Well. hrm. the way they all connect to each other. like it’s all starting to look like a circle of some sort. jess as rory’s mirror/reflection/narrative foil but also jess as he pertains to luke and jess as he pertains to lorelai. luke breaking the church bells luke who says he was troubled but they gave him a chance and just bc a kid has issues doesnt mean they don’t deserve that. luke who is a figure placed against the rest of the town, just in the sense that he is not like them, he does not hold their values, he doesn’t even sound like them. which is of course a result of scott patterson’s new york accent, but adds to this theme anyway. and they use jess to build this picture, because they walk the same and talk the same and they’re stubborn—independent to a near self-endangering degree—and emotionally repressed in the same way and luke himself admits that he spent more time working at his dad’s shop than he did at school, which jess also does. but jess and luke are also. very very different when you get past these similar values that are maybe ingrained into them through different circumstances and same genetic makeup. and in their differences you get a lot of jess and lorelai’s similarities. when it comes to their family dynamics and how it’s affected them in particular. it’s made them independent yes, but it’s also made them hypervigilant, almost paranoid in the way they are allergic to accepting help and especially accepting help from the people who hurt them. jess only goes to his mother’s wedding because luke asks him to, lorelai only asks her parents for money because rory needs it for school. and they, and this is where they differ from luke, don’t know how to trust people and so they don’t know how to talk to people. where luke’s particular brand of emotional constipation comes from a general cluelessness as to how to do it—which is why the tapes helped him so much—lorelai and jess’ come from emotional responses to the situations they grew up in. while it was different—lorelai growing up rich, jess growing up poor—the effect it had on them still resulted in something similar. lorelai with her overbearing manipulative mother and (emotionally) absent father, and jess with his neglecting manipulative mother and (in all senses of the word) absent father. the ways that, despite their effort to distance themselves, they still end up with similar mannerisms to the parent they have the most conflict with (lorelai and her controlling nature + that scene where they have the same nighttime routine, jess and his love for books + tendency to run away). and of course, their romanticism. their big confessions and period drama-esque speeches and, yeah, i do think in a way jess was asking rory to marry him in 4x21. come with me. let’s get married. luke and rory both being the most important people in their lives. literati+javajunkie where they are all melding into each other, and luke is rory and lorelai is jess but on the surface level dynamic luke is jess and lorelai is rory and they are all each other. on accident. by sheer nature of making jess as a character for the sole purpose of interfering with luke and lorelai’s relationship (which means he is important narratively to them both) and by making him rory’s love interest/foil (because ASP casted him before she even had the idea for the character) you have now made an accidental blending of them all together. he is like a skeleton key of a character. Okay. okay.
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Getting a lot of notes on the grandma post, so grandma update time!
I talk to my grandma every day, I call her every morning before breakfast to say hi and get the update on the neighborhood cats she's feeding* and talk about what the both of us are doing every day.
A few times a week one of us will call the other later in the day to share a funny story, which led to her saying my dad didn't follow instructions and me saying "Yep, I inherited my inability to follow instructions from both sides", to which she replied "You're doomed, dear" lol
*she socializes the kittens and gets them in animal shelters to be adopted as much as she can. She also names almost all of them after characters from old westerns and tells stories about them like it's a soap opera
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Thinking. Abt this but with Bones. Like. Post-Tholian Web? Post-Mirror Mirror?
For AOS, could be after Into Darkness and/or Beyond.
A Bones who's just. So anxious. So stressed. So overwhelmed that it starts taking a toll on his health. Maybe he doesn't even realise - or maybe he does and tries his best to push through it until it knocks him on his ass. Kind of in the vein of "You don't actually know how tired you are until you stop. And then you just physically cannot start again." It becomes his new baseline, a problem that just brews and storms in the distance.
And he just carries on. And keeps going and going and going until one day he realises that 'Oh fuck, I'm not okay' and has about 5 seconds of warning before he straight up collapses, doesn't matter if it's on the bridge, in the madbay, on a planet - he's going down. (Maybe a repeat of Tholian Web where he just straight up faints into Spock's arms? Full whammy, why not)
Maybe it's a high-tension situation getting resolved that does it. The pure relief of it reminds him of how tired he is. How tired he's been for a while. His body sees that momentary rest and goes "More of that, please. And I'm not asking."
And he's so rendered by it that he doesn't grumble about being coddled like he normally would when he wakes up. He knows not to fuck with the medbay staff - they're just as firm as he is on recovery, and that's not by accident - and he knows that Spock and Kirk will be hovering, because they see any problem as something they, too, should shoulder the burden of.
...And because they're some of the most protective people in the damned universe. And that goes for pretty much all the people on board the Enterprise.
In some scenarios, it's just a case of letting his body and mind rest properly. In others, there's a lot more recovery involved than anyone initially expects. Luckily for him, he has a found family who are determined to be there with him at every step. It just takes a couple reminders, every once in a while.
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since we're all having fun talking about theories and headcanons before the game drops. one thing that i do want for missing link, that is mostly wishful thinking on my part, is a reveal for kairi being a descendant of the player
this is based on their parallels of being shooting stars later found washed up on a beach from the new missing link trailer, plus that one moment from KH1 where kairi's grandma tells her about the age of the fairytales and nothing else lmfao
and i want that so badly because. it would be so fucking ironic and poetic to have kairi be a direct descendant of the one person that raised and cared so much for xehanort. the player, whose memories of ephemer and skuld and chirithy and everyone else influenced xehanort into starting his whole ass spiral and descent into darkness
only for her (and sora) to be the ones to get xehanort to stop in the end. ending a cycle of sorts. for her to be haunted by the memory of xehanort, the same way xehanort was "haunted" by the memory of the player's past life
PLUS. i want it to SPECIFICALLY recontextualize kairi's inheritance of the keyblade from BBS. because kairi's reason to wield a keyblade being nothing more than an "accident" feels like such a disservice to her AND aqua??
if they could recontextualize xehanort into whole new depths in dark road, i dont see why they couldn't reframe that moment as kairi reclaiming a dormant power, her own heritage that her bloodline forgot for centuries, since knowledge about keyblades and wielders began to fade out over time to the point where people who KNEW about them thought they were evil. makes sense that as the age of fairytales is left FORGOTTEN, no one can remember how to summon a keyblade, let alone the knowledge to create one from someone's heart. but having a strong heart (one of the requisites for bequeathing ceremonies) and being in direct contact with a keyblade, could just. help jog the memory a bit
and show that yeah. kairi deserves to wield a keyblade because she has a strong heart, and because this was her heritage that was taken away from her when the worlds began to drift away from each other and so on. not because of an accident
everytime chance, fate and destiny are brought up in the saga to explain why something. happened the way it did. it carries so much weight and so many events that led to That Point. but kairi's inheritance as of right now was just. yeah, an accident. no ceremony at all AND I JUST THINK SHE DESERVES RLLY COOL THINGS OKAY
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If you’re one of those people that makes Kanan Obi-Wan’s son (yes you can do that it’s more popular for Cal but my pref is to make them the very pale twins of Obi-Wan and Quinlan it’s very funny to me) then Sabine is both Anakin and Obi-Wan’s granddaughter thank you and you’re welcome I hope to see this in fix it fics soon.
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PART 26
of the dfk audiobook translation
@cnka
Martina: „I need to tell you something. I’m not a doctor’s daughter. I don’t have a phone because I don’t have money. And my clothes are second-hand. Not vintage.“
Jo: „Why didn’t you say anything? I told you about my mother too.“
Matze: „You know, Martina, I think that you don’t have to act like you’re rich. You’re still you!“
Martina: „I know. But I just wanted to be someone else.“
Matze: „Uli shouldn’t climb up there either.“
Martina: „And you don’t have to do boxing if you don’t want to.“
Matze: „And you, Jo, don’t have to be so cool all the time.“
Jo: (laughs) „I am cool! And you, Matze, are way more clever than you always think.“
Matze: „Really?“
Jo: „Yeah!“
Martina: (giggles happily)
Matze, genuinely: „Thanks!“
Narrator (audiobook):
But their good mood abruptly vanishes when they meet Ruda and her gang down in town.
Martina: „Oh no.“
Jo: „Not good!“
Matze: „Externs.“
Jo: „Technically it’s our territory…“
Martina: „We’re outnumbered.“
Matze: „We can’t just run away!“
Martina: „I don’t know!“
Jo: „Whatever. We stick together here.“
Matze: „For Uli.“
Martina: „For Uli.“
Jo: „Yeah. For Uli.“
Narrator (audiobook):
The three gather all their courage and approach the Externs - they’re prepared for the worst.
As always, Ruda takes the word.
Ruda: „Uh. So. Well- We didn’t want it to come to this. We’re sorry.“
Sebi: „It just went way too far, that Internals-Externs thing.“
Martina: „Yeah. We all really overdid it.“
Narrator (Nichtraucher):
And now?
On this day, they didn’t have an answer.
So Martina focused on studying for the admission test with the help of Justus Bökh.
SCENE CHANGE
[Note: the red text on that picture says "Matze - losing is not an option - Papa"]
Matze: „Hello, Papa? I won’t go to the boxing camp this year.“
Narrator (Nichtraucher):
Matze prepared his holidays.
Matze: „I’ll stay here with Uli!“
SCENE CHANGE
Uli: „Mama!“
Narrator (Nichtraucher):
Uli was brought new laundry and the school books for next year.
SCENE CHANGE
Narrator (Nichtraucher):
The handsome Theodor felt the pressure to be solely responsible for the entertainment at the closing celebration.
SCENE CHANGE
Jo: „For you.“
Narrator (audiobook):
Martina can’t believe that Jo is gifting her the phone.
Martina: „What?“
Jo: „I'm getting a new one anyway.“
Martina: „Jo, that- I can’t accept that!“
Jo: „How else am I gonna call you in the holidays?“
They hug.
SCENE CHANGE
Martina studies in the light of her flashlight while Jo sleeps.
Narrator (Nichtraucher):
And apart from this nice gesture from Jo, not least because of the amount of school material, everything seemed to be heading towards a closing celebration without a play for Martina.
To which Martina, Jo, Matze and Uli had still invited me though.
SCENE CHANGE
The doors to the assembly hall open. Kids run in first, followed by their parents and the older kids.
Narrator (audiobook):
It’s finally time. The day of the closing celebration has come.
Parents, siblings, teachers and the students rush into the assembly hall in crowds.
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Hello Zesty-
I think Dynal liking Space Sandwiches means he has a fondness for his homeworld culture but he might come around to Earth sandwiches soon.
As for Duna and Raptin liking Omelets and Steak they were probably the first things they tried on Earth and just became comfort food. Raptin might have been the one to push the button to try and destroy Earth but he does like Earth cuisine.
Yea makes sense.
I can only imagine what a space sandwich actually is. It likely is very similar to earth sandwiches but also Dynal is an alien and thus a space sandwich possibly may not even look or taste anything like earth sandwiches. Dynal may be very hesitant to try earth food, but I think he'd get hooked on earth sandwiches, regardless of how similar or different they may be to space ones.
Duna I think was the first to try human food and convinced Raptin to try it, too. Although Raptin constantly argued with her, telling her that earth food SUCKS and everything humans make SUCKS, he secretly did enjoy steak and could not hide this fact from Duna.
Nowadays, any human dumb enough to leave food unattended may find that their dinaurians friends are quite voracious and WILL eat it the moment no one is watching. The dinaurians LOVE earth food.
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