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inbarfink · 7 months

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Okay, so I already wrote a bunch of stuff about how that scene, although it is really sweet, is also kind of a Bad Sign for Simon - how he refuses to learn the Obvious Lesson from the Winterworld adventure (that being the Ice King again is probably a really really bad idea). But I want to talk about it also a little more about what it means for Fionna’s character as well.

Because while sitting around and wallowing in self-loathing is probably bad for Fionna, especially after being told that she shouldn't be allowed to exist, and Simon is right to try and get her out of her funk. It's also still worthwhile for Fionna to have some introspection about the Consequences of Her Actions. Because she and Cake really did not consider them at all at first. They have a sense of morality and an instinct towards heroism, but they also tend to kinda forget the fantastical worlds they visit don’t exist entirely for their fantasy and have kind of a Protagonist-Centered-Morality fallacy.

Most obviously you can see it in the market in Ooo. How Cake, in her excitement, damaged and hurt and even killed

A bunch of innocent marketgoers without even noticing. And then Fionna immediately jumped to Cake’s defense against these ‘weirdos’, who were actually just normal kinda-righteously-angry Oooian citizens.

It’s actually very similar to the whole Winterworld situation. Fionna’s assumption that she’s automatically the hero and protagonist of the story and black-and-white view of the situation and her tendency to kick ass first and ask questions later meant that she just recklessly injured a lot of innocent people.

(It might’ve been worse actually cause at least in Winterworld she was at least manipulated by an evil Wizard)

Fionna and Cake clearly have a great potential for heroism, but they do need to be a bit more considerate of the situation and people around them. And it does make sense considering that from their perspective - they’ve been living a very ordinary life up until now (and Cake was literally an animal. A very clever animal, but still not bound by the same standards of morality as the talking animals in Ooo). Action and adventure and fantasy stuff has been purely the realm of daydream and video games for them - and Fionna literally speaks about it in these terms.

(also, Fionna's Main Character Syndrome was undoubtedly validated when God literally told her that she was created to be the main character of her universe)

So yeah, it takes them some time to really process how to be heroes - they need to grapple with questions that Finn and Jake already kinda dealt with seventeen years ago. And actually a lot of those; how to resolve a situation without necessarily using violence, when does a 'villain' actually deserve sympathy and kindness, the importance of the larger context of any given conflict... their confrontations with Ice King all played a big part in that. It was never just him, but he was still a very major part.

And for Fionna and Cake right now, learning these lessons require some amount of personal introspection. So while it was a sweet attempt at comforting, I dunno if Simon’s little ‘the only problem with that universe is that this Alternative Me was terrible because he didn’t even acknowledge or remember Betty as the love of our life and the light of my entire universe’ thing is actually Good.

I’m not quite sure Simon is the best person to teach Fionna and Cake heroism 101, because he is so focused on the Crown Quest as the thing that brings back Meaning to his life, and because his fatherly instincts just kinda go “Sad Young Person???? MUST GIVE COMFORT!” and also on account of the kidnapping.

I’m sure Fionna is going to become the heroine she dreams about eventually, it’s just going to be a bumpy ride. The best we can hope for is that they accept Simon’s comfort, that she doesn't start believing that she is nothing but an Error for the entire universe like the Scarab claims, but don’t necessarily listen to all of Simon's his words either.

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ilovescaredysquirrel2 · 2 months

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Was Qubo actually coming back?

So I heard a rumor that's been going around that The Qubo Channel, an American children's tv channel that ran from 2007-2021, was coming back in 2023 and this idiot fan did everything they could to make it seem real, videos and everything but it all turned out to be fake. They said that the company E Scripps announced it but they never did and this random person made an entire wiki page of it too. Qubo is officially never coming back, although I hope someone will have a solution or come up with a replacement kids channel. It's sad that kids have nothing that genuinely teaches them good lessons, besides Bluey. Don't get me wrong, I love Bluey, Bluey's awesome but it's like the only thing that kids can watch nowadays that's good for them. In my opinion, you need MORE THAN ONE SHOW! You don't have to have as many shows as I did growing up, but you can't only just have one show either.

I'll admit I was more of a tv kid, but I grew up in a small, dumpy town in Pennsylvania and I had no siblings or kids in the neighborhood to play with. I also never really had close friends at school who I got to hang out with outside of school, because school days lasted long and we were private people. When I got home, I'd most likely draw, watch tv, or take a nap. I did spend time outside but not in the autumn and winter as much because I hated cold, especially when I got older. I did watch a lot more tv than most kids did but it wasn't an unhealthy amount. I also wasn't really a Disney movie kid as much either. Disney channel? Yes, but I didn't really watch much of their animated movies growing up, especially not the older ones that everyone else grew up with. I had older parents and also was raised by my grandma, and no siblings so it's not like we had family movies nights like some families. Being an only child, I was basically the boss of the tv and my mom grew up playing outside and not much of a tv kid, so she just let me watch the kids shows that were playing on tv. Just to clear things up, I was born in November of 2002 and my mom gave birth to me when she was 42 years old, so a lot of stuff from her time wasn't really meant for kids. So yeah, I mostly just grew up watching tv channels. I was lucky enough to have Qubo, Sprout and the Nickelodeon and Disney channels. Lucky for me, I didn't watch much Cartoon Network, which in my opinion was kind of a good thing because a lot of stuff back then was inappropriate. Thank God I had more relaxing and... less unhinged shows to watch on channels like Sprout and Qubo. I know Qubo had its fair share of weird shows like Grossology and Being Ian, but most of the Qubo shows were good. In fact, some of my favorite shows ever came from Qubo!

Let's have a little talk about a well known Canadian show that was based off a book series, called "Scaredy Squirrel". If you were in Canada, you probably watched Scaredy Squirrel on YTV or Treehouse, but us Americans watched it on Cartoon Network, Disney X.D or Qubo. I was the kid who watched it on Qubo because I ignored the Cartoon Network channel growing up and I think around 2013 was when I started to hate Disney so... yeah. I became a fan of Scaredy Squirrel through Qubo and that show means so much to me. Another show that means a lot to me is called "Marvin the tap-dancing Horse" which originally aired on PBS kids for like 2 years, as part of a block called the "Bookworm bunch" which only lasted a short time and plus, I wasn't even born yet. I got introduced to Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse through the Qubo Channel and I absolutely fell in love with it. Honestly, those are both very underrated shows and deserve an actual FANDOM rather than 3 fans. A few people I know have at least heard of Scaredy Squirrel barely anyone has heard of Marvin the dancing horse (and yes, Marvin is based off a book too). I highly recommend those shows, as well as many others!

Cable tv is kind of shutting down now anyway, and it's sad. All we have now is streaming services and a lot of them just don't have those nice kids shows that Qubo had. A lot of those shows were cute and not too overstimulating for the younger kids, and almost everything they have now is for older kids. Sprout became Universal Kids, which is more for older kids and they didn't need to do that. We need more things for little kids too. Also, as a 21 year old with trauma, I don't like rough adult shows like South park and Hazbin hotel, I want more calming shows like Scaredy Squirrel and Toddworld. (Also, I'll put a list of my favorite shows from Qubo in my last paragraph).

I hope one day I can make my own tv channel or streaming service to replace Qubo or Sprout, but nothing can really "replace" my favorite channels growing up. Also, if you want some relaxing kids shows from Qubo to watch, I'll give you some;

Scaredy Squirrel, Toddworld, Stella & Sam, Timothy goes to school, Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse, Maggie & the Ferocious Beast, Harry & his Bucket of Dinosaurs, Miss Spider Sunny Patch, Babar, Veggietales, Gofrette, I Spy, My Friend Rabbit, Sandra the Fairytale Detective, Willa's Wild Life, Pecola, Turbo Dogs, Sidekick, and Stickin' Around (although there's a trigger warning).

Tell me what you think and if you agree! Are you too a Qubo or Sprout fan?

#qubo channel #qubo shows #qubo #sprout goodnight show #sprout channel #sprout #scaredy squirrel #toddworld #marvin the tap dancing horse #qubochannel #qubo fandom

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ravensraven · 2 years

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Due to popular demand: the "Everyone is forever tied to their story" theory!

My theory goes like this:

In Ever After there's this magic, let's call it Destiny Magic, that is responsible for the retelling of the fairytale stories, and it's devided between the character that plays a role in the story and the Storybook of Legends.

The book is in some way capable of storing the magic and releasing it to each student once they sign.

I think joining the magic from the book with the magic from the person makes the stories happen - we know the book gave Raven access to her full powers and made her evil, just like a higher yeah witch that is mentioned in the book The Storybook of Legends. Still, in some way it could be controlled (some examples are Raven becoming good again, Red and Wolf's whole romance, the slight tweaking of the story so the Candy Witch wouldn't die, and of course the Evil Queen's rebellion after poisoning Snow White)

But when Raven destroyed the book that magic became harder to control and instead of following the direct path it had been doing for years it became unpredictable.

Now here are the clues I used for my theory:

Darling and Apple

Apple's whole journey during Dragon Games is more or less what Snow White goes through on her story:

She gets into a confrontation with the Evil Queen, which results on her getting banished from her castle/school and seeks refuge in the forest with the help of the forest creatures. After learning she survives, the Evil Queen tries to poison her with an Apple (don't take my word as fact but I think in some versions she sends a bird instead of going herself, so we have more parallels there). Here is where Snow White begins her eternal sleep until the Prince Charming awakens her.

Sidenote: in the Brothers Grimm version Snow White chokes on an actual piece of the apple, just like Apple does in Dragon Games.

So yeah, even if their stories start differently it's pretty clear that this was meant to be a recreation of the original Snow White.

Daring and Rosabella

Another obvious parallel; Daring's whole arc is learning that external beauty isn't everything with the help of Rosabella.

I won't make a direct comparison since with these two is mostly about the morals of the The Beauty and the Beast story, but I'll mention that both started with the Beast getting turned into a beast by a magical being wanting to teach them a lesson; the rest is pretty self-explanatory.

Justine

Since she was first introduced during Dragon Games there isn't much information about her, but I noticed that in the webisode Moonlight Mystery her sleepdancing is treated as if it was a recent thing, which I want to believe might be because of the Destiny Magic making her dance all night like in her story.

There's also other points in eah where the Destiny Magic appears, these don't happen after Way Too Wonderland so I only count them as evidence that, at least at some point, the characters were tied to their stories.

Holly and Poppy

The book Truth or Hair was released after WTW but it doesn't give any indication of actually following the movie storyline so I'll be counting as part of the pre-WTW evidence.

In this book, Holly's hair starts to get shorter and shorter and Poppy's doesn't stop growing and has returned to her natural color. They (and I) believe this is because of the Destiny Magic.

Cerise, Cedar and Daring

In the book A Wonderlandiful World all the characters except the wonderlandians get turned into objects or animals that resemble their name or have some significance in their story.

I want to focus particularly on these three because I think there's more than just pure coincidence in their transformations.

Cedar turns into a real girl, it's kinda obvious considering her story but I'd like to believe this also proves that the magic inside of her turned Cedar into a real girl because that's her happily ever after. They could have chosen to turn Cedar into an inanimate object, a literal puppet, like they did with other students like Apple or Ashlynn, but instead she became a real girl like in her story.

In Daring's case, he turned into a monkey-like beast. This can be a cleae foreshadowing of his actual destiny as the next Beast.

In this book Cerise gets turned into a small wolf, I think the writers wanted to hint to the idea of Cerise actually being the next Big Bad Wolf and I wish we could've seen more of it.

Duchess

When she was a kid, her swan transformation started appearing; instead of being cursed by a wizard, the transformation appeared randomly - maybe this also has to do with the Destiny Magic.

I still think they can controll this magic, like the twins did in Truth or Hair or even Briar and Faybelle during the dream secuence of Epic Winter; it'd just take more willpower.

#ever after high #eah #eah theory #raven theorizes

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calliecat93 · 11 months

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So thoughts on the new episodes now that I'm back on the bandwagon:

Outfoxed: It was okay. Not my favorite, but it's fine. I LOVED seeing Koki being a nerd about foxes, it's adorable. Also, I think so far, her new VA is doing a fantastic job. It's different from Heather Bambrick, but similar enough to not be jarring and letting the VA do her own take. Also, Gourmand has a dog now? Ugh... can someone call the Humane Society, please? Anyways, pretty standard episode. Not great, but not awful either, and hey foxes!

Clever the Raven: This one was better. It felt like the characters got to do a bit more and thus have more fun character moments. It looks like they're doing more common/North American animals at least so far, which since this was in production during COVID, I guess that's all they could do. Which is fine, there's a lot they haven't done yet that I'm actually surprised they held back on. Also, all the villains (aside from Paisley) just being around for no real reason (not even doing anything evil, just there) and Clever annoying them was the best haha~! I actually learned a good bit about ravens that I didn't know, like their ability to mimic sounds. Overall this was a fun one~

Race To Goat Mountain: This one was pure fun! Since Paisley's intro she's honestly been super underutelized, only having I think two solo appearances and the rest with the others. Which is a bummer because it's meant she's lacked a lot of the personality that the other villains had, so this one REALLY helped make up for a lot. Seeing more interactions with the Bros and Paisley was sorely needed. But yeah, this was so fun~! I laughed so much. From Martin's issues with the Bighorn Sheep suit to the crew acting as commentators to Martin being a total drama queen when he's stuck (seriously, Martin is a riot in this one XD). It's a fun ride from start to finish~!

Owl Odyssey: So due to an accident, the Bros and the girls get rocketed to a faraway land, a LOOONG ways away from the Tortuga and without any gear/equipment/discs aside form the Miniturizer. Jimmy doesn't get included which is a bummer, but I guess someone needs to keep the Tortuga safe haha. This was another really fun one! From the girls annoying Martin to poor Jimmy getitng run out of the Tortuga to the girls thinking that the Bros have gone insane... y'know, more than usual. God there's SO may funny moments XD. I won't spoil too much, but there's also a bit of bro feels and that is an easy way to make a good episode a top-tier one!Not to mention all the owls! They've done some specific ones before, like snowy owls and desert owls, but this one is more broad with a whole variety in different continents. This was a really fun odyssey, loved it~!

So I'd say that Owl Odyssey is the best one for being hilarious, adventurous, interesting, and even a little feelsy while still having a good creature lesson. Then Race to Goat Mountain, then Clever the Raven, and Outfoxed at the bottom since I thought it was the most boring unfortunately. But hey it still did its job of teaching the kids, all four of them did. Which if we have more episodes like the last two in store, this is gonna be a fun season~!

#wild kratts #man i needed that mood lifter!

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quibbs126 · 11 months

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You know, I’d love to take more classes that teach me about the historical context of certain books

I was watching some videos about Animal Farm today (mostly about the animated movie), and it reminded me of a book we went over in my World Literature class, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s “We”, since it was another book that criticized communist Russia during the days of Stalin (okay I think they had different points; Animal Farm seems to have been more a warning of what communism will do, while We was meant to actually criticize the Soviet Union, considering Zamyatin lived there). I remember going over the context in class, and it was legitimately so interesting to learn about. Admittedly, I don’t remember much about the actual book, in part because I never really read much of it (though I plan to since I still have it), but the history of the author and book itself was so interesting, and I would have never known about it had I not taken the class and my professor not talk about it, and it along with the other books we learned the context for really just makes me want to learn more historical contexts for books

By the way, if you want the history I’m talking about, I’ll give a summary based on what I was told in class, though I don’t remember all the details (I’ll pull out my notes from it). Basically Zamyatin was an avid supporter of the Bolsheviks and their revolution against the Tsar (Zamyatin was Russian if I didn’t make that clear), and being active in the movement, such as being an editor for a newspaper and writing editorials supporting the revolution. However, once the party started cracking down on human rights and dissenting voices, he became disillusioned with the party, and he starts writing critiques on it, as well as writing We. He finished it in 1920, and ended up sending to Europe to be published, so that the rest of the world could know what was going on in Russia (We doesn’t directly take place in the Soviet Union, it’s a sci fi dystopian novel set in the far future, but the society (the One State) takes obvious inspiration from it). Meanwhile he read manuscripts of his work in St Petersburg, and it became the first manuscript banned in the Soviet Union, with Zamyatin being marginalized for his work and losing his job. Zamyatin eventually becomes so disillusioned with the Soviets that he writes a letter to Stalin requesting he and his family be allowed to leave. The only reason Stalin allows this is because Zamyatin was good friends with another writer named Gorky (unfortunately I don’t remember what the significance of Gorky to Stalin was, I didn’t write that down in my notes). Zamyatin had hoped that the Soviet Union would collapse in a few years so that they could return, but unfortunately he didn’t get to live to see it, dying in 1937

Sorry, I went off on a bit of a history lesson there, but I think this stuff is pretty fascinating, and I would love to hear more of the history behind books (if I haven’t made that clear already)

#I think the books I liked most in terms of their history were this and The Plague #which both had a pattern of being allegories relating to fascist regimes #(The Plague was an allegory for German occupation of France at the time)#hm #well anyways #world literature #yevgeny zamyatin #we zamyatin #I don’t know how to tag this book #historical context #I guess? I really don’t know how to tag this post #but I was thinking about it and just wanted to share #random stuff #might as well tag the other historical parts #bolshevik revolution #soviet union

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nicnacsnonsense · 2 years

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Apparently when making the “live action” Lion King the director was obsessed with making it look like a documentary. Which, I see how you get there from “live action,” but that’s obviously not the right look for the story they were telling.

My suggestion: lean into it. All the visuals are meant to look like a documentary, cut all the dialog and songs (though the score can stay), and focus it down to just one narrator. We open with a bunch of beautiful shots of the savanna and all the various animals that live there (this will replace the presenting of Simba moment since that’s a little too unrealistic for our documentary style version) with opening narration about the circle of life. At the end of that thought, we hear the narrator say in a more conversational tone, “Is that good? That’s the voice you’re looking for? Okay, great.” And then they continue on with the script in their narrator voice again. This sets the tone for the movie.

As things continue, the narrator periodically makes little asides, admiring comments about the footage, fun little lion facts (we come to learn the narrator is a huge fan of lions) and confusion over the way some of these animals are behaving. The narrator becomes increasingly baffled as this go on and the animals start behaving in more and more unrealistic ways. Finally when they get to the part where the lion cub is adopted by the meerkat and the warthog, the narrator starts having a full on breakdown.

The footage on screen pauses and we hear a door opening and then the slightly muffled voice of what is clearly the director. The narrator starts going off on them, about how this is clearly fake, they’re lying to people, etc. The director insists that it’s just a little exaggerated, they’re just building a narrative, that kind of thing. Eventually they manage to talk the narrator down and the narrator agrees — begrudgingly but they need this job — to continue.

At this point the script has gotten really ridiculous, the narrator being required to say things that aren’t really supported by what’s on screen and clearly not things real lions would do — talking about the young lioness begging the young lion to return and become king when the two are just standing there sniffing at each other. The narrator has become very sarcastic and the director frequently has to interject over the intercom to remind them to stick to the script and watch their tone.

We get to the bit where Rafiki hits Simba on the head with his stick and the narrator has to explain that the mandrill is teaching the young lion a lesson about how the past can hurt, but it’s your choice to run from it, or learn from it. The narrator pauses there and says that’s actually kind of profound. They start to go off on a tangent about something personal from their own life — perhaps they too lost their father tragically at a young age — until the director interrupts them and reminds them to get back on script.

But that one moment did it. The narrator is invested now. We hear them getting increasingly into what’s happening until they’re basically another audience member watching this story unfold like the rest of us, ultimately letting out a triumphant cheer as Simba stands atop Pride Rock and roars as the rain begins falling.

We end with a little mid-credits coda scene, this time actual live action footage of the narrator in the recording booth, chatting with the person who was doing the actual recording sometime shortly after they finished. The sound person asks the narrator if they can keep a secret and reveals that the whole thing is fake. It wasn’t even real live action footage, it was all CGI. Cue shocked reaction, and the end.

#the lion king #lion king 2019 #fun fact that I realized 3 hours later #the narrator’s emotional journey across the course of this movie mirrors Simba’s emotional journey within the story #I’m so brilliant and I’m not even doing it on purpose

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thetimelordbatgirl · 2 years

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Lily going off about the monster high stuff doesn't even make sense? Its childrens fiction, you know where characters can be anything and are HUMANIZED to be relatable for children. Children find it easier than older audiences to relate to any kind of character from talking sponges to Ninja Turtles. These characters are nonhuman to be enjoyable characters for kids but the characters themselves are humanized for kids to connect with. Which is exactly what Monster High does, the characters are monsters but they are humanized and treated like people. So if nonhuman cartoon characters are literally nonhuman because its a fun cartoon for kids and the characters are humanized and treated like people then what the hell is the problem with LGBT rep if the LGBT rep if it isn't demonized as "unnatural" and treated as normal. Again its almost like cartoon characters are nonhuman because its meant to be fun for kids who aren't sitting there like "This werewolf character isn't human therefor I in no way see them as personified in any way and cannot connect with this character in any way" Its almost like nonhuman characters exist because its meant to be FUN.

Its kind of ironic that Lily often gets mad at kids shows for becoming dark and less fun and such, but when you got a franchise like Monster High that was made to appeal to kids and in my opinion, is easy to sit down and just watch and have fun with it, Lily...instantly brands it as bad basically. Like, Monster High's whole appeal was at the time, to appeal to kids basically and yeah, there were some problems with it that should be called out (the obvious one being body issues and I think there was a controversy over Clawdeen saying in her bio, she shaves her legs, something that was eye-brow raising with the audience it was targeted to), but Lily doesn't really call out actual valid problems. She just loses her shit over the idea of someone rewriting MH with representation that Mattel had denied the MH team each time they came up with a character who could be LGBT+. It's the Encanto fandom thing all over again: Lily not addressing actual problems and instead stuff that wasn't problems. Heck, she even like the Encanto Fandom thing, brands everyone who does this whole LGBT+ monsters thing as....white people only doing it:

Like...she really loves to do this, huh? Its also a pretty bad representation of a topic that started as just wanting to write representation in Monster High, but I digress.

And like, let's be real: she'll refuse to acknowledge its clearly in the name that its going to be about monsters, as its called Monster High, just like Spongebob is going to be about a sponge and TMNT is about turtles. She'll also refuse to acknowledge that in childrens programing, its pretty common to go with stuff like characters who are monsters, but the plot always treats them like you'd treat human characters. You can learn lessons via these shows a-lot and in Monster High's case, it always used each new ghoul and manster as a way to tell the audience to be proud of who they were and just be themselves, a pretty positive message for its audience as some kids likely sadly feared being themselves a-lot and sometimes may view stuff they do as flaws, but Monster High was teaching their audience to be proud of themselves basically, flaws and all. Which is why it hurt obviously likely for the person who wanted Lily's writing advice, that MH didn't have any LGBT+ rep until the current reboot, aka non-binary Frankie and Deuce having two moms. But Lily, who demands representation in kids stuff constantly...unless its anime then she's fine with it being censored or she bats for Disney who restricted Dana Terrace constantly with The Owl House cause Lily doesn't like Dana nowadays, basically says no, monster high shouldn't do representation cause shocker, the thing called Monster High is about MONSTERS, and even when still discussing this topic, posted:

Like...we still in the topic here from Monster High, and she ironically went dark completely with the idea for werewolves. Let's be real: Lily probably thinks kids do think like that with monsters, because she can't acknowledge unlike her, kids can relate to non-human characters and don't think like she does.

#lily orchard #like its funny lily reviews kids content #but fails to understand kids do like the content unlike her #including monster high now

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baronvonkrieger · 2 years

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Twice Told Tales; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

To celebrate September becoming October, what better way is there, then to watch the second half of Disney's 1949 animated feature film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad., followed the next day by watching Tim Burton’s “Sleepy Hollow (1999)?

A childhood favorite of mine, this animated version may be unique in Disney animated films as having no truly likable characters. Brom Bones is a big bully and a self centered jerk. Ichabod Crane is a shameless opportunist, and Katrina is a Jezebel with the hots for Brom Bones, who decides to play Ichabod against Brom, for her affections. In the end it is Brom who wins hand of the “fair” Katrina, and do they deserve each other.

The film is narrated by Bing Crosby, who’s easygoing charm fits in perfectly with the fluid animation. He sings three songs that are fun, and advance the story beautifully. My favorite of the three, is “The Headless Horseman” performed by Bing Crosby & Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires. It beautifully sets up the wonderfully executed Ichabod Crane’s ride home from the party at the Van Tassle house, where he encounters the “Headless Horseman”. Although left to the imagination whether or not this is the spirit of the Hessian who lost his head to a cannonball in the Revolution, the way the Hessian keeps missing Ichabod’s head with his saber, it’s pretty clear the attempt is not to kill Ichabod, but to scare him out of town, and clear the field. As we see at Brom Bone’s wedding, as Katrina rushes to kiss Brom, Ichabod never stood a chance.

In 1999, Tim Burton did another take on the famous story, and as much as I like Tim Burton’s films with his original material, this may be Burton’s only adaptation of someone else’s work that I enjoy. As close as the 1949 Disney adaptation was to the original story, Tim Burton's version is his fan fiction of the story, where he fixes what he didn’t like about the original story. It may be fan fiction, but it is very good fan fiction. It is very much inspired by the Hammer Horror films of the 1950s -70s, and some of the cast appeared in those films. Disney’s 30 minute animated version was just the right length for a faithful version of the short story it was based on. However, this is a feature film, and an attempt to stretch the story to 106 minutes, would have probably meant a film as bloated as Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy.

Burton’s sympathies are clearly with Ichabod Crane, who is now a detective called to Sleepy Hollow to investigate some decapitations the locals say were caused by a headless horseman. Ichabod is a man of science, due to a tragic backstory involving his father who was a cleric. Of course there’s a tragic back story, Tim Burton likes nothing more then a good tragic backstory, so his heroes can be wonderfully melancholic. Brom Van Brunt (which is the actual name from the original story of Brom Bones) is in love with Katrina Van Tassle, but Katrina is not the Jezebel of the Disney film, so she’s not exactly reciprocating his affections. That’s OK. The Headless Horseman can take care of Brom, so he is no longer a problem. That’ll teach him a lesson about, forcing his attentions when they aren’t welcome. Although the hero of our story, Ichabod isn’t above hiding behind a boy if he thinks he’s entering a risky situation.

Christopher Walken plays the Hessian with a lot of aggression, who spends most of the film living up to his name by being headless. We do get a flashback where he’s Walken in a winter wonderland, and what led up to his becoming headless. This allows the character to be more then just Brom scaring up away an unwanted suitor, as he is used by someone in a plot for revenge over a great wronged someone suffered by the town of Sleepy Hollow.

Being more a supernatural story, then the original story was, works for me, and I find Burton’s take on the Headless Horseman’s story, close to being as entertaining as the Disney version. Would I recommend seeing the Burton version? Absolutely. It is one of Tim Burton’s best.

#Tim Burton #Headless Horsemsn #Disney #bing crosby #Johnny Depp #Christina Ricci #Ichabod Crane

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meandmyechoes · 2 years

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Celebration Day 1 livestream log

Andor trailer, Willow trailer, Willow Panel

01:05:30 Katee Sackhoff

01:14:00 Ian McDramid

02:21:15 Ashley Eckstein

25:10 “I might not be your live-action Ahsoka but I want to be your real life version of Ahsoka Tano” [tears up]

26:10 specific advice or guidance for RD?

You know what that’s a great question, I’ve never actually met R. We’ve never met. We’ve never spoken. But it’s a dream of mine. So I talk about throwing your dreams out to the universe, and it would be an absolute dream to meet her one day. It’d be a dream to do a cameo on the Ahsoka series. It’d be an absolute dream! [pause] Hopefully one day it will… it will happen and um, I know it will and I would love to meet R. We’re all part of Team Tano. We’re one Team Tano and I just, I can’t wait. [wipes tears]

27:12 [Books]

I’m so, so grateful for the platform Star Wars has given me, and like you’ve… and now heard me blabble and cry up here. I don’t take it lightly, I take it very seriously. So I have the chance to write a couple books now, one we’re gonna announce tomorrow, it’s called Star Wars Every Day and it comes out in October. It’s a lifestyle book on how to live your best Star Wars life all year long. One thing I’m very very very proud of because it’s a passion project I’ve worked on for five years now, so one lesson that Ahsoka taught me is ‘Patience’. Lots and lots of patiences. I launched a new video called ‘Star Wars: Mindful Matters’. [host] They are just 2-3 minute short videos where I get to teach mindful lessons, mindful lessons that we learn from Star Wars. Our favorite characters from Star Wars teach these lessons, but I teach how you can do them too. So I share exercises, and they are clinically-based mindful exercises. They’re on the Star Wars Kids channel and starwarskids.com, but I want to preface, they are for everyone. We put them on the kid’s page, because we want parents to know that these videos are safe for kids to do, because our kids need to learn these lessons now more than ever. We’ve all been through a really rough two years but some of our kids. They’re on the Star Wars Kids channel and starwarskids.com, but they are for everyone. Because Star Wars is for everyone, right?

29:50 Her Universe “From the Archives” new collection

02:46:00-03:41:00 High Republic Panel

03:44:00 Casetify

03:56:00 Her Universe “From the Archive” collection

04:00:02 Rocklove

04:04:15 Hayden & Ewan

08:42 Hayden on animated series. “I’m glad I watch them, I’m a fan too.”

10:10 Are you surprised to see the fans’ reaction now as adults vs 20yrago? meant a lot to us to feel the warmth with media and the fans having grown up

11:30 What’s been going on with obi-wan in-between?

12:36 What are we seeing from Anakin? Vadr? conflict of self-identity. thrill to come back and continue the journey and explore this character at this point.

13:48 “This is where the fun begins.”

04:17:50 Moses Ingram and Rupret Friend

Moses audition, RF introduces his character

19:12 did you go back on Rebels or FO for research? RF: yea MI: well I actually didn’t. I feel like I had so much freedom to make Reva who she wanted to be,you know, being her in live-action for the first time. I mainly just focused on the prequels.

19:45 What did you bring to the character that you hope will connect with the fans? RF: A lot of people here already know this but the less of superans wouldn’t: the Grand Inquisitor used to be a Jedi so to me, that’s like super important for this. MI: I think that’s a tough one. I think she aims to please, in more ways than one, and, I’ll leave you with that.

20:20 What was your experience with SW prior to landing this role? MI: Prior to this, I knew Vader, and I knew Obi-wan, and it’s hard to believe it but I’ve never seen the movies. and so it was really this experience that opened up the door to Star Wars to me. and I actually prefer this way now that I can have so many personal memories like Celebration, ykwim. So it’s certainly sth I’ll remember forever. RF: [I’m] quite a lot older than Moses. We used to totally dress up as the characters and run around in the woods and pretend to be.

04:23:30 Deborah Chow

What is it with SW that resonates with you most? I always like the sci-fi/fantasy genre

What’s your approach and what you bring from your personal fandom? Coming from Mando, and this is all legacy characters, we want to be very respectful of the canon and make sure we were lining up with everything but at the same time do something new and tell new stories. I think one of the most interesting thing that we have in the show is that we are with characters we know and love, but we’re at a different point in their lives.

24:54 How has the characters changed from their most recent appearances? OBI has tremendous weight, trying to grapple everything that happened in rots

25:45 how different is it working on new vs. legacy characters? we have more freedom because we weren’t with legacy characters/ learning from dave and stagecraft help with Kenobi on set.

26:37 stagecraft. writing with volume in mind.

for fans to take away? have more time to explore, take away about knowing something more about the characters

04:47:20 Taylor Gray (Ezra)

crew. Dave very involved, learn a lot, breaks character down

49:10 reaction to learning Ezra will lead Purigll

49:45 most rewarding?

50:20 message to fans

04:55:20 Exec. Producer of Andor

05:05:03 Sideshow

dark/intensity, formative years danger intrigue

5 years before RO, 12 eps

Mon Mothma is still in the Imperial Senate and trying to fight from the within

10:45 Hot Toys con-exclusive Chrome Clone (matte) and Death Troopers (gloss)

05:13:14 Favreauloni (replay)

Did you expect Mando do go global? No idea. Lots of projects at Lucasfilm at that time, the small story really connected with people with lockdown.

14:50 How do you keep secrets? DF: It’s really difficult. We don’t even tell most everybody on set what’s going all the time and that’s not always as intentional. We come up with little code names and things. We think of how we would’ve felt to see the fans themselves and try to think like that and JF: and it’s like trying to wrap Christmas presents around the house. DF: and sometimes we forget people coming in like R didn’t even know she was in a scene with Luke we kept calling him Plo Koon which… JF: That was just nickname. DF: When we made that the code, remeber we thought ‘well that make sense because people that I would bring him back because people know I like that character’ but we didn’t. JF: In the concept art we wouldn’t even have them draw Luke, we have them draw that character. DF: All these awesome paintings of Plo Koon and I’m like ‘I only get to see these, no one else got to see this.’ We thought of putting then in though, at one point. JF: We even had a CGI head of that character, so when you saw the daily in the editing room, it looks like that was the character. We actually paid for visual effects we didn’t use just to fool people working on the show.

16:16 Filoni’s hat. Ahsoka series. Manhattan beach.

17:00 fave part about making SW.

18:12 Ahsoka could know this kid’s name because she can “speak with him somehow only a Jedi could” “and they you go over the costume in great details the fabrics.” you build this thing several months and you walk through the door to the stage and [everything]’s there and it’s AWESOME. and it’s the whole crew not just one person. because we know the only person it really was was George. and he created this and we get to play in it. The spirit of everything we should be doing is he’s hopefully looking over all this and still guiding it because he left us such a great galaxy to play in.

19:42 sneaking in Filoni wolves. small Kurosawa figure somewhere in the set every episode DF directs. golden triangles hometown tribute.

21:54 how has dynamic changed since S1. sending scripts over to each other for comments. flipped writer/commenter for them.

05:29:05 Diego Luna and Geneivere O’Reilly

DL: the same but not the same, remind us people can transform. he’s surviving.

33:24 GOR: space to tell MM’s story. all the information she knows can now bring to the audience. We start with her in Andor steeped in Empire. She begin this story in a political society, trying to collaborate with people to engage in opposition to this ever-looming autocracy that is Palpatine. She is trying her hardest. Obviously she failed, but maybe that’s interesting to watch.

35:30 what’s the most rewarding part of the SW exp? DL: a lot, hard to choose one. back with this family, explore, expectation your work can generate. invited from the beginning. change to meet every part of the crew, and takes part and understand every decision, feels special.

38:30 Andor in Three Words G: Thriller, Adventure, Revolution DL: Thriller, Adventure, Darkness

#swc2022 #star wars #timestamps + some qs/quotes

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What are you studying at schoolll, or fav color, or animal, or genre books

Im just bored

okay OKAY

so at polish school it’s like in high school (like the general one in which i am also) it’s like even though we choose a path at the start (making 14 years old choose a path for their future is crazy but whatever😵‍💫) and we are allowed to change it but it’s a lot of work to do so, anyway for a person who doesn’t change anything we have the same subjects for four years but in the fourth one some of them just go away? cause at the end of a high school we have the final exam which is called ‘matura’ and it translates to maturity exam (i hate the name so badly) and it’s our only actual final in school. so for me personally i had about 14 subjects in the whole high school? (my native language, second language, third language, mathematics, geography, biology, chemistry, physics, p.e., economics, edb which is like first aid at some point?, civics, history, it lesson, arts and like an hour with our teacher like a raising lesson? but they don’t raise us there anyway💀)

so, i personally had everything on a general level for the three years and only my native language, second so english and civics on like an extended level

but in my fourth year in which i am rn, i only have my native language, second one, third one, mathematics, p.e, civics, history and that hour with our teacher (he teaches polish - my native, so it’s like an additional hour of it these days💀)

the subjects in the fourth year change according to what path you did choose that four years ago.

also, i chose a theatrical and art-ish path so it’s unbelievably funny to me that the art’s subject in this case it was theatrical learning, was only obligatory in my first year and then it wasn’t💀 but we can still attend it if we want so it’s okay! (i have a show at the actual theatre in june which im very excited about. same as i did last year:) (I PLAY CHESHIRE CAT THIS YEAR AND HES BASED ON ALASTOR SO I COULDNT BE MORE EXCITED)

*and we had those 14 subjects every year so it was like- yeah a WHOLE lot of work

*the way i said they make use choose out future at 14 i meant that when we are taking the maturity exam it’s really hard to pass a subject you’re not studying on an extended level cause, we write only three subject on a general level (native language, another language and mathematics) and then if we want to write something else we HAVE to write it on an extended level and it really sucks tbh cause i wanted to pass the biology one but when i saw the differences in what i study and what the extended level studies i knew i didn’t have a chance on passing so i gave up. and you know it’s hard to get into a medical collage (if i wanted to) without writing the maturity exam in biology so it’s… it’s fucked up i really don’t recommend the polish school system lol

for my favourite color i must say it’s either red or green i can’t really choose? and they also look good together so i always go with both of them but i adore dark purple as well!

I HAVE SO MANY FAVOURITE ANIMALS I LOVE THEM ALL!! but a few more favourite than others are: lynxes, hyenas, dragonflies, rabbits, cats, snakes, moths aaaand cute little geckos

i don’t think i have a favourite genre of books cause i literally read whatever sparks my interest, but looking at the books i’ve read i’d say it’s fantasy, romance and wlw (if we can count it as genre) i love history fiction also!! but it’s because of the seven husbands of evelyn hugo (but if we’re talking about tropes here THEN fake dating>>> rivals to lovers>>> (brokerdoll wink wink) friends to lovers>>> one bed trope>> aaand i think that’s quite it, it’s funny when everyone loves enemies to lovers and i just sit in my corner with rivals to lovers cause it excites me more when two characters compete for something they both want, rather than hate each other to their guts only to fall in love later. not hating in any way, just saying how i see it!)

thank you for the questions darling, I LOVE ANSWERING THEM!!🩷🩷

#camilarambles #camilaanswersasks #ask camila!

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語彙「ごい」 Vocabulary！～

人称代名詞「にんしょうだいめいし」 Personal Pronouns in Japanese

In order to complement the first grammar lesson, and the rest to come, I want to introduce you to the personal pronouns that exist in Japanese. Their correct use is actually really important when having conversations, so it's better to learn their different nuances early in order to communicate properly!^^

First we have the "I", probably the most confusing one. These are some of the different and most common ways you can refer to yourself in Japanese:

私（わたし）: it's the standard form for "I" and usually the one they teach you as it's also the most neutral one and the safest option in every conversation.

わたくし : it's the formal version of 私 and it's used in highly formal contexts such as politics or business. Beware of using it though, since you can seem arrogant or condescending in some cases.

僕（ぼく）: more informal than 私 and it's use is reserved to men, mostly when they're young, or even women in some cases, but it's seen as a maculine word.

俺（おれ）: same as 僕 , it's used also in informal settings but by "older" men.

あたし : informal "cute" form of 私 , usually used by girls/women

内（うち）: it literally means "inside" in Japanese and it's an informal word for 私 that doesn't have any gender nuances.

こちら : it literally means "this way" and it's used in formal settings. It's kind of ambiguous as it can also be used to refer to "we" in some cases.

こっち : the informal form of こちら

我（われ）: it's more common to use it for "we" (我々／我ら), instead of "I", and it's use can be complicated as it doesn't only mean "I" but also "one's self" (not necessarily refering to the speaker).

わし : corresponds to the shortened & informal form of 私 and it's usually used only by old men or really informal men.

Your own name: you can use your own name, in the third person, as a way to seem cute and/or childish even. I wouldn't recommend using this, but keep the meaning/nuance in mind in case someone talks to you like this.

Now that we know how to refer to ourselves, we can focus on the second person, "You", that can be as confusing and complicated as "I":

貴方（あなた）: it's the one they teach you normally and the basic word for "you" in Japanese; however it's use is normally reserved to strangers that don't know each other's names yet. It can also be used by wives to address their husbands

あんた : it's the shortened & informal form of 貴方

君（きみ）: it's meant to be used in order to address people "below you" in status (such as adults talking to children or teachers to students), so be careful if you don't want to seem condescending or rude to the other person. It's also used by couples to address each other.

お前（おまえ）: only used between friends as it's use is seen as rude outside close-circles. It's considered a masculine word and also used by husbands to address their wives.

手前（てめえ）: very rude way of addressing someone + it's commonly only used in anime/manga, not in real life

己（おのれ）: just like 手前 , it's normally only used in media such as anime/manga to curse at others.

貴様（きさま）: it used to be a respectful form (hence the use of 様/さま), but now it's considered to be very rude and disrespectful.

諸君（しょくん）: formal/polite way of addressing a group of people. It can be translated to "ladies and gentlemen".

The person's name/surname: it's the most appropiate way to refer to another person, even more so than 貴方 , and the one I recommend the most. It's used in both formal or informal contexts by changing the honorifics that go after the name (ーさん／くん／ちゃん／様．．．）

Then, we have to add the third person, "he/she" to this list:

彼（かれ）: Japanese equivalent of "he". Can also mean "boyfriend" depending on the context.

彼女（かのじょ）: Japanese equivalent of "she". Can also mean "girlfriend" depending on the context.

こいつ／そいつ／あいつ : informal and very casual words used to refer to someone else and that translate to "this person/that person/the person over there", respectively.

Now, passing onto the plural pronouns, we have to note that there're various ways to make this form, usually by using suffixes:

ーたち : can translate to "and company" and it's added to other pronouns to make them plural (私→私たち／貴方→あなたたち／．．．). However it can also be used with other nouns that refer to living things (猫／ねこ "cat" →猫たち／ねこたち "cats")

皆（みんな) (ーさん）: standard/neutral way to refer to a group of people in Japanese.

ーら : usually used only with the third person pronouns, such as 彼→彼ら／彼女→彼女ら

ーども : commonly used with the other third person pronouns (こいつども／そいつども／あいつども）

人々（ひとびと）: this one is a noun, not a pronoun, but I wanted to add it as it literally means "people/the people" and can also be used to refer to humanity in general.

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hey. can u do part 2 to the’ Being a High School Student on A Marvel Set’? :)

💌

Period Buddies

Pairing: platonic!Sebastian Stan x teen!reader, platonic!Anthony Mackie x teen!reader

Summary: I’m currently on my period so I wrote this to help me cope:) Basically Anthony and Seb being the biggest and supportive guys to you during your period:)

Warnings: Umm not much, some mentions of blood and periods.

Hello my love!💞 Thank you for the request! I was actually planning on making another ‘High School student’ fic with the Marvel cast, so I decided to use that idea for this request! I hope you like it🥰 Also sorry I haven’t uploaded a fic in a while; I was lacking motivation to write and school was pretty hectic😭 Thank you for your patience my loves x

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fluturaș - little butterfly

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You were laid out along your couch in your trailer, a fluffy Sherpa blanket wrapped around you and your head resting atop two soft pillows. You were laid on your stomach, the pressure of the couch slightly helping with the stinging pain in your lower abdomen. Your geography teacher was teaching via Zoom, though your laptop was on the coffee table that was inches away from you; knowing you weren’t feeling your best, you’ve decided to stay on the couch for school and moved the table closer to the couch so everything was within your reach. You had been lazily taking notes—or attempting to with the remaining energy you could muster up.

You had been surprised by the devil himself when you woke up earlier today at around six in the morning. You knew your monthly was coming; with the constant cravings, body aches, and the newly developed pimple gracing your face, your period was around the corner. And you were right, a dark red stain was splotched onto your white floral bedsheets when you woke up today. What a way to start the morning.

Yes, no woman ever felt their best during their period. You were always bloated, hungry, and blood was constantly flowing out of you, yet you were still expected to show up to both work and school. Not to mention, the pain you were currently enduring was making it really difficult for you to to focus on anything. Your teacher’s voice seemed to fade into the background as your body was blinded with the stabbing pain in your lower abdomen. You may have been overreacting, but everything just hurt.

Geography was your midway class, meaning that you were halfway through your school day. Which also meant that you were soon to be called to set. You had a lunch break and some time to do your homework, but either way you still had to get to set. Usually you’d be antsy to get the school day over with, practically buzzing to get to get into your costume and do some stunts with your two favorite guys on set. Although today was different, the thought of heading to set and being active felt dreadful. You just wanted to curl up into a ball, snuggle into your Sherpa blanket, and take a well deserved nap.

Your teacher’s voice was interrupted by a knock on your door. Already knowing who it was, you let out a faint “come in” to the two men outside your trailer. A second passes before your trailer’s door slowly opens and Anthony’s head pops from behind it. His sparkling yet dark brown eyes and toothy grin etched onto his friendly features. Sebastian pops up behind him, an equally wide smile on his face as he wiggled a white take away box in the air.

“What’s up buttercup.” They cheerfully greet you.

Though both of the men’s smiles drop once they see you bundled up on the couch. Anthony fully enters your trailer, Sebastian following suit. Approaching your little set up, Anthony glances at your laptop.

“Isn’t your camera on? Did your teacher allow you to attend school like this?” He asks you. He knew you were a responsible kid and had no troubles keeping up with your education. But that’s the thing, you were still a kid. Having kids of his own, he knew how unmotivated children can get in the middle of the school year and the laziness that came along with it. Seeing you lounging on the couch while your teacher was lecturing was just a bit concerning for him.

You stiffly nod, “My camera’s off. I just don’t feel good.”

The last sentence catches both of the grown men’s attention. Sebastian rounds the corner of the coffee table and hovers over you, observing your face. He softly places the back of his hand onto your forehead, checking for any alarming warmth.

“You’re a bit warm, but it’s probably because of the blanket.” He mutters, choosing to sit on the arm rest of the couch. “You alright, fluturaș?” He looks down at you in concern, lips tilting down into a small frown.

Anthony had settled beside your feet, one of his arms using your ankles as an arm rest. Strangely enough his arm brought you comfort instead of adding to the ache in your legs.

“I’m just—I’m on my period.” You mumbled in response. You wait for the awkward tension to build but it never came. You glance at the two men and see the realization settle in them.

“And I have really bad cramps at the moment, that it’s just hard to do anything. So I decided to stay on the couch today.” You explain with a slight shrug. They didn’t understand the pain you were going through, but they understood what you meant. While the both of them had female friends and what not, they were somewhat aware of what you were going through.

Anthony claps his hands to his thighs, “Alright, it’s ok to give yourself some rest. You just relax and listen to whatever your teacher’s going on about.” He motions to your laptop and continues, “Is there anything we can do to help you?”

While taking down notes, you momentarily glance at them, “No it’s fine, you guys already brought me food. Thanks, by the way.”

They didn’t want to leave you alone, you were clearly not feeling well and they both wanted to do something. They couldn’t do anything about the pain from your menstrual cycle, but they can help distract you from the pain.

“No, we’re gonna help you. Have you eaten ever since breakfast? I’ll spoon feed you if I have to.” Sebastian insists. You thought he was joking, but when you looked at his face he was serious.

“I had a brownie—wait, aren’t you guys supposed to be filming?” You question the both of them.

“Something went wrong on set so now we have a few hours or something till they figure it out.” Anthony answers, scrolling through his phone. He abruptly stands up to his feet and heads towards the door. You and Seb send him a questioning look.

“I’ll be back.” With that he pulls your door open and jogs out, leaving you and Sebastian in your trailer. You decide to tune back into your class, resuming to take down notes from the slides your teacher shared. Suddenly, a large hand gets in the way of your notebook.

“Gimme that.” Sebastian takes the pencil and notebook from you, placing them on his lap and staring at your screen. His eyes scan the PowerPoint, looking for the part you left off on. He hums when he finds it and began to write the notes himself.

“What are you doing?” You raise a brow at him, scanning his appearance. He was dressed in Bucky’s clothes, minus the black and gold ‘metal’ arm. He was still sat on the arm rest, slightly slouching so he could bend down to use his lap as a table.

“I’m doing your notes for you.” He answers nonchalantly. He motions to the white take away box on your coffee table, “Eat your lunch, I got this.”

You hesitate to sit up, feeling bad that Sebastian was doing your notes. Though, he did insist on doing it and you weren’t feeling your best. After an internal argument with yourself, you decided to let it slide and let Sebastian do your notes. Besides, he looked like he was enjoying taking notes on agriculture regions and the different types of farming.

“Are you sure, Seb?” You ask him again, slowly sitting up on the couch. He responds with a distracted ‘mhm’, his eyes focused on your notebook and his tongue sticking out in concentration. You quietly thank him and get up to use the bathroom.

While you were gone doing your business, Anthony had entered your trailer again. This time he had a plate full of brownies, a medium sized cup of ice cream from the vending machine, and one of those red hot water bottles in his arms.

“Where’s the kid?” He balances the things in his arms while carefully placing the plate of brownies onto your coffee table. Anthony locates your mini fridge and stores the ice cream in the freezer.

“Bathroom.” Sebastian acknowledged, still focused on writing the notes correctly in your notebook. He made sure to write neatly and copy the way you organized your notes. Saving you the hassle of missing out on important parts of the lesson and from decoding his personally sloppy writing.

Anthony empties his pockets to reveal more of your favorite snacks from crafties and the vending machine. “So...what are you doing?”

“I’m in geography class.” Anthony snorts at his friend before taking a look at your laptop screen, “And what are y’all learning in geography class?”

“Pastoral nomadism.” Seb bluntly answers. With his arms now free of the items he brought, Anthony decided to tidy up your couch. He folded your blanket neatly, fluffed your pillows, and made space for Seb to actually sit on the couch.

“What the hell is pastoral nomadism?” Anthony thought out loud.

“It’s when people travel from place to place with domesticated animals. It’s usually practiced in dry land climates.” Sebastian explains, eyes never faltering from the screen or your notebook. Anthony let’s out a sound of approval at Seb’s explanation. When he was done cleaning up your couch, he took the white take away box and headed to your kitchen. Emptying the contents of the container onto one of your plates, heating the food up for you.

You walk into the kitchen section of your trailer, shutting the bathroom door behind you. A delicious aroma lingers in the air, your nose picks up on the smell, sending it straight to your stomach. In response, your stomach lets out a low growl, making Anthony snicker at you.

“I’m heating up the food.” Anthony mentions as you pass by him. You thank him with a small smile as he gently nudges his shoulder against yours.

“Want me to make tea or something? I heard it helps reduce the cramps.” You raise a brow at him amusingly, “Where’d you hear that?”

“I read it on Google. You know, research, gotta make sure our girl’s comfortable.” He proudly tells you. Your heart warms at the fact that both him and Seb were willingly helping you while you were in pain. The microwave dings catching both yours and Anthony’s attention.

As he gingerly takes the plate out he asks you, “You wanna eat at the table or the couch.”

“The couch, I still wanna listen in on the lesson.” For a moment you forgot that you were supposed to still be at school, taking notes, and listening to your teacher teach the lesson. You enter the living room and sit next to Seb, who’s hand was digging into your pencil case.

“Want me to take over?”

“Nah, I got it, I’m too invested to stop. Which one?” He held up three of your highlighters, one was light blue, another was a peachy pink, and the other was a typical yellow highlighter. You grin, picking the peachy pink one. He tosses the other two back into your pencil case and uncaps the highlighter. While your teacher wraps up class, he began to highlight the new terms from today’s class.

“Here ya go.” Anthony sang; grabbing a pillow, placing it onto your lap, and carefully setting the plate of chicken teriyaki fried rice on top of it. You happily thank him and began to dig in. He slumps onto the couch beside you, “Tell me if you need anything else. I’ve got ice cream in the freezer, brownies, a hot water bottle, and a whole box of tea.” He throws his arm around your shoulder, letting it rest against the back of the couch.

You pause your eating, pouting at the two men beside you, “You guys really don’t have to do this. But I appreciate it so much, thank you.”

Seb looks at you over his shoulder, sending you a sweet smile, “Anything to make you happy, fluturaș.”

Anthony squeezes your shoulder, “Anytime munchkin, starting today till you’re not a ketchup packet anymore, Seb and I’ll be your period buddies.”

You snort shaking your head at him, “Again, I appreciate it Ant, but please don’t call yourselves period buddies.”

“What’s wrong with period buddies? You’re on your period and we’re all a bunch of buddies. It makes perfect sense!” Anthony reasoned defensively. Seb looks at the both of you over his shoulder again, “I like period buddies.”

“See! Thank you.” You playfully rolled your eyes at the two. “Fine, period buddies it is.”

Your geography teacher wraps the lesson up and ends the Zoom call. Seb shuts your notebook and puts it to the side. Clapping his hands, he asks you, “Alright, what class do we have next?”

“Calculus.” You smirk, followed by the groans of Anthony and Sebastian filling your trailer.

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Something I never figured out from Mulan (Disney 1998 animated version) —

Was the in-universe intent of the pole-climbing exercise all along to work with the weights and not against them, as we saw Mulan do? Or was that meant to be not just a “Mulan outshines her fellow recruits” moment, but a “Mulan outshines the entire patriarchy that designed this exercise” moment? Seems like there was a good chance that was left undefined on purpose, as for all his demonstrated shirtless competency in the training montages, we never saw Shang do the pole-climbing until the end of the movie when they need to get into the palace and he already knows Mulan's method.

I could honestly go either way on whether Shang knew about the climbing strategy all along or not (cut for longpost reasons)—

Scenario 1: Shang did not know; the textbook version of the exercise was always meant as a test of pure strength, determination, and perseverance, and the point of giving the rawest of recruits that exercise was a) to hammer home the message that this training is not a walk in the gardens, and b) so even a prodigy or a recruit coming in with some combat training has an exercise they cannot instantly excel at, making sure the guy at Level 3 isn’t resting on his laurels and lording his prowess over his fellow proto-soldiers at Level 1 when the goal is to get them all to Level 10.

Scenario 2: Shang did know all along what the smarter way (Mulan’s way) to climb the pole with the weights was. The above purposes would still apply, plus at some later point in training (if no recruits discovered the trick on their own), he may have demonstrated the “use weights as leverage instead of an additional burden to carry” method, to teach the *secondary* lesson -- that putting in the hard work and sweat isn’t always the only way to solve the problem. This would have been a very *bad* lesson to teach cocky new green recruits, who haven’t fully committed to putting in the hard work and sweat when it *is* necessary! See: Mushu cheating with the apples-and-arrows trick. They might’ve walked away thinking that every problem requiring hard work as a solution could be outmaneuvered with a 'lazier' method.

However, later on (after the total washouts were sent away in disgrace, and maybe after the just-good-enough-for-arrow-fodder had been weeded out by battle), it would’ve been a fantastic Intro to “So You Passed Basic Training And Now You Wanna Be A Creative Special Ops Commando” exercise.

Regardless, whether she actually discovered the new method or not, the timing with which *Mulan alias-Ping* demonstrated the method was absolutely exquisite narratively speaking; she couldn’t have executed a better way to boost the camp’s morale and ingratiate herself with her fellow soldiers if she’d planned it in advance:

With that one act, "he" changed "his" story from "the weak dead weight and easiest bullying target" to "even the least promising of us have a chance to make it";

The shouty jerk Captain had written "him" off, only for "him" to prove him wrong as publicly as possible, to the vicarious satisfaction of everyone else present that the shouty jerk Captain had criticized (i.e., everyone else present);

Offering a chance for other struggling recruits who'd picked on Ping before, out of eagerness to demonstrate that *they* aren't weak like Ping, to pivot to "standing with Ping in solidarity to say 'We're not weak, we're still learning just like everyone else - and the end result can still be a great soldier, look what even *Ping* just did!'";

(Because there HAD to be other bottom-of-the-class recruits who were terrified of also being bullied, and of being sent home in disgrace once Public Loser #1 Ping was eliminated and no longer the conspicuous weakest link);

Up until that point, the recruits may well have lacked any specific rallying point beyond the broader, more generic “let’s kill Huns and save China and our families”. I love to imagine that the arrow scene marked the start of a shift in camp perspective from a defensive “please just don’t let me be called out as a Weak Link and sent home” to “No Weak Links! No one goes home until we all go home!”;

I also love to think maybe Shang, with Ping’s help, pulled off the near-impossible in his very first training assignment and coached ALL the raw recruits into becoming soldiers worthy of the Emperor’s army, like 100% of them. And because he's a perfectionist, he rationalized that to himself as an 'acceptable' result -- and then he only later learned that raw recruit bootcamps like his tend to average at minimum 5-15% hopeless washouts who get sent home, and his feat of pulling them ALL up to scratch was like totally unprecedented and EXTREMELY impressive, to the point where even without the Shan Yu thing, no one who's anyone in the army would ever *only* know him from his father's name again.)

#mulan #li shang

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adelheidvonschicksal · 3 years

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182 Centimeters | Tall!F!Reader x Surprise

A great boon has been bestowed upon Aoi Todo. First, he got to meet Takada in person. Second, he gained a brother. Third, he was able to fight a special grade all in one month.

Is there anything else that could make this trip perfect?

Todo didn't think so until he lays eyes on you, standing in the middle of the hallway with luggage tucked under one arm and the other holding onto a rolling suitcase. He remembers now about Mai mentioning a late edition transfer student who was going to be joining in the school games a little late. He only wishes Mai had warned him about the other thing about you. The fact that you are an amazon in the flesh.

"She has to be 187," Todo thinks upon first seeing you and sizing you up from a respectable distance. "No, she's definitely closer to 185. Definitely, 185," he corrects as he tries to measure you by judging how far your head was away from the top door frame. When he glances down at your feet, he realizes his stupid mistake and smacks himself on the forehead. "I'm such an idiot. I forgot about her shoes." Taking your soles into account, he finally narrows down your height range. You have to be 182cm. An even 6 feet. That makes you taller than even Takada!

Todo's eyes widen upon the realization.

You had half his attraction factor right there; and with his help in training, you would definitely have the second half. He knows plenty of exercises that would make your ass look great and have the rest of your body strong enough to toss any curse. You guys could make training into dates, and dates would lead to the two of you making kissy faces. Aoi can already picture it. Naturally, you'd be admiring him, shirtless and glistening with sweat, unable to take your eyes off him. Then, you'd grow embarrassed when he would call you out on it and try to look away like you were never staring in the first place. Luckily for you, he wouldn't mind if you wanted to look at his chiseled chest a little while longer. Or better yet, touch it.

Todo isn't sure what he's done to deserve such luck. Perhaps the world is rewarding him for finally breaking his record of 1000 sit-ups in an hour or maybe it's the limited-edition lucky Takada-chan charm that arrived in a mail a week earlier working its magic?

Either way, this might be the best year of his life, Todo decides.

That is until he hears a familiar voice.

"Hey there! How are you doing?" Yuuji asks loudly as he walks up to your person. Todo should've known. Of course, his brother would sense best girl material walking into the building.

"My name is Yuuji. What's yours?"

"I'm (Name). I'm a new student here. I'm a little lost actually. Could you help me out?"

Even your voice sounds so cute! You were so perfect.

That means Yuuji had no chance with the way he was doing things now. Despite Todo wanting you for himself, he could never leave his brother to make such an embarrassment of himself. If the two of them are to battle for your love, it has to be a fair battle.

"Yeah, the dorms are thi—" Yuuji yelps as he's suddenly tugged away from you and dragged around the nearest corner, leaving you in a confused state where you stood.

"What’s the big idea?" Yuuji asks, breaking free from the grasp that held him.

"I'm trying to save you, brother! What do you think you're doing walking up to a woman like that so casually?" Todo asks.

It takes Yuuji a few seconds to realize that Todo meant you were the woman that couldn't be so casually spoken to since he's fairly sure you're a first-year like him. "I'm pretty sure she's the same age as us, dude."

This is worse than he thought. He's definitely going to have to give Yuuji the rundown on how to properly ask a girl out. "That doesn't matter. She's still a lady that requires finesse if you're going to try to ask her out," Todo says.

Sadly, they are too busy in their discussion to notice you getting impatient for Yuuji to return or to notice another one of your classmates passing them and heading in your direction. You are just thankful to finally have someone help walk you to your dorm and not ditch you instead.

For the rest of the day, Yuuji is stuck with Todo lecturing in his ear. The first time being at the baseball game against the Kyoto school.

"First, you need to set the mood. And by mood, I mean you need to get her attention on you. Do something to impress her without her knowing you're trying to impress her," Todo instructs as you round home base on long legs, which Todo claims is made for a goddess. You were able to get a score for the team thanks to Fushiguro's sacrifice bunt, and the two of you take a seat in the dugout.

"Shouldn't you be helping your team?" Yuuji asks Todo after seeing him compliment your score. Todo sighs. Obviously, Yuuji needs more lessons.

Eventually, Yuuji steps up to the plate for his turn. Naturally, he hits a home run. As he rounds home, he sees you applauding loudly. Your eyes perfectly on him. It definitely feels good to have a cute girl's attention, and Yuuji realizes that he did really want to ask you out. He wonders if Todo thinks that's a good way to set the mood.

The next time Todo decides to instruct Yuuji is after they all take their showers and decide to rest up before dinner. "Next, you need to leave a letter under her door. Something to pique her interest and make her want to meet up with you."

Luckily, Yuuji has seen this before in anime. "Right, right. I heard of that actually." He easily drafted a letter and slid it under your dorm door. It sounds like you're talking to someone else on the other side so Yuuji hopes you'll see it in time so the two of you can meet up in fifteen minutes.

"Finally, make sure the place you meet up is scenic," Todo says, nodding his head and closing his eyes to repeat the steps in his head as he follows his brother to the school's courtyard. Impress? Check. Letter? Check. Scenic meet-up place? Check.

It isn't until he feels Yuuji's hand on his shoulder and a quick thanks that Todo realizes his mistake. Yuuji rushes away from him to the other side of the courtyard where you're waiting with the letter in hand.

"My name is Yuuji. I don't know if you remember me from class."

"Oh, yes, I know! You hit that homerun. It was really great."

Todo stands in shock.

...He was so busy trying to teach that he actually forgot to pursue you first!

"Really? Thanks! I was just trying to make sure I actually hit it. I wasn't expecting it to go so far." Yuuji laughed. "So, (Name), I was wondering if you wanna go out together?"

Todo could cry. Actually, he already feels the tears coming down his face, but his brother could at least be happy. And if his brother is happy, that's all he needed!

"I'm sorry," you say sweetly. "I only showed up because I didn't want to stand you up, but the truth is I already like someone, and I wouldn't feel comfortable going out with someone when I have a crush on another person."

Todo's ears ring with your words. You already like someone!

"Oh, well, that's too bad, I guess. Thanks for telling me," Yuuji says with a disappointed yet understanding smile while Todo finds the opportunity to scoot in the middle of your conversation.

"Excuse me but your crush wouldn't happen to be on me by any chance?" he asks, hopeful.

You force a smile onto your face and tilt your head. "Sorry...Have we met?" you ask, nervously.

Todo gasps as he feels his world crashing down. Your date. Your marriage. Your kids. All gone, and it’s all black in his memory after that. The next thing he can recall is sitting in the eating area with Itadori. He remembers this heartache once before. "It's just like with Takada-chan..." he mumbles heartbrokenly.

"I told you already. We never went to the same middle school, and you never confessed to Takada," Yuuji grumbles, but Todo knows that Yuuji is only trying to make him feel better. He is so lucky to have such a good brother.

"Who...Who do you think it is anyway?"

Yuuji pauses.

He actually wonders that as well.

Then, they hear your voice ringing through the dining hall. Immediately, both sets of eyes are on you.

"Fushiguro-kun, I wanted to thank you for helping me get settled into the academy. My mom gave me a buy one, get one free for a sushi place for when I made some friends, so...I was wondering if you wanted to be my plus one?"

Then, Yuuji finally gets it. He had been ignoring the small conversations happening around him the entire time thanks to Todo's interruptions.

The Hall.

"Excuse me. I'm looking for the dorms. Gojo-sensei was supposed to show me, but he got sidetracked so I've been sort of left on my own."

"Of course, he did. Geeze, that guy." Megumi sighs. "You can follow me. I'll show you where some empty rooms near the other girls are."

"Thank you so much! I'm (Name) by the way."

"Fushiguro," he states plainly and simply as you struggle behind him with your luggage. "Is that stuff heavy? Want me to help you carry it?"

”Yes. My arms got numb while I was waiting. Thank you so much!”

The Game.

"Out!" Gojo says. Fushiguro rounds first base to head back to the dugout, but you at least made it home to score. You head to the dugout as well.

"That's too bad, Fushiguro. You'll get it next time," you say, sitting next to him.

"As long as Kugisaki made it to second and you made it home then it's fine. I'm not really too hyped up on winning anyway."

”Oh. I was really looking forward to seeing you get one.”

”Too bad. Guess you’ll have to wait,” and by “wait” Megumi had meant probably not ever but you laughed anyway even though you had got what he meant.

”I don’t mind waiting.”

The Dorms.

"Kugisaki-san said you could summon different shikigami animals."

"That's true."

"Would you mind showing me sometime? I love animals."

"What is your favorite?"

"I really like rabbits. Are you able to summon those?"

"Not at the moment, but I’ll show you when I learn it. How do you feel about dogs instead?"

”That cute dog was yours? That’s amazing.”

And now.

"Yeah, sure. I wasn't really in the mood for anything at school anyway," Fushiguro agrees, and your face lights up with a glow that could rival sunshine. Yuuji thinks if he squints he can see the anime hearts starting to dance over your head but Fushiguro didn't seem to mind.

Itadori could almost laugh. That's a new record in anyone ever befriending Fushiguro. The two of you must have hit it off really well. Yuuji smiles. In that case, he couldn't be upset. That must mean fate has something in store for you guys, and he didn't want to get in the way. "I guess girls really do like that cool, quiet type."

Meanwhile, Todo is crying in defeat. How could a woman like you like Fushiguro?

"He's so boring though..."

#yuji itadori x reader #aoi todo x reader #megumi fushiguro x reader #jujutsu kaisen x reader #jjk x y/n #megumi x reader

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sleepy-belphie · 3 years

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I have a request if you’re up for it. An MC who just arrived in the Devildom who’s lover just dumped them the day prior. The bros know MC isn’t emotionally or romantically available at the time but the bros still fall in love regardless. How will the bros handle the situation? Thank you! 🙏💗

Hi! I sort of took this idea and ran with it and wrote basically a headcanon short story for each bro lmao. Sorry I got a bit carried away but I hope you like this and it satisfies you! :)

Also thank you so much @midnight-dome for the help with Asmo, you’re a lifesaver

Tags: @kawaiiblack

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Lucifer:

The success of the program depends on your wellbeing

So he checks in on you every other day like clockwork

“Is there anything you need to make your stay more comfortable?”

You always say no

At first, he’s glad you’re staying in

Because it means less trouble for him

But when you skip all of your classes one day, he comes to your room ready to give you a firm reminder of your tasks here

He’s about to knock when he hears you sob

Now, Lucifer has heard a lot of crying in his life

But he’s never heard someone sound so completely broken

He shocks himself when he turns on his heels and walks away

He shocks himself even more when he texts the group chat and demands everyone leaves you alone for the day

That evening he comes into your room with a small plate of food

By then you were are least on top of your sheets

You knew he was gonna ask the same question as always

But this time, his words were different

“Is there anything I can do to help?”

“Help?”

He simply nods

And though he didn’t outright say what he meant by help, you knew

“I...don’t know?”

“Hm, okay. I’m going to listen to some music in my study. The door will be unlocked should you wish to join me.”

Then he’s gone

The few precious moments Lucifer isn’t working, he prefers to not be disturbed

So why on earth did he invite you to join him in his study?

He doesn’t have time to ponder it because the door opens and you come in with a blanket wrapped around you

The first night you both listen in comfortable silence

A few nights in, you start asking Lucifer about the records he puts on and he has no qualms educating you on it

On night 10 you tell him about the breakup

Once you’re done he, again, asks the same question

“Is there anything I can do to help?”

‘You’ve done more than enough to help me Lucifer, thank you.”

He finds himself blushing from the sincerity in your eyes and the warmth in your smile

That night you fall asleep before the record finishes

Surely you’d wake up aching if he left you in a chair

So he picks you up, carries you to your room, and tucks you into bed carefully

He tells himself he’s doing it for Diavolo

It’s for the program, this is his job

He’s gonna need time to accept his own feelings before he can tell you anything

For now, he’ll keep doing his “job” and spending evenings with you

Mammon:

He didn’t want to be your babysitter

He was a busy guy! He had stuff to do, money to make, things to steal

Some days he gets Beelzebub to keep an eye on you so he can do what he wants

One night in particular he heads to your room to make sure you won’t interfere with his plans

“Yo! The Great Mammon has things to do so don’t-”

He pauses when he sees you sitting on your bed with your headphones plugged into your laptop

He would have assumed you were just watching a sad movie by the tears streaks on your face

But the pain in your eyes…

He’s seen that look before

His brothers held that same look the day they fell from Heaven and lost Lilith

Mammon sits on the bed and you jump, finally noticing him

You expected him to make fun of you but instead, he grabs the tissue box on your bedside table and hands it to you

He glances at your laptop to see what you were watching and sees a paused video of you and someone else

You tell him about the breakup and Mammon listens closely

“What a jerk! Ya deserve better than that! I’d teach ‘em a lesson if they ever showed their face around here!”

You smile for the first time since he came in the room and he feels like he’s done something right

“How about we get some late-night food? I know a 24-hour restaurant with the best baked newt ever. Your treat.”

He’s shocked when you agree

He makes a point to hang out with you more often

He can’t recall exactly when you went from “a human” to “his human”

Maybe it was when you held his hand while you erased all your photos and videos of your ex from your computer

Or when you texted him at 3am because you couldn’t sleep and before he could even think about it he was up and on his way to your room

Or when he spotted you in one of his jackets while walking home from RAD

But his greed was kicking in and he wanted you to be his and only his

However, much like he puts himself first, he knows you need to do the same

So though his nature and mind wants to kiss you silly and have you for himself

Part of him knows he’ll ruin things if he lets his greed take over

So he’ll fight his nature and try his best to be patient

Leviathan:

He had been playing one of his games online

He’s on a big winning streak and feeling a bit cocky

He sees he’s been matched with someone else so he gets into gamer mode

Then he loses the first round

He’s a bit shocked and pissed that his streak was now broken but he has to prove his superiority to whoever this opponent was

So he rematches them

And loses again

And again

He loses 7 rounds in a row

By this point he is fuming

So like any salty gamer he sends a very lengthy, angry message to their inbox

Accusing them of using cheats and hacks because there was no way anyone was more skilled than him at this game

He gets a reply a few minutes later

“Um.....is this Leviathan? Avatar of Envy? It’s MC…”

You knew it was Levi because his username is the same across all his social media platforms

Cue Levi barreling into your room a minute later

“How are you so good!? You’re cheating, aren’t you!? You cheater!’

You weren’t cheating, you just had been playing games day in and day out to distract yourself so you got really good at it

Levi all but demands you to come to his room and show him what you know

You were already playing all night anyway so why not play with someone?

Initially, Levi would have you come over just to show him your tactics

(Also to get some team wins on his stats because he never has anyone to play with)

But you were actually pretty chill for a normie

Maybe if he exposed you to his otaku ways you would take to them and he wouldn’t be the only one in the house anymore!

You don’t become an otaku but you do get invested in almost every anime he shows you

He starts inviting you over for midnight premieres of new episodes

He starts buying extra merch because what if you wanted one?

He was used to disproving looks from his brothers when he mass buys stuff from Akuzon

But you only smile and listen when he tells you about his new special edition item

You never once judged him and his unconventional ways

This epiphany makes him extra nervous for your weekly hangouts

It was only a matter of time before you came across a break up in an anime

When the episode ended you told him about your break up and how the protagonist reminded you of yourself because they also were taking a break from love

Levi has seen this anime before actually

He remembers how the protagonist reacted to a side character confessing to them and it went bad

So while he knows he likes you, he holds off on saying anything because the last thing he wants is to be a bad story arc in your life

Lucky for him he’s always a flustered blushing mess so you shouldn’t suspect a thing

Satan:

He is the Avatar of Wrath so whenever there is rage, he is aware

He feels anger radiating through the house one day and thinks his brothers are just fighting again

Imagine his surprise when he realizes the source of the anger is coming from your room

He walks in and sees you throwing things around and screaming, your room was destroyed

He sees you’re about to step on some glass and instantly swoops in and picks you up so you don’t hurt yourself

But then you curl up against him and burst into tears

He stands there, not quite sure what to do

He ends up sitting on the bed and letting you cry for a while

You word vomit about your break up and he listens carefully and notes the anger welling up inside you as you speak

He knows all too well what anger can do to someone and a fragile human shouldn’t have to go through that

“Would you like some tea?”

He can spare 30 minutes for some small talk with the human if it meant that you wouldn’t be left in your thoughts

You look at him like he has three heads but agree because your room is a mess and you don’t wanna deal with it right now

Tea time becomes a daily occurrence and soon enough it escalates to full-on hangouts

Going to the bookstore, going to cat cafes, going wherever you wanted to really

One time you both took a day trip to the human world

Lucifer wasn’t happy to find out his brother and you were gone for an entire day but he lets it go when he sees that you’re smiling genuinely for the first time in weeks

What Satan didn’t expect was how these outings made him feel

He finds himself distracted from his books because he can’t stop thinking about how cute you looked holding that black cat at the cafe

Or how happy you looked when you took him to that ice cream shop in your hometown that you really love

He wakes up and you’re the first thing to pop into his mind

He’s not dumb, he knows he’s fallen in love

But he also knows this isn’t the right time, you aren’t ready

So he’ll keep being there for you as a friend

And if you ever want him to be there as something more, he’ll happily oblige

Asmodeus:

There was a movie night at the House of Lamentation

Today’s movie was an action movie, courtesy of Mammon

Amidst all the face punching and explosions, there was a budding romance between the main characters

After the third obnoxious makeout scene, you leave the room claiming you need to go to the restroom

But you leave just a *little* too fast and Asmo can feel something is up

And he thrives on gossip so he intends to find out what is it

He leaves the room a few minutes later and catches you in the hallway, determined to get you to spill the tea

You tell him about the breakup

He wasn’t prepared for the tea to be so bitter

“Oh. Well, you know what’s good for that? Face masks!”

He had to save face somehow and beauty was his default

He’s a bit shocked when you agree but you both ditch movie night to do face masks and talk a bit

He decides to share a couple of bad date experiences he’s had to make you feel better

“Trust me, you haven’t felt embarrassment until you have someone vomit Enfield brains on your new pants and shoes while at one of the hottest clubs in the Devildom.”

You spent the entire night giggling and listening to his stories

Devildom products are surprisingly effective on your skin so you keep asking Asmo to show you new products

Plus his company is nice

Self-care days become a common occurrence

Then those self-care days become self-care sleepovers

He starts intentionally waiting to try anything new because he wants you to be there when he does

He buys more of those scented candles you told him smelled nice

A few weeks later you’re having a self-care sleepover again and you have this really cute focused look on your face while painting your nails

He knows he likes you, but this was different than his usual attraction

He didn’t want to fuck you

Well he did but not just fuck you

He wouldn’t mind if there was something more

But you routinely ended your self-care nights by yelling ‘Fuck love!’ at the top of your lungs and laughing

So he knows now isn’t the time and he’s actually okay with that

You were a sight to behold regardless of his relationship status with you

But he hopes you’ll indulge in him one day

Beelzebub:

Mammon keeps pushing his human watching duties on Beel

But he doesn’t really care because he’s being paid in cheesecake

After his third day of keeping an eye on you, he notices you aren’t eating much

Being the Avatar of Gluttony, this is basically a crime

He starts bringing extra snacks with him when he hangs out with you

“I think the chocolate flavor is better than the vanilla. What do you think?”

He actually doesn’t have a preference

He just wants to know which snacks you like more so he can bring more of them

He makes a game out of it so you don’t think about how much you’re eating

“It motivates me to work out longer when I get a snack, could you help me?”

You sit on his back and after every pushup, you both eat a bit of whatever snack he has

He keeps going until he thinks you’ve eaten a decent amount

Or you say you’re getting full

Belphie notices that Beel is refilling his snack stash more often but he doesn’t say anything

Beel feels an immense sense of accomplishment when you finish your plate at dinner a few days later

Soon after you tell him about the breakup

“It hit me hard but you made it easier to cope, Beel. These hangouts are the highlight of my day so thank you.”

There’s a certain pang Beel gets in his stomach when he’s really hungry

Somehow your words made that pang happen in his chest

But this didn’t hurt him, quite the opposite actually

He felt good, he felt happy

It was strange for his stomach to be the quiet one while his heart went wild

But this wasn’t a change he minded too much

He wasn’t sure what to make of it but he knows he wants to figure it out with you

And he’ll take his time doing so because he liked how things were now

Belphegor:

He’s intrigued by you after the first week of your stay

He’s never seen a human who slept as much as he did

Frankly, he was impressed

Until Lucifer informed everyone about your recent breakup and made it clear to not upset you

That’s when Belphie realized these were not the leisurely naps he takes, but depression naps

One day he sees you sleeping in the living room and you looked so distressed

Sleeping was meant to be a peaceful state but you looked so unhappy

So he wakes you up

“You’re in my sleeping spot.”

You weren’t in his sleeping spot.

“Oh sorry, I’ll move-”

“You’re already here. We can both fit.”

Before you can protest he’s all comfy next to you and falling back asleep

Having another person next to you was kind of comforting so you let it go and go back to sleep

What you didn’t know was Belphie could partially influence your dreams

He can make them more pleasant but he can’t control what you dream about

He knows it works when he wakes up and you have a relaxed expression on your sleeping face

You wake up soon after looking confused

“Good dream?”

“I think? I had a dream I rode a unicorn to the moon then carved my initials into it?”

Napping together in the living room becomes a routine

And every time you woke up you told him about the dream you had with a small smile

A few weeks later he notices he no longer has to influence your dreams for them to be good

So he leaves you be and instead curls up in the attic for his afternoon nap

He wakes up a bit when he feels someone lay down next to him

It’s probably Beel

“Why didn’t you tell me you moved napping spots?”

His eyes open and he looks over to see you pouting at him

“I just sorta ended up here.”

“Well, I can’t nap without my cuddle buddy now can I?”

You’re teasing him and he should be annoyed

But he’s blushing

He spoons you to hide that fact, resting his forehead on your shoulder

But while your dreams were getting better, it didn’t mean you were ready to move on

So he just enjoys his intimate cuddling sessions with you and tries not to think too hard about the fact that he really likes how your body fits against his

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