#obey me the anime episode 6

[lovelybrooke]

I don’t remember everything I was thinking about yesterday but I’ll try to tell you based on what I do remember. (Still the idea person by the way I hope you recognize me)

So Val, now that I’ve shared how I think Vox might act with the reader and how he’d first start liking them it’s Val’s turn.

I think Val’s motivation isn’t just alastor and I’m sure everyone would agree he keeps an eye on alastor for Vox but his motivation is to control angel dust.

If angel dust isn’t behaving or properly isn’t following Val in the studio I’m sure Val would use whatever information he has on the reader to keep angel dust in line. Now I’m not saying he’d directly threaten to hurt the reader because god forbid alastor finds out but I think Angel would keep the details of his occupation from the reader, and when Val finds out he’d threaten to maybe tell them, even if he can’t. Angel doesn’t want the readers thoughts on him changing so he naturally continues to obey Val.

I think the vast majority of the people in the hotel kinda infantilizes the reader, knowingly or not, it’s hard not to when they’re a teen/young adult who obviously isn’t as immoral as most sinners. And I’m sure that’s where it starts for Val, he works with the most disgusting people in hell, and because of how messed up the people around him is his conception on a normal person changed. He knows objectively the people around him aren’t normal, but when you’re in hell sickos are normal, finding kind people is like finding a nail in a haystack, it’s so rare. I imagine him starting to be interested in the reader in a cosmetic sense, the same reason why people here want expensive or rare breeds of animal.

He doesn’t care for the reader, he just likes the idea of having something rare. But he also notices Vox, and to me Vox starts obsessing before Val. Val is clearly confused, usually they agree with most things, what makes the reader so different? And why doesn’t Vox like them for cosmetic reasons? Why is Vox so interested in the things they like?

Now I think you finished the season but for those who didn’t, spoilers for episode 6.

Let’s imagine the reader also ended up going to the party (assuming they’re at least 18 and the others didn’t prevent them/ the reader didn’t insist on staying in the hotel). They’re stuck with Husk for obvious reason, but they’re clearly tuned out, in their own little world. Even when the others interact with them they’re still not fully there. And it clicks, Vox must have figured out what’s going on in that brain of theirs, and it must be the reason why he was so drawn to them. And now he wants to figure out what it is. (I typed this way too fast and even when I re read it I’m dyslexic so I might have still made a typo. Thanks for reading)

This is exactly how I imagined Val, he doesn't seem like someone to care about anyone other than himself, so his obsession with reader doesn't come from a place of admiration more from a place of possessiveness. He sees reader as something to own, something to flaunt in front of the other Overlords.

Reading this reminded me of a scenario I had in mind where reader figures out what Angel does for work and Angel begs reader to stay away from Val. He wouldn't know what to do with himself if Val got to you, and it's even more angsty when he's already dealing with Val's threats. Because of this Angel gets incredible protective over reader, keeping an eye on them at all time. And while he doesn't want to be like Val, controlling and possessive, he wants to make sure you're safe.

So when Val starts showing an interest in reader, starts asking things about you, like what you do for fun and why you spend so much time at the hotel, it scares him, because out of everyone Angel knows what Val could do to you.

Val himself doesn't get why the other overlords, especially Vox care about you so much. Yeah you're not like the other beings in Hell, but who gives a shit about your hobbies, your wants or dreams. It would take him a while to understand why the other Vee's are so obsessed with you, and even then Val's obsession if never for the same reason.

#yandere x reader #soft yandere #platonic yandere #platonic yandere hazbin hotel #yandere hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel x reader

[cafeinthemoon]

Ruins - Part XXI + Extra Content

Chapter 22/?

Wordcount 3,3k

Title Part XXI

Fandom Shuumatsu no Valkyrie / Record of Ragnarok

Previous chapters

1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . 10 . 11 . 12 . 13 . 14 . 15 . 16 . 17 . 18 . 19 . 20

Symbols ⭕ . ➕ . 💛

Warnings: none

Tagging @holdyourwine @lilacshouko @shirayuki-ayumi @telvess (If you want to be tagged in any of my stories, just leave a comment on this chapter or send an ask or a message)

N. A.: I'm glad I can share this chapter with you bc I couldn't wait to post it anymore! I wanted this moment between them to be special not only bc it is, you know, they honeymoon, but bc what it will mean for both of them in the future: the trust, the intimacy and the respect they have for each other can be sensed in each second, and it's expected to grow stronger. I really wanted to depict what a healthy relationship means when I had the idea for this story, and that's why I'm putting such effort in these things.

Also I wanted to include some humor in it as well, so I hope you enjoy the content by the end of this chapter as well haha

Your face warmed up when the god revealed his identity.

So, the doctor of the gods is Apollo’s son.

You would still need time to conciliate it, since Asclepius looked like a twin of his own father, but despite your surprise, you soon caught up with the good manners and greeted him with the owned respect.

– It is an honor for me to finally meet you as well, Asclepius-sama – you gave him a fainting smile – I apologize for my first reaction, but you really resemble the God of the Su…

Your last word was interrupted by a sudden decrease on your blood pressure, and your head fell back on your pillow. Hades rushed to your side.

– Y/n? – he helped you to sit and adjusted the pillow behind your back – Are you alright?

– I am – you sighed – For a moment, my body felt heavy again and my sight got dark, but it’s coming back again…

When your sight was finally reestablished, you looked at Asclepius and noticed he had a serious expression. He approached your spot and sat on the bed, placing the cane beside him and taking off the bag from his shoulder.

– These episodes of weakness… when exactly did they start?

You made an effort to remember, but even this was painful for you.

– One or two hours after I drank the ambrosia, I guess. But it was easy to handle... at least until I sensed the beginning of a headache. I passed out for the first time in our way here, on the corridor. But this isn’t everything: while I stood here, waiting for you, my Lord, I noticed my senses... increasing – you indicated the opened balcony with a frail hand – I’ve been hearing the nightly animals as if they’re close to this room, but they’re actually miles away, and all these sounds make the headache worst.

Asclepius thought of this for a moment, a hand under his chin. Then, he took out a strange instrument from his bag, something that resembled a portable mirror.

– Please, put your palm over the lens – he asked and you obeyed, putting your hand over the place where the glass would be if it was a mirror – Keep it there for a few seconds.

You sensed a cold upon your skin, as a glowing light appeared and vanished, little by little until everything was dark again. The exam was finished. Asclepius thanked your collaboration and analyzed the instrument. You glanced over the lens and noticed a purplish glow over them, in a shade that resembled the one of your hair now.

– It is just as Zeus-sama said – he started – You are on the growing spectrum. The blessed fluid is slowly assimilating your natural characteristics and expanding them beyond the human limits. However, your body is still mortal, and this is the cause of the uncomfortable symptoms: your immune system still views these changes as signs of sickness and it’s trying to fight it, but as the ambrosia takes over your cells, turning them into divine ones, they will become the majority, and your body will no longer react as if you were sick.

You swallowed. Knowing what was going on with your body was somewhat relieving, but you were still worried about the possibility of the symptoms increasing, and you exposed those preoccupations to him.

– About this, I might have a solution – he replied with a kind smile – Just give me a second.

He turned the instrument off and put it back in the bag and started searching for something else inside it. Finally, he took out a small bottle from it and handled it to Hades, who received it with a frown.

– Don’t tell me that it is what I think it is…

You leaned to your husband, trying to observe the bottle, then turned to the other god.

– What is this?

Asclepius had a curious expression that deepened his resemblance with Apollo: the grin of someone who had the undivided attention of powerful beings.

– Hades-sama may tell you this story later, when you have more disposition to listen to it – he replied – But to summarize, it is the medicine I created to cease a terrible plague that almost ended humanity in the past. I don’t want to brag about it, but its effectiveness was such that some men became immortal, and Hellheim lost potential inhabitants thanks to it.

Hades sighed by your side.

– Those were chaotic times, in fact, but I’m glad everything was solved – he gave the bottle to you.

You turned to the doctor.

– If this was the effect on human beings, how am I going to react to this medicine now that I’m already becoming a goddess?

– It will diminish the discomfort caused by the metamorphosis – he explained – And it will do this without interfering in the process, like other substances would do, which would be too risky. You see, you’re not really sick, y/n-san. You’re just changing. Then, I recommend you to take it only when you feel you’re not going to stand the symptoms for any longer. Small doses are enough to help you.

Asclepius’ last words sounded as comforting the ones of an adult who was trying to console his child about growing up. You didn’t find it offensive, though: being someone who was used to observe how the living beings’ bodies work, maybe it was exactly the way he thought of the situation; you were leaving the childish state of being a mortal and was now entering the adulthood of existence by becoming a divine being. Of course, the process would be scary and even painful at some point, but it was also a wonderful experience.

Suddenly, you remembered something you’ve been wanting to ask to the gods you were more familiar with, but haven’t had the opportunity.

– Ah, about this, there’s something I’d like to know, Asclepius-sama – you observed the bottle in your hands – Is it possible to tell what type of goddess I’m going to be?

He thought of the question for a while.

– According to what Zeus-sama told me, you’re on the growing spectrum. I don’t know how much he told you about this, but your side on the spectrum of transformations usually determines what types of power you might hold. Gods with the same process as you use to have familiarity with wildlife, the cycles of nature and rebirth. Demeter and Chloris, though they were divine since the start, are this type of goddesses. It’s too soon to tell if your powers are going to be similar to theirs, but they will work under the same principles.

You pondered for a moment, then turned to your husband.

– It makes sense when we remember our dreams about the ruins, Hades.

– Indeed – he agreed – A living human visiting the world of the dead really seemed to be a sign back then. Now we need to observe the development of your powers to reach a better understanding of it.

Asclepius, who was hearing the conversation in silence, stood up put his bag back around his shoulder and grabbed his cane.

– Hades-sama, y/n-san, my sincere wish is to see you reach the referred understanding. It will be a great achievement for yourselves and for the world of the gods – he bowed his head – Now, if you excuse me, other matters demand my attention.

Hades stood up right after him.

– Will you stay in Valhalla, then?

– Yes. Usually, I would visit Valhalla every six months to check on the girls’ health, but personal problems prevented me from coming in the last semester – the doctor explained; and, turning to you, – This is why you’re only seeing me for the first time now, y/n-san. Finally, try to take as much rest as possible. This is as important as the medicine I gave you.

You gave him a cordial smile.

– I will do this, Asclepius-sama. Thank you for everything.

The god bowed for the second time.

– It’s good to hear that. And, if you need me, I will be in the chambers besides Hermes’.

– Thank you for answering our call, Asclepius – Hades replied – I will accompany you to the door.

The two men left and your husband closed the door behind him. You observed the small bottle in your hands for a while before putting it upon the night stand at the left side of the bed and letting your head fall on the pillows.

***

Hades came back to your chambers after a few minutes, stating that he was going to take a bath himself.

– Are you going to be alright while I’m there? – he asked while caressing your hair.

– I am – you smiled, still lying your head on the pillow – If things get complicated, I’ll be following Asclepius-sama’s instructions.

– Good – he bent down to kiss the top of your head – I’ll be right back.

You never had a clear memory of what happened after he left you, but you were inclined to think you just stood in bed, in the dark, your consciousness slipping out as you listened to the murmur of the shower somewhere near you. You were tired and weak due to the transformation, but you were in peace: you had a medicine to lean on, the man you loved was close and your family was out there having fun.

Everything is in its right place.

It was impossible to measure how long you stood in that quiet, peaceful state, somewhere between asleep and awake, but it changed when your body began to feel cold; this cold appeared first in your feet and spread to your legs, then to the rest of your limbs as you pulled the sheets more and more against yourself, but your efforts to keep the warmth were useless, for the cold didn’t come from the outside, and soon you were taken over by successive shivers. You tried to move to your side, but felt your body heavy, as if your blood pressure got suddenly low again; this time, your head started spinning. You knew your situation were getting more serious, and couldn’t help feeling anxious.

You tried to move back to your previous position, to reach for the medicine on the night stand, but your attempt failed: your body barely obeyed you. Now you were really scared, and before you did anything to avoid it, you were already breathless and crying.

What’s going on? What’s happening to me? Am I going to...

A yellowish light appeared on the wall above your head, illuminating the headboard and the painting over it (you opted to keep the art with the fawn and the nymphs). With one last effort, you moved the sheets away and saw the bathroom’s door opened: Hades’ silhouette was stepping out of it, wrapped in a robe. You couldn’t keep looking, because the headache increased, forcing you to close your eyes.

Apparently, your bad state was evident from far, because soon he rushed to your side.

– What is it, y/n? What’s happening?

You tried to sit on the bed, but your body didn’t obey you. You only managed to change your position with his help.

– I don’t know... – you whispered, covering your forehead with your hand – My head hurts… And I couldn’t even reach for the medicine…

Making you look up to him, he moved your hand away and put his palm over your forehead, then on each side of your neck.

– You got a fever – was his worried answer – And a bad one.

Your heart jumped at those words.

– It explains this cold I’m feeling… It’s so scary… – you sighed and passed your arms around yourself as another shiver spread through your body; you raised your eyes to him, raising a trembling hand to hold the sleeve of his robe – Can you stay with me?

Hades stared at you for a moment, a glimmer of compassion in his eyes. Maybe he was thinking the same as you: that was going to be the first time you were sharing a bed; of course, none of you expected this moment to be like this, but it was there before you, and both of you sensed the importance of it.

Your husband sat by your side and wiped your tears, involving you in his arms and kissing your forehead.

– Of course I can, little one – he then grabbed the medicine and opened the bottle, holding it close to your lips – Take it.

You accepted the remedy and, after a small dose, he put it back on its previous place, then turned around the bed and took off his robe; he left the piece on the back of a chair beside the bed and finally took the place by your side.

– Come here – he passed his arms around your body and placed you between them, your head leaning on his chest, your legs folded between his.

You moaned when a new, stronger shiver spread all over your body.

– I’m so scared...

You felt the warmth of his hand massaging your back and curled yourself more on his lap.

– I know – he whispered – But I’m here with you – and, kissing your hair, – And if things get tough, we have a doctor nearby, okay?

– Okay – your voice faded as you replied; and, with an attempt to laugh, – You know… I’ve been wondering how our first night together would be like… And, among all the possibilities, I’ve never considered something like this… I’m so sorry for ruining it...

– What are you apologizing for, little one? – you felt his fingers fondling your hair – You’re turning into a goddess. The most beautiful one. There’s nothing to be sorry about.

– But I wanted to give you… to give us better moments… It’s our honeymoon, after all…

He strengthened his grip around you and kissed you again.

– Each moment, and each night we will spend together will be better than the other. This is just the first one. You don’t have t lose your head over it.

You spent a moment in silence, gathering strength to reply.

– I see…

In fact, you were anxious about that night for weeks, so when it finally came, it was only natural that you felt frustrated, even disappointed with yourself, to see things happening in an uncomfortable, unplanned way. But another thing you weren’t expecting was to find relief while speaking about your feelings and then being understood by your husband: perhaps you’ve been putting so much expectation in your own part in this that you forgot you weren’t going to take care of it by yourself; yet counting on each other was a golden rule of relationships, even more in romantic ones.

I still have too much to learn.

Fortunately for you, you had a reasonable partner, one who have learned the art of patience for centuries and who would teach you in this sense for the next ages. Ages… when you remembered that this was going to be your lifespan, your heart ached, and more shivers hit your body, but guiding your thoughts away from it would calm them down, and with effort you trained yourself in this sense.

That night was long. You spent all of it in the arms of the King of the Underworld, alternating between moments of dreamless sleep and tired consciousness; this extended as the transformation went on, and the fever diminished as the hours passed. During those painful hours, Hades was always there with you, whether talking or just caressing you; as you got used to his warmth, you noticed the cold ceasing, and as the metamorphosis became more tolerable, your body relaxed more and more in his embrace. Slowly, as the new day approached, you were recovering the sense of control over yourself, and the fear of the future diminished, until it completely disappeared.

***

The first hours of the next day were something between dream and reality, for you witnessed – well, you listened to – curious things, but had no ways to decide if they indeed happened or if they were just your imagination.

At some point, you woke up, but didn’t open your eyes. You sensed you were alone in the bed, but it was still warm, and you supposed that Hades might have left moments ago. Though the room was quiet, you had the impression that your husband was in the living room with a visitor – paying close attention, you recognized Poseidon’s composed tone. They had a brief talk when most of what was said was in a foreign, ancient language that, thanks to the lessons given by your husband, you identified as Greek.

Apparently, Poseidon was going to leave Valhalla that day and came to see his brother before the travel. Besides the rapid, murmuring exchange of words in Greek, there was some chuckling, so you had no idea of what was being said (and you'd rather remain oblivious to it).

But then the conversation turned to a language you were able to fully understand.

– You don’t need to worry about that – Hades was saying – She wasn’t in conditions anyway. The changing is being successful, but it has been taking too much from her mortal body. She had a bad fever during night, but it was gone last time I checked.

– Did you call Asclepius to see her? – Poseidon inquired.

– Yes. He gave her a potion for her discomfort, but she wasn’t really medicated – your husband replied – The process of having your biology rewritten, according to him, can take longer or shorter depending on your body’s conditions, and cannot be interrupted or altered by the ingestion of medicine. Besides, as the altered cells become the majority in one’s body, the process becomes easier, and their immune system no longer recognizes the mutation as a problem. I talked to him moments ago to keep him in touch with the situation. He believes that she will be one of us by the end of this day.

– I see – his brother said – If this is the case, then she has suffered less than Heracles, who almost had his body swallowed by fire.

Hades laughed at this.

– Yes, but, please, don’t say this in front of her next time you see us.

– Alright – Poseidon’s voice softened – Send my regards to her when she wakes up.

They exchanged a few words in Greek, then said their farewell in the common language.

– I must go, now. Goodbye, brother.

– Goodbye. Be well.

A door was opened at the distance, a few steps were heard beyond it, then the door was closed, followed by utter silence.

***

Extra content

This is part of what was said between the brothers in ancient Greek, alternated with laughter and inner jokes that are impossible to translate:

– Good morning, elder brother. I came to say farewell. Some things demand my immediate attention in the Seas.

– I see. Truth is that I was expecting to have your company during our breakfast, but I knew that it wouldn’t be possible.

– You and your not-so-subtle way to call me antisocial. Anyways, I would have communicated my intentions sooner, but we haven’t the chance to speak yesterday and I didn’t want to interrupt your moments together. So... I am not interrupting anything now, I hope.

– Absolutely not. But if you’ve showed up earlier, you would’ve found the doors locked.

– I wouldn’t judge you. Not after what we saw at the party. You would be a fool if you didn’t take measures to keep your runaway bride safe.

– Please, don’t say these things about her. With that gaze of yours upon me, I would’ve run if I was a human girl too!

– Watch your mouth, old man! She only ran after she saw you. She was perfectly fine with us.

– Hey!

– Speaking of this, how is she doing?

– A bit tired, but well. Sleeping like a little lamb.

– Hm... You already reached the phase of the ridiculous nicknames, brother?

– Everyone reaches that phase, sooner or later. Just wait.

– Hmpf. I won’t have you cursing my fate, old man.

– It’s not a curse. You’ll thank me later.

#snv x reader #ror x reader #snv hades x reader #ror hades x reader #record of ragnarok hades #shuumatsu no valkyrie x reader #shuumatsu no valkyrie hades #record of ragnarok x reader

[still-a-morosexual-help]

Shut up shut up shut up season 2 episode 1 of the obey me! anime has killed me. Left me for dead on the streets

For one, it fully encapsulates my post about Mammon being both the smartest and stupidest person in the room. Man was dumb enough to not realise he'd being turned back into a human form but smart enough to make an insane profit off his brothers' emotions. I love him.

He's also such a good example of street smarts vs book smarts and how the standard school system doesn't fit and/or benefit all its students - he really did get a 6 on a standardised school test and become a multimillionaire (multibillionaire?) through his own ingenuity in the same episode. I am shaking. Add that to how S1 Ep1 showed one of the reasons he was failing school was because he lost focus/got distracted from studying in one minute flat. I am shaking.

AND he finally achieved all his dreams - became fucking rich - insanely fucking rich - got a goddamned palace and was still, at the end of the day, upset because MC wasn't there. (dead on the streets)

Don't even get me started on the implications behind the origin of Miss 'Em because because

it's driving me insane. Miss 'Em's whole being is a symbol of love and listen to me

The name itself being created by:

What you're currently feeling about the person you love (Miss)

Their pronouns but the way it'd sound when said with your accent ('Em)

And sure he capitalised on it and mass produced it (as he should because he's still Greed) but original Miss 'Em was handmade and yellow because that's Mammon's colour and had a name that fully referenced MC and if that wasn't a symbol of just Love (capital L) I don't know what is.

And it's this creature created out of Love that took the world(s) by storm, that went on to become a beloved character to all beings of all ages. I am not okay.

Definitely do not get me started on how this beloved character is not only based off someone who uses they/them pronouns but is named after said pronouns (said in Mammon's accent aka said with fucking love)

Because - because - IMAGINE if this happened in real life. Imagine living in this world where being nonbinary and/or using they/them pronouns is still not accepted everywhere (is in some places even worse than simply "not accepted") and this adorable goofy little toy takes the world by storm and there are shows and movies about it and everyone has one and then you find out the creator made them because he loved and missed his partner too much - that the toy's name (insanely popular now, on movie posters and billboards everywhere) came from the fact that the creator's partner uses they/them pronouns??? That the toy's name itself was just a sneaky way for the creator to say "I miss them". I would go fucking feral. This is what little teenage me would have needed. This is what current me who's still scared to use they/them pronouns in public needs. It wouldn't solve everything but GOD would I feel proud and vindicated and a little less scared. I am going to cry. FUCK.

#i am throwing up I love him so much #i immediately finished this episode and went to my mc × mammon playlist like the fool i am #obey me anime #obey me #obey me shall we date #obey me! #shall we date? obey me! #swd obey me #obey me mammon #om! mammon #swd mammon #om mammon #obey me! mammon #shall we date mammon #mammon x gender neutral reader #mammon x gn!mc #mammon x gn!reader #oc x mammon #mammon x mc #mammon x reader #mammon x oc #mammon x you #mammon x y/n #mc x mammon #you x mammon #y/n x mammon #reader x mammon #shall we date obey me #swd obey me! #obey me mc

[nnnneeev]

fun fact! the townsfolk in the obey me! anime season 2 episode 6 was voiced by none other than solomon’s VA, Kazuki Kawata! (yes, all of them)

#obey me #obey me solomon #i was surprised when i found this one out #cuz i was already amazed of how good the singer was and the voice was really oddly familiar #and then in episode 7 when they made a commentary episode abt eps 1-6 they mentioned kawata-san voicing all the townsfolk

[ur-dad-satan]

The fact that the Obey Me! anime is on Amazon Prime, Funimation, AND Crunchyroll but I have to PAY FOR either the second season or both seasons and have NOWHERE TO WATCH IT FOR FREE is so sick and twisted omfg. THE EPISODES ARE ONLY LIKE 5 OR 6 MINUTES LONG LIKE JUST LET ME LIVE AND WATCH MY SHORT FORM OBEY ME CONTENT!!!

#shitpost #obey me shitpost #obey me! #obey me anime #let me watch #im gonna go insane #im going to cry #pleeeease

[highfantasy-soul]

NATLA Episode 6 - Masks (4/5)

[Masterlist of my NATLA thoughts]

An explanation of what I'm doing here and my history with ATLA.

Of course, full spoilers ahead.

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Daammmnnn these transitions for Zuko in this episode!!!! Right into the Agni Kai.

It's such an interesting choice to have Ozai seem genuinely insulted that Zuko said the general's plan was terrible - like it really was Ozai's plan Zuko had said was bad. He's terrifying in his rage, but it feels more personal in the live-action rather than the cold and distant - almost disinterested anger of the animated series. Animated Ozai always felt more dismissive and annoyed with Zuko, live-action Ozai seems like he truly wants Zuko to be his perfect prince and is angry that he's not.

He hasn't written Zuko off yet - and I think that makes a much more interesting dynamic to watch than one where everyone can tell Zuko will never win his favor. It will make Zuko turning in Ba Sing Se make a lot more sense because we, too, might believe that Ozai might actually welcome him back. In the animated show, it was painfully obvious that Ozai couldn't care less about Zuko and his treatment of him upon his return was ceremonial at best. But here, watching him berate Zuko about his insult in the war council, it feels like Ozai really cares - not in the healthy, good manner of caring, but he's not so distant. He's a very real, present, and active threat.

I like that in this iteration, Iroh tries to intervene on Zuko's behalf. I don't see it as lore-breaking at all (I've seen people say that Zuko was punished for speaking out at a war council, surely Iroh would be punished even more severely for directly opposing the fire lord's actions in front of witnesses) I think Iroh still has a lot of respect in the fire nation and enough status to be able to at least recommend the fire lord change his decision. Ozai allows this because he's not trying to teach Iroh anything, he has a ceremonial position in the nation, but no real power as shown when he immediately steps down when Ozai says he won't change his mind about the Agni Kai. It's still his brother, the Dragon of the West, after all, so I don't think even the onlookers would see it as an underling questioning the ruler - it was a conversation between two brothers, both of which have storied histories for the fire nation.

It's chilling to hear Ozai respond to Iroh's insistence that 'he's still your son' with 'we'll see'. It's what he wants to see here, he wants to see how ruthless and 'strong' Zuko will be when pushed to it as that's what Ozai has been taught makes a 'good' leader. Zuko tries to beg forgiveness, but Ozai orders him to rise and 'learn respect'.

While in the animated series, Zuko doesn't fight back at all and kneels unmoving as his father brands him, I don't think it messes with his character to have him fight back in the live-action. He's not fighting back because he's angry at his dad or is trying to show he's better than his dad - he's fighting because he thinks it'll be what makes his father respect him and think that he's a worthy son. He's terrified and doesn't want to fight, but he thinks obeying his father - showing what he can do - will earn him his father's love.

But he doesn't throw the first punch - Ozai does. Zuko merely stands and faces his father and dodges the fire lord's attacks and does his sick parting of the fire blast. He evades and dodges until he runs out of space and finally tries to demonstrate what he can do. Ozai's nonchalant, relaxed pose as Zuko comes at him with his own attacks shows just how much more skilled Ozai is than his son - this is truly an uneven match - a master against a child.

Ozai dodges Zuko's blows with his hands behind his back, then with only one hand, and easily grapples him and pushes his son back - snarling at him "is this everything? Give me everything!" He has no idea how harmful this 'lesson' is to his son, he doesn't see the trauma he's inflicting - his own childhood has led him to believe that this is actually an accurate test of Zuko's ability. And so Zuko tries to give his father what he wants - his attacks become bigger, more powerful, more ferocious, but Ozai still blocks him, dodges, and lands easy blows on his son.

Then he leaves Zuko an opening. He makes a big swing for Zuko to duck and pauses so Zuko can take advantage of the drop in his guard. He still has plenty of time to block Zuko's attack, even from the position he's in, but he sees his child commit the cardinal sin - he shows compassion. He hesitates to cause pain. And now Ozai is done with the lesson - his child failed. Zuko couldn't bring himself to truly hurt his father - his compassion won out over the brutality Ozai wanted to see from him. And so he's punished. His father holds him down, tells him compassion is a sign of weakness, then brands his son as a lesson he won't ever forget.

Iroh looks away in horror, Azula looks on with fascination, Zuko screams, and there's actually a look of conflicted pain on Ozai's face as well.

Jumping to the flashback Zuko has in season 2, Zuko Alone, of the animated show: I had never noticed the parallels between the way Ozai punishes Zuko for speaking out and how Azulon attempts to punish Ozai for the same thing. Both sons questioned their father's plans for the future and both were punished for it. Ozai's comes much later in life, after he's been fully indoctrinated into the Fire Nation's propaganda that power and force are the most valuable traits one can have and arguing that Iroh isn't fit for the throne because of his 'weakness' after his son's death reinforces this. It also directly impacts the way Ozai treats Zuko when he speaks out at the war council in defense of the soldiers' lives. Ozai's punishment was to know the loss of a child - while he didn't seem to believe that it would affect him as it did Iroh, I think his over-punishment of Zuko was a hold-over from that trauma his father inflicted on him - a similar trauma response Zuko has in the series: he over compensates for the perceived weakness others saw in him.

By brutally punishing Zuko for speaking out against him (just as he would have been punished for speaking out against his own father), Ozai was trying to prove to himself that he wasn't 'weak' like Iroh and the pain of his children wouldn't affect him. Not only that, but he wanted to forge his children into the ideal that he thought he, himself, had achieved: one where they were 'strong' and could stand alone without breaking under the pressures of war (like Iroh did at the loss of his son) or harm done to a family member (Zuko held back and wouldn't hurt his father).

While all of that is subtly in the animated show, you have to really understand the way childhood trauma affects people into adulthood and the cycle of violence that's perpetrated: very rarely are abusive parents that way randomly - it usually stems from how they, themselves, were treated as children. I do like that we got to see more nuance in Ozai's character here rather than the flat maniacal villain shown in the animated series - we DO see conflict on Ozai's face as he burns Zuko, possibly a hint of tears in his eyes. It doesn’t lessen the horror of his actions, it doesn’t make him 'sympathetic', it makes him a real person that we can identify in the real world. It also makes people grapple with the idea that 'bad guys' are rarely the comic-book villains with no hope for redemption that's popular in some genres of media. Not that that's a bad way to show villains, usually those stories (Lord of the Rings comes to mind), other themes are explored rather than the complexity of what leads people to do horrible things, but showing that nuance is also not a bad thing. They're just two different ways to approach antagonists.

A huge part of learning about oppression (racism, patriarchy, homophobia, colonization) is that all those things HARM THE OPPRESSOR TOO. Does that mean that the only reason we should stop racism is because it harms white people? No. What it DOES mean is that understanding that everyone is connected and even when you're 'on top' in the social/economic/political order, you are still harmed by that system too. Understanding that is a very big way we can STOP those systems - by not just throwing out an entire group of people because they happen to be born into the social group that’s oppressing people, but rather understand what's happened to their minds as well so that we can teach them a better way and keep it from repeating with just another group. I know large sections of Tumblr hate that idea - that by humanizing those causing harm we can reduce harm - it's much more satisfying to just say 'that person was born into x group and has upheld x group's supremacy, therefore they're evil and should never be shown a scrap of kindness or understanding'. This isn't a whole ass 'how-to de-radicalize people' post, so obviously I'm not going to go into all the nuances of how to go about doing that or WHO should be taking up the burden of doing that (genuinely, the answer to that question is whoever feels called to do it whether that be allies from that group or those of the oppressed group who are able and willing to 'reach across the aisle', it's 100% up to the individual and I am NOT here to tell you how you need to react to oppressors), this is just a 'lets try to cover some bases in case people take my statements about Ozai and generational abuse wildly out of context'.

We understand in the animated series that Zuko is a product of his childhood and the culture he was raised in - so why does that understanding never seem to extend to anyone else in the Fire Nation? My assumption would be that, as a kid's show, it was easier to digest that there would be one 'had always been good' kid in the Fire Nation while everyone else was just 'born a monster' from the start. Again, like with the Lord of the Rings, that's an acceptable way to portray villains when the themes you're looking to explore aren't central to that nuance, but I really like how the live-action decided to explore what it was like for the Fire Nation royal family in more complex ways. Azula wasn't grinning at Zuko's punishment like a psycho, she was looking on in morbid fascination, learning the lesson just as well as Zuko and perhaps seeing herself taking the place as the favored child for good. A much more interesting dynamic to me than her 'foregone conclusion' of being Ozai's favorite like in the animated series.

#natla #natla positivity #avatar the last airbender #netflix avatar #avatar netflix #avatar live action

[auroraeterna]

Additional Information on WMMAP's Donghua Production

I've been trying to find some additional information on the guys who are making WMMAP's donghua. Here's some of my finds!

Original post by Kuaikan on Weibo

Producer: Kuaikan Manhua (WMMAP's chinese publisher. They're in charge of various other famous titles like Mo Dao Zhu Shi) and iQIYI (produced My Roommate is a Gumiho in partnership with Korean Television and Luoyang. Also a very big broadcasting platform, a.k.a "China's Netflix".)

Animation: Colored Pencil Animation. Produced Blades of the Guardians, the Obey Me anime and The King's Avatar (you can see the other series they've worked on by looking up at their site). They also show up on Anime News Network as the company responsible for the key animation and/or 2nd key animation of the following series:

Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan: Season 3, Episode 12

The God of Highschool: Episode 9

SSSS.Gridman: Episode 6

Show By Rock!! Mashumairesh!!

Bakumatsu

Yasuke: Episode 4

Broadcaster: iQIYI

Director: Zhang Yingying (张盈盈). Very difficult person to find information about. They doesn't seem to have a Weibo profile (otherwise, Kuaikan would've @ them). Tried to search their name on the searchbar and nothing. Writing 张盈盈 + 魔法公主的小烦恼 also didn't lead me anywhere. Writing 张盈盈 anime on the google search led me to this website, where it shows they've worked on The King's Avatar's storyboard and direction.

Another Zhang Yingying with ties to the animation industry is the director of photography to Vanitas no Carte and Mob Psycho, but they're probably not the same person, since the chinese characters for their names are different (张盈盈 and 張 盈穎).

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This was all the information I could find for now! Maybe I'll try later to see if I can find more interesting things!

#wmmap #wmmap donghua #sbapod #wmmap anime #manhwa

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Obey Me! Nightbringer 7-13 (Hard Mode)

Obey Me! The Anime Episode 6: Detective Satan

#nightbringer spoilers #nightbringer #obey me anime #6 #4 #this was hilarious to me like revenge at last or do you even remember

[tsuki-here]

Okay so @maja-cherub made some Beast Machine Rattrap posts, and I've also been wanting to write a proper essay about the episode "The Weak Component" for a while now [and recently was ranting to a mutual about it like a week ago, so it's still fresh in my mind. So yeah, shout out to @j-starchaser for letting me rant about it and also for being the beta reader/editor for this essay], so here we are. Long text post beneath the cut, and of course Beast Machine spoilers-

To begin with, I enjoyed watching Beast Machines, despite the fact that yes, it has its share of flaws. Also, Rattrap is my favorite character in both Beast Wars and Beast Machines, so some bias might come through. But I've watched some YouTube essays talking about the full Beast Machines series, as well as text posts/comments by others that say they feel The Weak Component is the worst or one of the worst episodes of the series because of the way Rattrap acts/the actions he takes throughout the episode. [AKA, he's out of character]. So I just wanted to give my view on that and the episode in general.

For me personally, The Weak Component is one of, if not, my favorite episode of Beast Machines. I've only watched the series from start to finish once, but have gone back to watch that episode somewhere around 5-10 times, including once again to refresh my memory on some dialogue for this analysis. Of course, this is a matter of personal preference, and everyone is entitled to their own likes and dislikes. A large portion of why I like the episode so much is because of the amount of Rattrap screen time and focus. So, there's some of the bias I mentioned haha.

As for the argument that Rattrap is out of character, I both agree and disagree to an extent. Yes, in this episode Rattrap does things that he never did or would have done in Beast Wars. However, this is a situation that never happened in Beast Wars. The events and situations in this episode are not something we've seen Rattrap deal with before, and are clearly shown to be very stressful, as well as mentally and emotionally taxing for him. I'll go through the episode, breaking down the individual stress factors and his reactions to them.

To begin with a base line: Before this episode even takes place, there's already a number of stress-inducing factors at play. The Maximals’ entire situation seems completely hopeless. The little group of Optimus, Cheetor, Blackarachnia, Nightscream, and Rattrap against Megatron, his three vehicon generals, and the entire population of Cybertron (the latter made into mindless drones to obey Megatron). They're in an extremely unfair, dangerous, and practically hopeless fight with the entire fate of their home on their shoulders. On top of that, Rattrap can't transform. In beast mode, he has no real weapons to fight with, and has to make do with what his animal form is capable of. Meanwhile, everyone else can transform and has weapons/powers. We know from both Beast Wars and The Weak Component that protecting his friends is something extremely important to Rattrap. So, to be in such an outnumbered and dangerous predicament, to be unable to fight alongside the other Maximals and help them in the way he wants to, and had been capable of before, is immensely frustrating and upsetting to him. He went so far as to take 'transformation enhancers' to try and force his body into doing what he desperately wanted it to be able to do. Furthermore, they still haven't even figured out what's happened to Rhinox or Silverbolt, and Rhinox especially was clearly important to Rattrap, so him still being missing is likely also weighing on him.

Now, episode 6 happens. Rattrap is out on a mission with Cheetor and Nightscream. They didn't seem to want to bring Rattrap with them to begin with since they thought he was likely to just get in the way. And each time Rattrap tries to help or contribute in some way, he's scolded and told to knock it off. The other two even come up with a plan together that they completely leave Rattrap out of the loop on, and then are angry with him when he interferes under the belief that Cheetor was in danger, which ruins the plan, and gets Cheetor hurt by accident. Worse, after messing up the plan he hadn't been informed of in the first place, he finds out that his transformed mode has no weaponry, so he can't even clean up the unintentional mess.

When returning to the base, Cheetor and Nightscream talk down to Rattrap the whole time, and don't seem to care about his attempts at explaining himself. It had been an important moment to him, as it was the first time he had managed to transform to robot mode at will, and it was because he saw Cheetor in what he perceived as danger. The strong desire he felt to protect those dear to him was the motivation he'd been missing. Before, he'd been selfishly concerned about not transforming for his own wants, but he put that aside and was fully focused on only wanting to save Cheetor.

But neither of the other two really try to understand him, and harshly tell him that he shouldn't have bothered helping, since he made things worse. He's crushed that his friends aren't happy for him being able to transform at last, and aren't appreciative of how his only desire and intention had been to help.

He's then seen talking to the unconscious Optimus about how useless he feels, describing himself as a lemon. Though he doesn't seem angry with Optimus, knowing that there was no intention on his end for things to turn out the way they had, but he still blames him to an extent for being the one to convince them all to let the Oracle upgrade their bodies, only to feel that he's been remade broken and much weaker than he'd been before.

In his talking to himself, he transforms, as if to show what he's been turned into. At that exact moment Cheetor, Nightscream, and Blackarachnia walk in and immediately start snapping at him for potentially giving Megatron the chance to lock on to his signal and track them to their base. Cheetor even goes as far as physically tackling him to the ground and yelling at him. Though this does give Rattrap the chance to realize that he had accidentally downloaded Megatron's vital stats during the mission, and that he is very vulnerable and weakened at the moment. He suggests that now is the time to attack, but is quickly told “no” by Cheetor, who insists that they must remain at the base to protect Optimus until he's recovered.

Then they leave Rattrap, only to go to a different room to talk about him behind his back. He listens in on the conversation, hearing how they all think that he's not contributing anything and needs to be looked after. Nightscream even goes as far as suggesting they 'cut him loose'. Considering the position they're in, with Megatron having an entire army searching for them at all times, and all of them knowing that Rattrap cannot defend himself, this is essentially Nightscream suggesting that they should exile Rattrap and leave him to die. [To which thankfully Cheetor at least has the sense to get angry and reject that idea immediately.] Tired of the treatment he's getting and of being seen as a dead weight to the team, Rattrap leaves to try and resolve the problem by himself.

During this time, he's being subjected to even more new stresses piling on top of each other. Now he's able to transform, only to find out that all his struggles were seemingly for nothing. He thinks he's no more capable of helping than when he was stuck as a rat. All of his friends are treating him awfully and being completely unsupportive of the issues he's going through. They’re talking behind his back, have no faith in him, and one of them is even advocating for kicking him out entirely.

Rattrap then comes up with a plan to solve the issue himself. He goes to Megatron with a deal: give me weapons and in exchange, I'll protect you until morning while you recover. When Megatron then points out that he can just kill Rattrap while he's there alone, Rattrap counters that he will just send a distress signal to the other Maximals. But Megatron calls the bluff, and says he knows he wouldn't have come to him if he had anywhere else to turn to, and Rattrap does genuinely feel that way. He doesn't feel that he can rely on the other Maximals to help him, and has no choice but to turn to Megatron instead. He is so disillusioned with the other Maximals, that he throws away the device that would have sent the distress signal, believing that it won't be of any use to him. He feels so uncared for that he doesn't think the others would bother coming to help him if he called.

And Megatron tries to take advantage of this, by offering Rattrap to work with him instead, as a vehicon. Of course, Rattrap declines, but Megatron pushes it. He gives Rattrap a powerful weapon suit, and tells him how he would make such a good ally on his side, while the Maximals clearly don't want him anymore.

Rattrap had no intention of betraying the Maximals with this deal. He only said that he'd protect him because he was certain that no one was going to leave the base anyway. Rattrap was promising to protect Megatron from a threat he knew wasn't coming, certain that he wouldn't have to fight the others.

However, Megatron's blatant emotional manipulation does seem to cause Rattrap even more doubts. He's successfully calling out all of Rattrap's insecurities, telling him all of the things he knows he’s already thinking in his vulnerable state. He tells him how the other Maximals don't care or appreciate him, or how Optimus has fed him nothing but lies and false promises of power that he could never deliver on when he convinced them to have their bodies reformatted.

Then things only spiral further out of control when Cheetor, Nightscream, and Blackarachnia show up under the belief Megatron is holding Rattrap against his will and he needs saving. Rattrap is clearly upset and anxious about them being there, as he's now placed into a horrible lose/lose situation.

He can break his deal with Megatron, and they will be attacked and not permitted to leave unharmed. They are in Megatron's headquarters, without a plan, and without Optimus. They can be easily overrun by vehicons if they try to fight there. And if they just try to run, Rattrap would be forfeiting the weapon suit, and would be going back to just being a dead weight again who can't contribute and needs constant protection.

Or if he keeps his word and protects Megatron, especially with him guilt tripping Rattrap that it's morally wrong to attack an injured and defenseless opponent, Rattrap will be betraying his friends. Even if he tries to explain his reasoning afterwards, there's a good chance they'll exile him anyways and won’t give him any chance to explain himself.

Then the Maximals also start accusing him of being a traitor, saying how they never should have trusted him, and that he's sold them out for weapons. He doesn't want to openly admit in front of Megatron that the deal had been intended as a scam, and tries to subtly tell them that they need to leave.

But Nightscream disregards everything, and tries to attack Megatron anyways. Rattrap has no time to think of what to do, so in his panic and confusion, he fires at Nightscream. This only escalates the situation, with the Maximals attacking him more, and him defending himself as well as trying to drive them away. Rattrap is also clearly reaching his mental breaking point. He starts accusing them back of never believing in him, that Nightscream advocated for cutting him loose, how they were now the ones ruining his plan. But despite how angry and hurt he is, after all of the things that had been said, he gives them a heartbroken look and pleads 'don't make me do this'. After all, he still does see them as his friends, or at least he really wants to believe that they are still friends. He desperately wants them to trust his word and walk away so he wouldn’t have to hurt them. 

They ignore his warning though, and Cheetor attacks him again, further proving their lack of trust and faith. Megatron uses this as an opportunity to continue pointing out how they hate and pity Rattrap, how they don't want him around anymore and how Optimus lied to him. He also repeats how, unlike Optimus, he himself has delivered the power that he had promised to Rattrap, manipulating him into trying to think that he can only trust and rely on Megatron now. And it almost works, until Optimus arrives and finally shows Rattrap real support and faith, shaming the others for their lack of belief in their friend. Unfortunately, none of them can be bothered to apologize for their treatment of Rattrap. [I’d like to hope that they apologized off screen, but it would have been nice to actually see it.]

The Weak Component is an episode about Rattrap going through severe self esteem issues, only to receive no support from his supposed friends, and then being pushed into a rapid downward spiral by the compounding stress and pain until he's forced into a corner and reaches his breaking point.

One can argue that he's out of character, sure. I can understand why some people might view it that way. But as I stated at the beginning, we don't see Rattrap go through any of these issues in Beast Wars. He doesn't go through a long period of feeling useless to the team, he doesn't lose faith in his friends, he never feels the need to make a deal with Megatron. The closest we get is the episode where he pretends to be a traitor and to become a Predacon, but he and Optimus were both in on it. They had to make it believable to the others to ensure it worked, and Rattrap knew Optimus had his back to explain things afterwards. He never had to actually hurt his friends for any reason. 

The argument I do most agree with is that Rattrap could have just killed Megatron the instant he got the mech suit. He could have solved things then, sure, but by that point Megatron was already actively manipulating him and guilt tripping him with the whole 'you can't kill me while I'm too weak to defend myself' thing. Sure, maybe Beast Wars Rattrap would have just shot him anyways, but there's still the manipulation to account for, and possibly the fear that the rest of Megatron's vehicons would have shown up and overwhelmed him while he was there alone. And of course Megatron also convinced him that calling his friends would be useless.

And even if he can be considered out of character in this episode, sometimes stress does that to people. I can personally attest that I'm usually a very calm, reasonable person, and I have a very long fuse. I don't get angered easily by things, and even if I do get angry, I can keep myself from snapping at people. But when I get stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed, I have less control over my temper, and might get upset or angry over seemingly small things because it was just the final straw. I think that's the case for most people; everyone has their mental limits. In Rattrap's case, he has a bunch of highly stressful and hurtful things happening to him, and he finally lashes out. Honestly with the temper he's been shown to have at times, I'm surprised it took so long for him to lash out verbally.

The same argument can be made aboutCheetor. That his treatment of Rattrap was out of character, especially after everything they had been through together. But Cheetor was also acting out of stress because of the situation as a whole and the additional pressure of leadership while Optimus was out of commission.

To conclude this whole thing, I'd just like to say that yes, I enjoy the episode and think there are valid reasons behind the choices Rattrap makes, and that it actually fits his character if you take everything he's going through into consideration. It’s very difficult for him to think clearly, or make the choices he would have made under normal circumstances. I also really enjoy episodes/arcs that force my favorite fictional guys into brand new situations that push them to their limits and even to their breaking point. I don't think his arc was resolved in the greatest fashion though, considering no one apologizes at the end of the episode, no one brings up the things that were said to each other. And, as far as I remember, Rattrap never shows any further struggles adjusting to his new body or role. Optimus just gives him a pep talk at the end of the episode and all his grievances, self esteem issues, etc. are all just solved I guess. There's things that definitely could be done better and I would have done differently personally, but I still like the episode for what it is.

[Also side note! I just also wanted to say that I love the visual direction of the episode with the intense red and black color scheme throughout the whole confrontation scene. You'll see more of my appreciation for it below. And also Scott McNeil's voice acting for the episode is so good! Rattrap is often treated as a comedic character, so I really appreciate the darker tone of Beast Machines. Rattrap gets some very serious and emotional line delivery, especially in this episode. When he said the lines "I ain't nobody’s charity case" and "I ain't afraid of nothing", I got goosebumps. It’s really emotional, and his anger and pain really hit you. Scott's performance really enhances the whole episode for me.]

So yeah, I've been wanting to break this whole thing down for a while because Rattrap has been consuming my brain for months, and I also think about The Weak Component a lot. So much so I started an animatic like 5 months or so ago about the episode [though completely contrary to my point that Rattrap never wanted to hurt or betray them, it's an au of what if he joined Megatron's side], so I'm hoping finally getting to talk about this more will be the motivation I need to finish it. Anyways, here's a couple frames I had on hand that are part of it, and I also posted a short video a while back showing a run animation for it. So yeah, enjoy these in the meantime until I can make myself finish the full video. ^-^

#transformers #rattrap #beast wars #beast machines #rant #essay #analysis #my art #I just really love my little guy okay #and everyone else should love him too #this has been a psa #I just want to give him hugs and tell him I'm so proud of him #he deserves it

[vergess]

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Had a neighbor claim she called the cops to take away my service dog as a loose, dangerous animal who bit her boyfriend/husband since I was "in violation of leash laws."

There is no leash law in this area.

The animal handling law she cited, which does NOT require leashing but rather that the animal "not be at large" and be "under control," also only applies to public property. Not private property like the yard of the apartment complex that I have the owner's explicit permission for my service dog to play fetch in.

Even if there was a leash law for pets, service animals do not need to be leashed if it can interfere with their duties which it can. His trained tasks are to alert me before an episode, guide me to safety if I become delirious, and wake me after an episode. If I can't be woken he is trained to find a nearby person for help, usually my girlfriend. Having a leash interferes with this trained task. If I were to pass out while holding his leash or on top of his leash and was injured in such a way that I didn't wake up, he would not be able to find human assistance.

My dog never bit or threatened her husband in any way. The 'incident' being described involved us playing fetch on private property we had the owner's full permission to be on, and my dog trying to bring his tennis ball to the man who was walking through the same yard. As soon as I told my dog to leave the man alone and head inside, he did so. At no point was my dog violent, threatening, or in any way out of control.

When our landlord pressed her on this issue, she admitted that my dog never bit her, her husband, or her pets, but that my dog "had the opportunity [to bite], even though he didn't actually bite."

This fucker's own pet dog actually has bit people, but since said dog is 9 lbs of chihuahua obviously no one has ever tried to call the fucking cops

When I tried to explain that he is a service animal, her husband demanded I prove it by getting his 'service vest.'

When I refused, explaining that service dogs do not need to wear vests, the woman screamed that I was threatening her, that she had been recording our whole conversation, that the police were on their way to take my service dog into custody, and that I was trespassing on her private property by standing in the parking lot between our apartments.

It's been 8 hours now and I'm still barely clinging to the edge of sanity and trying so hard not to have a second panic attack over this.

Everything, rationally, should be fine. The law is on my side. Witnesses who saw that I only ever stood in the parking lot with my hands above my head (because that's what you do when a deranged white woman is threatening you) are on my side. Our shared landlord who owns the private property my dog plays fetch on is on my side.

But god, I am so scared. One bitchy white woman is jealous that the dog she keeps indoors without enrichment or training for 23 hours a day isn't as well behaved as my medical equipment. And she's willing to weaponize her whiteness to destroy my life and I'm just so.

I just.

Fucking hell.

On my landlord's suggestion, I bought a packet of those service dog registration papers and a vest for him, so that if she ever does call the cops, I have paperwork on my side too, but.

I just.

I'm so scared.

I am so scared and so full of hatred.

It's literally dangerous for me to cook or walk through town alone because if my stimulants wear out, I could pass out in traffic or on the hot stove unless my dog alerts me to find a safe place. And I can only be on stimulants for 8 hours a day anyway, which means the other 6-10 waking hours, I'm always at risk of passing out suddenly.

And this stupid white bitch doesn't like that I have a well trained animal who obeys every applicable law and several that don't apply, and I just.

I am filled with hatred and fear for my dog, fear for my life, fear that maybe I actually am in the wrong somehow, because even when I'm being attacked by them I'm still socialized to think of white women as victims...

I'm so scared.

I am so so so scared.

#negativity #ableism #white women being wretched

[fashion-disaster-tournament]

https://9anime.gs/watch/obey-me-the-anime-season-2.vv9jl/ep-4

this is the episode i was speaking of; its only 6 minutes and pretty darn funny

I'll watch it in a sec im at a place rn sddshl

[alostlittleriverlotus]

i should really start ranting about my more "normal" special interests. Psychology, disorders, and the like are a big part of my special interests which is why I'm so intent on talking about it. Plus I have a lot of thoughts and finally found people that agree! They're so rare on other sites :( it's been hard to find others that really get it and aren't just repeating harmful misinformation.

Anyway, here's some "normal" special interests or basically fandoms and media I enjoy consuming! Long post ahead!

Okay normal special interests:

Obey Me

Stardew Valley

Animal Crossing (especially New Horizons)

The MySims games (or normal Sims series as well :p)

Pokemon!!! My team of six is Serperior (Seraph), Inteleon (Coral), Drednaw (Daisy), Reshiram (Reshy), Mimikyu (Miko), and Espeon (Eva) and occasionally Banette (Snuppy) if I put em on the team instead :3

Monster Hunter, specifically the stories series but I am interested in mainline as well

Stranger Things. I've only seen 5 episodes of season 4, got setback cause of a move, so no season 4 spoilers please :)

Cuphead, the game and the show though I haven't played the game yet. Also no spoilers for the DLC, I wish to experience it myself when I get the game.

My Hero Academia

Danganronpa though I've only seen the first two games so no spoilers please! I'm watching playthroughs with my friend and it's fun to be surprised :) haven't watched the animes yet either.

Tons of anime, it's easier if you just ask about the specifics.

Books/Reading. I prefer young adult and fantasy novels. I do read graphic novels as well. Recommendations are always welcome!

Legend of Zelda

Mario games, been playing sunshine since I got 3D All Stars and have access to it again! (I have no system that plays GameCube games :') I have so many childhood faves I miss since our wiis finally died)

Lucifer, the Netflix series. I haven't gotten into The Sandman yet and I'm not sure if I will.

Witchcraft, especially games and books surrounding it.

Fire Emblem, specifically Three Houses/Hopes. Also no spoilers for Three Hopes as I just got the game for my b-day and haven't played it yet :3

My Little Pony! I'm a G4 fan, but I love G5 so far! Wish Netflix would bring back later seasons so I could finish the series. I think I was on season 6 or 7 so no late season spoilers please!

Angels of Death! Been playing it, no spoilers again

Splatoon! I haven't played a game yet, but Splatoon 3 has me HYPED

Sky: Children of the Light

Deltarune (and I guess Undertale.) I'm still on chapter 1 so no spoilers. Also I am not a fan of Undertale mostly just cause it doesn't interest me, but I never mind hearing about the lore and stuff.

SallyFace. I'll be honest, I haven't played or seen much about it and it might not be for me. But I will gladly listen to rants about it! My best friend rants to me all the time about it since it's theirs. Maybe I'll get into it one day, who knows.

Among Us and Fall Guys. Put these two together cause I like playing them. I'm PunkRockie on Among Us and typically go for purple.

Octopath Traveller, omg I love this game!

Steins Gate, I've been playing the game since it was difficult for me to watch the anime cause of my ADHD.

Super Smash Bros, been playing since Melee!

Story of Seasons, specifically the Friends of Mineral Town game (the remake since it's Story of Seasons)

Final Fantasy. I'm just getting into it with Final Fantasy XII remake for the switch.

Kirby!!!

Terraria

Minecraft

Aspire: Ina's Tale

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That's all I can think of right now! If I think of more, I'll edit and add em in :p but these are a lot of my interests and so if you like em too, I will interact with your posts. I can't promise any socializing, I am terrified of people :)

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List of interests/Animes I watched (and what episode I’m on)

last updated: 2/28/24

Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure (Caught up on anime)

One piece (Ep 409, only watched OP: Film Red)

Tokyo Ghoul (Season 3, Ep9)

Chainsaw Man (Caught up with the anime)

Jujutsu Kaisen (Caught up on season 1, unwatched movies)

Demon Slayer (Caught up fully on anime, Only watched Mugen Train)

Parasyte (Stopped around episode 9)

One Punch Man (Caught up on Anime)

Toilet-bound hanako-kun (Chapter 47)

Bungo Stray Dogs (Caught up on anime)

My Hero Academia (Episode 62)

Assassination Classrom (Episode 1, S2)

Spy X Family (Caught up on anime)

High-Rise Invasion (Caught up on anime)

The distrastous life of Saiki K (Season 2, forgot which episode)

Obey me (Don’t ask)

The Owl house (Caught up)

Vinland Saga (Episode 24, S1)

Oshi No Ko (caught up on anime)

Blue Lock (Episode 12)

The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick up Trash (caught up on anime)

Solo Leveling (Episode 4)

Magic Madoka (Episode 6, Spoiled for almost the entire franchise)

Mashle: Magic and Muscles (Caught up on anime)

Jujutsu Kaisen (Seaosn 2, Episode 6 I think + Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Watched)

Twisted Wonderland

*More to Add*

#Interests #not writing #what Mist watches

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Excuse me for prying, but what exactly are your fandoms? 'cause for me, some of my fandoms include Sonic the Hedgehog, Twisted Wonderland, Genshin Impact and to an extent, Skylanders (most particularly because of the dragons, namely Spyro, Cynder, Sunburn, Echo, Camo, Whirlwind, Flashwing, Drobot, Blackout and Spotlight).

Hello there!! It’s alright!! I would more than happy to talk about the fandoms I’m in! Hope you don’t mind the big clutter here underneath as I ramble on for a bit! Each are sorted into each category:

Major

Wandering Ones

Vtubers (they need their own category)

I tried to the best of my knowledge on ones I believe I participate (or lurk) the most in, so I hope this helps!! 😊

Major Ones

In which my fandom knowledge, and experience in them are pretty large and have spent a lot of time in (whether that be lurking or not)!

Skylanders = Especially with the Swap Force & the Dragons!!! One of the major fandoms I’ve been in since late elementary school, so it’s technically a childhood classic! I actually have Swap Force (only the starter pack ;w;) and Imaginators (along with the Boom Bloom pack & Crash Bandicoot pack) in my home that I play with my little sibling!! I also played Giants at a neighbour-friends house too!! Also one of the two fandoms I did for the inktober (most of it)!!

Twisted Wonderland = A mobile game I found since late 2020!!! Back when only the first 5 chapters were out in the JP server and part of the watching/reading translations! Preordered the EN game as soon as it’s announced too!! Right now I miss my dailies cause work and player burnout ;w; (I also need to catch up the story from the second part of Boom 6; Generally prefer the fan translations more since I’m more used due to being a watching a lot back before EN server was announced)

Dr. Stone = Major fan of the anime and picked up some of the manga and the later chapters at the local library I live nearby! I still need to catch up first and second half with Season 3!! In my words, a fun and (mostly accurate) educational sci-fi anime!! Reminds me of some of the edutainment kids shows I watched as a kid!!

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle = One of the few animes I was interested from the clips I saw during quarantine! During late July of this year, I had even motivation and time to watch the whole anime!!! A really comfy and lighthearted comedy I recommend! Also read a few manga I spotted at the library and discovered that she has other outfit jobs/classes in between chapters (Plus Princess’s design and outfits is S-tier!!!)

Monster High = Another childhood classic of mine (as I watched a lot of the episodes and movies on YouTube)! While I’m mainly a fan of Gen 1 since it was apart of my childhood, I’m open and happy seeing the other generations on my feed! :D

Ever After High = Another childhood classic!! Been around since the beginning I believe!! Really loved the aesthetic, clothes, characters and story in this one! I’m apart of the Rebels!

Crossovers / Crossover Friendships - LISTEN I MAY NOT BE KNOWLEDGEABLE IN ALL FANDOMS BUT I LOVE SEEING CROSSOVERS AND I WILL ABSORB ALL KNOWLEDGE OF THE CHARACTERS AND LORE OF THE ONES I DONT KNOW TO MAKE IT GOOD 👌👌 (For instance, the Secret Trio)

Vtubers (Please check the last section)

Wandering Ones

I wander into a lot of fandoms! So, basically these are some fandoms that I have some knowledge and experience in to be sufficient(?) in (take it with a grain with salt). Others are ones I do know (childhood classics, actual ones I finished, etc.)

Sky: Children of The Light (Sky Cotl) - Been around since Season of Sanctuary, though I stopped playing since Aurora (and some seasons before that) due to burnout

Penn Zero Part Time Hero

Rise of the Guardians

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K - Almost finished season 1 back in like the quarantine days… I’m procrastinating hard

Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja (RC9GN)

Obey Me!

Wild Kratts

Wordgirl

Vtubers

Virtual YouTubers that use an avatar and do a variety of livestreaming content! Such as gaming, karaoke, zatsudans (chatting streams), art content, etc.

Note: If you are a new viewer and looking into them, please take your time to read the rules in their description box! If there isn’t any, either ask one of regular viewers from prechat (a chatroom made before the livestream starts where some fans can chill and chat as they wait until it starts) or probably on social media, or maybe some people you know that watch them (which is rare)!

Quick Legend:

✨ = Ones I watch the most, and are my oshi (fave)

🫡 = Means that they graduated. In vtuber terms, it means the person behind this avatar is no longer gonna be streaming or using that avatar anymore. It doesn’t mean that they are dead - they’re not using that avatar anymore and they can resume streaming (as long as it’s not their former avatar) As well as chatting with their friends and former co-workers offline.

Any other emojis are their oshi/fan marks! Usually to tell which vtuber you’re a fan of!

Also I tried hard to think who I watched the most too! I mostly support all of them group even tho I can’t watch everyone at the same time

✨Holostars EN - One of the main Vtubers I watch the most!!! (And probably the one that shows all the members since I watch at least a bit from anyone)

✨Regis Altare 🎇 - the one who reintroduced me back into Holostars back in Oct 2022 as well as introducing the EN branch! (From the HoloNiji Terraria collab with Alban Knox)

✨Axel Syrios ⛓️

Magni Dezmond 🧤 (🫡)

✨Vesper Noir 📗 (🫡)

Gavis Bettel 🎩

✨Machina X Flayon 🪫

✨ Banzoin Hakka 🔅

✨ Josuiji Shinri 🏹

✨Jurard T Rexford 🦖

✨Goldbullet 🦅

Octavio ♾️

✨Crimzon Ruze 💢

Holostars JP - How I was instantly pulled into the vtuber rabbit hole (and learn that timezones were a thing the hard way ;w;)

✨Kageyama Shien 🟣 - This one is the one that dragged me in through a clipper (a person who clips - and depending on the clipper, translates - a part in a livestream)! Funnily enough it was a Twst one, since I was looking for people reacting to it!

Aragami Oga 🐃

Yukoku Roberu 🍷

Nijisanji EN - The one who brought me back into the Vtuber Rabbit hole back in Sept 2022, right before my birthday

Luca Kaneshiro 🦁💰 - the one who brought me back

✨Shu Yamino 👟☯️

Ike Eveland 🖋️

✨Fulgur Ovid ⚡️🐑

✨Uki Violeta 🔮🌌

Alban Knox 🎭🕒

Kyo Kaneko 🤟

Doppio Dropscythe 🐣🎡

Nina Kosaka 🎰 (🫡)

Mysta Rias 🦊🕵️(🫡)

Yugo Asuma 🎧 (🫡)

Other

✨Rin Penrose 👑🦈 - Idol EN

Juna Unagi ⚠️ - Idol EN

Kai Saikota ☁️ - Idol EN

✨Ayla Yew 💞🫵 - Nexstage Project

Zhuni Excel 📊🔫 - Nexstage Project

✨Unnamed 💙🤍 - Independent Musician

#ask #thank you for the ask! #fandom tag #another lesson we learnt today is that I procrastinate a lot in finishing media OTL #also I already know where the graduated ones are now #but it’s generally known that it’s their past life and it’s not good to mention that in chat #edit: note to self - I gotta make a carrd for myself

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So, not sure how many of you know this, but the Arpeggio characters got character songs! This isn't new information to me, but since I recently started cross-posting my fanfiction Arpeggio of Hurt Steel I remembered one of my headcanons/theoriese I view as confirmed and wanted to tell you guys about it! Spoilers from here on, in case you haven't finished the anime!

As we all know, Maya was a surveillance unit reporting to I-400 and I-402 (why they decided to monitor Kongou is something we can explore in a different post) and only a "Mental Model without emotion emulator". However, I always thought that was strange. Now, I don't mean this in the "bad writing" way, I think that 400 and 402 genuinely were of that opinion and thus stated it, BUT it just didn't seem right, so I started thinking. I was pretty sure that, "hey, maybe Maya actually did know what was going on, but just couldn't do anything against it and had to watch shit go down".

My reasons for that thought are as follows:

Strange dialogue

400 and 402 stated that Maya runs on a very simple logic routine that responds in accordance with whatever you throw at her (so essentially like a chatbot), but when Iona sank Haruna and Kirishima, Maya, of her own will and without good reason, came to her in the Concept Communication System and asked "Hey, what happened to you?"

Iona answer this and the resulting reply of Maya is "Because she was able to save her friend, right?"

Maya's second sentence is one of the things she says when the subs shut her down, so I think that that is the point where the Chatbot takes over again - however, said Chatbot doesn't have a good reason for initiating the contact.

"But what if someone ordered her to ask that?"

Illogical, in my opinion:

Kongou wouldn't have since she feared interacting directly would damage their Cores and took precautions for her and Maya when they went to meet.

Iona's sisters only developed a will & curiosity about 4-6 episodes later and had therefore no reason to ask something like that.

And the theoretical factor of Musashi? Not either. She doesn't care about the "doll" Iona, only about the real Yamato, and that "awakening" is something Musashi only begins triggering in Vladivostok.

At some point, Kongou asks Maya "And what about you?" in reference to whose order she follows and wether she considers deserting. Maya replies the following:

Why mention Kongou extra? "I just obey the Admiralty Code" would have been more than enough since that includes obeing her flagship and that very flagship is Kongou.

My theory is that the "and Kongou" was sneaked in by the actual Maya.

Furthermore, there are various moments where Maya's speaking just seems... stranger than usual. Especially in situations where she assures Kongou that following the Admiralty Code is the right thing. Her words are delievered in a way that makes them unnatural - almost as if the Chatbot had been content with letting Maya babble away and then jumped into action when Kongou started potentially doubting their cause.

It's not a big shift, so one has to actually pay attention to it to notice and it is sadly near impossible to take a series of screenshots that captures the shift.

Shutting down the system & Mental Models

I'm not sure wether 400 & 402's statement of having "shut down the program" refers to the Mental Model itself or just the Chatbot, but in any case, this is absolutely a butchered shutdown. The system you just tried to quit via Task Manager resulted in audio distortion and repeats of past executions? That doesn't seem like something that should happen.

I-400 and I-402 should not have such problems shutting down "a simple program", especially not as highly developed AI and the very people who most likely implemented that program to begin with.

Yet, what happened there should not have happened under the conditions of a normal shutdown. If you stop a program, it just stops running, it doesn't start glitching around unless something is wrong.

The manga has shown us that even ships without Mental Model can communicate and have a certain range of emotions (see: Vampire). Of course, anime and manga are completely different universes, but they share many things - as such, I see things that aren't outright stated as impossible in the anime as possible to existing there as well.

Conclusion: it is very much possible that the "something" that went wrong is the actual Maya fighting the shutdown.

"Why didn't I-400 and I-402 do anything about that, then?"

I can only speculate. This happens after Iona resurfaces, so they could have had different priorities and decided that an surveillance program with an undangerous glitch was just not important at the moment.

Character Songs - Tremolo

So, why did I mention the character songs at the beginning?

gombi grace over on YouTube actually sat down, transcribed & translated Maya's character song, Tremolo, into English.

There are a handful of lines that are just Maya typical hyper cheery nonsense, but if you cross them out, you gain the following text:

"The sound continues The speed that reaches your heart Hello, heading towards the world's best today Making the town sloppy to clean it, it's ok My favourite music is flowing Look at me, move with the music, it's ok Somehow i feel that I had stopped Finishing off those meaningless words Voices replace them like magic The sound continues The speed that reaches your end Hello, heading towards the cowardly tomorrow I could not see the good in it, As it is held back Oh, the things that I want to tell you It is ok to tell it when we walk I wonder if my pitch is slightly off Who had decided it The breath resounds in my body The sound continues The speed greater and stronger than anything One sad sound one gentle sound I connect and stretch them Again, I could not hear them It is like the flower that sways in the wind It is like the blue waves The sound continues the speed that reaches your end it continues"

This is what confirmed my theory for me. Let's interpret the snippets a bit:

"The sound continues The speed that reaches your heart"

The sound could be many things; a voice, a message, feelings. Mayhaps things Maya whishes to actually communicate.

The "You" in not just this case but every other point in this song could be Kongou.

"Hello, heading towards the world's best today Making the town sloppy to clean it, it's ok My favourite music is flowing Look at me, move with the music, it's ok"

The second line could be interpreted as "if you break something to make it (the situation?) good, then that is alright" and could potentially refer to Kongou's dependency on the Admiralty Code. "Move with the music" essentially means to move with the flow - whatever happens, happens - and is something I could absolutely see Maya wanting to tell Kongou.

The "it's ok"s are the only instance of these words following each other so closely and the two of three times they appear at all. Could be intended as extra reassurance.

"Somehow i feel that I had stopped Finishing off those meaningless words Voices replace them like magic"

The first two lines could refer to Maya's own words. They are not meaningless, but it sounds like a small moment of self-deprecation.

The last line most likely refers to I-400 and I-402 taking over with their program and surpressing whatever Maya meant to say.

"The sound continues The speed that reaches your end"

Could be interpreted as Maya noticing that Kongou is Not Doing Well™, that the current scheme is not really helping and maybe even having a premonition about how this will end.

"Hello, heading towards the cowardly tomorrow I could not see the good in it, As it is held back Oh, the things that I want to tell you It is ok to tell it when we walk"

The "cowardly tomorrow" being "held back" might be a future where both Maya and Kongou can speak freely and do whatever they wish.

"Oh, the things that I want to tell you" is obviously Maya not having the ability to speak her true feelings

"I wonder if my pitch is slightly off Who had decided it The breath resounds in my body"

Her pitch was, in fact, off when the program shut down and the one who decided such were essentially I-400 and I-402.

"Who had decided it" could also be a hint towards Maya not being fully aware of who is responsible or not knowing fully what is happening, but instead that she has a general gist of the situation.

"The sound continues The speed greater and stronger than anything"

In this case, I would interprete the "sound" as the approaching end, but also carrying the double meaning of the aforementioned feelings coming to powerfully descend upon someone (Kongou? Maya herself?)

"One sad sound one gentle sound I connect and stretch them Again, I could not hear them"

I interpret the sounds to be words Maya connects into a sentence, wishes to utter but cannot speak in the end due to the program - thus, again, she herself can't hear them.

"It is like the flower that sways in the wind It is like the blue waves The sound continues the speed that reaches your end it continues"

The situation is continuing, it cannot be stopped and the violent end is still approaching.

And that is why I believe that the character of Maya is actually very tragic, that Maya actually did know what was going on, but just couldn't do anything against it and had to watch everything from a prison that was her very own body and mind.

#aoki hagane no arpeggio #arpeggio of blue steel #kongou #kongo #kongō #蒼き鋼のアルペジオ #コンゴウ #maya #マヤ #theory #long post #headcanon

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