Neither of us shipped it at first, and then we both tripped and fell (dragged each other) into this emilalli pit. You would not believe the amount of screaming that happened over the course of a few densely-packed days. Most of that screaming made it into the eventual fic, though some of it was differently shaped from how the initial plans laid it out. But I hadn’t honestly had any plans to write any ssss fic?? I don’t write for most fandoms I enjoy. And I sure don’t ever write big sweeping longfics. UNTIL NOW, I GUESS. I’m so delighted it happened and that I finished it, but christ, what a surprise.

23. fics you wanted to write but didn’t

OH NO. This is... such a dangerous question. I am going to try to limit myself.

Okay, transformers first. I’ve got the next installments planned out for the starbladejack and rodistar universes, but I just... never got around to it. I’m still getting over the death of idw1. I think I’m recovered enough to write again, but I need to find my way back to my zone, and things have been hectic enough that I’m only fandoming organically, not cultivating an interest like I would need to do for these. I also really wanted to make more progress on the whirlstorm functionist universe fic. Which... now that I’ve written the emilonni, this feels much more attainable. Like the emilonni, the whole thing is outlined, in pretty significant depth. The outline is much, much, MUCH older than the emilonni was, so it’s not as fresh in my memory and it’ll be harder to get back into it, but I don’t want to abandon that idea.

Then... I really do want to write a raksura moon/river ship fic. I needs it. I’ve been putting it off, because I knew that if I dove into the raksura books again, I would lose my tenuous grip on my focus and the emilonni would have been screwed. I still want to do a little more ssss content before I risk distraction, but this is still something I REALLY want. 

And then there’s that ssss content!! I still have at least one more emilonni fic (the candle fic), which Needs to be written, plus I’m considering some alternate pov fic in that universe. That’s not as important as the candle fic, but it would be nice to make it happen. And then, okay. Hear me out. Onni needs love. I’m not rrrreally a fan of reynir/onni. I’m fine with it. I’ve got no plans to write any. Emil, I’ve done. I’m not bringing his family into the picture. Which leaves.... Mikkel and Sigrun. Now, Mikkel he’s at least spoken to, and they share a language, and Mikkel is much more sedate and patient than Sigrun. But Mikkel and Sigrun are PERFECT together, and it would be such a shame to split them up??? So. Mikkel/Onni/Sigrun. It makes sense, I kinda sorta swear. At the very least, I have an interesting idea for a short (pls) smut fic that would have a REALLY cool premise, and I think I can make it work emotionally, and also it is Important to me that everyone love Onni to the max.

And one more. Emilalli in general is on my to-do list, but there’s one idea I have where they don’t have a fight exactly, but things are Not Great for reasons I’m not going to describe here, but neither of them is upset with the other, they’re both blaming themself. The only thing holding this one up is pov struggles. Maybe it needs to be two chapters??? Because characters only have partial information and that’s important, but sharing all the information makes for such a delicious picture for readers! I live a very hard life :( But that one is maybe next on the writing list, so it’s hopefully forthcoming soon! 

Oh, also, Emilalli and pillow princess things, because I’m pretty sure a fandom is also not a fandom until I drag pillow princesses into it for no good reason at all. I’m still not over pillow princess megatron. Pillow princess emil. Which sounds like it doesn’t work, but porn with weird feelings is my happy place, and this is a sense-making weird when i add the context. And. Holy shit. This has also just reminded me of a sexy raksura fic I want to write, featuring what I have just realized is... pillow princess moon. It’s not really the CLASSIC pillow princess type thing, but honestly, it’s close enough. 2020 will be the year of the pillow princesses

[randomfandoms2004]

rider k i c k! download: screaming abt eps 04-09 (MASS post)

I missed a BUNCH OF SHIT But I’ll be officially caught up!

Again, spoilers!

Episode 4 Highlights

I have a feeling this a very exposition heavy episode... also peep that boy who was clenching his hands, i see u 👀👀👀

Oh! Hi again Yua! Hm... a new key? (I’m glad she’s understanding of Prickly’s angst, as aggro as he can be)

ARUTO BRO WHY R U UP AND- *sigh* THERE’S A WHOLE POINT TO A SECRET IDENTITY MAN! but gdi do I love this squishy boi

oh... damn... That kid’s dad.. oof feels

AW SHIT ANNA! FUCK WHOMST OH SHIT ITS HOROBI! THE GUY’S GOT A FUCKIN SUIT!

and here we see the debut of prickly’s meme face gdhjsghjds

Overall thoughts: Now that Fuwa knows of Aruto’s identity as “damn grasshopper guy” I wonder what he’ll do with that information... and now that we know Horobi has a suit, what else can he do with it?

Episode 5 Highlights

Oooo more insight on the whole HumaGear stuff Hjskdhjd Aruto that was great, he looks hilarious

Can I just say that Horobi’s smile is... really creepy??? (it... looks so... idk how to put it but it makes me uncomfortable, but that just adds to the creep factor)

Oh? Prickly gets a suitcase too! (dghjskshdj that whole part where he tries to figure it out is so goofy)

Mr. Mangaka might be a lazy asshole, but at least he still wants to grab his lineart pen

Yo, can I just say I love Flaming Tiger form? Like hell yeah, good suit design!!

jin and horobi... in a parent- child relationship??? what???

Overall thoughts: It seems that Jin is human, but is he really? then again, he wouldn’t act as insane if he were a HumaGear. and what abt Horobi? he feels like a subboss, so do we know who truly is the main villain?

Episode 6 Highlights

Hm... it’s obvious the poor old guy is grieving... but it is a little messed up to make such a near-copy of your child

Seems Jin was triggered by the word child.... I wonder what his backstory is?

shit... man, what the hell... Seine seems to have memories of Sumire...

Horobi, you are so fuckin cold...

Oh ye, lightning hornet time. The whole color of the new suit looks dope af btw.

Aw, good for Mr. Seiji. Glad to see he’s changed and willing to move on.

THAT WAS ACTUALLY A CUTE ASS PUN ARUTO OMG

Overall thoughts: It seems real off that Jin is so... humanly insane? like he’s a HumaGear, but he’s so... crazy... I also think that Mestuboujinrai.net is working with AIMS and the Boss is one of the main bad guys... I’m also really hoping we slowly see Izu act... less robotic in a sense? Like her being... idk... just cuter.

Episode 7 Highlights

I wonder where AIMS took the Assassin AI...

And also... A Blizzard Key? I wonder which animal that is... maybe a Polar Bear?

Kobe is so pure, he loves the team so much. Plus he produces good positive reinforcement! That whole scene with the pass was cute.

Yua... filming the assassin AI? what for? (Turns out she analyzed his data too...)

Oh! I was right! It is a Polar Bear! And the suit design for this one looks cute I mean, look at the ears!

Yua... what the hell are you planning...(she managed to take the Mammoth Magear key... I wonder what for...)

Overall thoughts: AIMS(More specifically Yua) is planning something... and I don’t think it’s a good thing... I’m still wondering what they’ll do now that they have the information that Aruto is being hunted.

Episode 8 Highlights

Hm. Seems Dodo bird can’t hack, Yua’s doing I presume.

Well Science advancements mean advancements in medicine, right?

I wonder what Horobi will do to Yua... especially since we’re aware that she’s the one who hacked Dodo bird.

AW SHIT, YUA! Fuck, and they stole some of the upgrades! 

Hm, so hacking the Giger can do bigger damage since they’re meant to attack rampaging HumaGears...

OH I WAS WRONG COMPLETELY BOTH JIN AND HOROBI ARE AIS???? holy crap... explains the bandana...

Oh, well shit. Damn, Horobi is so brutal...

Overall thoughts: I have a feeling Prickly is gonna live (especially since he’s apart of the main cast, aside from that Tokusatsu doesn’t really kill unless it’s backstory or plot). But it seems that both sides are even. If AIMS and Aruto wanna survive, they’re gonna need to work together (Which, I think both Prickly and Yua are gonna HATE).

Episode 9 Highlights

I’m surprised Yua cares so much... Prickly and her always act like they hate each other’s guts, y’know?

Shesta and Izu doing the “anime electric rival glaring” stare is so endearing (these two may not be human, but they sure don’t like each other!)

Yua, seriously, you’re so fired up... (it’s... weirdly pure of her...)

Is Izu... more aware than I think she is? Must be Aruto rubbing off on her.

AW LIT A NEW UPGRADE!

Yua, quit hiding... they’ll be onto AIMS eventually...

Fuwa is such a typical tsundere, it’s so fun to see his meme expressions

Overall thoughts: Plot progress! I do think eventually Prickly and Yua will become heroes. They’re secondary riders for a reason. There’s a bigger bad guy (who might be the ZAIA/AIMS leader?), who will end up forcing Yua and Prickly to switch sides when the two of em are backed into a corner.

Preview Time ~ Seems like this next ep will have some focus on Fuwa after recovering.  And it seems Dodo bird will be on the hunt for Aruto again...

[trashexplorer]

BLCD Review: Hako no Naka / Ori no Soto

Title: Hako no Naka / Ori no Soto (箱の中／檻の外)

Release Date: 2018/07/13

Author/Artist: Konohara Narise (for the novel), Kusama Sakae (illustrations) 

Cast: Kawahara Yoshihisa x Nobe Kenta

Synopsis: Douno has been falsely convicted of molesting a woman on a train. He serves time in a group cell in prison, surrounded by inmates who are all suspicious in some way. Just as Douno’s distrust of people reaches its peak, he is saved by the innocent kindness of his cellmate, Kitagawa. For Kitagawa, who is imprisoned as a murderer, this is the first time in his life that he feels the emotion of love. This complete edition encompasses the main work, “In the Box”, as well as “Out of the Cage”, which tells their story after their release from prison. (BakaUpdates)

Review Proper 

Yo.

I’m out, man.

I knew instantly from the synopsis that this was going to be a ride, but I didn’t expect it to be a tragic-feels ride. Gdi I shoulda known that this won’t be playing because I knew that the cover art was familiar. Turns out that Kusama Sakae was also the one who illustrated the cover for Shortcake no Ichigo ni Sawaranaide which hurt me like a bitch too. What a coincidence.

Anyway,

I’m a sadomasochistic piece of shit who takes pleasure in all kinds of painful situations, but I still think that there are many things in life that I don’t deserve happening to me.

And one of them is Hako no Naka / Ori no Soto.

Yo, the hole Life Senjou no Bokura left in my heart last year had finally started healing, but scratch that ‘cause now we’re fucking open again for business!

I’m not going into much detail about the actual plot because it’s longer than volume 1 of Judge Campanilla’s Criminal Law Reviewer. Honestly, I’m still at a loss for words as of this typing. I actually haven’t read the novel prior to listening to the BLCD, so I had a totally different opinion on Douno’s character then than what I have now. Almost all my issues and questions I had while listening to the BLCD were answered by reading the novel. 

So we’re going straight to the technicalities now.

A round of applause for Nobe Kenta, please.

I’m really very much surprised at how well Nobe Kenta pulled Douno off despite this being his debut in the BLCD world. I’m not exactly sure if it was the directors’ wishes or Nobe Kenta’s personal touch because Douno’s personality was marginally much more colder in the BLCD than in the novel. Not only did he manage to stand on equal footing with Kawahara Yoshihisa, he even managed to grab my full attention. He may still be a little rough around the edges (he still has to work on his crying and I’m not sure if he’s “good” at proper mattress mambos because we only had rape here), but I feel like he’s going to have a great future ahead of him. 👌  

Y’all know by know just how I love my talented man beast, Kawahara Yoshihisa and if you don’t know, now you do. 😂 Yo, it hurt me like a bitch listening to my man being hurt like that. I kept on imagining that it was Juda who was crying and getting blamed and shit.  😭😭😭 DON’T HURT MY MANS 🔪🔪🔪. He really took to his role well. I think they did well casting Kawahara Yoshihisa for Kitagawa ‘cause I can’t think of anyone else who’s more suited to it than him. Sasuga veteran-sama. 👏

They had pretty decent chemistry with each other, but it’s no Remnant Juujin Omegaverse. 🤷 Still, that’s pretty darn good for working together for the first time and for newbie Nobe. 👏😂

Now this is where the BLCD falls short - the accuracy and truthfulness to the original content. There are so many things that were left out from the original story line. Several important events, dialogue, and even characters were missing. We have two CDs - one for Hako no Naka and another one for Ori no Soto and they have seven tracks each which equals the number of chapters per volume of the novel, so why did they fail to include the most important parts? I mean, the whole thing is three hours long. 🤷 I was so pissed at Douno because it felt like his love for Kitagawa was so rushed and non-genuine and I’m glad that I read the novel afterwards because I got to see just how Douno elaborated on this “love” that he felt for Kitagawa and he utterly proved me wrong on my assumptions. If I read the novel before listening to this, I might have been upset, but since they really didn’t twist the story or anything just cut out some parts, I would still probably like this adaptation. 

Umm.

I loved this.

And hate it just the same. The whole experience was like a goddamned roller coaster ride and since I wasn’t satisfied with one ride, I gladly hopped on it again, but this time, there were no seat belts. It took me about a day and a half to recover from the BLCD and another day for the novel. 😩

In conclusion, I say that this was a pretty decent adaptation because even without reading the novel first, it hit me really hard. I do recommend this to those who haven’t read the novel yet, but I encourage you to read the novel afterwards (so that you’ll get the 100% of that 5% Detroit Smash the BLCD offers). If you do read the novel first, do be warned that there are cut outs.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be crying to myself to sleep.

Wake me up when September ends. 

[the-cryptographer]

The first series ygo arcs according to me. Manga and DM canon. According to me. aka not the ultimate truth.

Season Zero

Pros: school life shenanigans. mah boi Jounouchi is at his most character development-y. mah boi Seto is at his most psychotic. someone else’s boi Atem is a hilariously shitty vigilante. stupidly aesthetic edgy.

Cons: Jouji. villains are dumb. and you’re dumb for liking this shit, DeLurk.

Comments: God Tier, tbh.

Duellist Kingdom

Pros: best Mai arc. best Kaiba arc with best payoff for ‘to lose is to die’. solid Jounouchi arc. solid Jounouchi arc where he’s terrified of zombies. duels are quick and cathartic. minor duellists are at their best. island funtimes. sneaking around Pegasus’s property. THE ENDING OF THE ARC IN THE MANGA!!!

Cons: idk, Paradox Brothers?

Comments: also God Tier, tbh.

Legendary Heroes

Pros: Yuugi, Jounouchi, Mai, and Mokuba go on fantasy RPG adventures. Mokuba is a manipulative little shit. we learn that Seto is shit at delegating power within his company. also Yuugi, Jounouchi, Mai, and Mokuba go on fantasy RPG adventures.

Cons: everything is rushed and contrived and stupid. if you start to question why and how Yuugi, Jounouchi, Mai, and Mokuba go on fantasy RPG adventures, the whole thing unravels into a ball of coal.

Comments: it’s still fun af and nothing can stop it from being fun af.

Dungeon Dice Monsters

Pros: Otogi.

Cons: the anime version was shit. but also the anime version had some cool Otogi-Pegasus connections that I wish were in the manga despite myself. so you can’t win.

Comments: i love Otogi, you can’t understand.

Battle City

Pros: ISHTAR SIBLINGS. no, for reals, Malik is the best villain, and the Ishtars have be best sibling drama. had the best duel in the series (trustship duel). Jou-Malik duel was also pretty quality. Bonz v Y!Bakura. Y!Bakura v Y!Malik. plot relevant. Yuugi says he loves Jounouchi. Kaiba grows up a little (and also talks shit about Jou for dying). Pinnacle Shizuka. Dark Necrofear.  Atem goes on a fail-date with Anzu.

Cons: longest, most draggy arc with so many low, low, boring af moments. full of boring, shitty Jou duels. slightly-less-full of boring, shitty Atem duels. Mai gets put in a coma. Jounouchi has literally nothing interesting to do until Mai gets put in a coma. ableism. misogyny. boredom.

Comments: best parts of the series and worst parts of the series combine to make Frankenstein’s monster of ‘i can’t stop watching’.

Noa’s Arc

Pros: Kaibros drama. Noa is an amazing little bitch. sci-fi adventures. Anzu and Dark Magican Girl team up. peak crushshipping love and drama and Honda is a jackass and Shizuka is amazing. we get to learn more about the Big 5, and at least half of them are interesting.

Cons: brought up a bunch of Kaibros drama that then got dropped prematurely. didn’t bring enough mind-fucky drama to the table. also WHY IS GOUZABUROU SORT OF ALIVE, GFDI, GOOD JOB UNDERMINING THE BASIS FOR SETO’S BELIEFS, ANIME, GDI.

Comments: still worth it, tbh.

DOMA

Pros: interesting (if highly inexpert) exploration of Mai’s PTSD, her self-imposed distance from others, her misogynistic self-hatred, and her need for validation from the stupid fuckboys in her life - all of which Battle City brought up and then fumbled terribly. ROAD TRIP IN AMURICA. Otogi and Rebecca are now pals. Rebecca and the Kaibas are now pals. Rebecca hacks things. Kaiba refuses to help and then ends up helping anyhow. Honda is still the best mom friend to Jou and everyone. Amelda, Rafael, and Valon are all interesting and have interesting conflicts going on. shrimpshipping hell. Atem gets some interesting character moments.

Cons: Atem gets some interesting character moments that don’t fit into how the rest of his arc has played out AT ALL. Dartz. Atlantis. stupid Legendary Dragon cards. DARTZ. ATLANTIS. there is no end to my hatred for how Dartz ended up being used to undermine the problems Amelda had with Kaiba.

Comments: similar to Battle City in my contrasting love and hate with its structure. but less plot relevant.

Grand Prix

Pros: Vivian. Jou & Mokuba moments. Jou & Grandpa moments.

Cons: everything else.

Comments: I shouldn’t even like Vivian as much as I do but, what can I say, I love Miss Sinophobic Stereotype apparently.

Capsule Monsters

Pros: Melon Club(?) Jounouchi in a Red Eyes costume(?)

Cons: ???

Comments: yeah, I haven’t watched this yet.

Millennium World

Pros: magical Ancient Egypt setting - woohoo! new members of the cast are fun. Yuugi got to duel. cartouche & true name magic. more Monster World tabletop fun in the manga.

Cons: new members of the cast are underdeveloped. rushed as fuck. Set and Kisara relationship is terribly written. Thief King Bakura’s valid complaints about genocide and the ruling class get thrown out the window. Zorc is the most boring ultimate evil.

Comments: series goes downhill as it continues according to me apparently.

Darkside of Dimensions

Comments: I’m tired of this post now. Big pros are Yuugi and Kaiba duel and the portrayal of grief. Big cons are throwing Anzu’s experience under the bus and introducing Ishtar siblings ripoffs (Mani is okay). Everything Kaiba did was in-character. That is all.

[buildingshitwithcrab]

One of the more peculiar things I found during November’s visit to the Goodwill outlet was a mostly-empty shoebox, that turned out to contain someone’s small but greatly varied collection of miniature rollerskates. They’re rather impressive, when you take them in, individually.

The yellow one is a thick, hard resin, with a sticker on back that says “Small World Greetings 1980″ (the sneaker is from the same company and year and was in the same box, so they’re technically a pair.)

Blue wheels is a 3D Kreuzer eraser from Germany, and the plastic wheels roll. I collect erasers anyway, so this is quite a score, on its own. It’s heavy for a little eraser, and has a ton of detail from its mold. The wheels were even cast to have hex nuts in the centers.

Red wheels is an amazingly elaborate replica: the upper is faux leather with real stitching trim and a separate tongue, the original lace was missing but it did have holes for it, and the rolling wheels are clear, like real urethane wheels. It would fit a male Monster High foot, if I had two. I had to glue both sides of the toe back onto the sole (the original glue has to be 30+ years old and just gave out there,) but it’s whole again and holding nicely.

The crocheted skate is adorable, because whoever made it could have just made it to be viewed from the front and called it a day, but they didn’t, and gave a flat skate four ‘wheels’.

This does, however, mean that the original owner’s collection is now my collection, and gdi, that’s a new one.

[equalseleventhirds]

played more d&d with my family today

some bits:

‘we’re here to see... what are their names?’ ‘you don’t know. you never asked.’

i realized that the npc named ‘eryell’ is gonna be pronounced like ‘ariel’ and there’s nothing i can do about it gdi

‘i’m going to convince them to give us money so we can buy them passage on a boat out of the country’ ‘roll persuasion’ ‘nat 20′ ‘...so you just take all their money’

‘i’m going to look for a ship heading out of the country’ ‘ok roll perception’ ‘...4′

‘i literally told you there was a smuggling ship last session’ ‘yeah but we don’t want to put them on THAT one, let’s find another one’ ‘WHY’

they eventually decided that to get the npcs to the ship they’re going to have to hide them, and to do that they will put them in a bag of holding. but like, open it every few minutes to let them breathe.

a ten minute conversation on whether they should buy another bag of holding which they can open inside the other one to make a portal to the astral realm ‘if we need to’

the warlock can cast disguise self, so the rest of the group volunteered him to act as a decoy??

‘can we put a bomb on him’

‘ok we don’t have a bomb but can we MAKE a bomb to put on him’

‘do i get a say in this because i don’t want a bomb’

the warlock has a charisma of 10. he is not a very GOOD warlock.

he also just rolls very badly on attack rolls, which as a pact of the blade warlock is just. embarrassing. he can’t hit ANYTHING.

they have not managed to implement the bag of holding/disguised warlock/potential bomb plan yet, bcos they noticed a spy/archer npc hiding in a nearby house and went off to fight her

the rogue did like 70 points of damage, and then the warlock, who had been missing the archer the whole time, got in one hit and took her last few hp

‘can i take her longbow i have bad weapons’ ‘you are a pact of the blade warlock?' ‘i can’t HIT anything!’

we’re gonna play again in a couple of weeks when they wake the spy up and interrogate her

[tuckerfuckingdidit]

i almost put this off longer. 15x15, let’s go~~

if this doesn’t cut to lopez screaming in space i will riot

“space.” *SHRIEKS* NO THIS IS BETTER. i was so pissed off about spoilers this weekend but that intro Healed me.

even though it’s um, going too long, this is a shorter episode dude

okay whew Something is happening.

ayuda.

same. hey locus. #spoiled.

hey grif. #spoiled 2: the spoilering

holy hell, is dexter grif preparing a Confession? grif’s preparing for something? HE’S IN LOVE YOU GUYS

the way grif says “anyway” is the THE SQUEAKIEST I’M YELLIGN I DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS ALSO IMPERSONATING WASH

he’s talking to a rockkkkkkk this does not surprise me tucker’s designated place to Beat the Meat was a rock sdughisdughdg. honestly i expected a soda can, but this is swell.

CINNAMON

this whole scene is a warm-up vocal exercise

IT’S NOT A ROCK, IT’S A TOM HANKS FILM REFERENCE. Y E S

HWE HAS. MULTIPLE. VOLELYBALLS

WHERE ARE THE VOLLEYBALLS FROM

WAS CAROLINA SPIKIGN THE SHIT OUT OF PEOPLE PLAYING BEACH VOLLEYBALL

let me have thsi

he literallty fuckign painted on highlights. he cut metallic visors from foil and taped them on. this boy is so lonely and i refuse to be sad, HE’S BACK ON MY SCREEN GDI

if i never hear grif’s impression of sarge’s laugh again, it will be too soon. #cursed

SO AT SOME POINT GRIF ACTUALLY DID LEARN SPANISH SUHGISUDGHISGU, this show is canceled

“hee hee hee hee! entendre!” the show’s back on.

TYHIS IS LITERALLY SO MANY VOLLEYABLLS

AT THIS PIOINT I’M EXPECTING THERE TO BE A VOLLEYBALL FOR VOLLEYBALL FROM CHORUS

oh my god grif’s tucker voice

the caboose one is hysterical. also SDIUHFISU THE EYEBROWS

“kangaroo banana kangaroo” was literally ‘too much sense has been made, let’s mix it up now’ and i’m shouting.

NY HEARTS’ IN A POUCH

fml

ok this is sad.

hi sam.

LMAO “I WOULD KNOW” thank u for the trilogy callback

grif: “fuck, your voice is still so scary!”

meanwhile i’m doing hayley’s fucking reaction to the director getting screentime. LET ME HUG YOU, YOU FUCKING PSYCHO, I MISSED YOU!

i thought we were never gonna see him again ;-; #nofaith

#withgoodreason

#imeanweallwatchthisshowrightokayletsmoveon

LMAO THE FACE TOUCHIGN. D E X T E R 

how many fucking times is this boy gonna say “oodles”

dfgdfhujio the missing doc volleyball. perfect.

i appreciate that joe Did Not make us sit through a whole fucking episode of blood gulch!volleyball (the lack of freelancer volleyballs was hilarious and totally noticed btw, WHERE WAS HIS PADAWAN GDI, THE GRIFALINA FRIENDSHIP IS CANON) and introduce locus right at the end. there is an incredible amount of fucking gratitude happening here okay. i would have Died.

DID YOU TOUCH SIMMOSN

MARRON IS FUCKING BROWN LMFAO

yay they explained he learned spanish

OODLES AND OODLES AND TOASTER STRUDLES.

15 SEASONS!

oh my god. everyone with adhd headcanons for grif needs a party thrown for them or something.

“just so you’re aware” hee hee hee hee hee

oh my god so plot twist, when locus isn’t spilling blood to get what he wants, he has absolutely no idea how to manage people. hENCE WHY THESE FUCKING VOLLEYBALLS MADE IT ON THE SHIP ANYWAY

“i hope everyone doesn’t hate me.” he snuck that in there so smooth

omg a felix mention

“i don’t remember you being... like this.” i cant’ believe he hasn’t threatened violence yet. amazing.

HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE YOU KILLED USHIUSTG

DID YOU KILL ANY OF YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS GUSDHGIUSHG

I’M AGNOSTIC FUCK YEAH HEADCANON CONFIRMED

i fucking love this. locus just “this is it. this is my hell. i deserve this.” #lethimtalk

“TURNING OVER A NEW FUCKING LEAF!” in which dexter grif is Actually Red Violet. six seasons and a movie about locus and grif Doing The Right Thing, let’s fucking go! forget that it’s a goddamn arc late! abandon my kids to their shitty ass basement death trap! JOE NICOLOSI IS GIVING ME THE FORBIDDEN LOCUS SUBPLOT I ACTUALLY THOUGHT WAS LEGIT FORBIDDEN. YOOOO

seriously though this scene is long. as. hell. these scenes were long as hell. we now have TWO groups of people we are conspicuously Not Cutting To, WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF CAST MEMBERS LOL

i will go to my grave Disappointed that i did not get to be genuinely surprised by these characters’ reappearances, but oh well.

[maywemeetagain-youheldyourbreath]

why are there no bellarke musical aus?

like.....Clarke Griffin is a Hollywood movie star that has always been interested in stage because she saw a production of Les Mis at the Hollywood Bowl once when she was nine and thought it was the most perfect, transformative experience ever, and so now she has some traction on her own merit (because can’t have a hollywood au without clarke’s family being hollywood royalty) she approaches Wells, her agent, and is like “i wanna be in a musical” and so Wells hooks her up with a revival of some Gershwin or Rodgers and Hammerstein AND the producers are thrilled, LIKE, hopefully they can get butts in seats

and Bellamy Blake god-I-hope-I-get-it, Marlon Brando type, chorus boy has had to fight tooth and nail to get every and any part he’s ever gotten

but he’s not a dancy type of chorus boy, oh no, he tried to learn to dance once he realized that maybe musical theater could be a viable option for him but ALAS he had two left feet....Octavia is the dancer out of the two of them....so Bellamy has made a pretty solid career out of Baritone chorus singing in revivals of Sondheim and Gershwin and Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals

and so when he gets cast in the chorus of the King and I...because he’s brown and the casting directors are like who cares what kind of asian he is....we don’t...you’re hired...Bellamy Blake is pretty pumped

UNTIL he hears the princess of hollywood is making her stage debut in this revival...which taints the whole experience for him before the first rehearsal

meanwhile Clarke drops out of a film to focus on this production....like, voice lessons three times a week, a dialect coach every day for an hour, ballroom dance lessons every night for two and a half hours....she isn’t going to just do this musical, oh NO CLARKE GRIFFIN IS GOING TO GIVE IT HER ALL

she’s very aware that she’s not broadway royalty and that people are going to expect her to fail and she’s not going to let that happen, not today, not ever

on day one of rehearsals in Chelsea she arrives at the studio an hour before everyone else is set to rehearse

the stage manager is the only person in this room full of mirrors....and Clarke is suddenly overwhelmed, like...what if she can’t do this...what if everyone thinks she sucks...what if everything goes wrong...what if she’s...what if what if what if

Raven, the stage manager on-her-shit-runs-this-show, Reyes steps into her space and tells her to breathe. “whatever kind of breakdown you’re having, don’t....I saw your tapes...you got this”

the two girls spend the next hour drinking coffee behind the director’s table

which does NOT WORK FOR BELLAMY BLAKE when he shows up to rehearsal fifteen minutes early because does miss famous think she can just sit in the director’s chair? like who IS this girl? and chatting up the stage manager? pfffffft. is this whole production gonna be like this??

he starts to warm up near one of the bars, just because he can’t dance doesn’t mean he’s not a strong mover, when Clarke bounces over to him all excitement and nervous energy

FIRST DAY OF REHEARSAL WOOT, she’s pumped

she starts to go through her dance warm ups on the same bar as him....and after a few minutes of silence she can’t help but blurt out “I’m Clarke”

he works his jaw, all grit, “yeah, I know”

cue end of the world, dreams shattered....one of her cast mates (a cute one to boot) already doesn’t like her, this is exactly what she feared..but fuck him, okay? she’s worked her ass off for this role and is ready and prepared to kick ass. so what is some...some...SILLY LITTLE CHORUS BOY DOESN’T LIKE HER?? (clarke does, omg she does)

and rehearsals for broadway shows are intense and SHORT, like they have four weeks to get this off the ground, OKAY?!?!? so Clarke doesn’t have time to deal with Bellamy Blake (she learns his name at check-in day three) and his piss poor attitude

even if she really wants to know him because he’s good, he’s really good, actually....and everyone in the rehearsal room seems to know him and like him....he’s their resident chorester

and, at some point during the rehearsal process, once he “gets his head out of his ass” as Raven one day so sweetly points out he realizes Clarke is really good, too. actually, she’s phenomenal and soft and her voice has a raspy mezzo that’s perfect for him and she’s so good to everyone in the cast and has taken a real shine to Monty who plays Tuptim....a first timer who Clarke insists is gonna get nominated for a Tony

she also hooks Monty up with Miller halfway through tech week because the lighting designer and Bell’s best friend definitely has taken a shine to Monty

and so, OKAY FINE, Bellamy was a little hasty in passing judgement on Clarke but how do step back from that??? how do you step back from being an asshole on the first meeting???

he figures it out after their first preview

during intermission Clarke goes missing...everyone is running around ecstatic from a great first act, the audience loves it, its all going well....but their Anna is nowhere to be seen

Bellamy finds her hiding in the quick change curtains

she’s sitting on the ground, her hoop skirt flipped up over her head....and Bellamy thinks its just about the cutest shit he’s ever seen

he takes a seat beside her and flips the hoop skirt down

Clarke scowls but he offers her a tentative smile, which confuses Clarke because HE IS MEAN WTH 

that’s when he starts their friends with two words “what’s wrong?”

she unloads all of her anxieties, her worries that the audience hates her...and tentatively Bellamy wraps an arm around her willowy shoulders....and tells her with sincerity how great she was, how she makes this show, how she’s proved everyone wrong...how she’s proved him wrong....he sheepishly adds, “plus, I was an asshole”

Clarke smiles, “yea, you were”

and just like that, they’re friends

BEST FRIENDS

for six months of shows because they’re the original cast and that’s how that works....and suddenly people start to leave, moving on to new projects and contracts start to expire and then they announce that Harper will be taking Clarke’s place when her contract expires

Bellamy knows that Clarke’s run was always going to end but it hits him hard once he starts to see promotion for Harper

he didn’t want to do this show without her, didn’t want to live on opposite ends of the country from her

holy shit. gdi Bellamy. he likes her, likes likes her....how did this happen?? she’s a movie star and he’s just a chorus boy.

her closing night sucks. he’s going to miss everything about her. rehearsals, backstage pow-wows, spending their Monday when they’re always dark eating pizza and hanging out on her couch, he’s going to miss her most of all.

after her bow, Clarke throws herself in Bellamy’s arms, giddy and bright, and he just holds her because he’s THAT GUY NOW. fuck.

they throw her an exit party and bellarke leave together around one in the morning.

they’re sitting in her now empty when she tells him she can’t wait to come back to new york and see whatever role he’s doing next, because he’s better than the chorus 

self-deprecating, he chuckles, “there aren’t really roles for asians on broadway, clarke” “but you’re so good” “so? I take what I can...I’m not unhappy.” “you deserve more”

and that’s it....he doesn’t make his move, nothing, they just spend their night together and the next morning she gets back on a flight to LA

from her mouth to god’s ears, Bellamy gets cast in the revival of South Pacific. he’s the understudy for Emile...it’s the most he’s ever done in his career

Clarke sends him an excited text when he tells her, lots of emojis

her heart pangs when she realizes that she won’t be there for his first day of rehearsals or any of tech...but he can be there for the opening, so she has Wells book her flight immediately

he tells her not to bother because he’s the understudy so he won’t be on but Clarke tells him to hush his mouth, she’s coming anyway

she tells Raven she’ll be back in New York for the opening night and Raven teases her about her silly crush on Bellamy

they catch up over dinner once she’s back, Bellamy is too busy, he’s in tech, to meet them

Raven spends half the meal giving Clarke shit about Bellamy until she hits the core of the problem “he’s like a chorus boy, you’re a movie star...you do realize you have the upper hand here....you could so EASILY make a move”

“he doesn’t see me like that,” Clarke reasons, “we’re friends”

“oh, I believe you’re friends...but he definitely sees you like that”

CLARKE IS LIKE NUH UH AND THAT’S when she sees a text from Bellamy

“SOS”

“what’s up”

“John literally broke his leg”

“oh shit”

“i’m going on”

and that night Bellamy Blake gets his big break as John Murphy spends the night in a hospital nearby grumbling 

he’s fantastic, ends act I to thunderous applause

Clarke sits riveted to his “Younger Than Springtime”, the way he starts small...the way he seems to reminisce about a beautiful face one that he can picture so clearly (one Clarke selfishly wishes to be hers), the words are so silly and sentimental and tragic and so, SO Bellamy, “angel and lover and heaven and earth are you to me”, the strings swell, the way he grabs the back of the chair to tether himself to the earth, the way his voice quakes, the way he longs and pines and smiles that signature sad smile

he ends act one to thunderous applause 

act 2 is tragic and his “this nearly was mine” HURTS her....its slow and romantic.... “close to my heart she came, only to fly away, only to fly as day flies from moonlight” ....and that’s when she realizes she’s going to kiss him. not now but soon.

at the afterparty, he’s covered in sweat but he’s glowing...he’s radiant...and THAT’S when she kisses him 

in front of reporters, his entire cast

Bellamy’s dumbfounded when she pulls away and the roar of cameras clicks to life

Wells SCOFFS and starts to try and heard Clarke and Bellamy away from the “fucking reporters”

they get them into a backroom and that’s when he’s all smiles, his Clarke smile but also a radiant smile because BEST NIGHT EVER he opened the show and got Clarke to kiss him

“what was that?” “a kiss” “why” “because I’m so proud of you?” “you kiss people you’re proud of?” “just you” “oh good”

and the next show Bellamy does he does with Clarke and they go three for three on Rodgers and Hammerstein but this time its Carousel and this time they sing it together  

[a-panda-reads-act-omega]

ACT OMEGA PART 8

THE 24/10/16 UPDATE

Woow, another liveblog from your favorite act omega liveblogger. Are there any other livebloggers out there i need to know.  So yeah, here we are with part 8! Big Vriska number for the win. Also only two updates away from double digits! Yeah, I’m not sure I thought this through with the whole update-update format, this might take a L OT of posts to get caught up. Luckily, I have no problem with making a fuckton of posts. Anyways, I think we left off with the kids, so lets hurry up and get back to them!

(Cant post the image. Here’s the link. http://mspfanventures.com/?s=16414&p=47)

GASP, IS thIS SOME MULTIPLE CHOICE SHIT? Well considering I’m forever going to be staying chronological, I suppose I should start with the one on the next page! 

A CHARACTER SELECTION MENU appears through the power of NON-LINEAR STORYTELLING. You know the drill by now, have some free will! Or just go in this order, if you think agency is overrated

ONE | TWO | THREE | FOUR | FIVE

Oh, that’s helpful. Great, I’ll start with ONE then.

The fact that you are a dedicated and loyal reader is obvious and indisputable, so of course you won’t be moving on ahead without having taken a gander at all of the options presented to you.

Obviously! what kinda brainless CHUMP would move on without you explicitly stating to? NOT ME.

Anyways, starting with ONE.

PFt, woah their eyes. 

KANAYA: (Hey) ROXY: oh heeeeey! KANAYA: (Hey To You Again Except Slightly More Quietly) ROXY: (oh sorry)

It seems they gotta be quiet for reasons. H  m m M..

ROXY: (why r we whispering) KANAYA: (I Am Not Entirely Sure)

So they just need to be miss zuipPer lips for no reason then?

KANAYA: (That Just Seems To Be What Everyone Has Lapsed Into Doing) KANAYA: (And Now Speaking In A Normal Volume Will Draw More Attention Than Desired Especially When Attempting To Have A Private Conversation) ROXY: (im lovin this private convo already but you might need to make it snappy)

so everybodys just whispering? do they all got SECRETS? Also, what’s the hurry Roxy?

ROXY: (john looks about ready to get down n dirty with some srs leadership biz)

Oh yeah.

KANAYA: (Alright Then I Will Attempt To Be Brief) KANAYA: (I Wanted To Thank You Again) KANAYA: (For The Matriorb Certainly)

Alright cool! It seems that this Kanaya does remember Roxy giving her the good ol’ matriorb. 

KANAYA: (But Additionally For Everything Else You Have Accomplished Today) KANAYA: (I Know Being The One To Strike The Final Blow Against Our Shared Enemy In The Midst Of Battle Does Not Necessarily Warrant Gratitude But I Thought It Might Be Nice For You To Hear That What You Did Was Appreciated)

What she DID, was prove herself to be a goddamn BADASS. But honestly everybody here’s a badass one way or another. 

KANAYA: (At Least By Me) KANAYA: (On Behalf Of My Species As Well As All Those Who Suffered At The Behest Of The Condesce) KANAYA: (And All Those That May Now Be Born And Live Free Of Tyranny) KANAYA: (You Did Good)

Pft, nice. “Ya did good, kid.” 

ROXY: (omg i am cri)

goddammit these lines always manage to be fucking perfect.

ROXY: (that wasnt brief @ all but twas so so bootiful) ROXY: (gdi cmere moms big loveable space gf)

OK this doesn’t need to be stated, but I fucking love roxy.

KANAYA: (Um I Would Prefer It If We Saved The Hug For Later Maybe) ROXY: (aww ok thats cool)

nO FUCKING HUG NOW

KANAYA: (Anyway I Have Only Just Met You But You Have Already Proven Yourself To Be Just As Extraordinary An Individual As Your...) KANAYA: (Uh) KANAYA: (Rose)

Nice Kanaya.

ROXY: (as my rose?) KANAYA: (Yes Your Rose) ROXY: (;D)

ITS CONFIRMED, Rose is Roxy’s Rose. this conversation is so cute.

See you’re still over there TZ. Whatcha lookin at? The uh... oh youre blind. what are you doing terezi?? come on girl, celebrate!

ROXY: (okay looks like john got distracted by somethin) ROXY: (so since we got a little more time to chat it up) ROXY: (and so long as were exchangin bomb as FUCK felicitations) ROXY: (youre not so shabby yourself yknow) ROXY: (like damn i was absolutely right youre one deadly customer)

Yeah no fuckin kidding, this girl knows how to kick ass.

ROXY: (seeing u whip out that BEASTLY CHAINSAW) ROXY: (was a sight to behold)

PFt, that was nothing. You should have seen when she single handedly put three of the most dangerous characters on the meteor out of commision. 

KANAYA: (I Really Did Not Do All That Much Surprisingly) KANAYA: (Or Perhaps Unsurprisingly) KANAYA: (I Am Not Sure If I Was Erring On The Side Of Caution After All) KANAYA: (Out Of Consideration For The Gift You Gave Me) KANAYA: (Or If Perhaps I Was Simply Unpracticed)

Well yeah, she didnt do as much in this battle as the others.  But like she said, she had the matriorb to keep safe. PLUS, she wasnt godtier. So yeah Kanaya, you’re excused from doing your makeup during the final epic battle.

ROXY: (who cares??) ROXY: (we WON) ROXY: (gave that witch what was COMING TO HER) ROXY: (and thats the end of that no point gettin our knickers all in a twist over it no more)

Roxy’s got the right idea. There doesn’t gotta be any more “proving yourself.” You did the battle, and you came out on top!  JUst be done with it.

KANAYA: (Yes I Suppose Youre Right) KANAYA: (Though I Do Wonder How Things Might Have Gone If I Had Attempted To Dust Off One Of The Old Fraymotifs)

Oh shit, Kanaya’s got fraymotifs? And also, you can use fraymotifs without being godtier?

oh. wait. terezi isnt godtier is she? Yeah, you totally can use fraymotifs without godtier.

ROXY: (no kidding!) ROXY: (yeah that woulda been pretty badass) ROXY: (we could have had a sick combo) ROXY: (void and...) ROXY: (uh) KANAYA: (Space) ROXY: (right yeah space)

Well too bad you’ll never have the opportunity to USE that sick deadly combo!

I am ONE HUNDRED percent sure that will be the case

i am SO SURE

nobody has to die anymore

so

completely sure.

KANAYA: (It May Have Indeed Been Sick But Upon Further Reflection Perhaps Not)

No kanaya, it would be SUPER fuckin badass dont even give me that shit.

ROXY: (wait rly) ROXY: (how come?) KANAYA: (I Dont Feel Like I Ever Got The Opportunity To Truly Get In Touch With My Aspect Like You) KANAYA: (It Has Never Seemed Pertinent That I Be Able To Cast Some Sort Of Spacey Enchantment) KANAYA: (In Fact I Have Yet To Stumble Across A Scenario I Could Not Handle Through More Traditional Methods) ROXY: (u mean a deadly body slam full a sharp metal teeth twice the length of your head) KANAYA: (Yes Precisely) KANAYA: (That Tends To Cover The Bases Pretty Well)

WELL, Chainsaws do seem to cover many different issues. Mainly the ones which involve somebody needing to be cut the fuck in half. But I dont know if being “In touch” with your aspect was ever really a thing. I mean, when did John become “in touch” with his aspect? He just sorta got the powers and did shit with them. i dont really know what that has to do with it- wait a goddamn second. People always associate the wind aspect with like independence and shit, right? And.. the last thing that happened before John went godtier, was a choice. Given to him by Vriska, who for the first time decided to step back and let him decide what to do on his own. Whether or not she would have owned up to what she said about letting him decide how to fall asleep, he still made the choice and went with it on is own. So maybe that’s got something to do with it.

Or maybe I’m just an idiot.

ROXY: (well you know what thats cool) ROXY: (u do u) ROXY: (besides) ROXY: (hopefully there wont be any more reason for you to wreck shit)

GOddammit stop saying shit like that

KANAYA: (That Would Be Ideal I Suppose) KANAYA: (However It Is Always Wise To Be Prepared) KANAYA: (Just In Case) ROXY: (ofc!) ROXY: (and hey) ROXY: (just cuz we won the game doesnt mean there wont be any more opportunities to like) ROXY: (explore yourself and your aspect) ROXY: (our cool powers are too friggin handy for them to just stop bein relevant once we walk thru a magic door)

SPeaking of which, can THEY HURRY UP AND WALK THROUGH THE MAGIC FUCKING DOOR YET IM GETTING ANXIOUS.

ROXY: (maybe someday youll get the chance to blitz ur chakras and get spacey w it) ROXY: (and itll be at your own pace instead of having to rush it for the sake of fixing some giant spacetastrophe) KANAYA: (That Does Sound Nice)

YES IT DOES NOW HURRY UP THROUGH THE DOOR SO THAT BECOMES A REALITY COME THE FUCK ON JOHN

KANAYA: (Considering Right Now I Am Very Unsure Of How To Even Begin Blitzing Those Particular Chakras) ROXY: (i bet u can ask john) ROXY: (hes rly good at givin advice for stuff like that)

YES HE IS BUT HE ISNT GOOD AT OPENING DOORS AAAAA

ROXY: (tho he probably doesnt even know it pffff) KANAYA: (You Are Also Very Good At Giving Advice) KANAYA: (That Was Not Necessarily A Request I Simply Thought I Should Point That Out) ROXY: (TOO BAD youre gettin some anyway ;P) ROXY: (rly tho ive hardly even begun to wrestle my voidy powers into submission) ROXY: (still got a loooooong way to go on that front) ROXY: (but thus far most of my blitzing has just been like) ROXY: (being around the thing) ROXY: (and letting myself embrace this like) ROXY: (natural synergy i got going w it) KANAYA: (When You Say) KANAYA: (The Thing) KANAYA: (Do You Mean Nothing) KANAYA: (Considering Your Aspect Presides Over Literal Nothingness)

Yes Kanaya, this is exactly what she means.

ROXY: (pffft) ROXY: (yes thats what i mean :p) KANAYA: (Okay I Was Just Attempting To Clarify) KANAYA: (How Does One Surround Themselves With The Concept Of Nonexistence) ROXY: (i dunno!) ROXY: (when u put it that way it does sound pretty mind bending) ROXY: (i guess ive just been lucky?) ROXY: (or maybe the nothing is naturally attracted to me and lucks got nothin to do w it)

WELL YEAh, what isnt naturally attracted to you? Guys i just really love roxy help

ROXY: (but yeah i got that voidy ring @ one point) ROXY: (and when john started getting to fixing the timeline he took me to a place that felt like) ROXY: (the nothingest nothing to ever unexist) KANAYA: (That Sounds Interesting) KANAYA: (What Was It Like)

Probably nothing.

THATS a cool panel right there.

ROXY: (well it was) ROXY: (white) ROXY: (but not pure white) ROXY: (just slightly off) ROXY: (and) ROXY: (it was super vast) ROXY: (but not like regular outer space where you can actually see stuff like stars stretch on and on til you cant see it anymore) ROXY: (which at least gives u a sense of distance) ROXY: (but instead it was almost claustrophobic) ROXY: (cuz there was nothing there) ROXY: (you and all the other somethings just completely enveloped by a shrink wrap o absence)

HUmm.. thats pretty interesting to say the least. Not really sure what to think of it though! Just pretty nifty.

KANAYA: (Hmmmm) ROXY: (never really tried putting this into words) ROXY: (i think the thing about it was that the void sort of) ROXY: (changed) ROXY: (depending on how i chose to perceive it) ROXY: (cause the whole point is that its kinda like) ROXY: (idk) ROXY: (maybe a little like binary) KANAYA: (Binary?)

too bad sollux is dead he’d get a kick outta this.

did anybody make this connection. computer hacker guy who likes two’s. Binary. man. i feel like everybody did.

ROXY: (yknow binary) ROXY: (computer language) ROXY: (0011101100101001)

TRANSLATOr HELP

“;)“

omfg she just winked in binary.

KANAYA: (Oh That) ROXY: (the way that works is basically) ROXY: (you have a bit) ROXY: (like a computery bit) ROXY: (and it can say either 0 or 1) ROXY: (and dependin on which it is the computer displays the info differently) ROXY: (but the void is like a completely blank bit) ROXY: (there isnt a 0 or a 1 written on the bit yet but thats all were programmed to understand yknow) ROXY: (like 0 is technically nothing but whats important is that theres something there for you to see) ROXY: (but what im gettin at is that really void is just blank space waiting to be written on) ROXY: (by somebody like yours truly) ROXY: (im the computer and youre the person reading the display)

Oh. That’s pretty cool and shit. 

OH shes gettin all magicky here

ROXY: (and my whole voidy thing) ROXY: (is that i gotta figure out the code for whatever i wanna make exist) ROXY: (and write it on the blank bits) ROXY: (then) ROXY: (i snatch em outta the void!)

Oh AGAIN. YEAh, roxys power seems a lot cooler now.

ROXY: (yoink!!!)

*gasp*

nice lipstick yo

Kanaya is so fucking cute oml. She looks kinda dumbfounded by this lipstick.

KANAYA: (Wow) KANAYA: (That Was Really Quite Insightful Roxy) KANAYA: (I Think I Am Already Beginning To Understand Things Better) KANAYA: (But What Is This) ROXY: (p sure its lipstick!) ROXY: (and its 4 u) ROXY: (i dont rly know if pinks ur color but) ROXY: (here it is anyway!)

Oh god help me im already starting to ship it.

KANAYA: (Another Gift) KANAYA: (Why) ROXY: (daaaaw i dunno) ROXY: (i mean its actually kinda cool i was able to make this at all) ROXY: (i bet it must be bc of you somehow) ROXY: (you like lipstick right?) KANAYA: (Yes) ROXY: (i dont know if this is just me but i bet this is totes a thing w space players) ROXY: (like i get the vibe that u guys r more in touch with the objects around you) ROXY: (specially the ones thatre important to you) KANAYA: (I Suppose...)

HMm.. Interesting bit of aspect analysis. That could possibly be a thing.

ROXY: (well?) ROXY: (ru gonna take it or what) KANAYA: (I Really Cant Accept This) KANAYA: (I Was Attempting To Alleviate The Debt Of Gratitude I Have Already Been Accumulating Towards You) KANAYA: (A Measly Thank You Is Hardly Enough) KANAYA: (And Yet You Present Me With Even More To Be Thankful For)

COme on Kanaya dont be like that. Just take the thing and be hAPPY! you dont gotta prove yourself for a gift.

ROXY: (man thats not how this works) ROXY: (you dont owe me nothin) ROXY: (but heck if it makes u feel better) ROXY: (the space egg wasnt rly 4 u it was 4 all the little trollings that need to be born) ROXY: (skewering the batterwitch was definitely 4 me and earth and stuff) ROXY: (and the lipstick is to thank u for takin such good care of my mom :D)

Dont you mean your Rose?

KANAYA: (... That Does Make Me Feel Slightly Better) ROXY: (so youll take it??) KANAYA: (Okay) ROXY: (hella) KANAYA: (Thank You) KANAYA: (Again) ROXY: (dont mention it!)

She will likely mention this many times.

WEll that was the end for their interaction I suppose, so it seems like we get one page of another interaction then? I guess Dirk and Jake.

Ohp, yep. Jeez they look awkward.

DIRK: (... So.) JAKE: (...) DIRK: (...) DIRK: (That was some fight, huh.)

Goddammit this is awkward. 

JAKE: (Oh yes that sure was a doozy of a brawl we all just participated in.) JAKE: (Or rather multiple brawls.) DIRK: (I think you’re probably up to speed on exactly how well mine went.) JAKE: (Um.) JAKE: (Should i be?) DIRK: (Nevermind.)

Just another beheading of good ol’ Dirk. Seems like that’s a common thing for him. 

((OhOFOHSANSIJFN  HOLY SHIT I PRESSED A BUTTON AND FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT I ALMOST DELETED EVERYTHING I WROTE DAMMIT TUMBLR GIVE ME WARNINGS))

JAKE: (Sorry... its just difficult to, uh...) DIRK: (Don’t be sorry. It doesn’t actually matter.) JAKE: (The important part is you won right?) DIRK: (Yeah...) DIRK: (How did yours go?) DIRK: (If you feel like sharing, that is.) JAKE: (Oh i won too!) DIRK: (Well. Obviously.) DIRK: (I meant... like.) DIRK: (Specifically, HOW you won.) DIRK: (I’d be down to hear some details of all the kickassery you've been dishing out.) DIRK: (That must've been pretty crazy solo.)

Come ONNNN guys, quit dancing around the topic here. Somethings bothering you and its making everything shitty.

JAKE: (Oh.) JAKE: (Well i wasnt alone for long actually.) JAKE: (In fact it was quite the clusterfuck of skeletons sprites and green goblin brutes!) JAKE: (That crabby troll fellow even showed up at one point.) JAKE: (He seemed to be having a difficult time with one of the tinier rascals but i was up to my ears in fracas and fisticuffs myself and couldnt really lend him a hand.)

Dammit Karkat. I love him, but god he’s adorably pathetic in fights.

DIRK: (It looks like he’s alright, so no harm done.) DIRK: (How many of those green dudes were there again?) JAKE: (Im fairly certain there were 14.) DIRK: (And you trounced all of them?) JAKE: (Actually k...carat dealt with one of them i think.) JAKE: (They were small but a decidedly tricky foe. It was scurrying around so fast i dont think a single one of my bullets even grazed it!)

He has ALLLL the luck Jake, ALL of it!  Honestly, can we get a Vriska/Clover battle?

DIRK: (Well, shit. Sounds tough.) DIRK: (Still, my score reads "Jake: 13, Goblins: 0".) DIRK: (Oh, and I’m pretty sure the name you’re looking for is Karkat.) JAKE: (Is that so?) DIRK: (Yup.) JAKE: (My mistake then...) DIRK: (Don’t worry about it.)

Dammit Jake, don’t be so fucking hard on yourself. I feel bad for him now. Like, he’s beating himself up over not knowing a complete strangers name.

JAKE: (Have you spoken to him at all yet?) DIRK: (Nah.) JAKE: (Would you like to?) DIRK: (I guess? Sure.) DIRK: (He and Dave seem to be in the middle of something, though. No point in interrupting.) DIRK: (Besides, I’m talking to you right now.) JAKE: (...) DIRK: (...)

(...)

Alright dammit, I guess we’ll see if they get over whatever’s bugging them in the next update, because that’s the last page. Seeya next time and whatnot folks.

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

@tehsharkster Just going to show the one reply to save space, sorry ;w; Also under the cut cause long response=semi long reply and yeah 8U

Oh no I agree, there are times it’s hit or miss (I’m not saying it’s perfect, I was just defending the good parts of it cause you know....I enjoy it and I know other’s probably do as well, I didn’t mean to come off as the dungeon thing was inferior as I think P2/PQ did it really well but I do kind of lean towards the calendar system). Esp just P3 in general, not just November but night times are not utilized to their fullest potential, tho P3P FeMC route gave us more SLs during that time tho so that was a good improvement, but even before P3P, Atlus improved on the nightime with P4 (having 4 instead of P3′s 2, and then P4G adding more stuff to do in general so that was good). But P3P went a step farther with it’s SLs and force stopping the SL for the males before the plot thing happens, yeah it can break the flow but it’s the best way they’ve found so far that integrates side story and main story (tho tbh I prefer the SL stopping suddenly than waiting to be able to start the SL EVEN THO I ALREADY HAVE MAX CHARM OR KNOWLEDGE GDI YUKARI! MITSURU! ;W; Ahem, sorry, replaying P3 I realized Yukari won’t SL with you till after the Yakushima thing and it was frustrating me that other characters would say how close we are even tho we couldn’t SL with her and it feels like a bit of a continuity error or at least separation of main plot and gameplay esp with the responses you can choose from. ;w; But yeah I have a problem with having to wait to start SLing with people even tho they are technically available ;w;). And totally, I feel like a good handful of P3 characters were wasted/rushed (even tho I think P3P fixed most of it with how her story is structured, only having a month for Shinji and Ryoji is really stressful. ;w;) But in P3′s defense, it was their first hoorah into the fray so it’s obvs gonna be weaker/or messier compared to P4 and P5. 

No I agree, Naoto does come in pretty late, but I’m also no a fan that Mitsuru and Aigis won’t SL till late as well (tho at least we do talk to Naoto a few times prior to her joining the team, and Mitsuru and Aigis are more engaged from the beginning and I understand why we had to wait for all 3, they’re all handled better than poor Haru. :/) Oh yeah I agree P2 had a great narrative, the only possible breaks between the narrative I can think of is all the grinding/dungeon crawling (and depending how bad you are it might break the flow cause you’re grinding so much, but luckily even I haven’t run into this problem like I did with P1, and tbh I think P2 has the best flow so far). Then again it could have been because they had a smaller main cast at a time compared to P3/4/5 (5 party members at a time vs the 10/8/9 party members), which might be why they compensate with the calendar system to get all the characters the new games developed but it means it has to go on longer. And I totally agree, they should really fix some SLs that don’t really take that long of a time but yet you spend the whole day with them *looks at Fox as well* (at least have the option to go at night for him Atlus 8U). 

I agree, P5 is probably best structured for the calendar system (feeling like a Kaitou TV drama, tho tbh I always felt like P4 emulated a crime drama, ok Scooby Doo based crime drama but a crime drama nonetheless 8U, they both emulate tv shows so yeah that might be why I think they fit the best).

As for the Valentine day thing, haha, oh man. If you hated P4G’s you’re going to loathe P5′s. XD At that point in the ending, it’s been dragging on for like a while and it just adds to it (even tho I was personally waiting for the Valentine’s day and Christmas Eve thing, it still took too long even for me XP Sorry getting war flashbacks over how long it too @.@ XD). Anyways, P5 has the same thing, can’t remember if you can back out of it tho (tho if you don’t want to go with a girl I think Ryuji is your alternative option). What I didn’t like is how the game makes you interact with Marie and Nanako, even if you didn’t choose Marie (or no one so I guess Nanako would be default if you chose no one, but I’m mostly aiming at Marie since yeah....you can’t really avoid Nanako). Though I don’t think it’s just for Otaku/Waifu lovers but for shippers as well (speaking as a Persona shipper, I can totally tell you a lot of us wished that the game integrated the romance partner thing more in P3/4 story or at least give us more than just the rank 10 and christmas eve, which is probably why they added Valentine’s day tbh). But I do think you should be allowed to skip it if you so please (I know a few people who like to do the friendzone run and that’s completely fine, they should be allowed to do that), I mean if you’re able to do it for Christmas Eve you should be able to do it for Valentines day. 8U

But yes I agree with you, it’s not perfect, but there’s pros and cons for everything (and can see Atlus slowly getting better at their own formula with each game). And I don’t think it’s bad to prefer one over the other (even tho I might prefer the calendar system, doesn’t mean I suddenly want P1/2 to have that, cause those games were not made for that). Hopefully they can continue to improve their formula with each new mainline game and remake.