#hey i got out of making 24 motifs

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Good news! The coat is nearly done!

Weird news: somehow the coat is a little longer than the photo on the first row of blue. It should have needed a matching row of blue under it to get that long.

I'm supposed to get 6 stitches per inch, which I have in the knitpicks brava (all the citrus colors). I got 5 in the blue, but it's Caron One Pound, which is slightly thicker and causes this issue at times.

What IS surprising is how much COAT this coat is. I assumed Size 36 meant bust, but perhaps I was wrong. But I can't find a vintage sizing chart to confirm. I can say that the row measurement is off. It's about 1/4" an inch wider per three rows, so 1/2" per stripe (they're all six rows). So, yeah, that accounts for the extra width, but I truly can't figure out the extra length. Maybe it's because they're worked in the round.

Anyway, it's currently being washed to see if I can loosen the fibers a bit because this was one of those "Use a worsted but also a 3.5 hook."

If it comes together in the end, it'll likely become Sean's. Fits his shoulders like a dream, and that's a minor miracle for a mistake.

[coffee-in-veins]

Hey coffee! Hope you don't mind that I continue the ask game from a bit ago!

5 11 (drop a playlist if you want!) 14 and 24 (more like, where do you get your references) and 30!!

Have a good day <3!

hullo hullo o/

thank you for the ask! and don't worry, you can ask anything and even from very old asks if you wanna ^^ if i can answer, i will.

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

lately i'm posting almost everything i have that i feel "finished" online because it makes dopamine and i could really use that. if we're talking art, i think all the art i've got is posted online. if we're talking texts... well. most? some i have but again, few people are interested in them compared to art, so i post them more rarely.

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

oh yeah! when i write, i have a huge playlist of postrock:

when i draw - whell, it depends, i have Witcher 3 OST, Hades OST, Final Fantasy 9 OST, and i have a few playlists which actually have words! ^^ which is so nice T^T i can't write when i have songs with words in the background...

i love turning this one on when i draw dd:

one for them is inspiration for RRR. it's quite old one, it was made a few years ago.

now the unpleasant stuff: i'm ashamed to admit but it has songs from a folk group called Melnista. which is ruzzian. they were somewhat against the war... but not too vocally. maybe afraid. dunno. them being against it is the sole reason i've not deleted the playlist alltogether. i haven't edited the playlist since i have to be honest that those were the inspirations, but... i'm very torn on this one and whether or not i should edit it and remove all of those. so... yeah

and one which is a bit of a spoiler if you look at the specifics of the name:

14. Any favorite motifs

oh dear... probably soulmates. finding someone you feel welcome with, even if it's through shit, dirt and blood - either your own, or someone else's. importance of physical touches. found family of horrible people for horrible people who manage to work through their shit and become better while still perceiving themselves as horrible people. lights. undying loyalty, often betrayed because and by another undying loyalty.

24. Do your references include stock images

i hafe a few galleries for stock images, but i also can ask people around me to help with taking a quick photo if i'm desperate, to have at least some approximation.

this thing can help someone but it sucks to set it up and i often forget i have it ^^'

also https://www.tumblr.com/bodytachi is amazing to have a reference for a pose

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated

i'd put "Kiss your perfect day goodnight"

it's the first time i managed to draw them together. and i'm incredibly proud of how this one turned out... not to mention that rey had been a bitch to draw ever since

[extremelyblackandwhite]

innocence - 25

PAIRING: bodyguard!bucky barnes x innocent actress!reader

WARNINGS: smut (18+)

A/N: me to me “you shall not write smut. BEHAVE” also me “mILE HIGH CLUB”. 2021 barely started and i already need jesus. also rip me attempting to post this before christmas but hey i refuse to let christmas end bc christmas is my only hope and love and it’s over.

NEXT CHAPTER

Bucky was the first one up as the clock struck 5AM. He was anxious for the flight, for everything really. Y/N had assured him she had bought first class tickets so he’d be comfortable with the long trip but he was still reticent about flying. As an Avenger he used to do national missions, preferring not to fly as it brought him some memories he didn’t like to relieve. Sam had suggested he took some sleeping pills while the flight was going but Bucky refused not to be there to support Y/N who’d been getting called by her team 24/7 about her “mishap” as her manager like to refer to. As if a 20-something dating was something weird. Bucky knew Steve did way worse things than that but of course, she had stepped off the line, off the good girl, virgin ‘til marriage, girl next door yet just gorgeously unattainable and if Y/N hadn’t told him to stay out of it, he would’ve threatened everyone.

Anyway, other than flying he kept wondering about her family. Y/N had a big family, at least more family than he had and he wasn’t entirely sure how they would react to him. Bucky knew he wasn’t the type of man you’d like your daughter to bring in. Who’d want to say that their daughter was dating an assassin? No one. He had wanted to say no, he wanted her to have a nice holiday but looking at her there was no denying her. 

Y/N woke up half an hour later, extending her arm towards Bucky’s side only to feel the cold of the sheets on her side. She rose her torso, rubbing the sleep off her eyes before the blurry room became clear. He was sat on the big armchair, staring at the flight tickets.

     - Someone’s an early bird. - she leaned on the bed, hands under her chin as he gave her his charming smile. - Excited?

     - Nervous. - he rose from his chair to kiss her forehead. - Do you need anything, princess?

     - Just need to get dressed. - she lazily got up from her bed. - You’re gonna love it, Buck. There’s snow on the ground, we can get spiced mulled tea and go see the decorations at the West End. 

     - I’m sure I will. Now get dressed unless you plan on going to the airport in your underwear.

     - I don’t see you complaining. - she flirted, hips moving side to side as she opened his wardrobe to grab her burgundy long sleeve dress and pair of black flats. Bucky tried his best not to ogle at her and her figure in a matching black set of star motif bra and panties with garters to see through black stockings. Sometimes he had to slap himself to convince himself the woman standing in front of him actually liked him. - You’re okay with going, right?

      - Of course, princess. Whatever makes you happy.

      - Okay but what makes you happy? We don’t need to go if you don’t feel comfortable. 

      - Just regular meeting the parents nerves. - he pulled her hair away from her face to kiss her forehead. 

      - Based on the photos Rebecca has, I would say you’ve met enough parents not to be nervous anymore. 

      - Come here, you little minx. - he wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her in close to him. - I will have you know that I never met any of the girls’ parents. It was not a good thing for a lady to be seen alone with a man in my time, so we had to keep it a secret.

      - Mhm, were you destroying ladies’ reputations in your day, Mr. Barnes? Is that it?

      - Not my fault they couldn’t resist me. - he leaned down to kiss her but she turned her face away, naughty smile on her lips. - Don’t do that to me, princess. It’ll break my tiny heart.

      - Stop playing Romeo and grab your bags before we’re late. - she swung her hips side to side to grab her own cary on, a small matte black suitcase with her initials on the bottom left in a small size. 

Bucky followed her into the airport. He couldn’t seriously remember the last time he had been in an airport, maybe during his youth but right now everything seemed so different yet he didn’t feel scared. He looked to his right and there she was, holding his hand as the other pulled her trolley, dark sunglasses on to hide who she was but still sporting that smile that was truly hers, something he could pick out of a crowd. He never really liked the word or feeling of possession, neither did she, but they didn’t really mind the feeling that a ship’s rope held both their hands together in a nautical strong knot. It was that sort of feeling that disconnected them both from what surrounded them, the sound of echoed and at the same time murmured silence. Y/N didn’t mind, Bucky didn’t mind. The flashlights went by dim and the announcements went mute for both of them.

Y/N however did not like airports. For her, airports signified goodbyes, harmful and painful goodbyes those were you wave goodbye to your loved ones and walk into security checks with tears lodged in her throat, telling herself to put herself together as she approached the beginning of that line. It represented waving goodbye to her comforts to travel somewhere she was not happy, not that her life in the US after she left the UK didn’t made her happy, it did but it was a faux happiness. It was locked inside a bought apartment with people who didn’t or refused to understand her, with friends she loved and cared for but didn’t really check on her them too lost on their own lives, it was yearning for a love that took years to come and everyone told her it would come but never did. It was an odd feeling being at the airport but being with Bucky twisted that. It was no longer leaving loved ones, it was departing with them, it was leaving all the mess that haunted her behind yet she couldn’t help feeling like something lingered in the wind, some cut throating emotions and actions which would return to her. 

She decided not to dwell on it, smiling at Bucky as he picked some snacks to bring inside the plane besides her telling him they probably would have the peanut M&Ms rather than his beloved chocolate only ones. She watched him as someone watched something that reminded them of a childhood memory or something that touched them, with a tinge of sadness, almost knowing it would never happen again. She felt tied to him but she felt at any time this knot could worn out and she feared he would leave. Things fade, nothing lasts forever and she wondered when he would realise that he was dating a ticking time bomb controlled by others. She had control over her own heart but her face, her reputation, that would never be hers to control. 

     - Y/N? - he laid his hand on top of her shoulder. - Are you okay, princess?

     - Yeah, just thinking. - she handed the lady the tickets, holding Bucky’s hand as he led her inside the airplane.

Y/N was lucky to be used to first class, she spent in life in it but for Bucky it was a jarring new experience. His parents used to be well off, better than most however they were never well enough to afford flying anywhere. The closest he’d been to flying was in military helicopters but all his experience to commercial flying had been watching on magazines but even this looked so different. It looked like a perfect first class bedroom in a five star hotel with individual little places for each passenger and some for couples which he guessed was one for the two of them. As they approached their cabin, a polished dressed lady signalled them inside their own seats. She looked at Bucky who had star filled eyes as he noticed all the comfort of his seat.

    - Is this how you travel? - he sat down by the window, looking at the small bottles of water, juices and fun sized treats. - Now I know why you travel so much. It’s like a damn hotel room here. 

    - Peanut M&M’s. - she grabbed one of the snacks from his side. - I believe you’ll be donating those to me. 

    - That’s a travesty, princess. I cannot believe you prefer those with peanuts

    - Peanuts are great. 

    - Unless you’re allergic to them.

    - You’re not allergic to peanuts. Steve would’ve told me if you were and I saw you eat a peanut energy bar yesterday. - she crossed her arms. 

    - First, I hate peanuts so it’s almost as if I were allergic to them. Second, KIND bars don’t count, you know how good they are, they add that little caramel drizzle.

    - I guess we’re gonna have more than my nephews and nieces for a picky eater this Christmas. - she laughed, picking the remote to shuffle through whatever the company offered. Bucky leaned on her shoulder, leaving a kiss on it right before he did. - Thank you for coming with me. 

   - That’s not a problem, princess. Besides, who would guard you if I were not to come?

   - Is this overtime then, Mr. Barnes? - she looked down at him, his childish yet charming smile whenever he meant to tease her which he so easily could do both meanings of the word. - We should prepare for take off. 

It couldn’t be too different from take off in the quinjet. Bucky had done it once after the train incident but it always brought him back to it. He wasn’t like this and it pained him that the slightest of turbulences in any travels now made him feel like a kid. He didn’t use to be like this, he was fearless, going on the Cyclone time and time again and now ... now he was a shell of a man afraid of take off. He shouldn’t be afraid, it was not his role, right? He knew things were different then and were different now but he always wanted to be strong, strong for her as if any insecurity would throw her away. He knew it didn’t, Bucky knew Y/N was there to stick around and didn’t care about what the war and HYDRA had done to him but he cared. Bucky wanted to be her hero, her safe harbour and with this ... 

His mind shattered into snowflakes as she held his hand, the captain’s voice muffled as the plane gathered speech. Y/N never hand cold hands or a cold touch, she was just warm, a little ray of sunshine burning his icy exterior and forcing him to see the beauty of winter. Bucky clearly mostly got distracted by her own beauty but her holding his hand, the rings on her fingers which she had gathered from little shops along the street against his hand, made him want to remove the dagger he had stuck on himself so he could feel pain forevermore. 

The plane move upwards, both of them being pulled against their seats by the laws of physics on an endless climb and he still had his eyes closed, finding comfort in the darkness. 

    - Buck. - her finger caressed his jaw. - Look out the window. 

Bucky peaked open one of his eyes, looking out the window near him to see a full blue sky, completely different from the dark skies of the winter filled New York they had just left.

   - We fly above the clouds. Isn’t it beautiful? - she leaned against his shoulder. 

   - You see this everytime?

   - Unless I’m flying at night, yeah. Sunsets and risings are particularly stunning. 

   - Now what?

   - Now we wait for round 6 to 7 hours. We can put a movie on, maybe. Whatever you’d like.

Bucky took to shuffling through the movie catalogue himself. Some of the movies he’d never heard about and some he’d heard from Sam or from Steve’s list of movies he had to watch yet he never did. Capitan America himself stuck to the old classics, the movies they used to sneak through the backdoor of the theatre. He himself liked the classics too and Y/N, as a film/acting major herself, also had a soft spot for them. Bucky’s favourite was the Wizard of Oz, despite later knowing how controversial filming had been, yet he couldn’t help but always remember the wonder on his sister’s face and his own wonder as he watched the vivid colours. He could still feel it now, however the movie ended and soon the food came in and he found himself bored. There wasn’t much he could do on a plane and he found himself jealous of the 5 year old running up and down the cabin, despite most of Y/N’s laughter. 

He covered himself in the company’s blanket and snuggled against the pillow and still he couldn’t sleep. Y/N on the other hand had fallen asleep the moment she pulled the leg rest, wrapped around in her blanket, face facing his which gave Bucky the excuse to look at her while she slept. Bucky always found it wildly amusing how she slept, lips slightly puckered, eyes fluttering until she fell in deep and hands fisting the blanket up to her chin. Eventually, Bucky got frustrated, moving around in his seat to find a comfortable position. How come he couldn’t find a comfortable position on a first class seat?

    - Buck ... - she groaned, opening her eyes. - Stop moving around. 

    - I’m sorry, princess. I’m just ... so bored. How do you do this?

    - I sleep. - she placed the blanket on her lap. - Why don’t you get something else to eat?

    - How many hours left?

    - You don’t wanna know. - she rubbed the sleep of her eyes, Bucky still laid against his seat, blanket on his lap, head against the head rest. Y/N started thinking about how to entertain him until her gaze fell onto his lap. Looking around the cabin was quiet, no cabin crew or passengers on their feet, just a calm cabin. 

She moved closer to him, head against her shoulder, facade of a glistening angel on a renaissance painting. Her fingers traced the soft finish of his blanket, the embodied company name until her fingers were under the soft fabric. She slide her hand under his shirt, feeling his warm skin as her hand travelled downwards towards the Hugo Boss boxers he wore, fingers hooking on the waistband. Bucky swallowed dry, wondering if he had finally gone to sleep and this was finally a good dream or if his sweet, innocent girlfriend was actually about to do what his mind was rushing to as her fingers wrapped around his softened member. He grunted, looking at her like she was a fever dream, hips mindlessly thrusting into her soft warm hand. He would say there was no better feeling, had it not been for the fact he had been inside of her. 

Y/N bite her lip, insecurely swiping her thumb over the tip, his pre cum dripping onto it. She didn’t know what she was doing, mostly going by the erotica she had read and seen before, guiding herself by his low sounds, mumbled by his own hand which laid against his own mouth. She looked up at him, cerulean eyes looking at the ceiling as if all his strength would break loose were he to look at her and she thought that was the most gorgeous he’d look. She straight herself up, pushing his hand away from his mouth to start kissing him, something which would look rather innocent to anyone who passed by. Her kiss was warm, hot and sinful, much more different than the shy ones she would lay on him each morning yet he guessed it matched with her movements, fast and tighter against his cock. He tried to remain still, allow her to do what she wanted to do but his body had a different idea, hips thrusting and gyrating against her hand like some idiot teenager as her mouth lowered to kiss his pulse point. His breathe quickened, coming into staccatto as her movement quickened. The environment was blurry and all he could think about and hear were her movements and his body shuddering until he was spurting thick ropes of white liquid onto her hand and his breathe came out knocked as if he had finished a race. 

She cleaned her palm with a tissue, bringing her fingers up to her cherry tinted lips from her chapstick, disappearing within the plumpness of them. He swore he could cum again just from that sight. As he tried to regain his breathe from the latter event, she gave him a shy smile, pushing her blanket up to her chin. Whatever she did to him, whatever release she had given him had made him comfortable enough on that cloud nine that sent him into sleeping, only awaking once the plane wheels hit British soil. 

It was dark, around 9PM the captain had said and Bucky himself thought the trip was over until both of them disembarked onto the airport which was a completely different world. Had it not been by Y/N’s unwillingness to spend more time in an airport, he would’ve possibly stood behind taking pictures yet once she spotted a man with a sheet with her name written in, she had his hand on hers and dragged him up to it.

Bucky had been in London, he remembered it from the war and some buildings were the same yet everything was brighter. His eyes shone against the decorations, wondering how bigger they could get and Y/N took great pleasure in seeing him so happy. All she wanted was to make him happy, all she wanted was to see him happy. The taxi driver stopped in front of her childhood home which gladly always seemed to look the same with christmas lights and garlands. Both of them step out the car and the nerves finally hit Bucky. How do you meet someone’s parents? How do you meet the person who just gave you a handjob’s parents and make a good impression? How could he make a good impression? He was a hundred year old never aging man with a metal arm dating the little rose that everyone put on an altar. He didn’t belong. Maybe he could stop her, maybe he could convince her not to ring the bell except she was already ringing the bell and the door was opening up.

A short woman in a white jumper and jeans opened the door. She had Y/N’s eyes, the same eyes Bucky would recognise anywhere and based by the tight hug she gave Y/N, he would guess she was his mother.

   - Mum, this is Bucky. - she held Bucky’s hand. What should he do? Should he wave?

   - Oh my, you’re tall. I thought that with a nickname like that you’d be small. Oh, here I am again rambling. We are so happy here, you know, you’re the first man Y/N brings home.

   - Mum!

   - What? It’s true. You’re my oldest child and only now have you brought a man. Aunt Petunia is really proud of you.

   - Mum!

   - Come in, Bucky. Can I call you Bucky? Come meet the family.

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[circlique]

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#but sang kyu’s so uptight alfred feels like he’s living the role too much so he tries to make him smile or get flustered on duty and off

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Mutual Pining

Fleeting glances in the hall after world meetings, giving the other extra cookies they picked up at the coffee shop because they “got too much,” agreeing with the other’s talking points no matter how dumb... Yeah, they in deep.

I just took a guess at what Korea’s outfit might look like if he appeared in the new season. I can dream I guess.

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310 notes • Posted 2021-02-15 09:18:24 GMT

#4

Pls don’t rob me of the chance to see Taiwan’s anime meeting scene animated, season 7.

Anyway, have some Viet in her awesome suit and my guess at what Taiwan’s business attire might look like!

372 notes • Posted 2021-02-06 09:31:31 GMT

#3

I guess he’s close enough to my OC Singapore that I will just move all my headcanons over to him. 

I’m still confused about the white streak but if it’s meant to be a moon motif I guess it’s kinda cute aaa.

414 notes • Posted 2021-05-07 02:00:36 GMT

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Hey.

To all the hetalia creators out there, thank you for continuing to create, no matter how big or small your blog is, no matter which characters or ships you like, no matter what kind of content you produce.

Thank you for keeping our fandom alive and giving us all so many wonderful creations to enjoy!

439 notes • Posted 2021-02-13 07:48:20 GMT

#1

Enemies to Friends to Lovers // What was the mistake? The alcohol or us?

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[trashcatsnark]

WHY THE FUCK WERE UP SO LATE??? FUCKING UR SO LUCKY I CANT BEAT UR ASS OTHERWISE ITD BE KNUCKLE CITY

anyway, speaking about johnny boy i was thinking about him + nibbles and our like collective desicion that he is essiently a cat and it is really weirdly fitting that it just makes me like ???? so like cats themselves are a reoccuring motif within the game from the start, when u go to viks, when ur chatting up takemura and at the end with the rooftop that also doubles as like the millionith matrix reference. they follow v and they take up the role of the bakeneko, which i think in the game is defined by them appearing near death ? or just disaster. the obvious thing is that it is to do with v's inpending death and their whole sitation but like the general point is like the cat symbolises the death that follows v as the cat follows them. this puts johnny in an interesting sitation from his catlike nature to how he seems to like and get along with nibbles, he is linked with cats. he is also the parasite that is killing v. he is V's bakeneko. their signal of death. the events start because of his relic, jackie dies for him, and soon does most of the cast from act 1, and a large part of the death from then on is a direct result of them trying to solve the relic and johnny's whole presence is a signal for hey v ur fucking dying. he is death for them. the bakeneko.

makes me wonder if his catlike attributes were intentionally done cause that boy aint right or we just accidently walked on a really thematic fitting landmind

Spoilers within, again, also leave my sleeping schedule alone, I do not function. Additionally, I have a lot to say about Nibbles, omens, cats, and pets then how they all relate back to Johnny so congrats on opening a flood gate my friend!

 think the thematic thing with Johnny and cats and the bakeneko has to 1000000 percent be intentional, because he even sees a cat when Alt is kidnapped. And that goes back to Cyberpunk Red. Like that was used and utilized and then became such a large part of the story. 

Johnny is clearly meant to be a bakeneko; he’s actively next to the cat in that conversation, leaves when it does, see the same cat before Alt’s death, and is again the visual representation of what is happening to V. He is the symbol of their death, whether he wants to be or not. 

I think it’s also interesting to note, the Bakeneko, which is described as an omen of death and misfortune isn’t the only way we see cats used thematically within the game. Albeit, this way is more subtle and perhaps intentionally so. We also see the maneki-neko; the lucky cat statues are everywhere in game. In V’s apartment, Misty’s shop, Vik’s clinic. Everyyyyyywhereeeeee. 

So, we see two mythological cats from Japanese culture. One brings misfortune and one brings good luck. And Johnny exemplifies both. 

Johnny is a visual representation of all that is destroying V. His mere existence and presence a constant reminder that their death is around the corner. An ever present omen that V’s clock is ticking. He also often pops up to have a comment just before massive relic malfunctions and disasters. The end of every main game quest is punctuated with a relic malfunction and a lecture from Johnny. 

But without the chip and by extension Johnny, V would already be dead. If the chip hadn’t been the exact right place to be damaged and activated by the gunshot; it would have killed V right then and there. And while this wasn’t an active choice on Johnny’s part, he is the visual representation of the chip. Even then, he later does make an active choice to save V’s life. When V is hit with the worst malfunction yet; Johnny grabs them, “you aren’t dying yet, I got you” and he takes them to safety. He refuses to watch V seize and die in a puddle of their own sick in the middle of nowhere (for me it’s always at the sunset hotel, idk if this changes based on the order you do the events tho) So, he takes control, he eases their pain and takes them somewhere safe, somewhere that means something to him, and swears to die for them. 

Luck both good and bad. Fortune and misfortune. A sign of better days and an omen of death. A maneki-neko and a bakeneko. The time bomb in V’s head and the guy who saved their life. He is both. 

Now, stepping away from the mythological aspects. Lets talk about Nibbles the cat, Johnny, and pets within Cyberpunk 2077. Animals and by extension pets are considered a luxury in Night City. They’re taxed to fuck and back, generally only the wealthy can have them. Its also often brought up that real friends and family who stick by you are very difficult to come by. V becomes through Nibbles one of the rare people to have a pet. One of the other people who had a pet is, Barry their neighbor. 

Barry and his mission is one of the first you can unlock and see in the game. He’s V’s downstairs neighbor and his story is played out so fucking similarly to V’s. Barry lost his best friend, he’s quit his job because he can’t handle the weight of the NCPD’s corruption, and he’s thinking of taking his own life.  V has lost Jackie, its stated in game they get less work than usual because of Konpeki (cant be put on a crew), and very early on can say to Misty “be better off putting in my head”. 

But for Barry that friend ends up being a pet tortoise. And its clear what that tortoise represents; a constant companion, a safe place, and a comfort. Something Barry couldn’t find among his peers until later on when they learn just how much he’s been hurting. And this is treated as such a tragedy, that he only has a pet to turn to. 

And so V gets a cat, because they too are fucking hurting and having a little meowing bundle of skin running around their apartment helps. Something to come home to, something to make that apartment a little less empty, a little more alive. 

So, how does this particular aspect of Nibbles/cats/pets relate to Johnny, I hear you wondering (as well as wondering when Im going to shut up). Well, we know Johnny is linked symbolically with cats and thats the choice of pet for V. And we knows pets have been likened to support without judgement; a companion who you can tell everything too and they won’t abandon you. 

And while Johnny has heaps of judgment and is a dick. He is V’s only constant companion. I know a good junk of people don’t like him or his commentary; but imagine V’s life without Johnny in it through the game events. Imagine how lonely they’d be. 

Johnny is the only one who knows everything and is there with V from the start to the final moments in Mikoshi. 

Vik and Misty know, but they’re no edgerunners, they have no idea everything V is doing out there. Part of why as much as I do love Vik, his frustration with V hurts so much in the end because he talks like V hasn’t done anything to save themselves. Because, Vik doesn’t know what V’s been doing this whole time. 

Each part of the main quests in Act 2 are linked to an NPC; Judy, Panam, and Takemura. And not one of them know or are there throughout the entirety of V’s journey. Judy doesn’t get told the full details of what’s happening until later in and stops helping V one Evelyn is saved. Panam doesn’t learn the full details or anything really about the chip until much later. And her quests become her own personal journey once V finds Hellman. And then depending on V’s choices, Panam can come in to help at the end. Takemura knows V is dying and is there to help with the parade and then he’s gone; either dead or in hiding. He refers to anything that doesn’t involve him as V’s shady dealings and leaves it at that. He’s there to interrogate Hellman but he doesn’t know all V did to find him. None of them know everything, none of them have been there the whole time. And that’s not a condemnation of them, I do not expect them to drop everything to be glued to V’s side 24/7 but, I can’t fucking imagine how alone V feels. 

River has no involvement in any main quests and only finds out anything if V chooses to romance him. Kerry knows what Johnny told him and depending on the ending may even leave V. Again, wanna be clear, that isn’t a condemnation on his character. I understand why he does this and i understand his hurt and how it led him to that. 

But this is about how truly fucking alone V is in all of this. Not a single person there start to finish, not a single person knowing all that they have suffered, all that they have been through and are going through. 

Except Johnny. He tells V in the oil fields, closest to him by far, there 24/7, yet they don’t seem to hate him. And he’s that for V too; there the entire way, their demon never leaving.  Johnny knows everything happening; because he’s part of what’s happening. He’s been there through every struggle, every step, every slap in the face as V’s tried to save themselves. Has felt their pain as they lose themselves, has known the people who’ve had to die for them to get this far, as felt their heart break when all they found was betrayal by the Voodoo Boys, Ai Alt asking how V’s life is her problem, getting recommended a hospice by Hellman. 

And as dickish as he is, his comments help. V always has someone there, as much as he sucks. He always has something stupid or naggy to say to help keep some of that weight off their shoulders. Imagine if they didn’t even have that. If Johnny never talked to them, never showed his face. 

A constant companion, like a supportive pet cat except he can talk and did a lot of meth. 

And this is a sidenote that has nothing to do with cats specifically, but that through Samurai music this isn’t the first time Johnny could be compared to an omen. Its no secret that the music was largely created around the game and as such, many of his songs have direct parallels and messages related to the game. Never Fade Away while in universe written in regards to Alt’s death also has so much in common with his journey with V. This brings me to the song Black Dog.

“Black Dog inside my head, guiding me until the end.”

Black Dogs are figures in Irish Mythology  who much like bakeneko’s are talked about in game; are omens of death and misfortune. I just find it interesting I suppose, like Johnny is either a dirty alley cat or a big mangy dog, but either way he’s here cause someones about to die.

Okay this is well over a thousand words, Imma shut up now. This is probably a mess, but anyone here for coherency is in the wrong place. 

[keelywolfe]

FIC: Drifters ch.8 (spicyhoney)

Summary: Edge has got a handle on this parenting stuff. Seriously. He does. It's alllll under control.

Tags: Spicyhoney, Violence, Rescued Child, Medical Experimentation, Babybones

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In Underfell, Edge always showered quickly and efficiently. It was the surest way to avoid the bursts of cold that came from their capricious hot water heater, and there was no reason to assume things would be different in Underswap. Efficiency was the key to many things in his life and kept the juggling act that was his life well balanced between his guard duties, his training with Undyne, and simply dealing with his brother.

He’d expected to be able to transfer those lessons to caring for this child; practical efficiency, that would be the way. What he hadn’t considered was how such a tiny little creature could thwart his plans so easily, nor had he anticipated how much effort was involved in all this, even when it came to something so simple as a bath.

Once the tub was full of water and frothy bubbles, and the baby was down to her bare bones, Edge was forced to consider the best method of bathing her. She wasn’t able to sit up on her own, but she could if braced and managed to more or less hold her head upright, surely a minor magic of its own considering the ungainly size of her skull.

The easiest approach seemed to be holding her up with one hand and bathing her with the other. It was a reasonable strategy. He should be able to finish quickly with none of the aforementioned ‘greased watermelon’ issue coming into play.

What he didn’t take into account was that she was less of a simple slippery melon and more of a sentient squirming slippery melon, with legs and arms and an unshakeable will of her own.

The moment he lowered her into the bath, the child began to thrash, making a fair attempt to bash the bubbles with both tiny fists and feet. She laughed gleefully as the water splattered around them, right up until the wave returned to splash her directly in the face.

The baby sputtered and coughed, floundering as she gasped for breath while Edge struggled to keep her head above the water. Her chin trembling as she turned her dripping face to him, sockets wide and wounded as if seeking reassurance for this terrible betrayal.

Edge couldn’t hold back a low chuckle, “I’m sorry, child, but that’s what happens when you don’t consider the consequences of your attack.”

His amusement seemed to spur her own. Her upset forgotten, she chortled happily and renewed her attack on the water, and this time the wave encompassed them both. In the end, there was very little washing on his part. The best he could manage was keeping her from slipping underwater as she splashed and played. It wasn’t the most efficient method, but he had to admit, she was very clean when he finally lifted her from the tub despite her loud protests.

Then came drying which turned into a game of its own when he learned that if he held up the towel so she couldn’t see him, then quickly dropped it, she would squeal happily, hands and legs flailing with her excitement. That continued long after she was dry, until she began sucking on her fingers again, a sign he’d learned to read as meaning that food needed to be on its way soon or else the screams would quickly begin.

Her pajamas had escaped her watery wrath, at least, and that gave him another new experience to manage. She seemed to have very little control over her own limbs, they flailed and waved seemingly of their own accord and combatting that to gently navigate them through narrow sleeves and pantlegs proved a heroic task all its own.

By the time he was done, she was clean and dry, sitting pertly in her light blue pajamas with a snowflake motif, and he was a sweaty, damp mess in Stretch’s ratty old bathrobe. How did parents manage this, he wondered, how had his brother managed this? His esteem for everything his brother and Stretch must have endured to care for him and Blue had raised tenfold in the past 24 hours, with no end point in sight.

The finger sucking was increasing in urgency and Edge sighed inwardly, already resigned to all his hard work being rendered useless within the hour. He lifted her up, cautiously balancing her on his hip as he’d seen Stretch do, and found it not only comfortable but also a way to free one hand.

“Come along, little one,” Edge told her, smoothing that hand down the curve of her skull. “Breakfast is downstairs.”

She babbled softly, little nonsense sounds of agreement that food was an excellent choice, and he smiled helplessly.

“You need a name,” he told her as she cooed up at him. “But perhaps I need to know you better before choosing one.”

Down in the living room, Stretch and Red were sitting on the sofa together, looking for all the world like they hadn’t been talking about him while he was gone. One of those colorful bowls was in the table, half-full of some sort of pale mush.

“hey, you two,” Stretch said. One side of his mouth curved in a half-smile, his gaze more on Edge’s bedraggled form than the baby. “made it out alive, huh?”

“She made a fair attempt at drowning me,” Edge admitted.

“ya look like she won,” Red said, unimpressed, and of course he wouldn’t know Edge had already heard his pride this morning. That memory was already tucked away safely in his soul.

“there are no winners at bath time, only survivors.” Stretch reached for the child. “here, let me handle second breakfast while you get changed.”

Edge stepped back enough to put both of them out of reach. “I can do it,” he said firmly.

“sure you can, but i can also help, you know.” It was lightly said, in the same tone as yesterday when Stretch pointed out he didn’t need to slap away helping hands. It left Edge torn with indecision. On one side of the coin, he needed to become accustomed to handling the child on his own. Once he found a job and they found a place to live, he wouldn’t be able to depend on Stretch for simple childcare. But on the other, he was here now, damp, undressed, and thoroughly ready for breakfast and a shower of his own.

He looked at Stretch, at the dark circles under his sockets, the mismatched clothes he’d likely scrounged from the unfolded clothes pile. He’d already done so much for them, more than anyone could reasonably expect, far more than a fuckbuddy, as he’d called it, should. Edge couldn’t keep asking for more.

“She’s already wreaked her havoc on me,” Edge managed to gesture at his damp bathrobe without the use of his hands, “I may as well take the full brunt of the damage she can cause before I clean up.”

It was the right thing to say. Stretch laughed and shook his head. “heh, fair enough.” He gave the bowl a nudge in Edge’s direction. “have at it.”

Edge settled the baby into her little pillow fort before picking up the bowl. The contents were gooey and a brownish-beige, unrecognizable. He sniffed it warily, “What is it?”

“banana.”

Edge scooped up a spoonful and let it fall back into the bowl with a wet plop. His experience with bananas was limited to pictures he’d seen in books. That was the sort of fruit only found in the King’s orchard, not in the outskirts of the Ruins where Snowdin lay.

“It doesn’t look like any of the pictures I’ve seen,” Edge said doubtfully. For one, he was very sure that bananas were supposed to be yellow, not the shade of the old personal computers that littered the dump.

“you probably saw them pre-baby smash,” Stretch said, “g’wan, she’s waiting.”

She was in fact smacking her mouth like a baby bird, gurgling hopefully. Well, he’d trusted Stretch so far, now was not the time for doubts. He scooped up some of the gunk and poked the spoon between her teeth. Then he had to grapple it free when she bit down, grunting and wriggling enthusiastically as she messily swallowed down her mouthful.

Behind him came smothered laughter from his unwanted audience.

“yeah, gonna have to be quicker than that,” Stretch chuckled.

Red hooted a laugh of his own. “be glad she ain’t got sharp teeth. almost lost a finger coupla times with you.”

Edge scowled at the baby, who met his glare with pure innocence that no longer fooled him. He was a captain in the royal guard, a days-old child was not going to outmatch him.

This time when he poked the spoon into her mouth to deposit the banana, he quickly pulled it back out before her teeth could close around it.

“Aha!” Edge said triumphantly. “You see? A little cooperation and we’ll get this done, child.”

“Brrrrp,” the baby replied, spewing smashed banana directly into Edge’s face. He sputtered, falling back, but it was too late. He could never again say that he didn’t know what slightly used banana tasted like, not unpleasant but definitely not something he’d choose on his own.

A sort of strangled sound came from behind him and he swung around to find Stretch nearly neon in the face, his gaze firmly on the ceiling and his teeth locked together. He refused to meet Edge’s glare, only studied the ceiling as if the answers of the universe might appear there, if only he looked hard enough.

His brother, on the other hand, was never shy about enjoying the pain of others. Red only grinned at him, asking with disturbing sweetness, “problems, pap?”

“Not at all,” Edge said stiffly.

“uh huh. paybacks a bitch, bro.”

Before he could scold Red for his language— honestly, her first word was going to be some sort of swearing, he just knew it— the front door opened, and Blue was talking before he even made it through the entryway.

“Papy, I’m home,” he called, “which you shouldn’t be because you’re supposed to be at your sentry station, what if a Human came through—"

Blue stopped, words trailed off as he stood in the doorway, a swirl of snowy air blowing in around him as he took in Edge, dressed only in Stretch’s bathrobe and a newly acquired layer of banana, his brother and Red taking up the sofa, and of course, their smallest and newest guest who paid him no mind, too busy preparing to decorate Edge with second banana-y coating.

“Is that a baby?” Blue said at last.

Edge groaned inwardly. Here we go again.

tbc

[sanstropfremir]

ok alright alright alright kingdom episode two

kinda disappointed that they only showed half the stages, but that's just an editing thing to draw out the content so you can air for longer, i'm not super surprised about that. i would have liked to evaluate them all at the same time, but at least this gives me time to go more in depth for all of them since they're full stages this time and I wrote 3000 words for last episode when they only had 100 secs. so this format will probably keep me sane for longer, i think. 

solid stages all round for them, none had especially glaring flaws on the whole. i'm not gonna do a full ranking for this episode since we haven't seen them all, but i will say that btob’s was my favourite from this set and both ikon’s and tbz’s stages were about equal; they both had things i liked and disliked in equal measure so i'm tentatively giving them the same ranking. full opinions and analysis on each stage below the cut, plus another section of general notes because hey what the fuck did you do to that stage mnet???

and for anyone that’s wondering yes i do have the qualifications. also seriously grab a drink or something because this is LONG.

some general notes

and here i thought this section wouldn't be as big as it was last time because mnet was going to get their shit together about the stage design, but noooooooooooo they had to go and make it worse! thanks mnet i hate it! remember how i said you shot yourself in the foot last time? well ya fuckin kneecapped yourself AND all your idols with this one ya dumb fuckin idiots. alright folks welcome back to stage design 101, my recurring segment where i explain the different types of stage layouts and their effectiveness for kpop idol survival shows, i guess.

ok so last week i covered the basics on theatre in the round and traverse staging, which i’ll link here if there’s anyone new or just wants a refresher. i mentioned that its likely that mnet will switch to an in the round style staging because it offers a lot more freedom for camera movement and also for directional blocking. well, i was wrong. so i'm gonna give you a quick rundown of prosceniums. a proscenium, proscenium arch, or just prosc, is an architectural feature that sits around the front ‘opening’ of the stage that delineates the stage from the audience. if you've ever been in or seen any pictures of old european style theatres it can be quite ornately decorated with scrolling, but it's almost always there in most western theatres. it basically provides your ‘wings,’ which are where you exit off into to get offstage, they provide cover from the audience sitelines. pretty much any theatre where the audience is directly opposing the stage across the 180 degree line is a proscenium stage, even if it doesn't physically have the arch. hell, movie theatres are prosc stages. now, there's a secondary architectural feature/device called a false proscenium, where you set a second, smaller archway inside the first prosc, usually done for a specific effect. think of it like a literal framing device; it's often used to visually signify that ‘this is a play, we are telling a story, please be aware that this is a play thank you.’ but sometimes, it can be a semi-permanent structure that’s set in place to narrow the prosc opening. we had this at my university, there was a false prosc set just inside the actual prosc because the stage had a hilariously big prosc opening for a university that never had casts larger than 24 people. so they set false prosc in to make the stage slightly narrower and to widen the wings, because it doesn't matter what size theatre you're in, you always need more wingspace. makes sense? ok, now here’s a very quick drawing of what i'm pretty sure the kingdom stage looks like:

before you get lost: stage directions are oriented to a person standing on the stage, hence SL and SR being reversed. a quick tip for remembering which way is upstage and which is downstage: if you go too far downstage you fall down (most stages are raised between 2-4’ from the floor, so if you step off the end you will actually fall.) the arrows on here signify the entrances i observed during the performances, which is not necessary in this explanation but i just thought it was interesting to note. still not entirely sure what the surrounding architecture is but it appears that the stage is a raised platform inside a room, and not actually built as part of the building. the ‘house’ is just a technical term for where the audience is, and in this case it's where it looks like most of the film crew and the producers/staff are. there’s pretty clearly a platform upstage centre, and i think there may be some others but i don't care about those right now. what i want to talk about is this dumbass false prosc they set IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STAGE. now i suspect that they did this to solve some problems that they could have had that i don't know about, since i don't know who the stage designer was and what the actual limitations of the space are. but basically they've built two stages and stacked them on top of each other to create one very deep stage, and then separated it off with a false prosc in order to control the size of the space a little better, and possibly to add some visual interest. this stage is functional for its purpose, absolutely, and i think, if mnet actually gave a shit about point of view and camerawork, it could produce some really interesting performances. however, because this stage is so deep, it kind of has the same properties as the traverse stage from before, but just with some big led screens in the middle for reasons. you extra have to pay attention to the directionality because you have all the staff and cameras concentrated in one specific cardinal point, so you have to get creative if you want to crossover between the two sides frequently. again, this is not necessarily bad; restrictions often produce some of the most creative decisions.  but! we have not seen a lot of consideration for camera and sightlines and audience pov, hence why i think this setup is dumb: it’s not facilitating the best performances it could.

ok now to the actual performances

btob

this is my favourite of the group because it's very clean lined and utilizes a few simple devices to pretty good effect. i realize these reviews are making me sound like i only like simple performances but i promise this is not at all true i'm just very critical and very picky. let’s start with the costumes, because why not. 

costumes

i like these very much, i love modernized traditional clothing in all forms, and these are very well tailored and well coordinated. they do the bulk of the work establishing the theme for the performance, along with the costumes on the backup dancers. personally i would have liked them to be a bit more colourful, à la the teal detailing that was on minhyuk’s final look. i'm getting a bit tired of the whole trend of having groups only wear all dark or all white, or maybe sometimes red if they're feeling spicy. obviously uniform colour is the easiest way to tie a group together visually, but on a show like this i think the groups would actually benefit more from looking distinct from each other internally rather than establishing the group as whole.

i liked that minhyuk had a costume change but i didn't really care for how it was how it was broken down. this is a very personal quibble because i literally have spent years prepping quickchanges but the method it broke down wasn’t the most visually compatible with the garment and felt kinda clunky. please ignore this anecdote it's just me being picky.

set

i loved the forest! a very excellent way to divide the stage area and obscure the weird stage lines/architecture that mnet has made. plus the snow, flowers, and fog? makes a really sharp and immediately indicative atmosphere, a very good use of visual shorthand to establish place.

i didnt love the screens, they reminded me a bit too much of rolling whiteboards from grade school, but they are thematically relevant. also, i feel like we didnt actually get to see about half the choreo for them? fuckin mnet and idiocy again. fun use of rear projection with the dancers’ shadows, and also good use of them to direct traffic, if you will. 

personally i think that the sheet gimmick from tbz’s performance would have been a better fit here instead of the screens, especially since the fabric motif was already established at the very beginning of the performance. plus you can do some really fun shadow work with a stretch fabric screen. 

personally i think there could have been a little bit more integration between the forest area and the screen area, or they could have done the whole thing in the forest space, but that would require a bit more consideration of camera and choreo maneuverability

sound

really liked this arrangement, obviously the song is iconic but they added a more traditional instrument sound. has good structure for the loose narrative that they had and they were well to label this as ‘theatre’ version because this did follow very closely to a traditional musical theatre sound and style

lighting

no complaints. the overall theme for this episode is apparently blue and red? again with them i like their dedication to a limited colour palette and i especially like the blossoms at the climax

staging

there was pretty clear camera choreo and a minimum of nausea inducing moves. i think some of the effectiveness of the staging got chopped by the editing but that’s not really btob’s fault.

i was just saying i wanted them to give minhyuk some time to shine, i was not expecting to get it so soon! this is a very smart choreo that proves you can be interesting without doing a lot of tricking. minhyuk obviously did a lot of practice and work with that sword, his movements are very fluid and he knows how to handle it. and it looks like its either a blunted proper blade or a correctly weighted replica. a lot of the times when sword choreo looks fake it's because the person either hasn't had enough practice or the weapon is not weighted/weighted incorrectly. only complaints are that you would never hold your fingers/palm that close and un-anchored over the edge of the blade, which is just a safety thing. also you would never scrape your blade on the ground like that, nor toss the thing like dead fish but that's a respect thing with a live blade and this is clearly done for dramatic effect so i’ll forgive it. please ignore this anecdote also it’s just my third dan getting uppity.

ikon

costume/set

smart thematically to go with the sort of miscellaneous 30s-40s (western) aesthetic because it's the fastest way to make it look like you built a theme with mnet’s weird pseudo art deco nonsense they've inexplicably got going on in the set dec. however, they should have stuck the theme all the way through, it would have been more visually cohesive and more interesting. we expect more hiphop/electronic sounding songs to come with these kinds of 4th gen costumes, it would have been anachronistic in a fun way to have them do that second half in 40s style suits. here’s a performance from sdc3 that uses that kind of anachronistic play (this was a combo stage with two ballroom dancers and it has a 20s aesthetic but close enough.) also here’s another routine from sdc3 that does a similar effect on a much more abstract scale, and also it’s a fucking incredible performance and it got slept on by the captains. also yes i know these are incredibly experienced career dancers but they way they construct narrative within their routines and their stage presence is SO GOOD. 

do not speak to me about the backup dancers costumes, holy shit i hate them. i hate them so much. how do you manage to hit too shapeless AND too fitted in the same fell swoop? i'm so mad at these. i'm neutral on bodycon dresses on the best of days but these were absolutely the wrong choice for this stage. generally kpop has abysmal costuming for female backup dancers on the whole but this is just like.....especially lazy. the point of the costume are to help give an indication of where and when you set your performance. they started off with a vaguely 40s theme and then jumped abruptly modern. why? also skirts like that are the literal worst choice for dancing in, hello?? the men’s looks are just sloppy, when you have a garment that big you want it to serve a purpose within the choreo, whereas with this it's just hiding the dancers’ movements.

as for ikon themselves, see everything ive said about black on black on black styling in the previous two reviews. 

the actual set is minimal and that's tragic. i mentioned mnet’s weird art deco theme and it was smart of them to try and play off that with a lack of stuff. definitely a mismatch of stuff pulled from yg’s prop storage, but they made it work as well as they could. no other meaningful comments i’m just kinda sad about it.

sound

the arrangement is fine, no complaints from me. they keyed up the old hollywood style musical theatre sound in the beginning which i really liked. i didn't mind the song/tone switch, i think they pulled it off.

staging

same as btob they learned more towards a theatrical style, which is smart for this particular format of show. i think this was the smartest staging of these three, and also i think the only ones to not get the crew in shot.

despite seemingly leaning into a more old hollywood style the narrative was a bit too loose for my taste. i'm not sure what i would have done to make it clearer at this moment since they had so little to work with, but i did get by on my previous knowledge of the songs. that shouldn’t be the only indication of narrative though! all elements need to support it!!

also like btob they had a pretty intentional point of direction and there weren't a crazy amount of spins. they also used the camera cuts the most effectively that i've seen so far. the first half is actually all in one take!!! incredible!!! thank you!!!! this is how you do it!!

the lighter flick gimmick was well pulled off and a good example of how to use a couple of simple tricks to good effect.

ikon as a whole has really great stage chemistry with each other, and they're extremely cohesive performers. this is a really strong physical performance from them, the dance was very solid and clean. good use of levels without verging into acrobatics. this might be the best group choreo i've seen so far, but we’re not very far so that's not a very high bar to clear.

it's a shame they had the budget of 1 banana.

tbz

i liked this stage better than their intro stage, but i still think they have a long way to go and they're still over ambitious. personally i find stages based on specific pop culture properties to be kind of twee and ineffectual, because it requires a specific knowledge of that pop culture property to work. sometimes the specificity can help with a narrative but you're at risk of alienating a larger portion of your audience out of sheer non-knowledge than anything else. 

costumes

again, interesting garments physically, but not much clarity of relation to the theme other than the colour. also the backup dancers???? another case of backup dancers being from an entirely different stage, what is up with those coats/dresses? looked more like they belonged in either sweeney todd or a vampire movie. 

hands in front of the camera again, but these were used much more effectively.  i'm not the biggest fan of mixing metals and i’m partial to silver on the whole so i didn't love the jewelry, but at least it was vague and stereotypical enough to denote ‘fire magic’ even if it does rely on a derivative middle eastern shorthand.

set

the stage set itself is fine, although definitely feels a bit haphazard to me. doric columns and frozen rocks and whatever that cover for the pyrotechnics was at the front, combined with the candles and the chaise lounge? like ikon, it felt a bit like they were pulling out of the props/set storage. not that all these things do not work together, it's just that you need a thread to tie them together, and this didn't have that for me.

sound

it's a crime they have a song called ‘no air’ and its not a jordin sparks cover. just saying.

i didnt really like this arrangement, again like their intro stage it didn't have a strong structure that suited the narrative, because they were pretty clearly trying a narrative on this one. also were most of the adlibs playback? they were singing live but there were so few shots of anyone specific singing. 

lighting

probably the weakest of the three. the projection design was a bit too tacky for me, and although i appreciated the small amount of variety in colour, it felt way too concert-lighting for me.

staging

the editing on this stage is wack and did no one any good. the hands leading/pov was a really smart device and they should have stuck out the one takes like ikon did, it would have made the whole stage feel a bit more cohesive. a lot better directional camerawork from them this time around, well done. again with the hands in front of the camera gimmick which i actually preferred this time, since they were a part of the narrative. the stretch/silhouette fabric i think they pulled off quite well, even if it didn't really fit thematically with the piece. i actually worked on a show a very long time ago that used this exact same effect with dancers and also rear shadow projection, and it requires a lot of rehearsal and trust to pull off well, so props to them. i think it was the wrong choice because there isn't an established motif for the fabric, so it kind of appears out of nowhere for one specific visual moment and then disappears, and i think that time could have been better served for something else narratively relevant.

again, these 4th gen groups are overly focussed on gimmicks as a way to make up for the lack of experience. personally i think this will be detrimental in the long run, and a reliance on gimmicks means that you don't trust your performers. tbz have the manpower to be doing some pretty cool collective dance work and i dont think its being trained or utilized correctly. they are suffering from a lack of cohesive stage presence right now and that can be fixed with training and time.

this might be because the group sizes are so different between these three but this choreo is very directionless. mnet is also providing to be absolute garbage at editing and i feel like i can't see the choreo at all.

this is a thing i've noticed with kpop camerawork in general, there’s very little regard for actually viewing the choreo as a singular work. and for some reason the camera always needs to be moving???? people do actually want to see what’s happening on the stage. the choreographer can only see from one spot, so from that spot is how they are intending it to look. you wouldn't need to upload full cams of every music stage if you just filmed the choreo properly in the first place. if you watch the two sdc3 clips i linked you can see a clear difference in maintaining the integrity of the choreo, even though both shows use several cameras and a lot of cuts.  obviously for kpop you want the money shots of idols’ faces but i definitely think there’s a healthier middle ground than what we have now.

ill wait for full subs but i want to know where in the fuck in sk you can rent a tank thas clearly been custom made for underwater photography, because that’s extremely cool even if it was absolutely unnecessary to the actual stage itself. i can think of several ways off the top of my head that would have achieved that same freezing effect without any of that wasted time and effort.

mnet decided to drop full cams while i was writing this and despite watching those my opinions are the same.

in conclusion, some more general thoughts:

i think ikon and btob got it right by leaning more into the theatrical than the cinematic, if that makes sense. i might be talking up my own ass here but these are theatre performances, and they should be treated as such. trying to do things that you can do on film isn't going to do you any favours in the long run, and it makes it harder to make a cohesive performance. i’m harping a lot about narrative but it is so important to performance. although it is not technically necessary, when doing big theatrical performance stages like this it does help with clarity of intent and general success. humans have brains structured around storytelling, it is literally the way our history has been passed down for tens of thousands of years. the atlantic published an article recently on narrative and memory, and it's a really excellent read for maybe after you've taken a break from this behemoth, oh dear god. 

tldr: the stages were good but disappointing in their own ways. mnet continues to sabotage via weird stage design decisions and bad editing. see you next week! (or in my ask box if you have questions)

[starlight-ascension]

so tell us about that canon divergence smile precure fic

ok, so it starts with the villains having won, and it’s 2 years after that happened. But don’t worry, the good guys win eventually and undo everything the villains did. 

OK, so Miyuki snapped out of her bad end trance within a few weeks, and almost instantly tried to escape. She managed, but since her teammates weren’t there, she was stuck in a similar limbo to the one when she broke out of the ball of neglect, fighting a monster. But her solo attacks alone aren’t enough to kill it, she needs a combo attack with her teammate in a powered-up form. And since she’s alone, she’s been alternating between battle and hiding out in the camp she made for almost 2 years now. 

Akane is still in the bad end trance. She’s living it up, but she hasn’t spoken to her teammates in years- she doesn’t even remember who they are. 

Yayoi never escaped that despair void that happened when the storybook got inked, which was one of the 3 main catalysts for the villains’ victory. She’s been floating in there for the full 2 years, mostly thoughtless. And emotionless (irl, listening to too many sad songs has ended in me feeling no emotions at all, so i incorporated that, the place beyond the despair where all the emotion just stops). She’s detransformed by now without even noticing. When her teammates manage to get her out, she has amnesia, and it takes a while to get her powers back. 

Nao snapped out of her trance around 7 months ago. Ever since, it’s a constant fight to not fall back under, and a constant search for Miyuki and Akane. 24/7, she looks for them. She knows Yayoi and Reika aren’t there probably, but she doesn’t know Miyuki kind of escaped. 

Reika, meanwhile, I used the fairytale motifs for her. Namely, Sleeping Beauty. She was GOING to be given the same deal as the others, but since Joker hates her in particular, and he survived like in the sequel novel, Reika came VERY close to being killed because there was no way Joker was gonna let her into something with a major aspect of euphoria. She was saved by Royale Candy, but was dying. Royale Candy’s magic managed to keep Reika alive, but in a manner similar to a medically induced coma. (this was another major factor in the villains winning, since they’re now down 2 teammates.) Pop hid Reika away while she recovered very slowly, unable to ever wake until she’s found by her teammates again. Miyuki references the fairytale a few times, and Nao plays the prince (there’s no kissing since she’s, y’know, unconscious, but Nao does most of the fighting against the monster that attacks while they’re right outside the place Pop hid Reika, and she’s the one to do the magic that reawakens Reika and later take her hand while she’s getting up.) I’m debating whether to have the magic component make Reika able to get up right away and fight shortly afterwards, or doing a more whumpy and realistic portrayal of recovering from a coma, albeit sped up due to magic. Leaning towards the latter. 

Speaking of Pop, he’s been running around doing triple duty guarding Reika, trying to save Yayoi, trying to contact Miyuki, Akane, and Nao, and gathering all the magic he can to help Candy. 

Oh yeah, Royale Candy is what sets the plot into motion. She was seriously injured by the villains, which was only made worse by her putting herself in serious danger to save Reika’s life. She disappeared into another dimension to recover. And now she’s recovered completely, restored all her magic and more, and she sends signals to the team about where the others are and where she is. These come in the form of brief visions. Miyuki in what looks like a wasteland, on the ground, fighting as hard as she can against a giant monster. Akane in a hazy theme park, playing a carnival game while enjoying a popsicle. Yayoi floating in an empty pitch-black void, wearing that same sweater and skirt that are now too small for her due to her now being 16, kinda glowing purpleish. Nao in the same area as Akane, calling out to someone, being met with no responses. Reika asleep in her princess form, appearing to be floating in some form of blue light. Royale Candy glowing bright in a pocket dimension. 

And then Nao finds Akane due to the visions and they all know Yayoi is alive and nao and akane back up miyuki and there’s some other stuff. idk how they get yayoi out or how she gets her memories back but she does. idk how they meet up with pop but they do and he leads them to reika. There’s some post apocalyptic survival stuff that goes on while everyone’s getting ready to save the world -oh, the getting ready should be yayoi regaining her memories and reika regaining the ability to do physical tasks! 

And then i guess there’s some cool final battle stuff and movie style ultra form- hey, maybe afterwards, EVERYONE turns into huge glowing goddesses like miyuki, and restores the world!! 

While talking about this i came up with details for it

i should do this more often with the stories where i have an outline and random details and like 1 or 2 chapters at the start that would actually be fully come up with

[neshai-esper]

How you heard the call of the egyptian gods? You said that they looked for the contact with you, and I'm interested.

To find out if the divine is trying to contact with you, you have to understand the methods how they prefer to message to you and plant signs in your life. It's not always like they just show up in front of you and starts to talk to you, but in a very mysterious, delicate manner.

Let’s check out my little journey with Set, to illustrate and examine a good example about these methods. If a deity is interested in working with you, usually he were already there in your life earlier, observed you and might have plans about this. It means that you have to examine your past, review your past to try to find the tracks of the actual deity you facing with. It’s quite amazing how they can see the future and plant informations-, experiences in your life even in the form of very small moments just for later, when you’re ‘mature’ enough and ready to deal with them.

In Set’s case, I’ve always felt a strange feelings flowing thru my chest and body when I heard His name even in my younger ages (4-6). At those times I was unaware about what does it really means, but later I noticed that whenever I heard a name of a deity and got this kind of feeling in me, it meant something deeper (-or higher), which were generated by our higher-self, and because this connection is already exists, even if my limited human mind unable to complete the full picture about us.

It’s good to know that there is no differences between a deity and his name.

So if a deity’s name is able to generate feelings, emotions inside you, it’s worth to find out why and try to unbox what your feelings are really means and where are these came from? For example, if you hear a name of your mother, the feeling of safety, warm love and intimacy will fill up your chest, your heart. Why? It’s because you can connect to her memories which are generates similar emotions in you. Our soul doesn’t forget (nor lost connection with higher or different dimensions and reltionships there), but in the moment when we’re born here, we’ll lose lot of memories. This doesn’t true in deities’ case.

If a deity is showing up in your life, it has reasons and usually, it’s not because he decided to pop up just in the last two minutes, but way earlier. Sometimes it’s because you have business with him in your life, and both of you agreed that you can work together or keep in touch for whatever reasons, so they’ll send signs to you to make sure you’ll notice him, but this is just an example. To find out your personal relationship with a deity, you have to talk with him (or her) by yourself and explore it.

Back to the example of Set and mine...

So I got a name what always put a huge effect on me as many times as I hear. I also noticed my deep connection and attraction to the storms and chaos since my young age too (ah, I still remember the good ol’ times when I sat on the windowsill, let my legs hang down and seeing, hearing the beauty of thunder and lightning around 30 meters above the ground). I also felt myself a foreigner, but not just in my country, but the whole planet. My favorite animals were exactly the same animals what are His sacred ones (leopard, hippo, crocodile for example, I also felt myself deeply connected to these). With that being said, plenty of small signs were in my life which indicated that  we might have the time to get in touch with reasons.

Set showed up in the last year many times, and two kind of approach of his were very intense and harsh. Let me to skip this part, and put the focus on a more common method of the communication and signs.

I’ve got a dream with Him. His appearance wasn’t the same how you can see Him on the pictures and ancient arts, but His vibes were very familiar, and this figure’s behavior also (so I had to think about a lot and try to analyze the energfies what came from the dream, what I sensed). When I woke up, thinking about who were this guy in my dream in the ancient chamber (two times), Set’s name started to pop up again and again in my mind.

This is where the whole thing started yet again. He didn’t showed up now the way how He did in the last two times in the form of those acts, but from the backseat. If you find yourself thinking about a deity, can’t forgetting his name and you have urges to do researches, watch pictures about him and stuffs like that, it’s already a very strong sign of that he wants your attention, and wants you to submerge in him.

With your thoughts, you feed them, and as far as you think on them, they became a part of your life in a different way, and can make an impact on you. Same happened in my case. Even when I had a strange fear from Him after my first two experience with Him no matter how close I felt myself to Him, I hesitated to conact with Him, but I started to hear His name and see Him in my mind 0/24, and it became more and more intense and ‘excruciating’. Then I had to jump.

I very often hear the name of different divine entities, but if one of them will start to ‘haunt’ me, it has a reason.

In short, what kind of sign might be a form of a calling from a god or layed down traces to get your attention (which is also an aspect of the calling)? - dreams - feelings towards the deity or a name of a deity (as I mentioned above, there is no difference between a name of a deity and him) - repetitive motifs/symbols/names in your mind - traces in your environment (so the epithets of a deity; a simple example, people usually connect white feathers to angels, while some people if they see a Raven, they think about Thor and so on) - communication with them in several forms

These are just a small part of their arsenal, tho. If you start to do researches about all of these above and finally found a name (or if the name already in your mind) while you analyze yourself and your whole life too, to get a better understand of your whole situation, you might find many tracks. It’s all about your senses, sharp mind and effort you put into your case to find out if anyone is calls you and how could you find out who or why. It’s a beautiful and interesting ride, and probably not the first one (but hey, it’s just my opinion based on my experiences).

// Bonus: When I found out my Egyptian Horoscope (shortly after my first dream about Set), I found out that my horoscope is Geb, and belov the description said that this horoscope is the best combination / matchup on the side of Set and vica versa.

[mysticsparklewings]

NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 24: Fruit of Choice

spherical black voids hanging from ominous red vines leaves just as green pluck one, watch it bleed a taste tart and poison yet they grow like weeds ____ So today's prompt was fairly simple; Describe a fruit of your choice. At first, I was overwhelmed by options, as there are a fair amount of fruits I like that could've chosen to write about, but me being me I did want something slightly more interesting and deep than just describing the deliciousness of a nice hard Pink Lady apple or the fresh sweetness of a firm kiwi. And then I remembered a deceptive little thing that is a fruit by way of technicality; meaning this is one plant part you wouldn't want anywhere near your plate. The little monsters are known as Pokeberries/Pokeweed or Inkberries. As the poem says, they grow without much prompting in a weed-like fashion in more rural areas. The berries themselves are indeed as black as ink, growing on deep reddish-pink vines with yellowy-green leaves like you might find on a number of other less dangerous plants. If you pick a few berries off one of the sparse but grape-like smaller vines,  you'll probably notice immediately the vibrant, pinkish juice they produce. And if you were to pop one in your mouth, which you should not do, you'd be greeted by a strange kind of tart flavor that bites your tongue and would be considered unpleasant by most, though tart-lovers may find it endearing in its own way. Now, why do I know so much about how Pokeberries taste despite saying twice now that you shouldn't eat them? Funny story about that... I ate them a lot as kid, actually. I should probably be dead. (And for the record, I don't eat them anymore, now that I know better, nor do I condone doing so just because I got extremely lucky.) I live out in the middle of nowhere and have all my life. We have Pokeweeds all over in the Summer. I learned about the berries from my dad, who thought they were Elderberries. He would eat them sometimes, and I tried them and liked them. I would go pick little vines full of them and eat a good handful or so at a time some days. I never got sick, never felt ill afterword. The only ill effects I ever felt was that once or twice when I'd get a lot of the juice on my hands, my hands would be a little itchy. Which is a known and expected side effect, better known as "contact dermatitis." That's it. (Well, and some of my bathroom trips would be tinted purple later, but that wasn't any more concerning than a lot of vegetables tinting said trips green.) It wouldn't be until a couple of years ago that I looked up elderberries when someone asked me in a conversation if they were poisonous (short answer: Technically no.) and I saw the pictures and realized those were not the berries I'd happily eaten over the years. So, naturally, I jumped down the rabbit hole to figure out what I actually had been eating. Imagine my horror to find out I'd consumed a good amount, year after year as a small child, of berries that for all intents and purposes should've at least made me sick, if not actually killed me. After some deeper research, the best answer for why I am still alive comes in the form of, as far as I can tell, the poison in the berries is mostly in the seeds. (Although I'm still not completely sure what kind of poison it is, if it has a name besides "Pokeberry Seed Poison") And also from what I can tell, the seeds are so hard/thickly coated, much like Rosary Peas which contain abrin, that they usually can't be chewed open and aren't easily broken down in the digestive system. Moral of the story: Be extremely careful in identifying edible and non-edible plants in your yard before eating them or encouraging others to do so. Just because I got very lucky and didn't die doesn't mean there isn't real danger lurking there. After all that, I think it's fairly obvious why I chose these sneaky berries as my subject for today. It still baffles and amazes me to this day that I survived unscathed with how many of those I ate as a small child. It fascinated me that by all accounts on the internet they're so dangerous and yet...here I am, typing this very story. This isn't the most exciting "hey guys wanna hear about how I should be dead right now," story on the planet, but I think it's pretty compelling, all things considered. I think having described the berries probably explains more of the mandala, too. I had the immediate idea of making the main motif modeled after the little berry vines with accents here and there for the leaves and roots, and some for the juice. Which I honestly think would make for gorgeous use in dyes or pigments--I can't emphasize enough how pretty of a color it is, and I have no gel pen currently at my disposal that can mimic the color properly, but I did my best here. Same with the vines, actually. I used my "black" Sparkle Pop that shows up more as the rich red glitter in the ink, but it's still a bit dark and missing a hint of purple to accurately portray the Pokeweed vines. I hope we all enjoyed that surprisingly dark trip down memory lane.  At the very least, as scary as it is in reality, thinking of what could have happened, it does make for a good story and something to halfway-laugh about now. Hopefully, tomorrow's prompt will be something that just as easily comes to me and won't also be poison hiding in plain sight.  6 more days to go! ____ Artwork/Poem © me, MysticSparkleWings Inspired by FridgePoetProject ____ Where to find me & my artwork: My Website | Commission Info + Prices | Ko-Fi | dA Print Shop | RedBubble |   Twitter | Tumblr | Instagram

[sir-hicks-a-lot]

The Definitive Top Ten Albums of 2020: #10 - #6

10. Wagon Christ - Recepticon

Luke Vibert had a big year with three albums under his own name, but he always seems to save his most fully realized tracks for his Wagon Christ project, which he hadn’t released an album as in nearly ten years. Suffice to say it was worth the wait, with a batch of tracks packed with dusty old snippets of dialogue, funky beats and a little more pillowy production than usual. Through it all the classic Wagon Christ sense of humor shines through, which was much needed medicine in 2020.

9. Sam Amidon - Sam Amidon

Sam Amidon has been releasing albums of folk and Americana covers for almost 15 years now and he always seems to put his own stamp on them with a synth here or a string section there. Regardless of the musical trappings, his voice remains the focal point, with a rootsy soulfulness that is both calming and affecting. While some of his recent albums got tripped up in their own artifice, forsaking feeling for concept, this batch of tunes finds Amidon back in top form, with outstanding production and a glowing emotional core.

8. Lady Gaga - Chromatica

I have to admit I’ve never been a huge fan of Lady Gaga. While she’s undeniably talented and I admire her dedication to her fans, something about her music never really connected with me. Whether it was the somewhat lower register of her voice or her production’s tendency to be generic at times, even though I didn’t actively dislike her past work, it wasn’t something I really sought out either. But all that changed with Chromatica, which is a batch of unabashed ‘90s house scorchers. There’s nary a dud to be found across its concise 43 minute runtime. The hooks are larger than life and I think the throwback sound she’s embraced combines perfectly with her overall aesthetic. Ironically, as I’ve come around to the charms of Gaga, acclaim for Chromatica has seemed scant, as the modern sounds of Dua Lipa and the more sophisticated style of Jesse Ware are the consensus picks for best pop albums of the year. Perhaps with everything that happened in 2020 the world just wasn’t ready for Gaga to go full on Madonna and party like it was 1999.

7. The Flaming Lips - American Head

Another conspicuous absence for year-end praise is the fantastic 2020 release by The Flaming Lips. It’s no secret that the Lips have always been pretty out there, but for the last 10 years they’ve seemed to be drifting even further and further into abstraction. Whether it was composing 24 hour long songs and releasing them inside gummy skulls or collaborating with Miley Cyrus, The Lips were getting a bit inscrutable for anyone but their most dedicated fans. But with American Head, they’ve thrown yet another curveball as they return to the delicate balladry in the vein of one of their most beloved works, The Soft Bulletin. Instead of outer space trippiness, the band focuses on a straight forward narrative of growing up in America that seems more than a little autobiographical. Musically, it’s gorgeous; with strings, sliding guitars and Wayne Coyne’s familiar falsetto all combining to create a psychedelic mélange that’s as full of wonder as anything they’ve ever produced in their nearly 40 year history.

6. Destroyer - Have We Met

Dan Bejar aka Destroyer has been a critical darling for nearly 20 years now with his knack for wry lyrics and an ever changing musical pallet. While he was a favorite of hipsters and other denizens of hole-in-the-wall record stores, he never had much broad appeal until 2011′s Kaputt, when he had a modest breakthrough by tapping into his inner Steely Dan with an updated yacht rock for the 21st Century. After a couple of well received but not as popular albums, you can almost hear Bejar thinking to himself when considering the success of Kaputt, “hey, maybe I should do that again”. Which isn’t to say that Have We Met is a retread, but it does seem to pick up where Kaputt left off, with a record filled with glossy keyboard hooks and immaculate production. There’s a little more synthpop in the mix than before and toward the back half of the album he even dabbles in some new age motifs, but the signature Bejar wit remains as cutting as ever. Overall, it ranks as one of his most satisfying efforts and it does make you wonder if Bejar will continue to mine this fruitful vein, or if his restlessness will yet again pull him in another direction.

[bitchfromtheseventhhell]

Hi! This might sound a little silly, but I've been seeing a lot of gifsets about Ned's quote about Sansa and Arya being as different as the son and the moon and in them Sansa's the sun and Arya's the moon. I understand the aesthetic reason for the sorting, but I was wondering if there was a meta reason for it. I think both of their arcs could have the traditional sun and the moon parallels. Your thoughts?

I also got this anon within about 24 hours of your ask (was there a wank I was blissfully unaware of?):

Hey, I really love your thoughts on the stark sisters. This might be a silly ask, but who do you think reflects the moon better and who the sun? I know Ned’s words were more metaphoric than literal, but I always see edits with one sister being the sun and the other the moon, which always vary on which one is which. I can never decide. Do you have a preference?

Before I get into this, I… don’t really have a horse in this race tbh, largely because I think that focusing on the imagery in that line is missing the point of what Ned is saying.  He’s not necessarily saying “one of you is the sun and one of you is the moon,” he’s saying “you are as different as” so I think of it more as a poetic turn of phrase more than anything else.

But since you’re asking here are longer thoughts on the matter, the ones I do have go into symbolism as it appears for Sansa and Arya respectively.

The Quote Itself + Context

“Let me tell you something about wolves, child. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths. So if you must hate, Arya, hate those who would truly do us harm. Septa Mordane is a good woman, and Sansa … Sansa is your sister. You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you … and I need both of you, gods help me.”

He sounded so tired that it made Arya sad. “I don’t hate Sansa,” she told him. “Not truly.” It was only half a lie. (Arya II, AGOT)

The first time that the reader ever encounters this quote about Arya and Sansa, there’s some very specific context going on.  

It occurs in Arya’s second POV chapter in the series, and it’s said by Ned to Arya.  It’s not simply a descriptor, it’s a way to try and get Arya to not be angry with her sister.

Arya is angry with her sister.  But, more importantly, Arya is upset with her sister:

“I don’t care about their stupid tourney,” Arya said. She knew Prince Joffrey would be there,and she hated Prince Joffrey.

Sansa lifted her head. “It will be a splendid event. You shan’t be wanted.”

Anger flashed across Father’s face. “Enough, Sansa. More of that and you will change mymind. I am weary unto death of this endless war you two are fighting. You are sisters. I expectyou to behave like sisters, is that understood?”

Sansa bit her lip and nodded. Arya lowered her face to stare sullenly at her plate. She could feeltears stinging her eyes. She rubbed them away angrily, determined not to cry. (Arya II, AGOT)

Ned very clearly is frustrated with the way that Sansa speaks to Arya in this moment; that doesn’t prevent Arya from wanting to cry.  As the passage continues:

No one talked to Arya. She didn’t care. She liked it that way. She would have eaten her mealsalone in her bedchamber if they let her. Sometimes they did, when Father had to dine with theking or some lord or the envoys from this place or that place. The rest of the time, they ate in hissolar, just him and her and Sansa. That was when Arya missed her brothers most. She wanted totease Bran and play with baby Rickon and have Robb smile at her. She wanted Jon to muss upher hair and call her “little sister” and finish her sentences with her. But all of them were gone.She had no one left but Sansa, and Sansa wouldn’t even talk to her unless Father made her.  (Arya II, AGOT)

Since they arrived in King’s Landing, Sansa has not spoken to Arya unless Ned makes her.  From Sansa’s perspective, the reason is, ostensibly, that she sees Arya’s actions on the Trident as being the reason that Lady is dead (in a later chapter, she screams at Arya: “They should have killed you instead of Lady!”–she places her pain at Lady’s death on Arya because it is easier than confronting the fact that Joffrey is a complete shit and Sansa–throughout the series–is someone who tells herself what the truth should be in order to make reality easier for her to bear.)

But the result of all this is a sense of ostracism.  Arya doesn’t feel comfortable around anyone, largely because no one–even Ned–understands her grief at Mycah’s death, and her sense of responsability in it.

Only that was Winterfell, a world away, and now everything was changed. This was the firsttime they had supped with the men since arriving in King’s Landing. Arya hated it. She hated thesounds of their voices now, the way they laughed, the stories they told. They’d been her friends,she’d felt safe around them, but now she knew that was a lie. They’d let the queen kill Lady, thatwas horrible enough, but then the Hound found Mycah. Jeyne Poole had told Arya that he’d cuthim up in so many pieces that they’d given him back to the butcher in a bag, and at first the poorman had thought it was a pig they’d slaughtered. And no one had raised a voice or drawn a bladeor anything, not Harwin who always talked so bold, or Alyn who was going to be a knight, orJory who was captain of the guard. Not even her father. (Arya II, AGOT)

So when Arya flees the dining room for her bedroom, and even contemplates running away she is so miserable, her father’s intercession has weight.

The weight of the passage above to me is not even necessarily about the sun and the moon and how different she and Sansa are–when Ned says “when the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives” in the series–the only time he says them to any of his children–it is to Arya about Sansa.  He is creating in Arya the undeniable truth: that whatever she currently feels about Sansa, whatever their summertime “squabbles” are, Sansa is her pack, whether or not she likes it.  

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you … and I need both of you, gods help me. 

And to drive the point home, he says that he needs them both.  

The Sun and the Moon

I feel the context is helpful, largely because of how I think that it fits into greater symbolism in text.  If you have “the sun” and “the moon” as explained here, it’s clearly supposed to evoke some imagery.  (I like the point that @quentynnymerosmartell​ made a while back about how the sun and the moon are the main symbols on Brienne’s sigil, which ties back to her vow to Catelyn.)

There’s a lot of imagery–beyond Arya and Sansa–for it to evoke.  The onset of winter means that there will be less sun in the sky period; if the long night comes again, it means there won’t be any sun at all.  Having both implies a healthy state of the world writ large because you have both light and darkness–not to mention light in darkness.

You may be as different as…

An issue that I think rarely gets talked about in all the #discourse about Arya and Sansa (when there is #discourse about both of them in one go) is that frequently things stop around the “they’re just different” without going into the hows of it.

When it comes to symbolism, parallels, characterization–there are frequent explorations of similar themes but the mechanisms are almost impossible to talk about at the same time because they fundamentally rely on each girl’s approach to the world.

For Sansa, you have a character who approaches the world through narrative.  She thinks in terms of songs and stories that she knows–both as regards the world around her and as she regards herself (“Be brave, she told herself. Be brave, like a lady in a song.”)  She is a society child.  She has been presented with a social infrastructure (Westerosi Patriarchy) and she adheres to it and thrives within it.  She doesn’t question it, but when she encounters things that don’t fit in with what she’s been taught, she will adjust narratives around her to accomodate for the ills in society by redefining societal definitions to meet her needs (“He was no true knight.”)    She has a recurring motif of birds, but what elemental motifs exist in her arc are depicted through societal structures more than they are depicted through nature itself.

Or, to use Bran’s(/Summer’s) words:

But his sister had left the wilds, to walk in the halls of man-rock where other hunters ruled, and once within those halls it was hard to find the path back out. (Bran I, ASOS)

If Sansa “left the wilds,” we have Arya (quoting from this seminal scene) who has a “wildness” in her.  She has “the wolf blood.”  She is the child who society had no place for and so had to carve her own existence out of whatever place she could find.  She fundamentally questions most societal infrastructures and what they are present for and why they are present because she is someone who–even though she holds power on a structural level as a lady and as a princess–is still rejected by society as someone who doesn’t accept the role given her based purely on her gender.

So to me, it’s not just a “sun and moon” opposition, we have going on here, it’s a “society vs wilderness” that we have going on here–and that’s not even touching on things like their respective approach to truth and lies, their coping mechanisms (which are literally! the opposite! of each other’s!) and any number of other contrasts that you have between them.

Society

Let me start this with a point that I’ll come back to: I would argue that the moon is symbolic of nature, of wild, of mystery while the sun is symbolic of society.  I look at this in terms of calendars: there are a number of lunar calendars that exist within our world: among them, there is frequently a leap month added every few years (how many years varies between cultures) in order to keep the calendar in line with the seasons.  The solar calendar exists for the sake of society (when do you harvest, when do the seasons change) while the lunar exists because the moon exists. 

I bring this up because I’m not going to be talking about the sun in any particularly meaningful way.  Maybe I’ll come out of my asoiaf reread with a completely different perspective on this, but I don’t actually think that either sister has particularly pertinent sun imagery attached to her (which I think is part of why we have this question to begin with).  It becomes, then, a question of how the moon appears in both storylines and what the moon symbolizes on a larger scale.  I don’t think the moon represents society, which means that what moon imagery exists in Sansa’s storyline fundamentally challenges her worldview, while also being interwoven with it.  It becomes then, in her case, a question of arguing–not for the sun–but rather arguing that the moon doesn’t quite fit, which I don’t think it does.

The main source of moon imagery in Sansa’s arc stems from House Arryn, whose sigil is is a falcon soaring against the moon.  

The Vale itself has a ton of moon-related infrastructure, probably for this reason:  You have the Gates of the Moon, the Moon Tower, the Moon Door, the Mountains of the Moon.  You have this house–an important one for a lot of Sansa’s identity themes, her relationship with her father and with Petyr Baelish, with her aunt and herself–that has taken the moon and used it as a a supplementary part of the house’s symbolism.  I say supplemental because I compare House Arryn’s sigil to House Martell’s: the sun is more important than the spear in House Martell’s sigil; the falcon is more important than the moon in House Arryn’s.  To me, then, the moon becomes the servant of society, an artful backdrop to the falcon, a piece of nature who has been detached from its nature in order to perform its function.

And so that means that the moon is not so much the moon in Sansa’s storyline so much as the image of the moon.  And I think that that very imagery is threatening to some extent.

You have the Moon Door, which is where Sansa almost lost her life and which, in AFFC, she’s still super stressed thinking about, and you have the Mountains of the Moon–where the Mountain Clans of the Vale have been hoping to use Lannister steel since AGOT to reclaim the Vale from the Andal society that wrested it from the control of the First Men thousands of years ago.  You even have the simple fact of the lie about Sansa’s identity while she is in the Vale, and what might befall her if her identity is revealed in the wrong way.  If you’re looking at symbolism, I see that as the moon challenging Sansa on a symbolic level, because Sansa is a character who operates within society and the moon is not symbolic of society.   

But that means that if I have to pick a “sun” and a “moon,” I don’t think it fits that Sansa is the “moon”: I think it means that she is the sun, and that as winter approaches, as the days get shorter and the nights grow longer, she–and society as Westeros knows it–is going to have to adjust to a long winter and a long night where the main source of light is the moon.

Wild

There’s a lot of meat to moon symbolism.  It is a symbol of womanhood–the lunar cycle frequently used to symbolize the menstrual–not to mention its ties to the tide and water.  But if the sun is symbolic of society and the moon is symbolic of the wild, then “Ah, Arya. You have a wildness in you, child,” lines up evenly.

And it does: there are mentions of the moon in important ways in Arya’s arc.  And, more importantly, it’s not symbols of the moon: it is the moon itself.  Which means that that moon gets to carry the weight of all its own symbolism, without being detached from it through a sigil.  

Arya takes comfort in the moon, even thinks that it is something that she can use as a way to guide her on her journey to wherever she’s going:

She carried neither candle nor taper. Syrio had told her once that darkness could be her friend, and he was right. If she had the moon and the stars to see by, that was enough. (Arya XI, ACOK)

It is associated with her burgeoning magic:

Sleep came as quick as she closed her eyes. She dreamed of wolves that night, stalking through a wet wood with the smell of rain and rot and blood thick in the air. Only they were good smells in the dream, and Arya knew she had nothing to fear. She was strong and swift and fierce, and her pack was all around her, her brothers and her sisters. They ran down a frightened horse together, tore its throat out, and feasted. And when the moon broke through the clouds, she threw back her head and howled. (Arya V, ASOS)

Except in dreams. She took a breath to quiet the howling in her heart, trying to remember more of what she’d dreamt, but most of it had gone already. There had been blood in it, though, and a full moon overhead, and a tree that watched her as she ran. (Mercy, TWOW)

It as used as a timekeeper during her training at the House of Black and White:

Cat would always find the kindly man waiting for her when she went creeping back to the temple on the knoll on the night the moon went black. (Cat of the Canals, AFFC)

When the moon was black she was no one, a servant of the Many-Faced God in a robe of black and white. (Cat of the Canals, AFFC)

On a symbolic level there, you have the simple fact that when there was no moon in the sky, Arya ceases to exist: she is “no one” and not any of her other personas, and given the simple fact of the theme of self effacement in Arya’s arc, I think its’s not wrong to say that the moon in the sky means that Arya is Arya.  And this not even touching the fact of her wolf dreams (her burgeoning magic once again) as a touchstone for her while she’s blind and keeping her from truly sinking in to being “no one.”  The moon becomes just one more part of that theme for Arya, and a part of it that roots her in her own identity.

And, lastly, it is something that is associated with–and which Arya herself associates with the Old Gods of the North:

Shoving her sword through her belt, she slipped down branch to branch until she was back on the ground. The light of the moon painted the limbs of the weirwood silvery white as she made her way toward it, but the five-pointed red leaves turned black by night. Arya stared at the face carved into its trunk. It was a terrible face, its mouth twisted, its eyes flaring and full of hate. Is that what a god looked like? Could gods be hurt, the same as people? I should pray, she thought suddenly. (Arya XI, ACOK)

Except in dreams. She took a breath to quiet the howling in her heart, trying to remember more of what she’d dreamt, but most of it had gone already. There had been blood in it, though, and a full moon overhead, and a tree that watched her as she ran. (Mercy, TWOW) (Again)

The moon isn’t challenging Arya’s worldview, it is part of almost every single piece of symbolism in her arc, and is symbolically attached to her identity, her wildness, her magic, her skills in a way that the moon is not for Sansa.  

Even innate in that moon symbolism in Arya’s arc, you have it existing in opposition to society and thriving.  

So all this is to say…even beyond the optics of it (Sansa having the brighter coloring; Arya having the darker) if forced to, I read the moon as Arya and Sansa as the sun in that comment.  I don’t think that the moon imagery in Sansa’s arc holds a candle to the moon symbolism in Arya’s arc, even if I don’t think that either has any particular emphasis on the sun in their arc.

[starlight-ascension]

MY FRIEND IS ON YES5 EPISODE 23/24

*shrieks with excitement at 2:15am* 

you know the drill by now, unedited direct copy-paste for these moments of intensity and keysmashing

REACTIONS

Okay Imma start that episode now

We beading bracelets?

Oh, it's a store decoration. Still slinging beads on it though

OOOOOOOH RAINBOW BUTTERFLY YES

Milk and Nozomi still driving each other nuts

OH POOP SOMECREATURE CATCH IT QUICK

Well, there goes that... T-T

DAYS?

"M-Milk had nothing to do with this! " Uh, you kinda DID though? Granted Nozomi did too, but you're the one who started that chase, so there's some blame there. And judging by your face I'm pretty sure you know it.

Y'all can blame both Nozomi AND Milk for this. And also recognize it was an accident and all.

"Trying to be neutral about it won't do her any good." How so?

Well, that's a little harsh of you, Karen. Can you all STOP playing the blame game and just start gathering up the beads to put it back together?

THANK YOU Nuts.

Theme song time!

Reassigned?

"I'll be sure to defeat Pretty Cure, even if it costs me my life!" *FLASHBACKS TO EAS'S ARC*

No. No. Dude. No. Don't.

"If Pretty Cure consists of the united power of five people...then we'll just have to split those five apart! GASP

=~O Wha...what are those masks...oh frick, CAN you use those on people?

And...the splitting them apart thing? Considering they're in the middle of this disagreement amongst themselves, however small it may be, it's possible that uh, might not be the hardest thing to do right now... ...Maybe. It IS a pretty small disagreement...right?

Yeah, Milk, this is about as much your fault as it is Nozomi's, and, again, I think you know it.

Nozomi's sitting alone today...Did they actually have all those things keeping them busy this lunch period or are they all just avoiding her and/or each other?

"It was your strong spirit that drew everyone together, Nozomi. I think you're the only one who'll be able to make them all smile again." ... :-)

<3 (-:

<3 (-: (-:

Cloudy, dark gray sky. Fitting, I guess? 

You two are walking...farther apart than usual.

Oh heyyy, Girinma. And if what we saw earlier is anything to go by he is REEEEEALLY not playing around now

Transformation time!

jEEZ dude. I wanna say calm down but I know that only ever makes people more upset and you've got some arguably understandable things to be upset about

WHA--HOLY FRICK HOLY FRICK

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HOLY FRICK HOLY FRICK HOLY FRICK

wha...what were they just caught in...

this dude

magically induced worst-nightmare scenario?

"Highest grades in her class. But those grades alienate her from everyone else, so she feels isolated from her classmates." OH. Wow. Just gonna give her the most brutal vibe check you can. Okay. This should be...interesting... 

"She has nobody whom she can truly call a friend." That's not true! She has Komachi! And Nozomi and Rin and Urara! I mean, granted, they're not seeing eye to eye right now, but they can fix that!

OH DAAAAAAAAAAAANG

:-o And now we have Komachi's

Little dolls/puppets? Pretty cute right now but I can see how it could easily turn creepy

BABY KOMACHI! =~D =~D SO CUTE <3 <3 <3 <3

Ohhhh is this the first story she wrote?????

Confirmed yes

"W-wait! I have to return to where the others are!" *doll standing on her leaning in with an unsettlingly big smile and yellow eyes with some black in them* "But you don't reallly want to go back, do you?" Aaaaaand the creepy's setting in... 0_0

Very much so 0_0

"But here, everything can be how you want it to! Forget about the bad things, and spend all your time playing with us!" Oh man, we're going there, we're really going there =~0

watching her sink into the ocean of tiny dolls like that...

HJFOSHFOIWUEHFWOIUEHFUOWHFEWUOHGWOUIGHWRUIOGWR

WHAT JUST--

What task?

*sings kind of absentmindedly, still wide-eyed* dO-do-do-do-do...commerciAl breAk...

"Rin-san! Where's Nozomi-san?" "Don't know, don't care." What? She's your best friend, she was your best friend long before all this! What do you mean you don't care?

Playing damage control?

"Every time you open your mouth, it's Nozomi this, Nozomi that. Don't you have any OTHER friends?!" HEY NOW =~0

;o;

I'm with Urara here. Rin's totally taking it out on her since she and Nozomi had that fight, and she has NO RIGHT to just go for the gut like that over it.

Pinky?

Wait no...that looks like it could be a trap...There he is

Transformation time!

OH MAN OH MAN OH FRICK

HDJFHWEOFJIODSFWE SHE GOT ROUGE

Baby Rin? :-o

"It happens all the time. We always get in trouble 'cause of her. We run ourselves ragged trying to take care of her, but she doesn't even appreciate it." D-: !!!

That's not true! I'm sure she does appreciate it, some of the time at least!

"Haven't you ever thought that...life would be easier without Nozomi?" D-: D-: D-: !

OH GOD THAT SMILE PUT IT AWAY PUT IT BACK PUT IT AWAY RIGHT NOW

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS GO LEMONAAAAAAAADE!!!!

OH FRICK OH FRICK OH FRICKFRICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they got her too... 

"We're so busy with work these days. Dad and Grandpa are so happy for us...so if we don't keep it up, we'll let them down."

"There won't be any more time for this precure stuff." :-O :-O :-O :-O :-O !!

okay, THAT one I was NOT expecting :-O

PREACH LEMONADE! Don't let her get in your head!

"You made a resolution when you entered this school: 'Becoming an actress is my biggest priority! I don't care if I don't make any friends!'" She said that?? ...Well, that was before she actually DID make friends and discover how awesome that was, and became Precure which has to be at least as important as her being an actress. ...Also, I don't think she ACTUALLY didn't care about making friends, I think she was just telling herself that and trying to focus more on her acting ambitions so as to not be sad all the time about not having friends...

"It's completely impossible to do both." No it's NOT!!! And don't come out of the mirror like that, dON'T...

NO NO NO NO NO DO NOT MAKE THAT FACE DO NOT MAKE THAT FACE

OH DANG THAT GUY'S HERE

Kawarino, right, I kept forgetting, thanks...

DON'T GIVE IT TO HIM NOZOMI. YOU CAN SAVE THEM SOMEHOW, YOU CAN

ELJKFHEUOWFHWEOIWE THE FLASHBACKS TO ALL THEIR FACES TOT TOT TOT

NOZOMI?!?!?!

"If you hurt them at all, I'll break the Collet!" GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O =~O !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"If you want the Collet, then take us to the Nightmare's headquarters! I'm going to get them back!" YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Cupcakes about to go DOOOOOOWWWWWWN

Coco and Nuts follow Nozomi. Milk follows them, against their orders.

DSKLFJDSKLFJEALKFJWEOIFJ XD XD XD XD Bunbee doing a spit take at the camera XD XD !!!!!!

I mean, Kawarino did go along with this without argument and smile before doing so, so I'm preeeeetty sure he's got something up his sleeve here

[side note: at this point i sent lyrics from Butterfly by Rachel Rose Mitchell. With Yes5′s butterfly motif and the song’s entrapment thing and intense creepiness, it does sort of work] 

*stares*

=~0 !

=~0 !!!

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D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= D~= !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ain't gonna watch the end theme

[She proceeded to break her promise to her parents that she would go to sleep before 3am.]

"Because I was so careless, everybody got really mad at each other."

"I went with Coco and Nuts to get them back, but..."

*cue T H A T part replaying*

fitting description

Skip the opening theme

Wow, even BUNBEE is freaked out

They look SO FREAKING CREPY with those masks

*slowly slides on Captain Obvious hat*

Can your Dream Attack work to get the masks off them?? Or can you try to break through to them by talking, try to negate the fears and insecurities and all that were appealed to before this??

"You waste your time. No matter how many times you call out, you voice will never reach them." FROOMP you, Desperiah! Her voice WILL find a way to reach them! 

Kawarino's eyes are NOT meant to open that wide

"Whoa now, don't fire up your Dream Attack in here! Our headquarters will be ruined!" Ha! DO IIIIIT. DO IIIIIT.

D-: !!

GASP

NO

NO !!!!

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DON'T YOU DARE, DON'T YOU FREAKING DARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HA HAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO NO NO NO NO-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

COCO! NUTS!

Do we finally get to see what's in the pit?

Don't give it to them, guys!!!!

COCO JUMPED IN

So we ARE getting to see what's in there

Ooooooh are we in Nozomi's nightmare scene now??? NOZOMI, WHATEVER YOURSELF TELLS YOU, KEEP ARGUING

Oh. This...does not look like a nightmare scene 

"Pretty Cure, having fallen into despair, are immersed in a tranquil world where they can forget their harsh reality." *wide-eyed, clasps hand over mouth*

Nozomi...Nozomi has the beaded accessory to remind her of things....like that conversation with Coco...she can break them out of this...

She doesn't remember? I'm sure if she tries she can...

*eyes well up with tears*

Try to remember, Nozomi...try to remember...

And in the pit, Coco's found her

Well, him switching into human form and grabbing her in a hug like that was more emotional than it had any right to be

"Hey, how did the five of us get together, again?" Yes! That's it! She's questioning-!

YES!!!! SHE REMEMBERS

"It's wrong to just have fun!" Um-??

"Back then, you taught me to never give up on anything, and to try with all my might!" YES!!!!!!!!!

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!! SHE'S WAKING UP THE MASK IS BREAKING HADJFLHEDOIFHWRNIOGWRHIOGWRHNGIORWHGIOWRDFWDBVOIQEWBVWIONVWOIEANLMFLK

XD Bunbee struggling with Nuts and Milk like that in the background...

wELP 0_0

Okay now this is happening 0_0

(*o*) (*o*) <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

SHE'S BACK SHE'S BACK=~D !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*sings like Gumball and Drawin* Do do do do do! Commercial break! =~D

Don't let go, Nuts and Milk, don't let go!!!

HA HA HAAAAA! That look on Kawarino's face is PRICELESS

With just two quick moments between Nozomi and Coco they actually managed to almost, ALMOST make me ship it...

YESSSSSS INTO THEIR MINDS WE GO

And she's here as Cure Dream now!

=~O

Yes!!!!!! ='~D ='~D ='`D ='`D

YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!! ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D ='~D !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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*sobbing rainbows and hearts while grinning ear to ear*

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =~D =~D =~D =~D =~D =~D =~D =~D =~D =-~D =~D =~D

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How you like THAT Kawarino, you son of a Japeth? >:-)

Ohhhhh boy the glowy pink lightning eyes =~o

"This cannot be! How could my plan have failed?!" Evil Cannot Comprehend Good, so you overestimated the power of despair and bit and WAAAAAAAAAAYYYY underestimated the power of hope and friendship

Ohhhhhhh what's he gonna do??? Please do destroy the place, Kawarino, that'd be GREAT

Mm. Or not. Also fine.

Ahhh, we've transported to a battle arena that won't upset any higher-ups if it's destroyed. Cool.

"Consider me surprised. Even my calculations cannot account for everything. I never imagined you all would've shattered the Masks of Despair." Yeah. They're awesome like that. :-}

Girinma-beast!

Freaking HECK that powerup is strong

And Kawarino is still gonna be part of this fight himself

"Your suffering is caused by that so-called friend of yours." "I don't care what happens to me! I just want to be with Nozomi!" YES RIN! OVERCOME THOSE INNER DEMONS! =~D =~D =~D

"You should've abandoned your friends and saved yourself. Now, your dreams will never come to fruition." "I'd never abandon my friends! And I won't give up on my dream either!" YES!!!!! I guess we're getting these with everycreature now. FRICK TO THE YES

Yay for friend support!!

YEEEEESSS KOMACHIIII

my mom's mad at me for still being awake irl

"Once again, I see your friends have left the tedious chores to you." "This is just Komachi's kindness at work! And I know that better than anyone!" YES KAREN!!!!!!!!

"What could a loner like you possibly understand?" "Karen isn't alone! We're all here for her! I won't let her feel lonely ever again!" YEEEEEEEEESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAAAAAAAT THE FRICK WHAT THE FRICK WHAT THE FRICK SFHAKDLFHWEIOFWIOGWR

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Gotta wonder what state he'll be in when this is over...

:'-)

"Have you felt the absolute difference between our powers?" Yes. The Precure are way, way, WAAAAAY stronger than you'll ever be.

PREACH GIRLS PREACH

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POWERUP POWERUP POWERUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Weell. Didn't see THAT coming from Milk.

"How perilous. They were able to radiate the light of hope amidst the darkness of despair. These legendary warriors, Pretty Cure...are a force to be reckoned with." Glad to see you finally acknowledging that truth.

Oh, they finished the butterfly!

Oh, Milk.

XD Milk doesn't like to be caught being nice

Ohhhhh and they put that little ring accessory in the center! NICE 

Well, that was epic. 

She’s going to bed now, since it’s 3:15am for both of us. 

I should probably go to bed too. 

[kuixotic]

if possible,all the music asks?

1:A song you like with a color in the title

Yellow-ColdplayI’ve loved this song for a long time and it’s just been a staple of my life,given Coldplay could be considered my top band as well :D

2:A song you like with a number in the title

1985-Bowling For SoupYOU CAN’T TELL ME THIS ISN’T A BANGER 

3:A song that reminds you of summertime

Young Volcanoes-Fall Out BoySee this is actually a direct memory to summer because the summer before junior year I actually went to see Fall Out Boy and Paramore.Young Volcanoes was on the setlist and that was an experience I would love to not forget!

4:A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about

La La La-Naughty Boy ft.Sam SmithIt’s not like this song brings up bad memories which would make me dislike the song,but the message/attitude reflects the situation I was in with an old friend.You could say the whole situation was (and still is) pretty childish and it kinda goes with the whole ‘covering my ears’ thing that La La La has.

5:A song that needs to be played LOUD

LA Devotee-Panic!At The DiscoIt was a heavy tie between this,Planetary GO from MCR,and Death Valley from F.O.B because they are all ‘speeding down the highway on adrenaline and bass boost power at 1AM’ songs.LA Devotee is my headphone testing song lmao

6:A song that makes you want to dance

Dancing Just Like This(mashup between I Don’t Feel Like Dancing and Something Just Like This)-oneboredjeuAt first I never really liked the mashup but then I started listening to it more and it’s just so..happy??You can’t be upset listening to it and you definitely can’t keep yourself from moving.

7:A song to drive to

Death Valley-Fall Out BoyTO VALHALLAAAAAAAAAAAAA 

8:A song about drugs or alcohol

Nicotine- Panic!At The DiscoThat guitar motif coupled with that drum beat is so kickass,and then that bass guitar before the chorus GOD YES

9:A song that makes you happy

Les Miserables(medley)- Santa Clara Vanguard 2013 CorpsI’m a DCI nut,so when I saw this on Semi-Finals night in theaters you could only imagine my reaction to the big hit.Goosebumps and the euphoria that followed after is definitely a reason as to why I’m going to keep up with playing music as much as I can.

10:A song that makes you sad

Shenandoah-Frank TicheliOh god.My senior year of band was this song.I don’t cry much from this song but in the times I played during rehearsal and ultimately my last performance assessment,I would be bawling my eyes out in the back of the percussion section.We had a guest clinician come in one day and they told us to play with a lot of emotion for this piece,the last few notes (the open fifths) to consider it almost as if two people were saying ‘goodbye’ to each other.When I was getting ready for graduation processions the band was playing to fill in the time,and they played this song.I was so close to losing it at graduation man.I guess it doesn’t really make me super sad,but it definitely makes me emotional and very sentimental.

11:A song that you never get tired of

Viva La Vida-ColdplayYou can pry this song from my cold dead hands.It’s such a classic,it’s so good.Everything about it is just so GOOD.

12:A song from your preteen years

Dynamite-Taio CruzI think this is right around I got to middle school/end of elementary?This was such a GREAT song growing up.To be quite honest I don’t know why people trash on pop music,it has the capability of just being really fun and feel good music?And it’s not like it’ll take a lot of effort to listen to the song unlike say a classical piece.You just listen and enjoy yourself.

13:One of your favorite 80’s songs

Take One Me-AhaIs it because I played this my sophomore year in band?NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAlthough for real this is such a great pop piece,I get happy when it comes on at work and you can definitely catch me trying to hit those high notes and failing.

14:A song that you would love played at your wedding

I Know That You Know-Leslie Odom JrAssuming I were to get married,I’d love to dance to this song.Leslie’s voice is just so smooth and gentle and I feel that would be perfect for an intimate moment.Maybe not ‘first dance’ material,but for sure a couple’s dance.It was a bit of a difficult choice between this and Halo by Beyonce but I feel Queen B would be a bit expected.

15:A song that is a cover by another artist

Hey Soul Sister-Lucky ChopsPOSSIBLY ONE OF MY FAVORITE COVERS BY THEM.It’s so fun and energetic!!!Gives me the illusion of walking along the French Quarter of New Orleans following one of those amazing jazz bands.It’s such a pure cover.

16:One of your favorite classical songs

Jupiter,Bringer of Jollity,Gustav HolstJUPITER MY FAVORITE PLANET.For a year or so we would play the chorale section for the homecoming court during a chosen football game every season.I decided to look up the piece one day out of curiosity because hey it’s called The Planets Suite of course I’m gonna go listen.I loooooove Jupiter,while I do love Mars just as much,Jupiter is just perfect and lives up to the name of being jolly.

17:A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke

Take Me or Leave Me-RENT soundtrackI can’t sing for the life of me,but this is such a fun song to belt out at 3 AM with a bunch of friends.(at least I’d think so,I haven’t done that c’: )

18:A song from the year that you were born

Barbie Girl-AquaYeah,I WENT THERE.Unironically I would probably jam to this because the beat will get me going lmaoo

19:A song that makes you think about life

Wait For It-Hamilton soundtrackFor as long as I knew of Hamilton(basically end of 2015) this song has been such a motto to me.My senior year was a bit rough in the sense I was growing distant from everyone I knew,as well as finally feeling the weight of my losses the year before as well as pain from that school year.Not to mention I got rejected from my first choice university and had to change plans a lot.The song really changed my outlook on things,and even to this day I heed the advice of waiting for certain things to fall into place.To this day I have an index card right by compute with the words ‘Wait For It’.

20:A song that has many meanings to you

How Far I’ll Go-Moana soundtrack(I’ll be linking the Voctave cover given it’s been what I listen to the most)I mean how can you not decipher a meaning with a song about a young girl trying to follow her desires while living up to the roles and expectations of those around her?Everyone can relate to it.It could be about physical things we want,metaphysical,anything.It could be a song purely about adventure or looking for what you want in life despite not knowing what you’re looking for.

21:A favorite song with a person’s name in the title

Jolene-Dolly Parton(and Pentatonix)I’m no country person but Jolene is a pretty good song.And then a while ago it seems there was an increase of popularity for the song with Miley Cyrus covering the song as well as Pentatonix.

22:A song that moves you forward

Defying Gravity-Wicked soundtrackThis song is so iconic.The first song I heard from this musical and it has SUCH A GREAT MESSAGE.My personal favorite line is “And if I’m flying solo,at least I’m flying free” because as stated earlier,senior year was a little rough (I went through my first breakup after having such a shaky beginning to get it)and so this song is like a positive ‘fuck everything’ view which I was in need of during those times.It’s such a freeing and empowering song especially with Elphaba’s parts.

23:A song that you think everybody should listen to

You Will Be Found-Dear Evan Hansen soundtrackI had gone through a rough patch a few weeks ago just feeling really depressed and overall helpless,not wanting to reach out because I didn’t want to drag anyone with me.I felt VERY alone.This song kept popping up in my recommended videos and I gave it a try.Not even through the first stanza and I was in tears.I’ve always turned to music for my issues and rough patches,and this song has been the most effective ‘get-up’ song.When I first heard it I felt extreme comfort and felt things would be alright.It’s my turn-to song,and I really want everyone to hear the song and take the message to heart because it’s such a relatable subject matter and it’s true.We really aren’t alone.Even if you don’t feel you have someone to talk to,you can always turn to something.

24:A song by a band you wish were still together

SING-My Chemical RomanceTo be really honest I knew about the group all through middle school but didn’t listen to them as they weren’t my genre.I had a friend send me this song as one of those ‘comment and I’ll send a song the reminds me of you and why’ things and(as I was a wee freshman just now popping up in orchestra rehearsals bc I was reliable)she told me this song should serve as a confidence boost.Of course,I heard this song after the group broke up but it’d be very nice to have them get together and right up some other things like this song.Not that I have anything against the emo label they have,but this style also suits them pretty well.

25:A song by an artist no longer living

Remember the Time-Michael JacksonI was a good fan of MJ at the rip age of about 8,my sister being the absolute MJ nut of the house and knowing all his songs.We had a Michael Jackson game for the wii similar to Just Dance,all the albums on the house computer,all the movies he was in,we had a friggin database of his discography lmaoI remember hearing about his death,I remember just sitting in the living room while my dad played Man in the Mirror on the computer speakers.His songs were such jams and say what you will but his tunes are legendary.

26:A song that makes you want to fall in love

Tus Besos-Juan Luis GuerraMY GOD WHAT A SONG.I remember hearing this once on the radio and enjoying the 50′s/60′s doo-wop feel it had.I found it again after scrolling through youtube and it’s just such a pure song.I feel it really captures the whole notion of “I’m just really in love with you and call me annoying for fawning over you so badly but you’re amazing”.It makes my little heart dance with happiness.(here’s a link to side-by-side lyrics so you can see the original and the english translation :D )

27:A song that breaks your heart

I’ll Cover You(Reprise)-RENT soundtrackIf not for the events preceding this song,the emotion behind it is just so heartwrenching.

28:A song by an artist with a voice that you love

Niagara en Bicicleta-Juan Luis GuerraBACK AT IT AGAIN WITH JUAN LUISI’m Dominican,this man is purely Dominican,everything he sings about is from the Dominican perspective.Don’t get me wrong I love my Puerto Rican salsa but Juan Luis,what a VOICE.It may not be substantial but his voice just has this earthly quality,just like any folk artist out there.I love him so much.(lyrics again because I’m gonna make you all bilingual lmao)

29:A song that you remember from your childhood

Who Let The Dogs Out-Baha MenGiven I first heard this song in a Rugrats movie you already KNOW this was going to be a major part of my childhood!I had a cassette of these guys and this just brings back fond memories of living in Pennsylvania sharing a two story house with my cousin,my other cousins coming over all the time and all of us getting into messes.Good times.

30:A song that reminds you of yourself

Bright-EchosmithIt’s space related.How could I not.The laid back(ness?) of the acoustics is really what I strive to be.This song is laid back,gentle,it kinda has a sense of wonder for space and is a very dreamy song in general.It’s my ideal self I guess I could say,just really laid back,life and wonder back in my eyes,and just a wholehearted love for space.

Wooowee thanks anon!I’ve also created a playlist for this rather than linking every song,as this post would get long very fast.Consider it a personal mixtape of sorts?

[danawyn]

Daily Ura (#21–24)

I noticed I got a lot more confident with his face, and I’m much better about not overworking the details. Hey, results! But, I’m starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel in terms of ideas, so I really had to hunker down and figure out what aspect of sumo/Ura I wanted to showcase.

#21

Concept: It seems like rikishi often get handed people’s kids to hold for a picture. And, I found this image of Ura at a dog salon holding a tiny pooch. I threw in a cat and we have a trio of cuddly things for him to hold.

Execution: Man, drawing animals and a baby was a lot of work. I re-did the dog a few times so it’d match the style of the cat. I’m trying to be more precise and intentional with style and visual language so that everything makes sense and is in alignment.

#22

Concept: I wanted to put him in a pinup pose, haha!

Execution: I had to be careful with this; I didn’t want to make him look like a woman and I didn’t want to it to be super cheesy. Hmm, I probably pulled off the first one because this is still pretty cheesy. :D The pose helped steer it away from being overly feminine, and the addition of a laptop made it feel more natural. Originally he was fondling a Rubik’s cube which just didn’t work. Yep, very cheesy.

#23

Concept: That dang variety show in which Ura couldn’t eat pizza also gave us Ura wearing cat ears (!!). I knew I had to work it into an illustration, but was stumped until I realized the obvious solution — putting my rats into the illustration. This way, he’s some sort of kitty spirit that charms rodents… 

Execution: I decided to go all out and add a background as well as a bit of foreground. The trees were stylized to look like the ones at Meiji Jingu, and I added flowers to the bushes to carry the pink floral motif. The rats are all of my girl rats. Ura is basically my witchsona here. 

#24

Concept: You know the drill — after some concept-driven illustrations, I went back to sumo basics. Overhead view, just to change it up.

OK, just four left in this project (I can’t believe there’s been 24 already!). Almost over…

Daily Ura is part of my experiment in style and execution. One Ura a day for the month of February.

[homepictures]

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English-born Vanessa Gilbreath launched her best ceramics rental aggregation afterwards hosting a examination affair at her Marietta home for Prince William’s wedding. She was inundated with guests, who went agrarian over her tea sets and ancestors china. Since then, she’s accumulated added than 1,000 mix-and-match abode settings from country abode auctions and British manufacturers, which can be busy for weddings, banquet parties, and added contest beyond the Southeast.

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What’s appropriate about English china?When I was growing up, we would appointment august homes and distill over the banquet sets on display. I formed as a assistant at some rather appropriate country homes and castles and was able to absolutely analyze the butler’s abdomen and advance an acknowledgment for the quality. Also, visiting the sites area ceramics and ceramics accept been fabricated for hundreds of years gives me an acknowledgment of ability and adroitness that I adulation to share.

Do you accept a favorite?I admire chintz, which comes in a countless of styles, colors, and patterns. Best accepted is the Summertime pattern, which appearance added pinks and burgundies, but the chicken backgrounds with sprinkles of wildflowers are adamantine to beat. Again there’s paisley chintz—extraordinary!

Any admonition for bond patterns?Relish it! I like to aces out one blush on a plate, generally from abounding colors, and again acquisition addition allotment that appearance that color, too. Nothing’s amiss if you like it.

You’re from the acreage of manners. What tabletop “rules” do you break?Just because a boullion basin is fabricated for boullions and soup doesn’t beggarly it can’t authority shrimp and grits or ice cream. Use teapots for florals—it’s whimsical. And plates are fun: Hang them on the walls! A aphorism I follow: Consistently lay flatware correctly—do not abash your guests.

Credits: Linen and placemat, BBJ Linen Rental, 700 Miami Circle. Bentick by Royal Cauldon banquet plate, Minton bloom plate, Minton aliment plate, Charnwood by Wedgwood boullion bowl, Westland by Wedgwood demitasse and saucer; all accessible to hire from Best English Teacup and her Etsy armpit (minimum adjustment $400).

Photography by Jason Lagi

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Lifestyle designer, clear artist, and columnist Khristian Howell creates ablaze patterns and poppy motifs she licenses out for aggregate from iPhone cases to wrapping paper, cards, and pillows. Formerly a bolt artisan for Nordstrom, Howell boasts absolute blush eyes (that’s a thing) and makes use of it as a trend and architecture agent for AmericasMart. She has additionally served as an able antecedent for the brand of HLN and Real Simple, area she gives tips for creating blessed spaces and hosting absolute parties.

What new tabletop trends are you loving?Mixed metallics are the new normal, but don’t beddy-bye on silver. It is advancing aback able to mix up the balmy metals we’ve accepted for years now. Colored bottle is advancing bottomward the pike, and I’m additionally admiring matte black—in flatware, glass, and alike stainless accessories and accouterments in the kitchen.

Do you accomplish your own placecards?These were fabricated by bounded artisan Niki Malek of Hey Lux. I adulation them because they are a abundant analogy of how a accurate artisan can accomplish what is so elegant, expert, and well-crafted attending absolutely effortless.

What’s your ambush for avant-garde florals?This is a preserved plumosum from South Africa (thank you, Anthropologie!). I am so color-driven that I am usually fatigued to authoritative one able blush account with florals. I like them to feel absolutely amenable and accept that I-woke-up-like-this sensibility.

What abroad makes a table feel special?Candlelight—even in the daytime.

Credits: Glenna banquet plates ($88), Waterfall glassware ($16), preserved floral ($28 for eight flowers); Anthropologie. Banquet plates, aliment plates, flatware; Peachtree Tents & Contest rentals. Stones, Blue Ocean Traders, AmericasMart.

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Lance Jackson and David Ecton, the consistently preppy brace abaft autogenous architecture close Parker Kennedy, are accepted for their awakening Palm Beach appearance and a ability for entertaining. Over the years, they’ve accumulated a barn abounding of best and aged furniture, china, and chinoiserie, which they advertise via Chairish and Instagram. Their accepted above architecture activity is their own—a century-old Mediterranean Revival in Commerce that already belonged to Georgia governor L.G. Hardman. The dining allowance will bench 14. @parkerkennedyliving, @pklthecellar

What is your best admired ceramics pattern?Antique Rose Medallion (on egg cup) and Aged Famille Rose (bread plate). We adulation them because of the mix of colors—pinks, blues, green, and touches of orange. They can brace with about anything.

Where are the best places to collect?Auctions are a abundant abode to acquisition the best of the best after a abundant price. We adulation the coursing and get so aflame if we’re in a baby boondocks on a backroad in the average of boilerplate and acquisition an 1800s allotment of Rose Medallion. I consistently try to brainstorm how it got there—who endemic such a accomplished allotment of ceramics and what all it has apparent in its lifetime. We accept about eight sets of ceramics appropriate now.

What tips do you accept for accumulation florals?Arrange fresh-cut flowers in assorted vases and heights. First, consistently cut your stems at an bend and blight the ends with hot, hot water. Add a tiny bit of achromatize to the boutonniere to accumulate flowers fresh.

Credits: Custom emerald blooming and white Schumacher chinoiserie tablecloth. Best white Fitz and Floyd pagoda-style alkali and pepper shakers.

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Emily Hertz, the appearance and affairs blogger abaft Born on Fifth, celebrates about any break and doesn’t authority aback (she brought in an Atlanta Ballet ballerina for her daughter’s Swan Lake–themed additional altogether party). The above administrator of business for Spanx is now a affair stylist accepted for tabletop spreads that are classic, decadent, and overflowing with blooms. You can boutique her appearance (including ceramics and flatware) on her dreamy-hued Instagram and website. @bornonfifth

What floral trends are you seeing?I am consistently addicted of big-faced flowers like garden roses and peonies, but carnations are absolutely accepting a moment—who would accept thought? With carnations, blush is key. Go for nudes or dimensional tones. Red carnations are still evocative of Valentine’s Days gone by. For tips, I’d advertence Cathy Graham’s book Additional Bloom. She’s a huge antecedent of inspiration.

What ceramics patterns do you adulation to mix?I like to alpha with a acceptable charger or banquet basin and again add a pop of blush and delicacy with the bloom plate. Herend’s Rothschild Garden arrangement is on my list. I additionally adulation Sasha Nicholas plates if you’re activity to monogram.

Who does your tabletop calligraphy?Kathryn Christenbury of Fleur de Letters is the best calligraphist in the city! Brent Fraim of Dear Elouise cardboard appurtenances angry me on to Kathryn. Brent does cardboard for some of the best acclaimed weddings in the South, so she’s in the know.

Credits: Juliska Madeleine banquet basin ($40), Madeleine bloom basin ($38), Belle Botanica ancillary plates (set of four, $98), Arabella pink-footed beaker ($39), Arabella ample blush aerialist ($32), Sferra hemstitch banquet napkins (set of four, $49), Kim Seybert Natural Capiz placemat ($81), Flare napkin arena ($39), herringbone napkin ($30); Neiman Marcus, Lenox Square. Chantilly silver, eight-piece ambience from $2,500, Beverly Bremer Argent Shop, 3164 Peachtree Road. Hibiscus Linens cocktail napkin ($22.50). Il Papiro Firenze floral placecard (set of 12 for $24). Flowers, Cut Flower Wholesale.

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