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oh, your man thinks you’re “pretty”? orion hong refers to his *fake* spouse, rosalind lang, as “beloved. darling beloved”…raise your standards.

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They’re such a power couple, I love them so much

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How The Great War by Taylor Swift mirrors the plot of These Violent Delight and Our Violent End by Chloe Gong

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Sucker punching walls, curse you as I sleep-talked - both times when one hated the other

Spineless in my tomb of silence - each other refuses to explain what they actually did and why

Tore your banners down, took the battle underground - no one in juliette’s family knew they were dating, so when roma betrays her when they’re 15, no one can know why she hates him so viscerally besides the fact that he is a white flower 

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All that bloodshed, crimson clover, sweet dream was over - Nurse died, and so did Roma’s mother, the “sweet dream was over” because it was no longer pure teenage happiness and love

My hand was the one you reached for, all throughout the great war - they kept finding themselves back with each other through the blood feud and all their relationship’s complicatedness 

Always remember - in TVD despite roma and juliette working together, juliette tried her best to remind herself what roma had done the years before, even though he seems like the same person, the same person who loved her. 

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You drew up some good faith treaties - when they were younger they had always dreamt of stopping the blood feud when they were older, especially roma. 

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And maybe it’s the past that’s talkin’ - in tvd when juliette and roma are working together she keeps getting reminded of who he was when they were 15, as well she mentions how despite her hatred towards him she is still low-key attracted to him, “It felt like her cells were betraying her on a molecular level” but says that it is probably because of the past they shared that she feels like this, so maybe it's the past that talkin’. 

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Tellin’ me to punish you for things you never did - this goes for both of them because they both did “bad” things, but both did not actually happen. Roma “wanting” to blow up the scarlet house, and Juliette “killing” marshall. 

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It turned into something bigger - their investigations being intertwined with multiple other things, e.g. tyler cai, revolution, civil war. 

Somewhere in the haze, got a sense I’d been betrayed - there is just a shit ton of betrayal in this book series in general so this could be applied to many different things 

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Looked up at me with honor and truth - both of them admitting that they didn’t actually want to/do the bad thing 

Broken and blue, so I called off the troops - when juliette fakes her own death in ove to give more time to the white flower to get out of the city before the purge of white flowers + communist

That was the night I nearly lost you, I really thought I lost you - when roma thought that juliette had actually died in ove, when she had faked her death. 

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There was no morning glory, it was war, it wasn’t fair - they both wished they did not have to do what they did but it was war it wasn’t fair. “I could never be your lover Roma. Only your killer.” “This is what this city did to lovers.” It was war, it wasn’t fair. 

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We’re burned for the better - the explosion, fire. They sacrificed themselves for the betterment of their city. (even tho they didn’t actually die) 

I vowed I would always be yours - I feel as though this is self-explanatory…. they got married…..

I would always be yours, cause we survived the great war - they stopped the blood feud, they fled the city, and the blood feud could never tear them apart again. 

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“You were my first hope that there might be something else. A third category of a memory. A future separate from the past. I have spent years thinking that if I just do the right think, then I can go back to how it used to be. But maybe I don’t want that anymore”

— Orion Hong freaking out that Rosalind Lang got poisoned, then he chooses to declare this. 

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i love rosalind

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when i say i would read anything chloe gong writes that is not an understatement.

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I think my life expectancy increases every time I remember this

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The way every single ship in the secret Shanghai universe has I can see you vibes I’m losing my shit oh my god

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Cat Noir: New idea - aggressive hand-holding!

Ladybug: How does that work?

Cat Noir: We arm-wrestle as an excuse to hold hands

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the thing about gabriel is the Wish will destroy the world and create a new one where Emilie is fine so you don't even need to be preserving ber body in a cryotube my brother

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had an INCREDIBLE revelation today

(also did you know that the plots of the miraculous and ninjago movies are uncomfortably similar???)

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Beauty and the Beast fluff based on the new anime ‘Belle’.  I don’t know anything about this film aside from the trailers but I’m already excited, I loved the same studio/director’s ‘Wolf Children’ and ‘Summer Wars’ so this should be good.

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Another me. Another reality. We are no longer limited to a single world. Another world, where you can love.

BELLE / 竜とそばかすの姫 (2021) → dir. Mamoru Hosoda.

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Illustration of Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle by Yuki Suetsugu (author of Chihayafuru).

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Ryuu to Sobakasu no Hime: Belle’s character design by Jin Kim.

source (original pic).

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