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esonetwork · 4 months

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Maestro Movie Review | Earth Station One

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Maestro Movie Review | Earth Station One

The end of the year is usually the season for the release of films aiming to receive awards, and previous winners Bradley Cooper and Carey Mullligan are currently featured in a biopic love story about an award-winning composer. Mike, Mike, and Jeff Dwoskin review the high and low notes of this cinematic composition. Plus, Angela’s A Geek Girl’s Take, Ashley’s Box Office Buzz, and Shout Outs!

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alwaysonf1 · 13 days

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leak?

Pairing: Charles LeClerc x Hamilton!OC

Genre: Slice of Life; Fluff

Word Count: 740

Warning: N/A

Rating: PG-13

Author's Note: Dates and times don't matter.

“Calm down.”

“Don’t tell me to calm down. Do you see what’s trending right now?”

There’s a sigh over the phone and Iman feels bad, but not enough that her anxiety is subsiding or that she can apologize in the moment.

“Mon ange, it’s not even a good picture of us. Plus, would it be so bad?”

Yes, is on the tip of her tongue, but it wasn’t the truth. Iman had just hoped there would be more time before the world knew. She’s adept at handling the media frenzy because of how it was when the world found out she existed. But this was something so fresh and new. She didn’t want to have to share it with anyone.

“No, I just…”

There are no words that come to mind. Logic is returning to her brain and she knows she’s being dramatic. Next to K-Pop stans, Formula 1 fans are creepy good at detective work. And one is always going to be around no matter where they are.

Also, she wasn’t completely bothered. There was a part of her that took joy in speculating that they were together. That he was her’s. It just isn’t strong enough to make the biggest impact in her head.

Iman sighs.

“Let them speculate. We don’t have to confirm anything.”

Another sigh.

She knows that he’s right, but she’d deluded herself into thinking that things could be chill. For at least a month. Or a week. But she’d found herself attached to Charles’ hip no matter how in public they were. There was some hope that if anything were to leak it would be her getting her ass handed to her in volleyball by Logan. It was ego bruising because she’s the one who played it through high school, but it was better than this.

“I know.”

“Then why all of this? You knew it would come eventually.”

“Not this quickly,” she mumbles.

There is a sound on the other end that sounds like a scoff. Iman has picked up when Charles is calling her out on her bullshit.

“I mean I could post that video of you falling on your face on the beach. That would get everyone’s attention,” Logan chimes in.

Iman’s eyes narrow as she turns to look at him leaning against her door frame snacking on popcorn. Lewis stands behind him with the bowl of popcorn that he’s been eating from.

Both idiots think her reaction is funny and have been watching her as she fights not to go into a spiral. Lewis has made comments about how she wasn’t even this bad when things got intense with the media after their episode.

The urge to cuss them out presents itself, but Iman simply raises her hand with only one finger extended. Both of them react in faux shock and offense before falling into a giggling fit.

What she’d done to have this life she wasn’t sure, but goodness did it sometimes test her.

“Mon ange…”

“Huh?”

Charles laughs. “I asked what you wanted to do. I want what makes you happy.”

For a second, she sits with her lips pursed as she thinks about it. They could get it out of the way, but it is much too soon to be making those kinds of announcements. Even if they’re both sure about this, it feels much too fast. Though Iman has to be honest in admitting that sometimes things move at a different pace when you’ve had years of friendship. And there are a few recent thoughts she’s had that are much faster than admitting to dating Charles Leclerc.

“Nothing.”

“Nothing?”

“For now, at least. If they catch something else and it goes crazy, we’ll just admit it. Or after like a month.”

“Okay, but mon ange, I’m not going to change my mind about you.”

Breathing becomes hard and Iman is barely able to tell him bye as they hang up the phone. Her phone drops from her hand and she falls back to fully lay on her bed. Butterflies are how she’d describe what she feels.

Laughter starts. At a speed that could give whiplash she turns her head and glares at the two pains in her ass.

“Get out!”

A pillow sails through the air and hits Lewis square in the face. Logan is gone before the other one can leave her hand and Lewis isn’t far behind him.

“Lord help me,” she says, sighing.

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paganimagevault · 4 months

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Panjakent Mural - The Blue Hall - Rustam Cycle, circa 740 CE. More images on my blog, link at bottom.

"Contrary to what one might expect, the impressive set of wall paintings known as the “Rustam Cycle” was not located in the hall of a royal palace, but in a house of average size in Panjikent, a small town sixty kilometers east of Samarkand . This painting cycle stands out among other excavated examples for its exceptionally well-preserved (and now, well-restored) murals, which can be dated to about 740. It is also, ironically, the last of the magnificent cycles to be painted at Panjikent; Fig. 1. The city’s ruler, Devastich, was killed in 722 and the city itself subjected to punitive Arab incursions. Despite this artwork and other evidence of Panjikenters resuming their way of life, the city was finally abandoned after the 770s.

Discovered in 1956–57 by archaeologist Boris J. Stavisky, the Rustam Cycle is the most famous painted hall of Panjikent. Named after its main figure, Rustam, a major hero in the great Iranian epic the Shahnameh [“Book of Kings”], it is typical of narrative cycles found at Panjikent as well as other Sogdian cities, such as Afrasiab and Varakhsha . Episodes are organized into different registers, each running horizontally along the length of the walls. Here, the two main registers contain the stories of Rustam’s exploits and are set between a lower tier, depicting scenes from fables and moral tales, and an upper tier, illustrating a religious subject, perhaps related to a family cult.

Two fragments of the Rustam story written in Sogdian have survived: one kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the other in the British Library. Dated to the 9th century, they predate by 200 years the first complete version of the Shahnameh written in Persian by the poet Firdowsi."

-The Smithsonian, Julie Bellemare and Judith A. Lerner

#sogdiana #ancient history #history #pagan #antiquities #art #museums #frescoes #ancient art #paganism #wall murals #muralart #mural #ancient

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livmadart · 4 months

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Me: *Finally sees a new detective conan chapter release* Also me: *Goes fvking nuts and spends two or more weeks re-reading it*

Sobbing cause I am still several years worth of episodes and chapters behind 😭

Case closed count: episode 740

#asks!

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knightyoomyoui · 10 months

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The Tale Of The Bloodline | TWICE MiSaMo (Mina, Sana & Momo) x Male Reader- CHAPTER 6: “The Fighting Machine”

HAVE YOU WATCHED THE NEW MISAMO "DO NOT TOUCH" MV? IF NOT, GO AND STREAM IT! DON'T LET YOURSELF MISS OUT A MASTERPIECE!

Previously on TTOTB CHAPTER 5...

The mysterious person finally removes the hood blocking off the face, making a quite loud reaction from the fans. She revealed her identity, Jennie, half of the crowd and the rest of the production team of the company were all familiar at this person that turns out to be a WOMAN staring down with fierce at Jennie.

"That is Hirai Momo, The Myoui's younger cousin!" Knight introduces Momo to Kwangsoo and to the other people watching from their TVs about who is she.

"The fighting machine, the meanest in the bunch, the federation's developmental program standout, Yuta's cousin and another member of the Nakamoto family is here to cost Jennie the World Championship and help her cousin out!" Knight says as everyone watches Jennie reaches for Momo's hair and pull it towards her, making Momo to hop in the ring but the referee broke up the two while warning both possible disqualification.

Not wanting it to happen, Jennie lets go from Momo but as she turns around she was met by an emphatic spear by Yuta. The referee counted to three and it completed. The Seoul crowd booed as the announcer declared Yuta's win and still the Japan Federation World Champion for 700 plus days.

Yuta raised the title and presented himself as the defending champ in front of the devastated, saddened and unamused Seoul crowd for the loss of their pick and their very own hometown representative Kim Jennie.

Yuta exits the ring and reunites with Momo who's waiting for him. The two both nodded at each other and Yuta smirked at her as they began to walk out of the arena triumphantly after accomplishing two important things to do for tonight: retain the title for The Bloodline and let the people be introduced to the newest addition in their group through a surprise appearance which would serve also as the main roster debut, in the name of Hirai Momo.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023 | ONE WEEK LATER

Kicking off this episode of Friday Night Shutdown, the entrance theme of The Myouis played in the arena as their titrantron presented in the large screen; alerting the crowd of Sapporo to rejoice their arrival.

Seconds later, the twin siblings and the current tag team champions Myoui Mina and YN walks out together with the Honorary Muse Minatozaki Sana as they energetically feeds off the atmosphere with their good mood they're feeling to walk out and show the world that their successful status is still intact after what happened last week at Clash In The Combat.

All of them left South Korea while retaining the titles. However, it wasn't that strong to feel joyful at that achievement when the group's one member and that is Sana herself who missed the entire event due to a sickness.

But still, all of them still feels the same way as they know that they got what the desires in the end nevertheless.

"Please welcome, the current Japan Fightful Federation Tag Team Champions, The Myouis and Minatozaki Sana!" Shutdown's ring announcer Song Jihyo exclaimed to introduce them.

The three posed with their signature one finger up into the sky before they walked through the camp, vibing to the entrance theme while keeping up with their bad attitude, ignoring the fans throwing mixed reception at them.

"When it comes to the Bloodline, Kwangsoo; you gotta talk about the numbers." Knight talks to his partner on the commentary team. "Because The Myouis has been the tag team champions now for 418 days and ofcourse the Empire Chief and the Highness of the Land Yuta Nakamoto with a whopping 740 days as the World Champion in over 2 years of his reign.

"I thought the numbers you were talking at Knight is a reference to the members of the Bloodline which grew this past Saturday and officially will grow in only a matter of moments." his partner Lee Kwangsoo replied. "I said it back at Clash In The Combat, The Bloodline is as deep as they are: dangerous and badasses since birth. And Minatozaki Sana who is like an invaluable neighbor, always making sure that nobody's checking on your windows when you're out of the town."

"Sounds like a pest." Knight argued.

"Makes sure that the trash cans are not down in the road."

"Sounds like a pest." Knight repeated.

"N-no, he's not like that. I think he's more of a friend than a pest, Knight." Kwangsoo defended the Bloodline fron Knight.

"Someone who can't mind his own business, yeah."

The Bloodline enters the ring and Sana snatches a mic from a production staff after requesting one. The entrance theme has been stopped from playing in the background to let The Bloodline start their opening segment.

"SAPPORO!" The crowd cheered.

"THE BLOODLINE IS NOW IN YOUR CITY!!!" Sana raised his finger to the sky, encouraging the rest to do the same as their sign of acknowledgment to the powerful group.

"THROW YOUR ONES UP! THROW YOUR ONES UP! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU, THROW YOUR ONES UP RIGHT NOW!" Sana commanded the crowd as he circled around the ring to let every sides hear her audibly.

"That's what I'm talking about! I'm feeling the heat- do you feel it Minari? You know what I mean?"

"Yeah."

"Yes, ofcourse you do!" Sana high fived Mina and hugged her which elicited a gummy smile from the champion.

Sana turns over to her left to ask the same question to YN. She was about to hug her but YN glared sharply at her, effectively paused her movements and instead retreats her hands from almost touching the irritated individual.

"W-well we do have some serious things to talk about, yes. But right now I want to talk about this. You know, growing up as a young Honorary Muse-"

Sana was interrupted by YN during her speech which puzzled the latter as he used his mic to speak up to her.

"Alright, look. I got it now Sana, That's funny but you gotta chill." YN said.

"Y-yeah... chill." Sana got shy and decided to just understand it, backing away as she nodded.

YN took the spotlight, having the initiative to express what's on my mind next. "To all the doubters and haters, your Empire Chief Yuta Nakamoto is still your Japan Fjghtful Federation World Champion!"

The crowd becomes divided with their reaction. Some went cheered, some gestured and echoed boos at them.

"At Clash In The Combat, Yuta Nakamoto beats Kim Jennie in front of her hometown!" YN continued. "Little does Jennie just know how this bloodline runs deep!"

"And now, Sapporo. I want everybody to get off their feet." Mina speaks up after her twin brother. "Put your ones to the sky and help me welcome the newest member of the Bloodline: the fighting machine and our younger cousin, Hirai Momo!!!"

Everyone did the gesture as the theme played in the arena, lights directed at the entranceway when Hirai Momo finally emerged for the first time in the main roster, allowing the crowd to take a closer and clearer look at her appearance for them to be familiar with now that they learn that this dangerous woman right here is now a new member of such a dominant faction in JFF's recent times.

Momo enters the ring. The Myouis greeted their younger cousin, and Sana did a kind nod before they let her stand in the center.

Sana reached for another mic and gave it to Momo, who is about to address something in front of the live audience.

She stood straight and with tough composure, staring fiercely into the camera as she raised the mic near her mouth to prepare herself.

The crowd is going louder with the boos, but the stoic woman is left unbothered thanks to the additional support being sent by Sana, who is whispering it to her.

"You come for my family, and I did surely as hell that I will come for you." Momo spoke her first lines to the main roster as she pointed at the camera to sent a message directly to Jennie who is watching at the backstage.

"You create problems, and I finish it." Momo glared seriously around the fans who are watching her, probably dissatisfied and disliking the decision of her also adapting the unpleasant character being possessed by her family members.

"Hirai Momo is here to stay and I promise you, because of me... The Bloodline just became stronger and better than ever." Momo assured as The Myouis and Sana all nodded in agreement.

"Because Kim Jennie, you're just a part of the twos... and WE. THE. ONES!" Mina exclaimed, signalling the others to do their symbol of higher power again with confidence.

Suddenly, the crowd erupted in cheers when the arena played another theme, but this time it wasn't coming from a cold-blooded fighter but rather a vengeful and defensive one who has his sights set on these people in the ring responsible for her loss at Clash In The Combat that she didn't deserve to get.

Kim Jennie walks out and marches into the entranceway with a steel chair in hand. All of The Bloodline members left and stayed out of the ring as they let Momo, who remained inside, take care of this problem on her own.

"Uh oh, Kim's heading to the ring and Hirai's not backing down." Knight said as he watches the scenario going on.

As Jennie reaches the unoccupied side of the ring, Momo approaches her, but she caught her off guard when she pushed the folded chair through her midsection, bending Momo as she stepped back into the ring.

Jennie enters, and she was about to smash the chair off into Momo's back when, out of nowhere, Sana hurries and pushes Momo away, causing her to be the one who takes the impact of the chair smashing onto her back.

Sana gritted her teeth and reacted painfully to that hit. The Myouis distracted Jennie by attempting to go into the ropes, just for Sana to roll out of the ring. They ran and helped Sana and Momo, who were attacked, as Jennie stared down at them furiously.

"I want you. I WANT YOU TONIGHT!" Jennie shouted at Momo.

"You want to fight me?"

"YEAH!"

"YEAH! COME ON! YOU WANT A FIGHT, YOU GOT IT!" Momo points at Jennie with a smug on her face.

"LET'S DO THIS!"

" I'LL BEAT YOUR ASS TONIGHT!"

"It looks like Kim Jennie wants a match to happen tonight wth Hirai Momo. She clearly haven't forgotten what she did to her last Saturday which costs her to win the title from Yuta." Knight said before the camera cuts to a backstage interview with another fighter.

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After two matches have passed, the crowd and the people watching through their TVs at home had their attention shifted back to The Bloodline when they were showed at their locker room having a group meeting together.

"You got this, Momoring. This is it. This is what you've been waiting for!" Mina motivates Momo who is getting pumped up, nodding through every uplifting words being said to her.

"Yeah, level up. Level up with that, couz." YN joins with Mina's thread of encouragement.

They both stopped when they heard the door open, their eyes drew towards Sana who just entered the room.

Mina and YN looked at Sana who became unresponsive, especially when Momo stepped forward and stared intensely at Sana before her eyes travelled up and down to check out The Honorary Uce.

"Yuta said he chose a girl, huh." Momo stated.

She scoffed. "You?"

YN grinned at Momo's tone sounding like she's judging Sana's apperance while Mina remains blank as she just listened closely to their conversation.

"He's right. I appreciate the help on this one, Sana."

YN's smile faded away, he crunched his forehead and massaged it while Mina smiled at Momo's appreciation for Sana's service.

"Well..." Sana grinned and chuckled. "I mean... Yuta knows what he's talking about so..."

"Ugh bruh please..." YN spat out bitterly with a slight disguise of hilariousness in his smile.

Mina and Momo glared at YN while Sana exhaustedly and unbelievably glanced at YN.

"Now what?!" Sana snapped out as she heard that same belittling and mockery of a remark she always get from YN.

"What?" YN pretends like he didn't knew what he did.

"He's at it again!"

"Sana. Sana, calm down. Please." Mina said as she acted immediately to lessen Sana's irritation.

"Tonight ain't even about this, guys. Tonight is about her!" Mina pointed to Momo as she scolds the quarreling duo. "She's about to make a statement for The Bloodline, right? Because Momo here is now a representative for The Bloodline."

"Yeah, I know but I just want to let him know and I want her to know that with anything you need, we are all here looking out for you, okay?" Sana responded to Mina and reminded Momo simulteanously.

"Yes."

"He knows."

"Yeah, I know he knows." Sana stated the obvious.

"But tonight he needs to do it alone." YN did a reminder of his own too. "Kim Jennie called you out, sis."

"Yeah yeah she did and she will regret it." Momo nodded, agreeing to YN. "YN, right, that's why I have to do it on my own... but if I needed help, I trust you."

Momo looks at Sana. "You got it."

Sana was about to invite Momo for a handshake when YN slapped her hand away, startling Sana while Momo shuts her eyes and gritted her teeth in annoyance at these two's dislike for each other.

"Scratch that. No, change of plans. Tonight, we all will be going out there. Sounds cool?"

"I'm in with that." Mina is in favor with YN's suggestion.

"That's good."

"It's cool, I guess." Sana just shrugged and pursed her lip.

"Yeah, let's go. You can do it, Momo!"

YN, Mina and Sana exchanges words of motivation again to hype up and help Momo be fully engaged for a battle later on with Jennie by keeping her to realize how important it is for her to win tonight.

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It has come to the main event for tonight. Jennie and Momo had their respective entrances, with Momo having her first ever entrance in the main roster after debuting last week through a surprise appearance during Yuta and Jennie's title match.

They settled the ring and stood at each corner, where they eyed each other with all seriousness. The referee became convinced to start the match, the bell rang, and both immediately charged at each other.

During the match, Momo tried to run towards Jennie, but she avoided it, throwing her instead from the top ring, rolling in the canvas, and ending up outside the ring.

Mina climbs near the turnbuckle, where she tried to distract the referee and Jennie, but without effect, as she rather ate a right-hand punch from Jennie.

Jennie plans to fly and crash through Momo and Mina, who are being checked over by Sana. He ran through the ropes to boost her momentum, but he got caught by Sana, who clutched one of her feet to disturb the advantage.

Jennie tugged on Sana's hair and pulled her up, enabling her to yank her inside the ring. Sana ached at how strong the impact was when her back was the first thing that landed on the hard surface at that height.

As Sana crawls away from Jennie, she doesn't have any idea that the latter is instead thinking the opposite. She went into the other turnbuckle and raises his arm, the crowd cheered when they recognized already what does it mean.

"3...."

"2...

"1!!!"

Jennie began to ran when Sana rotated her body, aiming for a Pink Venom only to meet with a devastating superkick from Momo right into her face. The sound of the impact was so crunchy that it made the commentators went "ooh" on the contact.

Sana rolled out of the ring. Momo pinned Jennie who collapsed in the canvas. The referee started to pin.

"1... 2..."

Jennie kicks out at two, swinging her body to the side. Momo was stunned, even Mina, who is watching on the ringside, had her hands placed on her head in disbelief that Jennie was still able to hold on.

Momo put all of her strength into slowly lifting Jennie's body until she could stand again. She tried to carry her on her shoulders, but Jennie hopped out, rotating her body and rather meeting a headbutt from Jennie.

Jennie ran through the ropes. However, The Myouis dumped her out of the ring by tugging the ropes down. The referee didn't see that since he was busy dealing with Sana, distracting him with her fake complaints.

Because of that, The Myouis had the opportunity to unleash a beatdown on Jennie, both punching her at the same time.

YN stood up and did some stomps to Jennie's midsection while monitoring if the referee stopped giving Sana attention. They were so busy weakening Jennie that they weren't aware that they had just awakened a calvary for them.

"Wait a second! Here comes TXT!" Knight Yoo calls out the involvement of the tag team who just recently got drafted from War to be a part of Shutdown.

"Huening Kai, Choi Beomgyu trying to even the score!" Kai and Beomgyu was seen punching each of The Myouis, seperating them away from the mauled Jennie.

Sana saw what's happening at the ringside near the ramp. She joined the fray, helping Mina taking out Kai while Beomgyu is still busy fighting YN.

When they saw that YN successfully put down Beomgyu, Mina and Sana joined him, and now all three of them have begun teaming up against the dominated fighter.

Little did they know that Kai was slowly climbing to the turnbuckle. Sana titled her head and caught a glimpse of their enemy now standing high on top. She alerted Mina and YN, but of course that only sets up Kai to perform his attack in mind.

He jumped from the turnbuckle, did a high dive, and crashed through all three members of The Bloodline, creating a dump of beaten bodies at ringside.

The crowd cheered at how awesome the fight sequence they were witnessing was. Multiple attacks and crazy spots back-to-back are enough to make the match already awesome and interesting to watch.

Jennie recovered from the hits she took from The Bloodline, returning to the ring. Momo, who is also recovered, slowly approaches Jennie and tries to carry her again on her shoulder, but Jennie hops out and pushes her to the ropes.

Both catapulted from each other, but that's the secret for Jennie to execute a Pink Venom rocket kick to Momo's face, who slid away from the ring after Jennie hit her finisher.

Jennie roared in rage after Momo gave her more business to throw her back in the ring and finally pin her.

She was about to, but in a shocking incident, someone just appeared from behind Jennie, trapping her neck in a choke hold. "OH MY GOD! I-IT'S KANG SEULGI!!!" Both Knight and Kwangsoo scream their lungs out at the surprise interference caused by this fighter. This wasn't the first time Seulgi targeted Jennie but her apperance still became unexpected because this match mostly highlights being Momo's in ring debut in the main roster.

FLASHBACK

AUGUST 5, 2023 | 1 MONTH AGO

The Bloodline is having a segment to close the show with Sana being absent due to her incoming match for the Fatal 5 Way No.1 Contender for the Intercontinental Title and Jinyoung also who is still on the recovery after the beating he got from Yuta's previous opponent and his former long-time client back at SuperSlam.

"But there's a few things that needs to eb addressed before we get into all of that." says the Empire Chief and the current World Champion Yuta Nakamoto.

"You see, number one. Let's talk about Jeong Jihoon." Yuta mentioned the name of Jinyoung's former client and one of his longtime and popular archenemies he had throughout his entire fighting career who he beat at SuperSlam to finally close their book once and for all.

The crowd slightly booed more because the crowd of Hiroshima mostly supports The Empire Chief.

"Hey, I hate him too." Yuta heard that reception and agreed with them. "I hate Jeong Jihoon... but I respect that man."

....YET I STILL HATE JEONG JIHOON!" Yuta repeated when he noticed that the crowd died down when he complimented him. Fortunately, the crowd cheered again.

"It is not what you think. We hate Jeong Jihoon because he tried to kill the wiseman." Yuta explained. "As you can see, we don't have our special adviser here. We're not sure when is he going to be back so at the end of the day, that's what happens.

You get to be slammed repeatedly onto the table and you'll get to be brought onto the hospital so right now, I just want to send my prayers to the wiseman."

Their segment got interrupted when the arena played the entrance theme and titrantron of 'The Korean Warrior' Kim Jennie, stealing the attention of The Bloodline with Yuta furrowing his eyebrows.

"I don't think that's what prayer sounds like." Kwangsoo said.

"Yeah I'm not sure that Yuta's done either." Knight agreed. "But here comes the woman Yuta is going to face at Clash In The Combat, the number 1 contender for the title, Kim Jennie."

Jennie has a mic in hand and uses it to speak to The Bloodline about her thoughts. "These peopl have heard enough, all I want is to get my hands on you and I can't wait until Clash In The Combat." she said as she walked down in the ramp.

"But if you all want me to tear apart The Bloodline right now, LET ME HEAR YOU SCREAM!" Jennie throws away the mic as some of the Hiroshima people created noises in their anticipation for an impending brawl here to happen.

Jennie flexes her hands as she slowly makes her way into the ring. The Myouis and Yuta became alert and prepared for his attack until both sides and the entire crowd present in the arena were distracted when a familiar gloomy and tragic entrance theme and a titantron displaying a visual of dark clouds, a red moon, and a silhouette of a black crow little by little flew closer and disappeared at the bottom of the arena.

The Bloodline and Jennie kept on watching when suddenly neither of them noticed that Jennie got blindsided from behind when she took a blow to her back caused by an individual who, for others, had already recognized this woman.

The referee saw it and had no other choice but to instantly command for the ring to be rung, concluding this match to be a no contest, meaning that none of the fighters were a winner or loser.

"What the?" Knight said as he tries to figure out what's going on with Jennie being repeatedly slapped and punched by this mysterious person.

"Is that..?" Kwangsoo on the other hand, seems to almost recognize the woman ahead than Knight.

"Jennie is assaulted and ambushed by... that can't be. I-is that?"

"KANG SEULGI?!" both Knight and Kwangsoo finally corrected the identity of this woman who just made a surprise return into the main roster.

Seulgi proceeded to slam Jennie's head over and over again into the steel steps before she screams terrifyingly.

"Kang Seulgi is back and she's attacking Kim Jennie! The former 2 time champion in Japan Fightful Federation's developmental program is making her return to the main roster after she left the company 2 years ago!" Knight explained to everybody watching who might have forgotten this menacing and diabolical dark personified fighter has been since before.

As Jennie slowly crawled away from Seulgi, she lifted her body up only to receive a killer elbow swing from Seulgi to the back of her head.

Seulgi slowly stood up and faced The Bloodline, who was just watching her click the lights off Jennie's senses.

She reached out to her bag, which she had dropped aside before charging through Jennie. Seulgi pulled out her signature black hourglass and placed it at the ring, in front of The Bloodline, especially at the one she's sending a message to: Yuta Nakamoto.

She reversed the hourglass, letting its sand inside to start falling down.

"If anybody might have been confused what does this mean..."

"It means, tick tock. The clock is ticking. Could it be Seulgi is probably telling Yuta that his reign is running out of time, ladies and gentlemen." Knight cited his insights as Yuta was shown confused alongside YN and Mina who all don't get what does this hourglass symbolizes for their faction's fate.

The show then ended with Seulgi standing at Jennie's unconscious body while staring down The Bloodline and pointing directly at Yuta's title, confirming Knight's guess.

After her return, she began doing segments explaining why did she attacked Jennie and her intentions to everybody in the Shutdown roster.

She continued to disturb both The Bloodline and Kim Jennie. Back at The Bloodline holding a celebration for Yuta Nakamoto's 2 years anniversary of his championship reign, she sent out a cryptic gift to Minatozaki Sana who is the one in charge of hosting the ceremony.

She was confused and weirded out why would anybody would gift a champion... a bouquet of black roses with a message saying "Enjoy while it lasts."

Seulgi was also present at the main event of Clash In The Combat as she watches Yuta and Jennie fight for the titles. That's why she's aware of Jennie's defeat and the expansion of The Bloodline with Momo's surprise debut being the cause for Yuta to retain the titles.

END OF FLASHBACK

"THIS LUNATIC IS CHOKING JENNIE OUT!" Knight said as Seulgi succeeds on making Jennie powerless, crashing onto the canvas where it allowed her to tighten the hold further and wrap her legs around Jennie to make her sleeper hold unescapable.

"The Queen Of Doom, this crazed maniacal Seulgi delivering the doomsday prophecy she has prepared for The Korean Warrior!"

Jennie is doing everything she can to escape Seulgi's sleephold, slapping and hitting her head from behind but that only makes the latter become infuriated and tighten the choke even more, which Jennie now started to struggle on her breathing.

"We need help out here! Somebody send help to Jennie here guys!" Knight pleaded on the commentary as they can see how Jennie is beginning to fade away.

"Wait, Jennie is trying to fight her way out of Seulgi's sleeper hold!" Kwangsoo reacts as the crowd cheered when Jennie slightly gets up on her knees with Seulgi still wrapped on her back.

"... but not enough." Knight continued when the crowd became saddened that Jennie has already given up, her body dropped again. "Kang Seulgi has completely decimated Kim Jennie."

The show ends with The Bloodline walking out of the arena as Momo didn't lose nor win in her first match while Jennie was left faded to black by Seulgi until the medical and security personnel finally rushed to the ring to provide assistance for Jennie and separate Seulgi from her.

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do you have any recommendations for specific this american life episodes?

hello anon sorry for the delay. today's been a little crazy lol

you're in luck because I did actually make a recommendation list a while ago, but I should add some more episodes here that I've listened to since then and really enjoyed:

801: Must Be Rats on the Brain (funny rat narration going on here but if you listen to this as your first-ever TAL episode it might give you weird expectations for what the show is like.

797: What I Was Thinking As We Were Sinking

757: The Ghost in the Machine (this one's really interesting because it features an AI-coauthored essay that came out before chatGPT was released to the public, and the essay's author recently released a follow-up piece where she talks about the process of writing that piece and how the magic is gone now when she tries to use the publicly available versions of GPT-3.)

755: The Convert

754: Spark Bird (the final segment of this one is SO fucking funny lol. apparently a bunch of listeners got mad and said it was the most fucked up perverse thing they've ever heard on the radio but noelle and I were dying because we do literally the same thing but instead of birdly we have a guy called mr. quarterpounder. although now we give birdly a place in the personal canon as well. definitely listen to this one.)

752: An Invitation to Tea

751: Audience of One

740: There, I Fixed It

218: Act V

208: Office Politics

204: 81 Words

but as a general rule I have yet to be disappointed or bored by an episode of this show tbh. it's like the perfect format for me: a different topic every week but presented in a way that's consistently engaging, so I get to have my cake (novelty) and eat it too (quality). even now that I'm making my way back through their archives and some of these shows aired over 20 years ago... still good! and I'm still the number one ira glass groupie

#there was a recent episode where ira dropped an f-bomb on air for the first time(?) and I went :O irl lol

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Quodo recs for the last ~8 months

I got really behind on Quodo works for the last eight months or so. But now that I'm finally caught up, I thought I would post a rec list featuring my favorite fanworks that have been posted since around December 2022 or so. These are just my personal favorites -- feel free to add more.

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see you later (740 words) by kirajockstrap: An episode-centric ficlet about Odo's thoughts when confronted with the fact that Quark might actually die in the Terok Nor flashback episode, 2x08 "Necessary Evil."

Doctor's Orders (1,904 words) by WeaverofWords: After a routine appointment with Quark, Bashir ends up diagnosing a very clueless Odo with an obsession with Quark that he might want to act on. A funny fic I like because of how clueless Odo is. Poor Dr. Bashir!

Gotta Look Good (5,191 words - Mature) by WeaverofWords. Quark ropes Odo into helping him take a good profile pic for a dating website. Odo checks out Quark's profile page and is a bit horrified by Quark's dating strategy and decides something needs to be done about it. Again, another fic I love because of how clueless Odo is (but he still cares about Quark a lot).

Holosuite Malfunction (9,537 words) by cool_ha_ha. There's a holosuite malfunction and Odo and Quark are trapped in a program (you know how it goes). I enjoyed this one because of the cheesy bodice-ripper vibes of the program Odo and Quark get stuck in, the sexual tension between Quark and Odo and a hologram version of Odo, and Quark and Odo struggling to articulate their feelings for each other.

A Mile in Another Man's Bucket (48,810 words) by Superfloxes: Roleswap AU. A bit of a double roleswap going on here: Quark and Odo end up in a universe where Quark is the DS9 security chief and Odo is a no-good bartender/petty criminal. The result is that they end up having to do the other person's job for a few days. Simple right? Well, maybe they'll end up understanding each other a bit better after they do that. Along the way, you also get a few glimpses of what the show might have been like if Odo and Quark were swapped.

what's the problem? I don't know (well, maybe I'm in love) (WIP - 2,797 words - Mature) by Khoshekh42. This one's a WIP but I'm enjoying it a lot so far. Quark and solid!Odo end up having a drunk one-night stand and then end up kind of avoiding each other because they're not sure how to deal with that kind of situation. Gotta love the pining!

Not quite Quodo but I enjoyed them so I'll rec them anyway:

Lost in Translation (Patching the UT) (18,939 words) by sayler_antimony. This is mostly gen worldbuilding about quirks of the languages of various Star Trek races, but there's a bit of an outsider POV look at various pairings, including Odo/Quark (in chapters 3, 5, and 12). But the whole thing is very worth reading for a DS9 fan!

Benefits of Acquaintance (3,481 words - Explicit) by synthehol_king. This is a Garak/Quark PWP, but there are undertones of Garak->Bashir and Quark->Odo pining to it. Fun characterization of Garak and Quark and how they might interact during sex.

Peace Negotiations (10,505 words - Explicit) by StopTalkingAtMe. This is a Quark/Brunt fic but there is just a hint of Quark's attraction to Odo. Basically, Quark and Brunt are holed up in a Risa vacation home after an auction of rare artifacts goes south. They end up playing out some of the other's sexual fantasies. Plotty and fun!

Art

There's been so much awesome Quodo art posted in the last ~8 months or so. Rather than listing all of them, it might just be easier to check the last 5 pages of my quodo art tag over on my Tumblr, as I tried to round up a lot there.

#quodo #fic recs #art recs #recs

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A Clash of Kings - 58 DAVOS III (pages 740-755)

The Battle of the Blackwater - Davos edition.

Across the sea warhorns boomed, deep throaty moans-

"GRRM stop leaving mines in the text that make me think I'm reading porn" challenge 2023. ... yes I could stop getting distracted and refocusing on the text in the wrong spot, but... yeah no, like zero focus tonight. Oh Westeros' Number 1 Father of All Time Davos Seaworth, you don't deserve my inattention in this trying time.

... I'm probably biased from knowing Davos from the show and the inherent POV bias of the chapter, but this Ser Imry guy sound a bit overly sure of himself. Too confident in his victory.

It's good to know your destination, to keep your eyes on the prize, but if you don't check where you're walking... well, that's how you end tripping and lying face down in the dirt.

Beyond the line of warships, Davos could see the Red Keep up on Aegon's High Hill, dark against the lemon sky, with the mouth of the Rush opening out below.

🍋=🥛 Shhhh, it counts.

Davos tasted a trap, yet he saw no sign of any foes sweeping in behind them, only the great fleet of Stannis Baratheon in their ordered ranks, stretching back to the watery horizon. Will they raise the chain and cut us in two? He could not see what good that would serve. The ships left out in the Bay could still land men north of the city; a slower crossing, but safer.

Oh, my dear, the boom chain isn't meant to keep you out, it's meant to keep you in. 🏰🏖️🔥⛵🔥⛓️🌊 Kill Zone~

Please stay out of it.

Directly ahead, Davos saw the enemy's Kingslander drive between Faithful and Scepter. The former slid her starboard oars out of the way before impact, but Scepter's portside oars snapped like so much kindling as Kingslander raked along her side. "Loose," Davos commanded, and his bowmen sent a withering rain of shafts across the water. He saw Kingslander's captain fall, and tried to recall the man's name.

I like the way this fight is done, just from a writing stand point, we're close camera POV again, Davos is isn't seeing everything so we aren't seeing everything, just what's relevant to Davos, but we're still aware of the bigger battle. And then, despite how impersonal it is, tracking ships and not men, the line about trying to remember the captain's name to remind the viewers, these aren't just unmanned vehicles, this is a lot of people dying per ship.

There's that nice, subtle "oh hey have you seen the horrors?" layer tucked in without dragging us through all the visceral gore.

Hmm, me? salty about a series that thinks the only way to show the horror of war and violence is by the number of blood packets? pfff, what gave you that idea.

D&D suck at their job = 🥛

... Now we're getting a little more graphic. "Forty years at sea, and yet this was the first time he'd rammed another ship." But it still feels more about the emotional weight than the shock value. I know these are the kinds of things that you can't one-to-one translate on the screen, but still.

A flash of green caught his eye, ahead and off to port, a nest of writhing emerald serpents rose burning and hissing from the stern of Queen Alysanne. An instant later Davos heard the dread cry of "Wildfire!"

Wildfire sounds absolutely terrifying to be honest. I wouldn't be surprised to learn you could jump in the sea all the way to the ocean or river floor and still be burning.

"They'll soon run out." Oh Imry, you absolute dumbass.

... oh no. That's not a desperate hunk of driftwood, that's barrels leaking wildfire into the river, I've seen this episode, turn your boat and GTFO!

... it would be a bit ironically hilarious, how very on fire this river battle is with the burning boats, but I am unfortunately well aware that things are about to be "more on fire."

It was Swordfish, her two banks of oars lifting and falling. She had never brought down her mast, and some burning pitch had caught in her rigging. The flames spread as Davos watched, creeping out over ropes and sails until she trailed a head of yellow flames. (...) Directly ahead, drifting towards her and swinging around to present a nice tempting plump target, was one of the Lannister hulks, floating low in the water. Slow green blood was leaking between her boards. When he saw that, Davos Seaworth's heart stopped beating.

Mine too buddy. Like, I know what's happening, what's coming, but my gosh the vibes! It's like seeing it again for the first time... maybe because it's from a steadier lens, a different focus, just. !!!

huh. haha. Sorry, the narrative just changed "Swordfish" to "the Swordfish" twice. I read somewhere once, that ship names don't have the "the" put in them until they're decommissioned. Now, I don't know if that's true, or if it's only for certain ships like military vessels, but given that Swordfish is about to be... violently decommissioned, it was a little funny. Unfortunate gallows humour. I apologise.

Fifty feet high, a swirling demon of green flame danced upon the river. It had a dozen hands, in each a whip, and whatever they touched burst into fire. (...) the demon was eating its own. Lord Velaryon's Pride of Driftmark was trying to turn, but the demon ran a lazy green finger across her silvery oars, and they flared up like so many tapers. For an instant she seemed to be stroking the river with two banks of long bright torches. The current had him in its teeth by then, spinning him around and around. He kicked to avoid a floating patch of wildfire. My sons, Davos thought, but there was no way to look for them amidst the roaring chaos.

Oh god, his boys. I can proudly say, I am only crying a little. Fuck, that escalated quickly.

And then the current turned him about again, and Davos saw what awaited him downstream. The chain. Gods save us, they've raised the chain. Where the river broadened out into Blackwater Bay, the boom stretched taut, a bare two or three fee above the water. Already a dozen galleys had crashed into it, and the current was pushing others against them. Almost all were aflame, and the rest soon would be. (...) the mouth of the Blackwater Rush had turned into the mouth of hell.

... that's a lot less funny at this end of the chapter. Like, there's some level of horror for the show, but this, really being in the mental car with Davos, really being a passenger, it's an entirely different level of devastation, both the actual in story toll and emotionally as a reader.

And tomorrow is Tyrion's fight on the wall/banks. shit.

This is, I think, the first time a fight has been focused for more than one chapter, and it gets three. Sansa | Davos | Tyrion. I know Tyrion is technically in the Victor role, but I feel like it's going to be as horrible as these last two for emotional toll.

#a clash of kings #a song of ice and fire #davos seaworth #a chapter a day reading #acok #asoiaf

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you know this matpat video? yeah you probably do. (before you click read more, watch it)

youtube

anyways, i have decided that it is outdated, since it is from the far past (2017)

so, i give to you, my modernized rendition of this theory, and a shit ton of math to go with it. enjoy.

here we go.

there are now 277 Spongebob episodes, so 277 x 1,320 = 365640

The bee movie is still gonna be the same length, so I copied Matpat here, so 7136 seconds OR 7136 x 365,640, which equals 2,609,207,040 seconds (holy shit)

as of today, (February 14th, 2023 (happy valentines day,)) there are 740 episodes of the Simpsons, so i did the math (740 x 2145)

meaning that there are 1,587,300 (approximately 1.5 million words) in total.

SO. THAT MEANS 1,587,300 TIMES EVERYTHING ELSE WE GOT HERE.

i am just now realizing this is gonna take ages but oh well

now it's time for every video uploaded to youtube.

so there are a LOT more videos on youtube now. (We aren't gonna count youtube shorts because hell no)

hours per minute (500) x the amount of mins in a year (525600) x the amount of years youtube has been alive (18 years. (also it turns out youtube's anniversary is today, so happy birthday youtube! :D))

so 500 x 525,600 x 18 = 4,730,400,000 hours of content. holy shit. why am i doing this.

alright, we're getting close to the end. ITS TOY STORY TIIIMEE and i am NOT counting toy story four because the meme strictly says TRILOGY.

also i am lazy.

4 hours, 36 minutes (or 16,561 seconds) 84.6% of the time, the color green is on the screen, so that means 16,561 x 84.6% = 14,011 seconds with green. (you most likely already knew this because you probably already watched the video)

matpat did the math for me here so i know that there are 34,085 syllables in the ice age pentolagy.

RECAP TIME: 365,640 seconds of spongebob x 7,136 seconds of bees x 1,587,300 simpson vowels x 4,730,400,000 hours of youtube x 14,011 seconds of green in the toy story trilogy x 34,085 syllables in the ice age pentolagy

converted into seconds: (vowels and syllables not included)

(the youtube time was very hard to calculate.)

4,730,400,000 = 149 years, 10 months and 25 days

149 years first. there are 365 days in a year so 365 x 149 = 54,385 days. 86400 seconds in a day, so 86,400 x 54,385 = 4,698,864,000 seconds (oh boy.)

the 10 months come next. there are 304.167 days in 10 months so 304.167 x 86400 seconds in a day = 26,280,028.8 seconds in total

2,160,000 seconds are in 25 days

2,160,000 + 26,280,028.8 + 4,698,864,000 = 4,727,304,028.8 seconds in total.

meaning our whole total (finally) will be the result of:

365,640 x 7,136 x 1,587,300 x 4,727,304,028.8 x 14,011 x 34,085

now. the moment you all have been waiting for. the answer. the answer that might break my computer.

im gonna do this bit by bit

365,640 x 7,136 = 2,609,207,040

2,609,207,040 x 1,587,300 = 4,141,594,334,592,000

4,141,594,334,592,000 x 4,727,304,028.8 = 19,578,575,583,572,016,804,249,600 (holy sweet mother of jesus.)

19,578,575,583,572,016,804,249,600 x 14,011 = 274,315,422,501,427,527,444,341,145,600 (WE'RE ALMOST DONE I PROMISE.)

274,315,422,501,427,527,444,341,145,600 x 34,085 = A WHOPPING 9,350,041,175,961,157,272,940,367,947,776,000 SECONDS.

9,350,041,175,961,157,272,940,367,947,776,000 seconds in total

aka: a LOT.

if you convert it into hours (which im too tired and lazy to do, since ive literally spent an hour on this. also none of the calculator sites on my computer even support the equation) please let me know

in conclusion, NEVER AGAIN. also happy birthday youtube yadda yadda yadda

in all seriousness, this was very fun. also very stressful. hope you enjoyed whatever this is

#i took this from my own comment on youtube but who cares #math #matpat #film theory #tumblr #valentines day #youtube #memes #bee movie #ice age #spongebob #this took so long #if people dont see this i swear to god #game theory #Youtube

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I know I’ve goggled at this before but like…

Okay. The Simpsons has been on for what… 33-34 years now? It’s considered a benchmark for longevity in a TV show; there’s a lot of it.

Currently, it’s aired I think 740 episodes.

Anime fans can scoff at that. They’ve got shit like Pokémon and One Piece, both of which have over 1K episodes (1228 and 1049 respectively). If you wanna dig deep, there’s Sazae-San, which had like 2500-ish, even.

But then there’s Guiding Light.

Which aired from 1952 to 2009. 57 seasons. Daily. A total of 15,762 episodes. (And that’s just on film. It was a radio drama for 15 years and 2500 episodes before that.)

Think about that for a goddamn second. They range in length from 15 minutes to an hour, but even if they were ALL only 15 minutes, that’s 164 straight days without stopping. As-is, it’s probably closer to a full year (or more), but I don’t have the numbers to figure it out.

And most of that is gone. It just doesn’t exist anymore. It was taped over, if it was taped at all.

“My name is Ozymandias…” and so on.

#personal #lost media #guiding light #the simpsons #one piece #pokemon

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I posted 5,316 times in 2022

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Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 2,454 of my posts in 2022

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Jacob Anderson: “That’s the point he gets to in this episode [the breakup]. He’s a man on fire. It’s going down for him. Everything is falling apart. But also like when he says “you took my life like the reason all of this is happening is you took my life” It’s not true. He’s blaming Lestat. Maybe wouldn’t be fair for him to put all the blame on Lestat. But he doesn’t know where to put it. And he’s got a lot of hubris, Louis, like he’s a snob. He comes from a life where he’s always kind of had what he wanted. He’s been given everything. And then was in a situation where he had to earn everything. But like he still is looking for places to blame mistakes that he’s made and things that he hasn’t quite thought of maybe.”

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Japanese lady artist I follow who does rly beautiful illustrations of fat women responding by posting this anti Abe art by the creator of yugioh (who also died this week) w a caption that calls him a fascist

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My #1 post of 2022

i hope season two begins the way i remember the vampire lestat beginning which is lestat being like "i was the first French bitch in my village to get my body done like ass shots titties done and like beat face contoured… and then i walked into like the saloon or whatever medieval french people have and everyone dropped their fiddles and was shookedt? like everyone churning butter was just in shock and i walked across the artisanal wood floors in my wantmylook.com thigh high lace up heeled boots like my life depended on it… yes god" and then he gets chased through the french countryside by wolves

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If Lightning were ever to talk about it (he will not), he would describe it as feeling like a turtle that has fallen on its back: absolutely helpless, the shape of its own home, its own shell, preventing it from returning itself upright. It comes sometimes, this wretched anguish, and Lightning in all his rage and all his spirit is always powerless to stop it. Some days are easier to manage than others: oftentimes he thinks it will be the last, that mercy will be granted upon him by his own design. It is not that he wishes to enter the void, nor that he feels as though there is no other choice: it is simply a peaceful thought, a merciful thought, a thought that occurs so easily to one that has had his worst fears come true, and for whom nothing worse could ever occur again.

He has turned his phone off. He subjects the world to the craziest of his antics, but he will truly enter the void before he allows the world to discover the depths of the emptiness that lies within. Lightning is fun. Lightning is wild. Lightning is anything but this. It is a preemptive protection of his image, yes — but it is also the fact that in times like this, he cannot find the energy within himself to face the infinite gaze of another. So even if the turtle wanted to be helped — which it didn’t — it will suffer its fate alone.

And if he is not in the 740 Park Avenue condominium unit in which he ought to have been at the moment, that shared space which Farley entertains him in and ought to have been expecting to entertain him in at some point in the day, nor in his brand new Central Park Tower unit, nor the Fifth Avenue residence that his family had acquired early on and that he had abandoned, then there is really only one other place he could be: an inelaborate little apartment in some nameless, near-dilapidated building in Chinatown. He had come here early on in the lonely morning when he had felt the all too recognizable beginnings of melancholy, a soft tugging at his heart that heralded the pitch-darkness that was to come. It was a space that was gentle to him; but not even the gentlest of spaces could prevent the turtle from its despondence.

Lightning doesn’t know how long he’s been here — he doesn’t know what time it is, nor even if it is the same day. He knows he has felt the pangs of hunger and thirst and cold from time to time, but has ignored all calls for self-preservation, not on the purpose, but because he feels heavy, because he feels an invisible weight pinning him to the Earth. He has tried, and he has failed, over and over again, and has left the bed only to find himself on the couch, has left the couch only to find himself on the floor, staring at the ceiling as though the white plaster contained all the answers to universe. He is simultaneously drowning in a pool of his own thoughts and subject to nothing but the emptiness of his mind. The nadir of this episode comes when mindlessly he wanders over to the piano which has long been covered with a white cloth, an old piano that had belonged to someone greater than him, and had been a gift in replacement of a piano that had been lost in a fit of passion. It is a sentimental thing, and he sits on the bench as though the feeling might kindle some sort of emotion within him. It doesn’t. Weakly, he lifts the cover, rests his broken fingers over the ivory and ebony, praying for some sort of sadness if only to kick him out of this state of nothingness. It doesn’t. And so he stares. And he stares. And he stares.

He doesn’t know how long he has been sitting and staring when he hears the unlocking of the door. He is vaguely aware that he should stand, that he should greet the only person that it could have been, the only other person who knew of this place and who knew of his occasional submission to this trance; he is vaguely aware that he should do them the favor of at least lifting his gaze to look upon them and acknowledge their presence. He doesn’t. Lightning only looks upon the piano numbly — as numbly as his body which has been in this position for god-knows-how-long, as numbly as his stomach and his tongue and his skin deprived of food and drink and warmth on such a frigid day, as numbly as the soul that lingers elsewhere, unseen in the horizon.

@pangkuphos

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