#it honestly is such a fantastic reading

[bunnieswithknives]

Question, does literally anybody have the audio of Sammy Lawrence's voice actor reading The Raven? It's so insane to me that I can't seem to find it anywhere but someone has to have a copy, right?

#I found one link to an instagram post that no longer exists #So im really hoping someone has it saved somewhere #it honestly is such a fantastic reading #bendy and the ink machine #sammy lawrence #batim #pretty please help this no longer be lost media

[kartsie]

Who’s dumb enough to steal from Batman again?

I love @cdelphiki In For a Pound series but tbh I love all their stuff so m u c h- 10/10 recommend

(He’s very convincing)

#jason todd #baby jason #batman #bruce wayne #Robin #ft. batblob #I don’t care if I’ve already drawn Jason stealing Batman’s tires already #ILL DO IT AGAIN #may or may not have read through the series twice already… #honestly just check them out they’re a fantastic writer #my art #Jason: STREET SMARTS

[marimeeko]

I have a sudden, unsolicited opinion on the moment where Ochako admits that she fell in love with Izuku. Since it has been going around as one of those context-less, surface level articles on Google(I spotted it too)

So it's talking about the moment when Ochako is fighting Toga and she tells her that she fell in love with Izuku.

Does she use the exact wording? Yes.

Does that mean it's an end all declaration? Does it mean she is endgame with Izuku? I do not think so.

I don't think it's the final nail in the coffin to the argument for any other ship involving Izuku or Ochako. Here's why:

The admission is so anticlimactic.

We have known for a while that Ochako has complicated feelings about Izuku. We know that it has been a bit of a crush. And that has led to ANTICIPATION to see what becomes of those feelings.

But along the anticipation, we have also seen her going through some feelings of discomfort about the whole thing...unusual, for a supposed love interest of a Shonen manga!

So the audience has been waiting for a LONG time for something, anything, to happen between Ochako and Izuku that rewards that anticipation and that waffling on Ochakos part.

And for something like a supposed love confession, a line like "I fell in love with Izuku Midoriya", to heppen....

But NOT in a moment between Ochako and Izuku themselves, just also does not reward the anticipation that was built up.

She did not confirm and admit these feelings TO izuku. She admitted them to Himiko.

And that is the first time the audience hears her positively confirm that she had those feelings, blatantly.

But it TAKES AWAY from the actual relationship because Himiko received that confession...not Izuku.

We didn't get a charged confession between Ochako and Izuku. The relationship was STILL not mutually developed. It's still just a quality of Ochako, it says nothing about Izuku. The anticipation of Ochako having a crush, and changing, complicated feelings for Izuku and where that would eventually climax, where it would reach its peak for Ochako and Izuku both, instead is diverted. Kind of literally. Because it didn't happen at either chance they had to talk it out, to confess, she sent Izuku away when Himiko tried to trap him into a love discussion. She didnt bring it up before the war began even though they had such a calm moment to be able to do so. It didn't come out in the logical places. And now in the endgame, they have split up to fight different battles...Ochako has even exhausted everything she has right now to save Himiko and likely is out until we receive the wrap up.

So, the anticipation I mentioned, again, does not have a payout in the form of even a rushed battlefield confession because the two of them are fighting different battles.

Instead the audience is given the confirmation of "I fell in love with him" when he is not even present, when Ochako is not confessing to him or confronting him. It comes out with Toga, when she Is trying to reach out and level with her, it almost could read as a "I had a crush on the same boy" kind of statement. It comes out when saving Himiko is Ochakos main priority.

What I'm saying here is that Ochakos love confession for Izuku, which is usually a big deal in any story, is in the back seat to prioritize each of their other relationships and goals. Which is great that it is not forced upon us when there are bigger things happening, however it just does a disservice to the pairing itself when most of the feelings are expressed onesidedly, and an actual statement of love, if it's not even outdated because of changed feelings, means a lot less when it's not filling the gap between the two people in question. When the confession doesn't reach the other person.

(And I will go ahead and say that is kind of similar to how bkdk is right now as well, bc we have SO MUCH material on Katsukis side, about how he feels and how much he cares about Izuku, but not a lot on what Izuku feels or allows himself to feel about Katsuki. I will call that out as well.)

Like at this point, the best we could hope for, for Ochako and Izuku being a couple, is a very open note about it in the aftermath. Like maybe Ochako asks Izuku if he would like to get crepes with her. That's just enough given context clues to suggest to the audience that yes there are still some feelings there, she heard what he said about crepes and holding hands and took note of it, but also that Izuku himself is willing to explore those feelings as well. It would be Ochako finally choosing her feelings for Izuku, but without it being too sudden for Izuku to accept. This whole time we are not shown Izuku crushing on her at all it would be strange to have him suddenly initiate.

But anything more romantic and profound than that? Any dramatic reveal/confession of feelings, any chance for them to have a moment in the midst of war to have the "i love you" discussion? That has been bypassed time and time again. Horikoshi COULD HAVE WORKED IT IN, IF IT WERE A PRIORITY TO HAVE THEM ENDGAME. While no, romance doesn't have to be a priority in a Shonen, and Ochako has flipped the script on how she handles her feelings as a shonen love interest, Hori has demonstrated that threads and concepts of romance ARE part of his narrative.

And right now? Hot take, but the most romantic thread that Izuku, his main character, finds himself in, is whatever the hell is going on between him and Katsuki Bakugou.

You'd just think if the mc was going to be with a romantic partner, a girl, by the end of the story, something would have happened.

I feel like I'm going in circles past my point, but it boils down to Izuku not having any indication of interest in Ochako besides friendliness....the fact that the audience received confirmation of Ochako loving Izuku from her telling a 3rd party and NOT her subject, and the anticipation of that confession, built up for YEARS of this manga and animes run, of supposed feelings not really being paid off, if the two are meant to be the romantic end game. It also boils down to the fact that the anticipation of the confession had a CHANCE to occur with Izuku, the subject, multiple times. It boils down to again, ochako and Izukus relationship being romantic in anyway being little more than an after thought.

AND! it doesn't even guarantee that her feelings of love for him are still the same! We don't know for sure if she STILL loves Izuku!

So yeah. I hope this made sense, but it sure feels anticlimactic to have a love confession(supposedly) not even occur while the subject is present, where the audience can view it and celebrate that long awaited conclusion.

As always, these articles that pop up on Google leave a lot of context out, and are very face value. They saw Ochako say the L word and called it endgame. There is a reason I don't read them.

#bakudeku #bnha spoilers #bkdk #togachako #thoughts on romance in bnha #take with a grain of salt bc i could of course be wrong #but that is how it reads to me #honestly i would be satisfied with the scenario of ochako asking izuku on a little crepe date at the very end #bc it would still be believable #even if we dont know how izu feels #there is nothing that says he cant aay yes to a small casual date like that at the end pf their war #just dont call it a whirlwind romance cus its not #there also nothing wrong with izuku just not having a dtrong romantic interest in anyone #he has a lot going on it makes sense #just bc shonen USUALLY has this big romantic sideplot doesnt mean hori wont subvert it #he already has honestly #arguably tho he has got more romantic coded drama going on with Katsuki #BUT THATS JUST OPINION FROM A MULTISHIPPER WHO SPECIALIZES IN BKDK #anyway ochako is doing fantastic and i love her very much #ochako uraraka #at the end of the day horikoshis writing is pretty complex #he had already done Ochako a service by subverting the love interest character trope and having her focus on Himiko instead of Izuku

[hollydogs]

we considered ourselves to be a powerful culture

#tinad #antimemetics divsion #there is no antimemetics division #antimemetics #scp #scp wiki #it feels so weird tagging it as scp bc it honestly feels like its own world #read antimemetics its . really really fantastic

[daisies-on-a-cup]

i don't necessarily think will is a good parent, but i don't think he's a bad one either. he's more just like an adult who is in charge of a child- one who can care for them and provide for them, but not exactly hold all the natural sense of paternity or love for that child. any love he felt for abigail was just garrot's love for her. his attachment to walter is very superficial, and there aren't any scenes given that indicate will actually feels anything... loving towards the boy. he takes care of molly and walter for sure- plays the role really well of provider, husband, and step-father. but he "plays" them. he's not really feeling any of it. i think will really wants to feel it, to have that kind of sure, emotional and loving attachment to a child like a parent should, but in the end, they aren't *his* kids and they come secondary to whatever attachment he had to the adult that was around him first. so, even though i think will certainly attempts to fulfill the role of good parent, it falls flat because he is merely playing at the role and isn't invested in it

#i feel bad for walter #ive read a few fics that delve into his relationship with will and the consequences therein #and they were all honestly so fantastic- especially hannibal's reaction to walter #i think if any fic writer or anyone in the hannibal fandom engages with walter and doesnt write him off #i think you have a really good grasp on the show and i trust your anaylsis and characterizations #nbc hannibal #will graham #walter graham #abigail hobbs #hannibal lecter

[malenchka]

“If you’ll pardon the observation, you appear to be in your underthings.” “…Yes.”

I am once again asking you all to read Mortal Follies pls and thank you

#myart #i love them so much #stupid sapphic bitches #mortal follies #alexis hall #CURRENTLY I am reading 10 things that never happened #Which is fantastic so far I have like 3 chapters left and it’s the gay xmas novel I didn’t know I needed? #But yeah these girls…………. ThESE LADIES #xoxo I love you maelys & georgiana #Let’s b real if I were the Duke of Annadale I too would be down ferocious for the naked woman outside the party that just appeared whilst #I was just trying to have a smoke #How often does that happen honestly #Anyway #yeah no I’m realizing I’m posting this to the wrong account but I #too tired to rewrite the post now ? Ah well

[paranorahjones]

very close to finishing The Whispering Skull in my current Lockwood & Co. reread and i cannot believe i'm about to voluntarily put myself through The Hollow Boy again.

#it's just sitting in my backpack #haunting me #waiting for me #yes it's a fantastic book but when i tell you i was miserable the first time i read it #i was freaking MISERABLE #my girl lucy was going through it and baby so was i #honestly don't think i've ever felt so strongly for a book character in my life #lockwood and co #lockwood & co #lucy carlyle #the hollow boy

[jeanmoreaue]

i did in fact just spend my entire weekend reading the sunshine court, and then rereading the entire aftg series and now i’m gonna reread the sunshine court again

#i’m honestly so giddy that i’m able to get back into reading so heavily like this #i read aftg when i was 17 and now i’m 24 and i feel 17 again loll #i had a fantastic weekend #tsc

[queenlucythevaliant]

Why can't the churches with choirs and pipe organs and stained glass windows have a bit more theological rigor??

#i am constantly forced to reject churches with beautiful music and sanctuaries I can see myself getting married in #in favor of rigorous theology #and like. i will every time #but how it that fair?? #i maintain that truly beautiful churches and stained glass windows and pipe organs should belong by right #to Christians committed to taking the Bible seriously #it makes me so sad every time I live near a church with gorgeous carillon bells and know I'll never even consider membership there #bc i see the titles of their sermons on the signpost out front every week and *yikes dudes I'm praying for you* #or like that time i was invited to come sing in the choir at a church where both my voice teacher and my choir director were involved #like. a church regionally famous for having a truly fantastic choir #and obviously had to turn them down because I've read their what we believe page and they only mention 2/3 of the trinity #why can't a girl have it all????? #honestly this is the most compelling reason imo to move back to southern California #lots of beautiful Presbyterian churches with sound theology AND choirs and organs and beautiful sanctuaries #but alas #i am here #and so i suffer #(I'm being dramatic. I'm sure whatever church God has for me will be great) #but also #just #sigh #can't a reformed girlie want a pipe organ? as a treat? #pontifications and creations #new adventures #sunday school kid

[trillgutterbug]

being back on my hbo war bullshit rn (jk im never not on my hbo war bullshit) seems like a good time to mention the very cool jacob vouza, a native of guadalcanal. from 1916 onwards he was part of the island's constable force, aka the system of policemen and law enforcers run by the colonial government, which was a scattering of primarily british and australian military and bureaucratic personnel, such as coastwatcher martin clemens (who wrote a great book about his experiences spying on the japanese).

the pacific (the hbo show, i mean) has a good number of narrative faults, but one of its most egregious content faults imo is its complete lack of acknowledgement of the native solomon islanders who were not just instrumental to the american victory, but utterly indispensible. without their knowledge of the terrain, their protection, guidance, and supplying of the coastwatchers who provided pivotal intel on japanese troop/air/naval movement ("forty bombers heading yours"), and their constant rescuing of stranded american troops (particularly air and navy men, including 26yo jfk) and white civilians, it is genuinely questionable how much longer or worse the war might have ended up being.

jacob vouza (whom martin clemens described as incredibly loyal, cheerful, brave, a fierce individualist, and tremendously skilled in bushcraft) had retired from the constabulary pre-war, but rejoined a year later when the japanese landed on guadalcanal. he helped clemens escape into the jungle, then eventually helped him reach the american lines safely. afterwards, he oversaw a network of native scouts and participated in regular spying missions, gathering information on japanese troop movements. on one of these missions, he was apprehended by the japanese, who found a tiny american flag in his possession. they tied him up and interrogated him. he refused to give them any information on the americans, despite being tortured for hours with beatings, stabbings, hanging, and being forced to lie on a red ant hill with open wounds. eventually, having bayoneted him in the limbs, face, throat, and stomach, the japanese left him for dead. he chewed through his bindings and escaped into the jungle, where he made his way for three miles through an active battlefield to the american lines. upon reaching the marines, he refused medical treatment until he could personally deliver a message to clemens and the commander of the 2nd battalion 1st marines. despite being unable to stand and barely able to speak through the wound in his throat, he informed them that the japanese were massing for a huge, imminent assault on the critical american-held henderson airfield. he described the japanese numbers, positions, and weaponry. he also dictated a final message to his wife and children, which clemens wrote down with one hand, while holding vouza's hand with the other. his warning came only about ten minutes ahead of the japanese attack, but that was just enough time for the marines to assemble a successful defense in the correct place.

vouza was quickly rushed to field surgery and received a massive transfusion (tangentially, this was in the time of a segregated american military, in which it was illegal for black and white soldiers to provide one another blood transfusions; although vouza was not considered black per se by the american military, it's nonetheless a notable element of the cultural landscape at the time), which saved his life. later, he was awarded a number of medals from both the american and british governments, including the silver star. in 1979, clemens successfully campaigned to have him knighted. following vouza's death in 1984, clemens also organised the installation of a commemorative memorial in his hometown.

it's remarkable (derogatory) to me that the pacific (the show), despite its amazing dedication in general to accuracy and exhaustive detail, didn't say a peep about jacob vouza (or any native person whatsoever), despite spending most of episode 2 re-enacting this specific battle. his actions weren't just a footnote, but genuinely the crux of the american victory. he was a very incredible person, one of the many examples of contributions native solomon islanders made to the war effort, and we should remember him accordingly!

#most of this info comes directly from martin clemens' book 'alone on guadalcanal' #it really is a great book! racist in its own way of course (see: the title) but for the time and circumstances honestly pretty equitable #eg clemens does explicitly note that the title is disingenuous considering the many native people he depended on for his survival #lonely vigil by walter lord is also a fantastic read about the coastwatchers in general #guadalcanal #the pacific #hbo war #jacob vouza

[chadsuke]

Books Read in 2023:

Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 3 by Ryoko Kui (2016)

Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 4 by Ryoko Kui (2017)

She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat Vol. 2 by Sakaomi Yuzaki (2021)

Crossplay Love: Otaku x Punk Vol. 3 by Toru (2023)

I'm in Love with the Villainess Vol. 1 by Aonoshimo, Inori, & Hanagata (2020)

I'm in Love with the Villainess Vol. 2 by Aonoshimo, Inori, & Hanagata (2021)

I'm in Love with the Villainess Vol. 3 by Aonoshimo, Inori, & Hanagata (2021)

I'm in Love with the Villainess Vol. 4 by Aonoshimo, Inori, & Hanagata (2022)

Midnight Radio by Iolanda Zanfardino (2019)

[ID: Covers of aforementioned books. End ID.]

#2023media #gigi.txt #dungeon meshi always killing it. having a great time #the tonal shift when they pull out her SKULL is so. #its good. its v good. #she loves 2 cook is literally best yuri manga of all time no crit allowed it makes me so HAPPY #i drop everything to read new volumes on my manga site #crossplay love is a silly delight i always enjoy that manga #i do highly rec it. its yaoi and yuri all at once and shenanigans #i'm in love with the villainess was... fine? #i honestly expected to be more enthralled esp bc i love isekai but i really wasn't #i don't really like the mc rae that much and i don't get why she likes her LI claire! i don't! #not that i see why she would hate her but i just. truly don't get what is going on in their heads much of the time #and i don't like the act rae puts on At All like they discuss it in text but i Don't Like It #idk. i've subbed to it on my manga site but i didn't find it gripping? #i'm hoping the light novel will grip me more. #also the fucking inc*st plot came out of NOWHERE that was awful i hope those characters never come back #anyway midnight radio was really good and made me cry #four semi-intertwined stories in a fantastic chromatic way

[inloveanddepth]

love these guys

#i like how cringe they all are. like all of them are flawed & immensely cringe. no one's main is safe #they're cringe in different ways & some more than others but they're all cringe. love it #why are the fans for my two favourite soul fighter champions the autistic-coded ones !! #why are the autistic-coded ones the most unhinged.... #though tbh i think you could make an argument for all 5 of them being autistic 😭 #sommer's homemade jhin cosplay is so cute #they somehow managed to capture the exact brand of weird that jhin fans are. bravo #i think the funniest part about him is that jhin would not be able to stand him lmao #him wearing a shirt with the same art that's on the print he's holding makes me crack up for some reason #obsessed with the jacked yordle named rizz.... she's everything #also can i just say i love the crop top on guy. fantastic creative decision. so many crop tops in soul fighter i love it #kiri is crazy though what do you mean she's literally selling rpf at an event that the people she's writing rpf about are at #her repeatedly trying to get samira to read her fanfiction is kind of hilarious #& then she tells samira she's going to write fanfic about her. which is kiri's way of praising her. she is nuts (affectionate) #the way she keeps casually mentioning pyke totally kills people in this universe & she still adores him #she's the worst kind of fangirl (which is the point. they're all parodies) but it's hard to hate her lol she's so silly #my only issue with her is that she's a jhin hater.... how rude #i know her tumblr game goes crazy #the only character i'm confused by is jade. the lux fangirling felt really forced to me #it's not reflected in her design at all; honestly she looks more like evelynn #especially when riki guy & rizz & sommer are all clearly emulating gwen sett & jhin respectively #plus jade's shtick was more about parodying true crime & political content creators it seemed. the lux stuff felt tacked on #i guess it was because dema is after lux & jade doesn't like dema but it felt over the top at least #on top of the fact that it's pretty hard to make sjw characters actually funny #they should've made a dema bootlicker character tbh. for funzies #i think riot should publish some of kiri's fanfiction on the universe site. wouldn't that be silly #they could do one for each of them! a transcription of one of jade's podcast episodes; guy & rizz's training regimen; a poem from sommer #hope some of them show up in LoR sometime. just for fun #league of legends #soul fighter

[akiraofthefour]

I've read this novel three times. The story has, of course, remained the same since 1959, but the persons with my name who read it in 1968 and 1998, at eighteen and forty-eight, are not the same as the one who came to the novel most recently at the age of fifty-five. All three of us have been altered by it, according to our gifts at the time.

Mary Doria Russell, introduction to the 2006 edition of A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

#Mary Doria Russell #a canticle for leibowitz #Walter M. Miller Jr #okay you may think this book is overblown because everybody says you've got to read it if you like sci-fi #but holy shit #it is a fantastic book that makes a lot of 'sweeping epics' of the kind look toothless #honestly the remains of the fallout shelter even kind of make Jenny look pathetic #I feel like... like it's not outwardly hilarious or anything... but I feel like Futurama fans would appreciate it #I feel like anybody could but I feel like a LOT of at least the OG staff on that show read this book #idk #it also reminded me of a book I had as a kid #where centuries in the future people dig up a motel and they think it's a sacred burial chamber #and it goes through the excavation and research process to the commodification #that's Motel of the Mysteries btw #also recommend

[ave-atque-vale-herondale]

hey guys. regularly scheduled thought drop

I truly adore Kit Herondale and I would do anything for him

#kit herondale #christopher herondale #the lost herondale #Lauren reads TDA for the first time #I am finally on the final book guys #I had to stop reading for like a year #but it's okay cause im having a fantastic time #WHY DID NO ONE WARN ME ABOUT THE LAST CHAPTER OF LORD OF SHADOWS THOUGH #honestly nothing could have prepared me for that

[yellowocaballero]

all these naruto references make me wonder how things would go if vash and knives met zetsu. lmao

I don't know what you're talking about and I don't know what a Zetsu is and isn't Naruto that thing on ramen I've never read it in my life why do people keep sending me Naruto asks when I don't know what Naruto even is is this funny to you guys pretending that I know what Naruto is when I have no idea what you're even talking about so I have no idea why you sent this ask twice I'm being publicly harrassed -

#there's legit a fic out there where vash meets obito which is interesting. haven't read it. #honestly somebody should type up the comparitive essay on pacifism in trigun vs naruto #somebody who isn't me because i don't know what naruto is #I recently read a fic with just an incredibly standout Obito #and a fantastic Tobi #did a bunch of difficult character work very deftly and it was super unique #now im sitting here pissed that I can't read any more of their character specifically #i think i know how my friends feel when they say it's annoying that I'm the only one who writes #some characters like I write them #*slams desk* give me more extremely good Tobi #[fic was kamui blues and the other stuff by the author] #my asks

[nilla-wafer]

🖤 audio gift 🖤

The Phantom of the Opera - London - August 11, 2022 - Tracked

Killian Donnelly, Holly-Anne Hull (alt), Matt Blaker

Full Cast: Killian Donnelly (The Phantom), Holly-Anne Hull (alt. Christine), Matt Blaker (Raoul), Kelly Glyptis (Carlotta), Adam Linstead (M. André), Matt Harrop (M. Firmin), Greg Castiglioni (Piangi), Francesca Ellis (Mme. Giry), Ellie Young (Meg)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/110hm2sJDtoF94Lb4AIibYplDbTYaVgBM?usp=sharing

#audio gift #phantom west end #killian donnelly #holly anne hull #matt blaker #shoutout to the lady at the stage door who very earnestly asked me if i knew who played 'the hot one' #i honestly could not take my eyes off of kelly's carlotta she was absolutely fantastic #kelly glyptis if you're reading this i love you #the phantom of the opera #my audio