I think what I don't like about the Makoto cameo is that he incidentally and accidentally saves Kyoko's life through his luck.
He trips her and they both fall and Kyoko subsequently does not get her head smashed in by a shot put that Sakura has thrown like a baseball.
Because I know Makoto is being set up as the person who takes over Yui's spot in Kyoko's life. Who gets her to trust people again and emotions and etc.
So we have Makoto immediately saving Kyoko just like Yui literally just died saving Kyoko.
Except that Makoto. doesn't have a choice here. He does in THH, and he canonically makes that choice, and that parallel is important, that Makoto unintentionally sacrifices himself for Kyoko.
But that's the thing - both of these are unintentional.
In his cameo, Makoto saves Kyoko by accident.
In THH, Makoto intentionally saves Kyoko, but he's not aware that will put his own head on the executioner's block.
Yui walked directly into putting her life on the line for Kyoko full-stop, constantly, not looking back, until she died doing it.
That's not the same.
And the closest parallel we get to it isn't Makoto for Kyoko, it's Kyoko in DR3 saying that if she has to choose between herself and Makoto, she will choose keeping Makoto alive. Full-stop. And then sacrifices herself in that pursuit.
(She gets better because she found an antidote for poison, but she had no certainty that would work or that anyone would even notice she wasn't really dead. Bless Mikan, actually, because none of the others noticed. Kyoko out here literally teaching Makoto how to investigate, and boy has learned NOTHING.)
And this is not, like, anti-Naegiri or anything like that. Clearly, canon sees the appeal here.
But Makoto is not the Yui parallel that canon wants him to be as entirely as it wants him to be.
Kyoko is.
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Currently thinking about how for nearly all Dreamling meetings, Hob's always the one watching Dream leave him.
In 1389, he watches Dream walk away from their table. In 1489, he again watches Dream leave while saying that he never told Hob his name. In 1589, he bitterly watches Dream leave with Shakespeare. We don't see the end of the 1689 meeting, but there's a pattern here, so. In the 1789 meeting, Hob again watches Dream leave and he literally never looks away from him- the scene ends with Hob still watching Dream leave after their confrontation with Constantine, he never turns his head from him. And then of course the 1889 meeting, which again...ENDS WITH HOB CHASING AFTER DREAM AND WATCHING HIM LEAVE IN THE RAIN
friends I am having thoughts
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World building for my Sabo Royal AU story because it's easier than writing angst, and my household is dealing with The Sick™ -
but here, have a little snippet because I made a joke and I wanted to share that XD
Some kingdoms didn’t have the capacity to maintain their roadways, and some kingdoms let them rot unless they were paths commonly traveled by nobility or the Empire. Oftentimes the maintenance of such farm roads and trade routes fell to the people who needed them the most.
Between Merchant maintained and Farmer maintained, you found you preferred the latter over the former. Merchants would often opt to set up informal checkpoints, and while the fees could be manageable, sometimes the enforcers were not. Farmer maintained roads were often of better quality, since farmers would simply walk their livestock over the roads.
Repeatedly.
This made for remarkably smooth and wide roadways. The only downside being that these paths often reeked. But the stench manure tended to be less headache than dealing with those who were full of it.
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Rewatching Hercules and...hm.
It's definitely GOOD, I love the art style and all, but...maybe it's just because of this Disney Era, but I can see the Decline. It's very, very, very Paint-By-Numbers. From the colors to the script to the songs to the pacing to the tone.
It's impressive by a lot of standards, but it's definitely one of the weakest of the 90s era.
Danny DeVito's here now, though, so it's definitely taken an upswing.
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"YOUR SKIN IS SO: SOFT..."
Hello again Jared dftm community.
Am I the first person to draw Jared x Y/N art? Maybe. Probably...... But I offer you it anyways. Because I have horrible self-control.
I want him to explode.
Bonus vers with my S/I under the cut hehe
I'm deranged
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Ah, right, another thing that hit me this episode is just the parallels between Kyouka, Dazai, and Yosano. I'm sure this has been said before but hear me out...
With Kyouka and Yosano, it the way they grew to resent and hate their abilities and their own selves for what their abilities did to the people they loved or wanted to save, even though Kyouka's ability definitely was death-coded and Yosano's was life-coded. I mean, firstly, they found hope in the ADA which is just....*clenches fists* and secondly, it also tells me how the actual message of their stories isn't really "hey, this is only good for insert death/life" like they thought but more that it's what you do with that ability and how you see yourself and how maybe nothing and no one is really coded as evil or perhaps even if it is that doesn't mean it cannot be redeemed and just -
And with Dazai and Yosano, it's just the way they witnessed someone they loved die that finally broke them in their own ways. For Dazai it was Odasaku dying because the latter was grief-and-revenge stricken because of what the PM and Gide did. For Yosano it was how her soldier died because he was too traumatised by the war and what Mori did. Something about Oda and the soldier's deaths being from the way they saw life becoming cheapened, meaning that they saw their own lives as not really worth living...and how that managed to break something in Dazai and Yosano and propel them to get out of their situations....
Also. Just. Yosano and Kyouka finally saw the value in their lives and grew in a wonderfully positive direction. Dazai, you're doing AMAZING but you're still suicidal and so stupid...
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I hope we get a chance to try one of the desserts heretjeb like sorbet one sounded really yummy. I think Theseus would be the type to always get a nice dessert at the end of a date but also he runs the bill sooooooooo super high. Thankfully he's a gentleman (and his family is upper middle class) and so he pays 🙏🏾
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honestly my happy ending for Lucy (said as someone who only finished fallout 3 and her lone wanderer died) is that they get to reclaim their 3 vaults and use their resources while leaving the doors open, and she keeps going on quests until she retires and has a bunch of animals, the marriage she wanted, and friends who keep visiting her, after they truly started unraveling what is left of Vault Tec, and you can pry that from my cold dead hands
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