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accio-victuuri · 2 years

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CPN : 071722 LRLG Rumor Clues 🕵️‍♀️

If you are not familiar with LRLG, I explain it here. We’ve all been waiting for something like this and it has arrived! It may seem confusing because of the conversations with absolutely no context ( which is how these things usually are ) so it’s mostly BXGs who try to fill in the gap.

This is gonna be all over the place because the original post is also like that 😂. You can go back here once the account allowed to make english translations share it so it will make more sense. Or you can start now, it’s your choice LOL.

• My favorite part is the bickering! HAHAHAHA! It reminds me of their CQL days when they just won’t stop. Maybe it’s their form of flirting ( still to this day ). I swear. These two ⬇️⬇️⬇️

💚 "Are you going to visit me this afternoon?"

♥️ "No, there is work"

💚 "what"

♥️ "secret"

💚 "okay I know"

♥️ "You really know what you don't know

💚 "I really know"

♥️ "how do you know"

💚 "I just know"

♥️ "Then you just don't know"

💚 "Yes, yes, I don't know, I don't know

This is also me when answering people why I believe that they are SZD— I just know. Some are also speculating this could be talking about a birthday gift or a surprise. Like Yibo is saying he knows something is going on.

• There is a part where GG’s staff helped Bobo shoot something. At this point, I’m not even surprised. Ee have noticed similarities in their studio’s outputs. We CPN that they share resources— so this affirms that. What’s funny is GG said “you are using my staff!” / “pay the salary!” LOL. So we don’t know when this was but a popular guess is the infamous hotel CPN.

XZ’s WYB’s

There are other sections in this, once translated, you will see the proof that their staff is basically blended. I mean, Yibo practically lets his bodyguards prioritize XZ over him so this should not be surprising.

• LRLG put a line in there that said which one of them bought a Garlic Q ( character ). LRLG sometimes does this, they put a line that is not part of the conversation as an additional clue. Well, this bizarre looking character? My money is on XZ. 🤣 He is the type to find the creepiest looking things as cute.

• The aromatherapy makes a comeback. Lol.

Staff 1: "This is the aromatherapy that xx brought back, it is said to be super expensive"

Staff 2: "It's worth looking at the packaging"

If you all don’t remember, this is the incident why BXGs are sensitive to it. Well now that person sends him actual aromatherapy stuff. What an upgrade!

• And you have a short part like this, it’s just 🟢 talking in here. It’s so familiar. Implying that they share a house. Well. In our clown dreams they do.

🟢 “Buy clothes"

🟢 "Black and white T (shirt), there is so little space on the shelf"

• This part also said by Yibo, it could be he was talking to GG about that Ultraman costume that went on HS. Understandable because that one really got so much heat so it will come up in conversation. and it’s a classic GG reaction to laugh/tease him 😂

🟢 "What are you laughing at?”

🟢 "It's okay, it's just hot"

That is all for now cause not much “analysis” is in this contribution. There are a couple of moments in here that displays married behavior ( like taking care of each other ) and it’s better to have the full translation to enjoy it. It is good old LRLG sharing snippets of their lives to us. To those who are having FOMO, don’t worry, there is no big revelation in this one.

BONUS: I LOVE HOW LRLG USES “🥺” TO DESCRIBE YIBO’S FACE!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA! Because that’s how most of us react when we see him. Yibo is just so 🥺🥺🥺.

#yizhan #bjyx #all of this is cpn #clowning hours are open #time to sleep

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braveandsnipe · 2 years

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finishing what i started: kamen rider revice

for whatever reason, i feel like watching revice, and since it’s over and no longer being shoved in my face by the masses, i thought i’d do it justice and watch it seriously and think about the plot(s) critically (for the most part).

i’ll be posting recaps/thoughts every 2 or so episodes, and maybe “live blogs” like i used to with sentai (not really sure yet).

below the cut is just a dump of my knowledge of the series from what i have seen.

daiji was annoying as fuck

the toy line was handled terribly. if you weren’t one of the first 10 vistamps, did you really exist? (/s)

i like ikki, sakura is alright. i used to like her and aguilera (as a ship type thing) until the fandom hit.

why the fuck is everyone a rider :/ i don’t even care some random kid became one, half of them just shouldn’t have been riders.

the weekend’s group fashion style makes geiz’s silly outfit look good.

is olteca still alive? i wouldn’t be surprised tbh.

idk. i like hiromi and george, but those might be more the “meme’s” than their actual established characters.

speaking of, apparently george’s whole backstory was retconned in the final 5 episodes? i’m not entirely sure about that tbh.

hiromi died and was replaced by some kid from fourze aka ultraman victory (gosh, i love actor crossover).

i did watch beyond generations, the 2021 “intro-ish” movie, the telasa mystery special, and the hyper battle dvd.

in terms of suits, revi and holy live (i guess by extension, evelity live) are the only ones i genuinely like. i can “tolerate” the rest, but they’re just.. meh

lowkey, i dig livedevil. it’s better than geats at least (see the thing is, i think geats op would’ve been better if it were just the woman singing..)

im sorry (not sorry), i hate lovkov. at the very least design wise, she (it?) isn’t cute.

kagerou was probably the most interesting, but the only thing i remember about him was that he liked spicy curry..

george practiced snapping someone’s neck only to get beat up by daiji lol

the happy spa set is super cute! i wish ikki’s cosplay wasn’t so expensive (~$200 for a shirt!)

okay, i’m done. will probably start watching when i get home or tomorrow morning.

#kr #revice #we're staying at the lotus inn #revice.thoughts

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canary3d-obsessed · 3 years

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Lost Tomb Reboot Lewks: Part 12

(Masterpost) (Other Canary Stuff)

Warning: Spoilers for both seasons of The Lost Tomb Reboot

Look 61

The first look is Wu Xie’s road trip outfit, which includes this grey and white jacket. It has a contrasting elastic waistband, cuffs, and neckline, and slanted pockets.

This is exactly the sort of jacket that my 5th grade science teacher would have worn in 1979, and she would have slayed in it. She awakened something in me and it wasn’t love of STEM. (Spock was responsible for my love of STEM, and various other awakenings in 5th-grade me) I’m sure it would still look great on her, because she is probably a silver haired foxy granny now, and that’s who this jacket belongs on in the current century.

Wu Xie should never have gotten within a mile of this old lady jacket.

To clarify, I’m not being gender-essentialist here; I’m being ageist. If this jacket had some contemporary detailing or interesting features to offset its last-century vibe, the way Bai Haotian’s green roller derby jacket does, it would be fine even though I’m not a fan of this sort of collar in menswear. But it’s just a nicely-made old lady jacket. Mary Berry could bake a nice cake while wearing this jacket.

Note: Liu Sang could wear the hell out of this jacket, of course, because that man can wear literally anything and make it look like it’s made of spun pheromones.

(more after the cut!)

Wu Xie eventually improves this look by taking the jacket off and giving the camera operator a nice long look at his ass. He’s wearing dark jeans and a long-sleeve white thermal shirt, which is a great improvement.

Look 62

The granny jacket is contrasted by the blessed arrival of Huo Daofu’s daddy jacket, and the rest of the clothing that Huo Daofu is wearing with it. This is a dark green jacket with a nipped in waist, military styling, and invisible stitching that says "obey" You can't see it, but oh, it's there.

He's wearing this jacket of domination with jeans so tight they appear to be made of paint. I approve of these jeans so much that I might need to take a break from writing for a moment.

Instead of shoes he’s opted for a pair of tall riding boots, just in case anyone failed to get the message.

He finishes off this look with gold rimmed glasses, pomegranate-toned lips, and an air of authority so strong that even Pangzi does what he tells him to with minimal back chat.

Later the jacket comes off, so he can wrap it solicitously around the shoulders of a person who is already wearing a perfectly good jacket. OP looks up “service top” in the dictionary.

Underneath, Huo Daofu is wearing a grey houndstooth waistcoat. Shen Wei’s tailor would gnash his teeth in envy, if he saw the cut of this vest. This tops off a warm-toned brown shirt worn with a silver-toned watch. The watch is...round, and it tells time. He’s wearing a brown belt with his black jeans. Huo Daofu is great at combining warm and cool, formal and casual, in a single look.

Look at this dapper bitch. Slaying this hard has got to be against his Hippocratic oath.

This jacket-free look is combined with hip posture so provocative that it sends Wu Xie into a hasty search for the last scraps of his heteronormative assumptions. Xiao Bai does her best to help.

Look 63

The beards.

OP's family of origin is full of hairy visigoths, so Pangzi's beard is a style I've encountered before, alas. We call this a [US] Civil War beard. This one is terrible and lopsided, but at least it covers a lot of Pangzi’s face.

Wu Xie’s fake facial hair isn't terrible, but isn't great. You can tell it’s fake because everything about Zhu Yilong is inherently lovely, and this isn’t.

Also, it's a ridiculous idea for a disguise. Wu Xie's close-trimmed chin patch and mustache are nice style, very typical for a Chinese dude. They let Wu Xie’s lovely facial structure continue to do its thing while they just provide a bit of an accent. But this is a problem, because they don't change his appearance in any meaningful way; his cheekbones are still visible from orbit.

He’s wearing this facial hair and cap with the same vest he wore earlier to practice slingshot. This time he's accessorizing with a simple tan jacket, with an interesting buttonhole detail...

...and with an attractive human IV stand.

Doctor doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you you loving me.

Look 64

This look belongs to the man that Jia Kezale’s wife has replaced him with. We have to infer his look based on his shoes, and that he is presumably in the same league as the extremely hot Jia Kezale.

Based on these shoes, which are very nice, if a little weathered, Huarache-style loafers, this other man in her life also presumably wears linen trousers and a guayabera shirt.

*mentally pictures this person*

ok, I guess I don't blame her.

[Image, and shirts, from cubavera dot com]

Look 65

After having his IV fluids, Wu Xie goes for a nighttime motorbike ride, because he apparently needs to go way up on a hill to see that the hotel he’s staying in is circular.

So, what is with the Ultraman motorcycle helmet? Does it have any padding or insulation at all? Why doesn’t it cover more than 40 percent of his head and face?

And shouldn't it have a chin strap? How does it stay on in a crash? I mean yes I know this is a show with sentient crustaceans...yeah, never mind. I’m sure that’s a super effective helmet.

Once the rain starts, his mustache and beard look better. Still not great, but better. Here he looks like he’s cosplaying as Zhou Yunlan.

Now he’s wet and lying on the ground because...oh, hell if I remember. Just look at him, poor moist snookums. He needs a blankie and a hot tea and a hurt-comfort fic about him and his doctor.

This look gives the newest members of the polycule an opportunity to demonstrate their devotion, as they haul him off the motorcycle and over to a wall, and then continue to stand in the rain, for some reason, instead of going indoors.

I gotta say, when a producer decides to pour water on Zhu Yilong, they commit to it.

Speaking of commitment, here’s Huo Daofu holding his hand up over Wu Xie’s face like a tiny umbrella.

Bonus 1

Look at the yellow duffle coat on that kid. She looks beautiful and classic, and the mustard yellow color just pops so nicely in this scene.

The mustard yellow also visually marks her allegiance to gold-dragon-wearing Xue Wu.

Bonus 2

This look is Wu Xie’s antique-scheming outfit, but now he is wearing the Sunglasses of Manpain. They belong to Pangzi, but Wu Xie is wearing them while he waits for Pangzi to collect his angst from the morgue.

These sunglasses are good to wear while contemplating the fact that, despite the many differences in narrative tropes between Chinese and Western media, the one where a female character is hurt and/or dies merely to further a male character's emotional development remains a constant.

That said, this is a nice small signifier of their relationship, as he puts these glasses on Pangzi, allowing him to hide his feelings, while hugging him, allowing him to express his feelings.

#dbmj #wu xie #the lost tomb reboot #reunion: the sound of the providence #huo daofu #canary3d-original #lost tomb lewks #my gifs

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galahadwilder · 5 years

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Ultraman: Stage Fright

The roof is falling in again. She can’t remember how she got here—she hasn’t been able to set foot on a stage or in an arena since the incident, not without her knees going weak and her heart going overdrive. But here she is, onstage again, and her fans are out in the crowd screaming. The ceiling cracks. Overhead lights fall. She knows Ultraman is coming, she knows he’s going to catch the falling heavens and lift them away like he always does—but he doesn’t. She’s in New York and Shinjiro is an ocean away—there’s no one to catch it. No one to save them.

The roof falls in on the audience, and she can only watch helplessly as they’re all crushed to death.

She wakes up screaming. It takes her a moment before she remembers it’s not real, that she hasn’t been in an arena since Japan, that only one person in the audience died, that the two Ultramen arrived in time to save everybody else. But her breathing won’t slow down, her heartbeat is still the loudest thing in her ears. She can still feel the alien’s blood splashed across her face—the first time she ever saw another sentient die, and he’d come there to protect her.

How many people died because of her?

Her father keeps telling her it’s not her fault. The alien had been an obsessive, murdering anyone who spoke ill of her online, but the guilt still eats away at her. The guilt of bringing all of those people together where the armored creature could drop the ceiling on them is... she’s not sure if it’s worse. Nobody died, sure, but they’re lucky. If Ultraman hadn’t just learned to fly...

She picks up her phone and checks the time. It’s the middle of the night in New York City, but in Japan, it’s mid-afternoon. Shinjiro is probably done with school for the day by now.

She barely thinks before calling him.

He picks up after two rings. “Rena?” he says. “It’s the middle of the night where you are—is everything all right?”

She’s crying into the speaker. “I—I had the... the nightmare again.”

He’s silent for a moment. “The stadium?”

”Mhmm.” She nods, not trusting her voice. She knows he can’t see her, but it doesn’t matter—he told her he salutes her text messages sometimes, before he remembers that he’s not sending video, so this is hardly the least embarrassing thing either of them has done. “Can you... stay on the line? For a few minutes?”

”Yeah,” he says. “No emergencies today. I’ve got time.”

They sit for a few minutes in companionable silence, and her heart rate finally begins to slow down. “How’s Rocket?” she says, finally.

She’s not supposed to know the names of any of the Ultramen, not even Shinjiro, but he wasn’t particularly good at hiding that. To keep him from accidentally spilling the identities of the others, they’ve agreed to call them by nicknames: Ultraman Blade and Ultraman Rocket. Rocket’s been out of commission for a few weeks, but Shinjiro won’t say why; something about a mission gone wrong. He was quick to assure her that everyone was fine but he’s definitely worried about his younger partner.

”I don’t know,” Shinjiro says. “I haven’t seen him since... you know, since the mansion. He’s in good hands though.”

Rena giggles. “You always say that.”

”Edo says we’ve got word he’s recovering,” Shinjiro says. “Can’t share the source, but...”

”I know.” She draws her leg up to her chest. “I heard you caught a building yesterday.”

”Small one,” he responds immediately, making her laugh. It’s so Shinjiro, to think that’s no big deal. “Only three floors.”

She smiles. She knew this was exactly what she needed. ”Still saved twelve people.”

”I... guess I did.” He sighs. “Your Agent still trying to get you to go back on tour?”

”Not very hard,” she says. “He knows I’m still a little delicate right now, so... no Sayama for a bit.”

”Delicate.” She can practically hear Shinjiro smirking. “The first time you met Ultraman you called me out while I was holding up eighteen tons of ceiling. Onstage. In public.”

”In front of all your fans.”

”Those were very definitely your fans, they paid to see you.”

She smiles. “I might agree to share them.”

He scoffs. “But yeah, there I am in front of two Aliens that want me dead, I’m stuck holding up an entire arena ceiling, and all of a sudden this tiny pop star starts yelling at me.”

”Cut me some slack!” she laughs. “I was terrified!”

”What, and I wasn’t?” he responds with a smile in his voice. “Before then I’d never lifted anything heavier than a car!”

They lapse into silence for a minute, long enough for Rena to realize that she’s calmed down entirely, before Shinjiro speaks again. “Dad’s healing up,” he says. “He says he’s thinking about getting back into the field.”

She chuckles at that. “I can’t picture Defense Minister Hayata putting on red armor and punching aliens.”

”Yeah, well, he used to do it in spandex. While 80 feet tall,” Shinjiro responds, dryly. “I watch videos of the old Ultraman sometimes and I just think, ‘I spawned from that?’”

They laugh together, before growing quiet. Rena yawns.

”I should probably let you go,” Shinjiro says.

”No, wait,” she says. “Um... I’m thinking of maybe coming back to Japan soon. Do you... want to get coffee? Maybe?”

He’s silent for a moment and she’s worried that he’s somehow offended. “...Oh! Um... sure! I’d love to!”

She smiles. Oh my God, he’s such a dork. “Not as Rena Sayama, you understand. You don’t want to get mobbed when you’re not in the helmet.”

”Oh! Yeah, of... of course,” he stammers. “That... yeah, that makes sense.”

”Just Rena Endo and Shinjiro Hayata, two normal teenagers,” she finishes. “Having coffee together.”

”Um... about that,” he says. “Might want to find a better disguise than glasses and a hat.”

”Not all of us can wear carbide helmets to hide our identities.”

”You do realize I saw through your ‘normal teen’ disguise immediately.”

She giggles. “I’m sure my agent will think of something,” she says, then yawns again. “You’re probably right,” she murmurs. “I should get back to sleep.”

”Night, Rena,” Shinjiro says. Soft. His voice is so soft.

”Night, Shinjiro.” She ends the call and places her phone gently on the nightstand.

Normal teenagers. Right. She’s never had that in her life. Over here in New York, she may just be Rena Endo, average teen, but in Japan no matter where she goes she’s Rena Sayama, pop idol. “Normal” isn’t exactly in her vocabulary.

Besides, she muses as she sinks back into her pillow, what’s normal when you’re in love with a boy who can fly?

Read this and more fics like this on my AO3!

#ultraman #ultraman netflix #rena sayama #rena endo #shinjiro hayata #season 1 spoilers #ultraman spoilers #ultraman season 1 spoilers #fic #my fic #original content #drabble #drabbles #oneshot #oneshots #renjiro #rena x shinjiro #shinjiro x rena

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ascensionstories-blog · 7 years

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Menace #38: The Amazing Mind of Dr. Anstorm

“Well, this is new,” Courtney commented, staring at the flow of a purple waterfall, cascading against orange stones that stood in front of her, forming a river that flew swiftly past her. The grass — or, at least, what she assumed to be grass — was sky blue, and certain blades jutted out far farther than others, giving a haphazard look to the ground. There were trees in the distance, looking like something out of a Dr. Seuss picture book, with oddly shaped yellow monkeys hanging from branches, staring at her. “I wonder if someone spiked my drink,” she thought aloud. “Hello?” She called out. “Is anybody there?” No one responded.

Well, I guess it’s up to me then, she thought. Easy enough. She summoned a small wind current beneath her (Thank God that still works in here) and hoisted herself into the air, looking at the surrounding area. Alright, looks like we’ve got: trees, trees, and more trees. And look at that over there. More trees. Oh, wait, hold on; what’s that all the way in the distance? She squinted her eyes. Ah, wonderful, trees. The trees affected different colors; to the North were the bright blue Pumbaya trees — not that Courtney knew what they were called — which were home to the yellow monkeys of Zimf. To the east were the purple Mumphies, a poisonous tree that tastes heavenly (almost a cotton-candy flavor mixed with honey). On the opposite side of the river were the Orange Doefillers, a tree who’s leaves are the primary food source of the long-necked yellow doe; an animal that exclusively lives in the Doefiller forest. Atop the plateau that fell into rushing water was the Dark Blue Hetenworth, a tree who’s roots grew into tree-like structures, giving the one tree the appearance of an entire forest. Gotta love trees, Courtney mused to herself, trying to decide which direction to go. The sky was beginning to fade from a natural blue into a sickishly green color, as though the sky were a child getting sick with the flu. “I wonder what Nate would do in this situation,” she said aloud, almost wishing that, by saying his name, he might appear so that she wouldn’t be alone in the strange land.

“Alright, so, I got here through a rift created by Dr. Anstorm, or Dreamscape, if we wanna go by his hero name,” she said, using the pronoun “we” for a reason that she herself could not discern. “Funtastic. Okay, let’s see what else we’ve got. So the rift is probably a two way rift, right? Rifts don’t just open one way. I think. I hope. So I’ve just gotta find the portal out of this place. Ugh,” She groaned out into the open world. “Well, no time like the present. Oh, but I don’t want to go the wrong way.” She stopped walking towards the Pumbaya trees and stood in place. “Uh-oh,” she could feel herself beginning to panic. She felt her heart begin to race, pounding against her young chest which was beginning to ache. Turning her head to look at her surroundings, she felt dizzy, and very lightheaded as though she were about to faint. She couldn’t tell if there was a cold wind blowing, or if she was chilled, but there was a strong possibility of both as she tended to manipulate the weather when she was uncomfortable. She tried to knead her hands together, but found that they were numb, so she sat in the blue grass. Why is this happening, she thought, I’m okay, I’m good, I’m just alone and I don’t know where I am or how to get back; it’s fine, it happens all the time — to heroes — I’m sure. Unless it doesn’t. Unless this is how heroes die and they just sweep it under the rug. Whatever happened to Ultraman? Is this how he perished? Lost forever in a weird wasteland? I don’t know if this water is drinkable. Oh, boy, oh boy, oh no. Courtney, you said you wouldn’t do this anymore. You’re better than this. Courtney Aethea. Oh, fuck. She felt a tear fall down her cheek. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not happening. Not happening. She looked down to see that she had raised herself almost ten feet off the ground, with a small, swirling wind vortex keeping her raised and tearing apart the ground beneath her, ripping the grass up in huge chunks.

“Courtney!” She heard her mother screaming at her. “You have to practice your dowsing or you’ll never be able to find your way home!” Courtney remembered herself sitting firmly on her bed and responding to her mother, “Why would I ever want to come home?” She cried into her hands. “I want to go home,” she said, aloud, thinking of the cube in Wharton State Forest. She pictured herself and Nate talking there that night, eating marshmallows and telling ghost stories and not worrying about her mother or Eloise or any nonsense of fictional worlds. She wondered if he’d look for her like he was looking for Eloise, or if he’d just forget her. He probably would just give up, Courtney decided, I’m not as important as Eloise, to him, I’m sure. Or to anyone. She was heaving now, the wind blowing fiercely in all directions, adopting the water of the fall into her now-hurricane. “I want to go home,” she repeated, wiping her eyes to see the incredible wind mass beneath her. She could feel herself beginning to get tired, and her head and body began to ache like they always do when she used to much magic. “I want to go home!” She screamed, and the winds beneath her shot like missiles away from her person, tearing up the rocky terrain and the trees scattered throughout her line of sight. She could hear screaming but she was unsure if it was her own, the land’s, or just the roar of the wind flying out, forming an incredibly radius of a circle around the young witch. She began to fall from the sky, only cushioning herself at the last minute with a final puff of wind, before collapsing on the ground, now comprised of whipped dirt.

“I want to go home,” she repeated, barely able to move. “I wish I’d learned to do the whole dowsing thing,” she muttered. Forcing herself to her feet, she looked out, realizing the mess she had made. The beautiful, colorful world that surrounded her was now in shambles on the outskirts of her vision. There was only level ground for two hundred feet in any direction, save for what looked like a small tear in the air above the ground, fifty feet to her left. She smiled weekly as she stumbled towards it. I’d really like to eat marshmallows tonight, she decided as she went through the portal.

The world outside was a mess. Buildings all around Dr. Anstorm had collapsed, the entire area was devoid of people, save for a police line two blocks down. Courtney immediately looked around to see where the other rifts were, but she could not find any. In fact, the rift that she had returned from had disappeared as she entered through it. She found herself falling to the ground, landing at the feet of someone she was particularly unhappy to recognize. She hoisted her eyes to view the smiling countenance of Vanish, the villain who had stolen Eloise. The villain, who had beaten the hope out of Nate. The villain who was, as far as Courtney knew, the most powerful sorcerer in the world. She tried to spit on his shoes, but ended up only drooling slightly on her own chin.

“Well, you look a bit winded,” the villain told her, then proceeded to laugh egregiously loud at his own silly joke. “What’s wrong, White Witch?” He asked. “Are you just another sidekick lost without her hero?” He brought his foot into her cheek, and she yelped, but he hadn’t hit her hard enough to break anything. “Oh, girl, don’t you know that you will never be enough for him?” Courtney’s eyes went from fiercely determined to uncomfortably pained in an instant.

“Yes, I am!” She argued from her fatigued position. “He says I am.”

“Yes, he says you are, he says so much doesn’t he. But he still goes and sees them. Still spends countless hours searching for his lost love, spends more time trying to kindle the flame with the transforming girl. And where do you come in? In the off hours, when everyone else is busy. Dear girl, do you know why I made Dr. Anstorm here release his powers?” He paused, glancing over at the also-collapsed body of the doctor. “It was to show you that your friend was not coming for you. You told him where you were going, didn’t you? Told him where you were. Asked him to come help, even?” He paused once again, standing over the young girl. “He didn’t appear to have come to help you. Don’t you wonder, where is he now?” Vanish looked down at the face of the young girl who had found the bravery to smile.

“Nope,” she responded, as Vanish felt a hand grab him from behind.

“Sorry I’m late,” Nate said from behind the villain. “I had to help evacuate,” he explained, “but I knew you could handle yourself.” He poked his head out and smiled at her. “And you did.” He grabbed the arm of the villain and lifted it behind him, hearing the man struggle in pain. “Hello,” he said, now addressing the villain.

“Hi,” Vanish responded. “You should let me go,” he warned.

“And why is that?” Nate asked.

“Because I’m not afraid to take this too far,” he explained, lifting his foot over the head of the incapacitated White Witch. “One quick stomp will do it, I’d fashion.” Nate immediately let go of the villain, who, as per his name, vanished into thin air, right in front of them.

“You okay, kid?” Nate asked her.

“Yeah,” she responded, her cheek pressed against the asphalt. “Want to hang out?” She asked.

“Sure,” he smiled. “I’ll meet you at the cube in a half hour or so, just gotta change.”

“Thank you,” she said, still lying on the ground.

“Do you need any help?”

“Nahhhhhhh,” she lied. “Just give me, like, 10 minutes and I’ll be up and atem.”

“If you’re sure,” Nate said, and began to walk away.

“Pick up marshmallows if you can!” Courtney called after him.

Getting hit with marshmallows hurt, Nate realized, as Courtney pelted him with them as they spoke. She was still resting, now sprawled out on the floor of the treehouse, but throwing them, one after the other, into Nate’s shoulder.

“You’re supposed to catch them in your mouth!” She scolded him.

“Stop throwing them at forty miles per hour then,” he replied as she pelted him once again. They laughed for a bit, until the tiredness overtook them, and they just sat there in silence.

“Is Dr. Anstorm okay?” Courtney asked, finally.

“No,” Nate responded. “He’s in critical condition.”

“Why? What happened?”

“Well, his powers weren’t meant to be used to wholly. He couldn’t sustain holding multiple rifts open for so long, apparently. As it has been described to me, normally he just summons what he needs from his dreamscapes and uses them to fight. To keep multiple rifts in reality open for so long must’ve been too much for him,” Nate explained.

“Why does he do it?” Courtney asked. “Vanish, I mean.”

“Look, it’s not like villains are just evil for evil’s sake. At least I don’t think so, anyway. I think that he thinks he sees truth where others do not, and that that in itself gives his messages value. That the world is not so easily understood, that everything is not so easy; it’s difficult, and when people refuse to see that, he thinks it’s his job to explain it. Or that’s what I think, anyway. Could be wrong, I hardly know him.”

“I think he’s lonely,” Courtney said.

“I imagine being a villain at all is very lonely,” Nate replied.

“I don’t think I could ever be a villain.” “Nah, you’re too little.”

“Oh, bite me... Nate,” Courtney began, “if I ever do, for some reason, become a villain, will you come visit me sometimes?” She asked him.

“If you become a villain,” Nate started, “I’ll come visit you every day until you decide that being a villain is stupid.”

“Thanks, Nate,” she yawned. “Ditto for you, by the way.”

“Thank you, kid. Here,” he patted her head and pulled out a blanket from his bag, “take this. Do you want me to wait at the base of the tree like usual?”

“Just stay up here with me until I fall asleep, okay?”

“Of course.”

#menace #dreamscape #dream #hero #superhero #fiction #writers #sci-fi #villains #vanish #witch #magic #story #shortstory #chapter #new chapter

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New Post has been published on Playo

Sports says "Age is just a number". What do you have to say to this?

There are certain things that get better with age. Certainly sports never used to be on that list. But sports has once again broken various stereotypes undermining it.

When a 35-year old Roger Federer walked into the Rod Laver Arena to play his 6th Australian Open final, the whole world was glued to the TV sets as he was set to take on his arch-rival and best friend, Rafael Nadal. Definitely the odds were never in favour of the Swiss Maestro as the head to head read 11-23 and the ghosts of the past dawned over him. It was an epic five-setter and a nail-biting encounter without any doubts. But the result was not what the majority of the Tennis Fandom thought they would see it come true. It was the 17-time Grandslam champion lifting his most awaited 18th title after 5 years of Grandslam title drought. And “Old” became “New”.

Switzerland’s Roger Federer, right, Spain’s Rafael Nadal, left, and Rod Laver pose for photographers after Federer won the men’s singles final at the Australian Open tennis championships 2017

The Australian open 2017 was not just special because Roger Federer fulfilled the BEL18VE dream, it was about the Women power as well. Who would have ever thought that Serena Williams will go on to dethrone Steffi Graf’s 22 Grandslam titles? That one was a biggie! She doesn’t stop. Even at the age of 35 she has totally dominated the WTA circuit. Does “Old is Gold” make more sense now?

Badminton has its own heroes likes Tennis has Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. The legends of Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei has always kept the crowd going for all these years. Their rivalry has been touted as one of the greatest in the history of sports. Both Lee Chong Wei (34) and Lin Dan (33), though have gone past the 30s mark, never seem to disappoint the Badminton fans from giving a good fight. Lin went on to capture 3 titles in the year 2016 and Lee raked in 5 titles with a silver from the Rio Olympics.

Long time rivals Lin Dan (right) and Lee Chong Wei (left) exchanging their jerseys after an epic clash

Check out: 9 Greatest Sports Rivalries in Individual Sports

While Sports has seen so many stars breaking the age barrier and screaming their talents out loud, the younger generation have also been following in their footsteps. While we see a bunch of the international heroes spreading goosebumps, India has got its own set of national heroes as well.

It was a proud moment for the entire nation when a 35 year-old Devendra Jhajharia went on to win the Gold medal in the 2016 Rio Paralympics for the second time. He also created history by becoming the first Indian Paralympian to win two Paralympic gold medals.

A 30 year-old Sania Mirza finished the year of 2016 and the season in style by clinching the World no.1 title.

Image: indiatimes.com

Well, well! When we are talking about the 30s, a 51-year old Indian Fitness and Marathon Legend, Milind Soman knocked it out of the part by claiming the “Ultraman” title. The “Iron Man” of India went on Barefoot to cover 517 km in three days by Feet, Bike and Swim. So are you still into the fact that “Age is barrier for achieving success in sports”?

Of course, the fitness comes into play as you age. But you can always choose to eat the right way and practice the right diet to stay fit. Who knows a 30 year-old man could be healthier than an 18 year-old chap?

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Also read: From Being A Baseball Fan To Following His Wife’s Diet Plan, George Clooney Is All Savage

#Devendra Jhajharia #Lee Chong Wei #Lin Dan #Milind Soman #Roger Federer #Sania Mirza #Serena Williams

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Classicaloid 13 | Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga 1 | Masamune-kun’s Revenge 1 | Erased 2 - 5

My streaming site says this show is a reverse harem, and I laugh at it every time I see it.

Trout…? *LOLs, but…*

Well, that’s a piece of transformative fiction I wouldn’t like to write. (In case you don’t know it by my love of magical girls, I love transformations.)

“That bum. Is he planning to eat me?” – Never has a line about a man transformed into a fish made me laugh so hard…probably because I’ve seen a work where a woman gets transformed into an eel, but I’ve never seen man to fish fiction before…

How did fish!Schu get into the washing machine? They’ll probably answer that question anyway, but I wanted to ask it before I found out the answer. Update: They didn’t, but it’s pretty safe to assume he got there the same way fish!Schu got around to other bodies of water.

Of course they’d have a sign saying “Watch out for fire”, knowing Beethes.

Off model fish. Never though I’d complain about a fish’s eyes in animation. Also, isn’t it goldfish with limited mental capacity?

Salmo trutta is at least correct.

Never have I laughed so hard at an animated fish…

Eh? I never questioned what Schu would call Sousuke, but there you go. Also, Sousuke doesn’t know English.

Aw no. I see the clincher coming. Poor Schu.

Pencil frame? In the fish episode? Okay, who had enough budget for that? (incredulous)

I didn’t know that fish gyoza existed until now. I guess I should’ve known.

Hey wait a second. Black bass. Bass are a type of guitar. I see what you did there, Classicaloid staff and Fujita-kantoku. *nods approvingly*

*looks into the “predatory” part of bass* Oops. “Know that you can feed trout to selected sizes of bass.”

Meuniere is the only one I had to check up.

Why is Liszt only scolding the Piece of Junk (Sousuke)? I know she’s done it every other episode but she really has it out for him, doesn’t she?

What the-Okay, you know you’re on to some crazy antics when you have anthropomorphic fish. *still laughs crazily*

Wait, so Liszt is a lionfish. Guess I should’ve known.

Motz is a flying fish. Less predictable, but eh.

Cho-chan is an eel, specifically one found in volcanic vents at the bottom of the sea.

Holy fish, Batman! We found Nemo…er, Kanae.

Okay, I take some of my enjoyment of this ep back, thanks to you Beethes.

Sousuke is a sea snail. LOL.

I like limpets too, but pond snail…? Never heard of it. Sorry for my inaccuracy.

Japanese mystery snail? Now that’s mysterious. Aside from that, I’d never heard of an eel that lived in ponds…LOL, so my knowledge is adapted to sea life but not ponds. Okay then, I learnt something about myself today.

Thank you for your censor head, Beethes. Thank you so very much.

That’s kinda cute. Not only are there bubbles, but there’s the anthropomorphic fish versions of the group popping up (I presume in time to the music), with Sousuke and Kanae covering for Bach/Bada/Tchaiko.

(Masamune-kun’s Revenge 1)

There’s a passing resemblance to One Wish They Never Wanted to this show, so since this anime must’ve come before it, I’m here to compare.

I’m with the girl at 0:31 (Masamune’s sister).

His mum?!

I think the pun is that “Moleo” is also read “Shigeo”, but the middle character is “hair”…so there you have it. *makes Not Bad face but is otherwise not quite convinced by this show*

Wa-wa-wait! Standard practice is that you don’t use your OP in the first ep, isn’t it? You use the ED, but not the OP, and debut the OP and ED in their proper spots in ep 2. This is blasphemy!

OP title: Wagamama means “selfish”, so I think the OP title suits the show well.

Nope, not even hot guys can get away with drooling...not to me, no.

Shuri is best girl in this show.

What is with servant girl’s eyebrows? I swear, if they had another girl in that posse of Aki’s, we’d have a Mean Girls AU on our hands!

Adagaki Aki is the only name I’ll remember once I get out of here, I bet. Only a few times reading synopses of this show, and I already remembered it. I bet I won’t even remember the “Makabe” part of Masamune’s name.

Masamune needs a sign saying “Caution: Do Not Pass By. Dramatic Stare in Progress” or something.

Okay, I need that Mean Girls AU now.

Cat donut. I want one.

Well, if a girl looks around like that so many times, y’think she wouldn’t be hiding something?!

Basically, you turned your protagonist into a male version of a mean girl to upstage a mean girl?...Nice try, but no dice. It’s kinda cliched.

Hypoglycemia? Hmm. It’s not always associated with diabetes, but I tend to associate the two. Speaking of stomachs rumbling, I once sat a test with my stomach basically playing a symphony for the last half…yeah, not gonna think about it.

Then how did Masamune get a photo with Aki?

Oh. It’s nice that he’s keeping Tanabe-kun’s secret. (still not wholly convinced)

Okay: verdict time – it looks pretty, but that Kirito face ain’t doing it for me and neither are Yoshino’s eyebrows. The jokes tend to miss and I’ve got a potential plot hole on my hands. Overall…I could probably handle one more episode of it, and that’s what I’ll take for the sake of its potential.

…*sees “Elemetal World”* Okay, add “a lot of cliches” to the list too.

(Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga 1)

Hey, Blue Exorcist. Haven’t seen this since I marathoned the ending 5 episodes or so a few years back. I was wondering how they’d handle the anime-only ending, but they’ve just cut it off like nothing ever happened. It seems a situation much like Noragami, only Noragami’s anime-only ending is much better (IMHO, but YMMV).

…and yes, I’ve read enough of the manga to know this is called the “Impure King Part”, but I’m using the AnimeLab name for convenience. Also, what is up with the complicated kanji? It says “episode 1”, sure, but I didn’t know such complicated kanji existed for “Small Beginnings”. Update: Kyoto Impure King Arc. That’s a better way to explain it.

“Satoru”…haha. (At the time of typing, I was rewatching Erased. LOL)

Considering the name “Saburota” suggests he’s one of at least 3 children, that makes sense.

Celesta (from one of my stories “Next to Me”) is a Shura-type character. I should really take some cues from this Shura for Celesta going forward.

It feels weird seeing the Kyoto trio shrug off Rin’s friendliness now. Must be because I’ve been through this part of the woods once before. Plus did you see they’re on the Nozomi shinkansen? (It’s kinda like this MTR (city express MTR, Hong Kong) or a plane or something…) Someone bothered to translate the ticker to English, even.

Unwilling, LOL.

(Erased ep 2)

It was from this ep that I learnt the Japanese word for “palm (of the hand)”.

Apparently Re:Re got resurrected for Erased? Or am I wrong about this? Update: Yeah, I was wrong.

Mask Man I assme is Kamen Rider or Ultraman, but I dunno what Black is.

The type of backpack Satoru’s got is a randoseru and he had a recorder with it. There’s a manga out there called “Recorder and Randoseru”, IIRC.

Hanba-gu aren’t actually hamburgers. They’re hamburger patties, or to get technical, Hamburg patties.

Since I still haven’t been too badly damaged by a person’s death so far (but eventually I know I will), there’s an undercurrent of melancholy running through this show for me…

How does Erased get away with all these trademarks? Were they in the source material? Plus, I’ve never hear the term “chew the fat” until now. Huh.

The word “hope” is on the back wall lots and lots of times (presumably kids’ calligraphy work), if you didn’t know.

So. The kanji for “palm (of the hand)” that is there during the titlecard is read tenohira. Kinda long, but it’s an advanced kanji. I probably shouldn’t know it as it’s quite the advanced kanji, but hey, I get curious about these sorts of things…

I never understand why there’s occasionally urinal scenes in media. Is it to promote a sense of camaraderie in guys? *shrugs*

McGregor gloves are apparently the ones with all the fingers…? Not sure. Google-sensei wasn’t very definite on it.

I think Satoru goes “youkai” because he suspected his mum of being one there for a second.

The pink on the ground and the yellow of the house…it’s like a colour palette. Only, Kayo will go to danger and Satoru will go home to his house, that isn’t truly his house anymore.

By the way, I’ve liked both Sayuri songs that have been used for anime so far, even if they’re both EDS. When I heard Sayuri was doing the ED for Erased, I liked it even more. (Even still, I only use the name Erased out of convenience. I much prefer the name Boku Dake ga Inai Machi otherwise.)

(ep 3)

This Hamada…I only just finished watching Yuri!!! on Ice a few days back (as of time of typing), and now Hamada reminds me of Yurio.

Yuuki – he reminds me of my dad. My dad has a stuttering problem which makes him sound nervous on occasion. Come to think of it, I was thinking of unique ways to study at one point (I can get bored pretty easily though not to ADHD standards), and as a result made a “biology helper” (visual novel). I made the visual novel around a character who I called Satoru, based on what I learnt about the name for Erased. (Note: Satoru can mean “to perceive” or “to understand”.)

Speaking of visual novels, I think there should be a visual novel for this. An official one that stays faithful to the manga.

Not sure I’ve noticed it until now, but Yuuki has freckles…he looks like Renzou Shima (Blue Exorcist) to me for some reason…

The word for “birthmark” can also mean “bruise”.

Satou is different to Satoru, even if the names are one letter difference.

The bins said “5 – 4” in one shot and “5 の 4” in another. They mean the same thing though.

Is Satoru x Kayo technically a ship? Or not? I’d go “ick!” if Satoru still counted as being his normal age in this timeline, for ships’ sake.

(ep 4)

How can you tease a child about girlfriends when he’s barely old enough to fall in love? (Physically, that is.)

Liveman? Falcon? Okay, who decided on this background chatter?!

Okay…revelation time, before we go forward. Showa Genroku is criminally underrated by the masses, but good enough for an s2. Erased seems to have been more of a public praise while SGRS got it on the critics’ side, and while I consider myself to be more casual than critic, I side with the critics on this. (By the way, I tend to root for the underdog series and also have a critic’s sensibility for series, if you haven’t caught on to that yet. I’m a bit of a paradox in that sense.)

What happened to Satoru’s dad?

At least the “You’re pretty” went down like you’d expect kids to handle it…haha.

Welp, at least the sentence with “pole” (as in “North Pole”) did actually have the kanji for “pole” in it. If this were an English lesson though, the kid would’ve gotten an X. (Remember, O is the way to say “correct” on schoolwork in Japan.)

Uh…using my standard conversion, 5000 yen = $50. That’s a lot of sandwiches…

(ep 5)

Back to griping about CGI cars for me…

The Last Supper? Surely, the only meaning for that being there must be a symbolic one.

The manager is basically playing the role of Satoru here…awkwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard.

Cafeteria? The kanji means that, but wouldn’t it be better to call it a “restaurant”?

ONE PUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNCH! Hahaha.

“Majin” can mean “demon god” with the right kanji.

The pencil frames make for a good contrast.

#simulcast commentary #classicaloid #masamune-kun no revenge #blue exorcist: kyoto impure king arc #blue exorcist: kyoto saga #erased #Boku Dake ga Inai Machi #Chesarka watches Classicaloid #Chesarka watches Erased

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