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Chapters: 11/16 Fandom: 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 | Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (Anime) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Suletta Mercury/Miorine Rembran, Gundam Aerial | Ericht Samaya & Suletta Mercury, Gundam Aerial | Ericht Samaya & Prospera Mercury & Suletta Mercury Characters: Miorine Rembran, Suletta Mercury, Gundam Aerial | Ericht Samaya, Prospera Mercury, Chuatury "Chuchu" Panlunch, Norea Du Noc, Nika Nanaura, Earth House (Witch from Mercury), Yushura Mirzakhani Additional Tags: Modern AU, Cambio de cuerpos, sheenanigans, misterio, sulemio Summary:

Miorine se preocupa porque no puede contactar a Suletta.

También lo pueden leer aquí:

https://www.wattpad.com/1441338562-m%C3%A1s-all%C3%A1-del-tiempo-un-mundo-sin-ti

Continúa la tristeza infinita. Creo que puedo ver las lágrimas del tiempo.

#g witch #miorine rembran #suletta mercury #suletta x miorine #gundam the witch from mercury

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Más allá del tiempo: Capítulo 11.5

(Un pequeño extra para después del capítulo 11. Les presento un extracto del blog de Aerial y Mercury).

Side 7 Files

15 de Junio 20XX

Review Gundam ZZ: Capítulo 12: “Leina desaparece” Por: Aerial y Mercury

Mercury: En este capítulo Judau y sus amigos se olvidan de sus deberes por tratar de recuperar un viejo Zaku II que encontraron flotando entre la basura del espacio. Leina decide ir con Roux para obligar a su hermano a cumplir su deber, pero Chara y Glemy los interceptan y Leina es secuestrada por Glemy durante la pelea.

Este capítulo también me pareció muy divertido, me gustó mucho la parte en la que reparan al Zeta Gundam con una cabeza de Zaku, se veía muy chistoso XD. Me recuerda a cuando jugaba con los GunPla de mi hermana y les cambiaba las cabezas y otras partes pero a ella no le gustaba que hiciera eso y me regañaba :(, bueno, ahora yo puedo hacer lo que quiera con mis robots :p.

Sigue la historia de amor entre Glemy y Roux. Glemy está enamorado de Roux, pero ¿ella le corresponderá algún día? ¿Glemy dejará a Neo Zeon y se unirá a la AEUG por amor? En este capítulo Glemy fue muy grosero con Roux, pero sería genial si recapacita y ambos llegan a entenderse :D. Ya quiero saber lo que pasará. 5/5

Aerial: Mi alma no podrá descansar en paz mientras se me siga recordando sobre la existencia del “Zeta Zaku”.

El Zeta Gundam, el Mobile Suit legendario diseñado por Kamille Bidan no ha hecho más que perder su dignidad en esta temporada. No puedo creer toda esa falta de respeto. Me gustaba esta serie cuando la vi de niña, pero ahora creo que va a ser uno de mis Gundams menos favoritos.

Recordarán que el Zaku II fue diseñado por Kunio Okawara y al ser un Mobile Suit del bando contrario no se iba a comercializar por lo que hubo más libertades en cuanto al diseño lo que dio como resultado que los Mobile Suits de Zeon tomaran formas algo extravagantes como el Z’Gok, pero también había diseños bastante icónicos como el Zaku II.

Me gustó que en este episodio se recalcara lo complicado que es pilotear a un Zaku puesto que no tiene una cámara trasera, sino que más bien es un sólo “ojo” al frente con cierta visión periférica aunque algo limitada a comparación de otros Mobile Suits más modernos. Me pregunto cómo le hacía Char para manejar esa cosa mientras iba tres veces más rápido que el resto de los Zakus. Esto sólo prueba su habilidad como piloto. En contraste, el RX-78-2 de la Federación cuenta con cámara trasera y delantera además de tener un diseño más humanoide, en parte por eso y su superioridad en combate, el Gundam recibió el mote de “el demonio blanco” durante la Guerra de Un Año.

Divago al hablar sobre otras series mejores. El “Zeta Zaku” es un mal chiste. Quizá podría ser una referencia a cómo las líneas entre ambos bandos acaban haciéndose difusas, pero eso lo hicieron mejor en Zeta Gundam con los diseños de Mobile Suits como el Hizack, el Dijeh o el Rick Dias donde se integraron elementos tanto de la Federación como de Zeon, pero bueno, ya escribí demasiado respecto a eso pueden leerlo aquí: ( link para un artículo previo de 20,000 palabras donde se explica con lujo de detalles todos los pormenores de los diseños de mobile suits en Zeta Gundam escrito en la manera más monótona posible).

No me gustó el capítulo, Judau es un irresponsable y por eso secuestraron a su hermana. Ya sé que Leina se convierte en su razón para pelear en serio contra Neo-Zeon, pero la única motivación de Judau para hacer cualquier cosa es su hermana menor, creo que eso lo convierte en un personaje muy plano.

En fin, lo peor está todavía por llegar (los capítulos de “Moon Moon”) así que seguiremos adelante.

Extraño a Kamille.

2/5

Nota: Recuerden que Mercury no ha visto la serie completa, así que si ponen spoilers, los bloqueo.

Comentarios:

Charma_Lover: No sé de qué diablos estás hablando, Aerial! El Zeta Zaku es un clásico! Mercury, tú ten fe y tu ship se hará realidad >:D Mercury: Gracias! <3

Aerial: ALGUIEN le acaba de poner una cabeza de Zaku a mi Zeta >.> Mercury: Bromita de cumpleaños :D Lord_Haro: Feliz cumpleaños! MAFTY: Feliz cumpleaños, Aerial! Aerial: Gracias, también es cumpleaños de Mercury MAFTY: Feliz cumpleaños, Mercury! Son gemelas? Mercury: Gracias. Compartimos el mismo cumpleaños pero no somos gemelas, XD. Yo cumplí 14 y Aerial, 18 :D Charma_Lover: Son unas niñas, me siento tan vieja! Yo vi Char’s CounterAttack en el cine!

MAFTY: Me encanta leer sus reviews, aunque llevan meses sin escribir en el blog. Quiero saber su opinión sobre la saga de “Moon Moon”. Mercury: Hola, perdón por no escribir, es que Aerial está muy ocupada con sus estudios y por eso no hemos podido actualizar tanto como quisiéramos. Ya vi los capítulos de “Moon Moon”, no me gusta que Emary esté coqueteando con Bright sabiendo que él tiene esposa e hijos :(, pero la idea de una colonia espacial olvidada por todos me pareció muy interesante. Rasara y Sarasa me cayeron muy bien. De hecho, Aerial y yo también somos sacerdotisas y últimamente nos confunden. Me encantaría que hiciéramos cosplay de ellas cuando vayamos a la Comicket. MAFTY: Eso suena genial! Tienen que subir las fotos cuando lo hagan. Aerial: Eso nunca va a pasar! Me rehuso!! MAFTY: Por cierto Aerial, ¿no eres muy dura con Judau? ¿Qué hubieras hecho en su lugar? Aerial: Habría eliminado a Mashymre, Chara y Glemmy en cuanto hubiera tenido la oportunidad. También mandaría a fusilar a esos idiotas de Beecha y Mondo por alta traición. De ningún modo dejaría que un imbécil como Glemy secuestrara a mi hermanita. MAFTY: Jajaja. No sé si pecas de soberbia o si debería tenerte miedo. Aerial: Debes temerme. Mercury: No le hagas caso! MAFTY: adsdfdshsiahj!!

Lord_Haro: Aerial, ¿supiste del asteroide que destruyó a todo un pueblo? ¡Es como si Zeon hubiera aventado una colonia espacial a la Tierra! Jajaja creo que Amuro no pudo detener a Char esta vez. MAFTY: Eres idiota? Mucha gente murió a causa de eso! No es broma!!

MAFTY: El otro día cuando veía la primera película de Gundam me acordé de este blog, lo leía mucho cuando estaba en preparatoria y me hacían reír mucho. Me imagino que ya no pudieron seguir escribiendo porque Aerial entró a la universidad o tal vez Mercury perdió el interés, creo que nunca lo sabré. Espero que se encuentren bien. Saludos.

Anesidora: Ericht, soy la “chica rica de la capital”. Necesito saber por qué tu hermana no contesta mis correos. Al menos dime si se encuentra bien. Por favor, respóndeme.

Anesidora: Por cierto, creo que no estarías en tantos problemas si te hubieras limitado a estudiar y a escribir tus aburridísimas disertaciones sobre mobile suits y odio tener que estar de acuerdo contigo en algo, pero sí, el Zeta Zaku es un asco.

#fanfic #escritos #gundam zz #por alguna razón #suletta mercury #miorine rembran #ericht samaya

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I don't "need" to "build Gunpla". I need to build a career!

#misc #gifs #gunpla

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Gundam UC + The Onion Headlines

#mobile suit gundam #gundam uc #amuro ray #char aznable #kamille bidan #sayla mass #Hathaway Noa #Haman Karn #gundam 0079 #zeta gundam #gundam zz #hathaway's flash

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"The Gundams from Hathaway's Flash aren't real and they can't hurt you".

The Gundams from Hathaway's Flash:

These guys aren't friend shaped at all. But the designs really bring home the idea of giant mechas as something monstruous, it's fascinating, actually.

#gundam hathaway #hathaway's flash #gundam uc #xi gundam #gundam penelope #incidentally I also like some of the MS designs for the Titans in Zeta #they're really fun specially the baund doc #gundamblogging

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ESL speaker here. Guys, is there any expression that means the opposite of "looking for the silver lining"?

Been using "someone made a wish to the monkey's paw", but I'm starting to think that this is more of a personal problem than an ancient curse problem.

#language

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lol, he can't hide his joy at finding out all this drama

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #kabru #kabru dungeon meshi

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Chapters: 10/16 Fandom: 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 | Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (Anime) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Suletta Mercury/Miorine Rembran, Gundam Aerial | Ericht Samaya & Suletta Mercury, Gundam Aerial | Ericht Samaya & Prospera Mercury & Suletta Mercury Characters: Miorine Rembran, Suletta Mercury, Gundam Aerial | Ericht Samaya, Prospera Mercury, Chuatury "Chuchu" Panlunch, Norea Du Noc, Nika Nanaura, Earth House (Witch from Mercury), Yushura Mirzakhani Additional Tags: Modern AU, Cambio de cuerpos, sheenanigans, misterio, sulemio Summary:

Suletta va a Tokyo para encontrar a Miorine. ¿Se encontrarán?

También lo pueden leer aquí:

https://www.wattpad.com/1438939172-m%C3%A1s-all%C3%A1-del-tiempo-una-tarde-en-tokyo

...Sólo les diré que después de escribir el capítulo quedé así:

#gundam the witch from mercury #witch from mercury #g-witch #suletta mercury #miorine rembran #sulemio #fanfiction

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Some notes on Char’s Counterattack while it’s still fresh in my brain and right before I watch video-essays about how I didn’t understand the movie. (With spoilers)

For starters, it was as gay as promised. I’ve seen the Charmuro scuffle scene like a million times and it turned out to actually be gayer in context. For me, this is the aftermath of a very bitter and harsh divorce. The thing is already unsalvageable. They still try to talk it out every time they’re near each other, but Amuro is about to give up on Char completely (if he hasn’t, already). He even tells Lalah that he doesn’t want to be with that guy for all eternity as newtype ghosts, that’s how done he’s with Char.

As with Char, it feels that we needed another anime season or at least a couple of OVA’s to explain how he got there. I know that it had something to do with how disillusioned he was by the events at the end of Zeta, but the movie feels like it needed to give more context about him. It’s very clear that his ideals take a back seat in favor of his real motivations. He just wants to get back at the universe. Would trowing a meteor and freezing Earth actually help Earth’s restoration and humanity’s evolution? Did he stop to think that by doing such thing he’ll get Sayla and Kamille killed? Or was he too far gone to care about anyone that isn’t Lalah and maybe Amuro?

This may be unintentional but it’s amusing that the first part of Quess Paraya’s arc looks like a teen girl’s power fantasy: she meets Amuro, she gets adopted by Char, she happens to be the most special Newtype who becomes an ace pilot in a few days, there’s two boys after her, Char entrusts her to act on special missions and she even gets to kill her lousy dad. Under this framework it makes sense that she acts so selfishly all the time. Of course this later takes a dark turn when she starts feeling all the horrors of war and eventually gets killed by one of the older women she antagonized. Despite her not being a nice person at all, she was only a kid who was affected by her family situation and desperately needed a father figure. Amuro was honest enough to realize that he couldn’t fulfill that need (and he didn’t have to), on the other hand, Char admits that he took advantage of her and used her as a machine. He would’ve never done that to Kamille, that’s how low he’s fallen.

Finally, Char’s last words were about how Lalah Sune could’ve been a mother to him, showing that at the end he was unable to get over both his mother’s and Lalah’s death, which is very tragic from a man that most of the time came out as Larger than Life. However, none of this justifies his actions. Char’s Counterattack was the last piece in the puzzle that is Char Aznable, and after watching it, all I can conclude is that he’s kind of a loser, isn’t he?

(Yes, I’m aware that it’s way more complicated than that, there’s still much to say about how he projected on Amuro and the nature of his relationships with other characters of the franchise among other topics like Amuro’s growth and Hathaway’s arc, but these are just preliminary thoughts. I may do a more thoughtful review once I write more about Zeta and ZZ. Also those video essays about how I Don’t Understand Char are still on my to-watch list, my perspective could change after getting through all that).

#gundamblogging #from my sideblog #char's counterattack #uc gundam #char aznable #amuro ray #quess paraya

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I like the LatAm Dub for Dungeon Meshi to the point that I watch entire episodes with it and sometimes, when I watch it in Japanese, I like to rewatch certain scenes to see how the dub did them. However, this week I wasn't prepared to hear Senshi talking about his "man boobs".

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon

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While Suletta has many characteristics that could turn her into a Char, she notoriously lacks any desire for revenge. Even if her whole life has been marked by the consequences of her family’s tragedy, she was never made aware that it even existed. She could’ve been raised into someone dedicated to avenge her family, but she very much wasn’t (this turned out to be positive at the end, since that lack of resentment helped her save her family). Char, in contrast, was aware of his own tragedy and his main motivation for a while was to get back at the Zabis, only for him to feel empty once he killed Garma. Considering this, I think that the G-Witch character besides Prospera who was more likely to become a Char was actually Ericht Samaya.

#gundam the witch from mercury #g witch #ericht samaya #suletta mercury #mobile suit gundam #char aznable #Suletta is more of a Sayla #on the other hand I do agree that Char should've just fucked or married Garma #would've spare him a whole lot of trouble

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I was just starting to get used to the stupid keychain thing when I found out that canonically Eri's not a keychain but a permet brick in Miorine's suitcase.

....

Yeah, nah, I'm going to ignore that because I can't think of how would that work during the first days after Quiet Zero. The writers really needed to workshop the whole deal with Eri, tbh.

I really want to write something about the sisters post-canon where they finally talk thinks out. I still don't know how to do it without the brick/keychain thing getting on my nerves, tho.

There's the possibility that Suleta and Ericht had their heart to heart talk post-canon where Eri got to apologize and both had to accept that they went through some pretty unfair and messed up situations and now they have to live with that and try to do their best.

The problem is that said heart wrenching conversation is going to look like this:

Why????

#gundam the witch from mercury #g witch #Ericht Samaya #i'm pretty sure that Eri would feel some amount of guilt about Suletta getting permet fried

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Constantly tormented by mild annoyances.

#God's bravest warrior etc #misc

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So, from our conversations, I've gleaned that you seem to be a fairly experienced Gundam fan; if you don't mind me asking, would you be interested in talking a little about which ones, and if there's any you'd particularly recommend? In addition to Witch from Mercury, I've been (slowly) watching the original, but I haven't really decided on any after that.

Hi, thanks for asking!  So far I've watched the basic Gundam UC shows and movies (0079, Zeta,  ZZ, Char's Counterattack) + The Origin movies, Hathaway's Flash and a couple of episodes from some AUs like G Gundam,  Turn A and G Reco. So I wouldn't call myself an expert but I do have some knowledge ^^;.

As for which series I would rec after 0079, I would say to go for Zeta if you plan to continue with the UC storyline. It’s longer than 0079 and way more dense and depressing, but the ending and the main characters' arcs are very rewarding.  After that, you could go straight to Char's Counterattack and Hathaway or watch ZZ and bask in Lady Haman's glory (and then go to Char's Counterattack + Hathaway).

I know there's other shows that chronologically take place between 0079 and Zeta but they don't tackle the characters from the main story, so you could watch them later with no problem.

If the UC timeline isn't your thing, you could try out some other AU show.  The tone varies from show to show so it's a matter of looking them up and checking out what could be of your liking. G Gundam is a campy shounen show with big robots fighting in a martial arts tournament while Turn A has giant robots in a sort of 1900's turn of the century world and it also has huge Ghibli vibes and G-Reco has great character designs but I still can't get the hang of the plot.  There's other AUs,  of course, but these are the ones I know.  I hope that this answer can be useful. (As an aside, so far my favorite UC things are Zeta, ZZ and Hathaway's Flash . Objectively speaking Zeta is the best written but it took me ages to watch, ZZ is a mess but I like the characters and Hathaway is very surprising in many ways I can't tell to avoid spoilers)

#Gundam #Mobile suit Gundam #uc Gundam

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Catra & Entrapta & Scorpia (She-Ra), Adora/Catra (She-Ra) Characters: Catra (She-Ra), Scorpia (She-Ra), Entrapta (She-Ra), Adora (She-Ra), Glimmer (She-Ra), Bow (She-Ra), Hordak (She-Ra) Additional Tags: Humor, cosmic horror, Weirdness, Eldritch, The Horrors Summary:

Cosmic horrors, minor inconveniences, paperwork, treason, a sense of failure; Catra will tackle all these obstacles in her life the only way she knows: by taking bad decisions and using an exagerated amount of violence.

This story has been sitting in my document folder for months. I’ve been wanting to write horror/comedy stuff (in the style of Night Vale or Gravity Falls) but I still need a lot of practice. Figured that if I was going to publish this I might as well do it today.

#spop #she ra and the princesses of power #catra #spop fanfic

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Favorite anime characters

5. Zelda

4. Goku

3. JoJo

2. Gundam

Sailor Moon

#april's fools #long post

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Had the vague idea that I made something boop related some time ago. Turns out it's this thing from 10 years ago. Jesus!

Boop.

#shoujo kakumei utena #revolutionary girl utena #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #boop #april 13 2014 #... the hand is backwards!