#does this count as a liveblog

[jayaorgana]

As someone currently reading YJK this is what I assume the plot of NJO will be. Anyways, please look in the notes, there is four more of these and IMO they are some of the funniest ones.

#also I used NJO art even though Im still reading YJK because every photo of the YJK and JJK covers have three pixels #star wars #jaina solo #jacen solo #anakin solo #han solo #leia organa #mara jade #tenel ka djo #lowbacca #Zekk star wars #Luke Skywalker #Pippa.PNG #yjk #does this count as a liveblog

[nervousmonolith]

have a purpled vod to watch tomorrow potentially. was going to say yipee but no he doesn't deserve that

#monolith mumbles #does this count as a liveblog

[lamentfulwarbler]

Losing my shit at this passage from The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency-

#Kunikida just did Not have to say that #imagine telling your coworker that you think your boss’s glare could kill multiple kids- like bro- #i’m sobbing #need more people to include Kunikida casually just saying mildly unhinged shit without batting an eyelid in their fics- #THE EMPHASIS ON THE INSTANTLY TOO?? #FUKUZAWA FIGHT BACK #or don’t i guess- this was technically said in admiration #like. the next line (not in the image) is like ‘and that’s why hes the president’ so like. at least it wasn’t negative #i’m sorry but the bluntness of it just took me out #fuckin love this series #liveblogging #(does this count as liveblogging? idk) #bsd #bsd light novel #the untold origins of the detective agency #bsd kunikida #bsd tanizaki #alt text included in image. pls tell me if it doesn’t work #or if its like. done badly-

[apollos-boyfriend]

is. is tubbo setting out to destroy quackity’s legacy. destroy any signs of him ever being on the server. oh how the turntables………

#icarus speaks #icarus liveblogs #HOW DOES IT FEEL BITCH #finally some cpurpled retribution #i knew i could count on u tubbo ‼️‼️‼️ #this is slash silly i just gotta make everything about my specialiest boy

[guckies]

Now this is grieving. Look at the sadness on his face from losing his daughter and bfriend.

#qsmp liveblog #qsmp foolish #/sarcasm #it has to count because he just does not cry

[harrowharks-iliac-crest]

The Nine Houses

Worldbuilding/Lore

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The Nine Houses refer to planets, named, presumably, in order of colonisation. I'm befuddled as to which one is which planet, if we're going on the assumption that this is the solar system. This is what I've extrapolated from reading:

First is Earth.

Second is most likely Mars - gathered from the fighting energy of its house, proximity to Earth and viability for terraforming, and also this:

"[...]Each Beast is different. I have fought numerous now, and each Beast is quite unlike any other … Number Two spewed quicksilver and remade itself into hundred-foot spikes. Number Six kept sucking us into enormous sphincters and spraying us with worms. I cannot even remember what it looked like. I remember Number Four … it was a humanoid creature with a beautiful face who held me under the water, and it spoke in a lovely voice but it only repeated, die, die—and I recall Number One as a great and incoherent machine … when I saw it I thought it had a great tail, and a thousand broken pillars on its back, but Cassiopeia saw it as a mechanical monster with swords for wings, and great horns of myelin, tessellated over with graves.” It was the Saint of Duty who said, restlessly: “Number Eight was a giant head.” “Finned like a fish,” said Augustine, lost in reverie. “Its ribs were bloody bandages, and its teeth protruded through its own skull, tangled about its face like a nest. It was red, and it had a single eye of green that moved all about the body …"

Metal-related appearance, from the planet notoriously rusty.

Actually, this passage describing the Resurrection Beasts - revenants of the planets - was the thing that got me into trying to assign planets to Houses based on, mostly, vibes.

Forth could be Venus, based on this passage alone. I could easily be wrong.

Sixth is Mercury I reckon. In the epilogue of HtN the setting is described as very hot - close to Dominicus. I reread it now and I don't think it's ever mentioned to be set on the Sixth, in fact parts of it actively contradict that assumption, but somehow I seem to have gotten that into my head anyway? But even so, Sixth is described as the one closest to Dominicus - notably this passage:

The Emperor dropped to his haunches and eased the white robe off Mercy’s dead shoulders. He shrugged his naked body into it—coyly pulling it closed—and he stretched his jaw in his mouth, and wriggled the tip of his newly grown nose. “Right,” he said, and closed his eyes briefly. Then he said, “The sun has stabilized. Hope the Sixth House didn’t get cooked in the flare.”

This to me pretty much confirmed the Sixth as Mercury.

Eighth, in the above passage about the Resurrection Beasts, is described in ways that immediately make me picture Jupiter. Red, a single eye of green moving all over the body? Ribs were bloody bandages? A "giant head" - Jupiter, in Roman mythology was the king of the gods? Am I way off the mark here?

And Ninth is Pluto, furthest from the sun, cold and desolate. And solid. (How are they pulling off living on gas giants?)

This leaves the Third, Fifth, Seventh houses to be matched with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. At a loss, still, for how gas giants are supposed to be colonised. The general infrastructure of the pre- and post-resurrection world/Empire has me asking questions like, where do they get the materials to build starships and feed their officers? Metal and plastic seem abundant. In terms of food we've mostly seen snow leeks, Canaan House and the Mithraeum, all of which are probably exceptional to what a regular House person eats. There is some talk of John's expansion and colonising efforts, so do they just go to random planets - are there aliens in this universe? (Is Alecto one?) So the Empire is expanding, mining colonised planets for ore and oil to turn into plastic - though that would indicate a lot of life on a lot of these planets, so I'm gonna guess that whatever happens to those planets isn't kind to the native flora, fauna and people.

Of course, there's always the option that this isn't meant to be the planets at all, and even if it was, it might be a lot more metaphorical. Or just actually a completely different world to ours, not the solar system at all. (Though there's many explicit and implicit pop culture references which would indicate the First to truly be Earth, so we're sticking with this theory.)

Are they actually on the planets - we haven't seen any planets other than First, and Ninth, arguably big exceptions; the Epilogue seems to be set on a moon of some kind, after a more thorough reread. The Actual Planets are dead, or rather resurrected, with their revenants on the hunt. Could be that the Houses do stand for the planets, and some people might be living on (or near) the actual planets, but a lot of people are actually living away from the solar system entirely - born into "Houses" far from the sun, into the Emperor's war machine. It's hard to tell.

Either way, I'm not gonna assign any more planets now until I know more.

>> Next: The Resurrection

#does this count as liveblog? i'll tag it as if it does for now #tlt liveblog #tlt theories #the locked tomb #tlt #no nona the ninth spoilers please #the locked tomb liveblog #tlt spoilers #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth

[agnesandhilda]

just finished a let's play of needy girl overdose and I have some thoughts

#bolo liveblogs #needy girl overdose #needy streamer overload #ame chan #not gonna tag the other charas to avoid spamming #does this count as web weaving? I think it might

[completeoveranalysis]

[6]

There is a joke about healthcare systems in here somewhere but ANYWAY. 

Yuuko casually dropping incredible advice like You must rest if you want to keep living. 

I feel extremely called out. 

Absolutely gorgeous panel! With an unconscious Sakura in the centre of an unfurling spider lily? As if they were an alternate version of the wings she was cursed with in the previous chapter, but just as much devoted to her death?

And the fact that the spider lilies are growing out of Yuuko’s kimono? As if this was part of a dream? Or the actual border between life and death? Or that the association with death and Yuuko is so strong that it’s a living, thriving thing? And at the same time the curling lines that flow around her make her look very much like one of the magical beings in CCS, like The Windy, furthering those plot connections at the same time. 

Also the halo around Yuuko’s head here too! Is that just for aesthetic or does it imply something about Yuuko’s living status? Is she already dead or is she just so inbetween realms that it’s practically the same thing?

Yuuko also talking about the price to save Sakura from the curse would be someone’s entire life. Will someone actually pay this? Will Yuuko herself pay this? I assume Yuuko departs the narrative at some point - is it to save Sakura? Or Watanuki? Or the universe in general? Or was she always on borrowed time? Does her time just run out at one point? Her shop was slowly eroding over time already.

Once again I have maybe too many questions.

#And counting! #What would Yuuko’s title be if she were a Clow Card #Wrong answers only #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Tsubasa #Vol 197 #Yuuko Ichihara #Lava Lamp Guy #Sakura #Which Sakura? #A Sakura #Not Sakura #Doesn’t Yuuko look a little bit like The Dream? #If The Dream took off her hat would she look like Yuuko? #Or is that entirely coincidence #… Oh! And the dream also does the glowing butterfly thing #Not coincidence then - just consistent Clamp Dream Power Imagery

[shadow-the-crow]

alright gonna listen to mag 86

this is the "the blanket never did anything" episode right??

god i'm absolutely not ready for this

if any episode targets my very specific fear it's gonna be this one

#the last one wasn't as scary as i expected #so we'll see if this one manages to really scare me #i think it will #tma #the magnus archives #tma podcast #mag 86 #tma liveblog #does this count as liveblogging?

[jayaorgana]

You really... showed up that eleven year old Ganner, good job

#pippa.txt #njo liveblog #does this count as a liveblog

[eumeliafeu]

Happy Valentine's Day to my fellow ace spec individuals. I love and see you all and I hope you have a great day. For those that need some support after what happened on Twitter and with Cellbit, both my DMs and my asks are open. I hope our community can come back stronger after this and I hope every Brazilian fan understands they have a place in this fandom and I will fight beside them no matter what. Please, take care of yourselves and take some time off the Internet if you need to. Again, if you need support or just to vent, both my DMs and my asks are open. I love you all and I love this community but many of us need to do better. To those who love to throw accusations and not look into the reality of it all, grow up. There will be a place for you in this loving fandom when you grow up and figure out that you shouldn't attack someone before they speak. I thought the internet(especially the English fans) had learned what to do and what not to do after what happened with kwite. I guess not.

#qsmp #cellbit #liveblogging #? #does this count as live blogging even though it isn't about a stream and rather about a situation going on and my genine reaction to it all? #idk #anyway #asexual #aromatic #aroace #aspec #acespec #arospec

[petrichormore]

Awww is some of Forever’s chat calling Bad’s chat Barbies and themselves Kens?

That’s cute as fuck. I love that.

#qsmp #qsmp liveblog #4halo #does this count as 4halo? if it’s about their chats XD #idk i noticed quite a few messages when some Forevers chat entered bad’s live it’s cute

[pttucker]

"What has happened will never change. People you loved are already all dead." His level tone of voice shut down the mouths of the others. "They won't remember you. They won't recall their own demise, nor will they remember the time they spent with you. Every time you speak to them, you will gradually come to realize that the time you lived together can never be yours again." Deep pain was pervading in each and every word he spoke. These words were from the only man among them who had lived on while remembering the disappeared world-lines. "You shall become even more lonely, and in the end, you will end up all alone. No one will be able to understand your pain. And rather than understanding your pain, the world will start calling you a regressor and curse you for stealing someone else's future, instead. None of you will belong to anywhere, and slowly wither away while still alive."

Tell us how you really feel, Joonghyuk. 😢

Oh man, I know he's never shied away from stating the truth, but to basically tell a group of a hundred people that inside he's so lonely and so quietly upset that no one can truly understand him...

#orv novel chapter 528 #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv liveblog #orv #orv spoilers #orv epilogue spoilers #yjh #I know I know technically Secretive Plotter understands him #but does he really count if he is ALSO Joonghyuk? #not to mention they didn't really have the best relationship... #Dokja was the next closest person who understood him

[ardentpoop]

he knows him better than anyone else in the world and don't you fucking forget it

#always snoozing thru boohoo-poor-dean fodder but smiling tiredly at how well sam understands him #(not reciprocated by dean bc he doesn't put in half the effort that sam does when it rly counts) #spn #liveblog tag #14.10

[friedrocks]

uh. ok

#qsmp #does this count as cheating???? #qsmp liveblogging #qsmp slimecicle #qsmp pierre #qsmp aypierre

[ultra-raging-ghost]

SIGHS AND ADDS CAVE JOHNSON ONTO BADS SIMP LIST

#bbh liveblogging #Does he technically count as a robot because all he is is a recording now?? lol