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prosciuttoon · 1 month

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Toshiro/Shuro is overhated

(mirror of my thread on twitter)

ever wanted to talk abt something so bad but u have so many thoughts so u cant even begin to organize a sentence. thats me abt shuro and its why i cant give my thoughts on him. i NEED to get this out of my system bc its takign up so much memory in my brain i need that space for thinking.

so i was really surprised to find so much hate for him even tho he seems pretty normal and rational out of the whole cast. ive deducted that its mostly abt his laios fight and that the ppl who hate him probably had bad experiences w social cues and relationships w neurotypicals bc of that. theres no way to avoid it bc its pretty much Right In Your Face that laios is ND. but thats not the only factor in why their relationship is rocky. its also the culture barrier. u have to understand toshiro was raised as JAPANESE NOBILITY ofc he would be a little conservative

also culture shock. idk if u know this but jp culture is very Mind Your Own Business like a lot of other asian cultures . ofc hes gonna be weirded out by a stranger invading his space. also his names not even Shuro. its just yt ppl not pronouncing his name right and settling for whats easiest.

img src: fan translation by savaralyn2 , i think its from the adventurers bible Complete Edition bc i dont remember it in the old one

ok you get the gist of the culture aspect of it. lets go into the ND/NT clash aspect of it. yes i understand its pretty hurtful to never be told when youre acting inappropriately. i am autistic too lmao. but you have to understand that shiro is one guy and he even does realize that repressing things is one of his fatal flaws. again. asian culture. non confrontational. that sorta thing. but these are genuine frustrations. if i were him id be annoyed too but id speak out about it. set boundaries. bc im blunt. shiros not. he was taught crazy strict manners (hierarchies, respect, politeness, etc).

his problem isnt ableism its a culmination of culture barriers, how he was raised to behave, and terrible lack of communication as thing caused by "all of the above" plus he just generally keeps to himself a lot which means repressing frustrations that will explode leading to a pathetic fistfight while hes starved, exhausted, and dehydrated. also. if he was ableist he would hate laios. he doesnt hate laios. at the end of the day, they are friends. NT and ND ppl can be friends u know. there will be rifts (like their fight) but you just have to communicate misunderstandings. theyre gonna be fine lol

anyways that was my whole spiel abt it. i think i got everything out that i wanted to? my head still feels a little full so i may add more later when i remember something

also i think its a little unfair to rule out the possibility of laios and him just being 2 very different kinds of ND bc its very common for misunderstandings to occur even then. EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT BUT WE NEED TO COMMUNICATE TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER! but for the sake of interpreting the Fight as a commentary on NT social rules and ND frustration, ill say toshiros NT. will we ever know? hes so far in the sidelines... youd really have to dig in the extra content to see the intricacies of his character.... please give him a chance

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #toshiro nakamoto #shuro dungeon meshi

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uraharasfavoriteexperiment · 8 days

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i am a trans man and i have a carnal need for urahara do something about that please i dont give a fuck what you write, it could be monster sex i dont even care bro

i really wanna monster sex bcs same boo same (even down to the trans man part im a trans man and he drives me just absolutely positively rabid)

~ kitty cat

alpha(?)!kisuke urahara x werecat!male reader / fluff, smut in pt.2 content werecat!reader, werecats can shift into CAT cats [ wc ] 1422 (ps: read this!) please reblog fanfictions when you read one you like! likes do not help writers' algorithms!

kisuke urahara was a simple man... in legal terms.

he had never been to jail, had never been to prison, hell- he'd never even gotten a parking ticket, let alone a speeding ticket.

but when he met you, that all changed.

when yoruichi, urahara's dearest childhood friend (and also werecat), brought home the scruffy black stray, kisuke was immediately infatuated. he had another werecat, ichigo, who he was very close to, and ichigo immediately took a liking to you, which wasn't common (orange cats are very odd creatures.).

there was one part of the ordeal that kisuke was very fond of: yoruichi quickly began to think of you as a brother. she even shared her milk with you whenever kisuke gave it to her... that was the oddest part about the whole situation: she refused to share her milk with even ichigo.

now, werecats used to be a predominantly wild species. when humans discovered the cat-human hybrids, certain people (who yoruichi thought shouldn't be called humans) quickly realized they could manipulate the species' genes for a very specific use: sex.

the modifications eliminated many issues: romantic barriers between human partners, sexual lines that could be crossed between partners, and most notably (because most werecats seemed to be male), the ancient-standing issue of tension between hetero and homosexual individuals.

soon after their discovery, a system spawned that was very similar to what social media called the cat distribution system. a similar "system" cropped up in which encounters with werecats commonly ended in either a fuck or in most cases, someone bringing home a cute new friend.

additionally, most werecats tended to like being called things like "kitten," "good kitty," "pretty kitty," and similar affectionate little pet names. most werecats also either couldn't speak very well, or they simply chose not to- so there was usually very little communication involved with them.

kisuke learned very quickly, however, that this was not the case with all werecats- yoruichi and ichigo were rare cases, yes, but looking back on early memories with you, kisuke quickly formed a theory that sentient werecats gravitated towards handsome, perverted candy shop owners.

was it the candy? ichigo liked candy.

was it the milk? yoruichi liked milk.

or... was it the handsome, perverted candy shop owners themselves?

kisuke urahara was very fond of that idea... he had always liked cats, and cats had always seemed to like him.

~+~

kisuke groaned and rolled over onto his back on his futon, slowly opening his tired, storm-grey eyes. he yawned loudly, stretching his arms up int the air and making grabby hands for the ceiling. he heard a very slight sound of fur shifting against fabric, and his eyes immediately looked to the right, towards the sound.

"oh, hello yoruichi!" said kisuke, grinning. he sat up and threaded a hand into his messy blonde hair and ruffled it, yawning again.

"you're ridiculous." said a falsely deep voice next to the futon. kisuke grinned like a teenage dumbass, reaching over and ruffling the fur on the sleek, black british short-haired cat's head. she growled warningly, but of course kisuke didn't listen, and if you asked about this moment later on, yoruichi would say she probably should have scratched his eyes out.

yoruichi hissed, growling from deep in the back of her throat as she reached up and pawed aggressively at his hand. she backed up, her puffed up tail swishing violently back and forth and slamming sporadically against the wooden floor. she shook herself in a quarrelsome manner and hissed again, turning and burrowing under the waist opening of a black kimono, poking her head out of the top.

"stuff it, old man." she spat, shifting into her werecat form.

"no you stuff it, kitty." he playfully spat back, fake-flinching and chuckling when she hissed again and projectile-chucked a pillow at him violently.

"why've you woken me up, hm?" kisuke asks as he stands up and reaches for his striped green and white hat. he stretched again, slipping into a matching green and white-striped shawl-thing (hada doesn't know what theyre called heh), looking over at yoruichi expectantly, his eyebrows raised and his signature stupid grin starting to sneak onto his face.

yoruichi groaned, flopping backward onto the futon dramatically.

"ugh fine, i'll tell you," she says, "i found a stray werecat and i may or may not have brought him home."

kisuke grins, getting visibly excited at the idea of meeting another were.

"oh?" he asks, "where is he? i don't see him~"

"he's hiding somewhere in here but he's here."

"you should go get him! tell him i promise i won't bite~"

yoruichi rolls her eyes, getting up and stretching like a cat and starting lazily toward the door.

"i dunno if he's sentient but ok."

she did, however, go and fetch the new fluffball- you. she had to pick you and carry you, you were that shy. when she brought you into the room with kisuke, you fluffed up and hissed, scrambling onto yoruichi's shoulders and growling defensively.

"you didn't tell him, did you~" kisuke said in fake drama, rolling his eyes. but he didn't bother to smother the grin that accompanied the eye roll. he approached slowly, slipping out of his loud-ass japapese clogs in the process so as to attempt to make himself sound less like a threat. he relaxed the muscles in his right arm and hand, reaching his hand up to let the cat have a sniff.

(reader pov)

you hissed quietly, but still carefully extended your neck nonetheless. you risked a cautious sniff, recoiling defensively. you looked up and stared at the blonde man with calculating, clearly intelligent eyes for more than one moment, eventually shifting all four tiny little paws onto one shoulder of the cocoa-colored woman who had rescued you, carefully leaning out and touching your nose to the man's fingers, finally getting an good scent.

no threat... not now, at least.

you looked up at him again and made a short, quiet trilling sound. it was something similar to the noise house cats make when an idiot human wakes them up from a sun nap, and it made the man smile. you stared at him for a few seconds, thinking. then you poised for a pounce, jumping the one or two-foot distance between the man and the woman. you landed on the man's shoulder and butted your head against his temple, then sneezed and sniffed at his hat.

the man smiled again, reaching up and making a gentle, cautious attempt to scratch behind your ear. you butted your head into his fingertips and his smile turned into a joyous grin, and he started to scratch at that one spot, eliciting a completely unwarranted purr from the back of your throat. the man chuckled, gently cupping your small, feline head in his hand and rubbing your face, neck and ear in soothing motions.

your heart slowed down a bit and the purr you were producing got deeper, indicating to the man that you were becoming more comfortable with him. you reached around with your face and licked the palm of his hand, then hopped down onto the floor and burrowed under a blanket on a futon you had seen earlier, then quickly shifted into your werecat form, wrapping the blanket around yourself. you turned and looked curiously at him, tilting your head to the side, having decided to chance at asking him a question.

"what's your name?" you asked cautiously, your voice so quiet it was nearly a whisper.

(urahara pov)

kisuke smiled, walking over and sitting down next on the futon next to you. "i'm urahara kisuke." he introduced himself, making sure to keep his voice calm and quiet so as to refrain from startling you.

you looked at him and he looked back at you, a soft, gentle smile on his face as he watched you closely, waiting for you to respond. after a moment of thought, you carefully scoot closer to him, shifting onto your calves before giving a cautious, playful bat at his hand. he smiled- and all of a sudden the action seemed to be infectious, and you fell ill with it. a small smile inched its way into existence, slithering in small bits onto your face and making his heart soar for some reason.

interesting... he thought, he likes to play. ichigo and yoruichi just seem to want to be left alone, but this one is coming out of its shell... the thought made him smile again, and your smile widened into a grin.

fell victim to writers block but had to post and so theres gna b a pt.2~

#~ | posting #《 boytoy writes ♡#《 asksksk 🤪#bleach #kisuke urahara #bleach men x male reader #bleach men x trans male reader #kisuke urahara x male reader #kisuke urahara x trans male reader #bleach smut #bleach men x male reader smut #urahara x male reader smut

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nerves-nebula · 4 months

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The loose stitches voiceboxes are infecting my brain. There is a massive breach of bodily autonomy, a forced on "cure" of being mute, all in the effort of enforcing a single method of communication

Thats why I hate the concept of a "common language" in fantasy stories- it implies that all these cultures and creatures just *happen* to speak a shared language. Like English is widely spoken but we don't fucking call it common. English only spread this far due to imperialism- so when I see one language being called common I wanna bite

Which is also why I like loose stitches take on it, there is one "common" language spoken but its not cause people just happen to speak it, its enforced- and its not just the spawnlings housed by the organisation who are forces into this, its the workers aswell- implying to me that this is enforced by some greater state

Thats not even getting into how these voiceboxes could be tamperd with, or even monitored- for all we know this voicebox could be keeping a record of what people are saying- but that's getting into conspiracy theory territory and implies that the state is more competent than it actually probably is

Tldr dotty is being gaslight into believing that these voiceboxes are just there to help and I'm getting so pissed on its behalf

HEHEEHEHEHEHEE <<33 im SOOO glad you've noticed this. when i first conceived of loose stitches i was like 14 and the world was supposed to kinda be utopian, i wanted it to be a story about being born into the best possible world that cares about you from day 1 and STILL not fitting in, and then y'know, finding your place in it or whatever.

but as i learned more about SOCIETIES and HISTORY and OPPRESSION i started picking at the threads of the world I built and realized there was a lot of room for discussions of other stuff that was important to me, like ableism, colonialism, and how my desire to find people "just like me" might be more counter productive and divisive than I'd originally thought.

under the cut for things that i don't consider spoilers but ARE world building facts that haven't been brought up in the comic yet, so if you dont wanna read that uhhh yea

funfact that im not sure i'll get around to addressing in canon but is relevant to you mentioning a "common" language: people spawn knowing an accumulation of various languages spoken near their spawn point, often times they lean heavily towards one language/culture or another. if someone spawned in an area an spoke a different language than the people who found them, or was more familiar with different customs, it was customary to just go "oh this one's not for us ok lets send them to the people nearby that they are clearly influenced by"

since spawnlings are basically this worlds children, it was seen as kind of EVIL to just... remove them from the culture they've been spawned into. that's basically like stealing a baby.

spawnlings speaking different languages doesn't happen nearly as much anymore as there are way fewer spoken languages now :)

it should also be noted that language in loose stitches is an expression of communication via magic. not everyone who can speak aloud has a functioning mouth and vice versa, so there aren't as many languages as there are in our world in the first place. regardless, there's way less of them now!

#nnstuff #ask #loose stitches related

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wawawawawawawawawawawawawa · 2 years

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i literally only made this blog to make this post but ive been reading lots (LOTS) of shizaya and a common thread in all the fics ive read is that izaya feels as if hes undeserving of affection and love etc etc to the point where, if shizuo is nice to him, he automatically assumes its pity. its in literally ALL of them, and usually the Point of those narratives is that izaya is wrong, he's deserving of companionship, and he shouldnt hide behind insane emotional walls to avoid getting hurt.

simple, sweet, we all know it we all love it. its good soup

BUT.

there are some fics ive seen that completely bungle the landing so hard- the least egrigious form of this is if the ending wraps up nice and neat with izaya quitting his line of work and entering into a Good Honest profession. the most egrigious are the ones where its painted that all the things izaya did, he didnt REALLY do. or he had some kind of noble motive for doing it. i hate to rag on fics but the example that encopasses this the most is one where its revealed hes been an undercover cop the whole time

you see the problem with this, no?

the point is that izaya thinks that he's undeserving of affection because of who he is. the narrative sets out to prove him wrong. the narrative also changes who he is, fundamentally.

but shizuo still works for loan sharks? so, what makes izaya differ from everyone else, who is allowed to stay the way they are?

i'm going to extrapolate a TON from here, and if you're still reading, thank you :) if not then idc im partying without you

so. everyone calls izaya a sociopath. it's another common thread i see in shizaya fics.

i'm not going to contest this. it's a correct observation. if you go to the dsm page for antisocial personality disorder, there's actually a picture of izaya there.

its not AS common of a thread as the base observation about izaya's insecurities and emotional walls, but i'm willing to bet this: even the people who do not mention it in the narrative, did notice.

and sociopaths are a good boogeyman.

sociopaths cannot feel emotion. sociopaths do not cry. do not yearn. do not love. they are something other-than-human, both an untouchable, godlike figure, ready to strike and ruin your life at the slightest provocation, and simultaneously the weakest, most pathetic scum of the earth.

izaya is loved, by me and by you. and in fanfiction, by shizuo.

sociopaths are undeserving of love. they are amoral monsters, doomed to never recover- but the doom is not for them, for they do not care. they do not suffer from antisocial personality disorder, they enjoy every minute of it.

(a good number of the fics i read are from the 2010s- before everyone realized people with cluster B personality disorders are, in fact, people. even now, awareness of the humanity of narcissisits and sociopaths is still a bit lacking. i suppose i'll need to wait another decade to be acknowledged as a person. sad!)

(and i'm not going to sugarcoat it by saying "people with NPD" and "people with ASPD." you lot use those terms, and god dammit you will read them here.)

anyway, the crux being: for a sociopath to be deserving of love, they need to change their sociopathic ways.

for a sociopath to be able to change, they need to cease being a sociopath.

(for a sociopath to truly, really change, they need to stamp out every iota of their despicable illness. not a single speck can remain, lest they be the unchangeable subhuman they were destined to be.)

for izaya to be deserving of love, he needs to be stripped of his illness.

people are not stupid. they will notice signs of neurodivergence in people. and yes, sociopathy is a neurodivergence- its not all sunshine and rainbows and good, pitiable crazies. they will notice it and single them out, and they will try to save them from themselves. of course, by "save," they mean "fix," and "from themselves," they mean "so this horrible creature doesn't hurt me."

sociopaths are a good boogeyman. a boogeyman cannot be afforded luxuries such as love, or friendship, or a reprive from the crushing lonliness.

(i mean, its not like sociopaths FEEL emotions! silly!!)

izaya is a sociopath. you know it, i know it, he knows it. but sociopaths are the convinient label we slap onto the worst of the worst. there can never be a shizaya fanfiction where izaya is acknowledged as a sociopath, stays a sociopath, and is loved despite it.

(that's hyperbole. there are quite a few that keep him as-is, although none bold enough to use the word "sociopath" and stick to it. always backtracked, always sanitized.)

anyway. hi, i'm new to the fandom but ive been lurking for quite some time. here is my too-long metapost about how some of you are unconsciously (or consciously) ableist towards people with ASPD. i may post again or i may not. whichever.

if you read all of this, thanks.

#shizaya #orihara izaya #izaya orihara #um. yeah. i have more thoughts but im gonna be late for a thing

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youve-doomed-us-all-jerk · 1 month

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and finished it ,got dat true ending yes def had a great time on the game 8/10 (but yeah performance def docked some points as well as some writing threads that felt kinda dropped, but am trying to in good faith piece it together in me mind so just gonna ramble spoilers under the cut:

when people said this is what they wanted the original DD to be i can see that but like i feel like the lead up to the game kept hearing people who know more about the originals history talk about how "40-60% of the original vision was cut down" from dd1 and i feel like my brain unfortunately interpreted that as "oh cool so were gonna have 100 new vocations like the monk and 100 monsters and the parallel worlds(technically true☝🏽🤓) and the moon stuff, neat" thats on me lmao but yeah removing those expectations and seeing it for what it is, its def the spirit of the the first game but its systems deeper and more fleshed out not good at all the techny terms but im not very into or good at action games but this one made me want to be cuz the combat was fun haha hmm writing wise there was a point where i felt like everything just suddenly got dropped once the godbane stuff started happening and youre suddenly barreling to the ending while everything else just wasnt important anymore lmao, but trying to interpret the story as a story the pathfinder is weaving, i think its meant to feel like that cuz we see the pathfinder essentially write us out of problems, give us a griffin to escape slavery, gives us a clue to where were supposed to go and the big one he like straight up changes ambrosius mind about giving us the godsbane when it wouldnt make sense for him too, the old man by harve even alludes to this by saying the real world is much messier when hes telling you about how fake everything is, like the watcher said everyone there is there to play a part in a tale hes laid out and i think he wanted to get to the ending faster. It's definitely another layer they added from the first games cycle, but do wish if that is what theyre going for(and if im not delusional lmao) that they did more like the ambrosius thing just watching as he ass pulls us out of dead ends making us feel what rothais felt when he realized all his feats and hardships didnt matter, also just would have liked more sidequests with fun characters lmao.

Also did enjoy the endings of the 3 major peoples in the unmoored world and felt like their side quests really fleshed them out and led them there to their endings well,mostly, very cool idea to bring it all together like that. elves wanted to stay isolated but they needed outside influence to break tradition, to save their tree and how it all built to them agreeing to seek refuge with the other races rather than die with their way of life. Ironic that disa was half right about sven needing to inherit the throne but ofc she was also half wrong cuz she a tyrant and wants him to have it mainly cuz of blood, but he deserves it cuz his sidequests were about him getting to know the common folk and becoming self assured lmao battahl tbh full disclosure i messed up the queen nadias sidequest to the rose chateau, tried to scare the dick head shopkeeper into giving me the medicine for the beastren and got arrested so idk how that one ends(will find out in NG+ lmao) but based on the ones i did do, it seems like the nations whole thing was about always being in conflict with each other and how the unmoored quests there are about making people put there differences aside and band together, including the arisen teaming with phaesus. Also like the irony of their view on pawns being right at first but by the end of the game they end up being wrong. but yeah do feel like they didnt get into that more, along with what the lambent flame is? (googled that there was lore texts you can find that explain how an earlier emperor is deceiving the people about it and what it really does) they also dont go into the fact vermund was a nation of beastren, started by a beastren and then history was wiped?? and how theres vermundians fear of beastren and human children always look like beastren and yet wilhelmina is a direct contradiction of this?? that seemed like a really juicy plot point but they didnt really do anything with it. and lastly idek where to start with the pawn and arisen ending, found out theres slight differences in the affinity ending (got the high affinity one cuz reds my my gurl i always revive run straight to her to revive her🤗) but watching them talk about how happy they are to have their own will while saying theyd still do anything for you filled me with something, dont even know what but was crazy.

oh also before i forget another way its in the spirit of the first game for me is just like in the original i also forgot to talk to the person i was romancing and giving them flowers before the endings and got diff people appearing there just like my first playthru of the dd1 lmfao( got manela with grigori and sara in the true ending, was going for ulrika this playthru lmfao) def gonna NG+, maybe do a magic archer and get the stuff i missed and try and get the other endings. Also hoping for another expansion/dlc like they did with dd1 down the line with more vocations and monsters.

#dragons dogma 2 #dd2 #dd2 spoilers

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trashlie · 1 year

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ASHLIE OMFG HAVE YOU READ EP 222? IM ONLY ON THE BEGINNING OF IT AND IM ALREADY FREAKING OUT AT THE NEWS ARTICLES. HOLY CRAP WE FINALLY HAVE SOME BACKSTORY

>> FP 222 SPOILERS TO FOLLOW <<

I'm mobile and can't insert a line break so SKIP THIS REPLY IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS

LISTEEEEEEENNNNNNNN it took me an hour last night to really get through everything and get my head around it! I haven't even begun a thoughts post yet because there was SO MUCH to parse through and it's NUTS!!!!! Something that really struck me is how much bigger this expose is than any of us really imagined! All this time I've thought of the Yui/Hirahara angle without realizing JUST how involved the Kim family is!

Recently I've been thinking a LOT about the Gun Kim is Kousuke's Biological Father theory - supposing it's true, why would Yui have a baby fathered by Gun if she married Rand? I don't mean this in a gasp why infidel way, I mean it because I assumed Rand married into the family to play a bigger role in the company, so why Gun Kim of all people? The fact that Sangchul's name matches the naming convention of Youngchul Kim, the former chairman?! Grandpappy?! Now everything makes more sense: the Kims and Hiraharas becoming partners, how Gun could possibly be Kousuke's father, the chummy history between the Kims and Hiraharas. 🤯🤯

Finally learning more about how Rand got involved with this family at all?! I truly thought he married into the family first and THEN got involved but finding out it was the other way around is NUTS. Also that he sold his company to the Hiraharas and then started working for them and made it from CFO to CEO? YOOOOOOOOOO. It also makes me wonder a little more about his relationship with Yui. It's always felt like he's "trapped"- she has made a pointed threat before about how he wouldn't want to lose everything he worked so hard for. If his involvement to the company is not tethered by his marriage, then what is holding him back? Does Yui have dirt on him about his past? Is it really simply that he doesn't want to lose everything? Was there a prenup? Lol so many thoughts.

Also re: Rand taking over Youngchul's position, it really runs in the family, huh? The Kims are well and truly VILE men hyurk take em down!

The woman and son living illegally in the country in an apartment that she paid double the rent for, always on time 😭 That's Nessa and Nol, there's NO way it's not. Absolutely DEVASTATING. It definitely reads like she was drugged and someone arranged it to look like a suicide. Like, don't get me wrong, I know parents absolutely can choose to take their lives, but someone who uprooted herself and her son to move somewhere so they can be near the father? Unproblematic people who kept to themselves? It just doesn't feel like a choice she'd make, to abandon her son somewhere like that. And we already have a common thread of people being drugged and harm coming to them.

I think this flashback from 64+65 is Nol arriving home and finding out what happened. It's heavily paralleled to what happened with Shinae and the accusations that this is all his fault, that she's hurt because of you. There's no way this memory would come up like that if they weren't "similar" scenarios, one reminding of the other. I say "similar" because it's always seemed like whatever happened to Nessa, Nol seems to have internalized as his fault, right? Absolutely dreadful, so heartbreaking. And if he absolutely and truly believes it's his fault, no wonder he thinks he deserves nothing good, thar be must punish himself for life 😭

GOD. So heavy, SO much is in those articles. I feel both excited and... scared? for Yujing's expose. It's clearly more than just Yui, a whole deep dive into the dark and sinister natures of the Kims and Hiraharas, and the many people who have been hurt and/or blamed for the things they do. Yujing's entire angle is about reporting the REAL truth and not letting the media twist things, and we know the Kims and Hiraharas are influential and rich enough to evade punishment for their heinous deeds, and it seems that's Yujing's whole thing - to take them down.

I think that's why, when Yujing found out Nol pleaded guilty, she wondered if she was giving him too much credit. He definitely seems to have pleaded guilty because he's tired of fighting and I would likely be worse if he pled innocent and was still found guilty (through foul-play of course). But Yujing can see how it works to her and the case's advantage: another innocent person who has been hurt while the Kims and Hiraharas get away again with their nefarious activities.

GODDDDDDD. Please do come back after you finish reading! Feel free to send me a message if you want! This episode was SO MUCH. On patreon quimchee said it was mostly visuals so it might feel short buy it feels SO loaded aaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!

#ILY Brainrot #ILY Spoilers #ILY FP #not using the main tag at this time since i can't do a read more #i hope this doesn't come across anyone trying to avoid spoilers aaaaahhhhhh!

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myrfing · 1 year

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ok finished cloud cuckoo land by anthony doerr. it’s alright he’s good at weaving together stories and it has a strong central thread that binds a ton of seemingly distant narratives together. his prose is good; the dude loves stories and it shows. and I love stories about stories so I immediately picked up this book when I read the backing.

err weaker points is that it’s frankly one of those things that you can tell the writer is like…a center-left white american guy whose main purview into political issues is from the seat of the safe spectator trying to write a story encompassing all of humanity. politics, violence, and change wrought by humans instead of time is scary and almost always portrayed as senseless, power-obsessed delusion that’s beyond the grasp or interests of common men. to his credit he tried to extend a great amount of personhood to a character he even classifies as an extremist terrorist (who are like, leftist ecoterrorists; terrible chinese commies who “senselessly” call an american soldier an imperialist pawn also make their appearance—the question of the soldier being in a foreign land fighting the war is never addressed beyond his personal unfamiliarity and the plight of the american soldier) and puts a lot of effort into weaving a circumstance that explains why this “guileless boy” gets radicalized into anarcho eco communism through youtube cult figures (lol, interesting choice considering the reality of things) but he still classifies and grants these roles according to his belief yknow. all of the female characters get married and pop out a bunch of babies in the end and their function as such is supposed to be some narrative tie in to the theme of hope. he writes this passage:

and pretty much only reflects on it later on to have anna (the girl) be like Well he doesnt treat me like a possession. and of course here they’re only playing into an illusion to survive the absurdly cruel rules of their world, but they fall into the illusion in the end, and she, who had such a deep and compelling narrative before, pretty much loses all agency at the point their tales meet. she spends the rest of her life childrearing and learning the language of her conquerers and sewing haphazardly, which she hated as a child, and to be a “carrier/symbol/memory of hope” and is content while her husband’s life and journey continues. this is their return home and the end of the monomyth. and this isnt unintentional or a mistake it’s just written as a part of this overarching theme: the world is forever cyclical in the same way, everyone is the same, through stories we are able to just bear it and stave off death, and so “the world as it is is enough”. everything is in its place. it sort of believes that if only people understood that that they would settle down and not seek great change and foolish notions of a better world. but then it also sort of touches dotingly on this aspect too; it says the fools are just human and being a fool and dreaming of better things and not understanding all while tangling the threads of their mistakes and misguidedness more are what makes them human.

it’s sort of the reason why j0yce from DE (YESSS im going unto the epic crossover again) is the one to say an extremely similar line: “This world is enough.” it’s a lovely line and it does ring true, and it’s something that staves off despair which is a huge central thing to his story, but the outcomes of it are different for everyone. this doesn’t really occur to him and he writes like the power of this idea will always result in the same inevitable outcomes. people realize the world is enough; they abandon the cloud cuckoo land and return home and are granted peace and happiness and truth, for a time, and its enough. he both sideses everything in his story except this. and this whole story reminds me of when DE’s writers mentioned they moved elysium from the middle ages to modernity after realizing they couldn’t cling to antiquity and the middle ages and the old days when “history was not so complicated” to convey what they wanted to convey. doerr sort of instead clings to it instead; the entire narrative is spun around the idea that the myths of old are undying and unchanging and hold a sort of immortal truth that will forever govern human lives.

im not a huge fan of this personally, obviously, and reading through the book was like someone showing me a ton of ingredients I love and cooking them up real fancy with a lot of flourish and then coming out with something that tastes pretty good but is a little bland, like something is missing or there was some misunderstanding of what flavors could have been created. but it’s a fun tale to read with great pacing and great skill in running parallels between all the stories involved and it says something nice enough about human hope and living memory

#it’s like if cloud atlas wasnt about people struggling against history but submitting themselves to it. LMFAO

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myyy friend has been having me watch tri//gun stam//pede and as new episodes come out (keep in mind having not watched the original, but i will), i have thoughts so im gonna copy + paste my brain dump here for reference but like, keep in mind this is just my scattered rambling, not coherent or complete thoughts, kinda got threads going in directions,,

i think the emotional implications of the series are really interesting bc its what is essentially two demigods duking it out and humanity is collateral Nai hates humans and wants to separate Vash from them by destroying all of them probably bc in his own fucked up way, Vash is the only thing he can connect the concept of love to, and keep in mind I say concept of love, not actual love. like he's an independent so he feels sympathy for plants and thinks he and Vash should be in control because in his own way he thinks he is doing the right thing, humans are hateful, violent, destroy and harm themselves and others, never seem to learn from their mistakes, but what Nai doesn't understand is that he's no better in his decision that he gets to decide what is best for an entire civilization and he in a lot of ways perpetuated the problem, under this guise of getting Vash on his side. Vash on the other hand seems lost in who he is, because he has more in common with humans than Nai yet cannot fully integrate into being one and relate to them (wow i relate), yet he feels this unconditional love for them that drives him to want to protect them and see them not hurt each other, like he doesn't even take sides because he just wants them to realize they aren't each other's enemy, no one has to be each other's enemy. But it feels so futile because while they squabble about things that do not matter, Nai is also destroying them in front of Vash who feels powerless to stop it yet just wants to help. Nai realizing that taking the people Vash loves away from him won't make him trust Nai or take his side, Nai's way of thinking is so childish, like "if i take away Vash's toys he'll play with me" logic. But what he fails to understand is it won't work that way because humans aren't toys or a lesser lifeform to Vash, he loves them, faults and everything.

[8:09 PM]Idk where i'm going with this but

[8:09 PM]there's a lot to unpack there

[8:10 PM]Nai doesn't seem to understand love as a concept, and his obsession with Vash is the closest thing he can connect it to. Maybe he does love Vash but it's not an unconditional love that respects him for who he is and lets like, a seed grow into a flower, but one that tries to suffocate and control. And Nai feels like the only way he can get Vash to see things his way now is to wipe his memories because destroying Vash's "toys" didn't work

[8:11 PM]I can understand how Nai feels about humans but his decisions and expressions are, extremely, wrong, so deeply wrong i don't think i need to explain how

[8:11 PM]But Nai really thinks he is a good person doing the right thing

[8:11 PM]even the implied sexual assault/rape is like, in his own misguided mind, he is doing something good for plants and liberating them from humans and getting Vash back by wiping his memories

[8:12 PM]Like Nai really thinks he is the good guy here because he sees humans as an evil that needs to be burned out

[8:12 PM]and plants as victims

[8:12 PM]and so a little collateral doesn't matter to him if it means ultimately "saving" his own species

[8:14 PM]Vash on the other hand in his need to not want to hurt anyone, and trying to see the good in everyone, has let more harm befall those around him because he doesn't want to cause harm to prevent harm, which i get his position its like, it feels like no decision he makes is good and he also feels responsible for everyone's suffering because all these actions happen because he refuses to stop loving humanity unconditionally despite how much harm they've caused, he refuses to judge them as a collective for past harm, in a lot of ways he has forgiven them and just wants to see them grow into better versions of themselves and so has no bone in his body that wants to punish anyone even if they've caused deep harm to others

Honestly I wonder if Vash is meant to parallel Nai in like, his inability to want to fight against even the forces causing harm, he perpetuates/enables a cycle in the way Nai feels his decision is correct also

[8:16 PM]uh hard to put into words

[8:16 PM]but they are lke

[8:16 PM]like

[8:16 PM]two sides of the same coin

[8:16 PM]but also i don't feel like Vash being a more violent person or deciding some people deserve harm is the answer either

[8:17 PM]bc I rly get his pacifist stance

[8:18 PM]But yeah there's a TON to unpack about Nai and Vash's individual stances on morality and what is right and also the way they are both opposites and mirrors of each other

[8:19 PM]In a lot of religious/spiritual and enlightened teachings its said the most radical form of unconditional love is forgiveness

[8:19 PM]and so I think about that reflected in Vash

like he is unconditional love in its purest form

[8:20 PM]Nai on the other hand is like, the way humanity perceives love, as something you can force/control/dominate, deciding who deserves it and who doesn't. Like how Nai loves Vash by trying to exert ownership and control over him, it's like, funny bc despite how much he hates humans, he is behaving exactly like them, from a place of low consciousness.

[8:21 PM]really, much 2 think about

[8:21 PM]because ive been mulling these morals over irl actually for the last months or so

[8:21 PM]basically in our actual reality, we are in a love/fear based duality

[8:21 PM]action guided by fear disguised as love is Nai

[8:21 PM]action guided by unconditional love is Vash

in a lot of ways, Vash is like religious figures like Jesus, up on the cross and people full of fear and hatred and he still forgives

[8:23 PM]Nai can be compared to religious figures who use religion to control, Gods who want to be worshipped

[8:23 PM]but this is

[8:23 PM]not what the Universe truly wants

[8:23 PM]um

[8:23 PM]im kinda

[8:23 PM]getting beyond the point but the parallels and palatable

#talks #i have zero desire to share my takes with a fandom bc i cannot deal with people anymore #but #yknow how it is

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kirby-the-gorb · 2 years

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reply roundup!

highlights:

new favorites post is publicly available on [patreon]!

[preview] for next month’s phone wallpaper is up!

a bit of a short one today.

on [prophecy]:

@ceylonsilvergirl said: Why is it never being right about awesome things?

to be fair I am also often right about good things, just not so much the past couple months lol

@jupiterlandings said: Apollo leave my boy ALONE or I swear I will bring Marx back so he can make the mooon kick the suns trash again

lol I suppose that is in fact a solution kirby has available

on [butterflies]:

@hobgirl said: oh to lie in the grass and look at butterflies. unfortunately butterflies keep trying to land in my hair like some fairytale princess shit, but i was warned as a child that touching butterflies can kill them specifically bc the scales on their wings are very delecate and u can take them off just by touching the wings, and thatll make it impossible for them to fly. so now i get spooked when butterflies get close to me cause what if i accidentally kill it????

omg that sounds so stressful. I’m pretty sure they’re not quite that delicate, if it helps. so gently waving them away or setting them somewhere else should be fine. (I did a quick search and it looks like researchers actually scrape the scales off on purpose in the tagging process, so I guess they can still live and fly without some of their scales!)

@northeasternwind said: ah yes. all yellow. no red or orange to be seen. can relax. c:

I thought about it but I decided they should all be regular butterflies XD

on [woo]:

@hobgirl said: woo! re the tags im very happy for you tumblr user kirby the gorb!! its very unfair that we need money to live and its nice to hear you wont need to worry about it as much. not re the tags anymore EYE am going to use this woo! as a preemptive celebration for finally cleaning my apartment, cause its a whole mess and now that my girlfriend is gone for the month ive lost all motivation to keep it clean. but i will!! today i will!!!!

thank you! and I hope your apartment made it to a more comfortable state! (I actually get more cleaning done when my wife isn’t home, cuz I know the noise and disruption can’t bother her if she’s not here XD )

on [sweater]:

@ceylonsilvergirl said: one time my family went into The City (I was a young teen at the time) it was summer but all of us forgot that SF evenings, even in the middle of summer, are cold as hell. so my parents quickly bought us souvenir sweaters to keep us from dying, and mine was an oversized yellow sweater with SF emblazoned across the front in yellow thread. I wore that damn thing every single day, just on top of whatever it was that I was wearing. I hadn’t thought about that in years. funny how memories live in your brain whether you realize it or not

oh wild I wonder how common it is to get so attached to a desperation sweatshirt cuz I had one too! I was at some Nerd Competition (destination imagination, to be specific. do they still do that one?) on the other side of the state towards the end of middle school and it was absolutely dumping rain, but my whole team was just left to run loose until it was time for our presentation so of course we were outside climbing retaining walls the whole time. and I’m this tiny waif child and I’m soaked to the bone and it was just a day trip so I didn’t bring any extra clothes, but it was late into the day so when my mom went to buy me a Branded Sweatshirt to change into they only had plus size ones left, it was like a 2x or something. and then I wore it nearly every day for years, to the point where it got so ratty and full of holes they bought me a replacement in the same color and size (with an osu logo instead).

on [braces]:

@ceylonsilvergirl [added] a speech bubble that says “My mom says if I clean my room I can get a bearded dragon for my next birthday. Did you hear the ice cream man? Let’s go ride bikes to the park. I only need to save up five more dollars then I can get the new Mario game. Who do you think is faster, the flash or sonic?. Do you like Pokémon?” and said: Kirby is like a little kid. but Kirby is braces is like an older kid

oh absolutely, braces-kirby totally has the vibe of one of those like pre-teen/early teen kids that is just So Full Of Thoughts and they badly need to share All Of Them

on [peek]:

@ceylonsilvergirl [added] a speech bubble with a drawing of an ice cream cone

he saved up his allowance for this! he wants two scoops!

@theraphos said: me at the sandwich counter

“and extra meat and cheddar and provolone and no peppers and extra lettuce and--”

#text #title text #reply roundup #swearing #ceylonsilvergirl #jupiterlandings #hobgirl #northeasternwind #theraphos #long post #readmore

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🍦 🦅👐

hmmmm i dont see those patty-cake type hands on the list, so im going to answer this hand emoji 🤲 :3

🍦 What's the sweetest fic you've created so far?

HMMMmmm either "key to my heart" or "geralt and roachie"! everyone says geralt and roachie made them cry, but i always thought it was the sweetest, sappiest thing haha.

🦅 Do you outline fics or fly by the seat of your pants?

100% fly by the seat of my pants. occasionally i'll have an idea of something i definitely want to include(i wanted two big fight scenes for petals and pining, and roughly knew where i wanted them to go, but had no real concept of the story as a whole, so it was just like. We'll Get There When We Get There!)

it's the adhd haha, i've never written outlines, even for things everyone said Needed outlines. it's a skill that needs practice just like anything else, and i never have. my work would maybe be better if i ever put in the time to get better at it, but it's not what i enjoy doing, so i dont bother.

🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a wip?

this isn’t a wip, as it’s at this point abandoned. there was one part i just...... couldn’t get to work in my head, and then my interest waned, you know how it goes. i may get back to it again one day, who knows! i have a bunch of abandoned projects on the cutting room floor that aren’t actually bad, i just couldnt get them off the ground. but anyway, since it may never see the light of day, here’s a rather long snippet of unnamed work(jaskier does not realize they’re dating), under a cut for the sake of everyone’s dashboards:

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Being friends with Geralt of Rivia required something of a gentle touch.

Which isn't to say that he was some sort of wilting flower, or that he couldn't handle a blunt talking to, or jokes at his own expense, things of that nature. Just that he can be rather... reticent with his own feelings, and with overt familiarity. It takes a while for him to truly open up, and if you aren't careful when he does, he snaps back shut like a clam, takes forever and a day to get him to trust you enough to try again. A natural result, Jaskier laments, of his rather rough life. It makes sense, of course, but it still makes Jaskier's heart break when he sees Geralt pull away from a kind hand, or hesitate to return a friendly smile.

[something also about him being a man of action, so expressing his affections thru words is rare. he's not inept, its just an extra little bit he has to extend himself, and its not his natural reaction]

He also seems, on occasion, mystified by certain facets of human interaction. No one understands every intricacy of society, of course, there will always be some rule that doesn't make sense, or maybe something that's common in the region your grew up in and only there, so traveling leaves one floundering on how to interact. But Geralt, especially, Jaskier notes, seems to come up short on what's expected of him in what should be simple situations. Again, Jaskier attributes this to the rough life he's led, to his unorthodox childhood up on a mountain, surrounded by men who cared more about his capacity for violence than his ability to navigate social moors.

More's the pity.

All this to say, Jaskier is disinclined to push too much in any particular direction when it's obvious that Geralt is extending himself, emotionally. [all this to say, jaskier is generally inclined to let geralt get away with things??? idk, work on phrasing maybe.]

So when Geralt turns to him one night, tearing his eyes away from their little campfire to stare at him with a depth of intensity that leaves him feeling warm and nervous all at once, and says "Jaskier... you matter very much to me," as though he had to pry each syllable from his throat, [????idk i lost the thread of this sentence]

"Well, of course I feel the same, as you know you're very dear to--" he starts, but Geralt reaches over to grab his hand, cutting him off.

"No. I... you're /very/ important to me." He says insistently, eyes boring into Jaskier. It's clear he's trying to convey something very big, and very important, and Jaskier has no idea what it could be, other than what it sounds like on the surface-- Geralt and he are rather close friends.

But he looks very hopeful, and very sweet, and very vulnerable the way he clutches at Jaskier's hand, and Jaskier doesn't want to spook him off by questioning it too deeply, so he just accepts the little confession. Hopes the lump in his throat isn't too obvious when he responds in kind. Geralt's expression changes into something soft, obviously relieved that his friendship was reciprocated, and he gives Jaskier's hand a squeeze. Bumps their shoulders together affectionately. And then the subject is promptly dropped for the rest of the night, vulnerability over.

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Geralt had been doing that, even before the night around the campfire. Holding Jaskier's hand, being a little more loose with physical affection. Testing the waters, it seems, trying to find where the line it, but after that night he gets even handsier. And Jaskier can't complain, of course, Geralt must be touch-starved with the life he leads, and it's so sweet the way a hand finds it's way to the small of his back in a dense crowd, or the press of Geralt's leg against his when they sit near each other in a tavern, or rarely enough the weight of an affectionate, friendly kiss along his brow.

Geralt doesn't understand what is and isn't taken in a platonic manner, is all, Jaskier's sure. And this little olive branch of affection after so many years of trying to be his friend, trying to get him to open up and relax, isn't one Jaskier intends on throwing aside anytime soon. He's always been pretty liberal with affection himself, so really, it's fine. It makes something ache in his chest, to be so close to what he wants and yet so far-- but he wouldn't trade it for anything, when he sees that tentative little smile tugging at the corners of Geralt's lips.

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He is fairly thrown for a loop, though, the first time Geralt kisses him.

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It's a small thing. Just a press of lips to his in the wee hours of the morning. Geralt's hand comes up, strokes a thumb along his cheekbone, and then he just... kisses him. pecks him right on the lips. Then he straightens, and goes back to sorting out his pack like he didn't just entirely topple Jaskier's world before the sun had fully risen.

Jaskier's entire face is red, and his mind races, because Geralt-- Geralt /kissed/ him, like it was nothing, like it was the most obvious thing in the world, gentle and affectionate and wonderful, and Jaskier must make some noise or something, because Geralt glances over his shoulder. "Is-- is that alright?" He asks, in reference to the kiss. He sounds a bit confused, maybe a bit nervous, and Jaskier sucks in a shaky breath, feeling infinitely frazzled. Geralt looks so innocent, kneeling there on the floor, like there was nothing out of the ordinary about what he just did.

And Jaskier can picture it, in his head, allowing Geralt to see his internal freak out, and explaining the differences in what sorts of affection you're supposed to show to different people, and what sort of signal he'd just sent, and the way Geralt-- poor, sweet Geralt-- would be so confused, and then disheartened, and then wouldn't try at all to be affectionate anymore, and Jaskier would lose the sudden closeness he'd gained, so instead he just... he says "Fine. It's-- I just didn't expect-- it's fine." Then he thinks 'fine' sounds judgemental, maybe, and amends it to "Nice."

His face is still burning red, must be, but Geralt relaxes at his reassurance. "Good." He says, smiles one of those smiles he's been showing more of recently, and gets back to packing like absolutely nothing is amiss.

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Slowly, Jaskier gets used to it. The first kiss was shocking, yes, but once he knows to expect it-- and now he's steeled himself against the emotional weight of it-- he rolls with it fairly easily, and it just becomes another part of their routine. Since Geralt started displaying his affection, it's been a slow but steady build

[something about how jaskier likes it, and doesnt want to scare him away, but also feels guilty taking advantage. since he rather enjoys it for a different reason he thinks, and for geralt /obviously/ its innocent.]

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[no fucking clue on how to broach the morning wood thing.

idk how to, like, build the heat to make it plausible.

but i guess maybe put it here?]

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The worst-- best-- no, worst, part is

it just keeps happening.

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And so it becomes routine. They wake up hard, and it's only natural to help each other. Of course. And Geralt doesn't mean anything by it, so...

Jaskier compartmentalizes. Enjoys what he has.

This is completely fine.

#witcher tag #ogc tag #writing tag #spoiler alert:: it is completely fine!!! jaskier is just a bit silly.#there was like one scene i couldnt get to work and the whole thing sortve. collapsed like a souffle. ah well #maybe someday!

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The Book of Mosiah Chapter 8. "The Seer."

Ammon teaches the people of Limhi—He learns of the twenty-four Jaredite plates—Ancient records can be translated by seers—No gift is greater than seership. About 121 B.C.

Jared= "the descendant."

Limhi= "To be as a stream".

The Gematria for "24 Plates" is "How to wake a man up from a total nightmare."

1 And it came to pass that after king Limhi had made an end of aspeaking to his people, for he spake many things unto them and only a few of them have I written in this book, he told his people all the things concerning their brethren who were in the land of Zarahemla.

The Book of Mormon is, as we have discovered a kind of Jewish religious analysis called a Midrash. It says we are learning how the people of Zarahemla, "The Place of Enlightenment" behave.

In the last chapter we learned of the existence of a man named Zeniff, "the balancer":

2 And he caused that Ammon should stand up before the multitude, and rehearse unto them all that had happened unto their brethren from the time that Zeniff went up out of the land even until the time that he himself came up out of the land.

3 And he also rehearsed unto them the last words which king Benjamin "the Right Hand", "The most realized" had taught them, and explained them to the people of king Limhi "the Voice of God", so that they might understand all the words which he spake.

4 And it came to pass that after he had done all this, that king Limhi dismissed the multitude, and caused that they should return every one unto his own house.

5 And it came to pass that he caused that the plates which contained the record of his people from the time that they left the land of Zarahemla, should be brought before Ammon, that he might read them.

Ammon= the multittudes, the nation.

עמם

The verb עמם ('mm) probably expressed to be inclusive or comprehensive. Its rare uses in the Bible relate to making secrets or making info available to an in-crowd. Preposition עם ('im) means 'with', מעם (me'im) means 'from', and עמה ('umma) means 'beside'. Noun עם ('am) means a people, ranging from all of mankind to the in-crowd of a small village. Noun עם ('am) refers to one's (paternal) kinsman.

6 Now, as soon as Ammon had read the record, the king inquired of him to know if he could interpret languages, and Ammon told him that he could not.

7 And the king said unto him: Being grieved for the afflictions of my people, I caused that forty and three of my people should take a journey into the wilderness, that thereby they might find the land of Zarahemla, that we might appeal unto our brethren to deliver us out of bondage.

Why can't the people understand what is written in the language of the Voice of God by the most learned? What is up with that?

The dispersal of 43 lifetimes into the wildernness means there must be maximum comphrehension of the Torah and related documents plus three lifetimes spent in an era of non-violence to demonstrate complete enlightenment after the immersion. This is also what is meant by the term Zeniff:

If we look in the Torah, we find many other things that are associated specifically with the number 40:

In the episode of Noah and the Flood, we learn that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights.

A mikvah needs to have 40 se’ah (a measurement) of water in order to be able to purify someone. In fact, this is one of the explanations as to why, during the Flood, it rained for 40 days, corresponding to the 40 se’ah of a mikvah.

Regarding the maximum amount of lashes one could get, the Torah describes the amount as 40 (albeit in practice, one could get a maximum of 39).

According to the Talmud, it took “40 minus one”5 types of creative work to build the Mishkan (Tabernacle).

What is the common thread here? What is the symbolism of the number 40?

The mystics explain that any preparation for a transformative change is associated with the number 40. Thus, whether it is the flood water of Noah, which cleansed and purified the world, going to the mikvah, which purifies the person, lashes, which atone for one’s sins, or receiving the Torah, each is essentially a catalyst for transformation6 and is therefore associated with the number 40.7

Why is that?

10 x 4

Kabbalah explains that all of reality can be divided into four worlds: Atzilut (Emanation), Beriah (Creation), Yetzirah (Formation), and Asiyah (Action.) These four worlds, in turn, emanate from and are rooted in the four letters of the holiest name of G‑d.

8 And they were lost in the wilderness for the space of many days, yet they were diligent, and found not the land of Zarahemla but returned to this land, having traveled in a land among many waters, having discovered a land which was covered with bones of men, and of beasts, and was also covered with ruins of buildings of every kind, having discovered a land which had been peopled with a people who were as numerous as the hosts of Israel.

9 And for a testimony that the things that they had said are true they have brought twenty-four plates which are filled with engravings, and they are of pure gold.

10 And behold, also, they have brought breastplates, which are large, and they are of brass and of copper, and are perfectly sound.

=the Ephod.

11 And again, they have brought swords, the hilts thereof have perished, and the blades thereof were cankered with rust; and there is no one in the land that is able to interpret the language or the engravings that are on the plates. Therefore I said unto thee: Canst thou translate?

12 And I say unto thee again: Knowest thou of any one that can translate? For I am desirous that these records should be translated into our language; for, perhaps, they will give us a knowledge of a remnant of the people who have been destroyed, from whence these records came; or, perhaps, they will give us a knowledge of this very people who have been destroyed; and I am desirous to know the cause of their destruction.

13 Now Ammon said unto him: I can assuredly tell thee, O king, of a man that can translate the records; for he has wherewith that he can look, and translate all records that are of ancient date; and it is a gift from God. And the things are called interpreters, and no man can look in them except he be commanded, lest he should look for that he ought not and he should perish. And whosoever is commanded to look in them, the same is called seer.

14 And behold, the king of the people who are in the land of Zarahemla is the man that is commanded to do these things, and who has this high gift from God.

15 And the king said that a seer is greater than a prophet.

16 And Ammon said that a seer is a revelator and a prophet also; and a gift which is greater can no man have, except he should possess the power of God, which no man can; yet a man may have great power given him from God.

17 But a seer can know of things which are past, and also of things which are to come, and by them shall all things be revealed, or, rather, shall secret things be made manifest, and hidden things shall come to light, and things which are not known shall be made known by them, and also things shall be made known by them which otherwise could not be known.

18 Thus God has provided a means that man, through faith, might work mighty miracles; therefore he becometh a great benefit to his fellow beings.

19 And now, when Ammon had made an end of speaking these words the king rejoiced exceedingly, and gave thanks to God, saying: Doubtless a great mystery is contained within these plates, and these interpreters were doubtless prepared for the purpose of unfolding all such mysteries to the children of men.

20 O how marvelous are the works of the Lord, and how long doth he suffer with his people; yea, and how blind and impenetrable are the understandings of the children of men; for they will not seek wisdom, neither do they desire that she should rule over them!

21 Yea, they are as a wild flock which fleeth from the shepherd, and scattereth, and are driven, and are devoured by the beasts of the forest.

We should not need swords. A seer that knows how things have gone, has a grasp of what is going on should know what is going to happen next.

All of you pay attention to me- this behavior we have, the one that demonstrates we think we are helpless and that nothing can be done is ridiculous. Everyone needs to grow up and take charge, act like adults and do what has to be done. One does not need a prophet, a king, or a seer to be present, awake, and live competently.

Without the apparence of propriety in everything we do as members of this civilization, there is no proof the Instructions and the Gospels are valid. To provie they are correct is the bottom line of the Ark of the Covenant all baptized persons and Mitzvahs have made with God.

Just as we will see after Year Zero, God materialized and was made man to prove He is not of a devolved character. It has always been our turn to prove the same in return.

When the differences in the Testimony between the two are reduced to nil, then the Seer is made.

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so i have a few questions

1)i cannot understand how you ship k*ramel. their relationship was FILLED with toxicity. from mon-el failing over and over again to listen to what kara had to say to him basically telling her to give up being kara danvers. convincing her that "being supergirl and having you is enough” was absolutely horrible. karamel had their moments but overall it was toxic. then in s3 mon el was married and the whole point of season 3 was allowing them to move on. accepting the toxicity from s2 and pushing past that romanticized time. mon el was a better person by 3b but he was still married. even if mon el and imra did break up in the finale there’s no future for karamel. even during 5x13 kara went to ask on advice about lena. and when winn came to visit from the future not a word about him. she’s moved on and it just wouldn’t make sense for kara to end up with him.

2) how can you hate lena so so so much?? it’s been said over and over again that all she’s ever wanted to do is good. though she’s designed to be this morally grey character. she has FLAWS but that’s what makes her so good. she’s a victim of abuse and you can see her struggle with that especially in seasons 4 and 5. in 5 she definitely goes down a questionable path but how can you expect her not too? after being emotionally abused by her brother, betrayed by her family, andrea (this did happen before kara), and then eve. finding out that kara and EVERYONE she loves has betrayed her as well. I mean how could you not go mad?? and even when she “went mad” she was trying to rid humanity of PAIN. something she later realized was a necessary part of life. her hurt blinded her from reality and lex’s manipulation pushed her down further. she’s been hurt and broken so many times and while that’s not an excuse for what she’s done you have no sympathy for her and that I find appalling. lena has realized what she’s done is wrong, that she’s made mistakes, what she did to kara, and she will have to live with that isn’t that punishment enough? she’s apologized and is trying to make up for everything she’s done by saving the world (again). your unnecessary hate towards her infuriates me. cant you take a step back and see the whole picture?

3) why DONT you ship supercorp or accept the queerbaiting? (watch this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C2w2GBXd_Pg) They are the core relationship of the show while the danvers sisters are the heart. they’ve gone through so so much together and practically dated in early season 2. they love each other it’s just oh so apparent. i like to believe one of the reasons lena reacted so strongly in s5 is because she was in love with kara and she couldn’t handle the person she was in love with lying to her. and kara flew around the world to get lena’s favorite food!! if that’s not romantic idk what is. I feel like you’ve developed such a clouded view of supercorp that you need to take a step back and understand what lena is the love of kara’s life.

wow what a long message. im not here to hate. im here to inform & undertand. i get it. karamel had their moments and even MY perception of them might be a little cloudy. im not going to hate you for liking them. hell I even shipped them for a little! my brother thinks 3b mon el and kara would’ve been perfect but he understands that supercorp is just where the show is leading and he wants them to be endgame. but what I will hate is your hate. what’s the point of all this? this thread, this account is going to do NOTHING. so why bother? I debated sending this and I hope I’m not too harsh at times but I really wanna see what you say. I hope you can open your eyes to lena and supercorp. maybe even become a supercorp shipper yourself!

- thanks and supercorp endgame 💙❤️

First of all, if you want to discuss ships in the future send this type of anons to facepalming-since-chernobyl, this blog is not for this, but for gathering receipts.

1.I just ship it, I don’t get why you have to understand it. It’s shipping. But if you insist:

No, it was not filled with toxicity. Count me when he failed to listen to her when they were in a relationship. Secondly, he is not a dog, he has his brain, he is his own person. People don’t always do what others asked them to do. It’s not slavery.

He has NEVER said to her to give up being Kara Danvers. How did he exactly convince her? How can you read the scene that he convinced her that being supergirl and having him is erasing Kara Danvers? In this scene he supports anything SHE WANTS to do. Also, Kara Danvers doesn’t equal Kara being a reporter in CatCo. On that moment she had her blog. She change people’s live with it like a real reporter. She took the risk and met consequences of her actions aka being fired by Snapper. Also, remind me who told her to create a blog? With your logic Lena was erasing Kara Danvers too.

Friendly reminder that he was forced to the marriage to keep peace. Also, friendly reminder Imra and the Legion out him in this situation without telling him about her plans. She and Brainiac put him there, knowing exactly how much he loved Kara and how much she meant to him. Imra knew that, that’s why she asked him to stay and solve his feelings. She said if he had come back, she would have known he had no doubts. But he wanted to stay, that’s why they broke up. He came back because once again he sacrificed himself for the greater good, like a real hero. Maybe watch the Argo eps because they clearly show that no, it was no about moving on.

It was not accepting about so called toxicity. First of all, she already forgave him that he lied. Secondly, all of she was screaming in that scene, when she was infected with M’rynn’s powers, happened before they got together and it was already approached in the musical ep. Aka, this scene had no point.

There is no future for karamel because you say so?

Kara went to asked him, because she truly believed and trusted him and his judgment. And yes, she asked about Lena and what did he said? That Kara deserved the same compassion she gives others, something Lena never gave her. And sorry, I know all scs scream the 100 ep was about sc, but it was about Kara fully realizing she is not responsible for Lena’s horrible choices. That’s it. And friendly reminder she called her a villain in the last scene. Also, the ep showed than no matter what, Lena always ends screwing something, because she has too big ego, always knows better, doesn’t stand criticism and doesn’t trust anyone.

It doesn’t make sense for you. Suit yourself.

2.Her fans made me hate her :) Thanks to them and how they excuse her every horrible action, how they treat her as a victim, while she abuse everyone etc. I started to watch her more carefully. And well, she is a horrible, white, privileged capitalist, who plays god, judge, jury, has mommy issues and acts like typical Luthor while crying she is not one, while still using Luthors money and resources.

Yeah, many people want to make good and end doing evil things. Common people pay for their sins, she has never. Since allowing hostile Daxamite army to invade the Earth (also, her portal affected the other aliens who destroyed the NC), producing a device that could recofnize aliens without their consent (and it was used by Children of Liberty,)producing and lying about Kryptonite, trying to make people superpowered without any supervision, killing Adam during illegal experiment, supporting openly alienphobic president and in a way Agent Liberty, killing Lex and then blaming Kara and finally manipulating Kara for months, lying, gaslighting, yelling, making her steal Lex journal, trying to lobotomize her and tortured with kryptonite, hurting every way possible, physically and mentally. Working with mass murderer, enslaving 3 people (kidnapping Eve, without her consent putting AI into her mind, basically RAPING her brain and making her a puppet in her own body; enslaving end experimenting on Malefic and Russel – threatening to kill him to steal Andrea’s necklace) – none of it are flaws. It was horrible abuse and violating every human right and the fact some people excuse it is disgusting.

First of all, being victim of abuse doesn’t give you the rights to HURT other people. The fact I have to explain pains me. Secondly, what abuse exactly? Lillian didn’t love her? Lex kidnapped her? Said he was going to kill her? You know what? Winn HAD HORRIBLE past and he didn’t turn into a murderer. Mon-El was abused by his mother and never tortured Kara with Kryptonite. J’onn killed a lot of white martians but last time I checked he doesn’t feel good about it. Also, never said the things he has done were GOOD. See a difference?

Yeah, and all of it, still doesn’t give her the rights to torture people. Also, friendly reminder she lied to Supergirl about Kryptonite in s3, much before the whole drama. Remember how she destroyed the life of a girl that stole boyfriend in middle school? It clearly shows she always had THAT in her. Plus, sorry not sorry, if she wanted different life, outside her family she could have easily done that. She was in Star City, with Jack, doing her researches, making her career. And she threw it all away, because she WANTED to be a Luthor.

Plus, sorry not sorry, if you feel betrayed and hurt because your friend didn’t tell you something she didn’t OWE you, you go to therapy, not trying to lobotomize entire planet.

Mate, she wanted to lobotomizer entire humanity, without ANYONE’S consent, because SHE, one single Lena, felt hurt. This is playing a GOD. Nothing explains it.

Planning a cold ass revenge for months is not being blinded by feelings.

Once again, even if could argue about how many times she was broken, most of that was a white privileged life she chose herself but whatever, it still doesn’t excuse her. All of she has done should meet consequences. Paying for shit you have done, accepting it, fully realizing what you have done is a part of redemption. Still in s5 she didn’t even apologize to Kara. Because she still didn’t understand what she has done and doesn’t feel sorry about it.

Feel appalled as much as you want, because I’m not going to feel sorry for a white, privileged woman who has never paid for her actions and is basically a living avatar of the worst Karen you can imagine.

She realized Lex was using her horrible experiments (remember? She experimented on puppies too) to his own agenda, that’s why she went to Kara. That’s not grasping a thing. Mhm, if you call that an apology then suit yourself. She is not saving the world, she is helping once again other people fixing the shit she created.

Feel infuriated as much as you want, because I don’t care? Especially when it comes from a person who tells others to take a step back while being totally narrow minded about Mon-El and karamel.

3.Because actors, prodcuers, writers call SC a female friendship. Mel did that in her last interview. See whatever you want but maybe stop forcing people to ship a horribly abusive ship.

Well… no. Kara is the heart and soul of the Supergirl. Alex is her most important relationship. Lena is an important friend, who doesn’t deserve it yet, but we all know Kara is the Paragon of Hope so of course she is going to forgive her.

I know you people think sc dated because they breathed in one room, but in s2 Kara dated, had sex, kissed, cuddled and enjoyed her time with Mon-El.

Yeah, they love each other as friends. It was said more than once.

That’s your delusion, you are free to do it.

Kara done that to Alex too, so you are saying she is romantically in love with her sister or something? If bringing people food is romantic and damn, most of the people I know loves me, god.

No, lena is not Kara’s love of her life.

Cool, you are not going to hate me because I ship karamel, I’m touched.

Sorry that you are going to be super disappointed in the end of the show I guess.

You will hate my hate – what’s the point of it?

Once again, because I don’t think you understand the point of this blog or read the description – it’s gathering receipts of assholes who cross tag and hate on the actors. Maybe go and search #gross hate or #cast hate on this blog so you can see how amazing your fandom is. Have fun.

I would rather eat my own shit than starting shipping the victim of abuse with her abuser.

Thanks and no :)

#anons

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One more rambling because I can't get it out of my head:

Quirkless!vigilante!Izuku and Not a villain!Himiko, they're friends. They go pedophile hunting together, it's great.

But the Hero Commission hasn't lifted the ban on quirkless people going to hero schools, so Himiko goes instead.

So there are two threads. One is vigilante/informant Izuku, who is barely connected to the criminal underground and is instead plugged into the homeless network and gets his information that way. The other is former vigilante UA student Himiko, who accepts One For All after saving Uraraka during the entrance exam.

Himiko falls for Ochaco (Togachaco rights), has a passive aggressive friendship with Bakugou, makes friends with both the traditional Dekusquad and Bakusquad, and irrationally hates Aoyama for no reason. She's also more mentally stable because she doesn't have a blood deficiency.

The series goes somewhat as normal. At the USJ, Himiko accidentally kills the Nomu, whoopsies, and Izuku absolutely kicks Stain's ass. Also when the dorms are built, Izuku regularly sneaks onto UA campus to chill with Himiko (and also maybe fight/smooch Bakugou) to the confusion of everyone. Including Nedzu. That fact makes Aizawa terrified of the kid.

Especially when the class starts talking about body counts, Izuku cheerfully exclaims he has a lot before he pauses and says "Oh, you mean in bed," and begins recounting how he and Himiko used to go pedo hunting, where one of them would be the bait and the other one the killer. Himiko can't anymore but Izuku sure still does~

Anyways morally ambiguous Izuku and Himiko bromance, thank you and goodnight.

- Goblin anon

im sorry but IZUTOGA BROMANCE IS THE BEST THING EVER!! followed by togaocha because togaocha rights!!!!

toga accepting ofa is such a wild concept i didn’t know i needed. because she’s actually really smart and strong and ferocious. she’s also very loyal. so ofa!toga, especially loved and raised in UA is just *ascends*

im having a crisis because ofc i want toga in class 1a because she’d fit right in. but also…vlad king personally teaching toga because their quirks are so similar??? toga being afraid of her quirk and then vlad king comes in the hero scence and she sees him and it’s basically like he’s her all might??? yes pleaseeeew

like vlad king fighting aizawa for rights to teach toga. he’s saying how aizawa can have the rest but he really just wants toga because he’s seen that look in toga’s eyes before (the look that shows how scared one is of their own quirk) because it used to be what was shining from his own eyes.

BUT ALSO TOGA IN 1A HNSNNN

toga hating aoyama…because midoriya kind of is taken by aoyama’s detachment yet strong loyalty to 1a. and toga’s like damn it he (aoyama) fits in izu-chan’s taste for friends.

nezu realizing half a semester later (so approx. a month in a half after the dorms were built) that there’s something wrong with his security codings. when he traced it back, he finally realized that midoriya, ever since the year started, was slipping in and out of UA undetected.

nezu, however, doesn’t know how. he keeps trying to change the code but overnight, it’s changed back to midoriya’s intricate codes. he pings aizawa and aizawa gets the memo the moment he walked in on 1a dorms to check on them only to see midoriya chilling in the common rooms with a mud mask on because it’s girls’ night and he was adopted by the girls after he did something to mineta that permanently changed the way mineta looked at the girls. they don’t know what he did, all they know is midoriya left mineta’s room with a smile and mineta, who followed suit, was full on shaking and wouldn’t meet others’ eyes.

aizawa sees the way he’s sitting beside toga (mido-toga-ocha) and groans.

aizawa walks back out and pretends he didn’t see him because it’s already night time and clearly the girls trust him. he’ll report the incident to nezu tomorrow morning instead.

next week, aizawa checks up on them again and this time sees midoriya and bakugou having a moment in the kitchen. bakugou’s cooking and midoriya’s perched at the counter, legs swinging while bakugou grunts at him every time he pauses after his whole rant.

aizawa pretends he doesn’t see anything again, especially because when he turned to look at his students in question, toga did that “disturb them and i’ll end you” pose. aizawa walks away.

THE BODY COUNT SJKASQA

aizawa, hearing the class talk about body counts, skillfully walks away again only to wall back in when midoriya chirps “with a knife!” when kaminari asked how’d he manage to have that much body count.

OKOK BUT WHEN TOGA’S FALLING AFTER HITTING THE ZERO POINTER AND OCHA SLAPPED HER HAND AT HER BACK, SHE TURNS TO OCHA AND SAYS “fuck i didn’t know angels existed” AND PASSED OUT

ocha definitely did not fall in love there wdym. but toga definitely did

also THE BKDK BEING BAKUGOU SEEING HIS GREMLIN CHILDHOOD FRIEND SLITHERING FROM THE WINDOWS AND GOING LIKE “fuck he’s still the same lil shit” BEFORE FALLING ASLEEP AGAIN AND MIDORIYA SEES BAKUGOU AND SCREAMS IN HIS HEAD BECAUSE “oh no he’s hot”

#goblin anon #ask #GOBLIN ALWAYS OUT TO MAKE ME SIMP FOR MORALLY AMBIGUOUS IZUKU #izu and toga: WITH A KNIFE #aizawa: NO #vlad king: i want a daughter :<#aizawa: *retains eye contact w him as he writes toga’s name under his students list*#bakudeku #togaocha #bakugou katsuki #midoriya izuku #toga himiko #uraraka ochako #aizawa shouta #bnha #bnha au #long post

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the-marauders-enthusiast · 3 years

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I’ve Fallen in Love With My Best Friend - James P. x Reader

Pairing: James Potter x Reader

Word count: 1.6k

Summary: There’s an Amortentia lesson in Potions one day, and y/n feels confident that her best friend and crush, James Potter, didn’t like her back, as he has his heart reserved for Lily Evans. James also believes he’s in love with Lily, but things change when he smells someone else in the Amortentia.

Walking into Professor Slughorn's class, you noticed the other students were perked up, excited for the lesson. You sat down, confused, until you saw the potion on Slughorn's desk, which you immediately noticed was Amortentia. Like your other classmates, you also felt eager for the lesson to start.

Suddenly you heard some people stumble into the room, instantly recognizing them as your best friends, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter. You smiled at James, seeing him scan his eyes around the room to find you. You waved your hand, calling him over to sit next to you. He grinned and walked over to the desk, sitting in the seat. "Good morning y/n!" he greeted kindly. He then looked around the classroom, his face morphing to a confused look when he noticed the buzzing excitement in the room. "Why is everyone so chipper today?" he asked. You then pointed at the potion on Slughorn's desk, "I'm guessing we're doing a lesson on Amortentia today." He was about to ask was Amortentia was, but was interrupted when Slughorn started talking.

"Good morning class, today we will be learning about Amortentia! Now, does anyone know what that is?" He questioned. You raised your hand quickly, and smiled when he called on you. "Amortentia is known as the world's most powerful love potion, and smells different to each person, as it's supposed to smell like whatever you love most."

"Perfect Ms. y/l/n! 10 points to y/h." you grinned proudly. You then heard Sirius' voice behind you, "Well I don't think prongs needs to smell it, we all know what it's gonna be!" He teased, James saying a lighthearted "shut up!" in return.

You knew what Sirius was talking about, of course. It was common knowledge that James was head over heels for Lily Evans, how could he not? In your eyes, she was everything that you wanted to be. Lily was gorgeous, popular, but most of all, she had James' attention. You've been in love with James about the same amount of time hes been in love with lily, and it hurt. It hurt being in love with someone who was so painfully obviously in love with someone else. Suddenly you weren't as excited for the lesson as you were before, as you weren't exactly thrilled to hear James talk about Lily's scent in the potion.

Slughorn started to call people up to smell the potion, and you waited your turn, watching them quickly walk to the desk when their name was called.

"Ms. y/l/n?" You snapped your head up. Everyone's eyes were suddenly on you, although the only ones that mattered were the hazel ones staring next to you. You started to get nervous, walking to the potion on the desk. Once there, you smelled the mixture.

broomstick polish, cologne, and freshly cut grass.

You rolled your eyes smiling, you had very clearly smelt one James Fleamont Potter. what a shocker, you thought. You gave a quick thanks to Professor Slughorn and sat back down, too embarrassed to share what you smelt with the class.

a few people went after you, and then James was called up. He smiled as the other marauders teased him. He confidently walked to the potion, grinning widely. Looking very sure of himself, he swiftly smelt the Amortentia. Then he suddenly had a puzzled expression on his face, quickly shifting to a frown. You started to feel worried as he nodded at Slughorn and quickly walked back to his seat. You instantly turned to him, "James are you okay?". His eyes widened dramatically, "What? oh yeah, I'm fine.", he replied quickly, avoiding your eyes. You frowned and turned back to the class.

When the lesson ended he practically ran out of the room, the other pranksters following quickly, looking ready for an interrogation. You just stared at the seat he was just sitting at, wondering what could have happened for him to act like that.

After that potions lesson, James had started avoiding you. Hed constantly make sure he didn't run into you, avoid your eye contact, sit far away from you at all times, and practically pretend you didn't exist. Any time you tried to talk to him, he would just brush you off, giving some lame excuse. It was as if the two of you had never been friends.

- "Hey James, do you wanna go to Hogsmeade this weekend with the others?"

"Sorry, I need to catch up on homework."

- " James! Wanna go to the library together after class?"

"I already have plans, sorry y/n."

- "Hey wanna go to the Quidditch pitch and practice?"

"Uh sorry y/n, maybe another time."

After a couple weeks of the neglect, your concern and confusion had turned into anger. What had you done to make him avoid you? And why couldn't he just talk to you about it? At this point, you had gotten fed up. You were walking to the Great Hall for dinner, and saw your friends about to walk in. Before a certain stag could enter, you grabbed him by the arm and pulled him back to face you.

"Oi! What are you- y/n!" He had a panicked expression, not expecting you to be the one who pulled him back. You made sure the other marauders were gone before dragging James to an empty corridor.

"What's your problem!" he asked exasperatedly, which made you scowl angrily.

"My problem?! You're the problem you idiot!"

He frowned, about to defend himself but you stopped him before he could.

"You've been avoiding me like the plague for weeks!"

"No I have-"

"Don't even try to deny it! I thought we were friends James."

"We are friends!"

"Then why have you been pretending like i dont exist!?" You shouted, feeling all of your anger bubble to the surface. James raised his eyebrows, shocked at the anger in your voice. you felt tears start to brim your eyes, "...is it me? Did i do something wrong?" Your voice had lowered, filled with fear, and you felt a tear roll down your face.

His gaze softened, "No, y/n, its not you", He said reassuringly. You felt more tears fall onto your cheeks.

"It just feels like I'm losing you James." You looked down at your feet. He lifted your chin to make you look up at him. "You could never lose me, y/n", he said with a pained expression.

Your brows threaded together, "Then whats wrong? Why haven't you been talking to me?"

He's silent for a few moments before finally finding the words.

"...I was scared", He whispered.

You frowned, "Of what?"

"My feelings. I've been so confused-"

"James i don't understand-"

"Please, just let me explain", he said nervously. You nodded, letting him continue.

"..For so long.. I thought it was Lily. I thought she was the one for me. I've been chasing after her for so long.. I was so sure that she was it for me. And then that Amortentia lesson happened. I was so confident it would smell like her.. but it didnt", he looked down and twiddled his thumbs, "It was you."

Your eyes widened, "James-"

"Just listen. I smelled you in the Amortentia. And for days after I was so confused about my feelings - feelings for Lily and for you. But the more I thought about it the more it made sense, and i started realizing how i truly feel. I used Lily as a distraction from the one person I actually loved, because I didn't know how to deal with those feelings. Because the truth is, I didn't know how to deal with the fact that I had fallen in love with my best friend... I love you y/n. It's always been you." He wore a pained expression, "And im so, so sorry i didnt realize it sooner."

You stared at him in surprise, well that's definitley not what I thought he was gonna say.

He grew worried at your silence, "Please say something." He pleaded, which seemed to pull you out of your stupor.

"Broomstick polish, cologne, and freshly cut grass", you stated.

He squinted in confusion, "What?"

"That's what I smelled in the Amortentia.. It smelled like you." He opened his mouth in surprise and you continued, "I love you James. I've loved you for so long, and I can't tell you how happy it makes me to hear you say you feel the same way."

James' face brightened, and he pulled you into a bone crushing hug. When he pulled away from it, you noticed how close his face had gotten to yours, and it seemed james did too. He slowly moved his hand to grasp the side of your face, body moving closer as he placed his other hand on your waist.

"Can i kiss you?" He whispered.

You nodded, feeling heat rising up your neck and closing your eyes in anticipation. You felt his face inch closer, and he softy placed his lips on yours. Your hands immediately threaded through his dark curls, and you kiss him harder. You feel him pushing you back against the wall, the hand on your cheek moving down to your collarbone.

The kiss started to get a little more heated, but then you hear a voice across the corridor, causing you and James to separate and look toward the source of the noise.

"Ah! So dinner and a show!" Sirius laughed, Remus and Peter chuckling next to him.

"Oi, shove off" James says, smiling at them.

"But seriously, we're glad to see you too catching up again." Remus added.

"Thank you guys", you say fondly.

You look back at James, "I'm glad too.” you grinned at him softly before looking back at the group, “Alright can we go to the Great Hall now, I'm starving."

Sirius chuckles, "I didn't think you'd be hungry after eating eachother's faces off"

"Shove it padfoot."

#marauder #hp marauders #young marauders #james potter #james potter x y/n #james potter x reader #remus lupin #sirius black #harry potter #harry potter x y/n

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dateamonster · 3 years

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i, for one, would love to hear your deep read of zombieland saga *eyes emoji*

ok i just got through lowkey ranting about zls (mostly abt how much i love junko this season) to my friend so i think im sufficiently warmed up to make a first class fool of myself on the internet by becoming another Guy Who Get s Heated About Anime

so i’ve been thinking abt this a lot since zls revenge came out- and just in general but i mean given this season is literally called Revenge it now feels especially relevant to talk about zls as a story about second chances and seeking personal growth after hitting absolute rock bottom. like in this case that rock bottom is obviously death, the greatest low you can achieve, but its also not just that i dont think. bear with me.

the zombie angle is obvi crucial to the show like its the hook its twist its the instigator for a lot of the wacky situations and hijinks and such but its also? not super necessary sometimes? or at least it feels that way. what i mean is the show is so much about the characters and their personal arcs in a way that i find so human and relatable that i sometimes legit forget this is a show about zombie pop idols

even the overarching goal that drives the plot forward of “saving saga” (though i feel like we still dont know everything there is to know abt that) has to do with this theme of second chances. its a story about comebacks, about trying to breathe life into something that seems dead. thats maybe sort of obvious, but its been hitting me how much that like core thesis informs the characters and makes their own resurrections feel.. more personal ya know?

sakura loses her shot at her dream in a split second accident and for a while isnt even able to process that because of her lost memories, while ai was at the top of her game when she died and now has to watch her former friends and fans move on without her, and lily was a child star who was literally killed by her commitment to making other people happy, only finding her love of performing again after her death. franchouchou and the mission to save saga was the reason all the girls were brought back from the dead, but it also becomes their second chances in that it gives them a reason to keep trying in the face of loss after loss.

its a funny cute show but its also got some pretty grim stuff baked right into the foundation and i think the reason it works and doesnt feel super tonally dissonant is because its so consistently heartfelt. its so easy to get sick of shows with “never give up!” type messages when it feels like the characters triumphs are assured and their struggles only ever temporary, but it never really feels that certain for franchouchou, and the losses they face send ripples of fear and doubt through its members that come back into play the next time the group is put to the test. junko doesnt lose all her anxieties after one successful show, and the way saki, who prides herself in her sense of strength and rebellious nature, struggles to contend with change and situations outside her control still feels as real every time because imo theres an understanding that that stuff leaves lasting marks, even to the resurrected, even to a zombie.

not to go even more off the rails than i already have, but i think its really interesting the many different ways zombies as a type of monster are portrayed and the way zls relates to that. the common thread as i see it, if such a thing can rly exist, is this fear of decay. not even necessarily death itself but degradation, deterioration, the processes through which every person is stripped of what makes them themselves, reduced to a husk with only the most base instincts still intact, moving around and affecting some pale imitation of life but completely empty inside.

zls as a zombie story is interesting to me because while i think those sort of fears are still present (the scene recently where saki fully realizes she’ll never get to grow up still strikes me as incredibly dark for the episode it was in, though im not saying thats a bad thing) zls supposes that a person can indeed overcome that state of decay.

it doesnt treat the idea lightly; positive change is HARD and a thousand times more so for these characters who have already reached what should have been their lives natural conclusion. the sorta thesis i feel like zls and particularly revenge are presenting is that personal growth is a constant battle against the path of least resistance, the predisposition towards stagnation or defeatism that occurs after a traumatic loss. it’s not enough to be handed a second chance, you’re still just another mindless zombie until you decide to try and be more, and even then you have to keep making that choice every day that youre alive.

so yea hopefully this doesnt all read as some totally insane Reach but like once again, it may not necessarily be that deep, but it COULD be. and thats whats important to me <3

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