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red-archivist · 3 years

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Not quite part of the liveblog but, lil post-092 hc fic :3

As he leaves Elias’ office, Jon’s feet automatically take him down the stairs leading to the archives.

It is a habit that his long absence hasn’t managed to break but he stops himself from walking straight into his own office.

To do so, he would have to pass the open space where the assistants work, and call him a coward but he just isn’t quite ready to see the state that Elias’ little reveal has left the others in.

He retreats to the breakroom instead, keeping the lights off and taking a moment to take a few steadying breaths in the cool darkness.

As soon as he stops moving, the injuries he has been ignoring loudly make themselves known.

The constant ache of his burned hand provides a low steady hum of contrast to the staccato pulse of his throbbing throat.

He needs to clean them both up in order to avoid infection, and if he doesn’t want some concerned passer-by to call an ambulance on him when he leaves, he will have to bandage his neck as well.

He walks to the nearest press and begins rooting around for the first aid kit. It doesn’t seem to be where he last saw it months ago and a stumbling search in the dim light reveals nothing to him.

Jon is about to give up and just try to give himself a bit of a rinse in the sink when suddenly the door creaks open, and the lights click on behind him.

He whirls around with his heart in his bloody throat expecting something to pounce on him. Perhaps it is Tim come to take his weary anger out on him? Or Daisy aiming to finish what she started? Or maybe Elias with some other unsolvable puzzle to dump into his lap?

The fright only lasts an instant however, when he sees who is standing in the doorway looking even more surprised to see him.

“Martin,” He sighs with relief.

Martin’s mouth opens and closes a few times before he manages to find his voice.

“Uh, h-hi?”

“…Hi. Did you- Ah. W-Was the first aid kit moved?” Jon points to the mess he has made of the open presses.

Martin jumps in place before rushing forward.

“Oh! Uh, y-yeah, sorry!”

He crouches down to pull the kit out from under the sink and when Jon raises a questioning eyebrow, he shrugs meekly.

“Melanie moved it,” He says, “She said we all had to be able to reach it in an emergency.”

“Right.”

He takes the box from Martin with just one hand, keeping the bandaged one away from his body at an angle so it won’t bump into anything.

It’s a heavy, clunky thing and hoisting it onto the counter makes his joints sting. Ignoring the pain, he flips the latch and starts rummaging through it. A thin roll of bandages, antiseptic cream, gauze and dressing are placed in a pile on the counter as he mentally goes through the half-remembered steps of cleaning an open wound.

Just as Jon starts to unravel the hand bandage, the side of his face burns with awareness. He looks over to find Martin staring at him.

His gaze lingers on his hand, taking in the old bandages and his cracked nails, both still caked in grave dirt. Jon does his best not to squirm under the scrutiny.

When Martin’s eyes dart to the mound of medical supplies Jon is compiling, he also realises he is taking up most of the counter space.

“Am I… in your way?” He asks, about to sweep it all to the side.

Martin starts, as if he just remembered where he was and stammers as he turns away from him

“N-No! Sorry, sorry!”

He fusses with the kettle, taking out mugs as it boils, and does not face Jon again.

Jon is glad for the privacy. He doesn’t want to look at his own hand any longer than he has to, no-one else needs to see it.

As he peels the rest of the dirty wrappings off, they catch on his ruined skin and he can’t quite hold back a pained hiss. The burn is still dreadful to see, blistered like bubbling wax and so red it’s almost black. It weeps a clear discharge, making the whole thing reek a fluid, animal smell.

He rinses it off in the sink, pats it awkwardly dry, smears the whole thing in antiseptic cream and clumsily wraps it up again. It’s a messy, slow process and he barely remembers to clean his other hand as well.

Martin stays stock still as he works, standing guard over two brewing mugs and, as he glances at him, Jon can practically see the questions he wants to ask in the stiff line of his shoulders.

Jon feels both grateful and guilty that Martin holds his tongue. He owes him answers but his mouth is so tired of talking.

Tentatively, he starts prodding at the cut on his neck. It is long but shallow, already clotting. He can feel the skin around it is tender with a blossoming bruise. Daisy wanted it to hurt.

Jon pries his mind away from that thought. If he thinks about how close he came to dying today, he won’t be able to keep himself standing, nevermind clean up.

He just needs to get through the next few steps, and then he can go back to Georgie’s, lay down somewhere quiet and try not to have a complete breakdown. Laying out gauze and dressing, he wets a clean tea towel. He is halfway to raising it to his neck before he realises his mistake.

“Damn.”

“…Jon?”

Martin is peering over his shoulder at him, concern drawn in deep lines around his face.

Jon blinks back at him. He had almost forgotten he was there.

“I… uh,” He waves the tea towel, “I need two hands, should have done this first.”

He is going to ruin the clean wrappings on his hand. He will either have to do them again or wait to get back to the house and hope Georgie won’t be too pissed off to help him. Clucking his tongue, he weighs up his options.

“Um… Do you…” Martin’s soft voice cuts across his thoughts, “I mean, I can… i-if you want?”

“What?” Jon turns and sees him holding out a hand for the tea towel, “Oh.”

“O-O-Only if you, y’know, you’re comfortable with…”

Jon stares at him for a moment and regrets flickers across Martin’s face. He starts to draw his hand back.

“Uh, yes, no, I mean, I-I appreciate…” Jon stammers, “You don’t have to. I-I don’t want to interrupt… what you’re doing…”

The sheepishness fades from Martin as he chuckles slightly.

“I just came in to get a bit of a break from everyone else, really,” He immediately winces, “God, that sounded bad, didn’t it?”

“No… no, I understand.”

Martin smiles slightly and Jon’s feels his lips twitch upward in response.

“So, uh,” Martin holds his hand out again and Jon passes him the towel, “Might be easier to sit.”

“Right.”

Jon brings the gauze and dressing to the rickety coffee table while Martin wrings out the towel in the sink. They sit facing each other, and Martin scoots close enough that their knees brush.

“Can you lift your chin?” He asks, “And please tell me if I hurt you?”

Jon raises his head and stares into the yellowing florescent light embedded in the ceiling as Martin starts delicately dabbing at the cut.

It stings, of course. He can feel the edges of the wound prickle with pain as the meagre scabbing that covered them is wiped away. He hopes he isn’t letting it show on his face.

It is a little uncomfortable, letting someone else touch his neck. Especially someone he hasn’t seen for over two months. He peers at Martin out of the corner of his eye.

He looks exhausted. There are heavy bags under his eyes and the light from above washes him out terribly, making him seem even paler than usual. His hair has grown a bit, more from neglect than choice. His fringe droops over the frame of his glasses.

Guilt bites at the back of Jon’s mind. Without him here, he is almost certain Martin has been doing the lion’s share of the work in the archives. Melanie is only new to the position and Tim… Jon is doubtful Tim has been working at all.

Martin mumbles a pre-emptive apology as he moves the towel slowly over the cut. His touch is soft but steady, gentle in a way that is completely alien to Jon.

Martin’s gaze is focused on Jon’s neck, intent on washing away every speck of pain scrawled onto it. Instead of the sting of the wound, Jon feels something in his chest ache.

He can’t remember the last time anyone was this careful with him. That thought, more than the pinch of physical pain, makes his eyes water.

He blinks rapidly and rattles his brain for anything that will keep his mind off of how tender Martin’s touch is.

His mouth runs ahead of his head and he tries not to swallow too hard as he speaks.

“Martin… ah…”

“Sorry, am I pressing too hard?” The pressure on his throat eases slightly and Jon wills himself not to chase after it.

“No, no, I just, ah, I wanted to-” Jon bites his tongue in his haste to speak, “H-H-Have you been getting on alright?”

The pressure disappears entirely as Martin reels back to gawk at him, his mouth hanging open in shock. Jon might be offended at his surprise if he wasn’t too busy kicking himself.

He keeps babbling before Martin even has a chance to respond.

“God, that’s stupid- stupid question, of course you’re not-!” He sighs, “Just- Ignore me. Apologies.”

He looks back up to the breakroom lights, his face burning hot.

Martin chuckles.

Jon dares to glance at him.

The surprise has faded into something softer, a not-quite-there smile lingering on his lips.

“Yeah…” He agrees quietly, “That… is pretty stupid.”

“Well-! Pardon me for asking,” Jon snaps.

Martin’s smile grows.

“I’ve… I’ve got a pretty stupid answer for it though?”

“Uh,” Jon leans forward in his seat, “Yes?”

“Despite um, well, all of it…” Martin swings a hand around the room, “It’s… It’s really good to see you, Jon.”

He stares.

It’s Martin’s turn to try and hide from the scrutiny. Jon watches with fascination as he starts to turn a blotchy red.

He doesn’t understand. The last time they spoke, Jon gave him nothing but a weak apology after suspecting him of murder and invading his privacy for months. Martin should be angry at him, or maybe even afraid. Jon doesn’t want him to be, but he would understand if he were.

Instead, Martin sits in front of him with a shy smile and soft hands, helping him, missing him. Jon can’t possibly understand that.

He opens his mouth without any clue as to what to say.

“That… doesn’t actually answer my question?” He says weakly.

Martin laughs. Not a chuckle or a giggle but a full-throated belly laugh. It is a sound Jon has never heard from him before. His face feels even warmer.

As soon as he calms down, Martin shakes his head before delicately placing his fingertips on Jon’s chin and tilting his head upward.

“I guess not.”

He finishes cleaning and dressing the wound in silence. When he presses the dressing against the cut to make sure its smooth, Jon can’t help but shudder.

A frown crosses Martin’s brow.

“Don’t suppose I can convince you to see a doctor about this?”

“You suppose correct,” Jon sighs.

Martin clucks his tongue but doesn’t push him any further.

Jon is overcome with the sudden desire to sit in this chair for the remainder of the afternoon, resting in Martin’s half-joking disapproval with their kneecaps just about touching.

He is also keenly aware that that desire isn’t something he can afford to indulge in.

With a weary groan, he hauls himself upright.

“I… appreciate the help.”

Grabbing the now-stained tea towel, he turns away to toss it in the sink.

“O-Oh, uh, sure, anytime,” Martin says automatically, “Well, n-no, not anytime- I didn’t mean- I don’t want you to get hurt again or a-anything!”

“It’s fine, Martin, I know what you meant.”

He puts the first aid kit back under the sink and pats his pockets to make sure he has all the things he came in with. It’s not much.

“Right, I won’t be back today, but I’ll be in the office tomorrow.”

“You’d better not be!” Martin exclaims, suddenly loud.

Jon blinks at him.

“I beg your pardon?”

“You’re hurt! You need rest!” Martin squeaks indignantly, “Proper rest, Jon not just a half-day off!”

“I- Wh- You can’t stop me coming to work!”

“I bloody well can!”

Jon boggles as a memory suddenly strikes him full-force. He had tried coming back to the archives early after Prentiss’ attack as well, hadn’t he? Martin had practically carried out of the building. At the time, it was just another reason for Jon to be suspicious of him. Now, he can see it for what it was.

Martin cared.

He still cares, whether that care takes the form of washing his wounds or scolding him for his poor work-life balance. It’s not a feeling Jon is familiar with.

Martin still sits at the coffee table, arms crossed over his chest, colour high in his cheeks. With a wistful smile, Jon decides to let him have his way. It’s paltry thanks for his ministrations, but it is all Jon has.

“Alright.”

Martin’s glare vanishes under his shock.

“Alright?”

Jon nods.

“Alright. I’ll rest.”

“Oh! Oh. …Good!”

“It’s what, Friday now?” Jon says, “Maybe I’ll even take the weekend off.”

“Wow, let’s not go overboard,” Martin grumbles.

Jon snorts, hiding his laughter behind his bandaged hand. Martin smiles brightly and somehow, gets even redder.

“I’ll see you Monday.”

“Y-Yeah.”

Jon heads for the door. His feet are like lead weights and he already knows he is going to have to stop himself from napping on the tube. He can sleep properly once he is back at Georgie’s. It might even be nice to rest, for once.

He pauses in the doorway, glancing back.

Martin has stood up, his arms still crossed even as he flicks a hand up.

“See you.”

As he stares at him, Jon’s chest aches again. He is overcome with the urge to speak, as if that will ease it.

“For what it is worth… It is really good to see you too.”

Martin’s face goes slack with a look as soft and tender as his hand was on Jon’s throat. It makes the ache worse.

Jon turns away without another word, knocks once on the doorframe and walks away.

As he heads for the stairs, his hand still throbs, and his neck still stings but it is the hurt in his heart that distracts him. The sound of Martin’s laughter echoes in his head and Jon thinks that this particular pain is one he doesn’t mind keeping.

#the magnus archives #tma #jonmartin #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tma 092 #tma fic #the great tma relisten #listen. has this scenario been written about more than once? yes. do i care? no.#you will get my interpretation and you will like it #the boys are PIIINNNNIIINGGGGG

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nobody-knose--archive · 4 years

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this is about the worst time for me to make a liveblog but. fuck it rickshaw stop concert liveblog

-coming in just at the end of wtth, red went too early with the operatic stuff and andrew just went ham on the keyboard. he did vocals once or twice too! hell yeah

-the bidding next? the bidding next. havent looked at the whole setlist yet but oh boy. someone fix their microphones they are too quiet

-hey damn dramatic lighting alright

-that’s a hella wonky synth sound youve got going on what’s up with that, liking the good work andrew

-zubin i beg of you. where have your eyes gone. now i want to see eldritch zubin. goddam it emo boi

-those are the most synthed trumpets ive ever heard hoo boy

-mics could really really be better zubin’s so quiet compared to the others. and andrew’s singing‽ i couldnt even hear him!

-piano’s good and audible though and that’s always swell

-hello to you t- oh we’re going straight into misery fell of all songs? sure as hell wasnt expecting that from a 2008 show without vests

-i suppose the banter mightve just been cut out there are some clear cuts in this upload

-wonderful shot of eldritch zubin here

-wasnt expecting the flute synth but go off andy

-interesting camera angles! twists and turns and closeups i like it, would prefer more than background ross in the zubin shots

-wonder why they clearly do a tralalalala instead of a lalala here but not in the album version. i understand cutting out the call-and-response but the tralala seems perfectly reasonable to me

-woo blurry ross shot kick it good man!

-red’s face is really interesting to look at the way he enunciates everything and bobs his head as he does it. idk maybe it’s just the focal part of the shot but it’s a real sight to behold

-whoo instrument change? haiku? wait there’s a tambourine... &? introductions are nice? oh wait “you’re hot” “i’m too much, or not enough”. huh

-dramatic fade-ins lovely just what we need. didnt really expect to get acoustic guitar on this song out of all of them. it hasnt got that for the studio version has it?

-wait a minute how long has red been sitting on the floor. this isnt praise you dude get up. are you just going to stay there? i mean i wont stop you

-kinda liking the spotlight on rob

-oh there’s red coming up for the chorus with his electric guitar. fucker

-in general are these cameras dirty? everything’s slightly smudged

-oooh hell yeah synth solo kick it andy didnt see that coming overpower that guitar wahoo

-exactly one second of zubin’s banana bass baddiggle jiggle, rewind another second, and then into banana man we go. hold on all the tags where i called zubin’s bass dance his badiggle jiggle havent come out yet. well you guys can get context in like 3 weeks dont worry

-you’ll get. a lot of stuff in 3 weeks. like multiple weeks of pure tally hall queue content. i’m so sorry

-i didnt know rob straight up would be playing a bongo in this one, a maraca of some kind’s normal but not a full on drum. still go Off man slap that drum hell yes

-i’m going to say the same about ross hit those gotdam drums you’re killing it bro

-quick lil leap for the mic for a “wheee” i like that

-red’s taking on a slightly different accent for this chunk. not sure how to feel about that

-oh now i cant hear his voice. lovelyyyy

-KICK IT ROSS

-& ANDY

-& ZUBIN & ROB HELL YEAH YOURE DOING AMAZING SWEETIES

-preemptive clapping? is this crowd new to tally hall? they did introduce themselves a bit earlier

-i wonder how it feels to be a tally and know you’ll never be as good a whistler as bora karaca

-seriously zubin’s more audible than red here

-oh they are doing praise you! time to put the emo hair on full exhibition. hang on zubin’s turned away from the audience and rob’s putting something in his ear is there something wrong darlings

-good lord i need to stop calling people darling i called my goddam older brother darling earlier today this is a disaster it’s getting too late for this shit

-wait a minute i can almost mostly see zubin’s eyes cool. anyway time for rob to ruin his wrists roughing up a tambourine

-wait red’s taking over? come on zubin youre better than this. actually he’s looking kinda sweaty you can sit this one out actually

-snapping too that one’s new. i think. havent seen too many recordings of this.

-and now it’s being handed off to rob! who’s next, andy? god i hope so

-boi pleaese your hands they must be hurting i beg of you robert give your wrists a break

-zub absolutely groovin it up over here. as he should. shame his eyes are gone though

-is that andy on the high harmonies? because not only are the others doing their vocalises but their mic is absolutely not picking them up well enough for it to be them. good for him, didnt know he had the range

-hell yeah kick it dude

-what is rob singing here? actually i dont care ignore that. i could listen to the original song or another recording or read the lyrics but i actually do not care at all

-is the room bathed in blue because it’s zubin’s color? that’d be rad

-GO HAM BOYSSSS. Hit that vibraslap, Smack that tambourine, Groove on that piano, Get Movin on those drums, Shake that whatever it is, let’s fucknig goooo

-epic catch of the tambourine i love these men

-seriously though ross does such a good job on this

-i cant say ive ever understood the lil crouch move they make at the end of this. assuming it’s a reference to something, like a performance of the original song, because otherwise i think someone else wouldve pointed it out by now

-there’s still 2 more songs, oh but considering the big change from that cut i’m assuming there mightve been a quick break in between, zubin drinking and red with an acoustic guitar & all

-this fukcer’s cheekbones will be the death of me. i know this makes me sound h*rny but from an aesthetic point of view theyre just so defined and make up so much of his facial structure i just cant. comprehend them idk they always catch my attention. i think i’m too tired for this

-ross’s performance in this song is terribly underrated he’s so damn good he needs more respect

-is it just the camera angle or is zubin way separated from the others?

-ive actually more or less figured out the major roaming bassline you know and love/the trickling harp part for the piano. the problem was the sheet music i used to figure it out was a whole band arrangement, so i had to mentally transpose some like clarinet & french horn parts into normal to know how to play them. and that’s why i think we’re not going to cover that one any time soon

-it had like 9 parts seriously we cant play it based on that sheet music and unless someone knows some quick easy and free transposition software i am not doing that whole song

-like please. can i get piano sheet music for the piano part of this song. i dont want to deal with flute and clarinet and trumpet and tuba please

-that’s andy on the mr moon isnt it? red’s voice is distincly separate and he’s done it before for live performances though i think it’s red’s voice for the studio recording. he sounds good

-hmm. a c# e d f# a e g# e d f# a a c# e d f# a b (no wait let me check something) g# e f d b a yeah that’s right

-please! if you’re going to show me andy vocals let me hear andy vocals i love his voice

-i love zubin too but he shouldnt be the loudest guy here. at least i can enjoy ross’s drum mastery

-wh theyre not going to do the lil acoustic outro? aw man. well on to the last song

-yeah these guys have got to be new. oh to be someone who’s never heard tally hall before and to come to a show and see 5 guys in colorful ties play a wide variety of rocklike songs and then hear them say theyve got a cd on april first and an internet show around the same time. oh to be even older than i am now the year my little brother was born

-it’s getting late i need to wrap this up

-shit who was the band from the boralogues that did tap dancing. i dont remember

-according to a commentor a ross drum flip from the boralogues is also in this but i didnt notice

-heyy different lyrics for turn the lights off. “turn the toners” is that what they said? i need to shut up and listen

-for the longest time i thought it was “and everybody wants to get eaten tonight” which i think makes about as much sense as wanting to get evil but it carries v*re connotations and we all know how tally hall feels about vore

-i have such a hard time differentiating zubin’s voice i didnt even notice he sings this verse goddam it

-man i really wish i could hear whatever the hell andy’s doing better

-there he is! i bet i could learn that riff if i tried hard enough

-i know rob’s not exactly meant to be heard well hear but hey i enjoy hearing whatever affirming actually positive major key stuff he has to say at these liveshows get up and close with that mic man

-couldnt care less what red’s saying though

-”nights pAST iN” best microphone quality of the whole night 10/10 yep it’s still 10/10 i can still make that joke hell yes

-this song does have strong red & blue vibes actually

-if andy isnt singing here i swear to god

-”sleepy child” haha that’s me

-love that effect at the end. i should do the same right now immediately. good night. thank you!

#tally hall #as few pauses as possible because i started this late. like 10:20 late #the minimal pauses are why most of these thoughts are hella short i only make whole paragraphs because i pause what i'm listening to #but if i'm doing a true liveblog i'd rather not do that experience the whole thing at once #so i think i'll either listen to the whole thing and then do it again with liveblog thoughts or just listen & commentate w/ very few pauses #when it comes to pure audio the latter's good but audio-visual i think i'd prefer the former because #the whole point is that i'm watching while i listen and i can't watch while i type out my thoughts i have to pause more often #tis i #loolin liveblogs #it's been an hour despite the fact that i started this just under halfway through the video. still pretty short for a liveblog of mine #to the world and back again

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makeste · 5 years

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BnHA Chapter 245: The Second One

Previously on BnHA: We kicked off day one of New Internships with a fun-filled morning of shenanigans. Highlights included: (1) an old bearded man gallivanting around town telling everyone the world is going to end (and making a surprising amount of sense); (2) Bakugou and Deku attempting to rough up a group of impassioned hobos, only to have their thunder stolen from right underneath their noses; and (3) Hawks, the thunder-stealer himself, who proceeded to be all “what’s up fellas, hey Endeavor did you miss me?” Endeavor, who totally did miss him, pretended like he had not, and meanwhile Hawks introduced himself to Endeavor’s new trainees: Finger-Smashing Kid, Kid Who Used To Work For The Guy You Just Murdered, and Shouto (Just Shouto). Then he pulled out a copy of Re-Destro’s book and was all, “hey Endeavor have you heard of this book which was really important to the plot in the previous arc? I think you should read it, for reasons!!” and Endeavor just kind of stared at him, which wasn’t exactly inspiring. Anyways let’s see if these two idiots can manage to pull this off.

Today on BnHA: Hawks shoves the Liberation Army’s book into Endeavor’s hands while staring at him with the intensity of a thousand suns, and then, to avoid suspicion, proceeds to hand out another 500,000 copies of the book without even being asked. He then flies back to the PLF headquarters and is all “good news gentlemen, I gave out copies of the Army’s book to everyone in Japan!” and they’re all “that’s great, Hawks!” because somehow it turns out that this was actually a good plan. Back at the Endeavor Agency HQ, the kids meet Endeavor’s 30+ other sidekicks, who are all “now let’s all stand around and wait for Endeavor to tell us what to do.” Over in his office, Endeavor shrewdly deduces that Hawks was trying to tell him something, and pieces together the hidden code Hawks left in his book, which basically reads “IN FOUR MONTHS WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE.” Back at the PLF, the League cheerfully discusses their plot to blow up the entire world come Springtime. Which apparently everyone is on board with. So, uh, does anyone else feel like they accidentally fell asleep during a really important part of the movie, because uh. What.

(All comments are my unspoiled reactions from my initial readthrough of the chapter. I did a quick edit for grammar and clarity afterward, and added a few ETAs in the process, but aside from that there are no changes.)

okay so two things: (1) as I mentioned in a previous post, Caleb Cook reported that this chapter took him more than 4 times longer than usual to translate. so like, what does that mean?? guess we’re about to find out!

and (2) HAWKS’S REAL NAME. I started typing up this recap early just so I could liveblog my reaction, since it seems that the databook has leaked, and I figure I’m going to stumble across this sooner rather than later. so I’m just going to look it up now here goes!!

AHHHH TAKAMI KEIGO AHHHH

lol. I have no idea what that actually means. let me look up some more stuff about this

oooh thank you reddit!

ooh damn, I love it!? “hawk” + “vision” lolol HORIKOSHI BACK AT IT AGAIN. but “watchman” is a really nice bonus what with how it relates both to the whole spying biz, and in a more general sense toward what he is trying to do as a hero trying to protect society. plus the name “Keigo” just has a really nice sound to it in general. kind of a boyish, youthful sound. not too hard or soft. idk. I like it. that was my favorite character in Bleach too

also apparently both of the kanji used for “Keigo” mean “enlightenment” oooh. my god I could analyze this all day. this being Thursday night, I’ll have some time to ruminate before I read the chapter tomorrow, so if I have any epiphanies I will add them in later!

(ETA: no additional thoughts on this right now, but there is now a ton of other content out from Ultra Analysis, so let’s take a quick look at some of that!

Haagen Dazs’s gender: I now feel vindicated in continuing to refer to him as a “he” even after the face reveal! let this be a lesson to everyone never to judge a shounen character solely by how pretty they are. not that it wouldn’t have been nice to have another female villain! anyways the important thing is that I still don’t have his name memorized and never will!

Thirteen’s gender?!: now this, I don’t really like. Thirteen was already in the previous databook IIRC and their gender was ambiguous. which to be frank was awesome. having a canon nonbinary character was sick. why you gotta do this now Horikoshi smdh.

Reason for Shouji’s mask: nooooo poor Shouji. people in quirk society are jerks! lol I get the arms being scary, but his face?? now I really want to see what he looks like though. it would be cool if he became more accepting of himself as a result of hanging with his chill classmates and decided to ditch the mask. anyways my boy needs a hug.

and there’s a lot of other stuff, including a whole series of cute segments showing the characters’ relationships with each other, but I think I’ll save those for another post because otherwise this would get way too off-track. but man, so far I’m really loving this.)

okay kiddos. it is now Friday, and time to take our horse to the hype town road. I have been waiting all fucking week for this shit so it had better not disappoint!

“Rising to Action” ooh, nice. guess this is not much of a “sit still” gang, here

okay so we’re picking off right where we left off, and guys, I just need to know, does anyone other than me find this kind of hilarious

like, I don’t know why but just. Endeavor’s face. omg. he just looks like he’s trying so hard to figure out what’s wrong. I think what it is is that this is the exact same bemused/perplexed expression that Shouto gets on his face all the freaking time, and it just tickles me to no end that the apple apparently doesn’t fall far from the tree. ahh Shouto I know you don’t want to hear this but damn boy you look like your dad

anyways. I think we can all agree Endeavor should not be looking this adorable and what the hell. let’s move on

LOOOOOOL

why is this so funny ahhhhhhh. they’re so fucking serious please stop. I mean, but of course they’re serious, though. the weird one is me, right? whatever!

so now here’s the handoff. between these two super-serious dudes

Endeavor you had better not do like me and be all “of course I’ll read it!” fully intending to follow through (really!) but then you never do and everyone is super disappointed and you start to read something else instead, all the while feeling incredible guilt! my point is, Endeavor, I hope you don’t have ADHD or we’re all fucking screwed omg

lol though thankfully we have a backup!

“oh boy!” clamors Deku, a gleam of excitement in his eye. “homework!”

OH MY GOD

WHO ARE YOU, OPRAH

ff now he’s just SLAPPING THEM INTO THEIR HANDS omg. this is amazing

love how Katsuki is keeping an extra 1.5 meters of space in between him and the others because cooties. or something

anyways! I really want them all to read it actually so this is awesome! KACCHAN YOU ESPECIALLY. I want you to read it and then give it a disgusted 1 star review on goodreads. show me how much you’ve grown kiddo

lmaooo

Todoroki Shouto. god’s perfect idiot. bless this child. someone explained Occam’s razor to him one day, and he just sat there nodding like “yes that makes perfect sense” and proceeded to apply it to every fucking thing in his life from there on out. “what’s Hawks doing carrying around 10,000 copies of The Book of PLF and just handing them out to strangers like an old lady on Halloween? processing... processing... oh I see, he probably just REALLY LIKES THE BOOK how keen”

this is what Hawks is up against. this squad of certified morons with two whole brain cells shared among them on a good day. boy literally brought three backup secret messages just in case Endeavor was too dense to figure this out, only to watch these kids exclaim, with perfect sincerity, “GOSH, HAWKS MUST REALLY LIKE THIS BOOK, HUH”

and meanwhile the best Endeavor can do is “............something.......... feels.... off.......” fml. we’re all gonna die. Hawks, I’m sorry. you tried!! next time give Momo your secret message instead!

so now he says that he’s actually recommending this book to all of his acquaintances omg. don’t tell me this handsome canary is actually going around handing out books to every single person he knows?? all to cover up this one action of giving Endeavor the book with the secret message highlighted in it?? okay guys help me decide: is this brilliance or stupidity? like, what is even going on inside Hawks’s head. “I’ll just fly around handing out copies of Atlas Fucking Shrugged to everyone I meet. that’ll seem really natural”

I s2g Endeavor if you don’t follow up on this...! THE WORLD IS COUNTING ON YOU YOU BIG MEATHEAD. GET TO READIN’. MAKE LEVAR PROUD

and now Hawks is flying away with his hands in his pockets

godspeed you dramatically casual bastard

now Deku is all “you know, he’s not much older than us, but he really seems like he’s got his shit together!” which, yeah. don’t you hate that? the truth is though it’s all an act, and he’s actually just as screwed up as the rest of you! the moral is: never trust any 22-year-old who seems like they’ve got their shit together. because, no. he sits on a throne of lies

Endeavor are you actually being thoughtful??!

oh my god. we may actually have a chance here. praise be

now we are cutting to the Endeavor agency! guys, fucking look at this fucking ‘E’, though

ngl that shit is dope. I’m mad. I would buy his merch just for the logo and I hate that about myself

holy shit

the... flaming hot... oh my god

holy shit there’s so many of them

(ETA: hold up -- “Bakugou” and “Shouto”? this is a crucial detail here; they’re using Bakugou’s last name, but Shouto’s given name. so either they’re calling him Shouto because they know his pop, or -- more likely -- they’re calling him “Shouto” because that’s his hero name. in which case, “Bakugou” most likely also refers to “Bakugou” as in the hero name, not his actual name. meaning that still is his hero name. meaning he is still undecided. fucking... Katsuki. honey. why.

ffff and the new databook seems to support this too. instead of a hero name, Horikoshi just wrote “XXX” indicating he still hasn’t made up his mind. welp. looks like it’s back on that slow burn character development train, folks. maybe by the end of this arc, though? please? Horikoshi? Horikoshi damn it look at me.)

so this is how the number one operates, huh. meanwhile All Might only ever had one sidekick, and reluctantly at that. he really was so far out ahead of everyone else that he was basically untouchable. crazy

anyways, yes! they don’t know anything about anything so please teach them!

good grief this girl says Endeavor has over thirty sidekicks?? lmao and her name is “Burnin’.” please tell me the missing g is an actual part of her name please I need this

wow, Burnin’ really went and tried to pick a fight with my famously hot-tempered son knowing full well what his personality is like. and just look at him keeping his cool and firing back though

oh, Katsuki. [hair ruffle] he will thrive here

damn these guys are passionate

Endeavor seriously picked these people as his sidekicks? that Endeavor? they didn’t annoy the shit out of him?? that man is an enigma

btw can we all just stop here for a moment and give a shoutout to this horse-looking dude because. look at him. amazing. new fave

anyway so now the mummy-looking guy is explaining how they organize their shift schedule

so professional. this really is the big leagues

yoooooo my boy is FIRED UP. READY TO SAVE SOME BITCHES! YESSSSS WIN AND RESCUE LET’S DO THIS

LET’S FUCKING GOOOO omg I love him so much. Kacchan you need to cool it or I’m going to spend this whole fucking chapter ruffling your hair

(ETA: incidentally, here’s something I neglected to point out earlier: in spite of being a belligerent asshole in general, Katsuki for the most part is actually surprisingly respectful to most adults, especially heroes. so it’s interesting then that so far, this doesn’t seem to apply to Hawks. he almost seems to consider him another rival rather than another mentor/teacher-type figure to learn from. I wonder if this is because -- as Deku pointed out earlier this chapter -- Hawks is much closer to them in age than the other heroes. it’s interesting that that was pointed out -- and that in the very next panel Katsuki was grumbling about how Hawks pisses him off, at that.

anyway. this BakuHawks rivalry seems to be an established thing now, so I’m very curious to see how this develops.)

lol now Mummy Guy is all “that’s great! now we just need to wait for Endeavor to tell us what to do!” and Kacchan is like “WHAT”

I mean, he’s got a point lol. “we’re so busy!” “great let’s get to work!” “actually we don’t have any work yet!” like, what a fucking tease. don’t worry Kacchan, they’re just waiting to make sure they assign you boys a job that’s plot-related so we don’t waste any time

ahhh, and now we finally come to the moment we’ve all been waiting for! the part that apparently took four hours to translate! ENDEAVOR READING A BOOK

yeah he was acting like he had a freaking gun to his head. why don’t heroes have secret code phrases they can use to let each other know some weird fucking shit is up? or maybe they do, but since he’s being recorded and since PLF has some heroes on roster who probably know those same codes (looking at you, Slidin’), Hawks didn’t want to risk one of them figuring it out. that makes sense

ahhh, here we go

don’t tell me Caleb tried to translate this whole thing. though I gotta admit I am hella curious

anyway. so the rest of this page is Endeavor metaing about Hawks, and it’s some good stuff, ngl

he really is fond of him, huh. look at all those pictures. how many mental snapshots did you take of this kid smiling?? he’s so adopted it hurts

and look at the concern in that last panel! “why is he acting so weird, that’s not like him, I’ve got to get to the bottom of this.” damn, Hawks really did put his trust in the exact right person and it’s paying off

ENDEAVOR STOP MAKING THESE SOFT WORRIED FACES ABOUT HAWKS RIGHT THIS INSTANT I DON’T HAVE TIME FOR THESE FEELS

god damn!! I don’t know why, but I continue to be surprised and impressed at how the character development of Endeavor is actually a subscribe and save deal and not just a one-time purchase. fucking look at Todoroki Enji, proud annual recipient of a different “world’s worst dad” mug every Father’s Day, actually caring enough about another human being to notice the subtle changes in his behavior and realize something is wrong. bruh. good for you!! human compassion is a damn good look for you, negl. fucking growth right here and I’m here for it

anyways, on to the hidden code!

and here are all of the highlighted portions for your code-breaking pleasure

fucking feel like I’m reading Detective Conan right now. yeesh

oooh!

BINGPOT LOOOOOL WHY DID I GET SO EXCITED OKAY LET ME GO BACK AND READ!

“the” “enemy” “liberation” “army” ahhhhhh! HAWKS YOU SNEAKY SON OF A BITCH. GOOD JOB ENDEAVOR!

and now we’re cutting back to Hawks, nooooo I wanted to see Endeavor’s reaction! come on!

lmao although it’s worth it to see Hawks mentally roasting Endeavor exactly like I was mere pages ago omg

his fucking face omg. that’s right Hawks, he’s not the brightest crayon in the box. not the sharpest tack in the bulletin board. he’s a few fries short of a happy meal. the elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top floor

but give him some credit, though! because he did figure it out! not necessarily because he was clever, but because he knows you!

oh shit lol

OH SO YOU PLANNED THAT PART TOO. WELL OKAY THEN

goddamn. he really is a clever bastard. and okay but in all seriousness, I fucking love that he has enough faith in this weird connection between them that out of all the ploys he could have gone with, this is what he chose. he seriously put all his eggs in the “Endeavor will figure it out from my face” basket. and it fucking paid off. this is awesome

AHHHHHHHHHHHH HERE WE GO

LOOK AT HIS EYE OH MY GOD. YOU CAN SEE THE EXACT MOMENT WHEN HE REALIZES HOW SCREWED THEY ALL ARE, YES, FUCK, THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR OH GOD

and we’re cutting back to Hawks again! I’ll just assume the rest of his message went something like “we” “are” “boned” and Endeavor’s face was like :o

BACK AT THE OL’ VILLAIN HOTEL!!!

LOL WHAT IS THIS

THEY HAVE A FUCKING COUNCIL NOW

whose seat is that over on the left? Hawks’s? is Gigantomachia actually wearing a shirt?? AND SHOW US TOMURA’S FACE HORIKOSHI YOU COWARD

lmao oh my god are they really buying this shit

look at him. so trustworthy. nothing to suspect over here! just a 100% sincere born-again villain committed to the cause!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

NOOOOOO MY BABIES ARE EXPOSED. HORIKOSHI YOU BETTER PROTECT THEM I SWEAR TO GOD!!!

wow is the whole conversation just shifting over to the topic of Deku now, seriously?

oh my god oh my god oh my god. like. it’s been so long since the forest lodge and Kamino that I almost forgot that the League already knows these kids. they did fight Deku and Shouto briefly in the woods, and then they had an extended fight against Katsuki later on, although Dabi was unconscious for that part. anyways, shit. just like that they’re on their radar again I’m getting chills omgggg

(ETA: at least they’re underestimating them, though. “looks like he hasn’t gotten much stronger.” boy have you not heard about his bloop? that bloop will fuck you up just you wait!)

so now have some weird panels of Hawks walking through a door

(ETA: ohhhh you can see the door closing on the tip of his wing close-up! sneaky!)

ooh! wtf are you serious he can use his feathers to eavesdrop?!

(ETA: it only just clicked on my second read-through that Spinner of all people appears to be the mastermind behind this plan? like, am I reading this right? is he Tomura’s second-in-command now or what? damn, boy, good for you.)

okay, question. if he could do this the entire time, why did they even need him to pretend to join the League at all? I guess you never know when having a man on the inside who can possibly influence their decision-making will come in handy. but still, it seems to me like he could have easily done the spying bit without ever having to join up. ehhh but I guess there’s probably a range limit, and too much risk of the feathers getting caught and destroyed... eh, fine. I’ll allow it

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

WHAT THE FUCK WHAT EXCUSE ME WHAT?????

AND OF COURSE THAT’S THE END OF THE CHAPTER, LOL, FUCK. EXCUSE ME WHILE I GO STAND IN A CORNER AND SCREAM

lol “danger lurks” fucking you think?? what the hell! so they have an actual plan already, with the details outlined to the extent that they actually have a freaking timetable and everything? and the Liberation Army is on board with this whole thing too? the “destroying everything” part and all? this is too much to process all at once fuck me I can’t

okay! so four months from now is also when the kids will enter their second year! so that means Shinsou can get in on this action too. I’m trying to think of other significant plot things this could potentially imply, but none are coming to mind right now, other than it’ll be the anniversary of USJ. but that’s basically it. -- oh, wait, this also means that there’ll be a new first-year class of students at U.A. too! so that could be interesting. some potential new characters, and a chance for Deku and the others to be senpais. incidentally, to the best of my knowledge the kids will all stay in the same class and Aizawa will continue to be their homeroom teacher in year two. so nothing will change really aside from them becoming 2-A rather than 1-A. and Shinsou joining them, as mentioned. omg

anyway! let me see, any other stray thoughts before I wrap this up? I guess it’s worth noting that Toga’s eye is fine. the League has healed up pretty nicely in general actually. like, that’s seriously impressive for a group that doesn’t have Recovery Girl on staff. how long has it even been since Deika? a few weeks? this is almost ridiculous

and the “boom” -- is that literal? like they’re actually planning to blow everything up? or is that a metaphorical boom. fucking what kind of plan did they come up with where they actually think they can destroy THE ENTIRETY OF JAPAN all at once? is there a doomsday device?? what exactly is this “power” they’re talking about? HAWKS WHY DIDN’T YOU PUT THAT IN YOUR STUPID MESSAGE YOU BOOB

hahaha. anyways. it came down to the last two pages, but that certainly was a reveal worthy of all the hype. to sum: yikes

#bnha #boku no hero academia #bnha 245 #hawks #endeavor #bakugou katsuki #midoriya izuku #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #makeste reads bnha #I honestly can't even think of anything to put in the tags you guys #four months from now!!#BOOM #well all right then!#I'm sure deku can master the rest of ofa in four months #this is fine #anyways #everyone running from the plot now as it barrels toward them like the giant rock in indiana jones #god help us

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Puck it chapter 4 liveblog

btw @bipercabeth @jasonsmclean enjoy <333

under the cut because this is going to be long af

He doesn’t want Jason to think he doesn’t respect Annabeth, but he also doesn’t want to break his promise to her. But that promise is already broken. Jason already knows. And Percy really can’t handle the thought of Jason thinking he doesn’t respect women. “You have feelings for her, don’t you?” Jason asks, his tone a bit lighter, eyes a bit softer. Percy sighs and the words rush out of him on the exhale. “Yes I do Jason I’m so fucked please help.”

ME SCREAMING A LOT!!!!!!!!!!! they matter so much to each other omg. and Percy having loyalty to Annabeth even in this, I am DECEASED

A sigh falls past Jason’s lips; his shoulders deflate and he ducks his head with a slight nod. “I figured, but I also figured I need to say it straight up. I can’t get mad about you not telling me when I’ve been keeping this from you.” “Trying to keep this from me.” Percy takes a risk and grins slightly. “I’ve known for a while now. But I appreciate the honesty. I don’t want this to be something we fight over. We’re better than that.”

DARLING IDIOT CO-CAPTAINS WHO ARE BEST FRIENDS

That’s… a lot of ‘no’. But I respect the last one. I’m glad you guys prioritized, I guess. But you’re seriously okay with all of that? That’s gotta be a lot on your mind.”

“Yeah, I guess it is. But it’s worth it to be with her. Like, the sex is great, but she’s just so good to be around. I’m definitely saying it all wrong, but something just… pulls me to her? It’s hard to explain. She’s not an escape from everything, but she calms it all down. Like at the first party, I wasn’t doing well, and Annabeth gave me a way out. Then we just kept talking, and she was going to walk home alone, and I— one thing led to another.” Percy sighs and messes up his hair. “Sorry, I don’t mean to make this about me, but if we’re getting it all on the table, you deserve to know why.”

PERCY JACKSON IS IN LOVE WITH ANNABETH CHASE IN EVERY SINGLE FUCKING UNIVERSE

“Wow, we’re so fucked.” Percy can’t help but laugh. They’d realized their feelings within 24 hours of each other and still took an entire month to talk about it.

FIRST OF ALL THIS IS THE MOST HOCKEY THING IN THE WORLD AND WOW!!!!!!!!!!

“Should we pay him for his emotional labor? I feel like we should pay him for his emotional labor.” Jason jokes.

I CACKLED

“I accidentally rigged Secret Santa on purpose.”

OF COURSE YOU DID PERCY! OF COURSE YOU DID

“I knew you’d be mad if I rigged it just for me to get Annabeth, so I rigged it so you’d get Piper, too!” Percy holds out a fist, waiting for a fist bump. “You can thank me now or later, whichever you prefer.”

PERCY JACKSON YOU ARE THE GREATEST

Except Jason wants to be so much more than that.

Ever since the Halloween party, Piper’s been talking to Jason a lot more than she did before, and she talked to him a fairly decent amount before the party. Of course, she’d gotten so ridiculously drunk at the party that she ended up puking so she apologized profusely to him for putting him through that, even though he’d wanted to stick around. (Oh man, he’s sounding cheesier by the second when it comes to her.) Since she’d been so wasted, he doesn’t want to bring up the dancing to her, especially since he’s convinced she’d only danced so close because she’d been so drunk.

Still, there’s a tiny part inside of Jason that hopes maybe she’d been aware of her actions even though she’d been drunk.

Jason’s always been a rule follower. It’s a fact, plain and simple. He sometimes bends the rules when they’re unfair or unjust, but overall he doesn’t dare break them. Especially when it comes to hockey. He’s not one to defy his coaches or trainers or talk back to his captains (before he became one, of course).

But now with the stupid no dating rule, Jason’s tempted to defy his coaches, which scares the shit out of him.

LOUD LONG SCREAMING JFC JASON *SHAKES HIM* THAT’S SO FUCKING ROMANTIC I WANT TO DIE FUCK YOU BOTH

But the smiles and jokes have made him only want to break the rules more.

YOU LOVE HER YOU WANT TO MARRY HER YOU WANT TO HAVE HER BABIES

Annabeth swings a leg over Percy and leaves him stranded on her bed, his hands still fastened to her headboard. One second he was on top of her, kissing down her neck with the intentions of going far lower, and the next she had him flipped and restrained. Suddenly she was pressing down onto him and teasing him relentlessly, forcing him to beg for release (which she’d eventually granted, but only after making him beg). Annabeth and that damn tie.

oh my fucking god this entire scene was so fucking hot!!!!! also how’d you know that hockey and bondage is like a thing 👀👀👀👀

ajklfdsjfdsladsfjaklfsdajlkfdasjlk annabeth being jealous, annabeth tying him up, Percy with that satisfied smirk I just

So he pushes his heart out of where it had leapt into his throat and sits back down on the edge of the bed, pulling her into his lap as he slides back. She follows and Percy pulls her face to his, letting her set the pace and meeting her there movement for movement. If he can’t claim her as his, he’ll be damned if he doesn’t show her that he’s hers. - I WANT TO DIE

that’s all he wants right now. That’s all he’s going to want for a very long time. WELL I’M IN A GRAVE RIGHT NOW GOD THAT’S ROMANTIC AF

Matching with your boyfriend? That’s cute.” Annabeth says from behind him.

Percy turns to look at her, fully taking her in for the first time today. She’d followed the ugly sweater rule, but only barely. It wasn’t one of the gaudy or loud ones he knew would make an appearance tonight; instead she’d settled on a light blue turtleneck sweater with grey squares making up that classic Christmas print and setting off every different shade in her eyes. She looks more cute than anything.

Her eyes are fixed on his sweater, which is black with red details and the word ‘HO’ stitched onto the front. Percy feels heat flood his cheeks as he tries to play it off, but it’s only a matter of time until the entire team sees Jason’s matching ‘WHERE’S MY HO AT?’ sweater. - OK NO NO NO YOU CANNOT DO THIS TO ME!!!!!!!!!! THEY DEFINITELY MADE OUT EARLIER AND I WANT TO MURDER NO GIVE ME ALL THE FUMBLING FIRST KISSES OH MY GOD

“It’s a Rangers sweatshirt.” He says slowly. “You hate the Rangers.”

“To be fair, I still think they suck. Islanders for life and all that. But what do you think?” Her voice betrays her smug words. - THE NEW YORK RIVALRY I AM DEAD AND BURIED OH THIS IS THE SWEETEST THING ANNABETH

Annabeth doesn’t pull away or refuse him though, so he holds on for a bit longer than he should, one hand resting on the back of her head and holding her to his chest while the other finds her back. Her arms loop around his waist, her fingers lacing behind his back. Percy takes in as much of this moment as he can before she pulls away, because he knows he won’t be the first to do so.

When she does pull away, it feels almost reluctant. He lets himself believe that, cling to that for a moment as she looks up at him with those big gray eyes. And as she does, Percy realizes that he is completely and utterly ruined for anyone except her. - JFC I’M A WRECK

“You know at some point I’m going to need to see this on you.” - POST HAT TRICK SEX, I CALL IT

“You,” he can’t help the way he leans into her, far too close to be out in the open like this, “are impossible, Chase.”

“I’m flattered.” Annabeth scoffs. - THESE ABSOLUTE DORKS I LOVE EVERYTHING

As long as Annabeth is here, Jason’s ultimately edged out. - OUCH

“Bisexual people exist, Leo. ” - HE’S ALREADY SMARTER THAN ALL HOCKEYS EVER, SORRY JASE I LOVE YOU BUT YOU’RE TOO SMART FOR THE NHL

Thanks, captain.” She takes the cup back and takes a sip and Jason would be a dirty liar if he said he didn’t stare at her lips the entire time. - ME: DYING

The consequences might be worth it, though. - YES JASON GO AFTER HER

“I didn’t say it was for me,” is Reyna’s cool reply. - I LOVE EVERYTHING SO SO SO MUCH OMG REYNA GETTING A DILDO!!!!!!!!!

Before Percy can look at Annabeth, his head whips around and he settles his glittering green eyes on Jason. “I know what we’re doing tonight,” he stage whispers as he winks.

“Do you guys need condoms? Some lube?” Connor asks, lifting up his newly gifted bottle of lube and box of flavored condoms.

“Don’t worry. We’ve got a nice supply,” Percy responds, wrapping an arm around Jason’s shoulders.

“Percy, not in front of the kids,” Jason complains, and he’s not embarrassed until he sees Piper giggling behind her hand. - *BOUNCES* GIVE ME THE BACKSTORY - hockey fandom has corrupted me and now I ship them to a ridiculous degree *shrugs*

Inside the box lays a brand new hockey stick. When he says brand new, he means brand new. The paint is shiny and glossy and he can just imagine how it’ll feel when he uses it on the ice. It’s white, blue stripes painted onto the butt and the bottom of the shaft, just before the blade. On the heel of the stick, he can see GRACE 1 painted in red letters. It’s the nicest hockey stick he’s seen gifted to a college player. The only thing he can compare the quality of this is to NHL and Olympic equipment. - I LITERALLY SCREAMED OUT LOUD LIKE IN MY DORM A VERY HIGH PITCHED SCREAM PIPER MCLEAN PIPES BABES YOU GOTTA KNOW PLEASE

god every single one of the gifts just demonstrates how well they know each other, how much they love the other person already and I am in TEARS

Holy fuck, Piper did that. - MY REACTION SAME

the two California kids bonding over their warm state and the fact that they’ve found a home on the ice - say with me AWWWWW

“Jason.” She takes a step closer to him. “I want you to have it. You deserve it. You love hockey and…” She falters and she bites down on her bottom lip. “I wanted to give you something meaningful. I just didn’t have the guts to do it without using Secret Santa as my excuse. I’m just so lucky I got you.” - dfaslkdjfdsajlkdfsjaklkjdfslakljdsajlfsdkakljszdfjoirewaklcszioojewfkmflsiouearwjoweiofjfdwerijefojfeidljfiawfjcewuoirijffuiwoewjdkoeioewuoriwejafwK

THAT’S ROMANTIC AF PIPER

“Shut up.”

Before he can think straight, her arms wrap around his shoulders and she angles her face up until he feels her lips press to his. He doesn’t hesitate to bring his hands up to her hips, holding her there and soaking in the fact that this is real. Here he is, giving into the temptation, allowing his heart to win the ruthless battle over his head. All rationality and self-control go out the window as he focuses solely on kissing her. Her lips taste like peppermint and are just as soft as he’s imagined them, which also brings back the influx of memories of the persistent daydreams that’d plagued his mind for weeks. Yet every expectation pales in comparison to this moment. He feels like he could melt from the heat coursing through his body, engulfing him in a fiery embrace. - FALLS ON THE FLOOR, SCREAMS, COMBUSTS - god you guys write the romances so well, they’re totally unique and this was PERFECT

Nothing,” he lies easily. While he usually can’t lie to save his life, he finds this lie effortless. “She was just being a good friend, Percy. Nothing more.”

A look of disappointment floods Percy’s face. “Really?” he asks sadly. “Damn. I was hoping for a good conversation or at least a kiss. I’m sorry, man. That sucks.”

“Yeah.” Jason shrugs and tries to look crestfallen. “Oh, well. Rules are rules.”

“Right.” Percy shakes his head once and sighs. “Rules are rules.” - *buries head in hands* JASON I HAD HOPE FOR YOU, oh well I guess this does mean you can survive the NHL

If this is what Jason has to do to be with Piper, so be it. - OH FUCK

fklasfjslkdafjskldaajfklsd guys this was so fucking good and beautiful and perfect and the perfect mix of angst and fluff and I JUST WOW

#puck it #abby liveblogs #fic recs

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seitosokusha · 6 years

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The Ancient Magus’ Bride [Finished]

So, today I finished this series. Sorry if you missed my liveblogging on the other episodes, but I just decided to wrap it up.

My recommendation: Watch episode 1. If you’re uncomfortable at the end of episode 1, stop. It doesn’t get better. If you’re fine, you will probably enjoy this series.

Thoughts below the cut.

Animation: A+

Music: A+

Worldbuilding: A+

Chise’s Character Growth: A+

Characters Individually: B (Lindel and Nevin are my two favorite though)

Character Interactions: F

Plot: B-

Okay, so I’ve already spoke quite a bit that everything about the base concept of Chise and Elias’ relationship sends tons of red flags up.

Let’s face it. Their power dynamics are the worst. There’s nothing equal, happy or healthy about their relationships. It’s Stockholm Syndrome at its finest really. Elias sends all these mix signals of “a puppy, a bride, an apprentice” and whoa, major squick, major major squick.

Look, I get the good intention about the tracking spell in Chise’s jade pendant but considering she had “sold herself into slavery” and there are plenty of references to “puppy’s collar or leash” that’s like emotional abuse 101. You could argue you “but she gets kidnapped a lot, the tracking spell helps” the very first incident is because Elias didn’t tell her “hey don’t go outside at night and be careful what the neighbors say.”

Speaking of not telling Chise things, while I love every character who points out to “hey your relationship is a little mess up” or things like Renfred goes to Elias “you didn’t tell her about the college?” I WANT TO KNOW WHY NO ONE TAKES CHISE ASIDE AND EXPLAINS THINGS TO HER DAMNIT! It’s like everyone knows Elias can’t emote and no one goes and say “alright Chise here’s all the things you need to know, the options you have, that don’t necessarily rely on Elias” (even if she still might pick Elias in the end and co-dependency issues right there).

The whole series is a hot mess of too many things trying to be too many different things. Removing the “bride” aspect alone, improves Elias and Chise’s relationship into less creepier tones. Making Elias who kinda grasped emotions except for romantic love makes him overall seem less “abusive” in the grand scope of things. Go the other way and let Chise not be broken by her tragic past and Elias remain the way he is, makes her more equal while Elias tries to grow as a character. Look, I can’t believe Elias is STILL referring to Chise as “puppy” in like episode 19. Hell, even if Chise started off as “puppy” in his eyes and the gradual progression to “student” and then “equal” and then “bride” would make this series less creepy. (but instead it tries to make their relationship all these things at the same time)

Elias’... character growth. *head in hands* look because their relationship is so toxic to me, I don’t believe 90% of his character growth because most of it centered around Chise. Honest to god, I cannot believe episode 19 can be boiled down “Elias doesn’t like Stella, a ten year old girl, interacting with Chise, runs away, Chise (because of the whole co-dependency issue) goes after him. When she finally catch up, he can’t let her go to point of nearly suffocating her and Chise escapes by putting a knife to her throat. And lesson we learn here is “you’re feeling jealousy Elias”. 19 episodes in and this is what their relationship has progressed to.

Also kinda upset that its the whole “man has no emotions until he met the one girl who teaches him everything” trope is in play here. It’s one thing if he’s rather young or really was as isolated as he first appeared, but what, he got nothing from Lindel whom he calls father? Nothing at all. Familial love is a thing. He’s known Simon for 10 years and the man comes by every few days and... nothing? Has known Angelica since a kid (and kids are just so honest with their emotions) nothing? Even on the negative side, they spend so much time showing voices calling him a half-baked monster and nothing? no reaction? then why show the voices if they meant nothing to him??

Chise’s character growth on the other hand, amazing! She came so far. Love that she finally came to terms with her mother’s death, that she found the will to live and not so easily self-sacrifice herself. Still needs a lot of help (co-dependency issues....) but honestly, I really wished Elias was more stable as a character and we focused strictly on Chise for this series because I would have really enjoyed it.

The plot was okay. Individual episodes fine, the thing with Cartaphilus was eh. Felt like they brushed over who Cartaphilus was just a little too much that I had to look the original myth up to find out why people knew who he was (and I still kinda don’t get it...) Ashen Eyes was a little puzzling in sense like “are you just doing this to be a jerk?”

I found out today, that they adapted 9 volumes worth of manga into the 24 episodes, so they must have cut quite a bit, but *cringed* if they’re were somewhat faithful to this manga, I don’t think I’ll be reading the manga because ending episode 24 with... the bride dress... veil... it’s only been a year...? she’s still 17....? *cringe* It’s not an official “wedding” yet but... a pretty dress and no veil would have made that scene still “cute” (putting aside all their issues) without you know, again sending up all those red flags.

I regret watching this anime (like seriously and not a lolz this is trash joke). It’s so pretty and beautiful and I want to love it, but I spent 24 episodes feeling completely uncomfortable. I couldn’t shake “there is something wrong with this series” at all and I’m not happy about it. I honestly should have stopped after episode 1.

#the ancient magus bride

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joy liveblogs as we like it

04:16:54 a shakespeare adaptation 04:17:23 i thought this would be set today but it's set instead in the near future 04:17:50 yet they still have taxis...well, i guess it's a the near future 04:18:30 this is taiwan? 04:18:37 i really like the weird jazz(?) in the background 04:20:43 lots of people kissing 04:20:58 animation over frames 04:21:19 someone on a scooter just fell in love 04:22:43 ximenting is an internet free zone 04:23:13 so beret girl is celia, rosalind is our main character, romeo(?) is rosalind's ex? 04:24:10 i feel like i'm watching something really strange 04:25:39 feels like i'm watching an anime 04:25:52 also maybe like i'm watching a stage play 04:26:04 everyone is talking so weirdly 04:26:59 quotes from a different shakespeare play 04:27:21 orlando is very dorky, it's good 04:28:30 "you've got a smell" - orlando (2021) 04:31:41 thugs, enter stage left 04:31:50 that's the fanciest distress flare i've ever seen 04:33:17 oliver presents. orlando's (evil?) big bro. is this the blimp we saw earlier? forest of arden project in ximenting 04:34:34 "your fifth first love?" 04:35:21 doxxing for love 04:36:39 peking opera with rosalind and celia 04:37:09 they come across the doxxing for love flyers 04:39:58 orlando gets a part-time courier job 04:40:05 rosalind gets a haircut. omg the nose brushing. "maybe a rose should become a petunia" 04:40:41 wow they're so cute 04:41:04 omg suits 04:41:34 packing with socks! flashbacks 04:42:42 celia's crop top says "you are cute" which is uh, cute. i want that shirt tbh. 04:43:06 fortune-teller visit 04:44:05 is this like actual shakespeare productions where all the actors are dudes 04:44:39 except here they're all women 04:46:34 idk why but orlando's courier job reminds me of the main character's letter-writing job in her 04:48:02 WTF is that. love doll. what an embarrassing thing to have to deliver. 04:49:27 signboards of anti-internet sentiment. "in heaven there is no internet" 04:50:00 omg a man just came out of a tree. or probably that's what happened in actual as you like it. 04:50:25 rosalind, sorry, roosevelt's new job is so...those sequins 04:52:32 everyone here gives such strange love advice, like maybe kind of unhealthy love memes 04:54:42 the pacing is weird, i want it to be faster sometimes, or slower at other times 04:55:02 reminds me of hot gimmick tbh 04:55:39 wise young boy appears again 04:55:55 wo yao yi ge wan zheng de jia. ig orlando's always had a shitty family life. 04:59:39 lamp bump! idk why that was so cute. "wo ai shang le yi ge ren" subtitles say girl but that's a mistranslation 05:00:25 holds the poster by her face 05:00:38 looks at the camera like in the office 05:00:44 "i love girls. he's a boy." 05:04:45 oh that papermaking scene was delicious 05:05:59 this scene feels super religious 05:06:59 what are they doing...this is such a strange scene. 05:07:30 i didn't realize but i guess the lack of internet is a plot device. 05:08:13 omg what is celia doing here. sorry i've never read as you like it, so like. 05:08:31 i recognize the weird music from somewhere i think 05:09:22 omg did celia just sexually assault someone?? surprise kiss. ig oliver was ok with it. "ni ke yi zai weng wo" 05:10:55 why is this place called the google bookstore 05:11:17 "i'm his...son" 05:13:18 i feel like billiards is kind of gay. inherently. but this is extra gay. 05:18:18 the scene with celia and roosevelt was really silly 05:18:32 also this uh, practicing with helmet 05:20:51 weirdly symbolic foot massage scene. heels drawn over rose's feet? rose as a person who is pulled in two directions 05:23:45 sorry this snail animation is so cute 05:25:32 oliver and this advice-giver playing go 05:25:54 awkward restroom scene. sorry this is. this is great. 05:28:13 normally when i see a sex scene in a movie i feel kind of bad for the actors. but that scene in the car must have been pretty fun to film 05:28:35 also i love this cafe. is that a phonograph? sweet. also i really like the barista's floral shirt. 05:30:23 i think this is actually my first exposure to like. ear-cleaning in a romance. it's special. 05:31:07 roosevelt, stop making sex scene noises, it's just an ear-cleaning 05:31:23 i feel bad for the barista 05:32:41 this smoothie stand proprietor is really sweet. i feel like they're on a series of quests. like a video game. 05:33:25 oh haha rose's turn to look at the camera. 05:36:01 back to the grain house 05:36:05 i should really go back and take some screenshots 05:39:30 tearful reunion with father 05:39:37 "illegal gathering" police. 05:41:16 no offense but these mandlelbrot fractals are disgusting 05:43:15 i want to know how much of this is shakespeare and how much of this is this movie 05:45:05 celia is so scary wtf 05:48:09 rose's deception as a way to get closer to orlando. without really showing her/himself. 05:49:14 harvest calendar change 05:51:50 rose gets a reading. as herself. himself. 05:56:41 it should probably be translated as like. goddess? instead of angel. 05:57:00 yeah "let the baby make the decision" 05:57:27 HAHAH 05:57:39 yeah i do get the real shakespeare feeling. like everyone's getting paired up and whatever. 05:57:54 oh god the fact that they're kissing under so many bananas...cute. bananas! 05:58:34 i counted like over four kabedons in this movie wtf 05:59:30 yeah 8 people getting married at the same time, very shakespeare 06:04:00 i did see soe male actors. i think the policemen were played by men? 06:06:55 i didn't mind the weird like, cgi, hand-animations etc. i think i liked the hand-animations more. 06:10:35 not sure how i feel about this movie. very cute, very shakespeare. how do i say like... i'm glad it was made.

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re-rereading ASOUE

… a word which is difficult to pronounce.

i reread the books and then read ATWQ and UA and all the other associated materials, and realized that i had missed or misinterpreted a great deal of stuff, so, a re-reread is in order. and i’m posting commentary on tumblr because i can’t liveblog them at @luckydicekirby AGAIN,

today: the bad beginning! but probably oblique spoilers for The Whole Thing in my commentary.

they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features

these books are really bad about associating physical appearance with moral character! i am choosing to believe it’s the fault of lemony “no, there IS an objectively right preference, and it’s mine” snicket, and not mr. handler.

This particular morning it was gray and cloudy, which didn’t bother the Baudelaire youngsters one bit. When it was hot and sunny, Briny Beach was crowded with tourists and it was impossible to find a good place to lay one’s blanket. On gray and cloudy days, the Baudelaires had the beach to themselves to do what they liked.

… there is an objectively right preference for beach day weather, and it’s mine, because cloudy days are the best. good job baudelaires.

One of the things Violet, Klaus, and Sunny really liked about their parents was that they didn’t send their children away when they had company over, but allowed them to join the adults at the dinner table and participate in the conversation as long as they helped clear the table.

This presumably makes it more jarring when they haven’t met ANY of the people they get sent to live with! Oh, Baudelaire parents, you really did your best to cut yourselves off from the secret society life, huh…

The children remembered Mr. Poe because he always had a cold

A COLD IS INSUFFICIENT EXPLANATION!!

Klaus pictured all the books in the library, going up in flames. Now he’d never read all of them.

i hear this is the point at which @songs-and-types bounced off these books as a kid.. it IS very upsetting.

the two Poe children-Edgar and Albert

small brain meme picture: it’s an edgar allan poe reference

larger brain meme picture: it’s an edgar allan poe AND an edgar albert guest reference

“I have made arrangements,” he said finally, “for you to be raised by a distant relative of yours who lives on the other side of town. His name is Count Olaf.”

small brain meme picture: mr. poe sent them to count olaf because olaf lied

larger brain meme picture: mr. poe sent them to count olaf because of olaf’s “yessica haircut” routine, as in the netflix show

exploding brain meme picture: the snicket-baudelaire-..olaf family tree is a complicated mess anyway and he almost certainly IS distantly related to them

And Sunny crawled around solemnly biting each of Edgar and Albert’s shoes, leaving small teeth marks in each one so she would not be forgotten.

I LOVE SUNNY…

What kind of a man, Violet wondered, would carve an image of an eye into his front door?

given book!olaf’s even worse tendency towards KNIFE VIOLENCE, the actual carving is probably more worrying than the eye…. but given everything else about VFD maybe she should be worried anyway.

His face was unshaven, and rather than two eyebrows, like most human beings have, he had just one long one.

Lemony. Please. You’re so judgmental. Think of your brother.

Count Olaf turned to Mr. Poe with a glint in his eye like an angry dog. For a moment Violet thought he was going to strike Mr. Poe across the face.

FORESHADOWING!! Like many unpleasant people, Olaf is much more likely to be violent when he knows he can get away with it.

They wondered how many other eyes were in Count Olaf’s house, and whether, for the rest of their lives, they would always feel as though Count Olaf were watching them even when he wasn’t nearby.

getting the extremely ominous train rolling early… oh, remind me to do the rare edition footnotes, too, because iirc there’s an extremely creepy footnote on this line.

“None of us knows how to cook,” Klaus said.

“That’s true,” Violet said. “I knew how to repair those windows, and how to clean the chimney, because those sorts of things interest me. But I don’t know how to cook anything except toast.”

“And sometimes you burn the toast,” Klaus said, and they smiled. They were both remembering a time when the two of them got up early to make a special breakfast for their parents. Violet had burned the toast, and their parents, smelling smoke, had run downstairs to see what the matter was. When they saw Violet and Klaus, looking forlornly at pieces of pitch-black toast, they laughed and laughed, and then made pancakes for the whole family.

HA HA HA WOW I WONDER WHY THEIR PARENTS WERE WORRIED ABOUT WAKING UP TO THE SMELL OF SMOKE!!!!

i made myself very sad a while ago thinking about how b&b probably laughed so much because they were so, so relieved, and because they felt pleasantly foolish for being worried about arson instead of their lovely children trying to make them breakfast and burning some toast.. because, you know, they’re well out of it now and don’t have to constantly look over their shoulders..

;-;

“And I would like to look at books on wolves,” Klaus said. “Recently I have been fascinated by the subject of wild animals of North America.”

klaus baudelaire, in the inevitable preteen stage of being real into wolves

“I can’t tell you how much we appreciate this,” Violet said, carefully. With their kind parents dead and Count Olaf treating them so abominably, the three children were not used to kindness from adults, and weren’t sure if they were expected to do anything back. “Tomorrow, before we use your library again, Klaus and I would be more than happy to do household chores for you. Sunny isn’t really old enough to work, but I’m sure we could find some way she could help you.”

Justice Strauss smiled at the three children, but her eyes were sad. She reached out a hand and put it on Violet’s hair, and Violet felt more comforted than she had in some time. “That won’t be necessary,” Justice Strauss said. “You are always welcome in my home.” Then she turned and went into her home, and after a moment of staring after her, the Baudelaire orphans went into theirs.

THIS IS REALLY SAD!!!

Nobody paid a bit of attention to the children, except for the bald man, who stopped and stared Violet in the eye.

“You’re a pretty one,” he said, taking her face in his rough hands. “If I were you I would try not to anger Count Olaf, or he might wreck that pretty little face of yours.” Violet shuddered, and the bald man gave a high-pitched giggle and left the room.

(hissing and recoiling)

“That money,” Klaus said, remembering what Mr. Poe said, “is not to be used until Violet is of age.”

Count Olaf’s face grew very red. For a moment he said nothing. Then, in one sudden movement, he reached down and struck Klaus across the face. Klaus fell to the floor, his face inches from the eye tattooed on Olaf’s ankle. His glasses leaped from his face and skittered into a corner. His left cheek, where Olaf had struck him, felt as if it were on fire. The theater troupe laughed, and a few of them applauded as if Count Olaf had done something very brave instead of something despicable.

1) this is still very upsetting 2) it’s also even more closely paralleled to the previous scene with mr. poe than i remembered

“We don’t really have a question,” Klaus said. “We have a complaint.” He was thinking of Mr. Poe walking toward them at Briny Beach, with his terrible message. Even though the fire was of course not Mr. Poe’s fault, Klaus was reluctant to see Mr. Poe because he was afraid of getting more bad news.

it turns out a bunch of my commentary is just going to be THESE KIDS ARE REALLY SAD!!

They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf’s evil in loco parentis ways.

Lemony, this sentence is bad.

The children looked at Count Olaf. His face was very serious, as if he were very sorry to hear that, but his eyes were shiny and bright, the way they are when someone is telling a joke.

LEMONY, YOU’RE CONSTANTLY SAYING HOW SHINY HIS EYES ARE, THIS MEANS NOTHING HERE

The word “standoffish” is a wonderful one, but it does not describe Count Olaf’s behavior toward the children. It means “reluctant to associate with others,” and it might describe somebody who, during a party, would stand in a corner and not talk to anyone.

… so, you, the narrator.

Olaf’s sharp and dirty fingernails gently scratched on Violet’s chin, and she shivered.

TV!Olaf, while sometimes scary, has yet to reach the heights of deeply alarming menace that book!Olaf does.

“Around the time of your weasel lady,” Klaus said, flipping through the enormous book he had been reading, “a group of actors put on a production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and none of them wore any clothing.”

Violet blushed. “You mean they were all naked, onstage?”

“Only briefly,” Klaus said, smiling. “The police came and shut down the production. I don’t think that’s very helpful, either. It was just pretty interesting to read about.”

i want 2 protect them

Then, just as he heard the man’s footsteps heading back his way, Klaus spied one book, and quickly grabbed it. He untucked his shirt and put the book inside, hastily retucking it just as the hook-handed man reentered the library, escorting Violet and carrying Sunny, who was trying without success to bite the man’s hooks.

hiding books up your shirt: lemony snicket approved ™

“The word ‘nuptial,’ ” Klaus said, “means ‘relating to marriage.’ ” “I know what the word means,” Count Olaf growled.

… count olaf not knowing what the word means in the show is fine, but the reversal of the running joke with klaus might be funnier.

Violet stared at him. She had an odd feeling in her stomach, as if she were the one being thrown from a great height. The really frightening thing about Olaf, she realized, was that he was very smart after all. He wasn’t merely an unsavory drunken brute, but an unsavory, clever drunken brute.

ACCURATE.

“Remember that, orphans,” he said. “You may have read more books than I have, but it didn’t help you gain the upper hand in this situation.”

SOMEbody’s bitter about VFD.

The enormous creature merely looked at Violet with its blank white eyes and shook its head, then dismissed her with a silent gesture.

The treatment of the ambiguously gendered henchperson in the books is… really bad…. at least their show portrayal is better!

Clang! The grappling hook hit the tower, and fell down again, hitting Violet hard in the shoulder. One of the arms tore her nightgown and cut through her skin. Biting down on her hand to keep from crying out in pain, Violet felt the place in her shoulder where she had been struck, and it was wet with blood. Her arm throbbed in pain.

At this point in the proceedings, if I were Violet, I would have given up, but just as she was about to turn around and go inside the house, she pictured how scared Sunny must be, and, ignoring the pain in her shoulder, Violet used her right hand to throw the hook again.

First appearance of “Lemony unfavorably comparing his own courage to the Baudelaires’”!

The tower room held objects that were very dear and precious to Count Olaf, and they were terrible things. There were scraps of paper on which he had written his evil ideas in an illegible scrawl, lying in messy piles on top of the copy of Nuptial Law he had taken away from Klaus. There were a few chairs and a handful of candles which were giving off flickering shadows. Littered all over the floor were empty wine bottles and dirty dishes. But most of all were the drawings and paintings and carvings of eyes, big and small, all over the room. There were eyes painted on the ceilings, and scratched into the grimy wooden floors. There were eyes scrawled along the windowsill, and one big eye painted on the knob of the door that led to the stairs. It was a terrible place.

Uhhhhh I forgot Olaf had a ROOM OF CRAZY

this is a lot.

“If we had any kerosene,” Violet said, around noon, “I could make Molotov cocktails with these bottles.”

“We could break these bottles in half,” Violet said, “and use them as knives, but I’m afraid that Count Olaf’s troupe would overpower us.”

it’s not UNJUSTIFIED, but given the amount of hand-wringing about whether they’re being villainous themselves in later books, the kids go from zero to sixty REALLY fast

“I wish we could break a leg,” Klaus whispered to Violet, and Mr. Poe left.

“You will, soon enough,” Count Olaf said, pushing the two children toward the stage.

And here I thought Olaf’s sotto voce threatening remarks were only in the show.

For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.

Hey…… Lemony???

LEMONY SNICKET was born in a small town where the inhabitants were suspicious and prone to riot. He now lives in the city. During his spare time he gathers Evidence and is considered something of an expert by leading authorities. These are his first books for Harper Collins.

So he’s living in the city and he’s not a fugitive or anything! Huh.

#ceruleanrambling #asoue #current reading events #rereread #the puzzling book club

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Yuri!!! on Ice, a liveblog Episode 9

I sat down last night to play the Sims, but because origin is a piece of trash, it took so long to update that I gave up and watched YOI instead. Which turned out to be a fantastic choice! OR: In Which The Blogger Has An Inappropriate Amount of Feelings About Yuri Pliesetsky, and Also Cannot Choose Which Abbreviation of His Name She Likes Best

Ninth Skate: Yuri vs. Yuri The Horror!! Rostelecom Cup, Free Skate

Things I’m Pleased About: Victor asking Yuuri to rely on his feminine wiles to make Yakov help him despite himself

Things I Feel Some Kinda Way About, Jesus Chist Really:

Russian Punk Yuri referring to Katsuki as “pork cutlet bowl”

Pliestski’s grandfather (the one he’s skating agape for, remember remember) making him good luck at your skate today PORK CUTLET PIROZHKI.

WHILE HE WAS SICK, NO LESS!!!!

AS A SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Like what am i supposed to think and feel here. Please. Honestly. Look into my eyes and tell me Yurio does not have confused adolescent longings toward Victor and then by weird proxy b/c Victor is in love with him, Yuri Katsuki, That everything doesn’t feel sharp-edged and wild because he’s a kid who wanted to skate eros, that’s what he instinctively grabbed at. COME ON.

I am so glad we got to watch the “cyborg: transcending humanity” (name definitely not right) program with smiley Emil. I’m sorry he stumbled because he’s still human, but the name, the music, the choreography was lovely and so heartfelt. I like that it’s not an emotional theme (explicitly, anyway) but a stretching out of human boundaries one.

All right, I continued to mostly not care about the Italian love nest thing but Sala crying out her pain and sense of loss as Mickey skated the ~last skate he would ever skate for her~ more beautifully than he has ever done so before did grab at my heart, briefly. Just because you don’t regret ending something that is long outgrown doesn’t mean you can’t feel things about it! Doesn’t mean you can’t hug the object of your affection & work on reestablishing a new, healthier relationship. (Also lol at Sala trying to corner Yuri K because of the strength of his eros lololol)

TIME FOR MY SON TO SKATE!!!!

AHAHAHA Please PLEASE tell me he gets his second burst of power thinking about JJ teasing him on the winner’s podium. Yuri-chan indeed. CRUSH ALL IN YOUR PATH, FAVORITE KID.

I’m glad to see all that splits practice making its way onto the ice very naturally & gracefully. He’s so long!

A performance beyond his limits I”M SO PROUD OF YOU YURI P!! YOU’RE A CALCULATING BEAUTIFUL SONOFABITCH AND YOU’RE SO DRIVEN

YURI K!!

Possibly the best part of this skate is the evolution of Yuri’s inner monologue, from easily upset and fixated to something smoother and calmer, even when the skate itself is tripping over a couple of mistakes.

Also i mean i’m dying from the people in the stands going “god what if victor were here imagine how hot and focused yuri’s skating would be then” like. They know. Everybody Knows.

(okay ALSO stealing my heart was the bit with Victor and Yuri on the beach, at a time that looked like the same day as the ridic ending credits beach shower scene, which means that that stuff has Already Happened, that their love story happened mostly offscreen, and that they’re settled and driven and doing really well!!! Yuri!!! I’m so happy for you!!!)

Yuri thanking Yakov after being overwhelmed with frustration/affection for Victor b/c of the immediate off-ice lecture and the thank you (spasiba) was So Good. so good.

Hissing silently in amused rage: DID JJ JUST “KISS THE GOLD MEDAL” MOVE THINKING ABOUT HOW MUCH HE WANTS TO TAKE THE PLACE OF VICTOR? WHY WOULD YOU NOT LOVE THIS KID. HE’S AMAZING. JJ THE KING!!

I would follow JJ into any anime where the mecha/magic/etc were fueled on Heart. He’s got it.

Yuri k hugged every boy every single boy and also Sala, he hugged them, he hugged every boy. Hugged.

YURIO GAVE YURI A PORK CUTLET PIROZHKI AND SMILED AND THEY BONDED AND I, PERSONALLY, AM DYING OF SHEER FRIENDSHIPPY JOY.

“IT’S ALMOST LIKE A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL. I WISH YOU’D NEVER RETIRE” okay i’m fine. I’m so. So fine. Nothing is on fire and everything is so goddamn beautiful.

#livebageling yuri on ice #i feel good about this episode #i feel really good about where the show is going #also #calling them yuri k and yuri p reminds me of nothing more than elementary school #i wish i liked yurio more b/c i think i'm supposed to think of it very affectionately #--the name that is obv not the person i love yuri p #but the circumstances of that nickname don't sit as easily #so i flop around with what i use #yuri!!! on ice

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