"Albie" (main story 11-21)
At the end of Episode 11 (Part 1), we find out that "Albie" is simply a name that Vyn made up on the spot when Rosa asked. He may have been inspired by his own birth name, Vilhelm Richard Albert de Haspran.
In Chinese, Vyn choose the name "阿明". "阿" is a prefix used to form nicknames, "明" can be a name but also means "bright, clear". In Vyn's Romantic Rail Getaway card "Food for Thought", he tells us the meaning of his name:
You can see the character 明 appear in the word 明亮 ("bright"), although 明 is such a common character that I wouldn't say that this Chinese text alone is enough is sufficient evidence to show the connection between the two names. It's the way that the "Albie" and "阿明" happen to coincide in the name "Albert", which made me take note of Vyn's "careless" choice in name.
If the Chinese name was intended to subtly reference "Albert", I can certainly imagine imagine this as one way to preserve that reference through translation, even if it becomes more obvious. We do have an example of the translation preserving plot-relevant wordplay in a name: Lowe Leare ("Lowly"), originally 萧仁 ("小人", both pronounced "xiao ren" but with different tones). However, there's also an incident of a plot-relevant name being missed through translation, though it was in an event (not the main story) that probably foreshadowed a distant plot point and had infamously bad translation issues.
Anyway, it remains possible that "Albie" is a coincidence. However, after Vyn and Rosa wrap up their conversation about Albie's name, the narration makes a comment on the importance of that moment:
It isn't until the whole case is settled that you are surprised to realize something... You had briefly touched on the key to cracking the case at this very moment.
...which at least gives me enough confidence to not feel silly writing up a whole post about it. We've only seen part of this case, and there's a lot of mystery still surrounding Vyn's behavior so I don't have any definitive hypotheses on why Vyn might have chosen his own name for Albie. Is there something that made Vyn seen himself in Albie? Did the delinquent's attitude remind Vyn of the cruel, stratified world that he was born in? Is he reminded of how people who have imperfections will be tossed aside and abandoned? I guess we'll see when part 2 of this episode is released.
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The live show was absolutely amazing! All the 3D models were stunning, and the seiyuus were so fun and talented. Since fitting 18 3D models onto the screen would be a nightmare, they had the seiyuus who were there sing Bouquet of Wishes!!!
(Ah... I got to hear Kajiwara Gakuto and Hyuga Saku sing live...)
Since I bought a more expensive ticket, I got the Red Bouquet shirt they've been showing off in the livestreams.
They'll be releasing a Blu-Ray with all three performances & presumably the seiyuu fan meetings through Victor Online Store and Animate, so keep your eye out for that!
(Hello Kitty also came on stage and I could've cried, honestly, it was so cute)
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Ya know, I said it offhandedly in the tags of the last post but I'm wondering what a Chica themed cookbook would include now. Pizza is the obvious one, same with cake and cupcakes. She has some canon stuff with something about chowder, Chica chug, Chica bites, uhhhh the uhhh skinny taco from Help Wanted 2, lemon Chicabars, the blendee, and whatever else she normally has I dunno. Her Fizzy Faz flavour is pink lemonade so there's that too...
She's then got the whole mazercise thing, so fruit smoothies and just general stuff with fruit is probably gonna work. Obviously she's a chicken, so there's that too.
Honestly, I can see her having a cake section where she tells the recipes to her friend's favourite cakes. So the obvious would be carrot cake for Bonnie then I dunno a lemon lime cheesecake for Monty or something?
I think the thing about a Chica cookbook is that it's just so easy to visualise and work with that it would be kind of hard to get it wrong, and yet, this isn't a real thing that exists for some reason??
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Do any of you remember a Youtube video about Re:Kinder talking about how the game is seen and percieved by some people (mostly touching upon and arguing against how it has been treated insensitively as some sort of weird legend like "ooo disturbing game with a hidden truth behind it" due to it's creator being dead), as well as talking about the charm of the game (even mentioning it's art at some point) and sadness of the themes without spoiling anything at the same time?? I remember the video avoided saying any spoilers at all and only touched on the literal plot as the kids being stuck in a dire situation in the town with all the adults dead without really getting into the why (it didn't even say one of the kids themselves was the cause— as thus, spoiler free), other than that it just touched on the emotional side of it and vaguely mentioned some scenes.
i also remember at some point the later half (at the very least if not in all of it) of the video, music by Siinamota was playing in the background. Does anyone remember seeing a video like this?
I can't seem to find it anywhere and don't even remember the exact year I watched it.😭 It was the way I found out about this game a while ago, which eventually ended up in me playing it, and I really wish I could watch it again. I thought it was a deleted video by someone called hazel as it was mentioned by a lot of people, but I found that one and it isnt it.😓 I'm wondering if anyone remembers watching something along the lines of what im describing and knows if it's still up.
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having adhd is literally such a curse…just thinking abt all the stuff i’m going to be doing next semester & i’m like the hardest part of it is truly just trying to get myself to do things at all. like most of the time i avoid things completely bc of adhd and everything seeming like an impossible soul crushing task but i committed myself to a lot of stuff this upcoming semester that i WANT to do & it’s like i know i will be wishing i could scoop my brain out of my body by week 3 bc i hate doing things it’s so hard 😭 when i tell u all if it weren’t for ritalin i would have been so fucked last yr it’s not even funny. i would work for 5 hrs and then the second my ritalin started wearing off i’d be like i can’t do this anymore i’m going to die getting distracted like agonizing to read a sentence it’s so bad. like SO bad. it shouldn’t be almost physical painful to force ur brain to focus on reading a sentence. the way that i thought that was normal for so much of my life. insane.
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CURSE OF BLACKMOOR MANOR FANCAST
ND #11
Jane Penvellyn - McKenna Grace
Ethel Bossiny - Elizabeth Debicki
Letitia Drake - Glenn Close
Nigel Mookerjee - Rahul Kohli
Linda Penvellyn - Kate Winslet
My actions ensure that my name will endure to the end. Penvellyn.
MHM, TRT, FIN, SSH, DOG, CAR, DDI, SHA
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It's so much fun to see your commentary on one piece :D I have read one piece for years and never had really anyone to scream about it so it's really fun seeing your comments and it's nice to remember the arcs. Bon is gold <3
!! Aww thank you! It's been a ton of fun for me to live blog it all too, getting to share my experience with you guys has been so special <3 There's always something so exciting about watching someone experience media you love for the first time. It's not quite the same as when you first experienced it yourself, but it's fulfilling for sure!
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All /p and /aff
IM SO SORRY I FORGOR TO ANSWER THIS CUS I KEPT OPENING AND CLOSING IT /GEN [like the last ask-]
indigo: been getting it since 1st grade [on and off though], it's not getting anybetter 😍🔥 /silly /hj
eitherway i am going again soon! my mum is booking it on our next appointment thingy
ALSO IF I'M A MOOD AND I NEED HELP THAT MEANS YOU NEED HELP TOO /lh /hj /npa
purple: Same :333
ty!
lavender: :'3 /pos
pink: NUHUH >:]
yellow:
the americans got to me /silly
red: <333333333 [i am very happy we are platonically married :3 /gen /npa]
fuschia: and that's amazing+enough+you matter+ ily /p
rose gold: check the mirror :3 [aka the same goes for you your so cool wtf]
black: OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY
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