#maybe I’m misremembering

[bereft-of-frogs]

For my ‘boring tasks at work’ audiobook I’m listening to Emma Mieko Candon’s Ronin, which I’ve had forever because I downloaded it for a long bus ride and then just decided to do the ‘listen to sad music and stare out the window’ thing instead, but now that I’m caught up on THR, I’m branching out, and I AM enjoying it so far…

I just wish it was *slightly* more in line with canon. Don’t get me wrong, the flexibility on worldbuilding is some of why Visions is one of my favorites, I loved the creativity of not being beholden to #lore…but there’s definitely a difference between a 15 minute visual medium and a 12 hour audiobook.

So just every once in a while my brain shorts out trying to place this in the canon history lol. I’m mostly able to ignore it but yeah every once in a while I’m like wait when is this set

[silvercaptain24]

Hru 👀👀

-🫓

Did the other one not go through?

[nosleep83]

Vanessa’s “erm actually that’s two jobs 🤓” moment before she gets choked by her dad fucking KILLED ME AND I CANNOT TELL U WHY

[oc3anic-ang3l]

Nico: are you flirting with me?

Percy: i’m trying

Percy: i have no idea what i’m doing

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

“I wonder if sebek’s grandpa will be localized as bal or baul or baal!”

TWST EN:

TWST EN: I gotchu, fam

IT’S ONE LETTER OFF FROM NAUR… 😭

I don’t hate it, but I don’t like it either. The name just doesn’t… roll off the tongue as nicely?? This will definitely take me some getting used to just like Falena.

It’s odd because I thought EN initially localized the name as “Baul”; it was changed to… Baur… more recently??? Alas, I didn’t take screenshots before the update where this change was implemented but I SWEAR IT’S TRUE 💦

ADDENDUM: For people wondering when Sebek’s grandpa is brought up by name, it’s 7-34 of the main story!

[kinokoshoujoart]

CORRECT TAGS‼️‼️‼️‼️ @rn0na-lizard you are so so so correct….. my favorite ‘Normal Girl’ in hmds…….i almost never see anyone talk about these aspects of her let alone also love her for them as they should.

i feel like Leona/ DS lumina gets mischaracterized super often which is understandable bc out of all the DS candidates leona is the least like her ancestor (who i also love, for different reasons).

in AWL lumina was the only kid in the valley for a very long time, but many of the DS residents have lived in the valley their whole lives. while lumina had accepted her role as a proper young heiress by chapter 3 of AWL— and when DS begins Leona already at this point of her life— lumina still had a lingering sense of uncertainty and angst and loneliness and doubt, and unresolved worries about her parents. absolutely none of this is present with leona

in this world leona starts with Lumina’s 22 year old appearance, she’s just rich as hell and living her best life (as she deserves), she’s unabashedly shallow, puts herself first always, speaks so politely and affably yet she can be so casually cruel in the most genuine cute way and out of touch with reality and and i fucking love her and i’d die for her. my beloved girlboss girlkeep girlypop

more iconic Leona Moments

when muu/muffy asks for beauty advice leona’s recommendation is “this brand of mail order beauty cream is simply divine! and it was quite inexpensive too, just 100,000 G 🥰” everyone else looks uncomfortable and muu is like “you’re as frivolous as always….”

aside from the 3 who take literally half your money (Witch💖, moi, and thomas) leona and panama (romana) take the most money from you if they carry you home when you faint. just a couple of girl bosses holding on to their girlpire (btw shout out to sebastian, the only resident in the entire valley who carries you home for free)

neither panama nor leona attend the harvest festival, they send sebastian there by himself to test the food first lmao (if you poison it like the witch they’re harboring on their property requires you to do, sebastian is just like “i can’t serve this to Mistress Panama…”)

once again sebastian attacks mukumuku for her sake, this time not to make her a paintbrush but she told him to get her the best slippers and this was apparently the easiest way. sebastian gets fucking mauled btw

leona has hands down the best romance route in hmds. all her scenes are incredible but god the slow burn friends to lovers with your DVD player….

in her purple heart event she shows up at your house because she heard you have a DVD player, asks you to show her how it works, and then just leaves after she’s done playing with it

in her yellow heart event she has sebastian fetch van so she can buy a DVD player for herself but van’s like “i’m so sorry …. Pete… bought the last one….”

leona is so unable to stomach the idea of other people having things she doesn’t that she starts to cry and the only way to placate her is to tell her she can go to your house anytime she wants just so she can use your DVD player. that’s not a setup to a budding romance that’s her final heart event

it’s the most incredible romance arc in the world like girl you have infinite money you can just. buy a DVD player somewhere else?? “i want to watch DVDs at my house just like you!” leona you have three entire bedrooms

“rich girl love interest who has everything except love, win her heart by having genuine conversation with her”: done to death, tired, i don’t have time for that

“rich girl love interest who has everything except a fucking DVD player, win her heart by giving her expensive stuff and ‘relax tea’ and access to your DVD player”: audacious, intriguing, never been done before, innovative

if you deny her god-given right to access your DVD player she is like “Is that so……………Just let me be alone for a little bit.” incredible tragedy i understand. take as much time as you need to grieve darling

oh but her first heart event asks you to pick a side in an argument she’s having with panama and the correct answer is to say “sebastian is the one who’s wrong” (sebastian has said nothing wrong this whole time and yet both of them have just been yelling at him to shut up)

and her blue heart event is “help me find this heirloom necklace… boohoo…” and when you find it she’s like “perfect! now grandma won’t get mad at me. hmm, you seem pretty dependable…♡” augh she’s way too good at this…….!!! i’ll do anything for you!

when you propose she says “of course, i always dreamed of having a romance and a wedding♡” and says nothing abt how she feels about you <3

also if you marry her, once a week she goes to hang out at her ex love interest’s place for 6 hours straight and comes home saying “whew… i had so much fun that i must have lost track of time… i’ll hurry on home”

if you marry another girl she starts flirting with you like “I’m so envious of your wife, having such a fine husband… Pete.” (or whatever your name is)

i’ve become obsessed with her and romeo’s horrible trainwreck soap opera marriage since replaying cute in jp… it’s SO… i have so much to say about them that it should be its own post but i’ll just give the cliffnotes

shotgun wedding vibes. romeo is surprised by his own wedding. they’re childhood friends but he himself has never considered marrying her. her words to him at their wedding are “Make me happy♡” (command)

she understandably can’t stand his terrible table manners or his clothes or anything about him (except that she wants to watch him surf and have his child. but he instead walks in circles all day. coward) and he’s both really good at accidentally stepping on landmines and just ever so slightly majorly terrified of her after marriage (“but surely her angry outbursts are just her way of showing love hahahahaha” you’re going to die. she’s going to kill you). the only positive things they say about their marriage are extremely shallow. they can’t communicate with each other because romeo always says the Dumbest Shit obliviously and leona always responds by cutting him out of her life forever!!!!!! (for 5 seconds) while he has no idea what happened

they are both so melodramatic and they both just do nothing except make each other worse and run away from each other and push each other away but they can’t escape each other. neither of them ever has to grow or change if they marry each other because an elderly overworked man is sustaining both of their existences and neither of them can take care of themselves and i love them your honor

also romeo’s first crush as a kid was apparently her mom, and if leona falls for YOU she flirts by mentioning that sebastian says you look like the spitting image of her dead father. dear fucking god

they’re the epitome of “You're both just enabling each other's mental illnesses. You're both perfect for each other. Never change. Just never involve anybody else in what you've got going on.”

romeo really does feel like her stupid lackey. like the karen to her regina. they even had this dynamic in the games they played as kids… she was the Harvest Goddess and he was Servant A/Minion A (they might still be playing this game as adults…he calls her lady/mistress sometimes after marriage…)

btw leona’s best friend (wife) marivia is also just as… there’s an event where they just gossip about all the mineral town ppl and marivia says ann would win a gluttony contest and they both giggle

there’s also an event where marivia casually walks into Witch’s hut and just interviews her so she can write her into a novel. witch is left completely drained by this exchange. leona and marivia both are so chill about the horrible cruel villainess living in leona’s shed who wants the town poisoned and rewards you for killing animals and hurting yourself and is putting curses on everyone (and they’re right. she’s never done anything wrong in her life)

[msbrightsides]

While I am a little jarred by some of the changes from book to screen, I do love that the changes have put more of an emphasis on character-driven conflict rather than just plot-driven conflict. The conflict between the trio felt natural bc it was based in fear and a lack of trust. Then the plot helped the characters shed those issues a bit and they could work through them more themselves too. It wasn’t too heavy on one or the other. Bravo writers!

[fruit-colored-ninja]

I think this season might have been the first time we got the characters saying ‘I love you’ to each other in a platonic way? Lloyd saying “not that we don’t love you” to Zane and either Arin or Sora saying that they loved the other I think, I can’t remember which but the casual expressions of love there had my heart melting. They’re family! They love each other!!!!

[fowlblue]

Not sure how well to put this but like… from a thinking standpoint, I wish there was a little more explanation about the intersection between magic/law in AF, because both seem to be closely intertwined, and that’s fascinating.

(Of course, I know it’s understandable that those themes are not really typical for the genre and target audience- but it’s still interesting to thing about)

[measlyscrapofseafood]

GAY AS HELL to group these two together like this

[anonymous-dentist]

I don't know if you're interested in learning Portuguese since I'm new here, but there's an RPG called Emboscada that only has 6 episodes and I'm recommending it because while I was watching it I genuinely remembered you and thought "I can imagine her writing a story like that". Regardless of whether you see it or not, I leave the recommendation to the rapaziada, and sorry for the translator!!!!!

(curiosity: ljoga and guaxi participated as players)

I’ve been trying to learn Portuguese for over a full year now and I’m as bad as when I started lol

I still need to finish Ordem (I haven’t even finished osnf yet rip), but I’ll add this to the Watch Eventually list

[aliveaudiencegang]

comparing camp jupiter and camp halfblood when it comes to protection for demigods is wild and not just because of the argument that cj has the children trained as soldiers whilst the adults live their life whilst chb have children only so they must be the soldiers.

but also. if i’m remembering this correctly. thalia’s tree is the reason camp halfblood have a barrier protecting them from monsters and such. she turned into a tree five years before the events of the first book. what the hell was happening before then?? did they patrol every day and night. no wonder so many of them were dying. meanwhile camp jupiter has a statue of a god and a magical river.

[autism-criminal]

straight ships have never been my thing but I say ‘ aww ’ out loud whenever Lassie and Marlowe are on screen together

[krispyjb]

Ah fuck I’m thinking about Water 7/Enies Lobby arc again

Whoops I wrote an essay in the tags

[immren]

we don’t have a Confirmed lgbt tank in overwatch yet but imagine this is how blizzard genuinely reveals zarya is a lesbian or smth by having her stand with the other lgbt heroes

[doublebeau]

did you guys notice that mark only talks highly / protectively of ashe when she’s not there. like when she’s present it’s “oh ashe wants to be a hero?” and “you really think they see you as one of them?” and then when ashe is gone it’s mark saying the pd better keep her safe and they need to find her and help her and reluctantly working alongside tide and talking to william for months to help find her. but when she was there it a bitter onslaught. does she know mark is that protective? does she know he did it all for her? does she know that even though it was awful it came from an origin of love?