trying to stay motivated by releasing these two bastards into the wild - Rikki and Ban's new ref sheets <3 minus their other outfits because I'm not done with them. but they're literally soulmates, the best and worst influences/thing to happen to each other, theyre married and divorced, they're found family, they're codependent and clingy, can't stand each other
they also met at a dumpster, somewhere in Nila District, and immediately began planning to scam the shit out NSR and get Rikki out of the archipelago <3
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i love being genderfluid so i can be a lesbian and a gay man at the same time
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Good Omens and Oscar Wilde's “The Nightingale and the Rose”
‘The Nightingale and the Rose’ is a tragic fairy tale / short story by Oscar Wilde. The story is about romantic love and the sacrifice of a nightingale. The nightingale is a romantic soul, pure in its decisions and acts but also naïve in its conclusion that true love is at hand and that its sacrifice will be valued.
It is a slow paced, romantic and sweet story with a very bitter ending. A bit like Good Omens Season 2.
The Nightingale listens to a lovelorn student lamenting his hopeless love and feels sorry for him. Because the student claims that all it takes to be together with his “love” is a red rose, the nightingale gives her own life in exchange for said red rose. But when the student presents the girl the rose, she rejects him anyway (talking about superficialities like it wouldn’t go with her dress) stating that everyone knows that flowers cost far less than jewels (when we as the reader know that the cost of this flower is basically immeasurable, it literally cost everything).
The lovesick protagonist is referred to as a student who, in the end after being rejected by the girl he claimed to love is saying that love is a silly and unpractical thing anyway and that it is not useful as logic. And that “in this age to be practical is everything”. The story ends with him returning to his room to read a big and dusty book.
Just for the fun of it (“fun” as in it’s probably going to hurt) let’s read Aziraphale as the student because he loves book and also because behind his very soft and romantic ways, there is a rational heart who thinks love is something that is “always telling one of things that are not going to happen”. Someone who says “nothing lasts forever”.
And let’s read Crowley as the nightingale herself, shall we? Because behind the “I’m not nice, Nice is a four-letter word” exterior lies a very soft and romantic heart. I mean think of how he looks at the newly created universe. Think of how he looks at Nina and Maggie under the awning. So soft and full of love. Such a romantic, this one. Like he believes in love without hesitation. When he gives his heart, he gives it fully. And he does give it his all in this season, doesn’t he? And also, “because, underneath it all, Crowley (is) an optimist.” (Good Omens, 1990) Whose natural inclination is to believe that everything is going to be okay even if his experience could have made him an absolute cynic.
And don’t get me wrong. I don’t read any of this as foreshadowing for season 3 (even I am not that masochistic). I just saw some parallels of the fairytale and season 2 of Good Omens. How the hope that Crowley’s heartfelt and vulnerable confession would bring them together shattered to the ground. It gives a bitter ending for all the optimists, the romantic hearts. Aziraphale chooses duty in heaven over his love for Crowley. Does he do it to protect Crowley or because he genuinely thinks he can change heaven for the better? Does he have a secret masterplan? Only season 3 can tell. But for now, we are left with the bitter ending of someone ready to give anything for love and being disappointed.
Anyway, here’s the ending to the short story (go (re-)read it, it's really good):
“What a silly thing Love is,' said the Student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to Philosophy and study Metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.
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As a Black Butler Veteran, it’s funny to me that the biggest (and understandably) controversial thing of Today’s Fandom is whether or not Ciel and Sebastian are in a romantic relationship, and NOT whether or not Ciel is Straight.
If you asked the Season 1 2008 Subtitles only fan in an online forum post, or an in person anime club, they might be more focused about Ciel’s Sexuality than any ship, and label any gay ship as “crackship/rarepair”.
I like how over the years the fandom has collectively progressed and universally agreed: “Yeah, that Tiny British Child is a bit Fruity”
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I will admit I love Splatoon but it is driving me up the fuckin wall, I've played a lotta Turf War and I'm kinda burnt out on it so I'm playing mostly Anarchy Battles and I know people say solo queue is bad or whatever like I'm expecting people to not exactly be team players y'know we all have those moments of being bad team players but MY GOD MAN I swear people have gotten WORSE about the objective lately! They BLATANTLY IGNORE IT! I have had to use the limited comms of "This way!" a LOT more than I have ever had to do. And it works with players whom get carried away pushing foward but a lotta the times they will see exactly what I'm trying to do and STILL NOT HELP ME! I play a lotta slow weapons that make it hard for me to pop the Rainmaker so maybe that is my fault for not playing Nautilus more but GOSH! They see me struggling to pop and they do not simply SHOOT THE RAINMAKER SHIELD FOR EVEN A SECOND!! As well as in Tower Control people are allergic to touching the tower for even a second and Splat Zones people will not SPLAT the ZONE and instead fail to kill any of the enemy team continuously and never land any of that ink even near the actual objective!! I'm not gonna say I'm a perfect player and playing exclusively for objective wouldn't work obviously but not even a little extra support? Not even ONE person turning around and playing attention to objective? Straight up leaving the Rainmaker unattended at the front of the last checkpoint so that the enemy can push up and dunk the Rainmaker and end the game? Me being the only one trying to pop the Rainmaker shield and failing cuz my teammates left to bumfuck nowhere? I'm use to it happening sometimes but it feels like it is happening almost EVERY TIME now! I think Splatoon 3 screwed up something in the ranking system cuz I have legit seen very very VERY new players in S+ somehow and I mean genuinely new players who can barely hold their camera straight cuz they aren't use to motion controls yet. I don't remember this being a problem in Splatoon 2. As well as pairing up extremely new players with very experienced player in Turf War SPLATOON USE TO BE A LOT BETTER THAN THAT AND IT DOESN'T SEEM TO HAPPEN ANYMORE!! WHAT DID THEY DO TO SCREW IT UP SO BADLY!!!!
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