I'm so glad I've found an artist who loves and draws ShinGou and also read "Turnabout Ennemies" (happy sounds) One of my favourite part with this two was when they took cover during Blaise's breakdown - I laughed so hard imagining their faces! XD
Welcome welcome!! Yes I love weird old man ships, they are incredibly important to me-- and "Turnabout Enemies" was indeed a ton of fun!!
Silly old men fight to keep Miles safe; a segment from that very serious saga
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Like everyone else I am rightfully obsessed with Shauna and Jackie's shared wardrobe, but can we talk for a second also about the very specific jealousy sharing clothes comes with? This experience might not be as universal as I think it is, but: The babyish instinct to want to grab it back and say "mine!" and all the self-conscious thoughts of it looks better on her than it looks on me. Feeling protective over your clothes ("I don't want her to borrow it, she'll mess it up!"), or feeling resentment when your clothes get compliments while someone else is wearing them (the instinct then to laugh awkwardly and deny credit, "thanks! it's actually hers.") And even larger scale! That strange push for competition when two girls show up wearing the same outfit. Who wore it better?
All this to say buried under the love stored in wearing the butterfly tops and sharing the flannels and saving the virginity dress there is also that distinctly meaner and pettier voice of a ghost in Shauna's ear saying "did you ask if you could borrow that?" saying "you're going to ruin it." saying "it looked better on me." saying "hey! that's mine!"
The brief and amazing moment in the pilot when Jackie is suggesting outfits to Shauna speaks to this too. Shauna's frustration at finding anything of her own that's suitable. Wear the red dress I gave you! It's such a sincere suggestion. But it's Jackie's old dress. It's Jackie's suggestion. Shauna knows when she puts it on the cruel voice in her head that sounds a lot like Jackie will remind her all night that it isn't really her dress, and Jackie wore it better anyway, and every compliment she gets will be politely redirected to Jackie. "Thanks. It was hers." (This sentiment echoes into infinity).
Then we have Jackie's funeral, and the ferocity with which Shauna insists Jackie keep her clothes. Sure, for the humanity and the dignity of it. But just as much, how could she bear to see Natalie or Akilah or Mari or Misty or anyone else walk around in Jackie's shoes? She didn't want to borrow Jackie's clothes. (I kind of doubt she wanted Jackie to borrow hers either). Nor did she want Jackie's whole hand-me-down life. But fuck if she was going to donate it to Goodwill for just anyone to take, and it wasn't like she was satisfied with her own.
I think of this The Haunting of Hill House post via @2008hondacivic and of Twin Peaks' Laura Palmer yelling "Don't ever wear my clothes!" at Donna. Don't ever become me! But also, there is so little left of me, and That's Mine! Give it back! I'm sure they wish they could.
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on the topic of pearl alliances. you would think that nosey neighbors, what with it being a team up of the two people in this series with the worst abandonment issues (in my opinion), would help them. yknow. fix those abandonment issues. and it sure didn’t do that huh.
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choices - batman: haunted knight
[ID: a black and white panel of Bruce Wayne talking to Alfred Pennyworth. They're both dressed in suits and Bruce hesitantly considers, "Maybe... I don't have to work tonight..." and Alfred responds, "If the choice is between parading about the city in your Long John's or getting a good night rest-". The second photo is a blue thought box. Bruce thinks, "I don't have a choice... Crime never sleeps." The third photo is black and white again and has Bruce's silhouette in the open doorway that leads to the Batcave. The light behind Bruce is pure white and it looks like Bruce has a robe on. Alfred is in an overlaying panel and looks at him with disapproval. He sarcastically comments, "Oh, good show, Sir. For a moment, I was afraid you'd have a rational thought." END ID]
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did the house of grief with dark justiciar shadowheart (parenticide edition) and it fucking SUCKED 👍
LIKE IT WAS GOOD WRITING WISE I JUST. Wow it is gutting. Very good voice acting. I want to sit alone at the bottom of a pool for sixty-five years though.
(i accidentally really really rambled hard in the tags uhm. it is what it is)
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okay so i was thinking about ahuru, as one does, and i was thinking about how much i don't want her death to just. be keika's backstory, yknow??
like i don't want to reduce her to just the main characters motivation, which is why i try to give her so much life in any scene she's in. but i think i wanna like- so, ahuru's death literally shapes nobodies hero, right? there'd be no story to tell if she hadn't been killed. and that's kind of a Big Deal to me.
so i think i'm going to symbolise the fuck out of birds. foreshadowing or whatever.
like when keika first meets mattie- he's in priah and he still doesn't have his memories back. he decides to go for a walk, just wandering through the mushrooms and the woods and then all of a sudden a game bird gets shot with an arow right in front of him. and when he looks up, he sees mattie with a bow and arrow, and that's how they meet.
and then in the next book it's revealed that Mattie is, technically, responsible for ahuru's death. it wasn't personal, in the same way hunting that bird wasn't personal, it was just...self preservation. they just shot an arrow and watched it land.
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