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iraniq · 4 years

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Birthdays be like...

# Thomas Andrew Felton:

/the scene happens in England/

- you woke up early to prepare breakfast

- barely slept the night from excitement

- half way through someome kissed your ear

- "woke up 2h ago to walk Willow, saw all, but thanks for trying"

- "go away, it's a surprise"

- "let me help in then, love!"

- "you can't help in your birthday surprise"

- "watch me"

- ends up helping in his birthday surprise.

- you singing 'ophelia'song to him, incapable to replace it with Tom and still spunds good

- he made thousand videos and pics of you stumbling with the song

- no pancake hit the floor!

- still officially forbidden of giving Willow secret not dog food

- talking about Willow, she came fast when she heard voices

- ending up making dog friendly pancake

- flipping it right on her face /was already cooled/

- Tom got it all on video

- "look now, oh hi Willow, catch"

- "did you just flipped the pancake to fall on her face?"

- before you can say yes, there was no physical memory of the pancake

- watching cartoons on the couch

- "looks like someone is sleepy"

- "nooooo"

- "well if you hadn't stayed till 2 in the morning last night..."

- "was excited for your birthday"

- "and you said it like thousand times"

- "i am excited for birthdays, and yours is a special one"

- forhead kissed

- he muttes something that endes with 'love', but tight hugs and stroking hair, is one way ticket to dreamland

- bonus: Willow is a warm pillow on your lap

- afternoon long walks

- laughter

- singing on the streets

- silly pics

- pillow fight at home

- Willow stole yet another one

- "Willow's pillow fortress is getying bigger"

- "because you can't say no to your child, and instead taking them from her, you keep on buying new ones"

- fancy, low key filthy sexy looking dress for dinner

- a comedy movie no one watched...

- ... because pillow war revange

- and somewome had to keep an eye on popcorn

- food thief detected

- sloberly kisses and yet another pillow missing

- "just jump in the pool with the dress, love"

- drying hairs in the midle of the night

- matching pajamas

- Willow at board

- "your child just stole my sock"

- "she is your child now too..." - halj asleep deep british voice

- "ok, then, our child, just stole my sock"

- more forhead kissed and love mumbles

- snuggles

- "will meet you im dreamland"

# Erich Blunt:

*Ok we have all seen the tik tok - "take your clothes off" and how the girl spits her drink, and we all reacted like that*

- after midnifgt visit at the big house

- you have a special 'multipass' key card

- wake him up at 12:02 with *coughs* love

- everywhere

- i mean everywhere

- possible

- in the house

- then maybe at 5 o'clock in the company

- the boss chair, that's unfortunately a super normal one, because he refused to have fancy cabibet

- in the virtual relity room

- junk food at the sunrise on a super random place

- naps in the big, too fancy for naps, bed

- mid afternoon flight to a dessert rave party

- yes... plain checked

- matching outfits at the party

- the looks he gives you

- yes... at some random spots in the crowd

- his poker face is out of this world

- stargazing and hand holding

- tents at feativals are not soun proof...

- both umable to human the next day, dozzing off in the plane

# Julian Albert Desmond:

- a workoholic, scientist, perfectionist... with a metahuman bad experience inside his head... He could tell by the air in the room, something was off...

- a surprise was way beyond imaginable

- imagine everybody's faces when you casualy dropped at the station, introducing yourself

- "she is a spy" - Cisco said

- "Julian mentioned he had a girldriend...but i thought it was just for the excuse" - Barry said

- "nope, alive and in the flesh"

- you announced his upcoming birthday in a week and asked for help

- they were all instantly in

- same day, Barry got 'late'

- the captain gave them a case in the far abandoned aide of town, Caitlin was in the car with him, non stop talking, how Ciaco and HR are unbarable. Iris and Barry...

- he wasn't paying attention at this point

- the building looked suapicious

- they entered, only to see the whole Team Flash, including Dr. Wells and Jessie, holding a cake, with this so familiar red sugar you have been buying lately

- he knew your surprise will pop up eventually

- you knew he was late after work, no more metahumans hate, but you nevwr poked the subject

- "no one told her" - Barry reasured

- "she is overworking today, and instructed us, quoting 'get his ass the cake, or i will end you!', she is scary for a librarian" - Iris noted

- "she certanly is"

- all laugh

- "candles blowing in abandoned and possibly dangeroys area, great"

- all laughing again

- *insert Julian's sarcastic remarcs*

- "people skills, Julian"

- A fot Ain't even trying at this point

- afterwork party at the park

- Julian being soft

- Caitlin being low key jealous

- romantic dances under the stars

- you wearing a long mid transparent nightgown and his "explorer hat"

- *insert adult content here*

# Logan Maine:

*AU where they woke up the passangers a week before artiving at Thea, notjing hit the ship*

/haven't yet finished the tv series, so some info might not be true/

- after Mia, Logan didn't plan on having friends, or being close to someone

- not that he planned to befrend Mia...

- aftee several days of you being sweet carring and maybe a bit rude, and an epileptic episode later, he was tolerating you

- maybe more than toleraring, but he wasn't gonna admit it

- he was astonishing cook to start with

- you tried making cake, when you found out

- failed!

- but the unhealthy ammount of chocolate syrop on it, fixed it

- him dipping fries in the chocilate...

- *Logan what?!*

- walking around the 'garden'

- him pushing you towards the spraying water

- trying to name the plants only to end up with: "if it's not weed..." - he laughed

- "you are failing at being horrible"

- "trying to be, but that smile of yours isn't helping"

- marker writing on the station windows, connecting stars in odd shapes

- sneaking on others

- "is Baum a perv, or just a perv"

- "Shun and Lana are totally a thing"

- low key stealing extra pills for his epilepsy

- who'll suspect the cool sweet kid's teacher

- stealing food from your supervisor's cabim, after you went asking her, what Logan liked, so you can make a romantic dinner

- she didn't gave you much info, but the odd plastic half liquid sweets you stole definwtly tasted good

- "the A woman stealing? Your crush on me is ruining your good name"

- "maybe i am tired of a good name"

- "don't tell me you go to another planet to be a criminal"

- "lools like i might have the best teacher"

- "only om small crimes, like stealing a pretty girl's heart"

- his odd winks

- that smirk

- kisses in the dark

- he "found" some extra blankets

- 2 burritos on a way after midnight open space gazing

- Shun may have cought you drawing the odd funny shapes, but told no one - you were holding hands, giggling drawing one ovee another, was way too cute to tell on

# Draco Lucius Malfoy:

/Around 6th-ish year maybe.../

- how you pick a present for someone who has everything, literally everuthing

- bargins with Pansy for info

- Theo gives it all free

- Blaize asked for unknown favor

- no one actually gave you smth to work with

- Draco was bitter

- even the good fight with Potter didn't lift his spirit

- nor the -10 points

- you even owled Narcisaa, but nothing

- difficult problems require simple solution

- his favourire clothes of yours

- your Gucci pefulme on his scarf

- this beyond ordenary way you bite off from his green apple

- the thing with the shy eyes and devil smile you love pulling on him

- touching his hair

- scratching his hands with your long nails gives him the good chills

- changing in that gorgeous emerald green dress he bought you for the Christmas ball

- pinky hand holding

- getting cold, so he can give you his coat

- him and his long coat

- messy pearl hair

- stolen kissed under his tree

- brushing your nose in his cheek

- teasing each other

- in your own bubble in aftwenoon class

- again -10 points... each

- professor Lupin felt the pain of ceperating the lovely sight you were, so he can continue his lesson

- party at the boy's bedroom

- eating the cake his mom send you, instead of dinner

- whole friends group having pure childish fun, sharing silly stories

- levitating around in pretend swim manner

- cake

- *coughs* wine *cougs*

- late night walk to the astronomy tower

- him showing you the stars

- the Dragon again, because you can never place it right

- him knowing you pretend not to know, so he can have an excuse to give you silly shoulder kisses

- you tip toeing to reach him

- passionate kisses under the stars

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Whoever enjoys it as well 😛

#birthday story #tom felton #thomas andrew felton #erich blunt #murder in the first #julian albert #julian albert desmond #the flash #logan mine #origin 2018 #draco malfoy #draco lucius malfoy #harry potter

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vimesbootstheory · 5 years

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I’ve been listening to this podcast called Overdue where the hosts read a book that they’ve been meaning to read every episode and then discuss it. I decided to start reading along with the podcast, writing up a couple thoughts and ranking the books as I go. Gonna blog em ten at a time as I go, just finished the first ten.

1. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque -- I really enjoyed this one, enough that I tried to pick up a copy to own on the way home today. I almost feel like I have to defend how much I enjoyed it, because how cliche is it now to get super into a book on WWI or WWII? I also have a rough time explaining how surprisingly tolerable and compelling it was to read about so much misery, when it's not really my style at all to read miserable stories about real(ish, it's still fiction) people dying and enduring mental illness and all that fun stuff I usually prefer to use escapist books to escape from. There's a charming levity and resilience to the story, even while it's part of the tragedy that this resilence should have to be instilled at all. Even as the story is very visceral, even graphic, there's still a distance maintained through the mental distance of the narrator that saves the reader's psyche at the same time that it saves Paul's. It's incredible to me that this is a translation, it impressed me significantly more than the Love in the Time of Cholera translation I read. I mean, you can certainly tell it's translated, but the prose is really lovely, just the right balance of poetic and functional.

2. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka -- Really fun, uncomfortable story. I love how matter-of-fact the beginning is, as the protagonist finds out he is bug, and this is just really inconvenient because how will he get out of bed now so he can go to work as a salesman? It's not exactly a happy story, and the end in particular is very kind of jarring and feels very separate from the rest of the story. When I read it, I thought maybe Kafka was drawing an analogy to physical and/or mental disability, not that it would have been apt in terms of either being bug-like, but in terms of the reactions of the protagonist's family. In the context of the protagonist being a bug, the family's reactions feel very realistic and yet dissonant at the same time. You do kind of have to jump over the hurdle of, why would they think this huge bug was their son/brother at all? Why not think, as I think would be more likely, that he'd been killed and/or eaten by the huge bug in his room?

3. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James -- The most obvious feature of The Turn of the Screw is its convoluted syntax. It has dependent clauses out the wazoo and enough commas, em dashes and parentheses to choke on. The unexpected joy of this feature is that it made it surprisingly fun to read aloud, really James' sentences draw a lot of their ease of conveyance of meaning from a necessarily absent prosody (unless you read it by listening to an audiobook, obviously). So although I was tripping a lot of the syntax at the beginning, in the completely pointless framing device that's never followed up on, it ended up as a source of amusement. It's also surprisingly voice-y (that is, very deeply entrenched in the POV character's unique voice) for a book not from the 2010s, which I liked. I was excited to be reading an appropriately spooky book toward the end of October, even though of course it ends up a bit unreliable-narrator as to whether there were ever any ghosts at all. (But if there weren't, how did the protagonist know what Quint looked like? How did she know Miss Jessel died?) Unreliable narrators are a lot of fun, and it was fun looking at the events of the story from multiple perspectives to see how it would seem from different points of view. One point of view that's deeply unfortunate is, if you are aware of what Kessel and Quint did to the kids (implied to be molestation), and you see the protagonist's attitude towards the kids... why is this woman making out these potential victims of sexual abuse to be malevolent monsters, when all they do is wander off a couple times and ask why they're not going back to school? This looks highly suspicious especially when combined with the protagonist's creepy descriptions of the children throughout the book as perfect and beautiful and divine. I mean, she says it once or twice, I was just thinking, I guess this is how they talked about cute kids back then. But she harps on it so much, and superimposing this view with the potential crimes of the ghosts, it's just... really weird and uncomfortable. I realized part-way through that outside of the framing device, it takes quite a while before any male characters even have any dialogue, with only one male character (unless you count Quint). This does not make it a feminist book, because it isn't, just thought that was interesting. I got spoiled for the fact that it has a really abrupt ending, and the abruptness still had me reeling when it happened. It could only be more abrupt if it were in the middle of the sentence. Feels like I'm tearing this book down but to be honest I really liked it, it was weird and entertaining and enjoyably ambiguous.

4. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez -- I have a lot of Thoughts about this one, and I better, since it took me so long to read. There's a lot of more deliberate themes to explore in this novel, but to me the more interesting thing ended up being the separation between 'this book is bad because it has Problematic Things in it' vs 'this book is good because it creates a compelling portrayal of toxic, variably terrible people and relationships'. And for me, Love in the Time of Cholera weaves back and forth across that line. Yes, Florentino Ariza sucks 'cause he's a stalker and he won't grow up and move on from a woman who just isn't that into him, and that does affect my enjoyment since we have to spend a lot of time with his character and I... like spending time with characters that I like? But I also don't think that's a point against the objective quality of the book. What IS a point of morals, principles, values, whatever against the book's quality is Ariza, as an old man, having sex with a 14-yr-old, and arguably the book at least somewhat romanticizes it. Ick. Also it's really racist to Chinese people and black people. Anyway I definitely did find the story compelling, if not always enjoyable. It made me think, especially about the experience of a mind in an aging body, and about how love and marriage is different in the young vs the old. Honestly I kinda wish I'd been correct about my initial assumption, that the book's main protagonists would be Juvenal Urbino and Fermina Daza, they were more interesting and something to root for.

5. Dune by Frank Herbert -- What a doorstopper, whoa. I think this is one of those books where really, does anyone like this for the plot? The world-building is really the main attraction here. The culture, the way of life of the Fremen is easily the best thing about it, and it's clear Herbert spent a long time thinking about how living environment (in this case, a desert planet) shapes everything, absolutely EVERYTHING about the lives of the people who live in it. The water-recycling suits, the draining of fluids from the dead, the attitudes towards spitting and crying, it's very easy to read all that and just go, "well, of COURSE they would approach that idea like that!". Love that shit. Should mention that the author is clearly pretty homophobic, fatphobic, pretty culturally ignorant (possibly just racist), and although he tries for some feminist ideas, they fall flat (especially that "history will remember us as WIVES!" line, gag). Lady Jessica was cool and so were the big worms, bad-ass. Paul, however. Just... wow one of the dullest main characters ever. I really can't stand characters who are supposed to be (near)omniscient or (near)omnipotent, that and the future-seeing really sapped all tension from the narrative. He's way OP and needed to be nerfed. Also, this will come up again, but I feel like people defend Dune's many many cliches by saying that because it is pretty old now, it basically created all those cliches and is immune to criticism. First of all, nah, a lot of those cliches were already cliches when Herbert got to them. Second, the fact that Herbert technically wrote them before other media I've consumed who have cleverly subverted those tropes... that still doesn't make the cliches any more enjoyable to me NOW.

6. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum -- Knocked this one out in an afternoon. It’s very much a children’s book, and the movie adaptation is a good adaptation, so to be frank if you’ve seen the movie, unless you’re REALLY fascinated by the idea of comparing the differences between book and adaptation, the experience is pretty much spoken for. In turns of large-scope differences, I will say that I enjoyed the book’s sense of humour in a way I don’t remember from the movie. For example: "If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains." Absolutely savage lmao sorry Kansas. Also the book has a bigger boner for the colonialism narrative, a la Chronicles of Narnia, where Dorothy and her friends just show up places and perform a minor task and are instantly royalty, and that happens like six times. That’s fitting, I suppose, when you consider that L Frank Baum was a massive racist, fuck that guy so hard.

7. Tiny Alice by Edward Albee -- I love plays, I should really read more plays. Especially with a bit of absurdism. Absurdism? This play's at least a little bit eerie in a semi-absurdist way. There's not a lot that's directly explained in this one, which wasn't a problem for me up until the end, when we're left with this obnoxiously long monologue by the main (?) character, addressing absolutely nothing. Up until then, though, it's a lot of fun. I love how the Lawyer and the Cardinal just fucking hate each other and the play spends a hilariously long time with them just trying to murder each other through words alone. I love human!Alice just living her best life as a ridiculously rich person, giving as much money as she can away and pretending to be elderly. There's this whole thing that's pretty important where the protagonist questions his faith but I didn't have a lot of time for that, enough so that I don't actually remember what the protagonist's name is.

8. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck -- I found it charming enough, though I may have liked it less if it hadn't been such a quick read. This was the first book I read along with 'Overdue', so it's been a bit of time since I finished it before I started writing up some thoughts. Saw a Goodreads review complaining that this book's title is false advertising because it's only about men. False! Mice do figure in.

9. Beowulf by Unknown -- No, I did not read this in high school. Yes, that's possible. I tried two different translations of Beowulf and they were both a slog. I tried to like it, I did, but aughhhh I just couldn't care. This thing is 79% people standing in drinking halls talking about treasure and about how great they are. I kept missing the bits where Beowulf actually fought the monster du jour (first Grendel, then his mum, then the dragon) and doubling back and being like "wait, it's dead? when did... what?" both because, of course, the English has unfamiliar syntax and archaic vocabulary that starts to just go in one eyeball and out the other, but also because all the actual monster fights go so FAST. Like, why? That's what we're here for, isn't it? Tell me about monster-fighting! I don't care about drinking-halls! The worst bit is toward the end when someone in the story starts telling the story of Beowulf within the story, and we're given that dialogue, even though... that's what we've just read? We know these bits? Absolutely baffling. Anyway, I'm glad humans are better at writing stories now.

10. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown -- I can't believe I fucking read this garbage fire book AGAIN for this dumb podcast. Anyway, it's still a terrible book, but this time I was expecting it to be bad so there was a bit of so-bad-it's-good amusement to get out of the experience. The sentences are still THAT clunky, the prose is still THAT desperate to wring every opportunity for expository dialogue/narration out of every... plot point, setting, random remark, just FUCKING EVERYTHING. The characters are still THAT cardboard, and it's still just as frustrating figuring out the riddles and enigmas Brown throws up chapters and chapters before the characters get around to it. Langdon is still a deeply embarrassing self-insert for Dan Brown. It's still really dumb that Sophie ex-communicated the only family she knew she had just for having an old-people orgy in a basement.

#erin reads overdue books #all quiet on the western front #the metamorphosis #the turn of the screw #love in the time of cholera #dune #the wonderful wizard of oz #tiny alice #of mice and men #beowulf #the da vinci code

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courage-a-word-of-justice · 4 years

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Waver 1 - 13 (FINAL) | Prisma Illya 1 - 10 (FINAL) | Prisma Illya 2wei! 1 - 3

Another (and to be honest, the last) batch of impressions from the Fate/ project.

Waver 1

Well, this’ll be interesting. I’ve been hyping this show up for a while for myself, so let’s see how it goes.

Geez, this intro is like a dang movie! I’d love to see a proper Troyca movie! (<-Says the fan of Troyca.)

Wait, if it’s Kayneth Archibald, then is Archibald relatd to Archisorte? Or am I just making thing up here…? Also note Reines refers to Kayneth as “Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald”, possibly meaning Archibald is the middle name, since El-Melloi is a shared surname (or is that a title…?). That probably means Archibald =/= Archisorte and both are similar-sounding middle names. The fact Reines is Kayneth’s niece also explains things quite a bit.

Why is Waver upside down…? Won’t the blood rush to his head soon? (Sure, it allows me to ogle his hair more, but…logic rules more than my stupid whims, y’know?)

Interesting. You can see that although Waver grew out his hair, there’s two layers to it – the longer one in the front and the shorter one in the back. (I’m just curious because I like the hime cut – which is pretty similar - and long hair on dudes in general, in part because both are fairly rare.)

Okay, that explained my gripe with upside-down Waver. Thanks, Reines. (<-genuine)

Aw, Waver buddy, even at this stage, you’re plenty cute. Don’t ever change! (<- As you can see, I am an easily pleased person in most cases.)

Melvin who now???

Troyca’s comic animation rules! It’s too bad Idolish7 Second Beat is using chibis instead of this…

Professor Kayneth. I forgot he had a formal title. I wonder, does Waver - I mean, El-Melloi II – have that title as well?

I guess I should’ve known Saber had the capability to look scary, but…I never knew Saber could look so scary…

*cut to eyecatch* - *points at eyecatch* Okay, someone tried to save budget here, didn’t they???

Aw, friendship between fiction boys is cute…until it involves the puking up on blood on one end.

Waver is the OG underdog here…don’tcha think?

“…with several demands.” – Uh-oh…this is gonna be bad, isn’t it?

You need a Tuner for Magic Crests? (…Like a tuning fork, but a person?) *brow raised in suspicion*

…is it appropriate for me to say “Oh, good lord!” now? (Okay, I did that rather deliberately, but normally in these notes I’d self-censor it to be “oh, goodness” or something like that.)

Seriously, the black-haired dude in the Ionian Hetairoi is my favourite, even if only because he looks like Waver (and he’s really easy to spot, to boot).

Why is this in first person??? I’ve dropped entire shows based on their usage of 1st person cam! Room Mate and Makura no Danshi basically scarred me for life on that front…and both of those are TV shorts!

Hey, wait a second. This “use a quote on the titlecard” thing is clearly an Ei Aoki sort of thing to do. I mean, it’s in ID: Invaded as well…

Waver 2

*new blonde girl appears* - So this is the rumoured Animusphere girl (Mary), huh?

Bounded field, huh? I’m glad I chose to watch F/Z before this, then. Now I actually understand the (rough) mechanics of how that works.

There’s assassins and then there’s Assassins…*thinks about the Holy Grail War*

As it turns out, astromancy is basically astrology.

The one thing that bugs me about “Modern Magecraft” (there’s a similar concept of New Magic in Mairimashita! Iruma-kun) is…how is the magic “modern”…? Especially in a work like this, where the magic is based in arcane rituals and bloodlines…you really need to establish how the “modern” bit works.

Gray is facing away from the Animusphere girl (Mary), I noticed.

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” – Sherlock Holmes – Basically, the fact I’ve memorised this quote is one of the lingering impacts of my time in the Detective Conan fandom, as it can be used on things like quizzes, not just mysteries.

Can we please use proper English, Waver??? (Says me to a character whose name I still find nonsensical enough to not be proper English.) As I said previously, “whydunit” is modus operandi or motive…the new bit is “howdunit”, which would be the method.

I do believe the geocentric model was overthrown by people like Kepler.

Gray kind of looks like Saber with that hairstyle, come to think of it.

With the way Gray hides herself under that hood, it’s no mystery as to why guys love her…at least, I know ThatRandomEditor does. Of course, I’m heavily neutral on the whole affair because I don’t swing that way, but…you know…

LEMPC seems to stand for “Lord El-Melloi Production Committee”, if I’m guessing right.

I seem to remember there was a quote somewhere that said the only constant in this world was change…hmm.

Waver 3

They seem to keep calling Japan “the Far East” (or at least, Japan is part of the Far East). That’s a pretty antiquated term for a supposedly “modern” magic anime. I get vaguely peeved by the term “the Far East” because it causes people to take an oriental viewpoint on things and thus it’s kind of like people from the Anglosphere looking down on Asians. (I also get vaguely peeved by the term “Westerners” for much the same reason and “Caucasians” because it implies all people of the Anglosphere come from the Caucasus, which is false…then again, these niggles are specific to international studies, so I have a vested interest in explaining them.)

…Wow, that star-eyepatch girl is…really something, to be thirsty specifically for Waver’s Iron Claw. (Then again, with my weird tastes in things, who am I to critique her?)

Flitz von Erich. I was surprised to learn this guy actually exists…on Wikipedia, at the very least.

“Any lady should know about wrestling.” – I disagree, Luvia.

Blue furry electrical creature…I dunno how the zoology in this show works, but the fantasy series I’m reading as of the time I was typing this comment has a blue creature called a Raiju (literally “thunder beast” in Japanese, so it would suit the “Thunder” in the episode title). If it’s anything like that, I’d laugh myself silly.

This girl on the poster seems to be called Flan Noir (or something similar).

“…yellow, round, fluffy-smelling…” – What? Svin, you have no right to call a girl those words!

When is this series set if people don’t have phones as a standard? *Googles* Okay, if F/SN is set in 2004, then F/Z is 1994. That would make sense, actually. The internet as we know it was first used in 1995 and didn’t become widespread for home use until a few years later, as I remember having computers in 2004 (albeit the blocky ones with the dial-up).

I was looking at images for the source material and I think I know why I like Waver (aside from the fact he has long hair). Normally I like the boys whose appearances are hard to get right, such as En…Waver in the novels and manga for this series sometimes looks grumpy, sometimes he looks constipated and worst of all, sometimes he looks like Snape with a hook nose.

Okay, so I googled Caules to figure out who his sister was…and I got Apocrypha spoilers. See, his sister is Fiore, who is apparently in that series.

The videos got encoded funny again…

There seems to be a mystery around why Svin and Gray can’t be together…well, one deeper than just “Svin is gaga for Gray [for reasons we don’t know at this point in time]”.

Ha, the El-Melloi Class is basically just the Misfit Class from Mairimashita! Iruma-kun.

“Only the flesh was bitten off.”

This Jupiter gibberish, I assume, is drawing upon the mythology of Jupiter – that is, Zeus – as the god of thunder and king of the gods (thus presiding over living beings).

The English is good on the bill, bar a space between “Mystics of magecraft”.

Norwich is apparently a “faculty” which the Modern Magecraft Theories guys – i.e. Waver – rule over.

Can you imagine Waver swearing? Since I had the volume off, I basically made him say “…if Sir Gueldoa had resorted to brute force, we would’ve been f***ed” in my head…and that was hilarious.

Aw, thanks 7Mononoke. “A cowardly thief sneaks away in the night. If you stride away, bursting with song, you are a conquering king.” That’s a quote from Rider himself.

So the Association has set positions for Masters in the War? Geesh…that must be hard on Waver to find out they’re closed, considering how much Waver pines for Rider.

Waver 4

I finally got the chance to listen to the ED last ep and now it’s the OP I can hear properly. This OP isn’t particularly impressive, considering it’s an instrumental (instrumentals always seem to have less impact for me unless I’m looking for something to chill to), but it does capture the London-esque spirit of the setting very well.

What’s up with this metal (?) maid off to the side, anyway?

“Good thinking to leave the door open…” – For some reason, even though it’s a completely different and much more benign context, this made me think of KyoAni and my heart sunk.

Atrum Galliasta…I hate that man. He may look hot, but he was nothing but a b*stard to Medea.

Bolo ties…nrgh…Basically, ever since Arima wore a bolo tie, I’ve become fairly bugged by them. That’s why Bram’s bugs me.

Aw, Waver, buddy, plase don’t sacrifice yourself again. I read on the wiki you become a Servant’s vessel (specifically for Zhu Ge Liang), so keep your hopes up.

I’m seriously feeling ID: Invaded vibes from this episode, what with the lightning.

I suspect a locked room murder is going to happen soon, knowing the genre. Either that or some other crime.

Considering Fate/ was an eroge-based thing initially, these sex jokes…there’s probably plenty of them out there.

Well, it seems this series only makes sense in that non-Detective Conan way, i.e. you want to know how it all comes together and can’t necessarily figure it out for yourself until you know how the magic works. I’m randomly going to guess this is more Jupiter-based stuff and call it a day on that front.

Seriously, I never got what was up with nightgowns (or just pyjamas in general) having hats. You don’t need protection for your head at night…that’s what pillows are for, yeah? (The only reason I see a hat-like thing working with nightwear is a onesie and that’s meant to be part of the inherent appeal of the thing.)

Waver 5

I feel like Adashino is meant to be an Irene Adler-type figure…

“Peaceful Fairys” (sic)

Where did Kairi’s scar come from…?

The Black Dog was in Mahoutsukai no Yome as well, but this one looks a lot less inviting, huh?

It seems, like the name Rail Zeppelin implies (as “Demon Eyes Collection Train”), most of the people involved in this case have Magic Eyes (or whatever they’re actually called). I wouldn’t be surprised if Kairi had them as well, considering he’s wearing dark glasses in the middle of a thunderstorm.

“King Arthur is a dude, right?” - *laughs madly* They finally managed to parody their own bulls***! (Well, I’m not counting Carnival Phantasm or whatever else because this is the first time they threw a meta joke in there in the whole of this project, as far as I can remember.)

Trimmau seems to be the maid’s name…huh. They never mentioned that earlier, I don’t think.

So what’s the difference between Fairy Eyes and Mystic Eyes?

Wait, does that even work…? The entire house is the murder weapon? That’s basically breaking the “secret passageway” thing on a larger scale.

So what’s Trevor’s motive…?

The dogs running towards the Workshop reminded me of the Hunger Games for some reason…must be the climax.

That fairy isn’t emoting much…

Oh cra-Wills is going to sacrifice himself, like Adashino was going to do! That’s the second time I’ve seen that in 2 days (the first was in the Hypnosis Mic manga about the Dirty Dawg).

Uh…Waver’s not particularly fit or fast, is he…?

Can you be paid for your case if your client is essentially dead…?

Adra? I read around and Adra seems to be a way to spell the location (or whatever it is) in the first case…which got adapted into a stage play, but not an anime. That’s probably what he’s (Waver) referring to.

Notably, the title is translated to “lance” but yari means spear…

Waver 6

I seriously wanna slap that pink-haired girl…Update: Her name is Yvette.

This is basically Gray fanservice…

If Gray = Saber and Saber =King Arthur…hmm…does it count as a girl’s party?

Homeland? Since Britain is Saber’s (aka Gray’s) home country, I think they meant “hometown”…I’d hav to listen to the Japanese to make sure, though.

I still think Waver is a stupid, or at the very least false, name for a boy, especially if he did come from Britain. That’s basically my one limitation on him as a husbando.

The red bit of the eyecatch was shapd like an eye…it did catch eyes in a sense, after all.

So Trimmau is sustained by magic.

Locked-room…or rather, bounded field…mystery time!

Luvia did mention wrestling in another episode…

I had to google that, but the Separation Castle is from the Adra case mentioned in episode 5. No wonder I don’t remember it…

“Are you suggesting there were faults…” (from Luvia) - Ooh, I was thinking the perpetrator was caught inside their own bounded field or maybe it was an outsider, but that works too, Reines.

Add calld Luvia out for her extravagance, LOL.

Catch-as-catch-can appears to be “no-holds-barred fighting”, particularly wrestling.

That case was both informative and possibly solveable by the audience. Both good qualities for a mystery.

If you summon the spirit again, is it the same Rider with the same memories? Or can you summon a different version of the same Rider with amnesia, much like Rin did with Archer? Update: Oh yeah, I did read this on the wiki at one point but then forgot about it. The next episode (7) confirms that Rider wouldn’t remember Waver if he were summoned again.

Waver 7

…C’mon, admit it, show. The glasses are not only there for plot reasons but to up Waver’s status as megane boy for the rest of this case. Not that I mind – I actually really like megane boys, but I’m nowhere near the love of Meganebu – but in the case of plausibility, I wanna poke holes into it.

Auction for which Mystic Eyes now…?

There’s a guy…with an elephant head…I know I shouldn’t be bugged by it, but I need the MST3K mantra right now.

This is gonna be a Murder on the Orient Express thing, isn’t it? All cases set on trains seem to take cues or make homage to it. (I may not be that proficient on Christie in comparison to Holmes, since Holmes was Conan’s inspiration, but Murder on the Orient Express I have read and I did secure an anthology of 4 Christie novels at one point specifically so that I could improve in this area.)

The main series never explained the bad blood between the Church and the Tower, did they…?

*sweatdrop* Let me guess…when Yvette mentions “multiplay”, she means a threesome, right?

How do anime people see out of those blindfold thing, anyway??? (Or is it that Leandra has Mystic Eyes that were sold off or otherwise tampered with?)

I believe the word is “palate”, Kairi (or subbers).

Anime characters being bagworms with their blankets is always appealing, no matter the gender. It’s funny and/or relatable, after all.

Does Gray get motion sickness…? Update: Seems I spoke about a minute too soon. She does.

Waver 8

How does Waver know that Adashino got the documents about the train? Is it because she was in all those places at all those times and he connected the dots?

This lady has heterochromia. Specifically, one is brown and the other is blue or green.

Hmm? I thought the character design was familiar for this. As it turns out, Jun Nakai (who did the character design for this) also did Gate’s, which explains it.

Dionysus is the Greek god of wine, IIRC. Hephaestion is, as (s)he explained, the confidante of Alexander the Great (had to google this one).

It’s hard to see before the brightly-lit scene where Olga reappears, but as shown, Waver seems to have cut off part of his forelocks on the left side.

What’s an Odo???...ooh, fanservice…*ogles*

The summoning of Hephaestion and Trisha’s murder may or may not be related…we just don’t know how, yet.

I think a Detective Conan Murder on the Orient Express-style mystery would be a good video ga-*googles* There’s at least one of them out there already (albeit only in Japan)...namely, this one. Spoke too soon.

Oh yeah…this is Olga’s new room, isn’t it? I almost forgot about that.

Update: I think this look at the Adra Separation Castle case is interesting. It’s similar to posts I would write, but done by a professional – namely Richard Eisenbeis of Kotaku and Anime News Network.

Waver 9

So if there’s a Servant…you have to find the Master.

Olga reminds me of Reines…kind of.

LOL, whoever thought of a zombie cooking show…?

This series really goes all-in on the zombies and the fake-outs thereof, huh? Dangit, Melvin, don’t scare us.

Melvin has a really odd relationship with Waver, huh? If you’re really insisting you’re “the only person to ever be able to hurt Waver”, I don’t quite see how you guys can be friends in the normal sense of the word.

Why would someone have a violin at a time like this…?

Interestingly, they don’t bother to do any fanservice of Caules. That scene with Gray and Yvette was fanservice for those who like them, but the only guy who’s getting to do any fanservice in this series is Waver himself…(what with him being naked and knocked out right now.)

“Sibyl” seems to be a synonym for “virgin”…(*whispers “Awkward…”*)

Update: After reading some of Marth’s posts on this series, I’m inclined to call this “Murders on a Train (with an Exploding Helicopter for Good Measure)”.

Waver 10

For some reason, there’s episode 0 – 9, then 11 – 13 on the service I’m using. Where’s 10?

I think Waver’s relationship with Rider is interesting because of the way I think of relationships myself. Waver has made it clear that he wants to see Rider again so he can basically prostrate at his feet all over again (and maybe win a wish and/or see Oceanus while they’re at it), but – hey, hear this! - I used to believe, when I was still an impressionable kid, all relationships, whether they be between friends, family or even lovers, lasted roughly in the same state basically forever (as in, friends stay friends forever, they’ll never be so far apart that they can’t kep their relationship alive etc. etc.)…Obviously, I was wrong and arguably, this change in thinking, plus the related changes in technology, are where my ability to fleetingly but passionate love both 2D boys and the series they come from comes from.

Wait, so the Child of Einasshe (sp?) is the forest, yeah? I don’t think I got that 100% straight.

I never thought the shield form of a Mystic Code could be used for snowboarding down a mountain/hill…whatever Gray just went down. I didn’t even know Add had a shield form, for that matter.

“[U]sual individual” – LOL. What a way to refer to Waver.

“Wait a minute!” – I’m just imagining Phoenix Wright all of a sudden. A Waver legal mystery series would be boring as all get out – I’m far less interested in the courtroom versions of mysteries and more interested in how the pieces fit together. (Update: Then again, I am a person who likes the action genre and courtroom mysteries don’t have much of that, which might also explain my choice.)

“…lacking the element of motive to begin with.” – Well, Waver’s not wrong…

I’m observing this apple and noticing someone skimped on the detail around the stem. Does anyone still remember Art Academy for the DS? After looking at some promo material for it, I basically learnt how to draw a proper apple (and nothing else, really). If an apple is just drawn as a circle, it doesn’t quite look like an apple up close. (Two of the main things I screw up on when drawing are perception and the colour of highlights, both of which are covered in something like an apple stem and the related indent.)

Oh goodness…I was hoping Karabo would keep his vision (or actual eyeballs)…but that’s gruesome.

I’m guessing, based on the wheelchair, that Waver’s still paralysed or otherwise not able to move around like normal. Update: Spoke too soon.

Someone encoded the video funny again…

Waver 11

What was that crossword thing…? A warding spell of some sort?

Is that an owl in the back?!

Stealth fighter…Rider wanted on, didn’t he?

Every time he appears on screen now, I basically curse Melvin. He’s entertaining to watch, sure, but he’s annoyingly prodigal (= wasteful). He’s basically Dice from HypMic at this stage (aka he’s the sort of person who’d bet away his own clothes, given the chance and incentive).

Look at the way Waver’s hair drags behind him as he walks…it’s gorgeous…

“Residual Image” (as translated in the title) is literally “the left-over image” (zanzou). Not surprising, but I find the exact combo of characters used interesting since it could be short for “nokoru eizou” (where the nokoru’s character is read as zan in the combo, as you can guess).

Waver 12

Wow…this series really pulled something out of its butt this time, huh? “The guy without a heart”…no viewer would’ve known that actually referred to a character called Dr Heartless unless they knew of his existence somehow (the closest they would’ve been was having an inkling that this pointed to a name of the culprit).

There is an owl in the back of the auction room!

Ay? So what the heck is Pandemonium in this case?

“dotard” – Turns out this means “an old person, especially one who has become physically weak or whose mental faculties have declined.” You can’t say I don’t enrich my vocbulary through watching anime, huh?

I’m still wondering…why adapt case 7 of this series (Rail Zeppelin)? Why not case 1 (Adra)? Update: I don’t know where I pulled the number 7 from, since this is volume 4 – 5 of the series. Apparently some of the cases were anime-original though.

Waver 13 (FINAL)

Oh, Flat, you stupid…

Waver’s exasperated faces are great. No wonder Reines likes to toy with him…

I can assume Rail Zeppelin is a Ghost Liner, yes?

Can I guess that Adashino ~likes~ Waver…? Update: Turns out that’s not quite the case.

Ooh, Waver without his shirt is se-okay, I’m getting distracted. Seriously though, Waver never showed his Crest in F/Z. I never even knew what it looked like until now! The fact it’s such a simple design in comparison to his Command Seals is…kinda underwhelming, really.

I think there’s a bit of a pattern between Jakurai (from HypMic) and Waver…namely, they suck when it comes to drinking. (Also, of course, the long hair. Don’t forget it, never forget it.)

Shut up, Add!

For some reason, I felt like a lot of that last part, while getting closure for Waver, it almost had connotations of “I’ll meet you on the other side, Rider”…so it felt kind of sad, to be honest. That talk between Reines and Olga I don’t think I’d understand without Apocrypha and Grand Order, but I guess that’s to be expected in such a huge franchise. Anyways, moving right along!

Illya 1

I’ve been a bit worried about what I’ll have to subject myself to for the sake of Magical Girls…

Was that…Taiga?

Who’s Liz…?

Okusama, huh? (Okusama = someone’s wife, although it seems to be used in the plural here since I don’t think Kiritsugu and/or Iri are dead in this timeline.)

The subs I’ve got say Shiro is adopted here too (when it’s not in the Japanese), although I wonder exactly how much of UBW is going to be true in this anime…

Hmm…a bit of digging reveals Luvia’s not a Master. So throwing out Lancer is really just a joke on how Lancer gets roasted early on in Grail Wars, right?

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh…squick, much…(Thank goodness the source I was using edited out the loli fanservice, so I can tolerate this series a lot more…but still, suggesting you have a romance with your step-brother, even if it’s known you’re not related from the beginning, is…you already know my feelings on that, based on my reaction. Shiro is, what, 15? About twice Illya’s age!) Update: Okay, so he has no confirmed age in Prisma Illya, but he’s 17 in F/SN so I’d assum the same or similar, seeing as he attends the same school. It’s fine if it’s platonic, but this is clearly an Onii-chan, daisuki! thing the likes of which Oreimo throws down! Thank you for calling it out though, Ruby.

Oh my gosh, this looks like the Rhongomynaid (Detective Waver) and Excalibur (or whatever Saber’s Noble Phantasm is called) summoning beam! LOL!

Ruby, you lech! Don’t go praising the angles! *shakes fist* (Seriously, what if magical girl mascots were paedophiles…? *blank face* Welp, considering what’s out there on the internet, I wouldn’t be surprised if a hentai or something had such a concept.)

Hmm? Turns out the word for Servant means something like “celestial hero”. Makes sense.

Nice callback to Saber and Shiro!

Illya 2

I thought Illya would say that her parents are dead…turns out the show’s not that grimdark (to the point where it wouldn’t set the show after Kiritsugu and Iri’s deaths), huh?

Do the sticks have a gender? The subs said “she” for Ruby…

LOL, it’s Rider. I thought Lancer was gonna get his butt kicked all over again (thinking more along the lines of CCS).

It’s Gay Bul-I mean, Gae Bolg! (I’ve been reading TV Tropes again…can you tell?)

This episode was pretty pedestrian. I like it more than the first one.

What’s up with the CGI…?

Oh! Bunbun, who does Yuki Yuna! Update: They only did the illustrations for some of the series. They also did SAO illustrations, although that’s of less significance to me.

Illya 3

The sticks do have genders!!! That’s like claiming Jesus for kakera with Mudae! (Yes, that’s possible. I got him in one server.)

The power of fujoshi…is amazing! How did it get to a girl who’s so young?!

These angles are a bit disturbing…

“Casao”, LOL.

Magical girl nakama, huh?

Illya 4

MST3K mantra!

Whose quote is that again…? “Don’t think, imagine”? Update: It turns out to not be anyone’s quote at all, if Google results are to be believed.

Uh-oh! Saber Alter!

Illya 5

Padding the episode already…?

The mist is a quality of a Berserker, right?

Geez the angles piss me off…

These sticks have brains???

Can you call it teamwork if they’re always complaining about each other?

Illya 6

More padding…

Illya’s UBW!

Geesh, that last-minute shot of Rin and Luvia popping out of the ground scared me for a bit…

Illya 7

*sigh* It’s the sick episode…

I recognise the vacuum cleaner. I have the same one at home.

*sigh* Random fanservice of elementary school girls. This is what gives anime a bad name.

*Sapphire pulls out a USB port* - Ohhkay, is that stick fanservice, in a sense…? Because that’s awkward too.

Maids went out of fashion years ago…

“Lyrical Radical Genocide” - I think this Lyrical Radical things is parodying Nanoha.

Based on the cloak, it’s an Assassin.

“Listen, if you aren’t careful, you’ll die!” – Yep, because people die when they are killed. I almost missed that meme for a bit.

Illya 8

Illya’s still reeling from Miyu’s talk, huh?

I noticed it said tomoda(chi) in the background at one point.

Does Miyu exist in any of the alternate universes?

Ah, there’s yuujou (friendship) in the background as calligraphy.

I think the video got encoded funny again…

Geez, complaining about boobs? The series got worse…oh, I forgot Shiro was around in this series.

…who’s left? There’s been Saber, Archer, Lancer, Assassin, Rider, Caster and…who? Berserker, that’s who.

Illya 9

Ohhhhhhhh brother, not more bath scenes…

Iri looks almost exactly like she does in the Eiznbern Consultation Rooms! (I found those around and watched them today.)

Thank goodness the fanservice is censored…

I never realised Berseker had heterochromia until now…

One thing that I assume makes Saber’s outfit look nice to thos that like girls is the window in the top…but it goes to waste on Miyu, LOL.

I find it interesting Illya has all these concerns – the ones (or similar ones) Iri harbourd in F/Z.

Hey, the bridge! This is the bridge where Rider dies inn F/Z, yeah?

The ED looks different this time…

Illya 10 (FINAL)

E-Eep…loli fanservice…

Now Miyu is basically what Waver is to Rider, no doubt about it.

Bulls***! Speak of the devil! I was wondering what Waver looked like in the Illya style, because I read on the wiki he makes a cameo in season 2, and…here he is. Didn’t expect him in season 1, though.

Another new ED animation. I find it interesting they’ve never once had to recast any VAs throughout the entire existence of Fate/ anime…not that I know of, anyway.

Hiroyama Hiroshi is the original Illya creator.

Okay, that’s the end of one season. I feel kind of fatigued since I finished the Eiznbern Consultation Rooms today as well, so I’m going to take a break from watching more Illya until it’s necessary to watch again in a few posts’ time.

Now that they’ve collected the cards, I’m wondering what the series intends to do next…

Illya s2 Pt 1 Ep 1

They clearly skimped on the budget when Shiro was leaving the house…

I keep forgetting Illya is meant to be German…

That bad English…is actually there in the ep. title…

Oh great…schoolgirls talking about erotic swimsuits…

This s*** is what you call “Class-S”! I have no interest in it, because I don’t swing that way! (Sorry, yuri fans…)

The problem with series that aren’t 100% made with you in mind is that your favourite characters might look ugly…that’s especially the case with En, Jakurai and Waver.

Ryudou Temple, eh? Let’s hope Assassin still looks good.

I don’t think I’ve seen that before…namely, being able to hear what’s going on outside the transformation while it’s happening.

Now this 2 Illyas thing…this is new, alright.

Illya s2 Pt 1 Ep 2

LOL, what a horoscope.

Truck-kun! I don’t think Illya would make a good isekai protag, come to think of it.

Who is this nurse? I feel like she’s from some other part of the Nasuverse… Update: My guess was right. That’s Caren Hortensia, protagonist of Fate/hollow ataraxia and Kirei’s…uh, daughter. I know he had a wife. We never met said wife, but seeing the daughter really drove that fact home.

Uhhhhhhhh…okay, now the lesbian loli scene just made things go off a cliff for me. I’m not against lesbians or yuri – to each their own – but that scene was clearly meant to be pleasing to a certain audience.

How does anyone kill anything gently…?

Ohhhhhhkay, strike 2 for loli fanservice.

I seem to remember…that’s right, Alice from the [something] no Kuni no Alice series was evaluated on her coffee-making skills (by Julius, I think it was). That’s why I’m thinking of Alice when I see Luvia praising Miyu on something similar.

Wa-hey! It’s Rin’s Azoth dagger!

Well, the mechanics of the transformation are also something you have to think about. I’ll give the show kudos for that.

Illya s2 Pt 1 Ep 3

Can we not with the whole “Onii-chan, daisuki!” thing?! That’s it! That’s the last straw! I’m finishing this episode and aborting early so that I can preserve my dignity…and get some proper sleep for once.

The fact Miyu thinks Shiro resembles her brother must not be a coincidence…(I’ve become far too Fate/ savvy, haven’t I?) Update: It seems I was right. Apparently, Miyu was taken in by Kiritsugu in a certain universe, but apparently this is a bunch of spoilers.

Genki na aisatsu was in the back.

This is just getting worse and worse…

So now Kuro’s name is Kuroe (Chloe), huh? Anyways, good riddance, loli fanservice! So long! I won’t miss you one bit!

#lord el-melloi ii-sei no jikenbo #Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files #fate/kaleid liner prisma illya #Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya 2wei!

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@mutantism / @mutntmenace - i have good things to say abt people who aren’t lily and brogan, honestly i do, i have a list in my head of people who i want to do these for so y’all should send me 5000 of these, but 1. brogan is on rn and 2. i think she could use it so anyway let me tell you the story of me & brogan

i’ve known this girl since my JUNIOR YEAR OF HS SIX YEARS AGO when i was still playing MAGNETO and we still used GIFS and BIG TEXT in rp. she was playing jakob and she followed me while i had a MAGIC!ANON (remember how those used to be a thing) that was for dragneto and i messaged her because i was like SORRY DAD IT’S A WEIRD NIGHT TO COME ON BOARD and we had our first discussion abt jakob lehnsherr and how his life didn’t go like he thought it would and how he’s disappointed in his son because fishnets don’t look good on him

then i made erich for her because we had a lot of feelings together abt jakob’s trash brother and now she’s the one playing erik and i honestly just, y’all, brogan is such a gift to me. we have been inflicting pain on each other for so long and she’s just genuinely one of the most funny, talented people i know??? like, her writing on all of the blogs i have followed her to the end of the earth across is so interesting and authentic and it has this sort of fresh awkward truth to it?????? i REMEMBER pieces of brogan’s writing that we did together like YEARS ago because some of it just sticks with me because you read it and there’s just such a WOW factor.

i’m gonna talk abt jakob for a second. i used to think making blogs for family members of main characters was kinda annoying, i’m not gonna lie. brogan changed all that nonsense in about 2 seconds. now i have a blog for a family member of a main character. i was like, astounded, basically right off the bat and then for the last sixish years, by how Real brogan is capable of making a character. she can draw such a human, flawed picture with so few words it’s incredible. it’s like i could reach thru the screen and shake jakob’s bony-ass, dumbass shoulders.

and THEN when she started writing ERIK LEHNSHERR, MY ACTUAL FAVE CHARACTER IN ANYTHING EVER, and i was like, ready 4 greatness, which you can bet my girl delivered. i don’t know if y’all know this but brogan’s magneto makes this hellsite livable??? i honestly love every part of how she writes him right down to her tags?? like genuinely when i see her raven tag (”love is choosing. said the snake.”) i’m like /SHIVERS. i literally spent an entire day thinking abt her magneto tag (”my savage solitary soul. my name that sends them all running.”) the other week?? brogan just has such a feel for erik and his trauma and his anger and his vicious unforgivingness and his jewishness which is so important to me and you guys i cry about brogan EVERY DAY. give me this camp dramatic magenta-wearing dickhead.

i just! have so much love! for brogan! and all of the characters she’s written (shoutout to darwin and angel who i somehow haven’t mentioned yet)! and she’s just such a blessing to have in my life! and i’m so glad i know her and i feel so privileged to have met her and witnessed her write and draw and be such a star for all these years. i hope brogan has a great week. i hope brogan knows that i’m gay for her & would die for her.

#anonymous.#mutantism #ooc.#sunlight!!! shining out of my butt!!!!#i somehow didn't even get to how i feel abt her grasp of mutant politics #i love it to clarify #.positivity.#answered.

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archandbillwiseguys · 5 years

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Toy Story 4: Pixar Pulls Strings

June 20, 2019

Toy Story 4 **** Rating: G Run Time: 1 hour 40 minutes Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale Writers: Andrew Stanton and Stephany Folsom Director: Josh Cooley

Bill: My feelings about Toy Story 4 could not be more mixed: It’s extremely well-produced and it’s nice to see these characters again — yet I sort of wish it had never been made.

Arch: I know how you feel. I’m not bowled over by it, and some of it dragged. But I wouldn’t criticize it. I came away feeling the movie is just a solid, safe bet. It’s not very creative. I supposed you could say it advances the story of the first three films, but it’s an easy way for Disney to program what’s in theaters. You can’t argue with Tom Hanks voicing that character Woody, and I suppose it sort of answers the question “What happens to toys when they become antiques?”

Bill: True, but that question was actually answered in Toy Story 2, when a collector wanted to put Woody on display.

Arch: I guess you’re right.

Bill: There’s one stroke of brilliance in Toy Story 4, and that’s the introduction of Forky, a toy made by a little girl out of a spork and pipe cleaners.

Arch: Yes! And he’s voiced by Tony Hale. I’m glad to see him building on that great character he created on Veep.

Bill: Not to mention Buster on Arrested Development.

Arch: I noticed that in Toy Story 4 they play Forky up and play Buzz Lightyear down.

Bill: It’s a testament to how real these characters became in the first three films that I spent much of Toy Story 4 feeling bad for Buzz. He’s really pushed back into a supporting role. We see more of Bo Peep than we do of Buzz, and even the scenes he’s in are for the most part tangential to the plot — or plots, actually, since this film has four or five storylines. It very much plays like it was written by committee — you can almost imagine being in the writers’ room: “Let’s have Woody ride a zip line”…”Yeah, and we’ll have a wild chase through a carnival.” No one is really concerned with a story arc. Which is unfortunate, because the one thing you could always count on in a Pixar film was a nice, clean narrative.

Arch: Still, there’s continuity. For example, I noticed that they still use the voices of dead people. Don Rickles was in there, and he’s been gone for two years!

Bill: I was surprised to hear Don — and I noticed the film is dedicated to him. There are lots of voice cameos that go by so quickly the only way you’ll know about them is to wait around for the credits. There’s Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner and Betty White and Bill Hader and Carol Burnett. Some of them get just one line. It smacks of a marketing gimmick — they can have all those celebs go on TV and talk about the film.

Arch: I did like Christina Hendricks as Gabby Gabby, a creepy talking doll who has nefarious plans for Woody. And Keanu Reeves is fun as a Canadian stunt driver toy. Plus Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key are delightful as a couple of plush carnival prizes.

Bill: I predict they will be the next spin-off.

Arch: I must say as fantastic as the animation was in the earlier Toy Story films, the computer animation in this one seems even more advanced.

Bill: There’s a scene where the toys are walking behind a display case in an antique store, and there are cobwebs floating around above their heads. It is absolutely haunting.

Arch: The way the characters move and talk is as realistic as can be.

Bill: Well, as real as walking, talking toys can be!

Arch: True.

Bill: Of course, back in 1995 Woody and Buzz were designed for ease of animation — just like Walt Disney made Mickey Mouse all circles, so he’d be easy to draw over and over. Now, in Toy Story 4, some of the newer characters are so meticulously detailed the old guys almost seem like they’re from a different movie.

Arch: There are some real scares in Toy Story 4. Gabby Gabby is already creepy, but then she’s got these henchmen who are hideous ventriloquist dummies.

Bill: They are terrifying! I just might end up with nightmares about those guys. The way they drag their feet and their heads hang off to one side. Argh!

Arch: Old guys like us will notice they look like demented Charlie McCarthies.

Bill: Ventriloquist dummies are always terrifying in the movies. Remember Magic with Anthony Hopkins and the dummy who orders him around? I feel like Gabby Gabby’s name is a throwback to The Great Gabbo, where Erich Von Stroheim plays a mad ventriloquist.

Arch: There’ s also a reference to The Shining thrown in, which is kind of fun. But you know, the toys climbing around and going on adventures dragged a little for me. It was the same old thing.

Bill: What bothers me about Toy Story 4 is what you were getting at earlier: Yes, it advances the story, but I feel like it advances the story the way The Godfather Part III did. The sense seems to be: Let’s take these iconic characters and shoehorn them into a plot. Toy Story 3 was so perfectly constructed there were no loose ends to tie up. The writers had to go all they way back to Toy Story 2 to find an unresolved element: Whatever happened to Bo Peep? Everything about this film is pretty perfect, but it’s sort of like going to a class reunion when you really said all your goodbyes last time.

Arch: Interesting you should say that. I went to my 50th class reunion five years ago, and now they’re having another one. The 55th. But I’m not gonna go. I had my big reunion.

Bill: We should brace ourselves for Toy Story 5, which will be like you having to go to your 60th reunion.

Arch: What do you think? Will Forky become the new lead in the series? It’ll be interesting to see if Woody returns. Tom Hanks is our Henry Fonda.

Bill: Whatever they do, you know the execution will be first-rate. And I must add that the folks at Pixar do know how to plug into your sentimental side, even when you’re trying to resist it. There was exactly one point in Toy Story 4 when I found myself tearing up — toward the end, when we encounter a little girl who’s lost at a carnival.

Arch: Oh, yes.

Bill: We have never seen her before, and narratively she simply serves as a handy resolution to a problem. But that scene — the lighting, the character design, the sheer emotion of the writing — it’s what stuck with me when the movie was over. It just shows the power of good storytelling, even in its briefest form.

Arch: And it’s significant that it’s the one part of the movie we feel like we’ve never seen before. It was a real child in peril, and they played it just right.

Bill: Despite all my complaints, I’d recommend Toy Story 4 to anyone who loved the first three films. Go ahead, capitulate to your Disney Overlords.

Arch: All Hail Mickey!

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