#if im a robot i have the same questions but also i can actively improve my life by immediately shoving more RAM into my skull

[hypergamiss]

Hello!

I asked about self improvement advice for highschool girls earlier.

So currently im a freshman and i recently got into self improvement but im not sure how to go about it.

My goals are to graduate highschool with my degree (My school has a program that lets us go through both Highschool and college ) and become a software engineer, unless i decide to change paths.

If you could touch on things i should focus on and general advice you would have for someone in highschool.

Tysm!! 💗

You're SO YOUNG. I love this mentality for you.

If I were in your position I'd list out the different careers that I am interested in and reach out to professionals to shadow them. Look for a software engineer in your area at a reputable company and ask to meet them for a shadowing/internship opportunity. You can email them if you prefer. When you're shadowing make sure you offer your help in ways that will save them time and make their life easier. Getting to witness what their day-to-day looks like will help you decide if this is the right career choice for you or if you want to explore other options. You'd be surprised how many students NEVER shadow and end up hating their careers after getting their degrees. Shadowing will also give you knowledge of the pay and benefits different careers offer. This is a big one because young people are not exposed to these things until it's time to sign a contract in their field. Ask anything you need to and get all of your questions answered.

Aside from getting all of the exposure to different careers, the usual goes a long way. Stay on top of your GPA and participate in activities that you enjoy whether it's sports, robotics, writing, politics, etc. Whatever you enjoy doing, try to excel at it. I realize high school is a lot different now than it was before COVID, so try to find ways where you get to work with other people and meet mentors as well. I'm not sure about your situation since you're doing high school and college at the same time, but if you get the opportunity to study abroad it can be a ton of fun. Let me know if you have any more questions!💕

[popculturebuffet]

Amphibia Reviewcaps: The Dinner/Battle of the Bands “It’s You”

Hello all you happy people! And i’m almost to the finish line.  6 months (subtracting the ones where there were no new episodes) worth of weekly coverage and with next week i’ll have completed my second full season of reivews of a show as they came out, and my first full season of amphibia. If you’d like to see season 1 it’s up high on my stretch goals at 45 with reviews of Disney movies based on shows (The Proud Family, Recess and Kim Possible), Gravity Falls and more along the way if your curious. Check it out HERE. I’m also doing exclusive reviews eveyr month now with the coasional one thrown in randomly so check that out. New period starts in a week so please join before then.

So naturally with the big finale and all the tensions in amphibia close to reaching a boil next week, this week’s a bit more low key. Still not unimportant, with some massively good character work and in fact The Dinner is easily one of my faviorites of the season, but still nothing to move the plot too far forward. Just some nice character stuff to help inch us towards the climax next week. The calm before my heart is stillbeatingly ripped out of my chest. Which I will grant the show, having my heart ripped out Mola Ram style by some combination of Brenda Song and Keith David is how I wanted to go, i’m just not ready yet. So while I steel myself for the utter heartbreak of next week, I have my throughts on this weeks episodes under the cut!

The Dinner: 

I did tip my hand a bit by saying this was one of my faviorties of the season.. and I stand by that. This one was excellent. It was rife with tension while still somehow being a fun breather episode before hell arrives. 

As the title suggest the Plantars are having Grime and Sasha over for a fancy dinner, followed by games and such. Only Annearcy are happy about this though, Marcy still not getting quite how bad Sasha has gotten during her stay here and Anne hoping she has changed.  The Plantars, Sprig in paticular, still resent them for the whole toad tower fiasco, which is fair. You don’t forget someone trying to murder you over night, let alone your whole town. Hop Pop is using Frobo as the Grill by the way which is just visually fucktacular I gotta admit. He does get some more use these episodes, being used as a Grill here and as the fog machine and Polly’ sminon next episode. Good work boy. That’s my robot frog soldier builder whatever you are. 

Sasha and Grime are likewise not enthused. Sasha isn’t because her friends expect her to “Ugh” change and grow and stuff and isn’t happy about it and is confident she can return to rulling over them once her plan is done. Dude.. that’s not how a healthy throuple works. Or a healthy anything. Grime is more worried about her blowing it with her anger and control issues, but feels. this is VITAL to convincing the plantars to trust them long enough for their plan to go off. He even demands she remove her sword and all her knives... and she has a lot of them. Evne in her boot “How do you even walk?” Good question grime. 

My answer?

So what follows is about 8 minutes of the most hilariously awkward dinner since that time Micheal Scott decided to have a dinner party even though his relationship was horribly crumbling, as everyone but Anne and Marcy shoves their foot in their mouth at some point or makes some sort of screw up. Oh and Polly I guess she’s more content to just watch the show. Seriously i’m not usually a fan of cringe comedy.. but the series makes it work here as our heroes attempt to interact with thier old eneimeis and vice versa. 

For starters we have our guests arrvial, where Grime and Sasha both look objectively terrifying before things cool down. Then we have dinner itself where both Hop Pop and Grime prove to be the racist kind of grandpa as Grime asks what frogs they subjigated to get these turnips and Hop Pop makes an awkward lightbulb joke about Toads that Grime finds hilarious but everyone else was rightfully afraid would get the old man gutted by the other more violent old man. I imagine this happened a lot on the Lost Light once Megatron took over co captiancy. You just don’t fight a guy for a good hundered years without being nervous he’s going to blast you to fucking pieces. 

Sprig dosen’t help before all this by taking a seat next to anne and marcy specifically to piss her off, and out of all of them is the most openly hostile to her. Given Anne’s his best friend and Sasha did a LOT of emotional damage to her.. yeah fair enough. 

Things only esclate when it comes to frog pictionary. Suprisingly Hop Pop gets Grime’s Drawins and Sasha gets his, with both her and sprig trading escalating barbs and her barely containing her rage when Anne calls her on it since unlike her, Sprig has a reason to still be upset with her. This reaches a breaking point when Sasha attempts things, trying to desperatly win her friends back with the old times now they have their ownt imes apart.. only for Sprig to accidnetlay mock Sasha’s near sucicide,s aying she “slipped”.. granted I do think he geninely just can’t forgive her.. but it’s very clear she did not.. she let herself go to save them, and he’s just as in denial about it as Sasha and just as much a dick about it. 

Sasha flips out at him, and gets penalized for talking which only pisses her off MORE and understandably so. Anne leaps to the plantar’s defense but honestly.. both sides are understandabliy angry here. The Plantars are right to still not trust her after everything especially since she hasn’t outright apologized to them and her and Grime’s general response to the incident is “One Time!”... which works for say, taking the last slice of pizza without asking or slamming their face in a car door, but not so much “Trying to murder all of you for personal and stupid reasons.”. But at the same time Sprig DID cross the line really bad when she saved his fucking life. It dosen’t automaitcally erase the bad things she did but it dosen’t give him lisence to mock her. WHile I get he’s 10 and dosen’t get it was part suicide, he still is blantaly ignoring her trying to do something selfless because he can’t admit there’s any good in Sasha. Sasha is not a GREAT person.. but there IS good in her. She just has to WANT to seek that out instead of her inherent seflishness and need for control and Anne and Marcy are absolutely right for trying to help her instead of just slamming the door in her face. 

But soon eveyroen gets distracted by the cake which floods the room with molten lava. Hop Pop assumes it was some sort of trick.. but hilariously turns out no, Grime really was trying to be nice. That’s just how this works and it’s delcious once it hardens.. assuming you survivie the hornets, with fighting them being the best part of it. And yes hornets shoot out of the cake. Are you suprised at this point? They also paralize grime leaving our heroes without the one person among them who knows what their doing. 

SO our heroines are forced to fight some hornets, with Sasha trying to take lead.. only for Anne to do so and succeed at it, figuring out that while weapons can’t pierce them their own stingers might and having Marcy use her crossbow to launch the stinger in grime at them, and then has Sasha distract the rest to take them out. 

So our heroines reconcile with Sasha admitting she might not want to change and Anne admitting that’s okay.. she just has to accept things have changed with THEM and that her friends HAVE. And genuinely or not Sasha agrees to that, while Grime is bummed he missed the party and the lava hardens into chocolate, with eveyrone enjoying some cake and dead insects. As you do

Final Thoughts on The Dinner: As I said, this is one of the best episodes of the season> The tension is paltable, and it dosen’t fully resolve it, rightly as we still have one final season to go for that. More than that.. it’s hilarious. All the jokes land, and there were far too many to get into here. 

Battle of the Bands:

Now this is a classic breather episode, our last chance to rest and get all slice of lifey before things go up in flames next week. 

With the town all nervous because of Sasha and Grime’s presence, Mayor Toadstool decides to spin the wheel of fun to decide on an activity. I can’t remember if this is a new thing or not but I loves it. It lands on Battle of the Bands so the girls decide to get their old band Sasha and the Sharks back together. As for the rest of the cast, Hop Pop and Sprig join a Jug band and Grime has his own musical domination to plot out, so that just leaves us with the thropule, Poly and Frobo for an episode. 

The group have fun... until Anne unveils her heartfelt song based on her time here. Well okay only Sasha isn’t having fun and quickly tries to take over, as you’d expect and Anne pushes back as you’d expect. Sasha takes her ball and goes home as.. you get it by now> The plot here is not very complex or unique.

But as with all the Sasha episodes this season including the last one, we get a deeper sense of her character. Here she outright admits she dosen’t know what to do when she’s not in control. She needs to be in charge of the situation. It also explains why unlike Marcy and Anne she didn’t change for the better: Her need for control shuts out any possiblity of self reflection and thus self improvment. Self Improvment, and I know this from experince, requires you to admit your flaws and face them. It’s something I can admit to struggling with as I fall back into old patterns often. Admitting flaws would be admitting a loss of Control and Sasha.. can’t. She honestly can’t. 

Of all people i’ts TOADIE who convinces her sometimes i’ts better to let someone else take the lead and that it’s better to support the ones you love than subjugate them. Granted Toadie himself is too far in the opposite direction, but he makes a valid point.. something I never thought i’d say. Sometimes you just have to let someone do what they want.. and watching her two girlfriends perform up on stage.

I also will say I love a good talent show, battle of the bands what have you episode. One of my faviorite movies, True Stories, climaxes in one. 

And yes that was John Goodman and yes he does indeed sing...

Seriously watch this movie. It’s fucking amazing. And yes that was the Talking Heads David Byrne, he wrote this movie and there’s two talking heads songs in it. Watch it. 

Point is we get a great one, paticuarlly chuck. 

He grows SINGIN tulips just a fun one.. but i’ts that finale with the girls that really makes it with Sasha realizing that them being HAPPY is better than her being in control..and they didn’t grow PAST HER or leave her behind just because they grew.. they simply should be free to be themselves. And that maybe trying to conquer a country just to do that ain’t right. IT’s really sweet

So she runs in to do the guitar solo, and its aweosme and they only don’t win because it turns out Grime is fucking MAJESTIC on a harp. But Sasha finally grows a bit admitting that having fun is what mattered... 

And it’s abotu to burst as Mayor Toadstool, in a show of how far he’s come, points out Anne is leaving soon and Anne gives a heartfelt goodbye to everyone.. that said.... someone clearly has other plans.. and for once i’ts NOT Sasha. 

There’s nothing but foreshadowing in that face. That’s a face that says “Uh.. about that”. And again SASHA is showing emotinal vunerablity and hapiness.. but it’s Marcy, whose pretty open emotiionally whose visably worried and clearly knows Andrias has other plans.. other plans he talked her into. Gratned he probably didn’t tell her said plans involve The Watcher with a Thousand Eyes, but she still KNOWS she’s plottingthings.. and know’s she’s about to betray the people closest to her. 

Before we move on though those outfits ar esharp. Just damn. Especially Sasha’s punk look. The songs this episode are also both excellent and I had no idea Brenda Song and Anna Akana could sking like that. God damn. 

So with Anne leaving for home she gets one last group photo. It’s majestic and we’re out. 

Final Thoughts: This one is pretty good. Not a lot to talk about outside of Sasha but a really fun episode that both moves her foward and moves us toward the finale. ANd it’s nice to see the three just happy together... before the hell that’s about to arrive. 

Next Week: War Were Declared, our heroes prepare to fight bravely against the hoard of toads... and both Sasha and Marcy come to the crossroads of destiny Tommorow ON This Blog:

So it’s up to Jean Grey and Emma Frost to go in and sort it out.. and then fight off the full might of an alien empire. No pressure. 

Until the next rainbow it’s been a pleasure

[arkus-rhapsode]

Eden’s Zero Chapter 1 Review

Hey guys, now before I dive into this already longer than usual review, I did wanna take this time to mention something. Its been no secret that I turned on Mashima and FT pretty hardly after the end of FT and some of you may be aware that I was moderately active in the fanbase with putting out my reviews and such. That said some may liken that shift in mentality to me not liking how the story went and a common critique of fans is that when what they’re fans of doesn’t gel with what they want they wanna destroy it. As if the fan has ownership of the source of the fanaticism.

I admit there are times that I’ve question decisions on Hiro Mashima’s end and has posted rewrites, but that’s not me doing it out of a sense of ownership. I’m doing it because I have a standard. Being a fan of something and letting your disappointment get to you and fester into salty, bitchy purest is one thing, but being a person who’s judging what a series puts out and actually caring about the quality of what’s in the popular media is important. FT got negative reviews in its latter half because it was that bad. By the end of the series it was legit that bad. Now I don’t say that is someone who was in the fanbase and hated Hiro’s decisions cause they weren’t mine, I hated them because it was bad writing. I’m a reader with standards, as are all of you, and in the digestion of media we make distinctions between good and bad. I make this claim with more concrete surety now that I’ve been around longer and have reviewed more series than just FT, I think it be harder to believe if I made this case when I was just starting and all I was talking about at the time was FT.

Some of you might remember when I first started out on MHA, my second chapter I ever reviewed I had found it boring and mundane and to date its my least popular MHA review and I still stand by that assertion. I hold everything to the same standard, and that includes FT. The reason I write this is that while throughout this review I will mention comparison’s to FT’s first chapter (and yes, even ways Eden’s Zero improved on it), but I will be holding it to the same standard. So this entire review won’t be me holding a grudge against Hiro, but it will be me holding it to the same standard as I do everything I read. That out of the way lets dive in.

We open on a hill side and met our MC named Shiki. Beside him is the mecha demon from the cover page and what they see is a... dragon. Yeah, Hiro I thought you wanted this to be wholely original?

On the hand I actually like this scene in the sense robo demon here is actually encourging actual adventure (something FT lacked) and its kinda amazing listening to this demon looking guy talking about friendship, yet on the other hand, damnit Hiro. Is this the only thing how to write about? Like damn man.

We cut to the future where we see our main female Lucy-I mean Rebecca! Y’know I could make a Rebecca from One Piece joke, but she’s kinda already a bit of a decisivee figure so I’m not gonna bother.

I mean its okay. Its just castle theme park. Also Rebecca we find out is apparently a youtuber. Look if DBS can have GodTube then I can put up with Blue Cate (Aoneko) website. Also yeah Happy here, no sugar coating its just Happy. Also Rebecca here purposely made her skirt short. Just because you point out the sexualization in canon doesn’t make it better, ya still drew it, Hiro.

We see that the theme park is full of robots and each one acts as an assist in sending the guest through some kind of medieval simulator. And if anyone has seen Westworld you know where this is heading. To be fair I love worldbuilding so please, explore!

So we find out Rebecca’s dream is to have one million suscribers and now here’s where I gotta give props to Hiro because he actual made a dream for a character that doesn’t seem like it can be achieved a chapter from now. Granted this seems a bit hard to actually quantify, but this dream could potenially evolve into something of why she wants the suscribers and could be like Nami making the map of the world that getting video of unknown locations may actually be worth something to the general population.

We see that Rebecca chooses to go on a monster hunting quest and they encounter...

...This thing. Also it seems Rebecca’s character quirk is she really likes cats I guess? But this doesn’t last long as someone crashes down on mecha cat.

Okay that was kinda funny. I mean if this was FT would’ve actually gotten the panty shot so maybe Hiro has learned his lesson! Also note that wrench!

Oh god damnit Hiro. So this tarzan guy after acting like an animal is knocked out by Rebecca. Y’know it took about 60 chapters before Natsu got all up in Lucy’s chest, guess we’re cutting straight to the chase here.

Okay is joke with here just going be about here short skirt? Damning it with faint praise here, but at least he still hven’t flashed us them yet. Also Tarzan here is the only human on the island.

We get some scenes of Shiki here wanting to be friends with Rebecca cause she’s a human and Rebecca isn’t interested and she returns to the Granbell town where Shiki is there and the robots know who he is.

Shiki’s expressions and creepy advances really gives off this tinge of sci-fi horror, unfortunate Hiro doesn’t really go that route and we’ll get to it. Also that wizard looking robot from the color page is also here.

They then have a party where the robots all celebrate them having a costumer for the first time in so long they have a party being nice to Rebecca and lavishing her with stuff outside is robot that looks like Robin Hood and he reports to his boss this machine king.

Oh look, Hades if he was a robot.

We see Shiki trying to bond with Rebecca and it leads to him expressing he wants to leave the kingdom and see another country, but we also learn he’s in charge of fixing this and the robots are acting up lately. We find out that the one who was talking to Shiki and is his “Grandfather” was called the Demon King a robot designed for playing that role in the park.

Umm Rebecca... That’s being a dick. So you don’t like it, so you decide to cut it, cause it bothers you. You could’ve framed it like, “If he fixes you up then maybe he needs better vision” or “He’s been so nice to me, let me do something for him.” And what makes this worse s that Shiki is asleep, so she doesn’t even consult his feelings. Like seriously, that’s not being a good friend . But for contrivances sake I’m sure Shiki will wake up and love it, won’t he?

Huh? I was wrong instead we got shitty 80s comedy. I don’t know if that’s better or worse.

Y’know I said I’d give Hiro atleast two free fanservice moments for his first 3 chapters. He’s now used all of them up in a single chapter. Also Rebecca is tied to a stake while robots with torches surround her along with the machine king.

Shiki is also there and here’s something that did remind me of rave, the tightness of the first chapter. Everything seems to flow like one continuous story and doesn’t seem to do some dumb interlude like FTs first chapter did with that awkward moment where Lucy leaves Natsu and she’s just randomly in the park reading.

The King wants to use her ship to leave this world and we get som kind of motivation out of him.

Oh wow, for a first chapter villain that’s actually a really deep thing to unload. That as amusment park hosts they must’ve just been seen as pleasure tools and with no one around these robots who seem to be senstinent must’ve felt betrayed and...

Oooooor you cut out all moral ambiguity by just saying they have a virus. Sure. Trust me, this is where it gets stupid really stupid. And that’s the inconsistency.

So these robots I guess are like the ones from the Animatrix where they just kinda develop sentience out of nowhere. But unlike Animatrix it doesn’t seem to imply when they developed this sentience and that they began to think they were being abused.

Tired of Friendship already, it ain’t leaving.

So why do you hate humans? They abandoned you I guess, but there’s not other robot saying “hey our times were fun together” no everyone is like they left us to rot  so we hate them. Not like Humans did anything legitimate bad. We actually see that at the end of the chapter that there is some sort of central battery on the park that all robots are hooked up to. You could make their reason for hating humans that. That even though they left these sentiment robots still had a little kingdom to themselves, but realized that its all just going to end one day and humans didn’t even bother to unplug them. They’re existence is literally knowing when they’ll die, imagine that as why they harbor negative emotions and maybe Shiki actually fixing things might’ve actually been prolonging their lives so maybe that be why they kept him around. This whole sentience things just feels like Hiro wanted to do a trope of crazy robots and ended using multiple to fit the whatever story purpose at the moment.

You do run the planet, dumbasses. This entire plane, apparently for hundreds of years, has been solely controlled by you. Maye this should be rephrased as, going to the place that built you to get revenge or as I spoiled with the battery we’ll take the ship to get more power for our kingdom?

Shiki doesn’t do anything and kinda lets the robots just wail on him as he found out all things in his life were a lie. Then Rebecca gives a friendship speech. A stupid stupid friendship speech.

You’re right, Rebecca! Too bad we didn’t see that. I’m serious we barely see memories of Shiki with any robot outside of the demon king and Michael so there’s no weight to this conflict. We only get the vague sense they raised hm, but there’s no moments of Shiki really laughingg and enjoying their company outside of the party with Rebecca which rather is made more for getting Shiki to like Rebecca for this moment.

Shiki remembers what his Grandpa the Demon King said and just blows them all away.

We see Shiki’s hand and apparently he has these marks indicating he has Ether gear. The power system of this series.

You’re sentiment! You have out grown your programming! You can choose to have a concept of friendship.

So they fight with shitty action scenes (If I can give Horikoshi a hard time for how he draws his fight choreography, then I sure as hell will give Hiro the once over.) Happy manages to save Rebecca and like Happy from early FT, he basically spots off exposition on powers.

So is it like a literal gear? Because Happy afterward destincties as the Gear of Gravity, so is it like a devil fruit? Is ether in all humans, but this specific gear brings it out in a certain way? If its internal then I guess its like the magic circuits from Fate? And then every of has their own unique variation like Nen? Like cause Happy gives it the distinction of Gravity it doesn’t seem like Shiki gives a reason why he has this power. I’m hoping \its like devil fruits, literal gears you implant and then it brings out your ether in a certain way.

Shiki punches out the machine king and cause a massive collapse.

Credit where credit is due, Hiro actually did build up the reveal of this power throughout the chapter and its actually really well done. Kinda reminds of something Oda would do with subtly building up a devil fruit power without revealing it. Like Crocodile drying out a flower but it isn’t stated his power is specifically sand.

They then flee when the other robots rally and Shiki takes Rebecca back to her ship.

This scene would actually be really nice if we actually saw more young shiki actually having fun with the machines and not a being a creeper with them.

Shiki and Rebecca take off and we see the universe.

Not gonna lie, that’s a really pretty shot. Like damn, I could get behind this.

It seems like worlds in this universe are basically like kingdom hearts worlds. They’re not real “worlds” so much as they are islands in space.

Sure, keep the mystery alive why don’t you, no that be too much.

Well great place to end the chapter. Little dry of a first story, but I definetly see that has room for improvment and there is something-Wait this isn’t the last page? But what else is there to talk about. There’s nothing left-

Oh for fuck sake. That’s right they were trying to send SHiki away. Because apparently these robots thought there was no way to restore battery life even if stayed.

Here’s a tip, ifyou really care, and had such a close bond, maybe tell him to leave? Tell SHiki the truth that you guys are tied to a battery and instead of Shiki vowing to leave for the stars so he can make 100 friends (I’m not kiding that’s his actual goal here). Then this would be an interesting goal.

But no, you have to act like human hating jackasses and shatter the boy’s entire reality, just so you he would go out and “change the universe”

This would be a really nice scene with a very nice amount of character development starting point, if we actually saw their past. All we know is they raised Shiki, but its never really seemed like they’re loving or caring or Shiki openly gets upset if one of them had a problem. Again the biggest flaw with this chapter is that it sacrifices seeing one potentially interesting relationship (Shiki and the robots) for another one (Rebecca).

So we end on this page which reveals that Shiki’s goal is to have a hundred friends. Not going to say something snarky I just realized this is the same motivation as Yuki from future diary. Like before the crazy yandere shit.

Post Chapter follow up:

Lets be positive and look at the good stuff in this chapter. The first thing great about this chapter is it improved upon two of the biggest failings in the first chapter FT. Goals established and world building. Not only does this set up force Hiro Mashima to actually world build (literally) but each person in the first chapter has a goal that doesn’t seem like it can be accomplished quickly. It means we can have investment in the story.

Another thing I’ll give is Shiki is an okay MC. He has more personality than Natsu, but not as much as Haru and this first chapter is about him. Its easy to understand that Lucy is often considered the MC of FT because it literally focuses on her for the story than Natsu. But this chapter had a healthy balance.

Also the power system at least seems to have some definition. Unlike how anyone could have magic yet normal people just don’t choose to use it like in FT. Ether Gear seems to be a powersource that only a select few can use. Now we need to see first if there are ways of combating it like technology or such so a non ether gear person can still fight.

It also has its own unique aesthetic. Ft is a pretty generic fantasy world. It doesn’t have the bleakness of bereserk or the Japanese aesthetic of naruto. You could say Black CLover, Fairy Tail, and Seven Deadly sins all had their first chapter happen in the same world and I’d have trouble arguing it.

Now on to the crappy stuff. This series suffers from the usual Mashima foibles such as the sexual harassment, the stupidly way it tries to justify and give all conflict happy ending, not actually bothering to have a situation drawn out ad built up too, etc. I mean for the first conflict of the chapter its a heavy one, these guys raised SHiki yet their own mentality is against humans so Shiki has to choose, but instead of actually answering that question, it turns out there was no real conflict and the machines were just faking.

As for my like for Shiki, I flat hate Rebecca. She is so pointless and useless. Look I will defend Lucy and she actually can d things. First chapter she saved Natsu by using aquarius. But Rebecca? She’s just all of the bad traits of post timeskip Lucy. She is used for pointless fanservice, does nothing contribute, and becomes a mouth piece for friendship.

Speaking of friendship as a concept and goal here, Hiro just rewrite what you mean. Have deeper meaning than friends for once. There is ways you could take the motivation “I want to make 100 friends” in a compelling way. Prehaps Shiki is going out to make his own world where he can make a happy place for people where they can laugh and cry in harmony. Like story telling wise its pretty weak.

Like me personally, I would’ve taken the first chapter like this, the robots are sentinet and they are nice to Shiki and Rebecca and they have genuine fun together. They gradually reveal that they are shutting down maybe one starts acting wonky and tries to hide it and maybe the machine king is the real bad guy. He has sentinece and hates humans and he wants to eliminate SHiki and Rebecca and that’s because they’re shutting down. The other robots say they don’t care they were abandoned, they were mad at first but Shiki showed them that why they loved catering to humans. King and Shiki fight and they all reveal they’re shutting down and Shiki cries he doesn’t want them to go. The robots say its inevitable and they don’t hpw to recharge the battery and Shiki vows to leave the planet and search for a power source to bring them all back. Then that’s shiki’s goal and it even can cause questions like “Is it worth all this for machines?” or “who designed them maybe we can figure out the right substance to power them up?”

or if Hiro wanted to go a more darker route. Have the machines have no sentience and literally be dolls for the King who turns out to be a human who stayed here on Granbell and made his own little kingdom. Make it a bit meta on how Shiki’s only friends were just hollow imitations of people who were only friends because that’s what their programming dictated and they can all be switched off. It be meta as critiquing Ft and how all the guild characters basically had no conflicts, all got along, and were just friends with no depth or reason.

This all highlights the issue with Hiro Mashima and that’s he is not a good a writer. Hiro is an incredibly talented person and can come up with incredibly unique ideas and looks, which is why his cover pages are the best things he puts out because its him free forming. But writing. He has a limited scope on that and stuff like sci-fi and fantasy can be very morally grey things. But Hiro doesn’t seem to understand tragedy in the sense that its tragic because a person fails or dies unsatisfied. But he only seems to know how to write painfully obvious concepts like “save the world” or “friendship” instead doing a concept like “what it is to be a hero” like MHA does which can have a variety of answers to it.

So what’s the final verdict? Well I actually am going to do something different than usual. I’m going to say what I though the quality was compared to FT and then to what I’d consider this work compared to anything else.

In comparison to FT, Eden’s Zero gets a Final verdict of 8/10

Improves on a lot of FT’s first chapter flaws

Created a more unique environment for a story

And actually has a lot tighter narrative

But in comparison to everything else...

Final Verdict: 5/10

Even if it wasn’t Hiro, its a pretty generic start (some names aren’t even all that inspired like Machine King, Demon King)

Potential to grow into something better is there

Nothing is outright offensive

Cool concept

[selenecrawford]

Selene Crawford: The Lady, the stapler and the Snake

Thank you for the comments and likes. Im taking my time making this story but Im happy is going well. As always I hope you like it ^^

Warnings: mild cursing.

“Selene this is the fourth stapler lost. We can't buy anymore. Will you take care of this issue?” said Hideoyoshi in a somber tone.

It's been now almost four months since Selene joined the firm. Due to her performance her status changed, as a permanent one, including a new title as executive assistant. She practically, run the office on her own with the full trust of Nobunaga and Hideoyoshi. Selene was happy with her progress and promotion. She managed to settle herself and get a good apartment near her job which let her walk without problems. She enjoyed early mornings walks or taking the bus. The car was a bit old, with certain repairs needed to be done. If her luck will keep at that level she will managed to get on her goal and start saving to go college.

Once Hideoyoshi went back to his office, Selene took her tablet and wireless headset and walk to the kitchen. It was time to set the table for breakfast and prepare a bit of Miso soup with some tofu. If her instincts didn't fail her two hangovers will be appearing soon adding to the grumpiness of the office. Multitasking was as easy as breathing for her. Calls came in while she prepare the miso, the agenda was full until the next so it was just a matter of playing chess between re-schedules, court appointments and other activities. The agendas were  now organized on a stand on the wall representing all the members of the firm plus the mysterious sixth one. Selene tried to ask who that belong to but no one offered an explanation. Not even Mitsurani who shared a brotherly love with her. As far, as Selene was concerned it was forbidden and yet Nobunaga almost bit her head off the day she suggested put it away on storage.

The miso was done and the smell soon drift away, from the kitchen. Setting the plates on the table, little by little the men started drifting to the table. The first ones to appear were Nobunaga and Mitsurani. The second like a robot and with a report on his table was reading while Selene keep taking things away in order to prevent him from falling. Nobunaga, took a cup of coffee and went to get his oatmeal cookies. Only two this time since Hideoyoshi was watching his sugar intake. Still Selene managed from time to time slide some Kopentiko to his office while Hideoyoshi was away in order to keep her boss happy. Yeah, she needed to make alliances since Hideoyoshi was Mother of all of them including her. Her modesty and virtue were saved with him. While, Masamune keep asking her out all the time and she evading giving an answer. At the moment, he only smiled and make jokes but from time to time they bump into each other and the sparks were flying everywhere. He was direct and sincere, Selene appreciated that. But she also understood how unstable he was. Sometimes, he was hanging with a different woman every week. His limit had been 3 weeks. Besides bumping into at the hallway from time to time Masamune also tried to feed her. She always had to take a break for lunch or he will be upset. He even recruit the rest of the men in his quest to make her gain a couple of pounds since he thought she was not eating properly or enough. She didn't mind the pampering, it was the first time in her life this many people care for her well being. At the same time a weird feeling of caution started to grow in her. Selene didn't want to admit that she wanted to be with someone. It was too soon, she said for herself. The wound was still open. And yet, she sometimes will hug herself desperate to feel something that will make feel warm and at peace.

The click on the door let her know the missing two were about to enter. Masamune, arrived with a set of sunglasses while Mitsuhide was squinting his eyes and holding his neck with his right arm. The plates with hot miso soups were already on the table with 2 aspirins and some cold compresses.

“Gentlemen enjoy the breakfast I will be going to deliver the agendas to your offices.” with this Selene took the exit and went to give the agendas an update with all the activities they needed to work out.

“So, what's new with you two?” said Nobunaga breaking the ice.

“Well, my date was a complete disaster. Spent the rest of the night watching movies and fell asleep at the sofa.” said Masamune gulping the pills down then taking a sip of the hot miso soup. “Damn the Lass improves every time she makes it.”

“Well, my investigation is going well, I just need some information from the docks, but they won't let inside their circle.” said Mitsuhide in a nonchalant way. What he didn't tell is that after giving the rounds he always goes to check on Selene. The woman is pretty but she also is sharp, perhaps too much for a simple archivist. He knows a fellow comrade when he sees it and that woman really is more than meets the eye.

With a smug smile the snake decided to poke the tiger and see what bites.

“Well, I don't know you guys but I think I might ask Selene out. The girl seems decent, even adorable with that scar on her nose.” Mitsuhide laid the bait and waited.

“And do what? She is not your type.” Masamune didn't wait long to bark a response.

Mitsurani uncharacteristically from him responded without taking his eyes from his tablet. “She likes to go out during the week. Weekends are too stressful for her. Also there is a new martial arts movie you should take her there but again make sure its a time where there is not many people or too crowded.”

The table seemed to stop in time. Nobunaga, Masamune and Mitsuhide looked dumbfounded at Mitsurani without giving credit to what they heard.

“Wait, how do you know that?” asked Masamune.

“We hang out sometimes, she is cool and a very intelligent woman. We even went to the museum last week and sometimes go for some ice cream.” responded Mitsurani. After that he stood up and with a polite goodbye he left still not taking his eyes from the tablet.

“Well I'll be dammed.” said Nobunaga with a chuckle. “I never thought the day we will be defeated by Mitsurani of all people.” crossing his arms he looked at Masamune's and Mitsuhide's reaction. As always Masamune was an open book. But Mitsuhide just gave a smug half smile and kept slurping the soup until it finished it.

Mitsuhide took his leave to get a change of clothes at his office. The doll was quicker than he thought. Years of experience taught him that sometimes even the most pure thing could be corrupted. And he thought Selene was not the exception. She was in that world, the question was how bloody her hands were.

Meanwhile Masamune kept silent while Nobunaga took his coffee calmly . The Devil looked at the Dragon and saw many emotions on his face. He knew Masamune, he might be loud but sometimes the man might keep to himself. And it was on those times that it was wise to keep an eye on him.

“Oi, what's wrong boss?” Masamune couldn't stay quiet it was not his style at all.

“Nothing, I just wonder when are you going to stop wasting your time. You might fool everyone but not me. You like her don't you?” said Nobunaga with a smirk.

“Well everyone seemed to had taken a turn to get her.” Masamune regretted saying the moment he let it out of mouth.

“That's bullshit and you know that. It might be a short time but that woman is not weak, useless or stupid. Plus, she might like you. Not your mask, but who you really are Date. Stop playing around. Who knows she might be the one?” said Nobunaga taking his leave before Masamune could respond.

Masamune sighed feeling exhausted. Everyone felt entitled to tell him what to do. Yeah, he will change and just like that she will fall at his feet, right. Everyone had might seen different sides of her. But what he feels every time he sees those emerald eyes is a deep pain and sadness.  He knows that look all too well. During the passed months she had been eating his food and that had given him some hope aside from leaving her notes and food nothing else changed. Not even the intentional bump had work.  She needs time to heal. Closing his eyes for a moment he felt the faint fragrance of lavender and knew she was near. For a moment he let himself believe she was hugging him. Until the vibration of the cellphone took him out of his fantasy.

“Date.” sounding harsher than usual.

“It's me Kojuro. We have something you might want to see down at the station. Can you come right away?”

“Sure, give me 30 minutes?” said Masamune turning into his detective persona.

Masamune stood up and cleaned the kitchen. On his way out, he let Selene know where he was going.

Selene smiled hiding her worry when Masamune left. When the men started talking about their night it was her cue to leave and also her opportunity to check Mitsuhide's offices. She had a suspicions that the resident snake was the culprit but she needed proof. She took a look around at the office and found one of the latest staplers behind some books. The back of her hair went up and she knew that, he was already in the room.

“Well I guess the place now have a little infestation.” taking a seat behind his desk Mitsuhide gave Selene a smug smile.

Selene hold her right arm and tried not to shudder at Mitsuhide's attitude. Meanwhile something stirred inside her. Something she thought was dead but given the circumstances it was still inside buried and fighting to get out once again. Not trusting herself , she could only take a a notepad and scribble some words before throwing them to Mitsuhide and leave the office in a hurry. Mitsuhide frown at her reaction, that was not what he as expecting. Taking the notepad he look at the note and raising one brow in amusement he took the note and tucked it on his wallet.

“So the plot thickens uh?” a sly smile appeared while Mitsuhide started working on his case.

Taking her purse Selene looked for her phone and went to roof of the building. Making sure she was completely alone she dialed the number and waited for the answer.

“Hi it's me, tell me everything you know about Mitsuhide Akechi. Please.”

@datemasamunemaiwaifu @colivara @masa-little-kitten @elievalentine @epicdragonlady @yeshasays @unstoppablelinda @mikamiw @ikesenhell

[70slesbian]

elsa!! i have a question,,, do u know any (gay) swedish movies/tv shows?? im trying to improve my swedish and what better way to do it than with some nice tv

Aahhhh anonif u ever want to practice more you are welcome to send me things in Swedish!!! Butok some gay media in Swedish:

Movies:                                                                                                              FuckingÅmål (Åmål is the city name) - one of the most iconic gay movies in Sweden! Itis about two teen-age girls and trying to figure out their feelings for eachother

Kyss mig(kiss me) - about two women who share a night together and most after that decideif they want to forget it or not!

Tv series:

Torkaaldrig tårar utan handskar (never dry tears without gloves) - about gay men inthe 1980s and this one couple and their fight with aids! A WARNING! This is sosad I was sending @lesbianleslieknope snap videos of me crying the entire lastepisode oh my god! (Based off a book series with the same name!)

Frökenfrimans krig (miss frimans war) - I have not seen this one but Ellen @lesbianleslieknope said it was good and after a quick googling it seems to beabout a woman starting her own grocery store in 1905!!

Those are all gay things that I know off! If anyone else knows anything else, please add on!!!!

But forsome good media in general I would recommend

Movies:

Himlen äroskyldigt blå (the sky is innocently blue) - about a young guy who is draggedinto a drug league in the 70s! There’s so many cinematic moments in this movieoh my god

Simon ochekarna (Simon and the oaks) - about a young man who finds out that he’s Jewishduring ww2

Silvana - väck mig när ni vaknat (Silvana - wake me when you’ve woken up) - a movie aboutone of Sweden’s biggest lesbian rappers and her life

Borg -about Björn Borg, I have not seen it but i have heard it was good!

I rymdenfinns inga känslor (in space there are no feelings) - a movie about a boy with Asperger’sand his life with his brother

Till detsom är vackert (ro whats beautiful)- I have not seen this one either but Alicia Vikander is themain so I would say that even if it is bad it is worth a watch

Kronjuvelerna(the crown jewels) - a poor girl is accused of murder and during theinterrogation you get to follow her life story

Ondskan(the evil) - about a boy who starts at a boarding school where a hierarchy andsystematic power abuse exist

Johan Falk- bunch of criminal movies, kind of bad but Joel Kinnaman plays his role ofnark so well it’s really interesting, plus they are based on a true story!

Lilja4-ever - a movie loosely based on a true story about a young Lithuanian girlwho was tricked into trafficking

Män somhatar kvinnor (men who hate women) - about a journalist and a computer hackerwho investigate the journalists dark family pasts

Mig ägeringen (nobody owns me) - based on an Autobiographyabout the life of a young girl in the 70s growing up with her alcoholic father(also the book is good if you get the chance you should read it!

Alsoanything by Astrid Lindgren is really nice! They are all children’s movies but theyare all pretty well made for their time

Tv series:

Så mycketbättre - a reality show where artists spend a two weeks together on an island,everyone gets a day to show the others what they like and do fun activitieswhile the show is focused on their musical history, then during the meals allthe artists make a cover of one of the artists song and performs them.

Andraavenyn - a series for teenagers about some families, who live in the suburbs,deals with usual teenage problems.

Historieätarna(the history eaters? I guess? this is one of my favourite ones) a pair of hostslive in a certain time period for a while and they discuss everything from thefashion, the food the politics, what people did in their free time too why itwas happening and how history lead up to those habits in the Swedish people!!!!It is so good

Vintergatan(the Milky Way) - a little older but pretty much everyone in Sweden has seenthis, an incredibly popular kids show about a few teenagers who get chosen for spaceadventures against their will

Blå ögon(blue eyes) - a criminal series about a fascist group and the police workingagainst them

Ebbots ark - a real feel good show where Ebbottakes guests along on his boat and they talk, swim, sing, and do all kinds ofstuff!

Gåsmamman -a show about Sonja who after her husband is killed gets pulled into his messand criminal activities she did not know about

Hela Sverigebakar - the Swedish version of the great brattish bake off

Jordskott -a woman returns to her hometown where mysterious things are happening inconnection to a murder (this is more fantasy than criminal because it’s about‘magic’ but I thought it was really good but I only saw season 1)

Ungaföräldrar - about young parents and their new found life with kids!

112 på livoch död, tunnelbanan, vägens hjältar, trafikpoliserna (*Swedish 991* on life ordeath, the subway, the heroes of the road, the traffic police) some realityshows about various parts of Sweden’s police/ambulance/fire fighters

Bron (thebridge) - drama show about a Swedish and Danish police team who solve crimeswho happen on the bridge between Sweden and Denmark

Midnattssol(midnight sun) - about a girl who tries to solve the crime her father nevercould before he died

Äktamänniskor (real humans) - about a world where we have robots that mimic humansexactly

those are all the ones i can come up with at the moment but if anyone wants to add one or ask me for something in a more specific genre please feel free!!!

also i know loads of swedish books in case anyone wants some book recs!!!

[wallkickswillwork]

signal jamming

incoherency is comforting because of the narrative weve been fed our whole entire lives that in order to be palatable media must in some way be complete and have beveled, well-defined edges rather than being a mess of finger paints, bright colors, strange dialogues and verbiage, build trees of moods.

thoughts on: -futuristic anime, 90s anime and the unique sense of mood in toonami shows. they are a very good series of shows for people who are coming of age and who must slowly be forced to reckon with the industrialization and mercenary nature of adult life, as it is increasingly held captive by capitalism. there is also something essentially spiritual about it, especially shows like precure and dbz, where an interior or exterior-made-interior force is responsible for the protagonists' success in the face of an oppressive world-system. under capitalism, it frequently is the case that the entire world or entirety-of-world is against us. heroes must overcome overwhelming odds to leave their mark on a gauntlet of greats. -cowboy bebop, final fantasy 7, metroid as meditations on loss, urbanization, dating back to blade runner. this is a type of meditation that is present in much of cyberpunk, but its also not exclusively cyberpunk, and can extend in nature to non-cyberpunk works.

thinking about necrobarista and how its attempting to "resuscitate" anime, while this approach doesnt really examine what contemporary anime like jojos, precure, and slightly more dated anime like hidaske and nichijou do well. if we get all this tunnel vision for gurren lagann and flcl we can never look forward. i think a lot of the visual work that needs to be done is probably in movies. i think maybe there could be work done to marry cinema proper with its animated counterpart. steven universe seems like it gets it, and there are some anime that really seemed like they got it. i dont think were beyond salvation.

-listening to the whos "tommy" and thinking about how trauma and the humanity of that trauma is experienced and lived-through by the main character in socratic fashion. these stories are discussed by people whose actual, authentic experience of trauma irl is doubtful at best. they are great successes on stage who dont struggle in the sense that an actual victim would struggle. calls to mind how a lot of freuds patients would fabricate csa in order to fulfill the expectations of the therapist. but in other cases, actual patients with csa would repress their experiences or not feel comfortable discussing. so thats how i feel about gurus like meher baba or i guess alan watts. less trustworthy and more like scam artists. i do believe in what they teach, however. i think that a guru can teach the truth even if that guru is a liar. maybe its the truth, but the guru doesnt know it to be true, or else, the way the guru teaches it is untrue.

-for a while i imagined my own autism to be the result of childhood trauma that was repressed, but later emerged that those memories were fabricated, to my knowledge, and was left wondering.

-learning to regard the world with a sense of wonder from media like cowboy bebop and ff7. these worlds are jaded and decaying realities but there is a sense of awe at the vast, uncompromising reality. truly vast, sprawling and yawning cities and vast starry skies up above. beholding these things and beholding the starry skies and huge cities of our own planet surely stirs something in me.

-fantasy anime tends to go the joke route like slayers or else the route of "we are all kids, bro, stuck in an mmo" and i think this is mostly due to the admittedly antiquated setting of high fantasy in european trochets and history which to japanese people probably feel like white person set dressing and as they should, i mean. there are more high fantasy themes in something like inuyasha and japans history can be feudal, edo, the meiji restoration, primordial like princess mononoke, etc, so theres more wiggle room for historical works there. slayers et al is usually reduced to "characters moving around the forest" which is almost like this grand slice of the collective anime consciousness as it stands overlapping with, say, pokemon, to the extent where its one of the cliche anime things everyone thinks about, alongside high school, robots, nurses, etc.

-another thing to which we could probably ascribe the success of something like slayers to is wizardry and by proxy dragon quest. small graph paper monster garden games. the appeal is entirely mathematical so there are only a few directions that anime directors tend to run with it (goofy gag comedy if youre making a show or cut and dried authentic dungeon crawlers with moe characters instead of the usual dbz ones). going off what you definitely learn in japanese history class if youre a japanese student, for starters, there are thousands of years of chinese history, so you have romance of 3 kingdoms type stuff. or you have high school romances accounting for the various fire emblems where the appeal becomes game of thronesy "which of my characters in dragon quest land can i make kiss each other and myself", very good ground to cover as we start asking the important questions. theres samurai stuff as we already know, drawing on years of samurai media, kurosawas films and zen spirituality, art of the blade type stuff, jeet kune do in some instances and reaching so far afield as to probably raise some interesting and important questions about pan-asiatic cultural identity which this author (white) is ill-advised to answer. but reeling it back in, the question mostly being of history, and how a lot of fantasy media draws more from History proper as a codified cultural body than histories being individuated familial experiences. its true that when a work does something unique with history (earthbounds hippy dippy approach to the 1960s, undertales handling of furry culture, yume nikkis south american murals) its tended to be seen as that works "thing" as if because hulk hogan was an all american wrestler that precluded john cena from being same, or at least, embodying a similar if slightly modified niche. nobody can make a hippy dippy rpg now or something because itd just be called an earthbound ripoff rather than a loving homage. and i think thats wrong headed and how genres become stillborn rather than invented and developed upon. we have this vast morass of stuff from the 20th century and we could be developing various 60s, 70s, 80s fantasies. hindsight is 20/20 i guess. who knows, we could see bluff city become something in 50 years time.

i feel this is because of extreme stringent expectations of intellectual property laws and their dissemination into everyday discourse online. i dont really like or agree with monolithic cultural expectations like intellectual property or *shudder* advertising, but only to the extent where i can acknowledge that whether or not i agree with them is irrelevant to their all-consuming scope and the need for marxists to actively combat them. its one thing to say "x is bad" and another to clamor for urgency of fighting x, which is, if you believe what we read every day about global warming, too late, so its not important. nevertheless there are a multiplicity of settings that could be developed into genres and identities and ideologues that rarely are if only because it would be seen as "oh yeah like that other thing". people are fickle and develop dwarflike strange moods when it comes to defining what constitutes original versus hackneyed and derivative. i think its mostly dictated by star signs and the weather.

so lately if you follow me on twitter youve probably noticed im doing sort of a tweet concrete kind of thing where i post plaintext quotes from various media taken out of context. i decided to do this for a while, maybe a few weeks, because aesthetic blogs and the aesthetic style of blogging allow me to pool and channel my energies towards larger and more ambitious styles of writing. i usually get loaded on caffeine during this process and frequently watch large amounts of anime and meditate some. its definitely a process and its geared toward something hazily, vaguely spiritual but with pretentions toward being authentically publishable as theory. the idea also being i would like to make some money to support my livelihood, and i like to write, and am somewhat skilled at it, or at least experienced in kind of a ramshackle homespun sort of way. so if my social media presence is pretty boring and kind of weirdly nostalgic or else contrariwise if you feel it has improved lately thats the reason why that happened.

ive been getting very hazy and foggy mentally lately. i feel like it has to do with caffeination and lack of sleep. its important to get everything flowing properly, and sometimes depression and anxiety make that difficult to do. theres anxiety over unemployment, something im trying to remedy, and theres anxiety over theory and where to proceed next via theory. for years i was a devout buddhist in some ways, and meditated a lot, almost every day. i prayed to the bodhisattvas and copped to buddhist metaphysics, something which, based around personal life experience, i had every reason to believe was true. lately and in my own, strange way, ive begun to question this ideology and interpret it as part of a patchwork of ideologies, each one which attempts to describe a totality, a totality which is rarely if ever described properly by any ideology. grasping at straws in a structural sense, and feeling nonplussed but with no ground to run to, and im back on the boss level in super mario 64 where bowser smashes the ground to make it fall away. attempts at restructuring as this dissolution transpires only serve to create new protocols equal in scope to pre-existing paradigms. and there are plenty of people who dont struggle this much with religion and probably still go to heaven, or think theyre going to heaven, or something. hows marge and the kids. did jerry get that new promotion. mom just got back from vacation in cancun. smalltalk style concerns arising in every day transitionary speech feel distinct and very distant from these kind of hazy, pie in the sky questions. plato never wrote about the kind of stuff you see in a cheers episode. there are philosophy books that try to merge the two, but they usually get shelved in the comedy section.

so its mostly a matter of trying to absorb and contain new information, which abides in abundance, and trying to corral it into sort of a pointing arrow to direct me where to go, in my hewing, a feat not easily done. probably the endgame is in the crafting and solution of art, but what kind of art, and whether i have the tools at my disposal to even create it, is less easily answered. so for now, i guess, im absorbing, waiting, asking questions, and who knows, and who can say.

earliest memories of religion are of the greco roman religion and not knowing about the mystery religious rites but knowing about an abstract concept of wisdom and the ocean and extrapolating the existence of athena and poseidon in that way. later i have memories of exposure to christianity and buddhism and bahai but none of these things feel particularly useful to me at this time in my life. i can more readily receive a picture, a kind of enlarged image, of a broad religious landscape and some of the questions it attempts to provide answers for, or at least, a way of thinking about. the greco roman religion, for instance, is a presentation of a deleuzian multiplicity, and the monotheistic religions are a monad, but i also dont think either of these things can say the other is inherently undesireable. tolerance seems to be the best method, but also, and likewise, not dwelling specifically in any of them. acknowledging they all exist, but not being any of them. enjoying in surfeit the tension between multiplicity and monad. that there can be many things and one thing. like the album cover of dark side of the moon.

[ff13fandom]

RESTART CHAPTER 10: RISE & RUN

A/N: If  you found any grammar/spelling mistake please inform it to me... im new to this thing and also if you have any idea to improve my writting skill just tell me okay?? [THE NORA HIDDEN PLACE] There's an old house made of wood located deep in the jungle. Yuj,Maqui,Gadot,Noel and the young pink-haired woman are breathless after a long run, her vision is blurred and looks like she is about to faint, but she is trying to hold. The brown haired man concern about the young pink haired woman, he gets closer to her and tries to hold her hands but she fainted after that. "SERAH!" Shouted the brown haired man. Noel picked Serah up from the floor. ---- [VOID FACIALITY RESEARCHES] "Sir, we got tracked them" Said the blonde-bob-haired woman to her General. "Prepare the troops to attack them and make sure the chip is brought here once" said Cid Raines who is currently looking at the view of the sky from the top of the second floor of a building filled with the world enemies. "CID RAINES!" For suddenly the half man and half robot went into the room without anyone knowing it accompany by Second General Yaag Rosh,He looks like really mad. "I WANT THAT CHIP NOW!" Said Von Ga Jua. Cid Raines turned his head to face his lord with half scared face. "M-My lord you will get that chip as soon as we get to catch them, i have sent the troop to chase them" "MAKE SURE IMMEDIATELY! OR NOT OUR PLAN WILL NOT BE SUCCEED" "Yes My Lord, i understand" "Great" said Von Ga Jua, he immediately walked to the exit of Cid Raines room. Yaag Rosch walks closer to Cid and said: "I am sure you dont want him to get mad" "GENERAL YAAG ROSCH!" shouted Von Ga Jua called his name. "By the way, send me their location" last word that said by Yaag Rosch before following his lord. Cid Raines sigh after both of them not seen in his place, he continues looking at the view of the sky and thinking about something. ---- [THE NORA HIDING PLACE] Serah??? Serah? The pink haired woman opens her eyes slowly and started to see the brown haired man in front of her. She tries to recover her memory, while she fainted, she saw a few vision from the past that she can't remember that she throught it, she started to felt weird. Then she remembered that her friend is in dangerous. Her eyes are widened then she gets up to said: "WE NEED TO SAVE SNOW!" "Woah..Woah Relax babe, you're just awake" "We need to save snow! His in dangerous! They will do anything just to get this DAMN CHIP!" Serah is freaking out because she really worried about her friend (fiance) "Serah, honey relax, lets plan this carefully and-" DONG! DONG! DONG! AHHHH!!! Yuj and Maqui scream together after they are heard a loud knock from the door. "Yuj! Maqui! I heard you both screaming like a girl... Open the door!" The voice of young woman that comes from the door. "Its Lebreau" said Gadot, he walks towards the door then opened the door let Lebreau in. "LEBREAU!" Noel and Serah shouted her name one at the same time. Just about Lebreau wants to said something, Serah asked her a question. "Where's my sister????" "Clair-Claire, i dont know what happens to her but i heard that she ran away from that place with the general" Fuhh, Serah sigh as relief when she gets to know her sister is safe with the general. Well of course she is safe right??? "Where's Snow???" "He got cought by the VOID" said Maqui with his voice in a little high pich "WHAT???" Shouted Lebreau. "Dont worry, we will be planning how to get Snow back" said Gadot. "I thought hero doesnt need any plan" said Noel who sound like Snow... If lightning was here, she is totally going to smack Noel's face (Who sound like Snow) "Noel, no time for joking around" Lebreau warned him. The two women tries to calm themselve down while sat on the couch, the other four men walked towards them, Gadot is holding the world map and compas to brought to the table. "We all doesnt know where the VOID place is, but the goverment did, we need to get that information from Guardian Corps" said Gadot with his serious voice... (this is not the old gadot) "Umm you think they just gonna gave us that information???" Said Noel who disbelief what Gadot said. "Not if you ask the right person" Said Lebreau, she knows who she going to ask, well of course her favourite, Lt.Amador... "Okay.... *clear the throat* OKAY! Here's the plan, Lebreau and Serah both of you are going to try to get that VOID cordinates and everything that we need to know about it, after we got the cordinates we can go find the VOID place and trying to sneek in to save Snow, it may too risky but this is for our friend" said Gadot. "Serah babe, Snow gave the chip to you dont you???" Noel asked Serah and remembered that Snow gave her the chip that can activate the weapon. Serah nodded. "And Snow said something about the weapon right???" Asked Noel to everyone in the room. "Yeah, its called something like Ultima Weapon..." Said Yuj "You know what, saving Snow is not enough, we need to save everyone, i think that VOID is planning something evil and we are doom if we didn't against them" said Lebreau with worried voice. "Lebreau is right, they are planning something and we need to stop it" said Gadot who agreed with Lebreau. "But what would GC said about this???" Asked Maqui "Noel dont worry about that, i can handle that part" said Lebreau with confidence. "Serah can you give me that chip?" Asked Noel "Sure" Serah slipped her right hand inside the pocket and pulled out the chip from the pocket but the chip is tangled with both of the cocoon fall pendant. Serah is trying to untangle it but when she touch the cocoon, she looks like she struck by a thunder, froze for a while, eyes are widened, body can't move. -BEGIN THE VISION- "Yesterday at the store, i got us something" Serah saw herself crying but she forgot why, the vision of her saw one paired cocoon fall pendant in front of her face, she turned her back and saw Snow. "I dont know about jewerly but i hope you like it" said Snow while took the cocoon necklace and hanging it around her neck. Serah looked at down to see the necklace. "I will stand by you, no matter what happens, i am forever yours" That words makes Serah happy. "Serah..." "My one and only" Snow kneel down and put his right hand on his heart. "Will you marry me?" "Yes" Serah answered. -END OF THE VISION- Its too pain for Serah's head, she massaged her temple and hopefully the pain will gone, but its too hurt for her now, the memory of Snow and her what she thought its a vision struck into her head and leave her with thousand of question, this is not her first time, every night she always dream about the crystal age that could bring back her memory but she always tell herself that its just  a dream, she doesnt even know who she suppose to ask about it, peolple may thought she is crazy if she ever ask. Noel looked at her umm fiance?? Face who is frozen for a while and then the million on pain attacked her. "Babe.... ARE YOU OKAY?" He starting to get worried when Serah massaging her temple. "Ye-yeah" Serah tries to regain her brain back. "Here" As soon as Serah's  head going back to normal, she untangled the pendants from the chip and hand it to Noel. However, she will ask them about it if this thing is in the critical point. ---- Heyyy, its been a while... sorry but i am try to keep up with this fanfic.... Hopefully i can finish this fanfic by the end of febuary... But anyway, there's a lot upcoming hoperai fanfic this march because im going to celebrate #HoperaiWeek2017 Okay that's all from me By, ADM