#and maybe it's 'the worst version of themselves' but maybe it's also a release - a relief you just can't get from talking
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Voyager should have had an episode where the command trio beat the absolute hell out of each other while blaming each other for being stuck in the delta quadrant as the fever pitch of a rising tension that was building throughout the episode.
Like, they're absolutely being pushed to do it by some outside force. Maybe it's a telepathic being - maybe it's that they're stuck in some arena or an alien court or a time loop only the three of them are aware of - no matter the specifics, the sentiment behind their words has to be true and it has to be something they've been keeping back for months, maybe years. That fear and hatred and blame that doesn't really have an actual target because it's not actually rational but 'who's to blame' doesn't have to be capital T true to feel true. If Chakotay hadn't been in the badlands, If Janeway hadn't made that choice, If Tuvok hadn't supported it...
"You trapped us here. It's your fault. If you hadn't-! If you hadn't-! If you hadn't-!" are just echoes of "I trapped us here. It's my fault. If I hadn't-! If I hadn't-! If I hadn't-!" Because at the end of the day more than being angry or hateful they're despairing in their own ways.
Episode probably has a somber end - they beat whatever it was and it's a victory! They won by working together even after they beat each other half to death! But after the celebration we see them alone in their quarters...silent. Gazing out at the stars, into a candle's flame, at that same family picture before turning away. Because even though they won they're still there in the delta quadrant. Is that really victory?
#fake star trek voyager episodes my beloved#the thought of a time loop wherein the three of them are at times aware of the loop and at times aren't but it's ONLY the three of them is#a separate but interesting thought I had while writing this...#of course the looped time would be 'Caretaker'#st voy#star trek voyager#Chakotay/Janeway/Tuvok#Chakotay#Kathryn Janeway#Tuvok#and yes I think people undervalue the fact that Tuvok agreed with Janeway when she made that decision in 'caretaker' too much#idk enough about the chakotay buzz to know whether or not they also do this with how Chakotay also co-signs the decision once it's made#instead of fighting back against it which he very much COULD have done#I just think the complicated 3 way uneven guilt is more interesting than 'Janeway did it it was 100% her alone'#I love seeing characters devolve...even a starfleet captain and a vulcan can be driven to wrestling in the mud they think they're so above#and maybe it's 'the worst version of themselves' but maybe it's also a release - a relief you just can't get from talking
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ramu !! what do you think about cocky bastards getting caught being treated like total mutts? Just imagine their humiliated faces.. 😮💨
(nsfw) HUMILATE HIM :: xfemdom!Reader
yes yes and more yes?! also I'm so sorry for being absent then I got sick so excuse me while I just go off on humiliating pretty men for their pervy behaviors ♡ - requests open
cw: fem!Reader, dom!Reader, bully!Reader, humiliation kink, degradation, blackmail, cock slapping, collaring, pet play, cross dressing, etc, unedited
word count: sloppy headcanons
character(s): Michael Kaiser, Chigiri Hyoma, Alexis Ness
CATCH HIM STEALING YOUR THINGS :: like a god damn maniac he's caught red handed stealing your workout clothing because you're the only woman who won't say yes to him! - No one says no to the star yet your rejection drives him crazy. And not subtle Kaiser gets caught sniffing your gym clothes like a junkie getting a fix. If he wants dirty clothes so bad, why not just get it from the source? Sit on his face and rub your cunt on him. Pull his hair and tell him if you aren't satisfied with how his tongue cleans your panties then it's straight to team officials about their little nympho freak breaking the rules. Humiliate him and remind him you don't even want him but mutts need to be punished if they're going to scrounge around like this. Pretty boy face smeared with your juices and dreamy blue eyes reduced to nothing but hazy versions of themselves because he's drunk on your pungent scent. Kaiser can't deny maybe being caught red handed by you isn't the worst thing that could happen. Not if you keep making him suck on your panties and bring him to his knees.
CATCH HIM WEARING HIS SISTER'S CLOTHES :: like a little perv who gets off being called a girl so you have no choice but to show him off like one! - No you can't leave it alone when you find him modeling himself in his sister's clothes. Cross dressing is one thing, but wearing his sister's clothes on top of it? Chigiri was bound to be discovered eventually! Lucky it was just you though. He can keep his dirty little secret as long as you get to play with your new dress up doll. But why stop at every day clothing? Have him trying on riskier and riskier clothes! Lingerie in every style! Smoosh his soft cock in the silkiest laciest panties you can find. Coo at him and make fun of him when his flat little chest looks so good in that babydoll. Call him names and twirl his hair on your finger when you're talking down to him. Because after all he is just a dirty little perv previously hidden away in his room trying on his sister's clothes.
CATCH HIM IN A COMPROMISING POSITION :: at the end of practice when everyone else is gone and he's sweetness is for nothing when his hands are down his shorts! - If he's going to act like an untrained mutt in public then what choice do you have? It's not your fault you walked in on the German teams sweetheart jerking himself off feverishly on one of the benches. Legs spread like he wanted someone to walk in on him. He'll deny it and fight it! But you can't have untrained team members wanking themselves whenever and where ever they want. That's what they make collars for of course! A collar around his neck won't do as much good as a collar on his cock. Cage him and hold the key close to your heart. Let Ness unravel like a pent up little whore until he's begging you to give him some release. Promising to mind his manners isn't enough. Training him to only get off to you though, that's a much much better idea. Your scent or your voice or the disgraceful act of cumming from simply rubbing his cock against your foot. Make sure Ness needs you and only you to cum. Then a well trained mutt can earn his freedom from a collar.
#bllk smut#bllk x reader#blue lock smut#blue lock x reader#chigiri hyoma smut#chigiri hyoma x reader#michael kaiser smut#michael kaiser x reader#ness alexis smut#ness alexis x reader#hyoma chigiri x reader#hyoma chigiri smut#kaiser michael smut#kaiser michael x reader#alexis ness smut#alexis ness x reader
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im sorta new to how the tumblr ecosystem works but seeing how very different the crowds here on the other side that isnt dt is very interesting? to say the least, i lurked a bit on the other side trying to understand their celebration compared to ours in terms of the unfollowing but the majority over there thinks it was result of the elephant & also the fact that every cc that unfollowed him collectively watched the vod & decided to just drop him until now. Coupled with the fact theyre a lot more cruel (at least a tier lower than twt cruel) but they dont really consider the WHOLE build-up to today. idk im trying to rationalize why they completely refuse to see dream has never negatively put tmy in any light until finally confirming it recently but still act like tmy is more the victim in this case instead of seeing it as mutual understanding that they no longer want to be friends as of now. like seeing a few of them say "oh no it looks like tmy hurt his fee fees :(" when he expressed like even a level of hurt to what tmy did, is like do you hear what youre saying? dream never released a video that had several jokes at his expense and had it celebrated for being cruel and brash. like im not crazy saying it looks a little dehumanizing no? at least here (dtblr) theres more rationalization than just assuming the worst critically
they have never seen Dream as a human being in fact they've for years been head canoning that maybe Tommy is the one with adhd and maybe Tubbo is autistic cause we sure can't call Dream that. It's just delulu. You'll come to understand soon enough that these people have worked themself into what we've coined Dream Psychosis where they have a version of some guy in their head they painted on Dream and he's their outlet for everything they hate about the world and themselves. It's while you'll see Wilbur stans tell you Dream invented racism but it's actually not their place to speak on why Wilbur built a mock Auschwitz in a game or wrote a song lyric about not dating black guys
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I recently found a pdf of an alleged Blood Meridian movie script written by a guy named William Monahan for Ridley Scott's attempt to make the movie, and let me tell ya, it is truly something else. At first, I refused to believe that it could be real because of some atrocious dialogue and truly baffling changes from the novel. I thought that it MUST have either been written as a prank or it was an amateur trying to pass it off as real, but on Twitter I talked to the guy who leaked the script online in the first place and now I'm more inclined to think that, unfortunately, it was legitimate.
Below are screenshots of some of the worst parts. You'll notice that a lot of the text is in red, but I think it must have been somebody on the Cormac McCarthy forums, where this comes from, highlighting some of the differences from the book, but this was the only pdf I could find so whatever. I also put in a few handwritten notes to express my frustration haha.
If you want to look at the full thing yourself, you can find it here, but I should warn you in advance that on top of the usual Blood Meridian type of violence that you would expect, the screenwriter also put in a sprinkle of random homophobia and underage sex which was NOT in the book and I will be showing those screenshots last with another warning so you know where they are in the script and can avoid it if you want to.
Okay, this part gave me a chuckle. Maybe it's not the best time for a joke from the Judge, though:
These next two come from the ending, which, if you were already aware of this script's existence, you probably heard about because it's the most infamous part. For those who don't know, the screenwriter decides to put in a bizarrely happy ending where the Kid slays the Judge in the jakes and adopts Randall, the brother of the boy that the Kid killed in self-defense (and there's no significant time skip in this version, so the Kid is in his late teens at most probably):
This random fucking nugget of homophobia is on page 32 of the script. I have no idea what this was in here for since it never comes up again and the script leaves out most of the children going missing or being found dead along the way:
And here's the Kid having sex because the screenwriter in their infinite wisdom decided that was missing from the Blood Meridian experience, it's on page 70:
So yeah, good thing this particular adaptation never got made. I just picked the screenshots that were the most obviously awful, but the biggest problems with the script are a very rushed opening act that compresses a bunch of story elements and character introductions to the point of confusion plus the cringy saccharine happy ending that was part of the reason why I thought the script was a joke at first. When the script adheres closer to the book, mostly in the middle, it's not the worst thing in the world. It has a few clever bits of streamlining the book and most of the characters sound like themselves, though the biggest problem there is that the Judge feels like a different character.
Someday I hope to read other scripts trying to adapt the movie from Steve Tesich, James Franco, and Tommy Lee Jones to see how each of them tackled the book, though to my knowledge none are publicly available online, but do let me know they are somewhere and you can lead me to it. This particular effort has set the bar very low.
Most of all I want to know if Cormac McCarthy wrote a complete draft of his attempt before he died. If this latest attempt to make the movie falls through, I hope that the script, if it exists, is released to the public so we can see what would certainly be one of the last things he wrote.
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"It baffles me that people genuinely like Midnights."
Anon, here's the truth: they don't. I remember very well what happened when the Lover album came out. I listened to the whole thing a couple of days after it appeared on YouTube and told myself "yikes, not even her fans are going to say this is better than any of her previous ones, let's go back online to see what they're saying" because I just KNEW it was not what they were expecting nor what they wanted. You can imagine my own shock when I found out her fans were praising it as it was here best album to date. It's not that I didn't like it so I thought no one else should have, it's that I've been an active member of The Cult™ for years in the past and I just know how this fandom thinks and is to the core. Lover is NOT the kind of album her fans want and I was naive enough to think that at least some people would've admit that the album was mediocre at best but nope. Also listened again to the songs they were praising the most (The Archer, The Man, Cornelia Street) thinking maybe I lost some incredible depth or extraordinary singing/melody on my first listening but no, still mediocre and dumb.
Flash forward to about six months/less than a year and, SURPRISE SURPRISE, Lover is 90% of them least favorite album. Not only it is one of the least appreciated, some of them genuinely admit they HATE it (and anyone who knows her fandom knows how unusual it is that they would dare to publicly say anything against the quality of something she made) and I had the biggest laugh of my life because it was just plain obvious to me that the album was a huge let down considering it was her first after reputation and her fans were just fooling themselves.
Same goes for Midnights, I had the exact same thought about it and I expect it to have a similar fate in about a year or two because, as we say here, I know my chickens. Swifties are just overwhelmed by finally getting original content after all the re-releasing and entered in a shocked state when they realized said new content sucks. When the leaks of Midnights came out a couple of days before it got officially released the fans who listened to it all said how bad it was but they all suddenly changed their mind as soon as they realized that The Cult™ was in denial about this version of reality even before the album came out, so all of a sudden the album "grew on them" and they mitigated their opinions about it so that they could all agree that it was a masterpiece. But the first reaction was disappointment and shame and that all will come back as soon as more of them will admit it publicly. They only admit something she made was mediocre when a rightful amount of them already says the same, and if they found the guts to do it with Lover the same will happen for Midnights.
All this to say, I'm 100% convinced they don't genuinely like it at all and they're just in a Lover-like denial fase. The first reaction is always the most genuine reaction, and the first reaction was that whoever listened to it (and it was hardcore fans not random people) thought it was her worst album ever. They will go back to that as soon as they can, trust me. And that day it will all make sense again for the rest of us who are not hypnotized by her white thin blonde girl-next-door mediocrity.
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Richard and Mimi Fariña - WTBS-FM, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 1965
Amidst the ancient folk songs that Fairport Convention played at Royal Festival Hall in September of 1969, there was an outlier — Sandy Denny's stark version of "The Quiet Joys Of Brotherhood," which set a Richard Fariña poem to the tune of "My Lagan Love." The band would record (and discard) a great version of it for Liege & Lief and Sandy would return to it on her Sandy LP in 1972. Richard and Mimi were big influences on Fairport — they also tackled "Reno, Nevada," and Richard Thompson would later recall a late 1960s encounter Fariña's dulcimer — "a holy object."
So! Let's check out a nice rarity from Richard & Mimi themselves — this excellent radio broadcast from the early folk rock daze. Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home had just been released, and the duo are already referencing "Maggie's Farm" here, as they run through some of their best tunes (and one of their worst — "A Chastity Belt" has always struck me as insufferably lame).
The DJ is Ed Freeman who would later go onto fame (infamy, maybe?) as the producer/arranger of "American Pie," and, interestingly, the electric guitarist is Barry Tashian of Barry & the Remains, of "Don't Look Back" fame. A lot of cool confluences, which is kinda what Richard Fariña was all about before his untimely death in 1966 ... after all, who else could provide a direct connection between Dylan and Thomas Pynchon?
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Fixing Fontaine
as a continuation of my Fontaine review, I'd like to suggest my personal fixes for the biggest fuck-ups in Fontaine
1) Catacombs and Wrio
at worst, the Fortress should have been treated the same way prison is treated in the other nations-- that is, it exists, but we're not gonna dig into it.
but I get why Hoyo was so interested in prison for the nation of "Justice" so Fontaine's narrative could still involve the prison system. but obviously it should be a critique of the prison system, and the idea of "justice" used as a punitive measure rather than a way to seek fairness and equality in society. and in that case, not much time should be spent in the prison bc it's, y'know, fucking awful, and players would hate it there, once the forcefully-positive veneer is pulled off of it.
so here's my suggestion for an alternate setting for the 4.1 archon quest: Catacombs!
it feels so obvious to me, the catacombs are a rly unique, well-know bit of French culture, why not throw them into Fontaine? it could even be an extension of the steampunk theme going on in other underground areas, like Poisson, but it gets even darker and more morbid the further down you go. hell, this could be the setting related to the Primordial Sea-- instead of exiles creating their own "prison", they create their own networks of tunnels to survive in, and eventually discover a connection to the Primordial Sea. maybe religions and cults have grown around this discovery, idk
and here we could meet a sort of underground/criminal culture, with gangs and factions of various sorts. I could very easily picture meeting Wriothesley as one of the gang leaders-- intimidating and clearly deadly. but then as we learn more abt him, it turns out he really doesn't consider himself the head honcho, and kinda just does his own thing. many ppl in the catacombs have just gathered behind him cus' he's so tough and capable. he kind of hates the attention, but he can't rly do anything abt it, so he might as well use them as he needs.
in either case, Wrio and the ppl who follow him run an underground network of safe havens and services, protecting accused persons from Gardes, smuggling goods/services into/out of the prison, and hoarding prisoner assets until their release. they rarely try to break inmates out of prison due to the high stakes, but have attempted it a few times-- in particular, Wrio and co. try to help Traveler break in to find Childe, only to find he's missing (they don't know he's missing beforehand, in this version).
Wrio also runs an underground fight club for funsies <3
perhaps Wrio and co. even have dealings with the Spina di Rosula? I can picture Spina as one of the more "respectable" gangs, according to above-ground Fontaine-- they work through the courts, after all! Spina straddles the line between the above and underground just enough that they don't find themselves at odds with the Gardes. but if they help with Wrio's services of prison smuggling and inmate protection, then no one needs to know that~ Wrio doesn't mind serving as the scapegoat for the more criminal activities the Spina may find themselves helping with-- above-ground has already painted him as the bad guy, so he'll just play the part
thus, Wrio is no longer a pawn of the state, but a much more respectable leader imo. he sees himself providing the protection and services he was denied in his hour of need as a youth-- if the state won't protect you, Wrio will. I wouldn't even mind him being a smug bastard in this situation, I'd LOVE to see this Wrio giving Gardes lip
2) Furina
instead of bulldozing over her trauma and forcing her to act again, Furina's story quest SHOULD have focused on self-acceptance and self-confidence.
namely, I think Furina should have been re-introduced to the world. all that Furina really knows of the world is acting-- acting for social niceties, acting as an art, and acting for survival. it's a very narrow world view, and it's tragic to think that she knows so little else of the big wide world.
Traveler picks up on this, and being rather worldly, thinks they know exactly what to do. in this version, Traveler is written to be far more understanding of Furina's situation-- no more mocking her house or depression meals. but that doesn't mean Traveler may not approach this situation a bit too... eagerly
I'm picturing Traveler pulling Furina out of the house, insisting that she needs to see more of the world (or at least, more of Fontiane) than she's been able to see from the limited scope of the stage. bundling Furina in disguises so she's not recognized, Traveler takes her to experience more remote areas-- fishing at the beach, painting up in the mountains, etc.
and throughout this journey, as they pass by the city or Palais Mermonia, they keep running into Neuvillette. he and Furina keep acting awkward around one another, though it's unclear to Traveler why.
and Traveler's trying so hard to show Furina the world, that they don't notice that Furina's getting a bit overwhelmed with everything, and she's trying to tell them to slow down. Furina gets fed up, and runs off back home, and Traveler thinks they failed.
Traveler walks the streets of the city for a bit, trying to think of how to approach Furina, when they bump into Neuvillette again. after discussing the situation, Neuvillette makes a suggestion-- one that Traveler readily agrees to, pulling Neuvillette along. he and Traveler grab the supplies they need-- with perhaps a few pointers from Navia, at Traveler's suggestion-- and return to Furina's house.
Furina opens her door to Traveler and Neuvillette holding a precarious stack of cooking/backing items, and Traveler begging for them to be let in. Furina begrudgingly allows it, her "haughty" mask back in place as she demands to know why they're bothering her at her home.
Traveler says they have just one more activity planned, if Furina is willing. having learned their lesson, Traveler merely waves their hand at the baking supplies, waiting for Furina's response. Furina, a little dazed, picks through the supplies and asks, "Just... baking?"
"Just baking," Traveler replies, Neuvillette nodding along.
"Ok... if it's just baking," and Furina's quiet voice shifts to one of confident bravado, "Then I'd be happy to teach you two a thing or two about the fine art of pastries! Hand me a mixing bowl!"
it turns out, eating pastries for 500 years is not quite the same as baking pastries for 500 years. Furina and Neuvillette both end up fumbling several steps, covering themselves in flour and sugar, and Traveler has to come to the rescue with their advanced cooking skills.
it's only once they're all finally enjoying their pastries-- some a little more wonky than others-- that they all begin to really talk.
Traveler apologizes for overwhelming Furina-- they just wanted Furina to know that the world is so much bigger than she's been allowed to see. but as a traveler, they're used to seeing many people and places in a day, and forgot that not everyone is made for that.
Furina playfully turns her nose up at Traveler, "I suppose I can find it in my divine heart to forgive you. After all, I am a kind and just Arc-- or. Person, now. I am a kind and just person."
"That you are," Neuvillette agrees.
Neuvillette apologizes for not checking in on Furina more, and explains his own fears of not understanding her. he's not human, after all, and still doesn't believe he fully understands human emotions. and after all this time, does he even really know Furina? does he deserve to even call her a friend, when he couldn't see the pain she was in, and judged her seemingly "childish" character so harshly?
Furina reaches for Neuvillette's hands as the sky darkens with rain outside the window, gripping them with a strength she hasn't shown in many days, "Neuvillete, you couldn't have known-- I didn't want you to know. That was the whole point, it all would have failed if I had slipped up even once."
"But perhaps, if I had thought to ask--"
"I would have lied. And nothing would have changed."
Neuvillette shakes his head-- he has no response to that.
Furina giggles a little hysterically, "And all this time, I thought you hated me!"
"Hated you?" Neuvillette looks stunned
"All I've ever done is annoy you-- don't deny it, it's true. And now I have the face of the Archon who... who forced you to watch her demise. What have I even done for Fontaine, really? All I did was sit there and cry. Surely, I'm only a reminder of terrible moments--"
Neuvillette stands abruptly, gripping Furina by the shoulders and looking straight into her eyes, "Lady Furina, you are nothing short of a hero. You sacrificed every moment of your time and happiness for a people you barely knew at the start, and have only grown to love them, even in your most painful moments. Your will and courage is beyond comparison, and I only hope to serve as half the Sovereign that you served as Archon to this nation."
Furina's eyes fill with tears as she throws her arms around Neuvillette's shoulders, laughing with relief, "S-stop calling me 'Lady'! I'm just Furina now. Only Furina."
Neuvillette stands stunned for a moment (has he ever hugged anyone before?), before returning the embrace, "As you wish, Furina. Just know that in my heart, you will always be this nation's Lady."
Traveler thinks to themself that perhaps the Furina and Neuvillette understand each other better than they realize.
and it is in this moment, where Furina's wants and needs come first, where her closest friends have provided her a safe place to release her worries, where she has finally made something for herself with her own hands--
that her Vision flashes into existence, twinkling with inner light. Furina reaches for it with wonder, wondering what she's even done to deserve it.
but Neuvillette and Traveler know, and now they have all the time in the world to convince Furina why.
3) Nicer Traveler
I think the above section covers Furina's treatment, but just, make Traveler (+ Paimon) be nicer to Lyney and Lynette? it's not even that hard of a fix, just stop giving Traveler weird double-standards towards different Fatui. Traveler is literally friends with Childe "war crimes" Tartaglia, c'mon
4) Melusines
the Melusines in my head are Actual Slugs and are treated like a genuinely different species who are also people instead of infantilized toddlers. that's it
#sorry parts of this accidentally turned into fix-it fic#shut up ashley#genshin impact#fontaine genshin
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I’m unaware of what exactly happened with crackstone in this au, but let’s assume Tyler survived the incident. I imagine that during the spider Enid au, reports of a hulking creature gets Enid’s attention. At first she’s all, “ooh boy, another big one, hopefully I won’t be as bruised after this.” To her surprise, unlike the other animal themed villains, this one looks like it’s covered with sticky ink, and has a giant, sharpened white spider on its chest. After the fight comes to a draw and this thing escapes, Enid senses something familiar about it. It also seemed weirdly jealous and angry at her. So, her initial guess is Tyler (idk how paranormal this au is, so he’s either a literal or metaphorical monster in the past) and she tries to prove it but can’t find any legit evidence.
Anyways, more plot stuff passes, the creature calls itself Venom, more Wenclair stuff, then we get to the reveal. Enid is sure Venom is Tyler, and at this point, with the help of Bianca, they’ve figured out it’s weak to certain noises. They get the symbiote off, and it’s…Xavier? (You mentioned his feeling weren’t reciprocated, and while maybe for the most part he accepted it, the symbiote brought out his worst qualities). Jealous tortured artist venom, hates spider Enid because he knows about Wenclair (even if they may not realize it themselves at this point). Idk what happens after that.
Most people like the symbiote becoming venom after it was once spider-man’s black suit, creating emo spider-man, but I’m kinda over those storylines, don’t need emo Enid, Wednesday would probably step in the second she started acting differently. I like the mystery on venom’s identity. One could say swapping out venom with green goblin would also work, but I figured that would actually be Tyler. Plus, the juxtaposition of what Xavier looks like and what venom’s looks like works better in my head. Plus, the inky type texture of venom vibes with the fact that Xavier draws and paints (also, the spider symbol can both be a bastardization of Enid’s symbol, and a reference to when he and Wednesday first met, she squashed his spider drawing).
Oof, that was a lot. I rambled for a bit my bad, the release date for the sequel game came out today so it’s on my mind. I may have more ideas but maybe later (I did have a passing thought that some version of Morbius exists in this au, and Yoko hates them because morbius is a bad excuse for a vampire wannabe)
Xavier with venom? Hm, I can see it but id need a reason as to why he'd go after spider Enid bc I'm keeping the secret identity a secret
Also bc if he knew abt Wenclair what's stopping him from attacking them at school
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✿ ━━━━ songs from a bedroom : ep .
a chill they couldn't place and burning lungs like she'd ran a marathon that never happened haunted them from the moment they stepped off the plane. the amount of layers and numbers of deep breaths she took did nothing to quell the all consuming ailments. as days turned into weeks they wondered if it would always be like this. if her body was rejecting the change as much as a part of their heart did. there were too many eyes on them then. she couldn't turn back if they wanted to ( on nights where not even a brown leather jacket brought her comfort, oh did they w a n t to ). they owed it to their parents. to her sister who put her life on pause to help luna push theirs forward. they owed it to themselves. she wouldn't turn back.
but they couldn't ignore the ache in their chest either. their needed to be a release. so they picked up their guitar, sat down at a keyboard, pressed record on a camera and used the mic to support the words they always found hard to say. there was a total of eight songs written before luna felt better. they weren't healed. some days were still worst than others, but she was better. better was a start. dropped quietly with little warning. nothing more than muted videos on an instagram story alluding to something coming, but never getting details on what. but over 4 months it had become completed projected. they were ready to let it go. these are those eight songs. / ( @santainspohq )
angel / beabadoobee
it's quiet. a darkened room illuminated by candlelight and a sniffle start the video recording as luna shifts in her bed. " it's two am and i just got off the phone with my mom. " a pause. they're unsure if they would begin to cry again, but it passes. quietly, but not without taking another piece of her voice. " it wasn't anything bad, i don't know why i'm so ⸻ " they felt the silence judging them, and so begun a delicate strum of a simple melody. anyway. she was telling me how proud she is and my dad is and my abuela is and my tia too, and my tia's novio and down the list " there's something of a laugh that slips through a mixture of gratefulness and guilt. " i should be happy, i am happy. but i think i'm also scared. very scared. "
you're not as brave as you may seem
i'm scared of life
it's in my blood
so i blame myself
i blame myself
the way i spoke / beabadoobee
imposter syndrome made itself comfortable in the depth of her ribcage. it was tearing them from the inside out. days consisted of wondering if they could really become a folklorist. if they could go down a path that wasn't previously paved by their father or their mother. perhaps it was subconsciously, or maybe they were aware that it was a fantasy. but they swore she had seen him. even if it was fiction, it was enough. pressure wound so tightly around her heart lessened for a moment. it carried them through their day. through the front door of her apartment, and too their bedroom window. it helped them pick up their guitar again, sit by the rain patterned window and hit record again, but the guilt wouldn't let them speak. so they just sat strumming, humming, singing until the thought of what they'd done wouldn't let her anymore.
the sky was dark in sight
the moon was out but the sun was in your eyes
no one talked, but i did
you listened
you said you liked the way i spoke
lug / juliet ivy
acting coaches only worked for pretending to be someone else. not a better version of yourself. luna learned that the hard way. worry from family and friends, pestering questions about how they were feeling when she was trying to bury in the closet where they found themselves hitting record on a friday night trying to pretend that she wasn't home. " i don't want to talk so i don't know why i turned this on. " voice is a whisper as they peeped to the door, frightened itzel might have found them out. " maybe that's what i should write next, but it's just ten minutes of white noise. " it might not have ten minutes, and it wasn't white noise either but luna spent the weekend locked in her room working on the song focused on how much she just didn't want to speak.
i rip off the zipper off my back and hide it
so i'll never have to know what lives inside it
even though, i'm the one who packed it
i don't wanna face my decisions
even though i'm the one who did this
tired / beabadoobe
living but their life wasn't theirs; it was routine. lug was meant to release the things she couldn't say out loud but all it did was cram them into the back of their throat and make it hard to breathe. she'd take care of nymph, spend time with their spiders, attend their classes, and not much else. monotony was scary. another night in the bed she hardly left. she pressed record but the words were like gotten in their mouth so they strummed instead, letting the things that scared them most to say find their way through a melody.
you haven't felt right for days
is it the fact you never say
what comes in your mind that day?
maybe it's time to shut away
cause i've never really felt okay
soren / beabadoobee
the same night rough cut of their heart was put into tired, luna returned to the same position. eyes were red from crying and their throat was dry, but they hit record anyway. " i've been trying to record this since i got to here actually. " her voice was hoarse; hands slightly shaking. being honest with themselves quietly was a lot different than being honest with themselves out loud. " i think i knew i would start to feel better if i recorded it ⸻ if i got it off my chest and i don't think i deserve that. i don't think i should feel better after what i did but i don't know. i don't think he would want me to think that, and i think he deserves to hear this even if he doesn't hear it right away. "
if there was a place that i had to choose
or a memory that fades that i cannot lose
if there was a place that i could call home
before i'd die, you'd ought to know
it'd be in your arms tonight
bestfriend / juliet ivy
trying was made easy with one carmen hernandez. from impromtu exploring and unintentional sleep overs; luna found a new home in her faster than in the apartment she was renting. it was with her that they produce the instrumental; trying to make it as upbeat as carmen. she wanted it to feel like a ray of sunshine because that what carmen was. the lyrics came later, an excited click of the record button and a small laugh. " these are probably corniest lyrics i've ever written. " the thought turning a small laugh into a joyous cackle.
i'm not under any obligation
i just love you without hesitation
when i'm with you i don't have to fake it
fall asleep in my bed and i'll hold you cause you're my best friend
ceilings / beabadoobe
it had been weeks since the last song. the room she'd spent so much time in they knew how many wood panels lined her floor had hardly seen them. they'd began attending campus club meetings, meeting with teaching assistants, making new friends, and conversing with locals about their favorite myths. it was the first day they settled by their window with a guitar in hand. there was no record button near, but she knew they'd remember. they'd sing for themselves first, and share it later.
love me like a book that has no name
let the birds sing
let the fish swim
and appreciate the life you live
we're all eating each other / juliet ivy
" i think death is very comforting. " it was surely the start the recording. " i just mean in the sense that the universe doesn't care about us, and we're literally all going to end up in the ground one day. none of us our important so why do we need to put so much pressure on ourselves to be perfect? for what? for who? we're all going to decompose and be used to grow trees or flowers or crops and then the generation after us and the ones after that will feed on those things. we're all eating each other. who gives a shit ? i think that's the most motivational thing i could ever thing of. "
cause we're all gonna die
decompose into daffodils and dandelions
the bees will use our flowers for whatever they like
make the honey that our grandkids will put inside their morning tea
it's the thing of life
we're all eating each other
#I DONT THINKKKKKK luna would share the recorded bits with the ep BUT I STILL THOUGHT IT WAS FUN TO SEE WHAT/WHERE SHE WAS THEY INSPIRED WHAT#IDK I JUST HAVE A LOT OF LUNA THOUGHTS#THIS IS LONG FOR NO REASON#DFIJOKSDFIJSOFK#XOXOXO#smhqinspo#⸻ ✿ luna dominguez herrera ❮ creation ❯
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Best place to read the English translation of Soul Eater online? I’ve been warned that online translations are incomplete, out of order, or generally bad…
Short version before I rant:
If you're reading online, buy the Yen Press translations; if you have the money and want more accuracy and are fine not reading online and instead with a hard copy, I guess you have to buy the Square Enix "Perfect Edition" (although fuck Square for not having an ebook version); I'm not going to link to scanlations here.
Now, the long rant:
I'm not up for sharing scanlation sites and unofficial translations, even as I think they are necessary in manga distribution and discourse.
Nothing against scanlators, who do and have done important work, especially for works that never get licensed in other languages. But I tend to have more confidence in the translations coming from Square Enix working with Yen Press or other North American distributors, rather than fans who are not in communication with the original creators to make sure intended meaning is retained as closely as possible across different languages.
A scanlation gets you by in between the leak of a chapter in Japan and the official translation that comes out within a few days or at worst months; a scanlation is not a good substitute for an official translation.
(And that's not ignoring that some scanlations can get it more accurate than the official source, or that a scanlation works as an alternate translation that may bring out additional meaning that the official translation failed to.)
2. Get the Yen Press versions if you are reading online.
The best place for reading online is from the publishers themselves, such as the Yen Press translation that you can get from Yen Press as an ebook or on the Manga Up app.
(Granted, Manga Up does the stupid black censor bars: look, I rant against the shitty fanservice in Soul Eater, but blacking it out and acting like it's not there is also stupid.)
The problem is that the Yen Press translation feels outdated, not only due to the more recent translation by Square Enix (more on that in a moment), but because the Square Enix translation updates Crona's pronouns.
3. What the fuck is wrong with Square Enix?
And that leads to my rant:
I have not picked up the Square Enix "Perfect Edition." And I appreciate that they have updated art, updated translation, etc. But there is such an accessibility / price barrier there: it's probably going to be more than $300 to read the updated translation because it's only a hardcover edition, no ebook version available.
What kind of bullshit is this? I know buying the Yen Press versions as ebooks is also an investment, but at least I can have those as ebooks and not pay more than $300. With the "Perfect Edition," I now have to clear bookshelf space. I get it, it's a better print, it has the color artwork--that's all fine. But what if I don't want another physical book taking up space?
Maybe Square Enix will eventually release these in ebook format, or maybe I just haven't seen that announcement yet. But it is galling that the only way you can get the updated translation is by purchasing the hardcovers only.
Hey, Square Enix? People wouldn't be asking about online translations if you actually made the newly translated books available online and affordable (or even free temporarily on Manga Up--with the updated Crona pronouns and no stupid black bars) instead of charging an Elric limb for them. Viz may have too much of a monopoly on publishing, but they aren't charging this much. Yen Press has managed to make some simul-published chapters affordable as ebooks. Why is an updated translation of Soul Eater priced so high?
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HOW FAST TIME FLIES..‼️Ohh.. maybe I shouldn't have done all this..Yes, ahem.. heh..OK. Well, time is inexorably forcing me..I love you, nyashechki. Thank you for supporting me in any way))) You're really good guys. (Special greetings to my beloved ones: DU RIECHST SO GUT and ANOTHER BEING)💗
♡★♡★♡★♡★♡★♡★⏤★( Part:4)
Well. Do you want to get out of here? Will you consider the kidnapper stupid?! For such an opinion, your tongue will be cut off. You have to keep a low profile and be quiet. Well Why don't you calm down? Well..Let's remember, the same thing was done by the zherts in "The investigation was conducted with Leonid Kanevsky / Bunker.The modern version." The women were desperate, they decided to send themselves flowers. Using empty, transparent jars and colored markers. You don't have it. What will you do? You know, you can repeat the fate of Nikita Lytkin. But you don't have a scoop or a cellmate. Try to kill the kidnapper? No Well, do you want to get rid of fear? Maybe..Let's get rid of all the feelings. Do you want to commit suicide? Isn't that the best option? let's. forward. You open your veins, bang your head against the wall. WHY... ARE YOU... STILL..NOT DEAD?! You can't die. You are being rescued. For trying to commit suicide, your abductor threatens you:
"if you don't stop acting like that...Fuck, I'm going to make you die in agony. Every time."
...
Well. Everything is clear here. Absolutely everything. So, pull yourself together, and think about what you should do next. A TV review has been brought to you! Yes? Yes! A TV was brought to you in a cold, poorly lit basement! With wireless connection and Internet access! But..Not this one..But, the worst thing happened. The acute Stockholm syndrome has started to play in you, now you are madly in love with your kidnapper, he has also saved you from all the problems and responsibilities! How can you afford to run away from him?..Should I write to one of my friends/relatives about your location?? Turn in the one who saved you???! No.Why do this? Just enjoy it!))The kidnapper is not going to do something terrible to you, only use your young body. Well, it's not that scary!) Or it's not like that..Okay, you have your own TV now. Well, almost my own. You're flipping through a bunch of channels, it's very interesting. Here you come across the breaking/round-the-clock news of the criminal world. Unfortunately, among the photos of recently missing people, there is also your photo. It started to annoy you a lot, and you switched. But..Unfortunately, the rest of the channels would make you know that they are looking for you, and they are very waiting for you. IT'S SICKENING..‼️
★✸✦✸✦✸✦✸✦✸★☆⏤͟͟͞͞★
Well..I plan to release another 5th and 6th parts. When? I don't know yet, but I know for sure that this will happen before the end of December. Wait for the seals❤🩹❤🩹❤🩹❤🩹
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I remember when I borrowed Battle Royale from the library. It was one of the original translations I believe (with Shuya and Noriko on the front) and like, amidst all the absolute tomfuckery happening all around in that book, one thing young me found unironically funny was just. The way the book would bring Kazuo into a scene.
Spoilers for Battle Royale aiosdfmmiodfmiosdfmiosdfio
Big infodump under cut!!
OKAY SO
Sparing most of the details about the Program and all that, each of the 42 students who get released onto the abandoned island to fight to the death are each assigned a random weapon in their backpack, alongside some other necessities. It’s an insane coin toss on what you get here. You could get a little lucky and get something long-ranged — a gun, an automatic crossbow, etc... Maybe something on the blunter side like a bat or hammer. Or, you could be unlucky like one of the boys did and get something like a fork. It’s incredibly hit or miss.
So, for those not playing “the game” and have a good weapon, they’re at least somewhat reassured that if push comes to shove, as much as some really don’t want to, they’ll have something to defend themselves with.
But the thing is: for those who are playing, who are “with the Program”, so to speak, if the odds are in their favor, the others are uh. Kinda FUCKED
SO.
There are many, many aggressors in the novel who want to play the game. There are two big, famous ones as well, that many people who‘ve either read the book or watched the movie know: Mitsuko Souma, and Kazuo Kiriyama.
So my memory is fuzzy on the events of the book. I’m trying to finally give it a second read with the Remastered version; it’s been a few years and I’m still on it LMAO, and I’m sorry to say I’ve unfortunately not watched the movie yet. Currently, I’m only now finally finishing the manga, so it seems that, based on my fresh knowledge from that specific adaptation (which changes some things from the original novel), Mitsuko, while her assigned weapon is a sickle, does change her formula by snatching others weapons. There are many panels of her capping someone’s skull in and it’s infuriating to read for like, all of it, lmao.
But Kazuo? Nonono. No. He doesn’t get any farming tools as his weapon. Y’all, this dude is playing. And he was assigned a FUCKING MACHINE GUN
AND LISTEN
KAZUO DOESN’T FUCKING WAIT. IT IS ON SIGHT WITH HIM
sOooOoOo many characters die because Kazuo just happens to walk in through stage left and start blastin’. He’s a fascinating character to me because, while you have some people trying to convince others they’re not playing or to put their weapons down, while others go “ayo that’s stupid as shit kill or be killed dumb dumb” or Mitsuko pulling her expert gaslight gatekeep girlboss tricks, Kazuo’s just silent, blunt, and lethal. And once anyone who doesn’t get their ass obliterated before they can notice realizes this, they’re visibly terrified whenever he shows up again, letting anyone else nearby know that this dude’s out for blood even if that other person was also playing the game themselves.
So uh! About the novel!
In some, but not all cases probably, for some reason, the translator decides to announce Kazuo’s sudden entrance into a confrontation with the phrase:
“It was Kazuo Kiriyama.”
And like, at first, this made my heart stop. Especially when a character I liked was in the scene, I was like, “Ah shit, here we go, oh fuck.”
But then it just kept happening
This is literally just an example and probably matches nothing of what happens in any adaptation but just to show you how it looked, here’s a mockup of how this shit would play out:
Hiroki’s eyes darted to the nearby treetops, tensed by the rustling trees. In the glint of the moon, he assumed the worst, and tried to pinpoint any figures stationed in the branches. His eyes squinted. Please, let it be anything else. The wind, or perhaps fleeting birds, unfamiliar with the cruelty of bloodshed.
But it was Kazuo Kiriyama, and with a fucking ka-klinK he made sure his airpods were blastin that doom music as he ratatatatatata-
THIS SAME EXACT WORDING GOT USED SO MANY TIMES TO THE POINT WHERE I JUST GAVE A SLIGHT CHUCKLE WHEN I SAW IT LIKE
MAYBE IT’S JUST MY HUMOR
MAYBE I’M REMEMBERING IT WRONG?!?!?? HLEL
In the remastered versions there’s NOT ANY “it was kazuo kiriyama” moments yet, which on one end, is kinda upsetting because this is probably the easiest way to access the novel and I just want to know this wasn’t another terrible case of my memory so I can show it to people and laugh or something, but also, I mean, I get why they chose to change it up lmao. It’s. yeah.
I tried to make this an inside joke with some friends a few years ago but nobody else had read Battle Royale so i kinda gave up instantly lmao. But one friend DID suddenly hit me with a fast one referencing it one time and I just immediately lost it on SPOT she was so cool for that lmsfiofmsdfiomiosdffmiod you know who you are
PLEASE if anyone also remembers or even possibly owns the version of the novel I’m referring to, can you please let me know if this was actually a thing that happened? Like, a lot, or even at all? :0c I’m really curious, ;v;
Thank you so so much for reading this long ass post SDFIOMFSDFMIO!! And if anyone else wants me to talk about BR for any reason — whether it be because they just want to here my thoughts on things, on certain adaptations, or would just want to hear my retelling of events without actually reading the source material (SO VALID), PLEASEE LET me know. I’ll probably do this anyway but I mean!! Finding like-minded people who’re interested in anything is neat!!
#battle royale#battle royale kazuo kiriyama#kazuo kiriyama#tw murder#tw guns#gun mention#rambles: blorb'd edition#PLEAAASE let me know if i'm leaving out any tw or cw tags!!!#I really don't want to make anyone upset or uncomfortable#especially with media like this!!!!
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Hey.
What is Postal? I find myself increasingly attracted to the Postal Dude and I would like to know.
Uh.
Everything I suppose.
hell yeah!! based! so postal is a video game franchise (and also movie). the games are typically first person or isometric shooters (although in some of the games you are presented with the option not to kill anyone).
the games typically revolve around this fuckin ginger (some version of him anyways) and his deal is that he just keeps wnding up in situations where everyone is trying to kill him.
if ur interested in getting into specific games ; postal 2 is the classic, its a banger, everyone likes that one. lil bit cringe and edgy and dated but its a lotta fun. the deal w this game is that you can kinda do whatever the fuck you want (main appeal). like it has tasks that you needa complete to progress the game. but you can do those at whatever pace or order you want and in the meantime just fuck around exploring the map. you can pick up cats in the game :33. you smoke crack to restore health. theres a piss button and a suicide button. lotta bangin dlc
the first game (postal 1), the april fools game (poostall royale), and the third game (postal 3) are all free 2 play. the first two are on steam theyre cute lil isometric shooters. the first one has a lot of appeal with the story going on. between each level theres these little bits of text like journal entries from the dude. i did not read these the first time i played it and thus i thought it was boring. (eheh). poostall royale has a girl version of the dude (huge win for bisexuals everywhere).
postal 3 is generally considered the worst game ever made by redditors and the creators themselves, so you can only play it if you pirate it (which is endorsed by the creators lol). i cant say much about this one my only experience with the game is a russian speedrun of it.
more recent games are postal 4: no regerts, and postal: brain damaged. i have heard mixed reviews of the former, but there is a drag outfit and you can pet animals so those are pretty enticing imo
the latter is GREAT. fucking gorgeous trippy silly game. the dialogue is unbelievably cringe. love this one. 10/10. been trying to 100% it. slowly.
the movie is on tubi its. unrecommendable. but. i have a soft spot for it, it was kinda funny sometimes to me... i hate what it did to zack wards place in my brain. its like. edgy 2003 type shit. Based 9/11 humor. take this as you will (maybe give it a try?)
on tumblr you may find many people referring to a version of the dude who is ripped and dressed in a blue and white striped tank top. this is shtopor he is from some russian version of postal 2 made by a different company. its called postal: corkscrew rules by many, but thats not the most accurate translation afaik. it never got an american release, however it did get a japanese release which was dubbed in english. game itself is utter shit from what i can tell but i have heard good things about the music (banger russian indie metal). i dont think i can mention this game without mentioning that the plot revolves around sexual reassignment surgery shenanigans. idk how to elaborate on this one its a lot. lmfao.
anyways. i focused mostly on the franchise itself rather than Him, i can elaborate on him more if u want. hope this was helpful nonetheless :-)))
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ELEMENTAL Still Climbs
Surpassing $400m worldwide, surpassing 5x for its multiplier (an exemplary result for a summer release film), and still hanging on weekend-to-weekend... ELEMENTAL is the "comeback" everyone has called it in the recent weeks. From Pixar's lowest unadjusted opened of $29m to leggy sensation...
Even if it doesn't make 2 1/2x its ridiculous $200m budget, that's quite something... Even Disney themselves are acknowledging that, because legs - as I often say - speak VOLUMES.
The digital home media release and physical releases have been set (mid-to-late September), the Disney+ debut date is presumably right around the time of the latter. Disney did the same for GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3, while their LITTLE MERMAID remake releases on D+ before the Blu-ray comes out... Though, maybe Disney holds off on ELEMENTAL's D+ release. It being absent from the recent home release announcements makes me wonder... Keep that thing 'til Christmas, I say. Give it time to slowly putter out domestically, give it time to make decent money in digital rentals/sales and disc sales... Demand for those who won't rent/buy the movie would only increase if they hold out 'til December.
But, I have a feeling they'll just debut it on Disney+ in September...
Anyways, I'm happy to see it doing well, especially for director Peter Sohn. His debut feature-length picture, THE GOOD DINOSAUR, was Pixar's first money-loser. I chalk it up to the movie being a little too bizarre for audiences (a.k.a. it's a movie for ME), the troubled production no doubt ballooning its budget (if the hyperrealistic visuals already didn't), and Disney quietly putting it out a month before STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS. Bah. Who knows how it would've done if released at another time, or if it were the original version that Bob Peterson conceived and was directing. ELEMENTAL definitely appealed to audiences more, even if the trailers seemed to not communicate that.
It's like a small hope spot for theatrical Disney-released animation.
Of course, WISH is a bit up in the air at the moment because of the ongoing strikes. That we might not get a new WDAS movie in the studio and company's goddamn centennial... because Diz executives and the other dingus companies just can't do the right thing and pay their writers/actors... Absurd how they just keep picking the worst possible option, prolonging all of this.
But whenever it does arrive, hopefully with those who were paid well giving the movie some extra promotional push (not the sorry state of affairs we saw with HAUNTED MANSION's premiere, and for a non-Disney example, Sony's GRAN TURISMO relying on random people tweeting about the movie), I hope that also does well... We haven't had a Disney-released animated movie that was a "box office success" (as in, made 2 1/2x its production budget) since FROZEN II... All the way back in 2019. ELEMENTAL has to make it to $500m to clear that, and it's out now in Japan, where it opened spectacularly... Maybe it could make it? Maybe not. It'll come very close if it doesn't.
If the conglomerate heads keep being fools, I expect some more animated movie delays. Sony moved back a ton of pictures, and undated BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE (which was always going to move to begin with, strike or no strike). I won't be surprised if Disney, Universal, et al. follow suit. Like, could ELIO end up being a summer 2024 release that pushes INSIDE OUT 2 to summer 2025? Could titles like GARFIELD and DESPICABLE ME 4 also be affected?
We shall see...
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Chapter 342: Now, where were we?
"This operation will fail unless everyone plays their part. There is no such thing as a bit player."
HELLO INTERNET! WELCOME TO BBQ'S INANE RAMBLINGS!
Whoo-boy, it's sure been a bit since I graced the internet with my long-winded, unsolicited opinions about fiction; but I'm back - spurred on by the promise of my favorite bird boi coming down the chapter release pipeline starting this Sunday. So, naturally, I need to catch up and review everything else I've taken a break on before I can tackle the new stuff when it gets here.
So, let's buckle up and jump right in!!!
1. The Traitor: Aoyama can’t stop twinkling.
One of the last reveals we had before the start of the big battle is that Aoyama was the traitor all along, and we only really found out thanks to happenstance with Hagakure and Deku overhearing him talking to his parents about AFO. Nevertheless, with encouragement and understanding, he’s welcomed back to the fold and he heroically overcomes the fear that AFO had leveraged over him and his family and strikes back against his oppressor - becoming the key to luring AFO out into the open for his friends and allies.
2. The Plan: Bait and Switch
Now that the heroes have a mole by which to control the information AFO has at his disposal, they elect to pretend that they never discovered Aoyama so as not to tip off that they’re cooking up a trap. Extensive considerations are put into defenses and tactics to cover as many contingencies and abilities that the enemy has at their disposal as possible and carefully choosing who will fight on what battlefront to best increase their chances of success. The heroes’ numbers and energy are certainly finite at this point, and this is their very last shot to take down AFO and Shigaraki before they mobilize and become unstoppable.
3. The Attack: A Battle of Ideals
As much as this fight is a physical one, it’s also one of values and ideals. This comes across in both AFO and the heroes’ attitudes towards what they’re fighting for and for who. Where the villains are more concerned about squashing the obstacles that are the heroes in their way so that they can make their version of an ideal world, there are those among the heroes who wonder about the fates of their enemies, the paths that lead them there, and what real justice is for all parties involved, maybe even for the worst of the worst.
AFO regards Aoyama as no more than a useful tool to bring about his own ends, and whether or not he dies is ultimately inconsequential to his grand scheme because the ultimate goal is one where he’s at the top of the world and everyone else is below him - in his mind, exactly as the world should be.
Compare that to the heroes who see Aoyama as indispensable and valuable in and of himself. Where AFO exploited a single weakness in Aoyama for his own benefit, Class A chooses to look past his circumstances and into his character - a move that turns Aoyama from a tool into an ally. And this thinking is not only extended to one who openly sides with them, but to Toga and Dabi as well, despite their clear opposition to the peace the heroes seek and no clear way for them to fit within that vision.
Whether they’re naive or over-idealistic in pondering this about the villains, it is nonetheless completely antithetical to AFO’s worldview and attitudes about human life and the human condition and plainly illustrates the sides that the clashing powers of All-for-One and One-for-All portray. I’m curious to see how these philosophies manifest themselves in the battles to come.
I guess I’ll have to keep going to see.
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Hi
I wanna ask your opinion.
Do you think the jobs that the members do are given by the agency, the members themselves are looking for it, or are outsiders asking certain members to participate?
Dy said he got a Japanese ost because the director wanted it? And he got a role in the musical because he auditioned. Then what about drama?
So what if an outsider in the industry offers a job to a certain member, can the agency refuse it? What is the reason? What else if the member has no activities
Taeil slept 14 hours today. And fans say that SM doesn't give him solo jobs even though he only depends on group activities They hope he gets a job for a drama or variety show ost.I myself thought that variety shows would not suit Taeil's personality. But if it's ost, obviously taeil had a good ost before even a pretty good chart. However, he is yet to appear on the soundtrack again.
In contrast to Taeil, Dy got a job, even though for me I haven't yet reached an iconic, even famous, soundtrack. As for the quality of his acting, it is good, but it hasn't reached the point of being suitable for the main character, even though he continues to grow.
Taeil fan obviously wanted Taeil to have a solo album before enlistment. But of course the company cares more about revenue than anything else Even though fans say talent > popularity Taeil clearly has a loyal fan, but not as strong as some of the other members both in Korea and internationally.
So do you think the agency doesn't care about each member's solo job? Or just give it to the members they like? So he got the title Nepo baby. lol. Thanks for your answer btw
You listed the ways. From Doyoung we know that: a) he gets jobs from SM (duets with other SM artists, participating in charity UNESCO songs), b) singers, tv directors contact the company and ask for him specifically (Rocoberry, Midnight Cafe director, that Japanese drama director, Lee Mujin show, "Maniac" song, "Fallin'"), c) Doyoung's manager looks for opportunities and offers Doyoung to try and apply (one of the recent OSTs), d) SM gives him a short gig opportunity, Doyoung impresses everyone and is asked to stay and continue (MITH, music show MCing), e) Doyoung wants something and asks the management to arrange it if possible (KoMS, covers for YT, basking in metro, his birthday singing live).
From Mark we know that he wanted a solo project for himself at the end of a difficult and exhausting for him year to "find himself". So he got "Child". Haechan wanted a radio show, he got YT version of it for NCT channel. Johnny makes JCC. Taeyong writes and produces a lot and posts some stuff on soundcloud. Kun composes and also posts on soundcloud.
SM can refuse a group to appear somewhere, but when it comes to solo projects it refuses after discussion with the artist (schedule problems). Maybe it was different in the past, but there were no cases of neos saying the company ripped them of something (the only time I remember was Doyoung complaining he didn't get to sing in one of NCT's songs, he sang it on his BD live later).
I know in other companies 1 or 2 members in a group might get everything and others are neglected. So I get where the worries come from, they are not groundless. However, we need to look at SM's conduct. And without bias (SM is evil and wants the worst).
If Taeil is the unloved child, why did he get to sing in SMCU Winter album when Jaehyun didn't participate? Why was he given to sing Kun's song instead of Kun getting a proper solo for NCT Lab? Why does he get to participate in special stages?
Taeil has (at least) 6 OSTs (not all solo) and 2 collabs. (Jaehyun 3 OSTs, I think?)
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Solo albums can't be released all at once, and there are different factors that influence the order of members going solo. SM wanting a return of investment and the idol being able to promote the album is a big part of it. Albums are not cheap. Other times it is about members themselves not being ready.
I also expected an album for Taeil before his enlistment, but then Covid happened, and then the feud happened... Taeil probably got unlucky here, he missed a timeslot and now has to wait untill he finishes serving in the army. (Probably, maybe SM will pull a surprise like it did with Dream's winter songs or SMCU winter album).
Does Taeil want to act? Have he ever expressed such interest?
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