the way that one line from the new epilogue in an astarion romance is going to HAUNT me
just. what a profoundly intense thing to confess to someone.
like, just these six months of newfound happiness with you exerts a force on his heart equal and in direct opposition to two centuries of endless torment, the gnawing hunger and exploitation. this flashbulb-bright fraction of his long life holds the same gravity to him as years upon years of darkness and suffering.
in all likelihood, he hasn’t even known his lover for as long as his worst memory lasted, that year sealed away to go mad from starvation and sensory deprivation, yet he still tells them this brief time has been so fundamentally and powerfully important that the weight of even that unimaginable hell is vanishingly small compared to this present he has now and the future ahead of them both.
how am i supposed to act normal about this.
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okay but can i say i’m soooo curious to see where the tubbo and cucurucho beef goes?
like the last time something similar happened cellbit got chased with a CHAINSAW down an inescapable tunnel and for the most part, all he did that was “illegal” was make an iron farm using villager exploits.
but now you have tubbo, who within a matter of only a week or so now has committed not 1, not 2, but 3 illegal acts (at least that i can remember) that are on a much larger scale than what cellbit had done.
if they thought the tiny iron farm cellbit made back in may was bad, just imagine what they think of what tubbos been doing. he made an absolutely MASSIVE drill that would’ve caused devastating damage to federation buildings (had he used them to grief any) before running off with it after being told it was illegal.
then, he received a creative motor from forever and richas, and while technically he was gifted it, just possessing one is illegal now and punishable, even if you’re not using it.
not to mention what he did this morning when he created another drill and pushed the boundaries of what the federation qualified as a “too big” again (though much smaller than the last) and then when cucurucho asked for it to be handed over CREATING AN ELABORATE SCHEME TO HIDE THIS INSANE MACHINE FROM A WHITE BEAR THATS ACTIVELY GUNNING HIM DOWN!!!
like tubbo does not give a fuck rn and you can tell it’s getting to cucurucho too because, like many people have pointed out, this is the first time it’s been so aggressive since torturing cellbit. i mean it literally downed tubbo 2-3 times and revived him each time before killing him again right after, and then later firing off bullets like crazy to try and catch him when he was spying on foolishs conversation with it.
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Is this what Happiness is?
- hey so I haven't seen an interpretation of the bar scenes in Half that I fully agree with, so I wanted to throw my own two cents out there into the void and pray that it makes sense !!!
so, in the bar scenes in Half we see what I interpret as a hangout with old friends (or, hangout with old friend + his wife.) These scenes used to be the biggest piece of evidence for the cheater theory, but now that that's been debunked by the man himself, I have a new way of looking at them
~ before I go any further, I just wanted to say that I'll be calling the brown-haired woman whiskey for simplicity's sake
In this scene, Kazui turns to look at Whiskey, saying the lyrics:
"laughing together, side by side, this distance in our relationship is misleading me, is this what happiness is?"
With my guess (cuz that's really what it is there's no evidence for it) that Whiskey is the Bartender's wife i think this scene is Kazui being conflicted with what he's been told is true, that marrying Hinako is "true love", versus what he feels is true, that marrying Hinako has brought distance into their relationship.
He looks at Whiskey, a woman happily married, and wonders why his relationship with Hinako isn't like that.
~ shout out to @prisoner-000 for the following screenshot
in this post he points out that Hinako and Kazui's rings are silver in Cat, not gold like they were in Half, yet Bartender's ring colour stays the same.
For the sake of this writing I'm going to go with the first meaning they put out, that Bartender's ring is gold because his marriage is genuine.
But wait!! I hear you ask. This is Half and Kazui's ring is still gold in Half!! EXACTLY MY FRIEND!!
Kazui's ring IS still gold in Half because at the time of these scenes he's still fooling himself that this relationship is good, that he will eventually garner real romantic feelings for Hianko.
"laughing together, side by side, this distance in our relationship is misleading me, is this what happiness is?"
Remember this lyric that plays during the Whiskey -> Hinako scene. You know what other scene in Half this lyric reminds me of?
laughing together, side by side,
this distance in our relationship is misleading me,
is this what happiness is?
He's beginning to doubt if what he believes is true, he's beginning to believe the feelings telling him something's wrong (and remember, the scene right after this one is when he confesses (?) his secret to Hinako) ARE infact true, and that maybe the logic he's been following for so long has a couple holes in it.
I think these scenes are meant to show Kazui gradually realising that his relationship with Hinako will not work out. It just won't, no matter how hard he tries.
He's able to laugh together and talk with Whiskey because she's his friend, yet he can't do the same with his own wife? Even though, according to his gold ring, their relationship is supposed to be real and true and genuine?
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The fact that this absolute parasite of a man recycled his proposal speech and managed to hit the head of the nail with both girls because they were both vulnerable and had desire for a family… or he would've if Jiwon hadn't had knowledge of the future.
Park Minhwan, you absolute scumbag of a human being. Not only are you a sexist, inferior-complexed, gymbro, cryptobro cheating man, BUT ALSO UNCREATIVE?
ofc there's also a lot to say about Sumin. Despite how satisfying it is to see her reap what she's sowed for decades (and would have continued to sow had Jiwon not stood her ground), it's… kind of hard to not feel pity for her. Especially after Minhwan's "you're only a pretty face" comment since she's probably been compared to Jiwon for her grades her whole life.
I really like how they're portraying Sumin's abusive childhood in this adaptation, because while it does not justify at all any of her scummy actions, it ties to her attention-seeking tendencies, and her obssession with being the only human being Jiwon ever needed.
ok that's it for tonight, let's see what next week brings.
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