#lighttime

[ceeceefangirling]

i love cute chibi shorts based off of a full-length anime that are so sweet and silly and then randomly knock u to the ground and start kicking u in the stomach i love it so much. like wow ok i started watching the cute little shorts to laugh and feel happy after how sad the anime made me and then u absolutely ripped all the happiness away from me. why did u do that

[straw-beret]

The significance of the claw machines in the opening of season 2

This is the first theory I've ever really posted or even MADE, and I haven't seen anyone else address it so apologies if I'm just repeating what someone else has already said; but yeah, these are just some observations I made recently, and they mostly have to do with the the intro to season 2 and how that potentially relates to the future of a rather significant main character.

More under the cut! And spoilers for season 2, if you haven't already guessed.

Every week I tune in to watch Link Click with my friends, and only at episode 10, i.e. a week ago, did i notice that in the opening, all the stuffed animals surrounding the claw machines are bunny rabbits.

It's a bit hard to see on account of the dim lighting, but I assure you that every single plush on the outside of those claw machines (and inside, at least in this shot) is a bunny rabbit. You can check the OP out on youtube if you want as well, if you want to confirm.

At first I thought, "Maybe the animators were just trying to save money on the budget!" But then I remembered that in the very next shot, we see other stuffed animal models that aren't rabbits:

This is the interior of one of the claw machines, presumably the one from episodes 4-5, and we can see 3D models of plushies such as bears and cats, alongside the rabbits of the outside.

And even in episodes 4-5, which are conversely animated in 2D, we can see there are a variety of other animals in each of the claw machines. And although the outlines aren't the clearest, it's still easy to discern they aren't ALL the same plushies as in the machine Tianxi is focused on:

From left to right as seen in the second image, I'll call each claw machine CM1, 2, and 3.

In CM2, we can see there's many different animals, majority with tails. I had a theory that they might be related to the animals of the Chinese zodiac, but you can't see them too clearly, so I'm not too sure.

CM3 isn't clear either, but the plushes/toys are definitely different to the other ones. On close inspection, I think there are bears and rabbits, but coloured red and white instead of pink, brown and greys/whites, like in CM1.

So clearly they didn't just have just one bunny plush model they had to reuse, and they put in the effort of hand drawing different plushies in the other claw machines. Plus, the budget for the intro must have been enormous— they weren't exactly pinching pennies. So why pile ONLY rabbits on the outside of the claw machines in the intro?

My theory is that it has something to do with my beloved Qiao Ling.

From the very first episode season 1, the show has set up a recurring rabbit motif in relation to Qiao Ling. We see this first in her phone case:

I put in a second photo of her phone for reference, and that one is from season 2, either episode 9 or 10.

So, bunny ears on the phone case. Big deal, probably just a fun piece of visual storytelling to add to her character— maybe she's into 'meng' culture. She's about the age to be into it, right?

Well, let's look at the chibi spinoff, Daily Life in Lighttime!

I don't think it's at the end of every episode this animal segment appears, but after the main events of each episode, we get to see the main characters as animals, doing animal things. Pretty straightforward— LG is a cat, CXS is a dog, and QL is a rabbit. Another thing connecting QL with the motif of rabbits.

In the official art by INPLICK, who did the character designs for the show, Qiao Ling is also commonly depicted with rabbits/a rabbit motif, and the boys with their respective animals as well.

On top of that, we know the show is set in 2021. Based on her character profiles, we know Qiao Ling is 22 years old, making her birth year 1999 (March 16th, if anyone cares). This makes her, you guessed it, year of the Rabbit!

So, let's tie this back to the claw machines. We've got a character who is established in show and in official art to be associated with rabbits, and we've got an abundance of rabbit plushes on the outside of the claw machines. Link Click is always very intentional with their imagery and mise en scene, this isn't an accident. So, what exactly does this mean?

My theory is that Qiao Ling will come to play a very significant role in the finale and upcoming season 3.

Initially, when me and my friend discussed this (shout out to Lara if you're reading this); we figured it might just be another reference to how Qiao Ling is metaphorically on the outside of the supernatural happenings. She is the only main character without powers, she didn't know what CXS and LG were doing with the photos, she was the first of the mains to get possessed by red eyes, who we now know are a wombo combo of Li Tianxi and Li Tianchen. But why go to such lengths to compound on something we already know?

So then I started to wonder, maybe it means she is less protected than the others? After all, she was the first to get possessed, she is the only one without any supernatural powers. I thought it might mean imminent doom for Qiao Ling— which would suck, because (and this is especially applicable if you've seen the most recent episode, i.e. s2e11) Link Click is not the best when it comes to leaving female characters alive!!!!!

It adds up— the animals on the inside of the claw machine are "safe", metaphorically and literally. They are protected by the glass (and also the impossibility of winning anything from a claw machine). But on the outside, they are up for grabs, easy to be destroyed or harmed. The claw machine ensures safety, and when you're outside the machine, nothing is guaranteed. So when we see the inside of the claw machine in the shot of that pink cat plush, i.e. the second image in this post, we see that there aren't as many rabbits in the claw machine, meaning less safety for QL.

(also if you want to strengthen that argument, that stuffed cat that liu lan and li tianxi won from the claw machine was torn apart by li fan when they got home).

((and even in the est. shot where we do see rabbits on the inside, there are much less than on the outside.))

So, Qiao Ling the outsider in this situation, who has as far as we know no powers and not much of a clue as to the supernatural happenings (and who let's be real only became plot significant recently, as much as i love her), her animal is on the outside of the claw machines. Simple.

And then the trailer for the finale of s2 dropped, and we got this lovely frame:

My friend and I thought it might be Qiao Ling's powers awakening, some others think it might be Tianxi transferring her powers to Qiao Ling. However, if you watch the rest of the trailer, you'll notice that Qiao Ling is left entirely defenseless, just sitting by Tianxi's body.

While the rest of the fight is presumably happening. These characters have guns and tasers! Why is she turning her back on them when she has no natural defenses of her own (save for those sick martial arts skills)?

Especially because Qian Jin, who has been established to want to harm QL and even rigged up a god damn BOMB to set off for when she and CXS went to retrieve LG:

Is on the scene with a gun!

I think that something bad is going to happen to Qiao Ling, the "outsider", either in the finale or in season 3. Could be death, could be a major injury, but whatever it is, it will have been foreshadowed through the stuffed rabbits and the claw machines.

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kudos if you read this much lol i'm not sure if i structured my arguments well but i got really into this theory. and maybe i might make a post about the symbolism of the pacman machine in the intro as well? idk. lmk what you think!! i'd love to know if there's anything i'm missing or if there are any other interpretations to glean from this :)

[mykingdomforapen]

The chibi shorts are on crunchyroll iirc! They’re under “the daily life in lighttime short”. They can also be found on english bilibili w subs for free! They’re so much fun :D

Man it's been a hot minute since i've been into a media that gives me OVA and off-season fluff fillers that are also highly canonical. What a dream.

[mithidria]

so. this months link click short huh. making a fake show called lighttime tearjerker where “things will happen with lu an. it can be something serious or insignificant or it can be something good or bad”

[ct-7056]

Lighttime

[goodpix2021]

Time Passages

Bare trees as a symbol of snow to come. It was late in December, the sky turned to snow All round the day was going down slowNight like a river beginning to flowI felt the beat of my mind goDrifting into time passagesYears go falling in the fading lightTime passagesBuy me a ticket on the last train home tonight — Al Stewart/1978 I suppose that’s really what I was writing about yesterday. Not…

[nookies]

my heart flutters with excitement

as i think of you

and of what made us part

for now, it's true.

momentary truth

momentary bliss.

never the same again

h o w b l e s s e d

lush rose - raspberry bush

pineapple dusk dancing at midnight

a nightsky so blue

for now she's here with you

[scarletwinterjournal]

a super inspiring piece of work i have found is Exposure by Tehching Hsieh, which was shown at the 2017 Venice Biennale. i found this information about the piece here: https://www.tfam.museum/File/files/02exhibition/170414_57VB/57VB_DT_Brochure.pdf 

[sciencehook]

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Our Milky Way Galaxy: How Big is Space? By Pat Brennan, NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Video credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech What is a light year? "It’s one of the most commonly used celestial yardsticks, the distance light travels in one year. Light zips along through interstellar space at 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second (more than 66 trips across the entire United States, in one second). Multiply that by all the seconds in one year, and you get 5.8 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers). Just for reference, Earth is about eight light minutes from the Sun. A trip at light speed to the very edge of our solar system – the farthest reaches of the Oort Cloud, a collection of dormant comets way, way out there – would take about 1.87 years. Keep going to Proxima Centauri, our nearest neighboring star, and plan on arriving in 4.25 years at light speed. If you could travel at light speed. Which, unless you’re a photon (a particle of light), you can’t, and, by current physics, might never be possible." [Pat Brennan] Source: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/blog/1563/our-milky-way-galaxy-how-big-is-space/ #space #universe #MilkyWay #NASA #JPLCaltech #interstellar #star #sun #earth #proximacentauri #exoplanets #oortcloud #photon #LightTime #LightYear #Physics #AstroPhysics #PatBrennan #scaleoftheuniverse #scale #comparison light #distance #astrophysics #science #allaroundscience #sciencehook https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Y53uZjLee/?igshid=4v0bepqzcppl

[watsonandsoninc]

Love the light love the textures #lighttime #tricksofligh #marin #sausalito #rodeobeach #watsonandson #sunrise (at Sausalito, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCgcMpYFeRj/?igshid=1o9co5oxjesud

[5-pp-man]

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小剧场OP2 / Mini Theater OP2

[shayhcl]

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#narguila #narguile #taste #keif #pornnarguila #hookah #deliciasdavida #Regavim #Kibbutz_Regavim #descanso #lighttime #freetime #boomerang (at Regavim)

[royalviciousness]

Its been hours and i finally got my goddess damned palmhusk back from the fifteen foot tall menace that calls himself my alternate.

[furiroad]

lighttime

[flowerthrudisarray]

25/2/2020

I love keeping track of my life and being able to go back and see my growth. I've been doing it through journaling but I realized I also wanted visuals accompanying it, so I've shamelessly decided to start using this personal blog as a platform to share some glimpses of each day accompanied with the main feelings and thoughts, at least the shareable ones lol. I'm doing this for me, as my inspiration board says, so it's ok if you either interact or you don't.

I'm sharing some photos of what my home looks like today. It's a beautiful sunny day and I feel so motivated to work on my applications for the scholarship I'm applying to in order to study abroad. My mum just called and told me that she heard of another scholarship, which made me feel even more optimistic. My cat is adorable but also a little asshole who almost scratched my eye off, as you can see in the locker room (lol) picture. I'm feeling so proud of myself lately. I never thought going to the gym would be so cathartic. I always thought I hated working out but now if I miss a day I long for it! My appetite has increased and I eat all day, sleep better, and have become more mindful. I also started yoga and am fucking obsessed with peanut butter. I'm happy with where my life is heading. I can safely say I haven't felt down for almost two weeks now, but I have also started noticing that my mood is 90% dependent on the amount of sunny in the weather and the time I spend walking during lighttime.

Today I'm gonna meditate on my feelings, work on an article and on the scholarships, and probably stay at home and watch trash Greek tv shows because my dissertation is going great and I deserve it.

My dissertation concerns the experiences of trans students in Athenian universities. I'm currently in the process of conducting semi-structured interviews. I love it so much, it's super interesting and empowering to work for one's own community, although my supervisor is very strict about disengaging scientific research from activism lol. For me it's fundamentally interconnected.