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littlestsnicket · 26 days

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sprint board update!

3/4 tasks complete this week. i didn’t actually finish the fic, still need to fix the transition into the ending, but all the beta feedback is addressed and i’m confident i’m not going to have an ‘oh i wish i had set this thing up better’ moment so i’m going to start posting anyway!!! aaaahhh!!

the doc meta-data says i’ve been working on this on and off since last july, and i really credit this scrum thing for giving me the push i needed to actually get this done. (extensive cheerleading from @soymimikyu and @kuwdora was also critical, but that’s less something that changed in the last month or so) (although it is actually also credit to talking to kuwdora about this thing i wanted to try that i’m actually doing it)

sprint review/retro/planning notes below the cut

considering my parents were visiting all weekend and i was feeling kind of garbage last wednesday and thursday (i’m feeling so much better than i was in early january but still having weird bouts of stomach upset-ness), i’m actually shocked i got as close to finishing as i did. yay!

don’t feel like i have that much to say though… i am a simple person and moving sticky notes around can really be the little tiny push i need to sit down and focus and get things done. i think for me personally (especially since this is a hobby and i’m not trying to train myself out of my desire to obsessively edit as i go even though i understand why that is bad if you want to be efficient) the task based mentality is a lot more helpful than a word count goal. and also that a major thing i was stalling on when i started was sitting down and rewatching the bits of the show i needed to… the tasks make that sort of research feel like an accomplishment in and of itself instead of something that needs to happen before an accomplishment occurs. the immediacy of a reward (even if the reward is just moving a sticky note) is hugely helpful.

want to give myself a bit of a break, allow time for fic posting (which always ends up being a tiny bit more involved than i anticipate), and swapping my wardrobe for summer, and preparing for work trip, so no actual writing tasks in the upcoming sprint—just some commitments to sit down and brainstorm.

going to have to get rid of my little nest of completed sticky notes :( but it’s getting too big and the project is done.

anyway! reclaiming productivity culture to do more hobby instead of more work!!

#mayo writes with scrum

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gunsatthaphan · 11 months

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I wasn't sure about ON or the idea of a crossover, like many people, but at risk of speaking too soon, this is one of my favorite episodes. Patpran felt organic, the plot didn't bother me, I love Inkpa and Phuphatian, the chemistry was there. People could call it bad taste or low standards, but for me nothing too annoying jumped out. I genuinely enjoyed it so far and am actually excited for the next episodes. Sure I don't like Pat's hair personally speaking lol, but that won't stop me from rewatching. I haven't looked much at opinions yet so maybe other people hated it with a passion. Maybe it's because I went in with low expectations? Maybe if I had been hyped about Bad Buddy's episode I'd be let down instead?

P’Aof got me on this crossover train, at least for now. The plot definitely makes sense. Also did we just get WaiPat kiss😭 that was so funny LMAOO at least we know now how Pat wakes up Pran

Sooo the crossover is really happening, I am still not sure if we will get 2 or 4 episodes(I think 4🤔) I am happy to see Tian and Phupa back🥹 For the BBS part I am not sure anymore about this 2 passing as a couple? I don't know they feel very "bro" with each other? p.s. I hate Pats hair and I am still devastated over Longtae not being in PhuPanDao

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I feel conflicted lol.

I don't wanna comment too much on patpran because I know people are sensitive; I'd say the chemistry wasn't bad and ON were able to fully get back into character which I didn't doubt - but too much has happened for me to enjoy this lmao. I can't look past the things that occurred so it's difficult for me to be objective.

However, unexpectedly, I'm loving the crossover lol. I was trying to think of possible ways for them to combine these stories over the past few days and I came up with nothing lmao. But the idea with the script is actually really smart. It makes sense to me. Also I might have gotten a little emotional at that last scene lmao I didn't expect that. it's been so long. none of this feels real. but daddy aof did it again 😮‍💨

I'm pretty sure we will get 4 episodes. I'm thinking it's gonna be BBS x ATOTS ep1 tomorrow, BBS x ATOTS ep2 next Wednesday and then ATOTS ep1 on Thursday. but who knows. if they wanna go full clusterfuck they bring the others back in the finale as well lmao.

xxx

#our skyy2 #bad buddy #our skyy x bad buddy #opinions #can you imagine all of them reuniting in the finale #my brain would malfunction #also agree about pat's hair lol rip #also my boy longtae not being in this is a crime

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spiky-imp-teeth · 2 years

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so i am rewatching helluva boss episodes in preparation for wednesday and. god. i have so many feelings about the specific way Blitzø says "no" when Robo-Fizz asks if anyone loves him.

just. it's so utterly casual and automatic. And it's one of those split-second moments that reveals SO MUCH about his character. There's no conflict - he doesn't have to think about it for a single second. He doesn't even seem emotional about it, because it's clearly something he's believed for a very long time. I mean, obviously we know it makes him emotional - but in terms of this moment, the idea of someone loving him is so utterly foreign that it doesn't occur to him to even ponder the question.

We see how much he loves the people in his life (even if he often sucks at showing it) - and while we as the audience know all these people care about Blitzø too, he genuinely thinks they don't. It's especially sad when I think about all those scenes where we see how much he loves Loona, knowing that he genuinely doesn't think she loves him back (though we know she does!).

It’s interesting because, despite how socially unaware Blitzø is, he does clearly "know" these relationships are one-sided. And he clings to them anyway, because they’re all he’s got and he doesn't think he could ever have anything better. Why not irritate the hell out of Moxxie? Why not live vicariously through M&M by constantly inserting himself into their relationship? Why not smother Loona a little? There’s no point in trying to be more self-aware or less self-absorbed, because none of these people are ever going to love him back anyway.

Anyway, back to his answer to Robofizz's question - it just fucking gets me right in the feels that there's not a single moment of Blitzø trying to decide if he really is unloved (which would've been sad enough) or even looking unhappy at the reminder, because it's already on his mind all the time. The total lack of hesitation is what hurts the most for me. And he's 100% certain of it. To Blitzø, saying nobody loves him is no different than saying his skin is red. It's just a fact, and there's no changing it or even further nuance to it.

Imps have black and white horns, water is wet, horses are beautiful, no one loves Blitzø.

#blitzo #helluva boss #helluva boss meta #fizzarolli #i have so many feelings help

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enchanting-grom-fright · 2 months

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list of events that occurred today (in order)

did my makeup

got laughed at and sung “i’m in love with an emo girl” before 1st pd even started

finished my second rewatch of dead end paranormal park

got asked if i was wednesday addams

took a state test

presented a skit

was asked if i was emo

went to climate club, my friend had two cowboy hats with breast cancer symbols on them that them and other friend in our group each wore

got sung im in love with an emo girl in the hallway by kids that proceeded to run at me down the hallway and then grab onto me until my friend started lecturing them on breast cancer and running at them with the breast cancer cowboy saying they have breast cancer

collected recycling

”i’m going to hunt them and actually give them breast cancer” - friend

”makenzi”(i have never spoken to her but my friend sits next to them in third pd and we saw them in an empty classroom)”PLEASE stay away from breast cancer like i’m BEGGING u it’s coming for us all please stay safe from breast cancer” - friend

was asked if i was emo by a kid who said to their friend “well some girls like emos”

walked past two very little girls and one clung onto the other when they saw me

two kids pretended to scream in fear when they saw me. twice. by two seperate groups a of kids.

”if u replace all the letters in march with october it’s breast cancer awareness month” - friend

”of u get rid of all the letters in october except for c, t, o and b and then keep the c but make the rest march u get march” - friend

”i’m going to get breast cancer from touch all of this”(recycling bins) - friend

briefly became a cowboy

found TWELVE only slightly used binders in a classrooms recycling so we emptied out the papers in them and sanitized them and then took them up to the school counselor / teachers

”goldfish gave me half a breast cancer ? having double breast cancer is when all four of ur breasts have cancer”- friend

gave my friend a neck tattoo(of hooty) so they were a cowboy with the neck tattoos(boy genius reference)

was told “that’s a lot of makeup man”

friend was referred to as “cancer girl! u stay away from me” after running into the same group of ppl they chased

went to the store and found a new flavor of peeps

spent twenty minutes in the store while my friend decided what to buy (options considered included but we’re not limited to a tomato three packs of ramen and dog / cat food for their dog)

ate a breast from a 100% legally obtained kinder egg

went home

took off my makeup

oh the friend was @sil3nt-noise btw

and there’s soooo many more quotes but i forget most of them

#genuinely today was sooooo fun #and my friend is soooooo amazing i love them and hanging out with them sm :3

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tim-shii · 1 year

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a/n: includes a 500 days of summer reference cuz i just rewatched it earlier aaaaa and gordon ramsay 😭 also not beta we die like no one this time !!

“are you sick?”

“what? no– i said, i’m helping with dinner tonight.”

“so.. you’re sick?”

“no! i’m not! why are you saying i’m sick?” you wince at his question. listen, you love your boyfriend. you really do. but that love has its limits, okay? and cooking? absolutely one of them.

“listen, i’ve noticed a thing throughout our four years together.”

“what thing?” with the way you’re tiptoeing around whatever this is, isagi would've thought you were about to break up with him. he hears you sigh, “babe, you don’t belong in the kitchen.”

“huh? but i cook our lunch every wednesday?”

“uh huh, did it ever occur to you why you only cook lunch once a week?”

“i thought you said it’s because i already have a lot on my plate?”

“that. and the fact that you and the kitchen don’t really go together.”

truthfully speaking, isagi can cook. he knows the basics. how to turn the stove on, what pan to use, when is a silicon spoon or a wooden spoon needed. very easy. the problem? he’s one ambitious yet amateur ‘chef’. isagi, on a normal day, pulls out a recipe for a slow poached egg with bacon dust and parmesan foam, knowing damn well he fries a sunny side up til they’re crispy and borderline brown.

“that’s so not true.” isagi pouts at you, brows furrowed and looking like a kicked puppy.

“it is true. if gordon ramsay died and then you cooked the next day, he would rise up from his grave, swim across seas with his rotting body just to tell you to fuck off you fat useless sack of fucking yankee doodle dandy shite. his words, not mine.” isagi’s face scrunched up. expression turning sulky before lighting up, as if he just had a eureka moment.

“then teach me how to cook.” his gaze is determined so you know there is no way of saying no to this.

“fine. get an apron, this is gonna be a big mess.”

isagi smiles at that, throwing his arms around you with a quick peck on the lips. you watch him fondly, chuckling under your breath as you see him struggle to tie the back of the apron. you walk over to him, taking the ends and looping them around each other. kissing his nape before pulling away.

“you see that knife over there?”

“hmm! do i need to cut up some vegetables?”

“mess up my kitchen and i’ll stab you seven times.” the smile was wiped away from his face, turning around to look at you with a horrified look. “i’m nancy?!”

“come on, cutie. i’ll teach you how to crack eggs without the shell falling off.”

likes and reblogs are appreciated! masterlist

#blue lock #blue lock x reader #blue lock imagines #blue lock fluff #bllk #bllk x reader #bllk imagines #bllk fluff #isagi x reader #isagi yoichi #isagi fluff #isagi yoichi fluff #isagi yoichi x reader #isagi x you #blue lock isagi #bllk isagi #yoichi isagi

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miraclesabound · 3 years

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Writer Wednesday - Lantern Glow

Summary: Loki is so swept up in the romance of the evening that they nearly confess their feelings too soon.

Pairing: Nonbinary!Loki/Nonbinary!Reader

Prompt: “I’m in love with you”.

Notes: Dressing Up, Fancy Date Night, Not Ready to Say I Love You, mention of alcohol. I recently rewatched Don Bluth’s “Anastasia”, and the scene of Dmitri seeing Anya in her full finery at the ballet for the first time inspired this.

Tags: @autumnleaves1991-blog, @direnightshade, @glassbxttless, @clydesducktape, @daydreamsofren, @finn-ray-nal-beads, @morby, @candycanes19, @desiraypark, @trelaney, @formerly-anonhamster, @thepilotanon, @mariesackler, @sacklerscumrag, @clumsycopy, @contesa-lui-alucard, @millenialcatlady, @jynzandtonic, @clydesfavoritegirl, @sacklersdoll, @barbers-glimmerin-darlin, @roanniom, @in-silks-and-flesh-and-leather, @hopeamarsu, @tropicalchiaa, @cinewhore, @auty-ren, @mazeltovcocktail555, @foxilayde, @signorinapsicologia, @flightlessangelwings, @leatherboundriot, @caillea, @darklingveracruz

The opera house may not quite have the same grandeur as the courts of Asgard, but Loki can admire the architecture just the same, especially the lighting and the grand staircase leading to the theater. Lantern light has always appealed to them - warm gold reminds them of happier times.

The mischief deity could dwell on these memories longer, but they know you’re expecting them. Approaching the young woman at the coat check, they ask, “Excuse me, is my partner here already? I was supposed to meet them.”

After Loki gives your name, the girl smiles in recognition. “Yes, they arrived a few minutes ago. Can I escort you to the waiting area? I believe they were ordering a few cocktails.” Loki follows her around the bend in the steps, and when you come into view, your beloved nearly chokes.

You look...honestly, none of the words that come to mind seem sufficient. Luminous? No, not quite, because your outfit is actually a dark shade of blue. Royal? No, that’s not it either - though Loki would gladly crown you monarch of their heart.

The thought “I’m in love with you” suddenly occurs to them, and Loki is grateful for their momentary tongue-tie. It’s true - but it’s still early days, and Loki doesn’t want to frighten you off. Instead, they collect themselves, offer you a smile, and kiss your cheek. “You look wonderful, darling.”

#writer wednesday #jey's pride celebration 2k21 #jeys pride celebration 2k21 #loki #loki series #nonbinary loki #loki x nonbinary character #loki x reader #slight angst #tw: alchohol mention

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fur-claws-and-eyeballs · 3 years

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2021 Teen Wolf ReWatch - S1E1

My Take from the episode Including: Info-Dump, and Questions & Concerns

Info-Dump:

Wolf Moon: the Wolf Moon is the Full Moon in January and is said to be named for the wolves that would howl outside of the village as a result of mid-winter food scarcity. The first episode centers around the first day/week back to school in Spring Semester of 2011 (January). Fun Fact: In this episode the full Moon occurs on Friday...the actual 2011 Wolf Moon occurred on Wednesday, January 19th.

Beacon Hills Preserve: No Entry After Dark: (Preserve - to keep safe from injury, harm, or destruction.) Similar to state parks in that they protect natural landscapes, but the emphasis is more on plants and animals, or specific geological features. They generally have fewer facilities and less development than state parks. Nature preserves can be operated by federal/state/local governments, private trusts, or even funded through public donations. Private nature preserves also exist, with land excluded from private land trusts and maintained at the sole cost of the proprietor. Fun Fact: I checked, and it’s not, but that font really does look like the Jurassic Park font, and honestly...equally filled with tragedy and dumb decisions.

Beacon Hills High School est. 1941

Wolves in the West Coast/California: “The last wild wolf was documented in California in 1924, when it was shot in Lassen County. The last breeding wolves in Washington were eliminated in the 1930s, and in Oregon the last wolf was killed for a bounty in 1947. Today the West Coast is a region crucial to wolf recovery.”

“Kafka’s Metamorphosis”: Written on the whiteboard by the English teacher. “The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (ungeheures Ungeziefer, literally "monstrous vermin") and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition.”

Lacrosse: BHHS won the State Championship for the past three years.

Inquiry-It: The Google-like website that Stiles uses to look up werewolves. If you watch closely, his research montage is cyclical. When he first enters “Lycaon” Stiles is already in the search results for “Silver Bullet”. So his search terms in order are: “Silver Bullet, Lycoan, Wolfsbane, Silver Bullet.”

Lycaon (of Arcadia): “was a king of Arcadia who, in the most popular version of the myth, tested Zeus' omniscience by serving him the roasted flesh of Lycaon's own son Nyctimus, in order to see whether Zeus was truly all-knowing. In return for these gruesome deeds, Zeus transformed Lycaon into a wolf and killed his offspring; Nyctimus was restored to life.”

History of Lycanthropy (Book): “The change can be caused by anger or anything that raises your pulse.”

Stile’s Jeep: California Plate QGM387

Questions & Concerns:

Why did Stiles climb on the roof? Is he just being a dramatic bitch? I don’t even think Melissa is home for him to be sneaking around, because surely the both of them screaming like girls would have alerted her right?

How did Stiles even get on the roof? How is he hanging upside down from it? How did he not break his neck jumping down???

Does the Sheriff have a landline? Does that mean then, that Stiles has access to another phone in the house through which he can listen to the call? And the Sheriff expects him NOT to listen in?

Uh-oh fandom, it’s Scott in the woods with the red hoodie.

Did...Did cellphones not have flashlights yet in 2011??? Surely we had the app for that by then? (Christ, I graduated High School in 2011, kill me)

Scott absolutely should have lost his phone in the fall he takes when he spots Laura...

I’m not saying that Victoria Argent nearly creamed Scott before he even turned...I’m just saying he was nearly hit by a red SUV that didn’t pull over to help him, and at the end of the episode, Chris Argent is driving a red SUV...just saying...

I wonder if the Argents were in San Francisco for any particular reason? (and for longer than they normally stay in one place, by Allison’s account.)

Note: Stiles already knows that the Full Moon is on Friday even though he has yet to do any research on werewolves. I wonder if he keeps up with the moon phases due to the common believe amongst law enforcement/emergency responders/ER staff that people act out more on full moons?

How much of Scott and Stiles’ conversation did Derek overhear? I mean by all accounts he absolutely could have heard the discussion of enhanced senses and infections. Did he immediately suspect or know that Scott had been bitten at this point? And did he just happen upon Scott’s inhaler or did he look for it?

YOU CANNOT JUST SAY “YEAH IVE SEEN A GUY SPLINT A COUPLE OF BONES, I CAN TOTALLY DO THIS AND PRESCRIBE DRUGS WITHOUT XRAYS OR ANY HELP WHATSOEVER” SCOTT, SCOTT PLEASE, THIS DOG NEEDS PROFESSIONAL HELP.

Stiles says that the “fiber analysis came back from the lab in LA” Its at least been generally agreed that Beacon Hills is near-ish to San Francisco? Of course the show started out being filmed in Atlanta Georgia before moving to...Los Angeles, California. I don’t really know where I’m going with this...

Someone please god tell Stiles that a Jacket/Button-up/Tie is not proper house party attire. Save my poor socially graceless son.

ALLISON IT DOES NOT MATTER IF THE STRANGE MAN SAYS HE’S FRIENDS WITH THE BOY YOU MET 3 DAYS AGO, YOU DO NOT GET INTO STRANGER’S CARS.

Christ on a Cracker Chris Argent is a DILF.

Chris says “Take him” which I take to mean “capture”? Like as in, not kill on sight? Was he going to attempt to determine if Scott was actually responsible before killing him?

Did Stiles drive around all night looking for Scott? It’s daylight, so surely if Scott had his phone to call him he would have been there sooner. (He hasn’t even loosened that damn tie.)

Also does Chris recognize Scott at the end of the episode??? Or is that just normal dad-mode leering?

#Teen Wolf Rewatch #Teen Wolf #s1e1 #teen wolf spoilers #spoilers #TW #MTV #Scott McCall #Stiles Stilinski #10yearsofteenwolf #Questions and Concerns #Info Dump

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cyaneyesullivan · 3 years

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pre-wednesday-when-my-dreaded-chinese-class-will-occur-within-9-hours thoughts...

Pete Wentz's Instagram stories freak me out sometimes. like when he stares at the camera for 5 full seconds and turning the angles slightly and then throwing in a random arch of the brow or twitch of a smile.

and by freak me out, i mean i'm pleasantly confused. like, i wonder what he thinks when he does that, and if he rewatches his own stories and then sees himself doing that... idk it's hilarious to me.

the man knows he's a work of art hahah

#pete wentz #fall out boy #instagram #no hate i'm just confused #it makes me laugh tho #i like watching his stories anyway #it's fun

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theanimeview · 4 years

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Theory: The True Voice of Yusuke Urameshi

By: Casea Mhtar, @madamekrow

Yu Yu Hakusho is ultimately my favourite anime, to the point where I can’t bear the thought of liking an anime more than it. For example, Berserk (1997) will be my “number 1” while Yu Yu Hakusho has exceeded the list altogether because its pedestal is just that high. That is the length I must go to secure a strange sense of balance for myself and stave off yet another identity crisis for a different reason. So you can probably imagine how much chaos was thrown at me when I found out that Yusuke Urameshi’s voice actor is completely different than the one I vividly recall when I found myself rewatching the series a few weeks ago. I have a memory of my sister and I watching a single episode she had taped on VCR and we would specifically watch the credits nonstop. We were trying to memorize the song (with great success, I might add).

At the time, there was still no means of listening to the ending theme anywhere other than its source. YouTube wasn’t really a thing, and even if it was we didn’t have access to the same databases we have today. So we watched that part over and over and over again. I remember etching each image into our minds, every lyric into our internal roster of songs as it played on repeat. The names kept popping up just as they did before the last and the voice actor of Yusuke Urameshi, my favorite character, was none other than Yuri Lowenthal.

I distinctly recall thinking “Yuri, that’s a cool name” to myself as his name came up again and again. Not to be rude, but “Justin Cook” just isn’t exactly a name that would elicit such a thought from me and, indeed, never came to mind since I am certain it wasn’t in the credits of my beloved Yu Yu Hakusho VHS.

So, in my rewatching of the show, present-day me had the initial assumption that what was going on here was a perverse version of the Mandela Effect. However, looking into it now, I feel that completely waters down my experience and doesn’t actually explain what happened.

I mean, I can’t simply ignore my recollection as being a false memory, as every Mandela Effect is reasoned away with. No. I needed to find true reasoning for this madness.

For the sake of convenience and for the lack of a better theory, I will settle on there being an unexplained dimensional shift. Certainly, any reasonable person could argue that I made a mistake. I simply misread the credits, maybe even pulled that name from somewhere else. Or perhaps Yuri was Yusuke’s voice actor from a different dub! But that isn’t the case as seen in this YouTube video comparing EVERYONE who has voiced Urameshi.

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So... Let’s say this was all a misunderstanding on my part. BUT THEN it didn’t just end with me incorrectly reading names in the credits over and over. I didn’t wrongly perceive the Funimation dubbing as being someone else and then call it a day. I was validated in my belief for a long period of time by outside sources.

.Hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth (2006)

The overall series of .Hack// is a subject I will certainly indulge in more in the future, but for the purpose of staying on-topic, I shall restrain myself. The reason I bring it up now is because in 2006, when .Hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth was released (I will always say it in full!), the protagonist--Haseo--sounded so familiar. I couldn’t quite figure it out until I saw who was credited with the voice acting. Out loud, in front of witnesses (if you count my birds), I said, “Yuri Lowenthal?. . . Wait, is that the voice of-”

I looked up his name to find he was-at that time-credited as the voice of Yusuke Urameshi. Quite a mistake that is since officially he is unlisted in the series yet multiple people around the world think otherwise, the same as me. Not only that, but updating all of Lowenthal’s pages to be credited with Haseo in addition to Urameshi. Many people had to review those pages, many people happened upon those pages and never bothered to correct them. That��s what really gets me. Sure, if my Ego was backed into a corner then yes, I can perhaps admit that my eyeballs had failed me and that’s all you’re gonna get out of me! Yet there is no copy I can find of him voicing the character online.

Could this be an example of lost media instead then? Well, no. Apparently not. Most anyone I’ve told about this believes I am confusing him with someone else. They may not remember “Justin Cook” at the top of their heads, however they are adamant about Yuri Lowenthal never, ever voicing Yusuke Urameshi. Because he didn’t... in this dimension.

Perhaps I truly am mixing him up his voice with a different character? Yuri Lowenthal is also famously the voice actor for Sasuke Uchiha in the english dub of Naruto. An extremely popular character from an anime that is surrounded by an enormous and ever growing fan base. The problem with that is, I’ve never watched Naruto. I didn’t even know Lowenthal was in any way a part of Naruto until I was somewhat adjusted into adulthood. When explaining my entire theory to a friend, I asked them if they can imagine the essence of an other-dimensional Yusuke within the voice of Haseo.

“All I hear is Sasuke from Naruto,” They bluntly said.

I’ll be honest... That hurt more than it should have, but I swallowed my pride and looked into it since I’ve never actually heard what Sasuke sounds like.

What I begrudgingly find is that my friend was right. Again, this was the first time I had ever heard Yuri Lowenthal as Sasuke and I didn’t know that he was the voice actor until a few years prior. This entire ordeal leaves me feeling unnerved that there are so many loopholes being found in the False Memory Theory. It can’t be completely dismissed as large scale misinformation or misremembering. That is why I had to settle on the theory that there was some strange dimensional shift, even with how outlandish that sounds.

The Discovery

I don’t know when it occurred and I’m not sure how I missed it, but it happened. You would think being thrust out of your prior dimension, or being crammed into a different one, would have some sort of impact. Maybe that’s why I developed back problems during my teenage years, I can’t really say. All I can recall is the feeling of my stomach hitting the floor through the bottom of my feet when I finally found out. I was watching the DVD box set of Yu Yu Hakusho that my friend lent me and I could immediately tell something was not right. Yusuke didn’t sound anything like I remembered, the voice--the tone--was weird, his inflections were way off, it was all wrong! WRONG, I TELL YOU. So, to the internet I went only to find someone else being credited...

“Justin Cook this” and “Justin Cook that” appeared all over. There was even a video of him yelling “spirit gun” for a fan and I was still in disbelief! There was no way! This wasn’t possible!

Apparently, in this dimension it is though, and that is a fact that I will have to live with for the rest of my life... or until reality throws me back to my own dimension. The knowledge that I will look crazy whenever I tell this story, as well as the reality that there could be more dubs out their with voices unknown. Not just voice actors, but entire animes—maybe video games, even people I thought I knew! Who knows what was left behind with Yuri Lowenthal as Urameshi! I don’t care to think about it too much. My heart is wounded enough I tell you. I already have a crippling fear of one day finding out my whole life is a lie—I don’t need to rack my brain about all of this as well.

In Conclusion,

Yuri Lowenthal was fantastic as Urameshi and I wish I could somehow put my memory into an audio clip for everyone to hear. Not so much to prove that he was better, but to solidify why my experience is very real to me. Though, if you did hear the Yusuke that I knew, I truly believe you would think it was pretty good at the very least. (Not that Justin is bad... just that it feels wrong to my beloved memory... sorry Mr. Cook.) On the bright side, Lowenthal is plenty successful and I am always rooting for him regardless. Sure, Justin Cook is my “number 1” Urameshi in this dimension, but the Yuri Lowenthal rendition that doesn’t exist in this world has exceeded the list all together in my heart. His pedestal is just too high.

What about those of you reading this? Do any of you have a similar experience? Maybe you also remember Yuri Lowenthal as Yusuke Urameshi! Let us know! (Let ME know! Please--I beg someone to find a copy if one exsists in this world. 😭)

Happy Wednesday. I guess. Bye.

#yu yu hakusho #naruto #justin cook #yuri lowenthal #voice acting #voice actor #anime dub #dub #anime rant #anime #yusuke urameshi #analysis

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marysfoxmask · 4 years

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Have you done The Misselthwaite Archives webseries? It's obviously one of the looser adaptations, but I thought it was really well done. Love to hear your thoughts on it!

my first ask!!! i’m so excited!! thank you, anon! i love asks, btw, and would love for people to continue to send them!

i actually watched the misselthwaite archives as it was coming out! every wednesday, i watched the newest episode after coming home from school. it was the highlight of my week!

i actually rewatched a good chunk of episodes the other night. it dredges up a lot of nostalgia for me in a bittersweet way. i appreciate the series a lot, and i think everyone involved did a great job, but it’s the way the creators approach adapting the source material that i find to be a little off the mark.

this is mainly because i think something is inevitably lost when bringing the secret garden into modern day (which was, back then, good old 2015). i think, if i were trying to adapt the book into a modern setting, i’d minimize the modern day trappings as much as possible; references to modern pop culture like parks and recreation and beyoncé, like misselarch employs, are fleetingly fun, but i think they date the material too much. they also feel too kitschy and cute, in my opinion. that’s my opinion of a lot of the misselthwaite archives’ adaptation choices—they’re cute, but don’t feel like they do justice to the material.

i feel making mary a snarky, bitter teenager seems like a good idea at first, but i think it’s ultimately a misrepresentation. in the original novel, she’s prickly and prone to insulting others, sure, but she’s also sullen, withdrawn, and socially awkward—her inability to connect with others is derived from the lack of positive social interaction she had since she was born. she’s emotionally stunted, which mary in the misselthwaite archives doesn’t communicate at all in her video diaries to dr. burnett (which is a very nice homage, i will admit).

on the contrary, teen!mary is charismatic, with a biting wit; she’s had friends in the past, but they only cared for her parents’ money. ironically, her friendship with declan seems almost to benefit him more in terms of social development than it does her. her petty cruelty seems more the product of watching mean girls one too many times than any deep-rooted emotional trauma. though there are gestures made to indicate that she feels badly about her celebrity parents’ deaths, i never found them particularly convincing. i felt her vulnerability as an orphan, as a young woman with no prospects, with no real friends—as she is at the the beginning of the story—never came through properly. it felt like the writers wanted to modernize mary’s contrariness in a way, metamorphosing it into a more palatable 21st-century diagnosis: jaded teenager syndrome.

which is cute, but not very book-accurate, i feel. it colors the rest of her journey if she hasn’t been socially deprived like she is in the novel. i can’t imagine the mary of the misselthwaite archives having a profound revelation about how much nicer people look when they smile, for instance. as a result, her journey feels a lot less interesting to me.

i personally feel mary should have been prickly, of course, and sometimes aggressively mean, but more unwilling to talk about her feelings than anything—more emotionally numb after years of neglect, more uninterested in nearly everything. she shrugs when spoken to, looks eternally glum, glares at the pitying glances of sarah medlock. it’s only with the influence of the characters in the story that she’s coaxed into opening up and begins to bloom.

i really liked sarah medlock’s characterization, as well as uncle art’s and phoebe’s! i love that aunt sarah is presented as having positive intentions from the get-go, as i’ve always hated her vilification in other adaptations. i also really like the portrayal of declan—i like the idea of him being a bit of a social misfit.

with callie, i really enjoy her actress’s portrayal—she’s properly hysterical and catty! but i feel like turning colin into a girl doesn’t add anything to the story, and removes some of the narrative tension that comes with mary coming into contact with a member of the opposite sex that mirrors her in terms of upbringing and attitude. if anything, i feel it downplays the tension of their budding friendship, as the subconscious assumption that people are more likely to become friends people of the same sex is one that the audience undoubtedly has.

i don’t particularly like callie being steeped in pop culture, either, though it makes sense in a modern setting, technically. in the source material, though, colin is surrounded by interesting things to engage with, but he’s disinterested in all those things when mary stumbles across him. he’s more interested in thinking about his illness. i think having callie be immersed in pop culture as a way to entertain herself indicates a level of engagement with the world that colin is completely shut off from, which definitely affects his characterization. a version of colin that is invested in things enough to buy merchandise of them, etc. is a version of colin who is already significantly more “alive” than his book counterpart from the beginning. a more accurate idea of communicating colin’s isolation, i feel, would have callie being too cynical and emotionally stunted to be interested in anything, at least for very long; any media about characters going on interesting adventures only reminds her of the lackluster quality of her own life and makes her insecure, so she eschews pop culture in favor of frequent depression naps and bullying aunt sarah and phoebe. sometimes she’ll read if she’s bored, but not often, and she refuses to have lessons with phoebe unless she feels well enough to learn, leaving her education full of gaps despite her intelligence. callie, in my hypothetical adaptation, is determined to live a miserable, barren existence, much like colin.

anyway, it also seems that canon callie isn’t dogged by colin’s negative thoughts quite as much, and her feelings surrounding her condition feel too subdued to communicate colin’s utter maladjustment. the episode where callie “explodes” feels too muted by half! this girl should be furious, incoherent with hysteria, raging at the world for her mother’s death, stricken with self-loathing and misery! but, while callie’s actress does an amazing job with what she has, i can’t help but feel that the adaptation of her character was a bit lukewarm.

i also think giving mary and callie a history together undermines the importance of them finding each other for the first time, and gives their friendship too much of an instant leg-up from the minute mary finds her. it makes the work she has to do to befriend/reform callie feel too easy.

not to mention, the pacing of the second half of the story, where mary finds callie to the point where she and declan plan to take her to the glade, seems way too fast. i feel there was a lot of missed potential there; they could’ve really drawn out the rockiness of mary and callie’s relationship, like mary and colin’s in the book.

i think my big problem with the misselthwaite archives is that the creators, in service of adapting it to modern times, undercuts and downplays a lot of the earnestness of the characters’ relationships that i found so charming in the book. instead of instantly loving dickon and breathlessly calling him beautiful, mary only grudgingly admits that she needs declan’s help, and any affection she has for him she keeps close to the chest. colin’s desperation for mary’s company, his screaming for her to come to him, is rendered as needy over-texting, devoid of any emotional urgency; callie seems more bored, rather than truly lonely and unable to communicate in an emotionally mature manner, like colin is. even declan is subdued in his love for nature, more shy. it makes sense for a modern adaptation not prone to the novel’s 1910s sentimentality, but i can’t help but feel that the adaptation feels dull and repressed as a result.

i also wish we got a proper video of callie and declan meeting!

like a lot of adaptations, i think the pacing is off; more time should be spent on ironing out mary and callie’s relationship, more time should be spent in the garden, helping callie bloom. the “eye of the tiger” bit was cute, but gah, colin walking took months and months of practice, and to see all that development be reduced to a short little montage feels disheartening. i’d love to see at least 10 episodes of the teens just chilling in the glade, talking about their childhood traumas in more detail, having little conflicts among each other, planting flowers and setting up decorations...for a series with such short installments, that kind of episodic structure would be perfect. maybe they could create a subplot where mary suggests callie go to her high school and she has to work that out with medlock and that becomes a whole character-building thing, or she has a conflict with basil, or callie properly hashes out her negative feelings toward declan, or something. i dunno. i just wanted more.

i think the misselthwaite archives was really cute, but i feel it misses the mark on the melancholy of the original story; the glade itself is perfect, but the interpretation of mary feels too derivative of the “bratty teenager” trope to be honest to her book character, in my opinion. and i dislike pop culture references in timeless classics, even modern-day interpretations of them, lol. but i still appreciate it as an adaptation, though—it’s just so eager to translate the sentimentality into something more modern that it loses the essence of what i find so charming about the book, which is the unabashed intensity of the characters’ friendships, the extreme character development, and the scale of the emotional and social deprivation mary and colin suffered before said character development occurs.

i also wish declan had more animals around him, though obviously that can’t be helped, haha.

please send more asks, anon! i’d be happy to answer them! :)

#the secret garden #frances hodgson burnett #misselthwaite archives

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duckodeathreturns · 5 years

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A BIG YES to your Malcolm and Julius fic! I would love to read it. You've made my day.

Hi Anon (and everyone else)

Please excuse my radio silence re: the Malcolm and Julius fic. It finally occurred to me that you all probably can’t actually read my mind so you can’t know I have in fact been diligently working away on the thing with the fervent hope that I can post at least the first chapter very very soon.

I apologize because I neglected to mention/warn when I responded to the fic request that I am The World’s Slowest Writer so even though I already have 70 pages written (double-spaced, but still that’s impressive, right?) it still takes me forever to do the editing and researching – if that’s the right word – for the things that I’d not previously worked out like, for example, the layout of the original DoSa building and where it was actually supposed to be located in Thickoverse Westminster* which forced me (oh the horror!) to rewatch the first five episodes…a few times over and over again.

And then since the story takes place immediately after The Specials, I’ve obviously had to rewatch them and the Opposition Extra a bunch of times too to re-immerse myself in the world of January 2007 and the week with three Wednesdays, to say nothing of Ollie’s amazing time travel cheese adventures that end up causing Darling Julius so such distress in the Richmond Terrace conference room.

*And the original DoSa building? Well, one minor clue is here:

The time it takes Malcolm in 103 to get from his office to Hugh in the fishbowl is comedy time (less than a minute) that doesn’t make real sense, but then also in 103 you see people driving to Number 10 (and Glenn thinks it will take Robyn about ten minutes to get there on foot in 105 and no I haven’t thought about this waaaaaaay too much), but the direction he’s running at least tells you that wherever the original DoSa building was supposed to be, it was – if I’ve got my orientation right – south of Downing Street and that by itself is useful for my purposes.

So anyway, the tl;dr version is I AM working on the fic and I AM determined to start posting it before the end of the month if you will please continue to bear with me and my ridiculous slowness. Thank you for your patience!

#tttoi #the thick of it #fanfic I've promised #excuses excuses #run malcolm run #Anonymous #worry less #write more

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sweeneyxlaura · 5 years

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Ok after rewatching Treasure of the Sun I have a new theory. Sorry for my shitty english btw, here it is: In this episode, Sweeney is remembering his own story, and at one point he remembers killing Wednesday instead of the giant. We are to believe that that's what happened for real. Also, there's this other scene in which he is watching the battle and, before he flees, he has this vision of his wife saying something (I didn't understand it), but then the vision changes and it's Laura. So maybe

Hey you! Your English is perfect, no worries there! :)

First, let me just say that the Laura-as-Eorann theory is so beautiful! I know a few shippers who were definitely hoping for that, including myself to some degree! It really does suggest this epic love story between them that spans centuries and generations, and I think because we got the Sweeney/Essie-with-Laura’s-face, and them doing it again with Eorann briefly here, I’m so tempted to want Laura as Sweeney’s true love for all of TIME. And the idea that you said about him “outliving all of his soulmates” - are you trying to give me sad fanfic scenarios ON TOP of the ones I already have? Cos I think that queue is bursting now, kthanx. :D

I’m really curious to see what others’ interpretations are because there is definitely a case of Sweeney being something of an “unreliable narrator” throughout the episode. On top of that, you have Bilquis and Ibis interjecting and telling him how THEY heard it or know it, and that only adds to the unreliability of things. As Ibis says, stories are “bigger than the truth” - meaning they can change, evolve or be embellished as these stories pass down over time - but it also suggests that they can take on a whole new personal meaning for you as it relates to what you’re going through. And that’s how I took Sweeney recalling his stories and then connecting them to his current shenanigans.

So, I think, for me, I took his Fomorian flashback differently - that Sweeney really was battling his grandfather and not Grimnir. And that Eorann was Eorann and that’s exactly how things actually happened. I just think that he substituted Wednesday and Laura briefly because those two people and his ongoing experiences with them are foremost on his mind:

We have Sweeney remembering a time when he was part of and triumphant in an important battle, and in this episode, he later tells Wednesday, “You’re always my battle.” (I CRY…) For me, the reason why he puts Wednesday’s head in for Grandpa’s because there is this sense that Sweeney is fighting someone who, like Fomorian Grandpa, is a figure of authority that’s trying to keep Sweeney down, keep him from rising to power and possibly upending him in the end. Maybe there’s something about Sweeney that Wednesday fears, and maybe that’s why he’s kept Sweeney under his thumb for so long. Since we also know now that Sweeney is actually a god, and a pretty powerful one, it could be there’s something to this.

Then the Eorann/Laura substitution - I probably need to re-watch this sequence, but I think the timing of the Eorann flashback is crucial because it occurs right after Salim suggests that Sweeney’s never been in love. Salim’s savagery, by the way, made me laugh, like Salim going, “YOu?? In love? Lolz.” Also, I think what’s interesting here is that Laura appears right at the moment when Sweeney’s on the precipice of Mag Rath, the battle that would brand him a coward for years to come. If you take what she said to him back in 2.05 about him being a coward, plus what fleeing Mag Rath did to him in the years since, including how it destroyed his relationship with Eorann, I guess it makes a bit of sense (?) that he would put Laura in place of Eorann, since she’s also a woman he loves and has seen up close how his sense of inadequacy and cowardice has defined him.

But this is just my interpretation of what we saw in the episode - I think it’s also interesting we saw Laura in the Will James re-telling, and how Shadow kinda stuck Laura in there when he put himself in Will’s shoes. It’s all pretty ambiguous!

I love your theory, and I’ll just store that away for safe-keeping. And honestly, it just makes me really want a Madwife spin-off where we can get your theory to coincide with the modern telling of their story. Ugh. They just have so much potential for stories, god. :)

#madwife #americangodsspoilers #agspoilers #mad sweeney #ask #thelemita #meta

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a-kosher-dunk · 5 years

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I’ve been thinking about possible Hebrew names again. The first name I ever considered was Miriam. Miriam was my entry into serious Jewish study. The first time I watched The Prince of Egypt, I didn’t pay a lot of attention to her, but the more I rewatched the movie, the more fascinated I became. When I looked to Jewish texts for more information, I was amazed to find legends, songs, commentary - a wealth of information about a woman I previously hadn’t known existed. But “Miriam” didn’t feel quite right for a personal name.

Next, I considered Chaya. It means “life,” and I liked the symbolism of that. The new Jewish life I was embarking on. The Jewish emphasis on life and survival vs. the Christian emphasis on glorious martyrdom. The problem was, it’s also the name of the protagonist in the Holocaust novel The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen. This book was an integral part of my childhood, for better or worse. It was an important step along my Jewish journey, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to name myself after it. A friend pointed out that, by choosing the name Chaya, I could reclaim it. I could make “Chaya” an integral part of my identity, instead of a reminder of the book that I can no longer read without triggering an anxiety attack. It was a compelling argument. But still, it didn’t feel quite right.

Then, the name Shira occurred to me. It means “song.” Before I started exploring Judaism, I didn’t enjoy singing. I’d join in with friends, or sing sarcastic song parodies of my own devising. But I didn’t sing along to my favorite songs or bust into song during moments of joy. As I started going to shabbat services and learning Jewish songs, I found myself singing out of nowhere, just for the fun of it. Shabbat songs on a Wednesday. Pesach songs in the winter. Singing “yai lai lai” to random melodies as I went about daily tasks.

I associate songs with my exploration of Judaism. And “Shira” also acts as a reference to Miriam. One of Miriam’s most memorable moments in Torah is when she leads the people in a song of triumph after crossing the Sea of Reeds. By calling myself “song,” I can honor her and honor my own religious journey.

I don’t know that I’ll stick with Shira. But for now, I really like it.

#hebrew names #personal #my posts #miriam #holocaust mention #holocaust tw #shoah mention #shoah tw #conversion

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