#expertly crafted

[transmasccofee]

talking about the ending again I love the ending. The more I think about the ending the more I love it. It’s hopeful but it’s not happy. It’s the best conclusion I can think of for Saiki’s character. It gives the audience so much room to headcanon what happens next. It’s so good it’s so sos so sos hkfiejevfemmfrejfmfnfmf.

#I’m so used to being disappointed by endings #Never seen any other series beat the ending saiki k has #Fuckkkk. AAAAAA. ITS SO GOOD THE WHOLE SERIES IS SO GOOD. HOW IS IT SO GOOD. #It left me wanting more but didn’t leave me unsatisfied like #Expertly crafted #I don’t think people understand how good it is #It’s also like.. weirdly cohesive. #I can’t remember any arcs that felt clunky or awkward or unfitting #Because of the premise even the stupid stuff works #And everything like. Matters. #even brief arcs matter and get referenced again (possibly because from what I can tell Shuuichi Asou really likes callbacks) #It’s just so good

[colorsinautumn]

ootw still has the most immaculate closing chorus

#literally chefs kiss #expertly crafted

[potahun]

the LHL experience is just "this is wonderfully silly and very cute and this case to solve is very fun and clever" to "this is emotionally devastating me. im having my heart destroyed. im eating this deftly sewn story-telling for breakfast" and it just switches back and forth between those moods until you get very unwell about it and have to write 5000 words meta

#lhl #mysterious lotus casebook #it's expertly crafted #it's also so silly #yes im a broken record by now #but there are truly no words to describe the overall experience is there #im watching poetry im watching the silliest comedy im watching the greatest queer love story of all times. im watching a tragedy #im unwell im unwell im unwell

[yavin42]

just finished the second season of black sails and i gotta say i understand why it makes queers go feral

#i’m frothing at the mouth #black sails #i watched the first season yesterday and didn’t really enjoy it much #the pacing is really weird the characterisation was shallow at best and the whole thing stank of game of thrones levels of forced edgyness #but man the second season slapped so hard full 180 turnaround #the flashbacks were expertly crafted all major characters have relatable motives and they pull through ruthlessly #their fatal flaws are right there and like a greek tradgedy it all happens exactly how it must #in revealing it’s nature as a character study of flint and of what broke him so utterly the pacing actually becomes so poignant and perfect #with each new bit of information we’re given we understand his urgency his ruthlessness his unwavering calm hatred #he’s turned himself into a proper fucking monster and it’s tragic because it could only have ever gone this way #there’s no way out and the show being a prequel we know he lives we know he can’t win #actually doomed by the narrative in the worst/best way #but by god i just want his to set the world aflame

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

HELP your time travel shenanigans fic idea about toji being very much alive but still putting the fate of his two little ass kids in the hands of a bunch of 16-17 year olds even if he’s still breathing. if i was megumi then my abandonment issues would’ve gone crazy if that happened to me 😭. mamaguro is looking down from the pearly white gates IN ANGER at toji’s audacity i just know it.

but now i’m curious on other ideas (that you have) for fics about jjk that you may or may not get to after sea glass gardens.

see the sad thing is that letting a bunch of 16-17 year old bitchy disaster gays discover the magic of teen parenthood is actually a step up because he had already sold Megumi to the Zenin and feral wolverines would be a better alternative to them. This was the best parenting decision toji has ever made.

(Time travel!Megumi: look we don’t have any other options. Anything is better than the Zenin.

Gojo, in the distance: they’re what three? That’s old enough for a red bull

Geto: I will actually kill you over this satoru

Time travel!megumi: *deep breath*)

A loose catalogue of my jjk fics, which may or may not exist one day:

Sea glass gardens verse:

I am forever compelled by the siren call of expanding my fics into universes because one story is never enough for me. I’ve got threeish stories in this universe, with no promises of how many, if any, I’ll write.

1. The Teen Parenting Chronicles: Gojo, Nanami, and Shoko’s expert guide to raising children when you are, in fact, children. Featuring what the fuck happened with the Zenin the first time around.

2. Megumi’s pov of what just happened leading up to sea glass gardens: someone asked me if I’d ever write this and it has the highest chance of existing because I have. Sort of. Started writing it. I have impulse control issues.

3. Okkotsu Yuuta and the world’s longest distance panic attack: crack fic of Yuuta on his study abroad trip becoming increasingly more frantic at the other second year’s updates as to how His Boy’s first year as a jujutsu sorcerer is going. What do you mean sukunas there. What do you mean he doesn’t have a shirt. Well put one on him!

Time travel AU:

1. The Time Traveler’s Guide to Fucking Shit Up And Living Well: following another attempt on their lives by the higher ups, the first year gang is forced into a desperate, high stakes gamble with a time-centric curse that puts their very existences at stake. If they want to survive, they have to complete one task of their choosing in the past before the clock runs out. Their mission?

To punch fushiguros shitty bio dad in the face, something which will surely have no long term consequences on the timeline.

See this one has the most chance of actually existing one day because it is by far my FAVORITE jjk fic I have. It even beats out sea glass gardens. I desperately want to write it.

2. The 2006 Gang and the Art of a Good Union: following a confusing incident with the star plasma vessel and three unknown sorcerers, the 2006 Tokyo jujutsu high first and second year class inexplicably goes off the rails and retires from jujutsu sorcery, claiming that they’ve discovered the magic of teen parenthood and can in no way risk themselves in such a dangerous profession now that they have kids to think about. At least, not with the way things are run now.

No one knows where they got the children from.

3. Toji Fushiguro and the Dead Beat Dad Chronicles: in which toji fushiguro succeeds at being a dead beat baby daddy to two teenaged gay boys and their crew of bitchy lgbtq compadres, who in no way want him to be involved in their children’s lives.

Standalones:

1. “Fushiguro is unleashed in junpei’s school like an invasive superpredator” AU: I’ve talked about this one in way more detail in another post for an ask game, but the idea is that itadori discovers junpeis abuse at school and says Not On His Fucking Watch and escalates the matter to gojo, who decides the funniest possible solution while they try to draw out mahito is to unleash his all star delinquent son into junpeis high school to bully the bullies.

Fushiguro resents this as a problem solving strategy.

2. The Zenin raise Megumi AU: also discussed in more detail in an ask game. In which people took Tsumiki’s little brother from her, but she’s trying to get him back, she promises.

Or, in which the Zenin take megumi, leave tsumiki, and they both spend every day after fighting to get back to the other.

3. Sort of a no curse AU: Itafushi romance story, in which local himbo Itadori Yuuji falls for delinquent Fushiguro Megumi when his grandpa is placed in the room next to Fushiguros comatose sister. Starts as a no curse AU… except there’s totally curses, Tsumikis mom just moved them to Sendai without telling anyone so the Zenin never found Megumi, and he’s just never told anyone about the curses he sees because he’s worried he’s schizophrenic. He thought the shikigami thing was a metaphor for self actualization or something.

4. Fushiguro Megumi and the World’s Most Inconvenient Custody Battle: pre JJK0, Geto decides to be a shithead magic terrorist at a local school that represents all the worst of monkey society: it’s known for a rampant bullying issue, which is a breeding ground for cursed spirits, and it contributes to the risk to jujutsu sorcerers by feeding a local legend of a haunted bridge that could explode into a serious curse any day.

What he didn’t count on? Finding the new Ten Shadows in the student body, who’s fully willing to kamikaze them both if it means saving his sister’s life.

And who doesn’t seem to be aware that he more than has the potential to take suguru in a fight.

In which Fushiguro just wanted to shut up, go to school, and go home, and instead finds himself in a binding vow to give cult life a whirl to save the lives of classmates he doesn’t even like all that much.

It involves oddly more parenting than he expected.

5. Fake Fiancés AU: prodigy and noble prize winning physicist Gojo Satoru, following a very ill advised fuck buddies arrangement with fushiguro toji, has settled down into domestic bliss with the two kids he took from the relationship despite them not, in any way, being related to him. The problem? His ex is back in town. The hot one. The one who broke up with him and started a cult. The one who he wants to convince he got over when he absolutely did not do that.

The solution? Tell everyone he’s happily engaged to Nanami Kento, who cannot express enough how much he does not want him to do that.

… until, all of a sudden, he needs a show of domestic bliss himself. His adoptive son’s older brother, sukuna, has crawled out of the woodwork and decided to make a play for custody himself. And Nanami does not know what Sukuna truly wants, but he knows it does not have Yuuji’s best interests at heart.

I share custody of this story with my best friend, who cocreated it with me over deranged text message. I may convince her to joint write it with me if I ever get her to publish her fanfic.

6. Todo Aoi and Schrodinger’s Boyfriend: Todo’s beloved brother, who is most assuredly a man, suffers some kind of terrible brain damage that leads him to confess he loves an assless boy. Todo cannot abide by this, until it’s pointed out to him that if Fushiguro’s type is his brother, that would make him the most interesting man alive. If it is not, he continues to be a boring and uninteresting boy.

Todo sets off on a mission with two goals: determine if fushiguro megumi is interesting, and get him to do some squats. because there’s simply no ass there.

Fushiguro wonders why his life is suddenly harder.

7. Choso and the Art of Being a Big Brother: choso discovers the truth of kenjaku early and does the only logical thing in response: he kills his father in his sleep, cuts out his brain, and delivers it in a jar to his new brother Itadori Yuuji as the first step in wooing him into domestic sibling love.

Megumi doesn’t know where these people come from. Or why all of them think itadori is their brother.

8. SatoSugu realizes their little boy is all grown up when he gets his first crush on a boy when he meets yuuji.

They do not fucking take it with grace.

Also co-written with my best friend via text message.

9. The instagram chronicles: crack fic in which the jujutsu sorcery personnel crisis gets worse, because nobara Kugisaki keeps trying to hard launch her instagram influencer career, and keeps accidentally making every jujutsu sorcerer instagram famous except for her

10. So I don’t actually ship Yuuta and Megumi, but I do really like the idea of low stakes relationships? Like, especially for teen romances. You tried it, decided you were better off as friends, and just went back to being friends. I just like the idea of fumbling around in relationships and getting a sense of boundaries and what you’re interested in without it being a big, world-shaking romance. It seems like a more realistic portrayal of high school relationships than every one of them being this world-defining mature love.

Pre season 1 but post JJK 0, Yuuta and Megumi dated for maybe a month and half, held hands maybe twice, and decided that they were better off as friends and parted on good terms. The issue?

No one realized they were dating. And when it is realized, everyone thinks their relationship was torpedoed because the second years kept inviting themselves onto their dates.

Cue the jjk high school students trying to amend old mistakes and get Yuuta and Megumi back together, who do not, in fact, want to be back together. Headlining Inumaki Toge, who is half in love with Yuuta and does not know why he’s helping get him together with someone else, and Itadori Yuuji, who is half in love with Megumi and also does not know why he’s helping get him together with someone else.

#I want to go on record that fushiguro expertly crafted a binding vow to get out of that time travel thing and the task was going to be ‘try #that ramen place that closed down before we could’ until yuuji said ‘haha fushiguro why don’t we go punch your shitty bio dad in the face’ #and now they’re doing this he guesses #Yuuji didn’t think it would activate like that okay #it was mostly an accident but also he really fucking hates megumis dad #he’s cultivated seething resentment towards him since Megumi in an act of rare vulnerability confessed that his dad sold him to the Zenin as #a kid and that’s why gojo has custody #he. really wants to punch that guy. he REALLY wants to punch him. #the time travel AU exists in parallel with sea glass gardens #sea glass gardens is its backstory but it’s not an official continuation of that makes sense #it’s an AU of my own AU if that makes sense

[coconut530]

a bride blighted by blood becomes a beast

#Blue Eye Samurai #6 #Hi hello everyone so episode 5. Messed Me Up #As it did with everyone I think #It was so dang beautiful and expertly crafted and thought out like come on #The angst of like Mizu getting stabbed in their stories (stop hurting themmmmm) #The puppet show #Seeing their mom and meeting Mikio #The tenderness of Mizu and Mikio #Their SPAR WAS SO BADASS #MIZU GETTING OUT FROM UNDER THE DOOR AND TRANSFORMING THEIR SWORD #THEM TRYING TO PLEASE MIKIO ONE LAST TIME AND THEN FIGHTING THE MEN GETTING BLOOD ALL OVER THEIR WHITE KIMONO AND SMUDGING THE MAKEUP #HOW IT ALL ENDED!?!? #LIKE THIS SERIES DESERVES 700 EMMYS AND OSCARS FOR THIS EPISODE ALONE #I LOVE IT SO MUCH #GAHHHHHHHHH #anyways take this art I couldn’t resist smudgy makeup and blood-soaked kimono #it actually turned out so cool what the heck their face looks real #Just go watch Blue Eye Samurai if you can like for this episode alone #💙

[some-pers0n]

It'd be nice if I could just enjoy a game or show or book without nitpicking it to death and overanalyzing it, especially when it comes to fan content

#Fighting the urge to be a bitch and complain about a really amazing and expertly crafted fan game JUST cause I have some writing issues #sp-rambles

[yourlocalsanitizedoctoling]

people need to give more love to The Answer (Persona 3 FES)'s soundtrack. it's good enough to stand alongside The Journey in my opinion; sure the Mass Destruction remix isn't all that good but then you have stuff like Heartful Cry which goes hard as hell and Interstice of Time which is just as good as Tartarus in my opinion. the way it's packaged into the officially released soundtrack is perfect, too; instead of each part of the song being separate tracks that all have fadeouts and don't last longer than like 2-3 minutes, it's one continuous seamless 10 minute experience that is so fucking good, as the tension builds and builds and builds and builds with all the different kinds of instrumentation that's introduced, same as Tartarus, but instead of capping off at an epic orchestral finale like how Tartarus does all that tension is dissipated instantly by the return to the simple piano at the finale and it's fucking Haunting I love it so much

#persona 3 #persona 3 fes #p3 #p3fes #the answer feels like this all throughout imo #it's such an expertly crafted followup to the journey #i love metis #i love aigis #i love the struggle between sees at the revelation of being able to see makoto again #i LOVE how yukari is portrayed #i can get why some find it unappealing but it's such a good way to write her #i love the flashbacks so much #yeah it's story dripfeed and in the end probably isn't worth it considering the effort it takes to get there #but seeing young akihiko and young mitsuru makes it worth it #p3p came out after fes so the junpei flashback serves to give him some much needed depth as a character #its such a good story god fucking damn #i just wish it didn't suck to play... #i get they needed to stretch it out one way or another but... cmon... #its so needlessly hard #unironically impossible unless youre committed to grinding (which is something i thought persona was actively against but okay) #and even with the grind you still gotta know the game's systems in and out in order to beat the minibosses #it makes me so mad #yeah its a skill issue but i dont fucking care #would it really have hurt them to add a difficulty option #or atleast a baby mode that was more similar to p3's normal difficulty. which is already a fair challenge #idk man i just wish i didnt have to cheat my way through the game in order to be able to experience the story #one day i will legitimately beat the answer #but that day is not today. or anytime within the next few years

[kunosoura]

joe pesci in My Cousin Vinny was an absolutely superlative bit of casting

#just an absolutely expertly crafted first impression. two northeastern italian americans get arrested #one of them is like 'oh my cousin's a lawyer!' and in walks fucking joe pesci

[squeakadeeks]

one of the funnier epiphanies that came out of therapy was that somehow someway i got it in my head that the best appeals for companionship one can make is becoming highly skilled at something- which i understand is pretty common but is also objectively hilarious because you just cut to me in any scenario where i wanted to make friends and instead of getting up and engaging with people, i’m hunkered over sitting alone in the corner thinking “i’m going to make so many friends once i learn how to draw hands in perspective” 

#i think a lot of people had a similar thought process #thinking that picking up as many attributes and skills you can will make you appealing and therefore bring friendship #which interestingly enough i would argue that that can be true for some things #but most often than not theyre completely unrelated #the analogy i thought of was 'i'm trying to paint the walls of my room by expertly assembling a desk' #like you can make a beautifully crafted desk but it aint going to address the ultimate goal you had in mind #no matter how nicely you put the desk together

[milfbro]

everytime I try to write and articulate what I thought about Jane Eyre the post derails into a long ass wall of text about how England should explode. That's life man

#I'm TRYING to give yhe book a fair shake. It's expertly crafted. #in terms of writing quality it's like. maybe a perfect book? the closest we'll get to one in this time period anyway #but its just so horrible. its like. It makes me want to guy fawkes parliament

[highfunctioningfleshrule63]

mustart sepia. um i fogot the other one. pimento. flamingo it was i remmebered. im not fixing it

mustard and sepia made me grin so big. thank you for thinkin im some how correct and funny abt things. i tend to not feel like i am so i appreciate that it means a lot man. if people think im funny im doin something right. especially coming from you, i strongly value u as a good online friend even if we both kinda have a more avoidant style on here, i get it.

getting flamingo however….let me wipe my mouth a bit…cant believe im someone who you wanna study. thats. ive always loved the intensity in the mere concept of that its the same reason i adore found footage stuff. but also means a lot <3 i would also love to study you i feel that we do the base-level version of that by checking in on eachothers blogs. in a better world i would be within a someones more personal and intimate opticon….but its so odd that this is erotic to me on a different level bc i have had paranoid episodes concerning the panopticon/our surveillance state of now. neither here nor there…sorry for rambling

THANK YOU FOR THIS MY FRIEND.

#everything i do is abt an expertly crafted bit. just kidding but who else loves to play roles. i dunno why im like this i just do #anyway u have always been one of my favorites on here from the very beginnings of this blog so ill always appreciate u #tactical-asks

[nihils-trolls]

Poor Villoh, cursed to never have anyone she feels comfortable talking to about... everything. It is a lot, after all. Who would be patient and understanding enough for that?

#nihil grumbles #she is. stubborn. especially when it comes to admitting she's having an issue with something. #talking about certain things is like trying to break down an expertly crafted brick wall.

[woosh-floosh]

Playing through Pikmin 1 & 2, and now 4 has made me realize how much I love Pikmin 3. In retrospect it's probably one of my favorite games of all time.

#playing through all these games and thinking “this is good but it's sure no pikmin 3!” #i'm going off of the wii u version too! #I miss the somber tone... I miss the expertly crafted level design... and I miss the perfectly balanced difficulty! #pikmin

[someoctober]

cyberpunk dead boy stuck in my head in maths you could say I. don’t understand it

#sentence expertly crafted earlier today #kal moment #project sekai