#i think abiut the middle part

[beanyboobee]

Random theories of mine:

1. What were the Archvisites?

2. Teachers out here scheming

3. How does vanitas die?

What were Archvisties to vampire society? I keep wondering that because I find it so curious how so very few people actually know what they are, and the only ones we have seen who know right away are count orlock, chloe and Ruthvan, all high ups in vampire society, while those of lower status, aka count Orlocks servents, Jean Jacqes, didn't know until they were told.

Surely if Archivistes were well known their massacre would still be remembered as it wasn't that long ago [if we go by Noes age] but yet the servent of Orlocks who does know what an Archvisite is, refers to the massacre as happening 'long ago'

Concidering how long some vampires live, isnt it odd for them to refer to something not even 20 years old as a long time ago ?

We also know Archvisites are differant to regular vampires, as Dominique claimed vanitas wanted to use noe for his unique abilities, (abilities not just ability to see memories), how it (presumably) took longer for chloes potion to kick on for him

Not to mwntion- SPOILER FOR THE LATEST CHAPTER CHAPTER 61

how Noe is already starting to recall what Ruthvan did to him, which shouldn't be possiable if Ruthvan is more powerful than him.

Moving into another theory that I mentioned before but I keep finding more and more proof for,

I think EVERYTHING since the beginning has been planned by teacher, everything, not just the small things. From him just os happening to find noe at an auction, as far as we know the teacher didn't have any others in the mansion so he just so happend to go to a human auction and find the last remaining archvisite? As we know noe added that the vampires who kidnapped hom mistook him for a human?

It was almost as if Noe was the main peice of the story the teacher wanted to see play out. Not to mention in Domiques first appearance she says this-

Who told her where Noe was? Realistically how would anyone know that Noe was with count Orlock? Unless count orlock told someone and it got passed on? But the only person who knew noe was in Paris was the teacher.

The teacher sending a letter to count orlock with Noes full name and asking him to help Noe with anything he needs is also weirdly suspicious because there was no need to give out Noes full name unless he knew the effect it would have.

I am also of the mindset that everything happening is a timeloop, of this situation has played out time and time again, from the conversation lady Archvisitie and the teacher have in Chapter [ 58]

That his excitement at Noe coming with him, "Yes I am having fun because you came with me" implying Noe had a choice not to come, and as we know Teacher loves throwing around the word "choice" an awful lott.

If it is true abiut this being a time loop or some sort of time shenanigans, Noe could be the slightly differant thing Lady Archvisite and Teacher discussed in chapter [58 and 59 ]

One small "choice" can change the entire direction of a story after all.

Also final theory, Vanitas Dies by Noe not grabbing his hand when crossing the portal, I'm still of the mind the story will end with Atlus crumbling. And Vanitas will be trapped in the middle world because Noe didn't grab his hand. Why? Simple, I like to think this scene is foreshadowing

Noe keeps moving between saying- he killed vanitas by his own hand, and, he regrets not grabbing his hand that day, the death of vanitas won't be this big and major gruesome thing like we are led to beleive but rather him being stuck in a void, as it would also explain vanitas saying this during his 'death'

As we know Noe is an unreliable narrator, he blames himself for alott of things that happend, and tends to overexagerate how much of a part he played in the tragedy, as we can see during the whole Louis situation, he holds alott of regret and blames himself for it to the point even years later Domi has to remind him it wasn't his fault, so by him saying he killed Vanitas by his own two hands, it could be something as simple as him- being unable to catch vanitas in time. Or hesitating before holding onto him because Vanitas might of been the to let go.

There was enough of time between Vanitas dying and Noe somehow being the cause of it, for Vanitas to give him the reassurance that he won't die that he just won't be apart of this world,

It could of been said in a similar fashion to how Jean jauqes forced Noe to drink his blood so someone would remember hom and chloe, because if we think about it in that sense. He could of meant he won't die because Now will always be around to remember.

Making Vanitas a figure similar to the shapeless one or lady archvisite; who mainly seem to operate and live in the between world.

[anne-the-quene]

For the ask meme:: 1, 2, 4, 15, 24

1. Who is your favorite historical person?

I mean…I feel like I have to say Anne Boleyn. This blog isn’t dedicated to her for no reason.

2. What is your country most famous for in history?

Well, I live in the US so…take your pick.

4. Favorite historical era?

The Middle Ages and early Tudor period

15. Were the history classes taught in an interesting way in your school, college, or university? What would you do to improve them if you were the teacher/lecturer?

Um in college, my history classes have been pretty good for the most part. The lower-level ones you take, like, you’re first year are meh but once you get into the more advanced classes that are more specialized, it’s more interesting. In high school though, I actually hated history in school because it was just not interesting at all. What would I improve? I mean, I guess it really depends on your personal taste. I prefer more discussion-based classes where it isn’t just traditional lecture where you take tests. Honestly, specifically in the field of history, I think tests are so pointless. My favorite classes I’ve taken are ones where we had reading and then in class we discussed the reading and we also wrote papers. So I think I’d do less emphasis on lecture (a little bit of lecture can be good but just not every single class) and a little more reading/discussion and also, WHO FUCKING CARES ABIUT DATES???? Just memorizing names and dates is not how history should be taught because that’s, like, the least important part of history.

24. Who do you consider to be one of the most underrated historical figures?

So my specialty is disability history so basically everyone we study in my field is underrated because it’s people that usually get ignored by mainstream history. Just to name one: Helen Keller. Pretty much everyone has heard of her, but most people only know her in the context of The Miracle Worker, but she was so much more than that (in fact, I kind of hate The Miracle Worker). She was one of the first deafblind people to earn a college degree. Also she was a disability rights activist before that was even a thing.

[borathae]

↳ Index [Snippet #21 - Munchies, Snuggles, Butt]

“When Jungkook comes home drunk after a night out with his friends.”

Genre: Fluff, domestic bliss 

Warnings: drunk cutie!Kook, suggestive themes, he dry humps her butt, snuggles, he is so cute 

Wordcount: 1.4k

a/n: I randomly had this idea for them and I wanted to write it, so I did :( gosh, I really missed writing for them :(

You knew that Jungkook would come home late today. Some of his friends were in town and he wanted to go out with them. They were nice guys. You didn’t really know them well, having only really hung out with them four or five times, but you could understand why Jungkook liked them. He met them during his days on the road way too many years ago and ever since then, always kept in contact with them. This weekend they happened to be travelling through your town and as already mentioned before, Jungkook wanted to spend a fun night out with them. 

You treated yourself to the perfect selfcare you-time evening. Eating the food you wanted, doing a face mask and watching that one movie Jungkook really hates but you love. You also talked to Jimin on the phone for a good two hours, discussing everything from his newly-married life, to Jungkook still not having proposed to you, to far too graphic details about your sexlifes and plans of meeting soon. You love phone calls with Jimin, you always did and always will, and tonight it was the perfect way to spend your evening. 

You went to bed around one o'clock after having texted Jungkook a quick good night text with the hopes that he is having lots of fun. 

He sent you two messages around ten minutes later. One very blurry and underexposed selfie of him posing with his beer in the middle of the club, he looked very handsome but also very drunk. And the other one was a message which was supposed to say "sleep tight baby, I’m thinking about you, I love you ♡" but came out as "skerp tigjt baby, I"m thinking abiut you I lobe yiu ♡". 

It made you smile. Not only because he looks so handsome in the picture, but because his clumsily typed message was really sweet. It feels really good to know that Jungkook is having lots of fun and that he is enjoying himself, but that there was still a tiny part of him which was busy thinking about you. It feels nice to be loved like that. 

Then you texted him that you loved him too and locked your phone to go to sleep.

You wake up when Jungkook comes home. You didn’t when he unlocked and locked the front door or when he very clumsily prepared a snack in the kitchen and later when he ate it in the living room. You also didn’t wake up when he entered your bedroom and then spent a good minute staring at your face while scratching his tummy and swaying from side to side. Sober Jungkook will have no clue why he spent a good minute standing in the darkness and staring at you as if he was a creepy serial killer, but he remembers thinking to himself in that moment that he really liked the way your face was all squished against the pillow.

You also didn’t wake when Jungkook left for the bathroom, not only to piss but also to shower. 

You did wake then, because Jungkook managed to drop the shampoo bottle and goddamn that sound cut through the night like a gunshot. 

"Ssssh not so loud, you’ll wake ___", you hear Jungkook scold the shampoo bottle. You smile and close your eyes again. Jungkook’s back. You're so happy that he is. 

You are already very close to being asleep when Jungkook leaves the bathroom. You just listen. You don’t want to talk because you have no energy for it and you also don’t want to move because you are so comfy. So you listen to him stumble through the room to reach his closet for a pair of new pjs. 

The drawer opens. Sounds of him rummaging around. Then he gasps. 

"Oooh, soft", he murmurs and a second later the drawer closes again. He must have found what he was looking for. 

For a few seconds you hear nothing but him grunting as he puts his pants on. Then a sudden very loud thud and a painful groan. 

You peel your eyes open. Jungkook is sitting on the floor, naked butt pressed into the wood and legs stuffed into the pants clumsily. 

"Ouchie, ouchie", he whines, rubbing his tailbone. 

"What did you just do?" 

Jungkook turns his head and begins pouting.

"Baby I fell on my butt", he lulls. 

You chuckle tiredly. 

"How?" 

"The stupid pants, they tripped me", he says and hiccups once, "then I fell." 

"Oh no, does it hurt a lot?" 

"Yes, I think I broke it", he says, stumbling to his feet clumsily. He finally manages to pull his pants up. He stumbles to the bed, falling down on top of you. 

"Can you break your butt? Baby I think I broke my-", hiccup, "-butt." 

You stifle a laugh. He is so cute when he is drunk. 

"Mhm I believe you, we'll go to the doctor tomorrow." 

"Yeah okay", he says, relaxing with a loud sigh afterwards. 

He rolls off of you, but slings his limbs around you in a tight hug. Like this his cheek is pressed against your own and the smell of booze tickles your nose. 

"Goddamn it baby, you literally reek of booze tonight", you whine, doing little to actually shake him off. 

"I'm so drunk, I drank so much", he says and gives you some space, resting his cheek on your shoulder instead. 

"I can tell, you broke your butt. Remember?" 

"Yeah", he touches his tailbone, "broke it real good. Baby you have to kiss it to make it better."

"I am not going to kiss your butt right now", you say in a chuckle. 

"Hmpf", Jungkook pouts, "you are so mean", he murmurs but kisses your shoulder. 

"And did you have fun?" 

"Yes, I had so much fun. We, we were dancing and singing and I drank so much. And baby?" 

"Yes Kook?" 

"They wanna go out again tomorrow. Can I go?" 

"Of course, you don’t have to ask." 

"Just wanted to ask", he says and snuggles closer, "in case you wanted to go on a date, then I'd have said no to them." 

"You're cute, but please go with your friends." 

"Thank you baby. You're the best, baby. I love you, baby", he whispers cutely. 

His excessive use of the nickname baby makes you smile. He is seriously such a cutie when he's drunk. 

"I love you too, Googie", you tell him. 

You turn in his arms so you can rest more comfortably. Like this you are Jungkook's little spoon, enjoying it with your entire being. He has you cradled in his arms and you have his warmth against your back. This is so perfect. Jungkook wiggles to get more comfortable.

"Psst baby?" he whispers, nudging you with the tip of his nose. 

"Mhm?" 

"Wanna have sex?" 

You snort. You were just waiting for that moment in his drunken state. Jungkook has three phases when he comes home drunk. Munchies, snuggles, horny. Sometimes there is the crying phase between snuggles and horny too, where he just spends a good ten minutes sobbing about how lucky he is to have you. It is always very endearing and also funny because once those tears stop, it is horny's time to shine without a second of break in between. 

He seems to skip the crying phase tonight, currently dry humping your butt with vigour.

"Kook", you whine. 

"Sleep with me? Please?" he tries. 

"Mh-hm okay, if you can get hard." 

"I will", he says and then for the next five minutes he humps your butt without achieving anything. He is way too drunk for his cock to start working and he ends up speeding up his hips. 

"I can do it, just trust me", he tells you, making you smile. 

"Mhm, I believe in you", you murmur, knowing very well he won’t be able to do it.

It is always a nice little treat to have your awesome boyfriend dry hump your butt while you are halfway gone to sleep. He won’t succeed, but it is still nice because you love how cute he sounds when he tries to get hard. He grunts and lets out little squeaks whenever he thinks that the movements start working, only to sigh in defeat when they don’t. 

He stops after a few more minutes, becoming slack behind you.

"Baby I can’t get hard", he whines.

"Oh no, that sucks", you mumble, caressing his arm, "then let’s just cuddle and sleep." 

"Okay", Jungkook cuddles into you but pouts, "goddamn, I really wanted to have sex." 

"I know, tomorrow then." 

"Yeah okay", he kisses the back of your head, "love you lots."

"Love you more." 

"No, I do." 

You smile and lose your voice as sleep is creeping closer and closer.

"Hah", Jungkook grows softer behind you, "I won." 

You hear his voice as far away whisper of sweetness and then you let sleep engulf you tenderly.​

[chibi-tsukiko]

In tlh there are many scenes of wessa that are pure fan service like them making out, please don’t put that and instead write abiut them and their kids wholesome

Sometimes ya just can’t keep ya hands to yourself 😂

As Alec said in TLBotW while he was smooching his man in the middle of a hell dimension “It’s always the time!” 😆

I think any part of a series at one point or another is “fan-service”. As much as creators create for themselves, they also create for their fans

[gayfrenchtoast]

Despite sleep juice brain still go brr so

Harry Potter if Lily and James DIDNT DIE

A fan theory ramble

Also fuck JK Rowling

Okay so Harry Potter would be taught about the order and the dangers of the wizarding world early on due to James and Lily's positions and James probably being all hug ho about Harry not being afraid of Voldemort especially after that faithful night they almost died to him but didn't because Sirius was watching over their house that night and came to save them. They found out Wormtail was the traitor and sent him scampering and took max precautions after that.

Harry is more arrogant in this version because "my parents are great wizards and my parents and Godfather fought Voldemort and sent him packing" however big bad V did manage to land a hit on him that gave him his scar, unknown if this makes him a haucrux yet. So yeah he's arrogant and he's super confident he's gonna go to hogarth and be an awesome gryffindoor

Lily made Snape and James "make up like adults" and be civil for her and Harry's sakes. They shit talk each other behind their backs and though this in first year made Harry dislike Snape especially since James would shit talk about Snape to Harry and Harry would then overhear Snape shit talking his dad as he got older he just came to accept it and listen to it for the petty drama, ever got Snape to shit talk his dad to him and so they'd just vent at him about each other and no it isn't healthy but damn is it funny to Harry.

Harry does meet Ron and Hermione on the train for the first time, makes friends with Ron by buying some of the sweets from the trolley, with the money James slipped to him before he got on, for them to share. Kinda teases Hermione first time they meet by opening the chocolate frog to her when she asks about the toad ("are you sure it's not a frog? Cus I found THIS" he opens the box in a flash and the chocate frog makes a leap, right towards Hermione. She let's out a high help and leaps back in surprise only for Harry to catch it before it can even get that close to her. Both he and Ron laugh at her reaction as the girl flushes red with rage and embaressment, beginning to turn to presumably storm off. "Wait wait! I'm sorry, I was just joking! Here, you can have it. I only really want the card anyway." He grins as he offers the chocolate frog that was mostly reverting into mainly chocolate form. She looked hesitant but did carefully take the token of good faith, inspecting it a little just to be sure. "...fine. I accept your apology. I shall continue to look for the toad. And by the way, we'll be arriving soon. You might want to get changed into your robes." And she trots off, seemingly satisfied with whatever good job she did.)

Malfoy, who's heard about the boy who's family sent the dark Lord to the shadows, I quick to try and belittle Harry and then try and make it sound like he could "redeem his family name" by becoming friends with him. Harry basically laughs and says he knows of malphoy and his family and he's proud his family was the ones that fought Voldemort instead of the ones who bent over for him. Draco is stunned and pretty pissed.

Sorting hat Ceremony makes it real interesting. Ron gets in Gryffindoor, as expected, however Hermione is in Ravenclaw, Nevil is in Hufflepuff and Harry Potter is in Slytherin. With Draco Malfoy. Who he just insulted.

Harry is devastated to be in Slytherin. He deadass argues with the hat but is forced to concede and go sit and just accept that he's a Slytherin. Ron is conflicted that his new friend who's family fought Voldemort is in slytherin and Draco appears to have the same problem. Despite now being in the same house a rivalry forms between them which is only enhanced by them bunking in the same room.

Harry writes home about this and both James and Lily assure him it's okay he's in Slytherin, Lily tells him that Snape was a Slytherin and Snape is their friend and James reminds him that Slytherin does not mean evil and Gryffindoor does not mean good, wormtail was a Gryffindoor and he turned them over to the dark Lord. This does make him feel a bit better.

Harry manages to maintain his friendship with Ron despite their houses, it's weird at first but they quickly break down that barrier and become great friends, goofing around, becoming friends with the Groundskeeper, which helps them become friends with Hermione.

They make friends with Nevil by saving his rememberall when draco throws it. Nevil helps them with herbology homework from then on. Minera advises Snape to get Harry to be seeker for Slytherin Quiditch after she sees what he does and Harry, who still sees Slytherin as kinda the enemy despite being in it, hesitantly agrees. Slytherin Quiditch is allot less friendly that Gryffindoor, the team is allot colder to him at first, however once he proves himself he finds he loves the sport more than he cares about what team or house he's in and his team warm up to him and actually turn out to not be as scary and mean as he thought. They're still kinda arrogant assholes but Harry is too so he dosent have room to judge

Deadass I do not care about the Philosipers stone shit, people don't think Harry is some kind of chosen one, he and his family survived voldemort and are kinda celebrities for that but because there no tragedy within a year of the event there are rumours its a hoax and eventually the potters surviving the dark Lord becomes a roumour itself so people aren't trying to actively sabotage him. And since he don't think Snape is a stranger out to get him (litterally confronts him about his sus and Snape is like "nah fam I may not like hour dad but you're like my godson I'm not gonna try and kill you in the middle of a quiditch match on a broom" and Harry is like "oh...okay nvm but if you're lying I'm telling my mum" and when he dosent flinch he knows he's telling the truth) and so they quickly figure it was Quirrel. When Hermione puts sus on him Harry decides to be very Slytherin when they confront him in the bathroom and tries to wingardium leviosa him into the air, only getting his turban and showing off his voldemort face. In front of like three other teachers. Fight ensues, day saved, stone safe.

They do find the mirror while goofing off one night and Harry sees himself as a Gryffindoor with his parents proud. He dosent visit the mirror again

Harry gets the invisibility cloak from James that year for Christmas with the strict instructions that he will not tell anyone except those he trusts of its existence.

Draco, probably in second year again, ends up calling Hermione a mud blood at some point ("Potter! You're making our house look bad hanging out with that mud blood!) Harry immidately starts yelling at Draco for that and it quickly escalates to them fist fighting. Sape ends up being the one to discipline them, actually telling Draco off for using such a phrase but still punishing Harry for starting Violence. This is what ends up with them being punished by being sent into the woods with Hagrid. They somehow end up bodmung on tbsi trip, Harry asking why Draco would do that and Draco launching into a tirade about how "father says it and father is always right! He'd beat me if I was friends with a mud blood why should you get to do this and that id get punished for this and that father this father that-" you get the picture. Harry just lets him rant until he's done and then is like "wow your dad is a dick" and drack tries to.deny but Harry just goes through all the shitty stuff draco just told him his father did and draco is just like "...you won't tell my father we talked about this will you" "look mate, I dont ever wanna even meet your father and if I did meet him I would have a bunch of other shit to say to him and a few gestures." And so Harry managed to convince Draco his dad is the dick he is and begins on a mission to get him to see that and be better than him.

Harry goes home for Christmas but always sends his friends gifts. In second year before they depart on the train he gives Draco something before they part ways. He knows a gift would probably be suspicious from him arriving at Malfoy Manor so he gives to to Draco with instructions to only open it at christmas. On christmas day, when he gets some alone time, Draco opens the gift. It's a metal bangle of a Snake that when he rubs it and says a set word it becomes a warm light in the darkness. Draco only says uts acceptable when they meet in the new year bug Harry sees him wearing it and catches him using it at night.

Sometimes Harry has nightmares about the night Voldemort tried to kill his family and of the dark Lord himself. Draco has nightmares of his father and death eaters. When they wake the other up from the nightmares they sit ul and talk about them, abiut random thing or just make teasing jabs at each other until they're comfortable to sleep again

Draco gives up the information they need about the chamber when asked so no need for polyjuice, apologises to Hermione on their way out from the Slytherin dorm room, visits her and brings her and apology chocolate frog for when she is cured (the boys told him they were her favorite) and follows Ron and Harry to the chamber, demanding he be a part in the adventure. Its the Basilisk and Tom Riddle that terrify Draco and seals the deal on his conversion over to the "oppose the dark Lord" side

Draco sets Dobby free

Let's get some Potter family back in here for the hell of it. Sirius has been in love with Remus for yeaaars. Lily knows and is his emotional support. James is oblivious. Remus is with Tonks for a few years but talks to James about his doubts. James is all "naah man Tonks is great! I understand you don't think yihre worthy of a great girl but you are man! Belive in yourself!" And so Remus sticks with it. By Harry's third year there are rumours in the order of Wormtail being about, Remus becomes Hogwart's defence against the dark arts teacher and Sirius is a wreck with Harry and Remus in the frey but him stuck on the sidelines, even Tonks is confused and kinda annoyed with his fretting causing him to confess to her that he lives her boyfriend. She's surprisingly chill and is like "deadass I've been waiting for years for him to break up with me and get with you you two are so stupid" and so Sirius runs off in doggy disguise to confess to moony and arrives in time to help save the day

Draco slowly intergrates into the friend group, Ron bringing some of his friends (Dean and Sean) in a bit and Draco trying to bring some of his friends (Crab Goil and Blaze) but they're mostly hesitant (except from Blaize who wants help on his Herbology from the smart awkward Hufflepuff)

Draco pretends not to be worried about the dementors and Harry's fear of them but he always has his eye on them whenever he sees one.

The demontors were sent out to look for Peter Pettigrew.

Harry shares the maunders map with Draco when he finds it. Harry recognises whk the maunders are as soon as he sees it but doesn't tell Fred and George. However when they see Peters name they rush to Remus. Remus is in a bit of a tiz by this and tells them to follow him with the invisibility cloak as they go look for him. They never find him that night and he ends up dissapearing off the map but Remus still confiscated the map for the night and tells them to keep an eye out for anything suspicious, including rats. They're confused but promise to be careful.

Draco doesn't try and get buckbeak executed this time, he deadass is working with Harry to gain the hypogriff's trust and some slytherins that are pussdd they're being all friendly with other houses set off a loud spell that spooks buckhead and draco shoves Harry out of the way before he can get hurt and takes the brunt. None knows how word got to Lucius, it causes an argument in the group especially when Drsco is too afraid to stand up to his father but Harry stands up to him as he knows why Daco is afraid and they work out a plan to free buckbeak instead.

The plan ends up co-inciding with the day Sirius breaks into hogwarts. The dementors know there's an intruder but can't find him so are more active that usual, Sirius doesn't get tome to confess because as soon as he arrives Remus is all work mode and fills him in on the map and all and needs Sirius' nose to sniff him out. The kids plan of rescue is interupted because of this and most continues as normal with Harry furious at Peter not Sirius when he's revealed for trying to get his family killed and Draco tagging along. Snape busting in let's Peter escape unfortunately and then full moon and dementors happen. They manage to rescue buckbeak and themselves with time Turner magic and all is good.

After the full moon is done sirius sniffs out Moony and crades him in his arms until he wakes up, its there in the sunrise he tearfully tells him he loves him and with a clear mind Remus tells him he loves him too.

Draco ends up actually getting into an argument with his dad about trying to get buckbeak killed when he gets home which starts Draco's proper rebellious streak with also means an increase of strictness from Lucius. Draco and Harry send secret messages back and forth.

Thats all for now but I have ideas for the rest of the stories I will ramble about later!

[teddy-feathers]

look my problem with the au megamind where Roxanne is the alien and megamind is the reporter is i cant stop thinking about what i want out of that and how its probably not what other people want out of that which should mean 'oh shit i gotta write it' but really means 'in the next couple of months im going to rewatch megamind and be extremely frustrated because idk how to write these people as is let alone in an au'

but here are some thoughts

Itd have to take place on megaminds home world so like. have to develop that culture and frame it as the usual and other things as oddities

metroman still shows up at the same time the baby human does

roxan richie and metromans rivalry is less of a game and more of a metroman one up'd her ome to many times so now shes gotta take him out

its fine not because shes incompetent- in fact her death rays and pointy sticks are ingenious and have 0% public property or civilian causalities - but because metroman is not only impossible to kill, he adapts to anything that gets close (anything that doesnt kill him makes him stronger literally)

i guess this means theres a good chunk of the story that is centered around human adaptability vs perfect hero dudes adaptability

Roxanne Ritchie is actually a noted scientist or something at the local research facility - i figure blue people planet is really advanced and everyones at least a little technosmart but while it doesnt come as easily or naturally to Roxanne her way of thinking is really unique n shiz and shes an asset to every team....

but if you see her in a mask with some project from the lab macguivered into a gun trying to kill metroman well, no ones getting hurt and humans need hobbies and everyone respects the mask desptie the fact shes the ONLY human on the planet so its not like its hard to figure out who she is

she does spend a lot of nights having to rebuild projects and apologizing and such but basically everyone plays the plausible deniability card and asks her questions abiut what went wrong and okay so the masked menace failed after you let them steal our project but lets pretend for a moment the goal was to fix crops how would you say this did? and grumply shed revamp the guns weird side effect into an alien pollinating crop duster or whatever

got carried away when REALLY all I WANTED to say was

Whille Roxanne Ritchie is adaptable ingenuity and gets away at the last minute NOT because no ones trying to catch her but shes just that CLEVER and thinks ahead and shiz....

Megamind is the guy trying to interview her in the middle of a fight like he thinks he's cute - i mean he is but shes chasing after metroman and skids to a stop because this jerk stepped in for a comment. or shes lining up the perfect shot but theres a close up of megaminds reporter bag in the way

the thing is that maybe... blue people arent violent. a natural disaster hit recently and theyre coming back from it and if the two adopted alien kids want to play extreme tag well no ones getting hurt and Roxanne Ritchie will grow out of her competitiveness no doubt caused by just how superior EVERYONE on the planet is by finding her own niche and metroman will grow up and stop bating her because maybe he IS still better than everyone else and thats met with "oh very nice we're proud" but it doesnt really validate him or make him feel special because its just treated as a special thing he can do by everyong but Roxanne Ritchie and once he's found something that makes him feel good regardless of the attention or lack of it he'll stop playing too

but megamind? megamind has an imagination that loves drama and blowing things out of proportion and thats part of why his reports are so popular? like yeah everyones treating this super hero showdown with indulgence but megamind is good at framing theatrics so that this news story is actually a compelling narrative? and also everyone can see the tension is going to have one of these three "kids" confessing live someday

and maybe he gets carried away. one of those 'aw well next time you could do x or y' or has some technological creation that accidentally actually makes Metroman flinch during an interview

and Roxanne Ritchie starts paying attentionto him for the first time.

and minion warns him but he doesnt listen. minion is lower class and is afraid of being replaced like a pet like some people do but Roxanne Ritchie Ritchie doesnt have a minion and even if she did theyre Best Friends not like those other blue people minion uperclass people.

and he carelessly says something unforgivable and Roxanne Richie uses his ideas and actually succeeds in killing metroman

so she goes to prison - a place they had to build just for her because this hasnt happened since stars knows when

and somebody else is doing the camera because minion left just is gone and megamind looks defeated but testifies against her and is quiet and subdued and stpps being a reporter for a bit

and.... idk. i feel like we'll have to resolve the whole class system so minon goes underground and finds other minons who are unhappy with the way of things and if theyre ALREADY rebuilding society after that huge natural disaster that DIDNT blow up their planet thanks TO a minion well ehy cant they fix this too?

so theres a rebellion going on and theyve got a secret weapon to make blue people listen and idk but i feel like it's Metroman

and... how do stories like this go ive forgotten

minion wouldnt tell megamind or he would

metroman would break Roxanne Ritchie out of prison during the first riot of the minion revolt?

they talk and compare why they hated eachother and slowly work together and are actually a great team?

and then they need a reporter to make themselves heard as something other than minions going crazy

and so of course they go to megamind for help getting the story out

something something megamind is minions sidekick for this adventure

"Roxanne Ritchie was raised by the planet and turned against it and instigated civil unrest and killed a person who was also the good child etc etc instead of just growing up to face your problems"

"actually im alive and i finally found my place? helping out the real heros?"

"i mean i did try to kill him, but he forgave me and we're kinda working together because planet of moms and dads that raised us? yall actually are the ones who need to grow up and let go of the traditions that dont serve etc etc"

and megamind does a huge public apology to minion

and... uhhhhhhhhh fuck i really dont know how these storyies go

the blue people start making amends

metroman basically becomes a social worker for minion childern because finding their original families is a bit hard and most of these kids are just going to end up being raised by super dad but at least the rebellion minion families are actually geting to be their own family units and in a couple gens thatll be normal

Roxanne Ritchie goes back to being the token human in the lab and hangs up her super suit and is generally dissatisfied with this

until one night a hero breaks into her apartment to make her answer for her crimes and so for a legit hot second theyre fighting and megamind says something and Roxanne apologizes and then fighting stops being an argument and goes into banter flirting

the worss "where theres evil good will rise up to fight it" peob comes up a lot in this fic in different iterations

anyways megamind isnjust basically like hey wanna do this like. for the rest of our lives dramatic battle showdowns like its entertainment but like no theyre doing this for real?

the answer is hell yeah

and its a polyship and sometimes Roxanne is helping with the kids and then Megamind bursts in to "save" the family from her evil clutches and 90% of the time everything is improve

megamind kidnaps Roxanne to make metromind save her and a good half of the conversation is that hes an idiot for coming shes tried to kill him three times this week and hes bitching because do you know how hard it is to find a sitter for 30 odd minion kids this short notice and they better make it up to him

Roxanne is not superdad but the 30 odd minion kids adore when she comes over because they mob the villain so hard until finally mega comes to save her because hes actually very good with the kids

of course this poly ship isnt complete without minion and at some point minion and mega realize theyve actually been married for years and Roxanne and metro tease them shamelessly for it

minion and his race need a real name obviously

when Roxanne was a... graduate her senior project theses thingy was essentially "im going to go back to planet earth itll be great ive figured out were im from and how to go there in a reasonable amout of time" and everyone had to sit her down and explain that unlike metroman they knew where she was from the planet was just destroyed.

they never figured out where metroman was from because his direction sharply changed to follow baby Roxannes course and mirrored her coding despite very obviously how he had originated from elsewhere

this is important because his race is basically coming to conquer the blue people planet soon - the group finds out - and will download all the survival upgrades metroman has gotten to become unkillable and then just come down to the surface and be unstoppable taking the place over and whiping out the planet like theyve done many many times

a good chunk of the time trying to figure out how to stop them when this planet is REALLY against murder war and violence for good reason and even if they WOULD do that its impossible over looks some alone time that leads to megamind and metroman figuring out how to like kill him so when the bad guys show up theyll go "whelp better not fuck with them" and leave but between roxanne and minion they manage to not only stabilize metroman (Roxanne blood transfusions maybe???) but they manage to scare the aliens so bad they tuck tail and leave speading rumors that these are the scariest mfs in space (go minion)

metroman never lets Roxanne live down saving his life

eventually space humans show up to check the place out

megamind loves everything human despite most of the planet thinking theyre primitive and showing it

roxanne is reluctant to meet them at first but then really relates to them?

for a good long while it REALLY seems like megamind and Roxanne are just going to go on space adventures with the humans leaving metroman and minion - who really doesnt like them and also they kinda rub him the wrong way because he's non bipedal and they kinda make fun of him in a 'we totally dont mean anything by it lighten up' sort of way.

they don't go of course but they may have stolen a lot of atar charts n shit and who hasnt wanted to take a road trip through space with 30 odd childern who will need names and personalities and may be chopped down to a slightly more reasonable number by this point?

metroman loves space karaoke and his natural abilites mean he learns languages fast but no he still cant carry a tune

megamind and Roxanne still duke it out on various alien cityscapes

minion usually breaks them out of jail if theyre not to be let out the next day because nothing was actually damaged that didnt belong to them.

one memorable occasion it was metoman in a fight with megamind and they wont say what its about but both look very put out and minion looks smug

it doesn't matter in the end because Roxanne teams up with the childern to propose to them first

apparantly i had a lot more ideas about this then i meant to? i mean its not well thoughout out and despite the drama a good half the fic is just going to be cute relationship building stuff between the four of them

[slowdownandenjoythebubbles]

When the time has come..

I've had this friend from middle school or high school since 2008 or 2009 and I'll be honest, a lot about her bothered me then. She's loud, messy, dramatic, way too quick to hop into relationships, makes dumb decisons all the time, and self centered. I used to think she had a good heart, but these past 2 years have shown me this is not the case. I'm done. I can't have someone who doesn't care about me in my life. This has been a long time coming, but it is long overdue.

Shit she does that annoys me...

Being with her emotionally exhausts me.

She embarrasses me.

She's so irresponsible with money.

She keeps trying different drugs.

She lied to me about the drug usage.

She refuses to get her own car.

She thinks doing something once makes it a part of her....like ok, you dated a dude with a kid, but your not a mom. That's not how this works...you two never married.

She thinks majoring in a field where the starting salary is 19k is going to change her life.

She's gotten so self important since startig uni. (Big whoop. Most of our year graduated when you finally started and we now work full-time jobs.)

She thinks working parkinglot security at uni football games and restocking concessions in between games for 15 hours a week as work study is a real job. Baby, you barely work. That's just killing time.

She keeps dating these ugly dudes. Like, alien ugly. I'm scared she'll breed with them...*shivers*

She rarely asks about me, and on the rare occasion she does, she makes a bad attempt to analyze me because she took Intro to Human Psychology and got ideas. (Exactly why I've not told her anything more than trivial nonsense about my problems since October 2017.)

She acts like she's better than me because she always has a man. (Though her men are ugly or not impressive in status, career, or even reputation. I might be perpetually single, but at least I've never tried to have a baby with a 40 year old drug dealing fry cook.

Some of her new college friends are just as trashy and odd as she is. Like damn, college improved the rest of us.

She always wants to talk about her relationship drama. Always exs or baby mamas or cheating or some bs. (I admit I don't know how to talk about myself and thus am grateful that one of my best friends is a conversationalist and the other is cool with silence, but fuck. I don't always want to know abiut the bs, especially when we rarely see each other. Might be different if their were other conversations to break it up, but no, just annoying.)

She causes her own drama.

She rarely keeps to her word or plans

I'm not sure she understands how student loans work. She's on her third semester of undergrad for an instate public institution (with 5 or 6 more to go at the rate she is taking and failing classes since I last checked), and ALREADY has so much student loan debt that she could pay for half of a master's degree at a private college because she takes out more than she needs for school so she can have spending money. (But conveniently she never has it when we hang out.)

Girl still doesn't have a license at 25.

She never seemed genuinely interested in my favourite hobbies, tv shows, or interests.

She never wants to admit when shes wrong.

She makes her political opinions known too loudly- damn near attacking others online for disagreeing with her.

I don't think she ever stops to think about how she's affecting her life.

Letting go has been a slow process for me, but I think her lying about the drugs was a turning point for me. I started noticing things, such as how she treats me, and now I've sat and watched while going on with my life. It's sad, but we've outgrown each other and are not the same people we were in our early teens. If we met each other today in different bodies, we probably wouldn't connect at all.

[lindzaylove]

Tag Game!

Tagged By: @kw03 💞💞

Rules: Answer ALL of the questions!

Last

Drink: water

Phone Call: my momaw

Text Message: my mom

Song I Listened To: Gorilla by Pentagon

Time I Cried: uhhhhhh i don't know

Ever

Dated Someone Twice: kind of?

Kissed Someone and Regretted It: lol no

Been Cheated On: no

Lost Someone Special: no

Been Depressed: yes?

Been Drunk and Threw Up: no

Favorite Colors: orange and green

In The Last Year Have You

Made New Friends: YESSSSS

Fallen Out Of Love: i don't think so

Laughed Until You Cried: ooh probably

Found Out Someone Was Talking Abiut You: no

Met Someone Who Changed You: yes

Found Out Who Your Friends Are: yes

Kissed Someone On Your Facebook Friends List: no

General

How Many Facebook Friends Do You Know In Real Life: t least half i think

Do You Have Any Pets: 3 cats

Do You Want To Change Your Name: no

What Did You Do For Your Last Birthday: i had a party at my grandma's with family and a few friends

What Time Did Yoy Wake Up This Morning: 7 and 9

What Were You Doing At Midnight: sleeping?!??!?

What Is Something You Can't Wait For: part 5 of Shane Dawson's latest series

What Are You Listening To Right Now: my TV

Have You Ever Talked To A Person Named Tom: yup! he goes to my church

Something That Gets On Your Nerves: people leaving in the middle of a presentation

Most Visited Website: my emails probably

Hair Color: dirty blonde

Hair Long or Short: short!

Do You Have A Crush On Someone: kind of?

What Do You Like About Yourself: my eye color

Want any piercings: nope

Blood Type: lol no clue

Nicknames: uhhhh people mostly refer to me using pet names

Relationship Status: single?

Zodiac: sagittarius

Pronouns: she/her

Favorite TV Shows: Bachelor in Paradise, The Office, and Are You The One?

Tattoos: i want two!

Right or Left Handed: right

Ever Had Surgery: nope

Piercings: two on each ear

Sports: soccer when i was little, softball until last year, volleyball for three years and bowling for the past three years

Vacations: never been on one

Trainers: ??????

More Generally

Eating: just finished ice cream

Drinking: just finished water

I'm About To Watch: Halloween Baking Championship

Waiting: always on @end-me-tm to reply

Wanting: Panda Express tbh

Get Married: one day!

Dream Career: lol stay at home mom

Which Is Better

Hugs or Kisses: hugs

Lips or Eyes: eyes

Short or Taller: guys-taller girls-shorter

Older or Younger: uh, doesn't matter?

Nice Stomach or Stomach: i don't care

Hookup or Relationship: relationship

Troublemaker or Hesitant: troublemaker

Have You Ever

Kissed A Stranger: no

Drank Hard Liquor: no

Lost Glasses: honestly how does that even happen

Turned Someone Down: yeah, twice

Sex On First Date: no...wtf

Broken Someone's Heart: i think so

Had Your Heart Broken: a little bit

Been Arrested: nope

Cried When Someone Died: ...no

Fallen For A Friend: yes?

Do You Believe In

Yourself: rarely

Miracles: yes

Love At First Sight: a little bit

Kiss On First Date: depends on the couple

Angels: yes

Other

Best Friends Name: Allyson

Eye Color: blue💙

Favorite Movie: The Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles

Favorite Actor: Ryan Reynolds

jesus i am finally done

tagging: @bangchanskitchen @lix-ofhearts @hyunjinsgiggle @jisungsings and omg it takes forever i'm sorry

[dreamilymagicalhideout]

Cut an Apple

Cut an Apple

(The pic is not mine, I’m sorry if there’s something unsuitable with the real selfharming is)

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(Y/N) Keanu Reeves

You peel the apple carefully, usually you just eat the apple, don’t bother with peeling that first, but this time it’s not about the apple. It’s about something else, something you hide in excuse to peel the apple.

You’re addicted to cutting, it started three weeks ago, when you were cutting the carrots for dinner, you held the knife in your hands and see it for a moment. Suddenly there’s this one thought in your mind about cutting, you get currious about how that will making you feel. And with everything these past few days make you didn’t think straight, so you really want to try it.

Keanu was watching television at that time, he just got home so you said to him to relax and let you do the cooking. He will believe if gou got cut because an accident, it just a one cut anyway since you just want to try it once, you are currious, you can’t help it.

You glamce at Keanu, is he looking at you or not, or is he going to make his way here, but he didn’t. He was engrossed by something in the television, so this is your chance to do that. You grazed the knoce on the middle part of your fingers, four of them.

You wince to make Keanu noticed, so he will think it was a pure accident, he hear you wince and he make his way to you. “Everything’s okay?” He asked you and then you nodded “I accidentally cut myself, it’s alright”

“Wait, let me see it” you show her the red line from your pinky finger to your forefinger. He examined the wound and led you to the sink, he wash your finger gently, trying his best not to hurt you, you wince a lottle because it stink, but somehow it feels good which is odd, why did you feel like it’s help you relieve something on your chest? You like it.

He asked you to sit down while he was searching for a first aid kit, you already think about doing it again and about how to make it seem like it was an accident, if you do this again he will still believe it’s an accident, but the third time you do it he will get suspicious, if you get cut while you’re cooking that should make you careful, not keep doing it again. Or she just do it on the same place so he won’t notice.

He kneeled in front of you, taking your hands and you wince again when the alcohol touch your wound. He wrapped your fingers with gauze and put a plester on every one of them. He kissed all of your injury fingers. “Done”

“Thank you” you smiled at him, there’s a guilty feeling on yourself if you look at Keanu face. His eyes looking at you warmly and he believes it was an accident, you lied to him, and if lie wasn’t bad enough you lie about something bad, something will do no good for you, but scars. Scars that will show you everytime you look at them that you are pathetic. You know it, but still, you want to do it again.

“Let’s watch television, we just ordered a dinner” you feel bad and refused. “It’s ok, I’ll continue making a dinner. It’s fine.

“No, it isn’t” he carried you to the couch and sit beside you, he pulls you closer and caressing your hair, and you are still thinking abiut cutting yourself.

-

You keep your hands on the apple, it was red, as red as the blood that usually flow when you were cutting. You have cut in different places, your fingers, sole, feet, and your knee. Usually you just cut in the same places over and over again.

You know it’s wrong, but you still do it. You still think about your problem, and think with that kind of problem it’s alright, but really? You don’t really know.

You put the apple down and start to cut you hands. The blood flowing and you keep cut yourself, you like the feeling of blood streaming down your hands, it’s too much, the blood are now reach the floors.

“(Y/N)! What are you doing?” Keanu saw you cutting yourself, he run into you and you just stand there flabbergasted. You didn’t know what to do, you just stand there and keep the knife on your hands. It’s too late to deny it, you’re caught. The end.

He put the knife down and look at your hand, you were embarrassed, you looked anywhere but him. You try to not to look at his eyes when his are definitely looking deep into yours. “It’s too deep, we should go see a doctor”

He ’s gone for a while and come back with a cloth in his hand and a jacket, “hold this, so it will hold the blood from keep coming out”

You hold the cloth while he put the jacket around you. Then, he put his arms around your back and led you to the car.

You sit in the hospital bed and looking at your hands. Just got stiched. You know someone coming in, but you still looking at your hands since you already know who it is. He sit on the edge of the bed, you know he is looking at you.

When the doctor asked where else the scars is you didn’t want to tell them, but you had lied to Keanu, you didn’t feel like lying anymore, you feel gulty so you told them all of it. They must told him, you don’t have to look at his face to know that he is sad, you can already guess.

You still looking at your hands, he still looking at you, and the room still silent, you don’t know who would speak first, you don’t know what to say, but you know Keanu must have lots of thought on his mind.

You waited for him to speak first, you don’t know where to start, you feel ashamed of yourself, you have problems and you choose to cut yourself, you lied to Keanu, you said you accidentally cut yourself, but no you choose to cut yourself you think it was okay to do that.

He must be disappointed with you, you break his trust, you didn’t tell him all the problem you had, you told him it was okay and you didn’t need help at all, you told him you already get over all your problem. Turns out, you just make it worse.

You still wait for him to talk, why did he just looking at you? Maybe he thinks that you are disgusting or maybe he hates you now. You don’t know what to do with your life if he hates you, probably just lay in a bed and waiting until you die. He’s all you’ve got now.

Just thinking about that and all the problem you had, you cry, hard. You burst into tears and cover your fce with your hands, don’t care that the stitches will open.

Keanu put his arm around you and caressing you hair like he always did when he hugs you. You rest your head on Keanu’s chest, they could probably hear you outside, but you don’t care. Your body trembling as you crying, you feel like you’re ready to crumbling.

“I’m sorry” You continue sobbing on his arms, you know he dissapointed in you, and for now, it seems like you can’t do anything to fix this.

You have been crying for half an hour and now your eyes is red and swollen, your vision is blurry and all you want to do is just curled up on your bed with Keanu’s hands around you. You didn’t want to talk about cutting, but Keanu will definitely ask why you did this.

“How are you feeling?” He said softly and you don’t know either, you feel ok, but now you still crying, even it’s already lessening. “I don’t know”

“I really appreciate if you just tell me that you have a problem, you can just talk to me, don’t keep it to yourself. I know I’m bad at giving an advice, but I’ll try my best, I promise”

“I know that your mom is on jail now, and your sister ran away from home, just talk to me ok? Or I can take you to the therapist if you want. Or if you want to rest and forget this for a while, we can go somewhere, anywhere”

You think you are done with crying, but turns out you don’t. You continue crying because he is so kind to you, you thought that he would be mad or dissapointed or even worse, he will be disgusted by you, but he’s a gentleman, he show you in most tender way that he want to make you feel better.

“Please, let me do something to make you feel better, so you don’t have to cut yourself anymore” you hear plead on his voice, he plead just to make sure you don’t hurt yourself, you can feel the pain in his voice knowing that you hurt, you don’t care about yourself being hurt, but he did. Look at how much he loves you more than you love yourself.

“I don’t know how to make this things better, it is already shattered like I, myself think it can be fixed anymore”

“Then just let me fix it”

“Just like a broken things, it just don’t repair itself, it needs someone to fix it. Let me fix you”

[kuribo4indahouse]

Good Night Punpun spoilers

I will say this. I don’t agree with Inio Asano’s worldview. Which doesn’t make Punpun worse. I think works should be measured by how effectively they communicate their ideas, regardless of which those ideas are (well, they need to make some sense).

Asano doesn’t seem to have too much hope in humans. Punpun is relatable to an extent, but he has no self control whatsoever during the later parts. I know the idea is showing how a good person is corrupted by his life. But could somebody as selfless as Punpun really end up treating Aiko like he does during the last chapters (I’m still debating in my head how in-character that was)?

Asano seems to portray people as beings who will unavoidably not just hurt each other, but fuck each other up badly. Obviously it is possible for people with extreme attitudes to come together like this, I just don’t think that applies to most people.

Punpun’s conclusions at the end are also depressing IMO. Living like a ghost, he seems to be content with that. What Asano seems to be saying here is that it is OK to not lead a dream life, you shouldn’t stress yourself abiut that. But it is also communicated in a bleak way, like it is the only thing you can do, when I think regardless of depression you can be much more hopeful and positive than that.

I will say the chapter of Punpun learning to forget Aiko was amazing. It actually made me cry. Although after how he treated Aiko he could at least have fulfilled her last wish..

Ultimately I take away two ideas from this manga. The first is that you have to act. It is depressing to think how much better Punpun’s and Aiko’s life would have been if just one of them would have been honest to each other in the early parts of the story. I think not acting and just letting things pass by is one of the biggest triggers for tragedies in real life. The second is that you have to move on and forget the past. Probably the main idea of this story. Actually that is a big problem of mine, something I will never be able to do because of how I tick. But you can try to find a middle ground at least.

Fuck this comic lol I’m actually depressed after reading it

[blackrainbowblade]

DAY 1 First, a quick update on where I am. So, you may remember, a few years ago, I travelled to Japan and wrote my first #travelswithasword blog. During that trip, a lot of stuff happened. I'd quit my job and gone away with no real plans for what to do when I got back. While I was away, my grandma passed away and we had a ceremony for her in a temple on the sacred mountain of Koya-san. It was amazing and moving, and it really made me realise how much of my life I'd spent worrying abiut the day to day minutiae, office politics, money etc. So I swore that I would not take another job that wasn't spiritually fulfilling. Skip ahead three years and this I'm just starting my third year as a civil funeral minister. I love this work. I get to help people everyday, and I work in a spiritual environment too. Long story short, I decided I wanted to take this a step further to become an actual, er , ministery minister. (See, I like the term warrior-priestess, but I think the job role is 'vicar.') So that's what I'm doing and, in January 2018, I start training for the church, so as I can devote my whole life to the spiritual stuff. I guess I should thank the monks of Koya-san, and my gran's spirit, wherever that's floating about! However, this year, I seriously needed a holiday. Ministering funerals every day is draining, and my creative mojo was suffering badly. So I sold some family heirlooms (thanks again, Gran) and, this time, decided to head to Israel to learn as much as I could about the actual extant archaeology and history of the church I will be serving in. I, and my trusty travel-companion Mum, arrived in Tel Aviv at 3.20am on Christmas Eve with little clue as to what to expect. The Western media would have you believe all of Israel is a war zone, so we were determined to be careful. We piled into an airport shuttle. They stand outside Ben Gurion airport and only leave when they are full. So after some small talk with a few other tourists, off we went. It was 4am, so forgive me, I fell asleep and only regains consciousness when we were in Jerusalem itself. It's a very distinctive city. Seriously beautiful and you get an immediate sense of both its age and the culture of the Middle East. I was reminded of Cairo - the whole city is the same dust-colour as other desert cities. Most noticeable though, in Jerusalem, is the old city wall. It is vast, seemingly impenetrable, and visible from most parts of the city. Mum and I had booked a hotel in Ras El Amoud, which is in the Palestinian district. This turned out to be a slight mistake as Israeli taxis are not keen to enter the Palestinian areas and our shuttle would not go beyond the checkpoint at Damascus Gate, thus we were dropped off, at about 5am, at Damascus Gate, one of several gates into the Old City through those same vast walls. We walked from there to Ras El Amoud and picked up a map in a nearby hotel. Unfortunately, we did take a wrong turn at one point and ended up on the wrong side of the Kidron Valley, which, as it sounds, is a vast valley. It is also a graveyard that extends for over 20km, down through the Valley, out of Jerusalem and across the desert to the Dead Sea. Mum had a right moan. She always blames me if we take a wrong turn (!), even though I showed her the map. Regardless though, I think we witnessed something amazing. See, it was 5am, in a foreign city, and the sun started to come up over Kidron Valley. On the far side of Kidron are Gethsemene and the Mount of Olives, places I've only ever heard of from the Bible. There's a kind of magic in those names. I don't think it even matters if you're religious - you've probably heard them from childhood stories. Well, I had the opportunity to watch THE most magnificent sunrise over Gethsemene. It was breathtaking. In the pictures posted here, is the sunrise as it happened, looking across the Valley to Gethsemane. The second two pictures were taken a little later (the sun is just up). One is the Church of All Nations at Gethsemane. The other is looking back the way we'd come, across the vast Jewish cemetery of Kidron.