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movie called technically blonde where she goes to trade school instead

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She's a horse girl. She's a princess. Her dad is One Punch Man. Her ex-boyfriend wants to kill her whole family. She's a shield maiden. She talks to eagles. She'll kill you with a sword, a spear, or the power of friendship. She's Hera Hammerhand and it's a real pity the advertising for her movie was basically nonexistent.

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one time this japanese fujoshi i follow on twitter posted "the bottom should have a bigger dick so that you can watch it bounce while they get fucked and the top should have a smaller dick so that it can go in easier. uke dicks should be big and decorative and seme dicks should be average size and functional" and honestly her mind

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I always wondered how the main trio who witnessed Ogata's death interprets this whole chain of events.

Like he's been pursuing them for months. He is so determined and aggressive in his pursuit that he has never failed to show up where they are.

And by the end, they know him well enough that they're not even surprised to see him show up on the same train. Because of course he would locate this train, then climb onto the moving train from horseback and then show up and start fighting them. For some reason that they don't even yet understand.

Like in the last dozen chapters or so, from the perspective of the trio:

1. Ogata is incredibly determined and wandering off and just giving up on the hunt is not an option for him. Even he's lost an eye and runs nearly naked on horseback into the Russian winter, he will find his way back to them.

2. They still have no idea what he wants. What he's after. And they never actually find out.

3. He's incredibly determined the to survive. After being shot with the arrow he uses the sword to dig the arrowhead out of his own liver to save himself.

4. And then he starts to scream at nothing on the train while Asirpa, Sugimoto and Shiraishi watch on in confusion.

And while they can't hear his internal monologue, they can hear what he's physically saying, like all of this:

It's about killing someone, his mom's funeral and guilt etc. He's also very clearly having some sort of conversation. And then he turns the gun on himself.

Like this must be incredibly confusing for all the people watching. There wasn't any time to reflect on it, but after the whole thing was over, I wonder what they thought about it.

Why did he participate in this whole gold hunt for over a year, and go as far as to show up on the train, only to kill himself. They've always known him as a rational guy that is smart, good at strategy, resilient and persistent and....What the hell happened here?

Like obviously, to the reader, his actions make perfect sense. But to these characters, I wonder the confusion of this leaves a lasting impression on them..... all of these things he went through, only to kill himself, and they still have no idea what he was even after in the first place.

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i think ogata might be a snork in moomins ?? snorks can change colour according to them mood i guess it will help him make friends.......

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Please tell me what are your thoughts about Vera and Franz bonaparta relationship

Keep thinking about Vera who was introduced to us as how Franz saw her a miserable helpless beauty though his paintings about "her* but then we find out how different Vera is from Franz's Vera she was very smart,angry and furious at Franz to the point she wished her children to hate him and kill him.

This could be a reach but is it me or Franz draws Vera with a smaller nose?hmmm

Thank you, Nonnie, I’ve been starving!

This is a topic I have many, many thoughts on. It also started the whole Monita thing because my Lolita radar goes out of the charts every time I think about it. Let’s climb on the tip of the iceberg!  

Before I start, let me share a Martin Amis quote as it’s important for this post: 

Nabokov, in all his fiction, writes with incomparable penetration about delusion and coercion, about cruelty and lies. Even Lolita, especially Lolita, is a study in tyranny.

CW: CSA, kidnapping, imprisonment, misogyny

Appearance

I don’t think the nose remark is a reach at all; it’s a part of Bonaparta’s turning Věra into a piece of art. 

He changes her expression: a fierce and angry Věra turns into the mild, submissive and motherly figure holding a bouquet in her hands. Her features are also modified accordingly; we don’t like diverse nose shapes in our art, everything should be unified.

(On a side note: this is also why I think the twins have small noses—it’s a consequence of Bonaparta manipulating reality through his fiction. He wanted to create the picture-perfect twins after all.) 

Humbert Humbert does a very similar thing: he takes the ordinary little girl Lo and turns her into his fantasy girl. 

Her adorable profile, parted lips, warm hair were some three inches from my bared eyetooth; and I felt the heat of her limbs through her rough tomboy clothes.

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What next? I proceeded to the business center of Parkington and devoted the whole afternoon (the weather had cleared, the wet town was like silver-and-glass) to buying beautiful things for Lo. Goodness, what crazy purchases were prompted by the poignant predilection Humbert had in those days for check weaves, bright cottons, frills, puffed-out short sleeves, soft pleats, snug-fitting bodices and generously full skirts! Oh Lolita, you are my girl, as Vee was Poe’s and Bea Dante’s, and what little girl would not like to whirl in a circular skirt and scanties? 

They change the appearance of their beloveds so that it fits their tastes.

Which brings us to:

Safely solipsized 

Bonaparta imprisons Věra and places his vision of her in a red rose mansion. Humbert Humbert calls Lo his princess with her bodyguard roses (while reading her class list). 

A poem, a poem, forsooth! So strange and sweet was it to discover this “Haze, Dolores” (she!) in its special bower of names, with its bodyguard of roses — a fairy princess between her two maids of honor.

The imprisonment is decorated with banalities: the roses, the princess, the castle. And it’s banal for a very good reason: both Humbert Humbert and Bonaparta don’t know anything about their beloveds. They’re too preoccupied with their visions (and these visions are influenced by external sources; maybe all they are are just poorly made copycats?) to care. 

Lolita had been safely solipsized. The implied sun pulsated in the supplied poplars; we were fantastically and divinely alone; I watched her, rosy, gold-dusted, beyond the veil of my controlled delight, unaware of it, alien to it, and the sun was on her lips, and her lips were apparently still forming the words of the Carmen-barmen ditty that no longer reached my consciousness. 

Crushed hope

Humbert Humbert and Bonaparta crush their beloveds' futures (still, both Lo and Věra fight for their freedom).

To make it more tragic, Humbert Humbert was once hope for a better childhood for Lo.

We don’t know what it looked like for Věra and Bonaparta, but I think there is a chance that there was hope once as well.

Monster is full of crushed hopes: think, for example, about Jan Suk and Filip Zeman or even about Bonaparta and Čapek. But this is something I need to think more about. And because such an important moment between Bonaparta and Vera (at least according to Tenma’s interpretation of it that is shown in the last scene of the story) is when he forces her to choose between her children, I want to read Sophie’s Choice since I’m sure I’ll find even more food for thought there!

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hugs and kisses~

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one of the hundred things I love about Andor is that in the end, all the villains were destroyed not in an epic showdown with the rebels or whoever but by the machine that they worked for. syril was a faceless casualty of the genocide he helped create. dedra was done in for putting ambition over conformity to the machine, and she took down partagaz, who essentially created her, along with her. even heert was quite literally killed by his own droid and his own men. all of them were crushed by the wheel they dedicated their lives to keep turning. it's just so deeply deeply satisfying.

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Hello! I have a question that I have if you would not mind answering. What do you think about Johan mixing up his memories with Anna/Nina? What’s that intentional or not. I am on both sides. And was Anna/Nina the unwanted one?

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I think Johan mixing up his memories with Nina was an accident. It stems from Johan's very frail sense of self coupled with Kinderheim 511 experiments imo. There Johan was experimented on and in the recording he was scared of losing his memories of Anna/Nina. It is probable those experiments ended up messing up his memories. Either those or the bullet he received from Nina, as once he grows up Johan does not remember his past. As a matter of fact he starts his journey to recover his lost memories once he finds the picture book. That awakens something in him and after that, he is shown traveling around masked as Nina, up until he reaches the Red Rose Mansion and tells his mother's potrait he now remembers everything. Except he is now convinced he is the one going through the Red Rose Mansion ordeal.

Personally, I think it was Kinderheim 511, where Johan ends up mixing up his memories. After all, he is desperate not to forget his sister there and the Kinderheim 511 massacre is the first massacre Johan orchestrates, which resembles the Red Rose Mansion one. Before that Johan had killed parental figures, in an act of revenge and hurt, after his mother's perceived betrayal at handing Nina over.

As far as Nina being the unwanted one or not... it is really not important tbh because the point is that the twins' mother was simply in no position to properly love her children. She wanted to, as she was willing to give them names. However, she was forbidden and after that she raised her twins in an act of revenge and defiance, rather than love. Case in point, she told them they would have avanged their father, did not give them names even after escaping and eventually left them behind. Johan's sense of identity when the "choice" happens is already so frail that he is unsure his mother truly can tell him apart from his sister. So, the point isn't that Vera did prefer Johan or Nina more... but rather that she was in such a deteriorated state of mind that she could not be a good mother.

This is just my opinion, though. In general Monster leaves many details up to interpretation and it is a very ambiguous story, so everyone can come up with their own interpretations.

Thank you for the ask!

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It's wild (and by wild I mean super interesting) how the adeptus astartes have this almost parasocial relationship with the Emperor (that their indotronation/ the Imperium as a whole drives forward).

Sure, parasocial is not the best term as it suggests a level of informality which does not exist between the two sides/ doesn't fully cover the reality of their feelings for him, but I feel its the best for what I can come up with cause:

*Spoilers for 1st Horus Heresy Book below*

What do you mean you all cried when the Emperor said he was stepping down to head back to Terra, that you were loosing his "personal leadership"?

And then to tell your personal remembrancer that she can't wouldn't be able to understand cause she's mortal (could write an essay on how the normalization of that word exemplifies the dehumanization of the civilians and space marines in different ways).

Like sir, It may be because one of your has drank the Kool-aid and another hasn't.

(I'm not mad; I love how this book shows the indoctrination present in the space marines minds and how that reflects when they talk to regular people or about xenos (the murder planet dialogue is great for this). It's also great at showing at how much of a moral sham the Imperium is and how its claims of colonizations are just gilded words (the "our truth" speech by sindermann) if you read between the lines enough.

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repentance

forgiveness

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Have you ever heard someone bullshitting so hard you had to wake up from your prolonged coma to call a bitch out

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Hello! Do you think Johan would get jealous easily when it would come to his s/o? for example if some other man was talking to his s/o and/or flirting with them. If you think he would get jealous, how would he deal with the jealousy?

Thank you in advance and have a nice day/night!

I was gonna ask if yandere Johan or regular Johan but honestly they're both so sickly obsessed over you so nvm AHHHAHAH

Hmm. I think he'd be so good at rationalizing thoughts and circumstances so he wouldn't be too possessive. In a way, he's unfazed that people stare at you because he knows it's human nature to look at beautiful things. That's how it is.

He also believes that he feels secure with s/o. He loves intensely. More so than anyone. You've seen the stuff he's done for his sister, so you should definitely expect that same intensity. He knows, that you know, that both of you are devoted to each other. You're his and he is yours. Simple as that.

So why does the sight of seeing other people talk and flirt with you make a slight, barely present, unease start to form in his chest? Why does he keep his gaze on you despite knowing you won't truly leave him behind?

And he of course wonders. Why is it that, the person talking to you, isn't going away yet?

Have you perhaps not told them already? Told them that you're clearly not interested? That you are already taken, by him, your dear friend and lover, your confidante, your partner,— your Johan?

Do you need him to step in now, darling? What other reason do they need to still speak with you?

...Do you enjoy talking to them?

You can always talk to him, you know. He can be your conversation partner anytime you like and you should already know that. In actuality, he should be the first person you should always turn to if you need to share your thoughts.

You don't really need to find other people for that, do you? He can be anything you want him to be. He can be anyone at all, talk about anything and everything you want. You don't need to speak with anyone but him. So why? Why are you still talking with them? Why do you need to talk to them? Don't you you just need him? Wh—

—Oh.

He may actually be feeling... jealousy.

Ah.

.... How interesting.

A small smile tugs on his lips. That's certainly... quite a development. Another human emotion he has long since buried, beneath the layers of mental survival, emerging at last it seems. And all because of you, his dear. You did this. You... truly are quite something, you know that?

He walks over to you and gives you a kiss on the cheek.

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Conclave (2024) x text posts I found on pinterest [pt 2]

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