Ms. Marvel Episode 4: Seeing Red

Laal Khanjeer! an exploration of cultural disconnection and insecurity and complex grandmother mother daughter relationships!! a SWANA country depicted WITHOUT THE GAUDY YELLOW FILTER??!!

this show…this brilliant show always knows the way to my heart.

and they DID end up heavily softening that Djinn thing I was worried about before by explaining that yes it’s just a lack of a better word term used to describe these inter-dimensional beings who are similar to Djinn of Islamic belief but aren’t actually those very things. another win!

ive been messing around with these lil guys for the past 2 hours

If we don’t get another Limoreau kiss either next episode or in the finale I’m going to find myself in prison for 1st degree murder

TECHNOTOBER DAY 26.. SYNDICATE (i think)

haha wdym it's not October anymore.??? calendars are liars👎👎👎reject times and dates it's still technotober for me👍👍👍

Also going off some promo pics and footage, it looks like the gang ends up hiding in a nice looking home, which makes me think they're at either Jordan, Cate, or Emma's parents' house to lie low, and all have the potential for interesting character drama I wanna see

nobody asked but these are probably my favourite live looks hayama-san gave us lol

ASJKDFSHGL

I PASSED THE BANK'S PRE-HIRE TEST WITH FLYING COLORS

Goddddd, Dorothy is waifu for laifu, I s2g. Can't wait to see what conditional saviour bullshit she pulls from this stunt.

NO THE DORM THING IS REAL cause why did i have to file a noise complaint twice in a row.... this is fucked up and evil

the dorms are my worst enemies... who decided that placing two uni students in one small room to live in for the entire school years was a good idea :/ AND the walls are thin and it's like people don't understand the concept of quiet hours

WIP Not-Wednesday

I was tagged by the loveliest @illumiera to share a piece (well, not exactly a piece—more like monstrous blocks of text because I'm excited about them) of chapter 17 of TPATD, so here we go:

When he starts eating, he admits that the soup has the smoothest, most velvety texture on his tongue, and while he does want to eat maniacally out of his hunger, Miraak still stops to think, if only for a second, that the flavor is not at all what he would expect for a stew—this is more like liquid sugar, without a trace of salt inside, but somehow still able to leave a sour-sweet aftertaste in his mouth. It's not... bad, but it's definitely unique, and maybe this question on his face shows, for the next second, her chuckle is heard.

"It's the moon sugar." Jia clarifies with a playful grin, and he turns whip-sharp, looking at her wide-eyed, almost in horror.

"I would swear I've read this is an illegal ingredient, psychoactive, addictive, hard to find."

"Not when you have friends like Teldryn Sero, it isn't." She laughs radiantly, and his heart rejoices, beats faster at the sound of it—like his aloud laughter, hers is also foreign to his ears. "Don't worry. The amount I put in your meal is too small to cause any unwanted complications. Eat it; it will do you good, trust me."

And he does just that; he trusts her as she has done with him, against all odds, and Miraak resumes to the Elsweyr Fondue until there's not even a spoonful left on the bowl, and he starts feeling better than before. And it is this very moment, when he senses her fingers slither in his half-wet hair, his eyes flashing on the mirror before him and observing her through it.

"You have such beautiful hair—like molten hoarfrost, like the silkiest ray of moonlight." She praises him, and he reciprocates her smile, balancing between being flustered or charmed by her compliment. It doesn't impress him then, when without even asking permission, she begins parting his long tufts and plaiting them in elaborate braids entwisted together, one beneath the other, in lopsided trails that simulate the scales of a dragon. A soft snort escapes him with this sweetest initiative of hers—by now, he has watched her many times weaving the exact same plaits all over her own firey mane, which is now trapped in a band on the top of her head, but still, it remains so unruly that it cannot be contained whole by this bun she has made.

Shudders trek down his spine that he tries so hard to suppress within, feeling her tending at his silver-white head like it's the finest needlework, even if Jia's hands are anything but soft inside. But, Miraak senses them like the gentlest sea-salt breeze riffling through his hair, and he becomes that young man in Atmora once more, staring at the Sea of Ghosts with its peaceful tides and longships adorned with shields, hearing the blacksmiths behind his back forging out copper and tin, and singing in Atmoramál for all Jylkurfyk to listen and hum along with him, medhel an gwyns, soft is the wind.

Oh, how much of a balm she is, reminding him of the most carefree years of his faraway childhood just by the touch of her hand...

Okay, if you made it here, I send you a virtual hug and an Elsweyr Fondue like the one Miraak is eating in my upcoming chapter! I'm going to tag my beloved mutuals (without any pressure of course): @miraakulous-cloud-district, @kiir-do-faal-rahhe, @blossom-adventures, @b-lizi to share a smaller or a larger piece of their WIPs! Give me a glimpse of your upcoming chapters to sink my teeth in them, friends! 🥰🥰🥰

whatever else cyberpunk 2077 is it is also first and foremost, to me, a game where you get to see two separate cases of grown-ass, incredibly dangerous men filled with childlike wonder and awe at seeing a kitty cat

(I would say 'whatever Themes this game wants me to think about <<<<<<<takemura and johnny both perfectly like🤝 for once over going 'V LOOK A KITTY!!!''...... but I kind of suspect that's one of the Themes it wants you to think about lol. what an incredible small and human detail to put in there. in the words of andrea gibson:

Friend, if the only thing we have to gain in staying is each other, my god that is plenty

my god that is enough

what if life is worth it after all and despite everything, even in the putrid moral trash heap that is night city, because sometimes you get to see your friend (your friend who's also kind of your enemy but also very much your friend) overjoyed simply to see a cat.)

Jjk S2 ep4 spoilers

I really enjoyed ep 4 but i also have some thoughts.

Yes the pacing felt weird. I felt like there was constant buildup only to shift to something with a completely different mood and pace, which made the payoff seem much more straightforward instead of it being satisfying for the buildup. And the fact that it happens multiple times.

I feel like Gojo's unhingedness was carried mostly by the voice acting and only for a very small part (which I was so annoyed they added in the trailer, and even more so now because that's all we got). That and making his eye wide. Instead of seeing Gojo lose it, we saw him find something, which yes he did but his reaction to that feels very different from the manga. A teenager (Gojo!!) with this kind of power would be menacing! Anime only viewers will likely not see this as him going insane but instead him being high on some sorta enlightenment.

I was expecting (hoping?) for a 'Purple Hollow' ost reprise that would fit this fight's energy leading up to its actual use, seeing as this is the first time he uses his signature move. Although I did enjoy the silent reveal of the eventual destruction caused by it. (I'm listening to purple hollow as I type this muahaha insane gojo is alive and unwell in my head.)

But. But.

That scene after the credits. Ooooh. I felt my throat close, I felt suffocated, I felt dread. I still feel it hours after having watched it. So good. So horrible. Perfect. I hated it. Goosebumps.

life can be so easy sometimes. woag

having friends as a high-functioning mentally ill person is actually hella fucking hard bc when you're doing good ppl forget that your brain doesn't work like theirs, and when you're doing bad they want nothing to do with you bc they don't recognize or understand that version of you

Hi, just wanted to say thanks so much for the matchup, I love it!!! 🩷🩷🩷 I love albedo!!🩷🩷 He also seems like a normal sane character 👀lmao (but who knows👀 he is after all not fully human soooo👀👀)

Once again reminding you to take care of yourself and drink plenty of water and to pace yourself while writing these so you don't get burned out :) 🥰🩷🥰

Hi, and aww, I'm so glad you liked the matchup you got! It was a close tie with Tighnari (considering some of your likes), but I went with Albedo because I thought it'd be a somewhat cute dynamic lol.

(to spare today's matchups, I didn't add anything suspicious or those blocked texts. The next ones won't be though LMFAO)

Also yeah, he's pretty much as ""normal"" as a yandere could be in a matchup, just a bit... Distant. Let's just say you better be hoping he doesn't deal with some concerning experiments yk—

And I will! 🫡 I took yesterday a bit of a day off because Mei's matchup ended with me having little to no idea on what I needed to do next, but I am back in business. Hopefully I can finish these next week because like fuck am I doing these on the weekends LMAOOO

(those are reserved for something a little exciting 🤭 and maybe some heads up too lol)

the next water will fix me