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[hceinart]

we should've been enemies, we could've never met

[chevvy-yates]

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jumpsuit jacket by @pinkyjulien

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'Thunder and lightning Heading your way Ride the rainbow Crack the sky

Stormbringer coming Time to die' — Stormbringer by Deep Purple

In other words:

'You've been thunderstruck' —Thunderstruck by AC/DC

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Thyjs' theme playlist.

FIRST:

Yup! That's right – Thyjs is going to electrify y'all.

My original thought was that I've wanted to create a little playlist with thunder/storm/electro lyrics but then I stumbled over these songs in the list up there (first one shook me the most) and so I threw my original idea into the storm. Spending like two months on it now how to write down what I feel or see when I listen to this selection tied to Thyjs. So, here's his entire Playlist now: basically Introduction and fight theme songs as well as a calm one — like I did with V before but different.

Storm If I had to choose just one song for him, this one would be it. This awesome instrumental song is the ultimate standalone theme song for Thyjs. Like his goddamn introduction in a movie appearance. When I listened to it for the first time it just struck me like one of his lightning strikes. It is the only song that can be tied to the cyberpunk music genre since every song in the list is more classical soundtrack-ish (he needs that epicness. He's a godverdomme soldier). Back to the song: It sounds tempting right from the start with that beat giving you an overall Cyberpunk feeling at first, making you somehow feel alarmed because of the electronic sound. The air around you may feel electrified and you know something is coming. Then suddenly there is that melodic part setting in with those classical elements that literally screams 'Thyjs' to me. When I look at him I see; He's beauty, he is grace — but coming as an all through soldier package. No one would probably expect it but Thyjs does love to listen to classical music (piano, violin/cello and entire orchestra) of various known artists as well that is why it brought me on the way to look for songs like these in the list. It calms him down, especially after a long and hard mission. To me he feels unapproachable, like he's not from this world at all, yet he is. Wherever he goes in uniform or military gear, people will look at him with a certain respect. You're immediately drawn into admiring him because you probably ain't seen such a pale soldier like him ever before. He can make you feel like time stopped only to let you know with a loud thundering bang that everything you see is real and time is still running. That is when that part that sounds electrifying somewhere near the middle of that song, starts right out of nowhere. Sir! I'm so sold to it right now. I have to admit, the song is fairly long at 7 min, yet I recommend listening to it completely but the important parts really are the start and the middle.

Into the Storm is literally Thyjs getting ready for the battle that lies before him. Ride right into the storm, full force. It is like he can feel a storm is coming, with the storm being the enemies. You gotta know, Thyjs is a soldier to the bone. He devoted his entire life to it, trained as soon as he was old enough for it, to serve his country and Benelux Union. He's heroic in his own way. And that song does him justice.

I'm Electro A short song that strikes you after just a few seconds — the hard way. It represents that you gotta show some respect towards him if you do not behave correctly. He'll immediately put you back into your place where you belong, using his voice and electro shock (if you dare to enter his comfort zone) — like AC/CD would say: in the 'You've been thunderstruck' way (it's in fact exactly what happened to Ryder meeting Thyjs for the first time). Thyjs is capable of making use of electricity that is fed into his left arm, therefore also the glowing (Hanako) cyberware. The brighter it glows the more electricity Thyjs has to make use of. He already knew very early he was kind of immune to electricity after he grabbed an electrified fence feeling literally nothing. Once he lost his left forearm during a heavy battle with drones he decided to get himself some limb replacement that could make use of electricity since he literally survived a lightning strike as well on the battlefield during a thunderstorm, but more of that I'll keep for another time. That battle also gave him his nickname 'Storm', which he also uses as a code name. He can power up from any source that is running with electricity — Night City is full of it. He will give Arki and Ryder a boost if they need some as well. Ry gets himself Shock-n-Awe installed after having met his future lover for the first time. Thyjs even suggested the team to wear mods in their clothing gear if they do not want additional cyberware to their body because lightning can't be really controlled. It will always spread over to the next best source.

Storm Another Storm song (I wanted to decide for one of them but they are both so awesome I have to include them both). This one here seems to be a re-interpretation of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" and this song hits differently: Thyjs has Sandevistan — the Militech 'Apogee' Sandevistan Mk. V of course. So he's fast. Like lightning. The fast stringed instruments represent his fast acting and when that thunder sets in right at the start he vanishes into air. The only time you'll see him is before he starts and when he ends it, with the ladder it is already too late for you. The highlights in the song can stand for that if you are able to watch him in action you will be seeing him in between, avoiding incoming their enemies that are fast as well, sometimes he may even look gracefully, appearing for a moment, time pausing for max 3 seconds until he vanishes again just to reappear in a different place again, slaying his enemies one after another. You can hear exactly 3x a loud bang in that song around 2 min in — this is him starting with Sandevistan going for the enemy, then disappears, leaving only electricity behind, and lastly he shows up again, right in front of you with his Constitutional Arms M2038 Tactician 'The Headsman' Power Shotgun –BANG– three enemies on the ground, limbs missing, or even their heads exploded. He's able to load his shotgun within his used Sandevistan time but he often makes use of his toxic knife as well dealing severe damage to the enemy who will die because of poison going into their bloodstream.

Tempest It's like that epic battle song everyone likes and may even get goosebumps from. It is fast paced, tearing forward, to set one strike after another. See it as the last boss battle. The final big one. Before everything is finally done. Battle won, for Thyjs and his squad (when he was still serving) or the team he joins shortly after the incident out in the badlands that led to his whole squad being blown up and him being the only survivor. If you can't imagine Thyjs' fight style in some epic battle try imagine a combination of playing battlefield V and e.g. watching Final Fantasy Kings Glaive. Thyjs moves similar like Nyx Ulric, the warps with the weapons I mean, only he does not warp, he's just super fast with his Sandevistan but also leaving lightning behind.

Van Gogh's White Roses Calm moments incoming. Thyjs loves to play piano. The pretty tunes calm him down as he plays them, or even just listens to them. It is his way to chill and he could do it all day long appreciating the calm moments of his live thrice as much because as a soldier he is mostly on high alert (even if it doesn't look like it) and always prepared that every day could be his last. So better especially appreciate the little things in live and things that he loves: music, art, flowers and his new gained friends and most of all; time with his love: Ryder. The moment I decided Thyjs is Dutch was when I added the ears cyberware to him. Idk I just got reminded of Van Gogh in that moment. So Thyjs went to be Dutch, he loves Impressionism and is ofc an admirer of Van Gogh's art (I might do an extra post for that as well some time why I made Thyjs like Van Gogh).

[pinkyjulien]

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[yanguazalie]

Angel-Devil art I’ve drawn in my leisure!

I mean- drawing IS my leisure but, y’know, that’s more reserved for another Horvath/Kim property. ANYWAY, since these dragons are isolated from the environment I normally draw them in, I’m giving them their own post.

[risingsunresistance]

i said this morning i would buy the stuff for that fishing rod when i got home from work but i forgot, i cant even craft it yet

[narumi-gens]

I’m traveling to Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and Hiroshima) and South Korea (just Seoul) soon so if you have tips or recs, pls send them to me to make my life easier!! 🙏🏽

[gemkun]

i was having a shower and i started to think about the potential of assassination attempts or sabotage on veritas. i also have to credit @zorkaya for the delicious bodyguard au we've been creating and especially the recent response involving a threat on the doctor which meant ushering him away to safety.

it's clear that dr. ratio can take care of himself and the other guy(s) are probably going to come out worse than him , but i still think that it's not unheard of for him to be a target of envious researchers or people he rubbed wrong because let's face it , who doesn't find him displeasing ? someone asked me once to name veritas' friends and i for the life of me couldn't.

i also think when he was younger at least he was in the safety of the university but perhaps he hadn't been as methodical as he is now , so , if other students picked on him then he probably had to learn how to diffuse that as well. he's also the type to cover up any injury or tend to it quickly since he firmly believes he is capable of handling confrontations and battle. like he's a doctor , his job is to heal and tend to ailments. that extends to him as well.

this makes me wonder about who would be veritas' enemies because i'd be lying if i said he has none.

[decaflondonfog]

day 25/30 of 30 microfics in 30 days

you could read this platonically if you wished. i wish not to because ronan needs to find out he’s gay before he gets to adam and you and i both know how he got to that conclusion lbr

GANSEY/RONAN • MONMOUTH for the most beautiful cockroach i know 🪳😘

[pumpkinspice-prouvaire]

my 10 fave books of 2023 bc I do this every year and I'm the main character if u also enjoyed any of these feel free to scream about them with me (look out for TWs because I love a dark book lmao)

Normal People- Sally Rooney

Panenka- Ronan Hession

Our Wives Under the Sea- Julia Armfield

The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Timecode of a Face- Ruth Ozeki

The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath

You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beuaty- Akwaeke Emezi

Transcendent Kingdom- Yaa Gyasi

All Quiet on the Western Front- Erich Maria Remarque

A Thousand Splendid Suns- Khaled Hosseini

[colgatebluemintygel]

7 up

thank you sm for the tags @fruity-individual, @blackberry-sunset, @moongays, @ryder-the-writer, @pancakehouse, @wanderingdonut, @maybebabyplease, @mostlyoptimisticdinosaur <33 apologies i have been so lazy w tag games lately ! kisses for u all tho xx

from my ~currently unnamed~ selkie remus fic:

It was a strange thing to be awake, Remus thought. It was not often that he simply existed, without a thought of what was to come or what had already passed. It was only at night that he felt really, truly present. Each night moved in waves, in blue echoes and the tang of salt. Tightly embraced by his sealskin, the sea carried him in her palms, the currents passing him from one to another. Cradling him, the sea muffled sound, softened light, and let him float, float, float. As he swam, he’d catch glimpses of his tail, the seal fur bronze in the moonlight. Some nights, he paddled in rock pools as clams looked up at him, their smiles wonky in the rippling water, while the splashing waves whispered words of comfort. Hermit crabs inched around him, threatening him with tiny their pincers. He ignored them as he bathed beneath the stars, his whiskers twitching. Other nights, and they were the worst, were a blur of silver and red. He'd climb into bed in the early hours of the morning, hair damp and salty, with angry welts down his arms and legs where jagged blades had marred his bronzed fur. Every night, while the rest of the town slumbered, Remus would creep down to the beach and over to cove where his sealskin was hidden. Every night, he held his breath, only to let it out in relief. Until one night, it was gone.

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[crehador]

hi so i was thinking about revenger again today and even though i've talked about this before i can't not talk about it again

i am usually not the type to complain about translations (unless it is something especially egregious such as the yuzuki-san ep1 debacle) and i wouldn't even call this a complaint really

but something so significant and so beautiful was lost in translation in ep8 of revenger

this is the relevant scene:

background for context:

raizou (black hair here) is on a quest for revenge after the death of his wife (the woman in the painting, which raizou painted himself) and he's taken on 'taishin' as a pseudonym to sell his art (for which he discovered a talent and passion during this revenge quest)

his wife's name was yui, and white hair here (the leader of this ragtag band of revengers) is named usui yuen

all of this is relevant

the main issue here is... the character 唯, which was originally written on the painting, has been translated as 'tai' which later becomes 'taishin' when raizou adds a few strokes and a second character to form his pseudonym

but what is 唯 actually? it's... yui

the original character on the painting, 唯, is his wife's name. and usui's name? 碓氷幽烟

key character being: 碓

the subtitles do capture the significance of raizou taking a character from usui's name to make his pseudonym, and that's great. but that isn't all he did. with two strokes he changed the 口 to a 石, he changed his wife's name into a character from usui's name and then added a 心 (heart!) to make it his own

there are a whole lot of reasons this is Special to me but that would require going into the rest of the show which i won't do lol, the dynamics are fascinating but this post is already getting way too long

anyway i just think this is a suuuper normal and well-adjusted thing he did there, didn't alter my brain chemistry at all (lying) and i just need more people to know about it because i think the subs (while doing imo as best as they could!) really did not make it possible for most viewers to catch this

[tendercoretroglodyke]

hey so is everyone else really super Going Through It rn or is it just me and all of my closest friends and family????

[divine-hurt]

Fellow Medical Whump Lover! Thoughts on field medicine?

first of all ty for the ask!! :D

second of all while i am pretty confident in my english skills, my whole medical knowledge is german lol so i’m not even 100% sure what field medicine is and google isn’t helping that much, so. i’m assuming it’s the same as battlefield medicine? that’s the only thing that came up on google- if not, please correct me asdgjkgdhjf

so. battlefield medicine. yes!! yes. i’m not really one for historical fiction (and frankly, my personal biggest interest in medicine is definitely of the scientific type—mostly forensic medicine, actually) but in a modern setting? hell yes.

a caretaker who works as field surgeon/similar, and a whumpee who’s fighting in the army they’re caring for? yes. caretaker being forced to help others before whumpee because their injuries are greater? yes yes. caretaker forced to let whumpee die because their injuries are too great to be treated in their setting, and having to care for others instead? yes yes yes.

caretaker working in battlefield medicine with whumpee working in the army they care for is a great combination. very much especially if they’re close, and have known each other for years. though it’s also fun if they get to know each other because of whumpee landing in their care... multiple times.....

conclusion: yes <3

[corvidaedream]

obsessed w the fact that im desperately trying to research (for funsies, not work) this one civil case from 1771 where John Adams was the defense for this guy, and the only primary source on it ive ever found is from Adams's notes from the trial

and ive been stuck thinking about this for over two years now bc i want to know more about the guy who was suing for damages but he continues to elude me, but I keep talking about the case w people bc everything about it is so chaotic

and i just realized the other day "oh, Adams's diaries are digitized and searchable, maybe he has more details in there, surely this was Notable"

and the only day of the trial he even mentions it, hes just like. the court sat today. and lists what he had for dinner and details a discussion of chickens he had w his in-laws.

[meistoshi]

i think abt badend a normal amount <3 babyboy you have SO many issues

[vaguenotions]

Reasons i should not drink:

I am overcome w the intense urge to sprawl across someone's lap and receive pets but there is never anyone to fulfill this urge :(