#to get their swords and all that (and the iconic 'kneel' scene)

[limitbreaker23]

How to watch episode 19&20 wearing shipping goggles

So, I rambled about the beloved Zhancheng Sunshot Campaign episodes here, but still have many thoughts within me, which culminates in this extended cut.

I'm calling episode 19 and 20 of The Untamed the Zhancheng Sunshot episodes, because they basically are just one mini-movie of them wandering around, investigating Wei Wuxian's disappearance and sunshooting while being cute.

Starting with their power couple entrance.

We're picking up with them after the entire "insert Golden Core in shidi" drama after a 3 months timeskip. This is just a whole banquet served for a starved shipper like myself. Just think of all the sweet and salty filler you can use those 3 months for. Jiang Cheng was all by himself after the Core debacle, having nothing but spiritual power and a fancy hat. Without a sword, he basically had to hitchhike or walk to the Cloud Recesses to find help. Lan Wangji had just led an group of disciples to take his home back from the Wens. His uncle was still injured, most of the Cloud Recesses had been burnt, his sword was also unavailable. He does carry a sword in episode 18, but it doesn't seem to be Bichen and he is without one when we pick up with him here.

This is also the first time we hear Lan Wangji speak again since episode 14. So, it's necessary to have him say something iconic like "Kneel" to make Jiang Cheng melt on the inside. He does make an incredible entrance, even without a sword. As does Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng flies in all by himself. He has no sword, no disciples, and no one knows where he got the fancy robes from. He has Lan Wangji though, who basically works like a sword to carry. Good choice, Jiang Cheng!

Wearing your shipping goggles, you can happily fawn over them taking the lead in this moment together. Lan Wangji walks ahead, he has Wangji somewhere in his pouch, some neat strings available for chord assassination. Jiang Cheng isn't using it in this scene, but he does have Zidian. Even without borrowed swords, it wasn't a bad idea of them to infiltrate the Indoctrination Bureau. There's an entire fic waiting there how they did that. I can already feel the tension in their sudden need to trust each other in several life threatening stealth situations. Tehe~

After retrieving their swords, Zhancheng find themselves staring dramatically at the horizon to discuss their feelings. Jiang Cheng discusses his feelings because he does that all the time. It's all very normal. They match sky for cinematographic purposes, not because my shipping goggles come tinted.

We also learn that Jiang Cheng thought he'd find them all (aka Lan Wangji, Jin Zixuan, and probably Nie Huaisang who fainted and was carried back to dage, and even possibly Wei Wuxian) regrouping in Lanling. So, during the three month timeskip, he did in fact either go there first to get his new robes and help, or directly to the Cloud Recesses, where we last saw Lan Wangji's grand return after missing him dearly for several episodes.

I'm in favour of Jiang Cheng hitchhiking to the Cloud Recesses for simple reasons of it being closer, him having no means to travel without Sandu, and mostly because he reunited with Jiang Yanli only later in Qinghe when she was with Jin Zixuan in Lanling after departing with Song Lan. Obviously also because I wear shipping goggles and want Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji to go purple robe shopping. Which they could also do in Lanling. Many options, much food.

After sharing his worries with Lan Wangji, they are reunited with their swords. Sandu and Bichen are very sad to be separated. Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji look cute together.

Jiang Cheng lets Lan Wangji pull at Wei Wuxian's sword to find it has sealed itself. The utter display of trust and lack of questioning is something people wearing shipping goggles latch on. There is also delicious tragedy in this, because if Jiang Cheng had pulled Suibian now, the Core debacle might have doomed all of them less or more, we'll never find out. What we can find out, after adjusting our shipping goggles, is that this moment can come back to haunt Zhancheng almost twenty years into their future. As if they needed more angst potential.

Zhancheng regroup with their supporting cast on the Unclean Realm's battlefield. Jiang Cheng can finally reunite with his sister, hugging her while Lan Wangji watches like he wants to be hugged like that. Jin Zixuan also regrets not getting any hugs. With the Jiang siblings hugging it out, Lan Wangji can also marvel at Wen Xu's head, taken off by Nie Mingjue. Ah, the delicious fuel to have Lan Wangji of all people look vengeful at someone. Wen Xu broke his leg, burnt his home, murdered his fellow disciples. Lan Wangji could really use a hug right now. Looking at you, Jiang Cheng, not at Jin Zixuan scooting in there.

The best thing about their strategy discussion with Nie Mingjue aside from all the looks Lan Wangji throws at Jiang Cheng is them asking for the same assignment without previous discussion.

Lan Wangji looks delightfully worried about Jiang Cheng's angy moment, but does not have a snickers available. A hug might do. And Jiang Cheng searches for Lan Wangji to look at in his worried moments. Just hug.

Some wordless communication and in sync movement fogs up the shipping goggles. Nie Mingjue also approves of young heroes sticking close together for fighting and comfort. Jin Zixuan almost gets smacked out of the way by Lan Wangji trying to hurry after Jiang Cheng.

Next time we see Jiang Cheng, getting some soup from his sister, it is dark. This can mean many things like they finally had time to take a bath and stop smelling of blood, but they can also have a few lovely fic filler hours together. Tehe~

Next time we see them, Jiang Cheng has also retrieved/recruited some disciples of his own and is allowed to command the Lan disciples, except for Lan Wangji, who has a special spot at his side. The disciples seem very used to Jiang Zongzhu giving commands, they are off like he threw them a treat. Dog trainer Jiang Cheng strikes, I guess. Lan Wangji approves of good displays of leadership.

Sticking close to Jiang Cheng means Lan Wangji can witness the beautiful display of leadership and Zidian usage from the front row. His glance from the side is gasp and giggle worthy for a lost shipper soul like mine. He approves of an efficient, dramatic usage of spiritual weapons.

Their investigation of the reversed talismans not only comes with memorable lines, but another display of standing closer than necessary and trusted words. Their hands almost touched. Jiang Cheng has never heard of reversed talismans, he doesn't know about this, and he isn't afraid to ask for Lan Wangji's opinion and help, which is just melting me like butter in the sun.

Honourable mention to them putting Lan Wangji on a Scully box for this scene to appear giant because his heels didn't seem to have been enough next to Jiang Cheng. Lan Wangji's magically changing height doesn't seem to bother Jiang Cheng. He will be fine with three centimetres smaller Lan Wangji, three centimetres taller Lan Wangji, and Lan Wangji wearing heeled boots to appear taller. He will have to carry him when his little feet hurt, though. Do not go Sunshooting in heels.

Alas, the necessary heartbreak for such legendary love stories! Lan Wangji watched Jiang Cheng return from his confession scene to Wen Qing. Don't be sad, Lan Wangji, he came back to you! The disciples in the back cannot believe the audacity of Jiang Zongzhu giving a comb to somebody else. Bless them being on our side!

The episode then follows our heroes on their travels around Yiling where mysterious murderings hinder the sightseeing but give us more shared looks and words and standing next to each other.

Jiang Cheng has also taught his disciples to bow properly to Lan Wangji and him at the same time, which is very gasp-worthy.

The climax of the Zhancheng episode is approaching, and Jiang Cheng can't wait. Lan Wangji can't quite wait either, touching Jiang Cheng. Lan Wangji often touches people. It is normal.

Zhancheng stake out Wen Zhuliu and Wen Chao from a rooftop spot. They are sitting delightfully close to peek into a tiny hole. Most likely, they just jumped up there without making much of a sound. But how did they find the delightfully useful hole? It's nice sometimes to think about them giving each other a leg-up and then wandering around the shingles in search of the hole. Maybe their shoulders touched.

In times of shock and disgust, find yourself a travelling companion to share the burden.

A compilation of Lan Wangji watching Jiang Cheng hug everyone but him.

Sadly, our beloved Sunshooting with Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji episode comes to an end with a devastating break up. Sandu touched Lan Wangji's chest much like Lan Wangji's arm touched Jiang Cheng's chest before. The rift between them grows. Lan Wangji leaves. Jiang Cheng stands up for his family. There was never a happy ending here. But food was served to fight the sadness.

#zhancheng #chengzhan #cql #jiang cheng #lan wangji

[zozophoenixxx]

Serotonin Booster :D 🐉

How to train your dragon edition

Here are some things I had forgotten or little details I just noticed on my rewatch, maybe even Unpopular Opinions 🤭👀

✨Race to the Edge ✨

SEASON 4

Tuffnut choked on a stun dart- I think I've seen it all regarding the twins HAHDHSHHA

Fishlegs really had Meatlug opening its mouth WIDE JUST TO SAY ABORT THE VERY LAST SECONDHAHSHGSGG

I love how Hiccup and Astrid can communicate without actually talking 🥺

I love how all dragons are a reflection of each of their owners like even tho Barf and Belch aren't the smartest they can be whenever they actually try

- Snotlout and Hookfang are both hotheaded and never really listen

- Fishlegs and Meatlug both are sweet, smart, resourceful and jealous sometimes hehe

- The twins and Barf and Belch are crazy and dumb but can be smart and strong whenever they need to be

- Astrid and Stormfly are both authoritative and badasses but also caring

- Hiccup and Toothless are both natural born leaders

Astrid built the ballista

Fun fact: Mala means bad in Spanish and it makes sense if you think about it cause Mala is BADASS HAHDHSHAHA😂 sorry I make bad jokes like that

Hiccup referring to Tuffnut as one of his best friends is adorable 🥺

"Flattery has no effect on me, mainly because I never hear any" dudeee ruff that's so saddd🥺😭

JAJDHHSJSJS TUFFNUT REALLY SAID "IT'S TIME FOR BALLISTA-NUT" AND JUMPED RIGHT OFF OF TOOTHLESS

And then him actually fighting Gruffnut is pretty badass I mean they threw actual punches and kicks and everything 😳

Why was Hiccup so cold towards Astrid? When she was just trying to help with his bounty problem

The way Toothless prevented Stoick from killing Savage 🥺🥺🥺

Now that I think abt it Hiccup got kidnapped so many times

Stoick punching Ryker and threatening him is one of the best things I've seen 🤩

Dude poor Snotlout was just insecure in ep4 And I love how Hiccup tried to help him and even then Snotlout still tried his best to show that he can be a leader

- i really loved how he learned that he couldn't just stop covering someone, I mean even when Astrid told him to "peel off and help Hiccup" he was like "no way I'm not leaving your wing" 🥺🥺🥺

Submaripper - tidal class, super powerful, prefer deeper open water and typically very reclusive. Extremely territorial and dangerous.

I LOVE HOW THE SUBMARIPPER SAVED HICCUP, and Toothless's face whenever he couldn't get Hiccup out and Barf and Belch breaking the pod to get him 🥺🥺🥺I can't

𝕃𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕤𝕝𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕕𝕖𝕡𝕣𝕒𝕧𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕤𝕪𝕞𝕡𝕥𝕠𝕞𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕤

- multifaceted disorder

Uncontrollable euphoria - Astrid

Lack of coordination - Heather

Mood swings - Snotlout

Complete catatonia

Cold ankles

Rash

Paranoia - Fishlegs

I CAN'T LOOKING AT THEM LIKE THIS IS JUST TOO FUNNY. NO ISTG EPISODE 7 IS GOLDDDD AND WHEN THE DRAGONS TOOK OVER 😂

Stoick is so fine 🤩

JAHDHAHSHA HICCUP REALLY OUT HERE FAT-SHAMING HIS DAD when poor Stoick is just trying to tell him that going after Viggo only for revenge is neither safe nor the right thing to do

- "What? What do you mean? You love revenge. Revenge is your thing. Weren't they gonna name you Stoick the Vindictive before... Well you know." *signals to Stoick*

Shadow wings - ep7 they follow, herd and shadow. Big one isn't as fast or maneuverable. Small ones are smart and quick. The big one looks like the submaripper.

AND THE WAY TOOTHLESS DEALT WITH THE LAST OF THEM. It was amazingggg he dived down towards a lil pond but he couldn't see cause of the dust and so HE USED THAT ONE SHOT THAT LETS HIM SEE TO KNOW WHEN TO GO BACK UP AND ALLOW THE BIG SHADOW WING TO CRASH AGAINST THE WATER.

The Flying Shatter-Scatter move with Shattermaster and Windshear was so cool and it's also basically the only thing that has pierced through dragon-proof ships

Bro I really wanted to see Astrid saving Toothless when she saw he was in danger in ep8

I DONT WANT HEATHER TO LEAVE UGHHHH 🥺

HEATHER AND FISHLEGS ARE SO GOALS I CANT 🥺🥺🥺🥺😭 I LOVE THEM TOO MUCH

Everyone's shocked faces whenever Hiccup and Fishlegs weren't thinking the same thing HAHDHSHABA

Toothless's facial expressions whenever he saw Astrid was in danger and the way he grabbed Snotlout and went down the volcano just to try and save her- I love their relationship 🥺

And how Hiccup was so worried when he saw Astrid in the lava and the way he grabbed her 🥺🥺🥺🥺

Dude I shipped Throk and Mala so harddd

And the red night terrors ufff we love them

Tuffnut just killed Macey

Ruffnut is so badass bro I love her she really had a sword to her neck and was like "take your best shot pal"

Project Shellfire: a weaponized dragon, Shellfire - tidal class, Titanwing, bigger than a submaripper, long range firing capabilities.

Hiccup just saved Astrid from falling to the water and the way he looked at her right after he put her down- he seemed so concerned I can't 🥺😭

BLINDSIDED ALSO LOVE THIS EPISODE 🤩🥺

First name Astrid calls out is Hiccup's 🥺

Her eyes omg

The way she started hyperventilating and the way he held her hand with both of his and the way he kneeled down next to her and made sure she knew that he was still there and the way Toothless's facial expression went 🥺😔 and the way he put his wing on her legs to try and cover her or protect her 🥺🥺🥺I can't

I mean Imagine how Astrid must've felt I just can't I'd be so stressed out and desperate and the next day she was just like I'm going to look for my dragon idc

No dude because the way Hiccup grabbed her by the waist to prevent her from falling off of Toothless and how both of their expressions softened whenever he told her not to apologize and whenever she hugged him 🥺

I love how the twins are trying to learn how Astrid feels but Ruffnut takes advantage of "blind" Tuffnut and has him run off of a cliff

AND HOW HE CAUGHT HER AND GOT SO NERVOUS WHEN THEY BOTH FELL DOWN 🥺 wait now that I'm watching it again he actually prevented her from getting hit in the head omg

"Of course she's not gonna hide. What was I thinking? She's Astrid."

MISTAKE whenever Astrid took the dragons out of their pens they weren't wearing their saddles and now that they've found them they have them on.

Them spending time with each other's dragons is so funny

Nonono I can't this is the beginning of it all! The beginning of Hiccstrid dating is HERE!!!! and that scene whenever he tells her that she's strong and they'll get through it and he holds her arm and then slowly moves down to her hand 🥺 I love them too much I can't- I want what they have. HE WAS GOING IN FOR THE KISS TOO I CANTTTTT OK THIS IS TOO MUCH

"There will always be a Hiccup and Astrid. Always."

TOOTHLESS'S FACE 😳

I love how Meatlug got so serious after she heard Toothless's distress call

ASTRID IS SO BADASS I CAN'T SHE'S JUST SUCH A NATURAL AND AUTHORTITAVE I LOVE HER

THE HAND THING WITH ASTRID AND THE TRIPLE STRYKE 😩

Fishlegs riding Hookfang is HILARIOUS

That final scene is gold bro I just can they're too perfect I mean we get Toothless and Stormfly messing around in the background and then we get Hiccup scooting towards Astrid so that their shoulders were touching and also Hiccup asking Astrid if she's really ok and then him telling her that he never stops worrying about her and her saying that she feels the same way AND HER ASKING HIM ABOUT THE ALMOST-TO-BE-FIRST-KISS IN THE FOREST and him getting all nervous and being like "no it wasn't perfect" and telling her that he thinks abt kissing her a lot AND HER BEING LIKE "this seems pretty perfect to me" AND THEN BAMM THE KISS UGHHH IM NOT CRYING OK... yes I am😭

Hiccstrid kiss count: 2😘

I love how Astrid comforts Hiccup and puts her hand on his chest

Wait shit I completely forgot That Snotlout is actually the one that came up with ~Hiccstrid~ hehehehe -> also the first one to notice that they were acting kinda sus (nvm he thought one of them had a gambling problem)

Ruffnut's impression of Viggo is actually pretty accurate

Heather knowing about Hiccup and Astrid and just getting the gang away so that they can have a few seconds alone

OMG THE SUBMARIPPER I LOVE IT!! It is the natural and hated enemy of the Shellfire

The Triple Stryke let Dagur ride him

HICCUP CALLED DAGUR BROTHER I CANT

No and when they kissed IN FRONT OF THE GANG AND THEY WERE ALL LIKE 😳😦 AND "This. Changes. Everything." Iconic

I can't imagine watching this season by season and having to deal with that cliffhanger LIKE WHUT- the whole volcano just exploded and ur telling me that's IT!! Nope nope nope

#how to train your dragon #httyd #httyd rtte #race to the edge #RTTE #riders of berk #rob #defenders of berk #dob #astrid hofferson #hiccup haddock #dagur the deranged #Heather #ruff and tuff #ruffnut #tuffnut #fishlegs #snotlout #stoick the vast #hiccup x astrid #hiccstrid #toothless #toothcup

[alexjcrowley]

Hi! This fanfiction is based on an idea by @idrilearfalas , she wrote the entire concept and the iconic/important lines you'll find in this fanfiction, check out her blog, she is great.

The Pompeii mission, Mobius thought it would have been an easy one. Everybody knows what should happen in Pompeii and it's usually all natural. You just have to make sure someone dies- eh, sorry Plinius- and someone lives.

It's an easy mission, normally, but not when you have to handle a certain norse God of Mischief. One who likes to throw a tantrum on every other occasion.

It's usually nothing more than bantering, playful and witty at its best, sharp and bitter at its worst, but it's something Mobius can handle. He can even enjoy it, when he makes a stupid joke and Loki tells him how stupid it is and they both chuckle. Loki has to learn something new about being a TVA agent and most of the times he makes a fool of himself before getting the thing right, so Mobius can tease him a little and Loki will respond sharp as ever, but with a sort of...endearing note in his stubborness.

Those are good days, days Mobius comes back to his apartment with a smile and when he closes his eyes he can still hear the God's laughter at whatever funny thing happened that day, or replay the moment when they looked into eachothers' eyes and they suddenly understood what to do with the mission, with a single glance.

Today was not a good day. He didn't know the reason. Maybe Loki woke up on the wrong side of the bed, maybe Mobius accidentally made an unpleasant comment, but the norse God started their mission with a pout you could see on the face of a child when they don't get the Christmas present they wanted.

"Oh well" Mobius had thought. Oh well, it's just another bad day, a day in which he had to watch his mouth, because you don't want to deal with an angered God. The general mood was low, the Minutemen looked already tired before the mission had even started and Mobius knew from the moment he passed through the portal he wanted to come back home as soon as possible.

But this wasn't an ordinary bad day. Mobius was prepared to deal with a bit of coldness, with a lack of enthusiasm from everybody, what he wasn't ready to deal with- he didn't want to deal with Loki acting like an asshole.

"And that's it? Really?"

"What did you expect me to say, exactly? You brought me here, you told me I was living a delusion and you gave me no choice other than being your hound. I apologise if I can't think of you as one of my dear friends."

"One of your dear friends? Who would the others be? Just curious, because I have seen your entire life and there is not one person, except maybe Thor, you actually build this strong and trusting relationship with-"

"Wonderful, so why did you expect you'd be the first one I'd decide to grant the gift of my friendship to? I am not even your colleague, I am subjected to this stupid organisation and to you in particular. We are not friends, we forcibly work together and that's it."

Mobius and Loki had been speed walking during the entire discussion, but Loki stopped for a moment.

"You can't fool me, I know very well I am not anything more than your ticket to the Variant. I'll be damned before I put my trust in you, we both know, after all of this has come to an end, nothing will be between me and that resetting stick."

You see, on an ordinary bad day, this would have never happened. On an ordinary bad day, Mobius wouldn't have seen all of his efforts to build a decent relationship with Loki shattered. Was he used to a suspicious Loki? Yes. To a Loki who said that trust is for dogs and children? Also yes. He had been used to that Loki since he first opened up his file. But he had also started being used to Loki's rare moments when he opened up, to his hidden heroic side which desperately seemed to call for attention, to his awkward, genuine reaction when he was showed any form of affection. Mobius had seen Loki spitting his "trust nobody" one liners with less and less convinction everyday, and then they were only mumbled comments to keep up a façade, and then they had become whispers, and then eyes rolls, to the point that Mobius had thought Loki had started warming up on poeple- warming up on him. But he was wrong. Just because Loki didn't voice his dissent, it didn't mean it wasn't there.

It didn't mean he saw Mobius as more than just enemy, even after everything they had been through, even after Mobius took on himself the risk of whatever would have happened to Loki and because of Loki, even after the trust he had shown him, even after the laughters and the lunches and the jokes and the stolen glances- now, look at who was the delusioned one.

Did this upset Mobius? Absolutely. But it also fired him up. Frustration, anger, embarrassment, Mobius erupted with a fiercety matching the volcano explosion just minutes ago.

"Do you really think I would just let them reset you?"

Although shorter than the God, Mobius stood up in front of him looking him in the eyes.

"After all I have done to keep you alive, after all we have been through, do you believe I'd just abandon you to your de-"

"What else would you do? Keep me with you, as your 'friend'? What, you took pity on me and were planning to give me a desk so I can spend the rest of my eternity working for the same people who robbed me of my future?"

"Now stop it, you two, the passage is open, we need to leave" said Hunter B-15, but Loki and Mobius didn't seem to have any intention of listening to her, so she just signed at the rest of the group.

"Come on, hop through it, they'll come when they're ready" she ordered. She waited for the Minutemen to go through the passage, she looked once again at Loki and Mobius and she shook her head, following her collogues back to the TVA. She closed the passage, aware that Mobius could have opened another when he wanted to.

"Just because you are a selfish, uncaring bastard it doesn't mean we all have to be. Is it so difficult for you to accept some people care about you? Like your mother or your brothe-"

"Don't you dare talking about them, you know nothing about them-"

"I literally know everything about them-"

"And stop pretending you care about me or trust me, I am the God of Illusions, I know all your stupid tricks, I used them before-"

Loki and Mobius were shouting very loud, they barely heard the footsetps of someone approaching. A Variant, not the Loki Variant, another one, an enemy of the TVA, probably.

Mobius noticed them in the corner of the eye and turned around fast enough.

Loki was not minimally done with the discussion, but if Mobius was looking away from him, something must have happened.

Loki has been in battles. Battles on Asgards are usually more "traditional" than what you see on Midgard. Sure, they can use magic, but it's mostly swords and axes and arrows and, sometimes, good old-fashioned punches. When he had been on Midgard, Loki had learned war had incredibly evolved. The glorified Midgardian technology changed the face of battles. He had seen a few of the new weapons, nothing that impressive, incomparable to magic. But he remembered them very well, he knew he was not a good idea to underestimate them. So he remembered the sound of a bullet. It was loud, violent, fast. It lasted a few seconds, and then there was silence. If you aim right, your enemy is not just wounded, he's already dead.

They both turned to see the Variant pulling out a gun, and then Loki heard it.

The sound of a bullet.

He shoved Mobius away, before the agent could do anything about it. Mobius heard the sound of a bullet as well, he heard Loki moan in pain and he knew he hadn't been fast enough. But he made up for it pulling out his gun as well, shooting the Variant right in the chest, it only took one bullet to kill him.

Mobius was suddenly grabbed by the arm by a bleeding Loki, who was trying to stand up in vain.

Mobius kneeled next to him, holding him and putting his head on his lap.

Blood. So much blood. The bullet hit the stomach. A normal bullet? You take him to the hospital and chances are he'll be fine. A bullet like that, with a venom release? Kills you in a matter of minutes.

'He is not going to survive' a voice declared in Mobius's head.

He had seen scenes like this too many times to ignore the truth, even if he was desperately trying to. So many missions ending up with corpses, Mobius had witnessed so many deaths like this. It was useless to try and save them, the most merciful act was to immediately reset them to spare them the pain.

But not with Loki. Mobius had already started pressing on the wound, trying to stop the blood.

Useless, all of this was useless.

Loki was uttering verses more than words, normally at this point he would have neen already unconscoius, but the whole being a God must have come with some sort of enhanched healing capacity.

"I am not...ugh, not surviving this?"

"No, no, you are, I just have to take you through the passage-"

"I am...the God of...lies, I know one when I heard...one" Loki coughed.

No, no, no, one thing was seeing Loki dies in a stupid video, another was to witness him dying between his arms, Mobius thought. He couldn't bear this.

Loki looked so scared. He didn't even have the strenght to talk to pretend he was fine with this, he accepted this death. He just looked pained and frightened. He tried to tighten his grip around Mobius's arm, but he couldn't, he was loosing too much blood too fast.

"He looks so young, God, he looks so young" was all Mobius could think. He had seen Loki die, he had seen him a hero, a son of Odin, a troubled man with a controversial life, but this Loki, he was too young. He was just learning what his life could amd couldn't be, he still hadn't make up with Thor or heard his father tell him that he loved him. There was an entire future for him ready to be rewritten, he couldn't die in that moment, he couldn't die on him.

"Aren't you...you tired of watching...me die..."

"You are not dying, Loki, we just have to press on the wound for bit longer, enough for it to stop bleeding, then I'll take you through the passage and-"

"It's always...so pathetic..." Loki coughed again "of a scene..."

Mobius looked around him for another piece of cloth to press on the wound. He had already sacrificed his jacket, but, in absence of anything else, he ripped part of the sleeve of his shirt and pressed it on Loki's stomach. The white cotton was soon impregnated by dark red blood.

"At least...both times...I died for someone I-"

Loki coughed again, exhaling his last breath.

Mobius stopped pressing on the wound. He stared at Loki's corpse in a silent horror.

His body wasn't cold yet, the blood was still flowing, but he was dead. Loki was dead.

Mobius conceided himself a few seconds to fully realize there was nothing left to do. He wanted to scream, but his mouth didn't emit any sound.

His hands still rested on the wound, wet woth blood.

"It should have been you, is that what you're thinking, isn't it?"

Mobius reluctantly teared his gaze off Loki's corpse, to meet the eyes of another God Mischief, one alive and on the run.

Towering over Mobius with his dark cloak, the Dangerous Variant casted a shadow on the two TVA agents. He then kneeled beside Loki's corpse.

Mobius looked at him is disbelief.

"Why are you here?" was all Mobius managed to say.

Why are you here now? Where were you five minutes ago, when Loki was still alive, when you could have done something? How are looking at your own corpse- they were, after all, the same person- without any anger, or surprise or shock?

Mobius wasn't scared of the Dangerous Variant, on the contrary. Although TVA insisted on branding him as this big enemy, he had on several occasions helped him and Loki out, even saved them from some very bad situations. He had never constituted a threat for him or Loki. Sure, he was a mass murderer, but that was kind of a Loki characteristic in general.

"Okay, here's the deal" said the Variant, without looking away from the dead body "You use your...your- ah, what's its name, the- the remote to go back in time, I'll take his place and it's happy ending for everyone. Except for me" he mumbled "but that was mever in the plans, wasn't it" he smiled bitterly, pushing a lock of the dead Loki's hair away from his face.

"What?" Mobius exclaimed.

"Just do as I say" the Variant kept looking down at the corpse "You turn back time, I take the bullet, you two live, I die. It's easy, Mobius."

"How the hell should this be easy?" Mobius shouted, prey to grief and confusion "Why would you do that? What's- what's the meaning of this?"

The Variant had been willing to lend a hand in moments of need, but he was no suicidal.

Finally, the Variant pried his eyes away from his other self and looked at Mobius.

"You asked me once why I was doing what I was doing, remember?" he began.

Mobius slowly nodded.

“Killing TVA officers, trying to destroy the system" the Variant continued "It was just... revenge. Against the TVA. For taking away the thing I cared the most about."

He then looked Mobius in the eye, with a strange intensity, some sort of regret.

"...I was that Loki"

He looked once again at the corpse.

"Then they killed you." he paused.

Mobius didn't say a word, but he kept looking at the Variant astonished.

"And I decided it was time to stray from my written path again. Because nothing else mattered anymore, except making them pay for what they did and making sure what happened to you in my past... did not happen in your present."

The Variant idly run a bony finger over his other's self pale cheek. He then raised his eyes at Mobius.

"I will take his place because he still has you" he then declared "and he still has time to accept" he made a small gesture with his hand, encompassing his dead alter ego and Mobius "whatever you’ve got going on."

Mobius looked at the Variant ever so bewildered, but the Variant simply closed his eyes for a few seconds, looking for the right words.

"He still has time to tell you...all the things I never said." 

The Dangerous Variant was on his knees, teary eyes and a lump in his throat, but he then stood up and cleared his stance. Despire the shaken voice, he proclaimed with all the courage he seemed to own: "I am Loki of Asgard and I am burdened with glorious purpose." He screamed that to no one in particular, or maybe just to himself.

Mobius had been shocked into silence until that moment. Still looking at the Variant, he stood up too, hesitated for a moment then extends his hand to Dangerous Variant. The other one looked at it for a moment, and then firmly grasped it, shaking it.

Mobius was still very confused over what has just happened- what was going to happen.

"Are you sure?" he asked "You...would die. For good. I- I don't think there's a way everybody can get out safe from this- even if you consider time travel and-"

"I know. That's why I am doing it. So that you two get to live, you still has reasons to do it." the Variant said, no hesitation.

"I was right, you know," Mobius said, still reluctant to leave Loki's hand- the moment he did, the Variant would have to die. It was still hard for him to sentence someone to death. But his lips curled into an almost amused smile, even though with a note of sadeness "You're not a villain."

The Variant snorted- oh, Allfather, he had missed Moby's antics- and rolled his eyes, then looked at Mobius again, trying to hide his amusement. You had to have a sense of humour to live his life, Loki thought, there weren't many moments to laugh in his existence, he had to learn to appreciate rare moments like those, when fate graced him with the last sight of the love of his life.

"Turn back the clock, Mobius."

After a slow nod, his hand still in Variant Loki's, Mobius did as he was said.

***

Two days later those events, ut was a good day. In the previous two days, the TVA had finally declared that one of his most wanted Variants was not a problem anymore. Mobius simply stated he had "been cared about", with a hint of sadness nobody cared for. Loki had been quite shocked to witness his death, he had tried to do something for him, but Mobius had looked at him the way he rarely did- with resignation. Nothing left to do. He had offered Loki to spend some time together after the whole thing, to buy him a drink if he needed, to simply listen to him or leave him alone, if he wanted to. It wasn't easy to be a spectator of their own death.

Loki had recovered quicker than Mobius would have thought. Sure, you could still see Loki lost in his train of thoughts when he was left on his own, but he had seen himself die once, he could handle twice.

"Paperwork. To distract you. As a treat." Mobius put on his desk a stack of papers the size of an encyclopedia.

Loki frowned: "And you call this a treat?"

"Well, you can always go help Casey cataloguing the infinity stones, if you like it best" Mobius chuckles.

Loki mindlessly started playing with the Tesseract on his desk- yes, they let him keep it. After all, it was no more than a glowing blue lamp at the TVA.

"Mh, whatever" Loki sighed, picking up a paper, still glaring at Mobius.

"Oh, you have to file these for the end of the day, which gives you around...hmm, something between one and four hours in earth time, I don't remember now. Good luck." Mobius added before starting to walk away.

An irritated "what" that was probably heard in the entire pocket reality of the TVA made him stopped in place. Mobius couldn't help but smile, but he didn't turn around.

"You must be joking! This is- this is unacceptable! What is even supposed to mean between one and four hours? I may have king ambitions but you are the real tyrant!" Loki shouted.

"Oh, Loki" said Mobius, finally turning to face the God "This is very flattering, but I am no more than a mere bureaucrat."

"Yes, and the worst kind." the other replied. He then looked around him, noticing that everybody has stopped whatever they were doing to listen to his shoutings. With a faint flush on his face, Loki sat back in his chair, just after glancing at the whole room and snarling a "What are you looking at?"

He then looked back at Mobius, sighing a "I hate you so much".

Mobius simply smiles.

"Sure you do, kitten."

I am sorry for the spelling mistakes, I tend to make a lot of them and also I am not a native english speaker, so I hope I everything I wrote makes sense.

#lokius #loki #loki 2021 #loki laufeyson #loki tv show #loki disney+ #loki series #loki x mobius #mobius #mobius m mobius #moki #timefrost #time husbands #wowki #angst #variant loki #death

[isagrimorie]

Spyfall 2

Commentators: Jodie Whittaker, Sylvie Briggs (Ada Lovelace), Chris Chibnall

Much like the Doctor doesn't like being alone, Jodie also isn't keen on doing scenes alone.

Chibnall actually did consult with his brother in law, who is very knowledgeable in aviation, about landing planes without a cockpit. And it is possible to do so remotely, people will be surprised how a lot of modern planes are actually flown by a computer. I'm not surprised, my dad's a pilot and he told me a lot of modern aircraft are actually flown more by the computers than the pilots. It's a two edged sword tho because then the pilot becomes too over reliant on the autopilot, and that's when accidents happen.

The scene with Ada and Thirteen meeting in the Kasaavin dimension was actually Sylvie's (Ada Lovelace) final day. Her first day was waking up in 'Paris' with Thirteen.

Interesting comment about how the Doctor's rhythm and speech changed dictated by the period of time she's in. It's modern but enough to sound period.

The hall the Doctor and Ada are in is a school, the dining hall.

The Master and his Top Hat! Jodie and Sylvie are both admiring how Sacha commanded the room and how genuinely terrifying he was. 'He (Sacha) rehearses in a way physically you kinda know what he's gonna do but emotionally its different.'

Jodie: "We're the same height, well you can see it 'cause we are but what is really ace is bein' able to eyeball somebody, because very often when you have a standoff with someone there's usually one's looking up, one's looking down or whatever but to be absolutely--"

Sylvie: "Because that changes the power dynamic."

Jodie: "Yeah."

Chibnall: "I never clocked that."

[snip]

Chibnall: "But I wonder if that's what makes it feels so much like your Master, your antagonist, your nemesis. It's like... that's interesting about the eyeline."

Jodie: "Cause in the scene obviously with Lenny outside like this (does something we can't see) and I like doing that thing of scrunching up and kind of, y'know, I suppose the.. doing that thing that kids do headstrong where the body leans forward. But with this two its (growls)."

Chibnall was uncertain about writing the kneel scene, Jodie agrees and didn't like it, Sylvie mentions that it feels epic to her. Chibnall:"There's something about your perfromances that makes it feel epic. But it's just that two-hander."

In the kneel scene, when they were filming, to keep the secret of the Master's identity, Jodie called Sacha 'Myka' instead of Master.

Jodie: "I like my bowtie." Chibnall: "Are you angling for the return of the bowtie?"

Jodie: "Every set, I try to knick something." LOL.

I love how Jodie compliments Sylvie, and I agree she fits the era very well. And an instance where costume (corset especially), and the hair all tied back helps get into character.

Ada really had episodes of paralysis, and one of the jumping off points for Chibnall's story.

Sylvie and Jodie comment on how lovely it was to have scenes with three women and not about 'Hey three women! Let's talk about being women! It's (their gender) is absolutely irrelevant to it but it is really lovely to have just three women. The kind of craziness Doctor Who brings with Ada in period clothes, the Doctor in a tux, and Noor in her period appropriate clothes.

They go on to discuss the Master's SS uniform and how it makes them (Sacha included) shudder because of what the uniform represented. And it's more of a reflection of the Master because he just treats wearing the SS uniform as a dress up without accounting for the implications and history of it. An alien tourist playing dress-up. [ED: I think the optics of this is still problematic I think it's something we need to acknowledge..]

There really was a point where Jodie and Sylvie were under the floor boards with people walking above them, and they held each other's hands because that experience was awful. On page it was very cool, but in execution. (Ed: I love that scene the whole way where there's a tense standoff between Noor and the soldiers, and the Master. And the steeliness of Noor just staring them down even with the soldier strafing the floor.) Chibnall wants several films with Noor Inayat Khan.

OMG. There was a point in the shoot where the Doctor was supposed to speak in perfect French, and Jodie joked that she already didn't speak English very well, and so she practiced speaking her line just to get the accent perfect... only for it to be cut for time. I WANT DELETED SCENES NOW.

Scanning through the Spyfall 2 script there's no mention of the scene where the Doctor speaks in French which really just confirms my suspicion that the scripts are not the shooting scripts, or at least the copies the actors use.

So, Chibnall gave the production several possible locations hoping to bring the budget to manageable scale and then he started writing and he got to the scene where the Doctor and Master spoke and the Master asked where they'd meet and then the Doctor answered; "Where d'you think?"

And Chibnall goes: "Oh they've got to meet in the Eiffel Tower. Production is going to kill me!"

Also, by this it confirms to me that Chibnall, like all of the showrunners is a Doctor/Master shipper, which I should've known already because Jack and Captain John were very much Doctor/Master lite.

Jodie loves doing duologues and is hoping for more two handers in the future, and Chibnall is taking note of that. Two handers where the other person has more of the dialogue... LOL. I guess Jodie really loved The Timeless Children.

[ED: Ada and Noor were such good companions. I want a historical companion for Thirteen next please. Thirteen, Yaz, and a historical Companion!]

Sylvie is so fascinated with the Doctor and Master's relationship, about how complicated it is.

One of the advises RTD gave Chibnall is that 'you can save anything in a line.' LOL. Apparently some of the Master's trauma across 77 years involved tailoring.

Jodie comments on how exciting it is being involved in the costuming, between herself and Sacha, they get to build their Doctors and Master's look and shape them. Also Jodie really loves cropped pants.

Jodie and Sylvie love the power walk, the big iconic, backlit smoke walk. The Big Exposition speech.

The scene where the Master arrives in Kasaavin dimension, same day filming for Jodie, and Sylvie too.

Jodie loves all the engineering and carpentry work, and any practical work.

They did do a shoot where they moved forward to a scene where Noor died, but in the edit found a better ending in the one that was broadcasted, and IMO, that was the right choice. Chibnall wants it more that Doctor Who will inspire people to read up more on Noor Inayat Khan and same Ada.

Chibnall didn't want to rob Ada of her agency, that the Doctor helped her discover computers or suggest that she didn't come up with it, everything Ada did she came up with herself.

The scene where Thirteen is alone and contemplating what happened to Gallifrey, Jodie comments how this was one of the few times where she's just very still.

Chibnall: "This is second series Thirteen, the place you take a character once you've done the first act, done in the beginning of your Doctor's second act."

Jodie and Sacha made sure that they're there in person for the scene in the TARDIS because having a stand-in would change the energy and performance of the scene.

Chibnall: "That performance from Sacha, the layer he brings to the Master there, of emotional truth and pain is so fantastic. It's a gift for a writer, and opens up the Master as well. And opens up your Doctor, I think, the trauma's so personal."

Hang on. Chibnall: "Is that the first appearance of the jumper? [ snip] They've come in this second series, its the first jumper. Little tiny changes you and Ray figure out." Are they implying there were more Doctor wearing only her long sleeve jumper we didn't get to see???

Chibnall: "And you got your Doctor theme but also it's the first time you [speaking to Jodie], it's interesting, I deliberately kept them back in the first series so that when you say them here, it's like you're saying 'Gallifrey', 'Kasterborous', 'Master for the first time."

Jodie: But its good that it ends with a: [using the same steely, angry voice]: 'Questions?' Like: 'Back to business, c'mon.'

Chibnall: (watching Thirteen's face subtly change when Yaz asked if they can visit, and it changes from a broken void to a forced smile). "Ohhhh. Why won't you tell them?" (LOL a writer asking his character.)

#doctor who #liveblogging commentary #dw series 12 #thirteenth doctor #the master #ada lovelace #jodie whittaker #chris chibnall #dhawan!master #best enemies

[elegantwoes]

What are your top 5 Sansa moments?

In no particular order:

But when the septon climbed on high and called upon the gods to protect and defend their true and noble king, Sansa got to her feet. The aisles were jammed with people. She had to shoulder through while the septon called upon the Smith to lend strength to Joffrey's sword and shield, the Warrior to give him courage, the Father to defend him in his need. Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him. (ACOK, Sansa V)

I like this scene because it’s such a beautiful contrast to Sansa’s behavior earlier in this chapter. Even though she hopes Stannis would win she still wishes Tyrion well, despite him being mean to her Sansa hopes that Sandor finds peace, and she prays for the soldiers on both sides. This moment shows that there’s a limit to Sansa’s kindness. As much as I love and admire it when Sansa is merciful and kind, I also enjoy it, if not sometimes more, when Sansa is all unforgiving, vengeful, shows her anger, and unkind. It makes her more human and multifaceted. If only this fandom could accept she has such a side and still can be kind and a good person. Instead they condemn her and put her in the league of the worst criminals in ASOIAF.

"The night's first traitors," the queen said, "but not the last, I fear. Have Ser Ilyn see to them, and put their heads on pikes outside the stables as a warning." As they left, she turned to Sansa. "Another lesson you should learn, if you hope to sit beside my son. Be gentle on a night like this and you'll have treasons popping up all about you like mushrooms after a hard rain. The only way to keep your people loyal is to make certain they fear you more than they do the enemy.""I will remember, Your Grace," said Sansa, though she had always heard that love was a surer route to the people's loyalty than fear. If I am ever a queen, I'll make them love me. (ACOK, Sansa VI)  

There are no words to describe just how much I love this moment. Here we have Cersei trying to force her rather fucked up philosophy onto Sansa, and Sansa gives a beautiful and elegant no. It takes a special kind of bravery and inner strength to stand up to your beliefs while you face adversity. Sansa does this multiple times to both Cersei and Sandor Clegane and gives us several iconic quotes:

The silence went on and on, so long that she began to grow afraid once more, but she was afraid for him now, not for herself. She found his massive shoulder with her hand. "He was no true knight," she whispered to him. (AGOT, Sansa II)

and

There are gods, she told herself, and there are true knights too. All the stories can't be lies. (ACOK, Sansa IV)

Sansa is so delightfully stubborn and aggressive in her morals and beliefs in her ACOK chapters and more people should admire and appreciate her for that. Especially since she is doing this at the age of twelve. Adults twice and even trice her age in ASOIAF don’t have half the bravery and strength Sansa has. It’s moments like these that establish what kind of heroine Sansa Stark is. 

As he moved behind her, Sansa felt a sharp tug on her skirt. He wants me to kneel, she realized, blushing. She was mortified. It was not supposed to be this way. She had dreamed of her wedding a thousand times, and always she had pictured how her betrothed would stand behind her tall and strong, sweep the cloak of his protection over her shoulders, and tenderly kiss her cheek as he leaned forward to fasten the clasp.She felt another tug at her skirt, more insistent. I won't. Why should I spare his feelings, when no one cares about mine?

I have loved this scene for a very long time and it’s not hard to love it. This scene is perfect. Here we have Sansa being forced into a marriage she doesn’t want and can’t refuse. This is a moment of defiance, a moment to show she doesn’t agree with this farce of a marriage. It’s a moment where she musters what little dignity she has left. The best part of it is that later in one of Tyrion’s chapters he ascribes this moment to her being a Stark and I love the very sound of that. Furthermore this is also a moment where Sansa’s kindness hits a limit, and like I said before, I love moments where Sansa isn’t nice. 

Sansa went to Ser Lancel and knelt beside him. His wound was bleeding afresh where the queen had struck him. "Madness," he gasped. "Gods, the Imp was right, was right . . .""Help him," Sansa commanded two of the serving men. One just looked at her and ran, flagon and all. Other servants were leaving the hall as well, but she could not help that. Together, Sansa and the serving man got the wounded knight back on his feet. "Take him to Maester Frenken." Lancel was one of them, yet somehow she still could not bring herself to wish him dead. I am soft and weak and stupid, just as Joffrey says. I should be killing him, not helping him.

This is such beautiful example of Sansa being merciful and kind. She might not consider it a good thing because of the abuse she has been suffering, but there will be a time and moment where Sansa comes to realize there’s great power in being kind. That being merciful isn’t a bad thing. And I think Lancel could play a part of Sansa coming to that realization. Something tells me he will play a part in the annulment of her marriage. 

It had frightened her then, and it frightened her now. “It is wider than it looks,” Mya was telling Lord Robert in a cheerful voice. “A yard across, and no more than eight yards long, that’s nothing.” “Nothing,” Robert said. His hand was shaking. Oh, no, Alayne thought. Please. Not here. Not now. ...  Alayne took Robert’s gloved hand in her own to stop his shaking. “Sweetrobin,” she said, “I’m scared. Hold my hand, and help me get across. I know you’re not afraid.” He looked at her, his pupils small dark pinpricks in eyes as big and white as eggs. “I’m not?” “Not you. You’re my winged knight, Ser Sweetrobin.” “The Winged Knight could fly,” Robert whispered. “Higher than the mountains.” She gave his hand a squeeze. ....  “Ser Sweetrobin,” Lord Robert said, and Alayne knew that she dare not wait for Mya to return. She helped the boy dismount, and hand in hand they walked out onto the bare stone saddle, their cloaks snapping and flapping behind them.

Several things happen in this chapter and I love everything about it. Little Robert was about to have an epilepsy attack but Sansa stopped that by grabbing to his hand and saying the right words for that moments. First of this shows that Sansa has very quick wits. If she was a moment too fast or slow both she and Sweetrobin would have fallen to their deaths. 

Secondly this is such sweet moment between Sansa and Sweetrobin. I love their scenes in general, but this moment right here captures perfectly what Sansa has been trying to do for Little Robert in her AFFC chapters and the TWOW sample chapter. She’s helping him build his confidence and maturity so he can be a proper Lord of the Vale and Warden of the East. It’s also because of this why Sansa chose to give him sweet sleep earlier in this chapter. It was to preserve little Robert’s reputation as liege lord. It’s sad, but also expected, that this fandom chose to misconstrue Sansa’s motivations in regard to Sweetrobin.

Thirdly this scene right here is such a beautiful contrast to Catelyn in AGOT and, unlike Sansa, she didn’t have a small child who is prone to have epilepsy attacks along with her on the road. Now under no circumstances am I saying that Catelyn was weak in that moment, because we all know she isn’t. Catelyn is a source of strength for both Sansa and Arya. Catelyn has a lady’s strength, a woman’s bravery, and Sansa, who is very much her mother’s daughter, has shown multiple times in her chapters that she has both of these things. However this moment right here feels like a foreshadow. A promise that Sansa will give a whole new meaning to a lady’s strength and woman’s bravery in TWOW and ADOS. 

#books-laughter-love #Sansa Stark #answering this question was a lot harder than I expected #I had to think long and hard before I chose these moments #that's why I took my time answering this #so sorry for the really late reply

[florafey]

Thoughts While Reading Crescent City - Part 2

Part one here

Spoilers under the cut

- Something definitely went down that night Bryce and Danika got in a twist with those shifters and crashed their motorcycle

- That something that went down probably has a lottttt to do with the resolution of this book but I can’t for the life of me figure out how

- Aw Hunt’s ordering her food and she isn’t HAVING IT

- Ah shit a ‘slposion 

- Bryce really tired to protect Juniper from the explosion even though Juniper is immortal and Bryce isn’t. This woman is amazing

- I bet a million trillion dollars that Briggs has nothing to do with any of this. I know all signs are pointing to him but that just seems too easy

- AAAAAAAAAND Hunt’s moving in with her. CHA-CHING BABEYYYYYYY

- Nobody hates the Autumn King more than Ruhn does and it’s hysterical. I’m living for the almost blatant disrespect with which Ruhn speaks to him 

- It’s been four seconds and they’re already acting domestic Sarah SARAH what have you done to me

- Fury better make an appearance before the book is over

- Syrinx and Hunt? Pals. I’m calling it

- Okayokayokay I know Bryce has a whole thing with “don’t go all alpha-hole on me” and all that but it was extremely amusing to see her explain that to Hunt and have be like ??? the fuck are you talking about?? and then just shut her down with “I think you may be the alpha-hole here” like Bryce I love you but you needed that

- And then Hunt just picks up from that and starts telling her what to do AHAHAHAHHAH hypocrite 

- I’d rather eat my own vomit than meet Sandriel but I just know we’re going to

- “What’s the deal with you two?”

“We beat the shit out of each other at a party. Danaan’s still sore about it.”

uh yeah I’d be sore about it too, bitch lmaoooo

- Bryce, Hunt, Ruhn, and Lehabah should start their own CSI show. Or Criminal Minds. Or one of those crime shows cause I can’t tell a difference right now

- Group buddy cops except between the four of them, only Bryce and Lehabah get along

- Hunt has an email I’m cryingggg

- Bryce probably fucked that Oracle up, that’s why she won’t go back

- Hunt collectively referring to Bryce and Ruhn as ‘assholes’ is a bold move but he’s right and he should say it

- ah these photos are gonna be a thing, huh? Good. Give it to me

- FUCK ITS SANDRIEL

- atta boy Hunt don’t fucking kneel to her

- Sandriel can catch these hands on any holy day and that’s a fact 

- ewwww Micah come ON

- Wow Bryce really is a Bad Bitch. Doing all that in front of Sandriel?? Telling Micah fucking Domitus ‘not interested”????? Queen

- Okay now I don’t like Micah. He’s fucking Hunt up and he knows it.

- That oracle made me nervous but it went better than I had expected

- Fuck, see, I knew Briggs didn’t have anything to do with it

- I really don’t want Danika to have anything to do with this. It would ruin Bryce and I’m not interested in reading about that

- As we get to know Hunt better, he’s refreshingly human. And he needs a friend just as much as Bryce does. And while both of them are often assholes to each other, they’re also really really good friends when the need to be

- ^^^that’s called growth

- AHHHHHHHHHH the gun range scene????? AMAZING POWERFUL ICONIC on both their parts wowowowowowowowwwwwwwwwwww heheheh they’re such a power couple

- So......hmmm.....okay so Shahar seems to.....not have been that great of a person? Is anyone getting those vibes? idk

- Hunt and Bryce are so normal and I love it. Like sharing worst hookup stories and casually/not so casually asking about current relationships

- Didn’t I say fuck Sabine? Yeah, I knew I was on to something with that

- Ruhn and this medwitch? Could be interesting. I get strange vibes from her, though

- Oh these two will be the death of me. Now we’re changing contact names in each other’s phones?? Okay high-schoolers 

- I LIKE VIKTORIA

- Can I just say that both Bryce and Hunt are doing a phenomenal job at trying to overcome/work through their respective trauma? And they’re learning the best ways to help each other, too 

- Hunt seriously made Bryce crawl into a sewer how rude

- I had heard tell of the Jelly Jubilee scene before reading this book. I have now read it and can say that yes, it is as iconic and hysterical as everyone is making it seem. Wow. I’m going to read it eight more times

- Tharion Ketos is amazing and that’s a fact from God

- ‘Legs’???? ‘Legs’?????? Bryce, if Hunt had called you that you would have smacked him in the mouth

- Oh jeez Bryce lmao chill out you’re at work

- ew I hated the whole scene at the werewolf teritory

- I’m also....unnerved at how the wolves hate Bryce because she hooked up with someone before she ever went on a date with Connor but she was “already his” like ???? guys that doesn’t add up let’s do the math again

- If Sabine does not shut the FUCK UP about her GOTDAMN SWORD I’m gonna seduce Tharion into drowning her and eating her

- So we can drown Amelie too, did you hear that, Tharion? Good

- Micah is now acting shady. Destroying the kristallos before they could search it for an antidote or evidence? That’s called shady 

- A HUG WOW

- FUCK YOU SABINE YOU FUCKING INTERRUPTED THE HUG SESSION

- oop

- Danika ????? Stole ???? Stole the ????? oh alright

- Hunt is again antagonizing Ruhn. This will never get old

- So you know that prophecy about Danika’s sword that talks about one the sword and the knife are joined something about the people coming together? I can’t really remember what it says but I read a theory that proposes that knife as Azriel’s knife from ACTOAR and I’m.....really about that....that would be something else 

- we’re summoning another demon ??? 

- ohhhhhhh the Prince of the Chasm you say ???? I LIKE THIS ONE

- oh shit and Bryce knows him ???? From the past ??? Wild

- lmao look how stressed Hunt is over Aidas

- Aidas had three pages but I’m in love. And he’s a demon so that’s fuuuuuun

- awww look at Bryce trying to make an apology meal there’s def a similarity between this and the soup scene between Feyre and Rhys

- Is....is Hunt going to be her Anchor?? 

- “You said home earlier. At the bar. I know you’re supposed to live in the barracks or whatever Micah insists on, but if we somehow solve this case...that room is yours if you want it.” tears. actual tears. write this on my tombstone, please for the love of god 

- Oh my god Bryce really got scared when he didn’t come home...I’m really gonna start crying again what the hell

- Alright, a tsunami of tears have just been ripped from me. The whole scene when she found him in the shower and washed him and dressed him and put him to bed ???? When he PUT HIS HEAD ON HER LAP ??????? jeeeeesus I’m soft, so so soft

- This is the greatest work of writing I’ve ever held in my hands

- “A child laying his head on his mother’s lap. A friend looking for any sort of reassuring contact to remind him that he was a living being. A good person, no matter what they made him do.” sarah, oh sarah how you’ve ruined me

- So I know we all ship Bryce and Hunt but can we really talk about their friendship? Like the....the pure trust they’ve formed ?? Take that scene above for instance. There’s nothing at all sexual about Bryce washing Hunt in the shower when he was in shock and couldn’t do it himself. Sarah mentions how nervous Bryce is because Hunt is naked but there isn’t anything to that that isn’t normal. And Hunt is comfortable enough with her that he puts his head in her lap and again, nothing sexual. Sarah compares him to a child needing his mother and a friend needing reassurance, but nothing more. There’s something to that, something that wouldn’t be there if the connection was also romantic or sexual. Okay I’ll stop now 

If you’ve made it this far, I appreciate you. Thank you for joining me on this extremely wild and slightly out of control ride. Part 3 will be up shortly.

#crescent city #bryce quinlan #hunt alathar #bryce and hunt #sarah j maas

[trensu]

Episode 19: The One with the Return of the Gay Yearning Death Grip, Now with More Sword!

After enduring EXTREME EMOTIONAL TRAUMA for the last THREE (3) EPISODES IN A ROW, we finally finally get an episode that has some wangxiantics again!!

I mean, they’re still gonna gut us emotionally here too but we can pretend it hurts less because of our brief wangxian moments!!!

Because this is the episode with the BURIAL MOUNDS

*cries*

Alright so golden core transfer Happened. 

Review: wwx is now weaponless, penniless, golden core-less, and alone

Except jk, he’s actually surrounded by wen flunkies, so not alone! Worse than alone!!

And we all know our beloved wwx has the survival instincts of a lemming so instead of you know, keeping his mouth shut for once in his life, he decides to mock and insult wen chao and his flunkies.

WC decides to take wwx on Evil Field Trip Part 2: Burial Mounds Edition and has wen zhuliu freaking drop-kick wwx into the cursed place

Oh, hello, Bad CGI, nice to see you again!

And here we have the Return of the Screams bc apparently wwx decided to keep the Screaming Sword of Resentment in his magic pouch??

Good thing he did, i guess?? Bc the Screams summon up some resentful energy that helps him survive the fall

We cut away a moment here to see our beloved wen sibs and we are sad bc they are locked up MOVING ON

Wwx is all alone in this awful place covered in dead things and lacking sunlight, THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF OUR PRECIOUS, LIVELY, SUNSHINE BOY

It’s terrible but we’re getting a piece of wangxian pie here (a tiny one)

So the Screams are still happening, and our wwx is collapsed on the ground not responding to any of them.

They’re all shouting “wei wuxian, wei wuxian” 

And still our precious sunshine boy lies there limp and exhausted

BUT SUDDENLY

AMIDST ALL THE SHOUTS

We hear a calm,soothing voice call “wei ying”

Wwx finally moves. He sits up and starts looking around for the source of that voice

BECAUSE THAT WAS LAN ZHAN’S VOICE

THAT WAS LAN ZHAN’S VOICE GENTLY CALLING “WEI YING” THREE TIMES

THREE!!! TIMES!!!!

And it’s so sad bc for a moment there wwx hears the voice and must think that lwj is there with him, there to rescue him!!

But he isn’t *cries* he’s not there and wwx just looks so lost and scared here *cries HARDER*

Instead of lwj, wwx finds the Screaming Sword of Resentment that legit says to him, “wwx, do you want revenge? Let’s be together.”

And, idk guys, swords that talk to you about revenge don’t seem like, the kind of swords you wanna be touching.

But wwx decides to become besties with it, i guess, and grabs it. 

The look of triumph on his face after he accepts the swords offer is really cool if you ignore how UTTERLY DISTRESSING the whole situation is

AND HERE’S THE SCENE WHERE LWJ MAKES THE MOST BADASS ENTRANCE.

YOU THOUGHT THE THING WITH THE ROOFTOP BACK IN "THE ONE WITH THE ICONIC REUNION” WAS COOL?? THIS ONE TOPS IT.

To set the scene: we’re at Qishan where Evil Summer School took place and a bunch of wen flunkies are getting drunk and bragging about their evil deeds bc why not

And then we get a shot of white shoes (boots?? Idk) slowly walking up the steps of the evil staircase

And then the camera gives us a shot at the top of the staircase and we see LWJ clad in all white in a bitchin’ new robe, slowly appear into view, rising a little more with each step he takes up the stairs and the wind is providing ambiance by swishing elegantly through his hair

As that is happening, we see the blue flash of power that shows up whenever lwj uses his guqin and it knocks the wen flunkies down on their backs BC FUCK YOU WEN FLUNKIES

We go back to lwj, and get a closer look at his face. His face is blank and hard as a stone, and he keeps going at this unhurried, unbothered pace

Bc he knows

HE KNOWS

He’s gonna get what he wants here and now, one way or another. And what he wants is information about wei ying.

CHILLS, GUYS, THIS SCENE GIVES ME CHILLS IN THE BEST WAY

THE MOST BADASS ENTRANCE IN THE SHOW

I LOVE IT SO MUCH

So after he guqin’s the wen flunkies down (and they start cowering) he towers over them all imperiously

Lwj: Kneel

(so commanding, his tone. I know at least some of you guys Felt Things at that)

(guys, I've been on ao3, I'VE SEEN YOUR TAGS, don’t try to deny it, you kinky bastards)

(It's okay, this is a no judgement zone, and lwj is looking hella sharp in his new outfit, I get it)

Lwj: where is wei ying

(so unyielding, so demanding, but not once does he raise his voice, what a BAMF)

The wen flunkie that lwj had been kinda choking with guqin magic raises his hand (lol, this isn’t a classroom pal)

Lwj: Speak.

And the wen flunkie informs him (and JC, who showed up at some point but whatev) that they dumped WWX in the Burial Mounds

Lwj, our precious darling lwj, we know he doesn’t have the most expressive of faces, right? But the way his face tilts ever so slightly downwards at the news, you can tell, you can tell, that he was hit with that sick, cold, sinking feeling in the stomach

Kneel. Where is Wei Ying. Speak. THAT'S ALL HE SAID IN THE WHOLE SCENE AND YET HE HAD EVERYONE CAPTIVATED (and Thirsty, in some cases, it's all good, it's all good)

After all that awesome, we are forced to watch wc and jj have a domestic spat of some sort AS IF WE’RE SUPPOSED TO CARE. WE’RE GONNA IGNORE IT BC FUCK THOSE GUYS

We’re back at Evil Summer School in Qishan, and we’ve got JC and LWJ doing that thing where they stare manfully at the mid-distance and talk about vaguely Feelings-related Stuff

WuJi starts playing in the background as JC tells LWJ about how WWX was supposed to meet up with him at Yiling and never showed up; i thought he went after you, he says, but maybe the wens really did dump him in the burial mounds

And the music freaking crescendos here bc some lan disciples show up with everyone’s swords but most importantly THEY HAVE SUIBIAN which they bring to lwj directly

Makes you wonder, huh. Why did they bring suibian to lwj when jc, wwx’s brother, was right there??

PROBS BC THE LAN DISCIPLES HAVE BEEN WITH LWJ AND JC THE WHOLE TIME AND REALIZED THAT LWJ IS IN LOVE WITH WWX BC WHY ELSE WOULD HE BE SEARCHING SO OBSESSIVELY

LWJ’s eyes widen just a fraction the minute he sees suibian

HIS SOULMATE’S SWORD

IT’S ALL HE HAS LEFT OF WEI YING RIGHT NOW

JUST LIKE BEFORE WHEN ALL HE HAD LEFT OF HIS HOME WAS BICHEN

STOP LEAVING LWJ WITH JUST SWORDS, LET HIM HAVE HIS LOVED ONES!!!

And god the way he GRIPS it with YEARNING.

All of his motions are still very sedate, but just the microexpressions we’re getting from him change the tone of the movements

Wang yibo - guys, idk much about any of the actors but this guy does a great job. Like, how does he make such emotional expressions when his actual face hardly moves??? WITCHCRAFT, I TELL YOU, WITCHCRAFT

Lwj tries to unsheathe the sword but here we find the Suibian has sealed itself (bc he’s a loyal sword; he aint cheating on his master with no one!)

Lwj: wei ying, where are you

Such quality Lwj Yearning™

And then we get interrupted by Plot Things again, ugh

Blah blah we’re at qinghe blah blah we meet jzx's asshole cousin and hate him blah blah

Lwj and JC show up at qinghe and interrupt jzx’s Disaster Het shenanigans (thank god)

Jiang sibs have a reunion while jzx and lwj stand awkwardly at the side

Lwj sees that display of Emotion and is like, nope, that is Too Much, i’m gonna distract myself by staring at this disembodied head hanging at the entrance

(he’s already in emotional turmoil bc his soulmate is missing, he cannot handle anything more than that!!)

Idk why by jzx decides to join him

Jzx: hey, that’s wwx’s sword! Did you…

Lwj: *Death Grips bichen AND suibian with Extra Yearning™*  

Lwj: evil summer school has been burned

SUBTLE CHANGE OF TOPIC THERE, LWJ

Also, c’mon jzx, LWJ IS NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT OR ACKNOWLEDGE ANY MORE FEELINGS RIGHT NOW OKAY

Jzx goes off to talk about something unimportant and lwj is like phew, dodged a bullet there

Except, JUST KIDDING

Jzx: soooo, where’s wwx? I need to return his sister to him

Lwj: *stoically silent*

Lwj: *refuses to look at jzx*

Lwj: *gives off major I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT vibes*

Jzx: *doesn’t take a hint*

Jzx: yeah, so where is he??

READ THE ROOM, JZX

Idiots, we’re surrounded by emotionally incompetent idiots

Lwj doesn’t react until he hears jyl softly gasp when jc updates her and even then, it’s only to just briefly glance in her general direction

OUR BOY IS HURTING, POOR LWJ

And now we’re back to Plot Things

Blah blah battle strategy blah blah nmj looks imposing blah blah baxia does a thing blah blah

Jzx: yeah, so we’re doing great, we just gotta take back gusu and yiling now

Lwj: I volunteer AS TRIBUTE for the mission in Yiling

Jc: dude, SAME, plz red blade master, let us go there

Nmj: uh, idk guys, that’s right next to the wen’s stronghold…

Lwj; red blade master…

Nmj: yeah, okay, fine

Wow, capitulated pretty easily there, pal. Thought you were supposed to be a tough guy, nmj…

We get a jiang sib moment

With soup, ofc

Ooooh, now we get to watch jj have a mental break AND IT’S GLORIOUS

Disembodied eyeballs!! How fun!

And that’s the end of that episode!!

Oh god, i’m so glad we finally got some wangxiantics. Like, not a lot of them, and they didn’t share screentime BUT THEY WERE STILL VERY EMOTIONAL WANGXIANTICS

THEY MISS EACH OTHER SO MUCH *SOBS*

Return to Masterpost

#WangXiantics #wangxian #the untamed #cql

[ladyandtheghost]

The code word is “family”: A recap of 8x02

The Red Queen and the White Queen: 

If I’m delusional at this point, then so be it, but if I still needed convincing of Political!Jon, this scene convinced me. Because Sansa figured it out. Oh my God, she figure it out! You can see the exact moment of it on Sophie’s face. After all the talk and demonstration of Sansa’s intelligence last episode, it made all the sense in the world that Sansa would work it out herself what Jon is actually doing. And it almost makes you feel a bit sorry for Dani when she opens her heart and says kind of jokingly “Tell me who manipulated whom?” and the penny drops for Sansa. You can see it in her eyes, her weird giddiness. Sansa does not like this woman, why on earth would she smile and laugh if not a new realization that is playing out in her head?

It was also interesting how Dani tried to become all sisterly, thinking she could bond with Sansa over “boy talk” - and Sansa laughs but then drops the act and talks “real politics” - which not only shows that Sansa is a strategist and future-oriented, but she also just called out Dani on her argument that they are both women in politics who want to be taken seriously. 

This is your family, Theon: 

I don’t know how Sophie does it, but every reunion that Sansa has with literally any character that Sansa cares about is a 100% tear-jerker. And this was no exception: it was emotional and beautiful and pure. 

I can totally see people shipping them and it’s not an outlandish idea or notp for me or anything, but I felt the background of the scene was not so nuch meant to launch a romantic ship, it was actually far more powerful than that...

Because it was about family and about politics at the same time (the two things Sansa excels in). 

The entire set up of the scene was perfection: The red queen and the white queen, both emerging from the library after their tense conversation and at this moment - and omg this is so fantastic - we see the exact difference in how the two women/queens are being shown as opposites: 

Theon dutifully kneels in front of “his queen”, the gesture that she always demands from all her subjects, the gesture that she has burned people for refusing to perform - but Theon’s heart is not in it. 

Then he ignores Dani and addresses Sansa, asks to fight “for Winterfell”, for House Stark and they embrace and he is so happy to be “home” and “safe” and “loved” and “missed” and this is his family. 

It’s like a mother welcoming her lost child back home in her arms: essentially what a “beloved queen” is seen as - a mother to her people. “Mhysa” failed at that. Sansa is the queen and ruler beloved by her people.

And Dani notices. She sees “her” bannerman’s loyalty to another powerful woman and she is not pleased...

Theon wanting to fight ”for Winterfell“ - after the convo about the North two minutes earlier -  this is another blow for Dani, who made a pact with the Greyjoys to fight for her, and “for the throne“

Theon and Sansa represent the ideal ruler/bannerman situation: the bannermann comes before you, pledges themself to you, asking “if you'll have me“ because they love and respect and want to serve you - which is the complete opposite of how it works for Dani.

This is a bond that lasts. Sansa will never fear betrayal from someone who asked to serve her. 

Their shared trauma and Sansa being Theon’s redeption has forged this beautiful and strong bond. It has no sexual undertones imo (though people who ship it might disagree which is of course understandable) 

Rather it’s a mirror opposite of the strong bond Sansa has with Jon which is charged with UST and “subtext” 

Theon also represents the brother Sansa needs, with Robb gone, Bran “gone” and replaced by the 3ER and things being all “complicated” and tense with Jon...

Jon is also somewhat “gone” in this episode, though neither Sansa nor Dani understand why. 

And they are not stopping at that: where do we find Sansa during the last hours before the battle? Not drinking and warming her butt in front of the roaring fire like the others - nope, Sansa is outside in the cold with her people, eating the stuff that everyone else eats, spending time with the one “brother” she has left who came back for her and it’s yet another indicator that Sansa would be a ruler “for the people”

RMS Gendrya sailing strong: 

Arya “perving” on Gendry first half of the episode, effectively reversing the “male gaze” and her taking charge in their relationship was great.  The only thing is - now I’m scared, like really scared one of them will die. Or both? Urgh I’m getting Tonks/Lupin flashbacks - it’s never good for people to be happily in love before a battle. But I also loved how Gendry worried about her, literally pissed off that she would put herself in danger. And in going with the theme of family for this episode, one of the iconic moments of this couple was when Arya told Gendry: “I could be your family.” and Gendry was right, he is not her family, she is his “lady” and he is her lover...

The Hound and his pup: 

...however Arya did seek out someone who sees her as his family. The only thing that really comes to mind re: Sandor is that this sealed the deal on San*san happening or not. I had a feeling they would not let Sansa and him interact and rather choose the less squicky, more popular relationship of Sandor and Arya shine through. Arya *is* the Hound’s redeption arc. Just like Sansa is Theon’s. 

That super *awkward* family reunion: 

Dani’s reaction was SO predictable, it’s amazing. People actually fantasized that Dani would not mind so much, that she would actually be happy to have her “family” and another Targ by her side. Yeah, fat chance. The only thing on her mind now is that that Jon has the higher claim. 

Also: Jon spending his last night down in the crypts with his mother is so poignant it hurts. He always wanted to know her, he always wanted to see her face, so he stands there just looking at it the night before he might be taken from this world again. Somehow this was also an interesting parallel to Sansa and Theon and about being accepted as family. He told Dani about his mother, then it was revealed that she is his aunt, his closest(!) living (female) relative. 

Jaime, Braime (plus Tormund):

I knew Jaime would be accepted by Sansa - because of Brienne - and just like Theon, Jaime is another addition to Sansa’s Queen’s Watch. Dani looking pissed about it was literally channeling Cersei (if only she knew). 

Poor Tormund, he is so gone on her and he just wanted to be around her. Again, I’m scared shitless for every single character in that room around that fire and if the “knighting” scene is the best we will get from Braime, I will riot. 

A Bear Island family reunion: 

We finally got some Mormonts reunited. Jorah worrying about his little cousin but also respecting her for fighting and Lyanna wishing him good fortune and owning him as “cousin” was also a nice touch. Jorah still has a home in the North and a family. Sam reminded him of that when he spoke of Jeor and gave him his own father’s sword. They both lost their fathers before they could make them proud or forgive them/or be forgiven. 

Alys Karstark - everywhere!:  

Yes, I’m back on my bullshit. But seriously, they were parading her around all episode. They placed her here, places her there, always somewhere in camera frames or shots, Why? She doesn’t speak, her presence doesn’t serve any purpose. Unless we should just get a good look of that “other” red-headed girl, aka Fake!Sansa. 

Davos and Shireen's little girl (ghost):

That little girl with the scarred face killed me - just like she killed Davos. I'm tearing up just thinking of her. And Gilly was so sweet, so instinctively maternal, and Davos looked like he's slowly dying inside. Perhaps we were meant to read this as somehow Shireen's spirit could be felt through this girl and she was there to tell Davos that she will be ok. Idk but I'm crying...Shireen was Davos’ beloved child, his family after he lost his son, and nothing will ever change that! 

Jon’s other family (no, not the dragon one): 

There was even less “action” in this episode, but a lot of emotion. Except from one quarter: Jon, who completely isolated himself from his family - but found solace with his other family, i.e. his “brothers” - Sam, Edd, Tormund. And they recalled Grenn, their lost brother. 

On the whole, the episode is a prime example of the calm before the storm...next time, shit’s going down. 

#jonsa #political!jon #political!jon theory #episode recap

[khaleesiofthegreatsasssea]

So here’s my issue with season 8 of Game of Thrones. The series (book and TV both) have become hugely popular and now represent the next behemoth of high fantasy, arguably on par with Lord of the Rings. This is all well and good, but if we look at the history of fantasy franchises, they tend to be dominated by White men. This isn’t a judgement call on any fandom in particular, but when you look across the board, everyone from Beowulf to Luke Skywalker to Frodo Baggins is White male protagonist. Growing up as a lover of fantasy, particularly as a person of color or a woman, you don’t really get to see yourself represented as the hero in this genre. Perhaps the only iconic female hero that comes to mind is Eowyn from LotR. Granted she is given an wonderful scene of slaying the Witch King and announcing “I am no man!” However, if we look at the storyline, this is Eowyn’s one shining moment before she hangs up her sword and marries the Steward of Gondor, presumably living out her days as a wife and mother rather than a warrior. Today, we have a wonderful movement to diversify the faces we’ve come to associate with fantasy, including casting John Boyega and Daisy Ridley in the new Star Wars, and coming back to my original point, bringing Daenerys Targaryen to Game of Thrones.

It goes without saying that Daenerys does not fully address the issue of underrepresentation in cinema, as she’s still a white woman and there are few significant poc in the series. Still, the power of a female in a fantasy franchise over another White male is significant. In a rare opportunity, female fans of Game of Thrones have been able  to see Dany develop as a leader. We begin her story with her marriage to Khal Drogo, which casts her as a pawn being moved about the board by male characters (her brother, Varys, and Ilyrrio to name a few). There’s a reason that the iconic scene of Daenerys rising from the flames clutching three newborn dragons made so many people fans of Game of Thrones. Women rarely get this kind of spotlight in fantasy, and it’s exhilarating to watch. Now over the seasons, we’ve watched Daenerys become a leader. She makes mistakes, trusts the wrong people, and learns to rule through her time in the Free Cities. This culminates in her being named Queen of Meereen, where she makes her name not by having dragons, but by abolishing slavery.

And then, oh boy, we get to season 8. Somehow the writers have decided that Daenerys is not the Queen we deserve. In fact, they allude to her being tyrannical and even mentally unfit to rule. They seem to forget Daenerys’s genuine care for the masses as they set her up to burn a city full of innocents in order to uproot Cersei. Varys and Tyrion, her two chief advisors, are seen bickering over whether or not there is a better candidate to rule, with Varys insisting that patriarchy makes men more appealing candidates and thus, he will be backing Jon Snow for the Iron Throne. Now Jon’s storyline has had nearly nothing to do with the Iron Throne until the S7 finale, when it’s revealed that he is the “true” heir to the Iron Throne through his Targaryen father (Daenerys’s older brother). Now, Jon Snow has firmly stated that he doesn’t want the throne at all, yet Varys seems to think it is precisely this reluctance to rule that makes him an ideal candidate over Daenerys, who actively seeks the throne.

After watching 7 seasons build Daenerys up to be a good, just leader, my reaction here is “huh?” Daenerys--a woman who has years of political experience under her belt, who has argued against human rights violations, who has given up her chance at happiness over and over again to become the Queen she believes Westeros deserves--is abjectly less qualified than Jon Snow. No one is saying Jon is a bad man or a bad leader, but his brief stint as Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch ended with his murder (and subsequent resurrection). He was named King in the North, only to let everyone down and compromise Northern independence by kneeling to Daenerys. That aside, Game of Thrones spent 7 seasons giving us a Queen we could stand behind, someone who was ready to stomp the patriarchy of Westeros, but now that a male with the right lineage stumbles onto the stage, she’s suddenly unqualified to be queen. This isn’t about the characters, it’s about the writers setting up an idea of female power in a genre that sees so little of it, only to rip it away by saying “Too bad she’s been crazy this whole time!”

This isn’t about whether or not you like Emilia Clarke’s acting of whether you even like Daenerys Targaryen. It’s about the writers spinning a story about female leadership only to revert to the age old narratice: that women can only have power so long as there isn’t a male alternative standing by to relieve them of it.

#Game of Thrones #Long post #I have so many issues with the writers

[bitchcakegreen]

A View from Behind the Camera - GoT episode 6 x 9 - Battle of the Bastards part 3

Time for the third installment of the Battle of the Bastards behind the camera posts. Just reminder, as always, my asks are open so if there are scenes you would like me to look at simply shoot me a message.  I don’t bite. I promise. Once more into the breach, dear friends!

We’re going to start from right after Rickon’s death. In my previous post we talked about the lighting fade on the close up of Rickon’s dying breath. Immediately following that we have a quick cut to Tormound as he turns to look at Davos, then a cut to Davos who looks to Tormound - they are apprehensive because they both want Jon to use his head and not his emotions. Then back to Jon. We hold with Jon about 2 seconds then cut to Ramsey, hold on Ramsey for a similar amount of time. The two bastards are staring each other down across the battlefield. This is Kit’s building up of the rage that is flowing in Jon. These are the series of moments where Jon just lets his emotions rule - which of course causes all sorts of problems in just a short bit. We slowly pan in the second close up of Jon, the music building behind as well - a strong drumbeat is utilized. Then we cut to a close up of Tormound and his line ‘Don’t’ What the sound engineer has done with Tormound’s line is interesting, and hard to miss if you’re not fully paying attention. Even though we are focused on Tormound his line is ‘echo-chambered’ It is a common trope called Power Echo - think of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings when he uses his wizard voice. Tormound’s echo is for the viewer to be immersed in the tunnel vision that Jon is experiencing at this moment. 

Now we cut back to Jon again, still on the same steady pan close up until we reach an almost extreme close up before we cut to a smirking Ramsay in close up and a steady hold. We hold on Ramsey as he turns, hands his bow to the bannerman next to him and then we quick cut to Davos who turns his horse and shouts his line “Banner charge!” to the line of men. Also he is in Power Echo. We cut to a wide shot of the Winterfell combatants from a side angle. Tormound in front focused on Jon. Back to Davos as he rides through the men, shouting orders. 

This leads to a cut to Ramsey, back to the camera, as he passes a bannerman. He nods slightly and we as the viewer know something is about to go down. We then cut to the Bolton line and we see archers gearing up to shoot. We then get a series of shots of the Bolton archers. We have a frontal shot

Followed by a back shot

Followed by a wide aerial shot 

These are all followed by one of the my favorite components of the battle sequence. 

The hail of arrows. 

We have the juxtaposition of the multitudes of arrows (CGI’d) over a grey sky and in the left hand of the shot a blazing flayed man. This shot really hammers home just how out numbered the Stark side is. Also we have to remember that Jon is still on his horse in the middle of the battlefield. We haven’t cut back to him yet until now. Then we to a quick cut and see him spur his horse into action. Then a wide shot of the battle field and Jon racing down it, the hail of arrows showering down on him. We cut to poor dead Rickon and hold there for a few seconds as more arrows hit him but also we see Jon in the background charging ahead. 

We cut back to Davos, this time from a different angle. We are now focused on his left side profile. He shouts at the men to ‘follow your commander’ and we cut to Tormound who looks over his shoulder and watches as the Stark men charge the battlefield. Next we have an extreme close up of the horses legs as they charge the field. This shot really puts us in the action. We continue with this shot for about 5 seconds then we cut to Tormound, the camera angle from below and slightly tilted up, as he unsheathes his sword. Next we cut to Wun Wun. Both of these close ups are blurred by the periodic running of bannermen across the shot. Again, this places the viewer in the midst of the scene. Sapo truly wants to GA to not be an outside observer but to actually feel as if they are stuck in the middle of this mess. It comes into play several times over the course of the rest of the battle. 

The next series of shots are all charging horses, shouting men, and slo-mo shots. There is a fantastic shot done in slo-mo from a side angle of the horses as they charge. No faces of the men, simply the horses. It is a beautiful shot.

This is then cut to an aerial shot of Jon racing down the field. Jon is centered in the frame and we are positioned so that he is riding away from the camera.Jon is riding straight for the center of Ramsey’s line.(If we call back to the tent scene we remember that this is one of the very things Jon warned others to NOT do) Next we cut to a medium shot of Jon from the side as he rides. These leads to a cut to Ramsey as he mounts his horse. From there we cut to another shot of the Bolton archers getting ready to shot another volley of arrows. We shift to an extreme close up of the arrows. 

We cut to a shot of the arrows in the sky once again then a cut to Ramsey as he watches Jon still thundering forward. We then cut to Jon on horseback, in a tight shot, arrows flying all around him. Next we have a close up of the chest of the horse as an arrow strikes him. The horse’s legs buckle and Jon is thrown. The stuntman turns as he falls so he lands on his back and rolls. It is a great stunt and a seamless mix of practical effects. 

We then cut to Ramsey as he watches Jon fall on the battlefield. Iwan gives us one of his great smirks as we do a panning close up on his face. He looks over his shoulder and says ‘Now’ he turns his attention back to the battlefield and the fallen Jon, all on a close up still. We can see the shadowy movements behind him so we know that something new is coming. 

Now we come back to Jon. At first we have a medium shot of him kneeling on the battlefield surrounded  by arrows. 

The camera stays stationary and follows him as he rises until he is fully standing and are camera is angled up to see him. The music has faded away save for a single high pitched violin in the background. Next the music starts to build beneath Jon’s heavy breathing as the camera moves up and then pans around to the back of Jon. 

Now we come to probably the most iconic section of the battle. We have an over the shoulder shot of the army headed down the hill toward Jon. We do a quick cut back to a front medium shot of Jon. Kit has his head bowed and his breathing is labored. We can read on his face just want ‘Jon’ is thinking. He believes this is the end, this is how he dies, but he resigns himself to that fact and he will fight on. It is my belief that Kit chooses to have Jon also thinking of Sansa in this moment. He knows if he falls, and he assumes he will, that she will follow through with her threat from the earlier scene. In a sense we can read how Jon knows/thinks he has failed Rickon and Sansa. 

What is so wonderful about this shot is that it is a true practical effect. Kit is standing in the field and 40 horses and riders are actually charging at him. There is no CGI used at this point. It is also worth noting that music is swelling as Jon faces off with the Bolton riders and the name of the song playing...Let’s Play a Game. One of the things Sansa warned Jon about - Ramsey’s ability to ‘play’ with people. 

And this is where will we stop for the now. We are about halfway through Battle at this point and what is coming up is some great stuff. The body pile - which I have seen being thought of as a mimic to Dany’s body surfing on her slaves (I’m going to go into depth about how it really isn’t in that post), Sansa bring the Knights of the Vale, and of course Ramsey’s beat down. This is the penultimate episode of the season so of course there is a ton in here to look at. I hope you all hang in there with me...forehead kiss awaits if you do. 

See you next time! 

#jonsa is here #jonsa #jonsa is endgame #jonsa is coming #directorial analysis #Female directors #battle of the bastards

[zadien]

So i’m a really visual music listener. I don’t assign songs to my characters per the words, but I always choreograph big scenes to music. And today I got this song on shuffle and spent a good two hours at work listening to the first 4.00 minutes of this and running through a credit scene to Saving because this is epic credit music. 

So keeping with the Wonder Woman vibe and the burning of a city, we’d go with the orange/red background and everything else would be in black, silhouettes of scenes from the story - sort of like James Bond crossed with Captain America Winter Soldier. Normal Belfast at the start, iconic landscapes, the clock outside Amber’s apartment, the Odyssey arena, Samson and Goliath etc. And then as the beat grows, gets more dynamic, we start to see it all crumble. Each drumbeat a new scene. And everything would be in stills, silhouettes, black against the red:

the wild hunt

burning buildings 

A dragon rising from a beyblade

a girl on the bank of a river

a boy in the woods with a snake

a girl with wings in front of a building

A giant bird in distress

a boy with a sword and shield in battle stance with a girl wielding gauntlets

men in tactical armour

a rabid hound lunging forward

cars abandoned on a road

a boy reaching to a figure on a horse 

a girl shooting a bow and arrow 

a kneeling girl about to be beheaded

a boy on a frozen lake 

a circle of four boys with another in the middle

And finishes with:

a boy on a ledge watching a girl fall to her death. 

Little black and red snapshots with defining splashes of white. 

And then as the music shifts to something more triumphant you get slow mo shots of the silhouettes of the main characters mostly facing the camera: 

Julia with Enrique and off to the side Eoin - clearly a divide between them. 

Johnny with his axe not too far away in a street. 

Miguel standing in an office with Mathilda. 

Then sweep up a building to the roof where the shadows of BEGA stand overlooking the city, Ming-Ming with her microphone, Garland and Moses flanking her and Brooklyn and Mystel to the side, protective stances. 

Across the river we get Mariam sitting on a bridge, hair lifted as if frozen in the wind, with the rest of her team a little distance behind her. 

Then we get to the park, swings and slides creating the backdrop to the Bladebreakers, Kenny and Mariah, sitting together watching something off to the side. 

The camera follows the direction of their gaze to zoom in on Hilary, holding her bow. 

Jump to the shipyard where the Blitzboys and Kai pose in typical mood, backs almost to each other to keep aware of their surroundings. 

They’re blurred out to focus on Ian with his gun propped over his shoulder.

Then whizz across to a forest clearing with a broken tree where Amber sits with Morrigan standing over her. 

Don’t have the rest though it would more likely involve the bitbeasts because it’s Beyblade and you need to have bitbeasts. But I also haven’t finished Saving properly yet so that’s also a thing. This kept me super entertained at work though. 

#beyblade #saving part of the world

[dachi-chan25]

Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 6 Recap Pt. 1

Oh boy… I need to vent again, I’m sorry, but thanks to everyone reading this, it’s a cathartic experience if anything.

WARNINGS: SPOILERS; Not a D@€ny fan, but if you follow me you already know that and if you don’t no problem that’s why I always warn you about it; Jonsa shipper and still growing strong ( I always loved the Tyrell OK???)

Before diving into the recap:

1.- The toughts, tinfoily wishy washy stuff, analysis, random stuff that I write are my own only, and in no form or way am I trying to convince you that I am right and every body else is wrong, I have been wrong about fandom stuff a LOT, and really it’s just fun for me to do this, anyway I am open to debate if you want just be respectful. Feel free to correct me if you notice I have some facts I present wrong, I will never get mad about it and will even thank you for your insight.

2.- The analysis/opinions I express of certain ships/characters are just my opinion as an audience, if you like the ship/characters good! That’s what makes the fandom experience such a diverse thing, and I have nothing against you. Keep on loving the thing you love!

3.- The Salt Throne and I are one entity of pure undiluted Salt and bitterness,if you don’t wish to subject yourself to reading my salty fangirl rants I completely understand.

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1.- We start on that table-map, helI feel I condemned myself saying I didn’t wanted no more close-ups of the thing, anyway so it’s just a pretty shot to get to where the story (plot? What plot?) really pick’s up: Eastwatch by the sea.

We are with the suicide squad on this show’s dumbest mission, but then again this season a lot of dumb things happened so I am resigned. Yeah so Jon and Tormund are talking about how dumb this mission is (got is breaking the fourth wall now???) while Gendry is freezing, Tormund is happy to be back North of the Wall cuz the air in the south is shit, Jon is like bih you never went south but really is agreeing actually Jon seems much more himself now that he is in the North again. Tormund and Jon tease Gendry about making do with him cuz there are no ladies here (ahaha joking about experiencing homosexual sex but no homo bro it’s just because we have no ladies amirite? Am I watching got or the big b4ng th€or¥?) and you know what else they don’t have?? Horses, and food, and those pesky dragonglass weapons, and a raven to send for help should anything happen… But no ladies are the priority. (*sigh* this show is so painfully obviously written by man) Gendry apparently believes them and goes away, Tormund comments he isn’t very bright, he needn’t be says Jon cuz they need the brawn and not the brains right? No this stupid ass mission could have seriously used some brains.

Anyway this next convo of conversations was very intresting to hear, not because they add anything to the plot (if such a thing exists anymore in this show) but I think they are important in understanding the theme they have in common and the relevance I think they have in the final scenes of the episode.

First we have a Tormund/Jon convo, our funny redhead asks about the Dragon Queen, and I expected they would use this chance to make some crude remark about her beauty or her body (dude not a second ago they were joking about bedding Gendry!!) but no, the conversation never goes in the direction that could further the idea of Jon’s attraction to D, Jon trusts Tormund and it would be normal for bros to discuss this stuff (remember how Jon giggled about Tormund mentioning Brienne last episode), instead a very weary and frustrated Jon states she (D) wouldn’t help unless he bends the knee, Tormund says that won’t happen cuz Jon spent so much time with the Wildings to be a kneeler again, but then he moves on to talk about Mance Ryder (dude this Jon/Mance parallels are hitting me in the face like a cold fish, I know D&D I noticed! You haven’t been subtle about this!!! You used the same FUCKING dialogue) and how the dude could have saved a lot of lives if he just had let go of his pride and knelt (so Tormund is our Jon in this parallel ain’t he?) it just made me laugh that Tormund, a wildling cuz they are still Free Folk and rule themselves even if they have an alliance with the KitN, is the one to suggests kneeling, but then I realized how big of a fucken deal that is, Mance could have saved those lives yes (and that’s mere speculation honestly cuz Stannis and his army could have also died at Hardhome #just saying) but he decided keeping his people’s will was more important, Jon respected that to the point he defyied Stannis (they needed his help and dude had just saved them) openly by killing Mance, and now Tormund who is kind of the new Free Folk king/leader is saying it would have been OK if he knelt to save everyone’s lives in front of Jon whom is in a very similar situation.

Then we get a Jorah/Jon convo, again perfect oportunity to show them as D’s love interests and rivals, or for Jorah to wax poetic about Khaliiisi and Jon being jealous or some shit. Some serious talk, if we had time in this compact season for Jon to threaten (or pardon) every man who ever crossed paths with Sansa, why Gendry or the Hound haven’t mentioned Arya at all, if logic states that she is someone this people have in common and should talk about? (like Theon asking about Sansa, or Tyrion) Why Jorah doesn’t talk about D if Jon is her new love interest and it would be a nice and neat contrast between the two of them? Instead they disscus another people they have in common, ex-Lord Commander Jeor Mormont and Ned Stark, oh yes they talk about their dads, Jon says how wonderful was Jorah’s dad and how awful was his death, while Jorah said it must have been heartbreaking for his dad whose entire life was the NW and Jon talks about Ned “the goodest most honorable man ever” dying like a traitor for his honor and pride (like I sense a pattern, can you tell? Gods D&D are too subtle guys) and goes as far as to say he is glad his dad didn’t kill Jorah (you know making him pay for his crime in a just honorable way). Honestly what was the point of this conversation if not that survival is most important than honor? The writers (through Jon) are celebrating that Jorah survived even if he has done sketchy awful things (among them he conspired to have D and her baby killed so he would be allowed to go back to Westeros).

Right we get an intresting end to this convo, Jon offers Jorah Longclaw (why would he give him the sword if he is gonna need it right now in the stupid ass Wight hunt? Why didn’t he gave it to Lady Lyanna Mormont, she has presumably begun training cuz she said to Lord Glover she wasn’t gonna sit by the fire while the man defended the North??? Why would he give it to someone if Jeor gave it to him cuz he didn’t wanted Jorah to have it???) but the point of the conversation it’s not the sword, because Jorah rejects it, it’s about planting the possibility of children in Jon’s future. people have been screaming Targ baby to the heavens and back, and if that is what you chose to belive alright, but I think not, if that was the case wouldn’t it be appropiate to have the Targ theme or the J/D song in the background and transition to DS where D talks about children with Tyrion like she does in a future scene? I would have believed it then. But instead we have the Stark theme and the scene transitioning to Arya and SANSA, call me delusional if you want but for me this is another check in the ‘targcest is building up tarbowl’ column.

Summarizing this we get the very bright neón message of Honor=Death. Which I’ll bring back later.

2.- Y'all remember those good times when the WF storyline was the only thing getting me through all the bullshit I was being fed by D&D? Well they’re over. As I said in point 1 we get a transition of Arya and Sansa looking down at the courtyard while Arya talks about how Ned watched the boys training and tries to diminish Sansa’s connection to her family by stating she was surely too busy sewing to know that (have fun freezing your limbs off darling!!! Sewing and Knitting and all those “delicate female” activities you sniff at are the reason you have clothes miss, really I can’t with this where is the Arya that thought woman to be of equal importance than man?) Sansa is having none of that and says she remembers, we get a cute memory of Arya practicing archery in secret and Ned approving (we get again nods to the patriarchy is wrong! But this is sloppy as fuck if D&D make Arya feel superior to non-warrior inclined girls, like that is also misogynistic) Sansa is smiling fondly (she at this point is more of a feminist icon than any other girl in this show, make no mistake she is not upset or resentful of warrior girls, she approved with a smile when Lyanna said girls on Bear Island were going to be trained too, and she smiles at the memory Arya is sharing with her of defying the rules and practicing archery cuz that made her happy) but then things take a turn for worse when Arya said that Ned is dead cuz Sansa helped the Lannisters. I never asked for this bullshit!!! Not even Ned blamed Sansa for anything, even if Sansa hadn’t alerted her Cersei was gonna kill Robert to protect herself and her children, Ned died for Joffrey’s cruelty (he wasn’t even supposed to die, he was to be sent to the Wall) and yes Sansa had a role to play in the chain of events that led to that, but Sansa had no way of knowing that, she only tried to save her family! The smile gets wiped from my girl’s face she is completely at loss. Arya takes out the letter and starts reading it out, even when Sansa asks her to stop cuz she already knows what does the letter say (wow I can’t belive D&D keep on triggering Sansa through her siblings, FUCKING disgusting) Arya is being unnecessary cruel, blaming Sansa for being powerless to stop their father’s death when she herself was equally powerless, like????? D&D are pushing this Starkbowl bs cuz this is got and nothing can be nice for 2 sec. But really this shit has no basis, you have Wight Hunt Team people who have literally killed each other or tried to working together and joking and then have two sisters who went through hell and back fighting cuz one of them thinks the other survived KL by being a princess in a tower??? Like how is this logical? Even if this is a cleverly crafted Arya plot (I think there is some logic to this) to kill LF is not fair for Sansa, god can’t she have good things on her life? D&D took away the safety of her home by marrying her off to Ramsey and have him rape her in her HOME, and now they make her family treat her one like a stranger and the other like shit???? I’m not asking for Arya to thank Sansa on her knees like she suggested (if anything Sansa was super brave standing her ground and defending her possition and everything she did to retake their home) I don’t want everyone to worship her as they do certain someone all I am asking for is respect and safety for someone who deserves it! Really and Arya suggesting Lyanna Mormont would go for Sansa’s throat why yes she is a child, one that has lost a lot with all this fucking wars but still a child that lacks the knowledge of the true game of thrones and what it takes to survive it, like you Arya (doesn’t she remembers she was cupbearer to Tywin who literally was responsible for the murder of her brother and mother? This is actually what leads me to think this is a ploy cuz Arya is not a hypocrite as far as we’ve seen) still this was painful to watch if you love the Starks.

Anyway leaving my frustration with this cheap drama aside, did anyone notice the parallels between the Arya and Sansa confrontation and the Jon/Tormund and Jon/Jorah conversations? The Wight Hunt Team was talking about great honorable man whose honor and moral code brought their downfall and in the Sansa and Arya, the youngest sister was blaming the eldest for having no honor and surviving (she goes as far as to say she would have rather died than betray her family) while Sansa defends what she did and shows how far she has come from paying the game.

Again this thing is not subtle at all.

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This is too long so Part 2 is coming!

#Game of Thrones #jonsa #season 7 #7x06 recap #part 1 #dachi rambles #anti daenerys #anti jonerys #just to be safe

[kakooshi]

(from berry!) jearmin #14

@eren–gayger Why hello there, love :D

Also, OMG I ended up pandering to my needs and wondering, “What were Armin’s thoughts during that iconic Eren/Mikasa scene in ep. 37? And what happened between Jean and Armin after they were saved by the Coordinate?” Now just imagine Jean being slightly conscious for a little moment, and note that there are some small changes here and there (but that’s not really important hehehe), so here we go!!!! (WARNING: MAY OR MAY NOT BE FULL OF ANGST)

14. “Hey, I’m with you, okay? Always.”

Title: Undying Assurance

Rating: T

-x-

“Jean!” Armin warned too late. He watched in horror as Jean got hit—falling off of his steed as a result—by the debris left from the impact created by the Titan’s huge form crashing onto the ground near them; his body rolling onto the bloody, steaming grass until he was eventually sprawled on it.

Armin screamed Jean’s name once more, frantically leaping off of his horse and heading in the direction of his friend’s unmoving body.

“Are you okay?” panted the blonde, worry transparent allover his features, as he knelt by Jean’s side. Having expected at least a feeble response, Armin was instead met with silence. It caused his anxiety to increase tenfold; the familiar tremors coursing through his body.

“Hold it together!” He shouted, wrapping his arms carefully around Jean, and  being mindful of his head injury. His heart hammered in his chest when he glimpsed a Titan—the one that had been thrown by Reiner to land in front of them—advancing in their direction.

Again, there was no reply from Jean.

Even with his gear on, Armin’s brain was riddled with the thin chance of survival. He noted the sparseness of the trees along with the vast number of Titans around them, and pathetically concluded that he couldn’t save himself…couldn’t save Jean….

Despite being confronted by so much of this devastating hell, he still lacked in the physical ability highly required of him as a soldier. It didn’t mean that he couldn’t do something about it, however.

Holding Jean close with one arm, Armin pulled out his blade and summoned whatever remaining strength he had left to haul Jean and himself as far away from the Titan as he could manage. He pulled, dragging Jean’s heavy weight along the grass, until Armin’s back pressed up against a tree. His body shielded Jean from the wood, while Jean’s body shielded him from the Titan—for a split second, Armin was disgusted with himself.

It was then that all of the fear that the boy tried to repress for the past two days came off of him in waves, a face stricken with the purest of terror along with the ear-splitting screeches coming from his mouth. It was almost like the time when he had witnessed the ghastly sight of a severely injured Eren cut off from his vision due to the snap of that damned Titan’s jaws.

The only difference between that horrific moment and now…was that he himself was about to get eaten; without any powers, and without anyone to save him this time.

Still…he wasn’t just gonna sit and stare like he’d done during that one fateful time. ‘Protect Jean’ He kept repeating to himself; his grip on his unconscious friend couldn’t possibly be any more crushing.

The blonde waved his sword in an attempt to ward off the Titan who happened to be only inches away. As it got closer, his pulse quickened, and he involuntarily held Jean tighter; continuing to scream his throat raw. He mustered up the strength to move once more despite his aching muscles, and dragged Jean and himself away from the tree before the Titan could grab them.

From his new position, he could revel in the comforting view of Eren and Mikasa, uneaten, and currently kneeling on the grass facing each other. He swung his arm–the one with the sword–completely to the right and waved up and down; in what was meant to be a bittersweet farewell. Luckily, he was able to grab Eren’s attention, for they both exchanged a momentary glance before Eren redirected his eyes back to Mikasa.

Ah, so this was how it was going to end. Armin was saddened by the thought of dying without being by Eren and Mikasa’s side…but it was better than not having them within his sight at all, and for that he was eternally grateful.

Besides…he wasn’t going to die alone….

Releasing a shaky breath, Armin turned to rest his chin above Jean’s sweaty and spiky hair; smelled the scent of blood mixed with a faint musk. He gave in to the impulse of pressing his nose against the top of Jean’s head, to which his eyes began to shine with unshed tears. ‘Protect Jean,’ he said to himself once more.

If there was any person other than his two best friends that Armin didn’t expect to honourably die with, it was Jean. The one whom he became unlikely friends with. The one whose viewpoints, though somewhat different from his own, gave way to a mutual respect he hadn’t felt with other soldiers aside from Eren and Mikasa. The one whom he was glad to call a trusted comrade;

It was then that Armin realized, in the heat of battle, how much he and Jean had clicked. He was still utterly amazed at how their relationship had considerably changed over the past month, which led him to believe that there was value in sharing ties with a sharp but considerate person such as Jean. That he was certain of. The panic coursing through Armin’s body wouldn’t cease, but deep down he could feel a sliver of acceptance, and he warmly welcomed it.

“A-Armin….”

Armin’s eyes bulged out at the sound of that weak voice. Jean looked like he was trying to escape from a nightmare. The Titan was within arm’s length now, and he didn’t want Jean to open his eyes only to see its gaping maw, didn’t want him to wake up only to encounter death. 

“Shhh…” Armin shushed gently, letting go of his blade and letting go of his blade to use his freed hand to stroke Jean’s hair, the undercut tickling his fingers. The Titan was already lifting a hand in preparation to seize them, but Armin paid it no mind. Instead, he focused on soothing the boy in his arms.

“You did great today, Jean. You’ve grown so much…I’ve seen that already…”

At this, Armin’s tears sprung free and were now falling down his cheeks. “I’m incredibly proud to have fought by your side. Now all you need to do is rest.”

Even with this sort of encouragement, Jean’s brows were still scrunched up in distress. Armin opted to say more, but he changed his mind and decided to settle for one sentence.

“Hey, I’m with you, okay? Always.” He added, putting on a sad smile. His last words were simple, but they held great depth. The Titan’s palm came to rest at their left, its fingers curling to clutch them within its grasp….

Armin placed his quill down on his writing desk just in time to hear someone knocking on the door. “Come in.” 

When the door opened to reveal Jean, still recovering from his wounds, Armin wasn’t really surprised. It had been a day since Eren had unleashed his mysterious power and saved every living Survey Corps member by having some sort of collective telepathic control over the Titans’ actions. During that discovery, Armin had wasted no time getting two horses and bringing Jean, and later Eren and Mikasa, to safety. He had also been relieved that there were 0 casualties on their way back to headquarters. Once they’d gotten there, Armin had immediately taken Jean to the medical room and assisted the healer in tending to his injuries.

The blonde stood up from his chair to face the boy in question and offered him a reassuring smile. “How are you feeling?”

“I feel much better now, I guess.” Jean mumbled mostly to himself. Armin chuckled a bit. “I suppose you didn’t come here just after your healer informed you of my additional aid, correct?”

Jean huffed, “Sharp as always, but that’s only part of it. There’s another reason for why I’m here.”

For a while, the two strategists stared at each other in silence, the lingering question in the air between them waiting to be snatched. Of course, it was Jean who volunteered.

“Why?”

“Why, what?”

“Why…did you choose to stay with me until the end? You could have saved yourself, but you didn’t. Eren can attest to that…So, why?” Jean’s voice almost sounded broken.

Armin cast his eyes down for a moment. ‘Why?’ he asked. Wasn’t it clear already? For someone who didn’t like to beat around the bush, Jean was acting pretty unusual around him for some reason.

He darted his eyes back to Jean’s face and said without skipping a beat, “It’s because you’re someone important to me.”

Jean visibly tensed up at the bold statement. For a moment, Armin could swear that Jean was wearing the face he usually intended for…a certain freckled boy. He didn’t know how to feel about that. All he knew now was that he had affected Jean in some way or another.

He hoped he could have more interactions like that with Jean in the future.

Jean broke the spell by stepping closer and proceeding to give Armin a hug, to which the blonde gladly returned. “Th-thank you,” Jean muttered, “For always being there for me.” Against his shoulder, Armin could only smile once again. “Come on, let’s go meet Eren and Mikasa outside.”

Send me a pairing and a number and I’ll write you a drabble!

#snk #armin arlert #jean kirschtein #jearmin #ask meme #drabble #jearmin fic #eren--gayger #mywrites

[acatinabox]

Ambrosia - Day 3

Shea stared blankly at the message icon on her omni-tool. Nothing. She had given up, in the end, that afternoon, and sent him a message to warn him he left the lucky necklace at her place, their place, but no answer yet. The longest she had to wait for an answer from Reyes was two hours, and only because he was in the middle of the raid of one of the remaining Outcast facilities and risked being shot. Three hours had passed now, and still no answer, not even a text you later, I’m busy now. One hour later, she tried to call him. Nothing. Two hours later, she tried to call again, and again, and again. Nothing. A thought, a fear, started creeping in the back of her mind. What if something happened to him?

She approached the large window that covered one of the walls of the prefab. Kadara Port was somewhere in that direction, her house was located, by request, high enough to overlook the Port. She could see the city starting to light up. She could also see the settlement, below her apartment, bustling with colonists trying to make a living, to make Kadara a safe place. They believed, they hoped and this made her hope as well that someday she could bring Emma there and they could play together in the pools or hike on the mountains, maybe not too close to the herb farm in the North. Perhaps Reyes just wanted to leave her and there was no mystery or impending danger to protect him from. He had been cold lately. She sighed, bringing her arms close to her chest, in a sort of hug. Someone had to believe in their relationship or it wouldn’t go anywhere and if that someone had to be her, so be it. She got out of the house and took the Nomad.

The guards wouldn’t let her pass without an invite or an appointment but she ignored them, pushing them away and entering Keema’s throne room without being announced or expected. Being the Pathfinder had its perks and one of them was that nobody could refuse her an audience. Especially the frontman of the Collective. When she entered the room, it was almost empty, unusually. Keema was speaking with one of the lieutenants, a Turian, the only other person inside. Not even the guards followed her in to stop her, they probably received specific orders. Shea knew the Turian’s face and little more, Reyes kept the details on the Collective to himself, but she remembered that he was present when Sloane was killed, so he had to be a trusted member of the inner circle.

“Are you sure you cannot reach him?” Shea overheard from Keema. She sounded worried.

“I tried all channels, official and non-official” he answered in a conceited tone, for a Turian “nothing”. Then he whispered, but Shea heard him nevertheless: “I even went to Tartarus”. So, Reyes did disappear.

“I guess that we are all looking for my boyfriend” she announced, pushing back her own worries. She needed to be fully functional now. The Turian was startled, but Keema just leant back on her throne.

“Ryder” Keema said, seizing her as she moved closer to them “So you cannot reach him either?”. Shea shook her head, stopping a metre away from the throne, almost as a sign of respect to a symbol that didn’t mean anything. Keema was only the façade of the collective, she knew that perfectly, but she also was one of Reyes most trusted friends, and she respected that, valued it even. Keema sighed resting her head on her hand “This is serious”.

“I can help you find him, just point me where I need to go, ” she said crossing her hands on her chest.

Keema lifted her head and shook it “I cannot put you in danger, Ryder” she calmly said, “if something happens to you…”.

“There won’t be any Reyes reaction to worry about if we don’t find him” she answered, not giving up.

“Keema…” interrupted the Turian lieutenant “Maybe Kian will let her in his room in Tartarus, though. He wouldn’t let me, he said he had instructions”.

“Kian knows me,, ” she said, trying to look confident “he’ll let me in”. She wasn’t sure about this part, but she needed to convince them to let her help. Keema looked at her for a few seconds, she was obviously in pain, wearing shoes that didn’t belong her and having to take decisions she wasn’t prepared for.

“Don’t make me regret this, Pathfinder” she answered, in the end.

Kian reluctantly opened the door of Reyes private room in Tartarus, moaning around about the fact that he sent instructions to open to her only when he wasn’t there and that many thugs from the Collective came in the last few hours, trying to get in, so he had to put a bouncer to guard it because he wouldn’t risk losing a client like Reyes, whatever that meant.

She entered the room in silence and closed the door behind her, cutting off Kian’s complaints. It was the first time she could be in there alone. It was weird to her how the place, without Reyes, felt deprived of life, of its spirit. It was just a sad, badly illuminated room with a sofa, a table, a terminal. No dirty jokes about Asari crests, no laughter from the voice that she learned to love, no smile that shone in the shadows of the nightclub, no moans from a quickie between missions. Would her life feel as empty, if Reyes disappeared from it? Shea didn’t want to think about it.

The first think she did, was to look at his terminal, but she knew very well what she would find in it: nothing. Reyes didn’t want to leave any proof of what he did. He didn’t even protect it with a password because he was so careful that he didn’t need to. She looked around the room, clueless. Maybe under the table? She kneeled to search there, but the floor was pristine and the sofa connected directly with it, so no dark spaces to look at. Maybe a secret compartment somewhere? She scanned the walls and the floor. Nothing. She gave up to despair after taking apart every corner of the room.

“You might want to analyse the couch, Shea” suggested SAM, breaking the silence from their private channel “Perhaps if Mr Vidal wanted to hide something, he would do so in the place where he usually spends most of the time”. She could give it a go.

She sat where he used to, to catch a breath, and that’s when she felt it. There was something under her bum. She stood up and analysed the cushion. There was something hidden in its lining. She squeezed it, fondled it, and eventually found a hidden pocket and, inside it, Reyes’ omni-tool. Shea gasped in surprise. Reyes didn’t separate from it even when he had a shower or they were sleeping together. He never, never, took it off from his wrist. She knew he kept everything that he couldn’t destroy in there, secrets that would probably make Kadara crumble. Secrets that could destroy him, if someone wanted to. She opened the interface and chose to open its mail, maybe she could find something useful there. It asked for a password.

“Do you want me to crack it, Shea?” SAM asked. She couldn’t avoid thinking that he sounded curious.

“How long would it take?” Shea asked. She saw a random string being inputted in the form and then a warning. “Wrong password, 4 attempts left”. Shit.

“I cannot attempt a brute-force attack on this device,” he said and this time she wasn’t imagining it, SAM’s voice sounded genuinely full of respect, admiration even “Mr Vidal must really care about the safety of this device. I can try to find a backdoor, but I might not succeed. I suggest that you try to find the password yourself, Shea”.

“How would I do that?” she asked.

“It is possible that he changes it often” SAM reflected “Therefore, it might be referring to some common recent experience between the two of you”.

Shea snorted, holding off an incredulous laugh “You are deluded, SAM, if you think that he would use my name as a password”.

“I know that this isn’t the case, I just tried that” he answered “but I am not deluded, I am an AI, Pathfinder” he addressed her by title, so he was probably offended “I analysed Mr Vidal’s behavioural patterns and they suggest that he probably did use a common reference as password, but I have not enough information to guess the correct one in only four attempts”.

“So, I am on my own,” she said.

“It appears so,” he confirmed. She couldn’t come up with anything and gave up thinking about it, eventually, but she could try something else. She opened the extranet browser. It wasn’t locked. The browser’s history was empty, of course, but she opened the search engine anyway. Bingo! The latest searches included a tutorial on how to brew whisky in a bathtub and Ambrosia, the new club in town. Why would Reyes go to a club that wasn’t Tartarus? He hated the place, said it made Kian even crankier.

When Shea turned up at the entrance of Ambrosia, jumping the queue, the Krogan bouncer crossed his arms and blocked her path. She could notice the club looked more of a brothel than an actual place where people went to drink. That made her angry and she didn’t like the bouncer’s attitude.

“Let me in,” she said, almost growling.

“Fuck off, Pathfinder,” he answered, unmoved, baring his teeth.

“Oh, you know who I am then,” she said “so you know it’s not a good idea to piss me off”.

“This is a private club and I have strict instructions,” he said, lowering his head to almost touch her, he probably wanted to headbutt her. She didn’t flinch. “You are specifically banned from the place, unless invited”.

“Should I have the Charlatan men kick your ass, then?” she said. She didn’t want to involve Keema too much, she wouldn’t appreciate her to go there alone anyway, but she didn’t want to lose precious time either. If Reyes was inside…

“You can call Morda for what I care, I won’t let you in” he answered, tapping her front with his, challenging her. Her hand went instinctively to the hilt of her sword.

“Maybe this is not a good idea, Shea,” said SAM on their private channel “if Reyes is inside, making a scene – as you humans say - might put him in danger”. He had a point. She backed off, sharing with him one of the Krogan insults that Drack taught her. It was something about his egg being spoiled.

“Do you have a better plan?” she asked SAM when she was far enough from the place to do so safely.

“Well,” he offered “there is one place that we haven’t scanned for data yet”.

#reyesvidalweek #reyes vidal #reyes x ryder #reyder #freyder

[recentanimenews]

Good Smile Company Previews Limited Figures For Anime Expo And Other Summer Events

Summer event season is just about to arrive and figure maker/distributor Good Smile Company is prepared! They've now previewed their line-up of special goods that will be making the rounds. It's all headed to Japan's major figure event, Wonder Festival, July 30th in Chiba. Then, it gets confusing. Some will be offered in the US at Anime Expo. Most, but not all, will be at their online shop. You can get all the details below.

  762

Nendoroid Yuri Katsuki: Free Skating Ver.

"I'll skate even better than Victor imagines!"

From the popular anime series 'YURI!!! on ICE' comes a figure of Japan's figure skating athlete Yuri Katsuki wearing his free skating "Yuri on Ice" outfit from the series! He comes with two face plates including a standard gentle expression as well as a charming smile.

Yuri has fully articulated arm parts, and the iconic stuffed toy shaped like a rice ball that was thrown down into the rink is also included to help you fully reproduce his skating performance in Nendoroid size! He also comes with new arm parts for use on Nendoroid Victor Nikiforov as well as a Makkachin tissue box case! If you pose the two of them together you can even have them posed as if in the kiss and cry area waiting for results! Enjoy the master and student in your collection!

Product Details

Product Name

   Nendoroid Yuri Katsuki: Free Skating Ver.

Series

   YURI!!! on ICE

Manufacturer

   ORANGE ROUGE

Category

   Nendoroid

Price

   ¥4,167 (Before Tax)

Release Date

   2017/07

Specifications

   Painted ABS&PVC non-scale articulated figure with stand included. Approximately 100mm in height.

Sculptor

   Shichibee / Yuichi Imai

Cooperation

   Nendoron

Released by

   ORANGE ROUGE

Distributed by

   Good Smile Company

Summer Wonder Festival 2017 Product

  Where to Purchase

■ Anime Expo 2017 (2017.07.01 - 2017.07.04)

Anime Expo 2017: Good Smile Company Booth (Event Details)  *Max 1 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

■ Wonder Festival 2017 Summer (2017.07.30)

WONDERFUL HOBBY LIFE FOR YOU!! 26 Booth (Event Details)  Number Available: 1300  *Max 2 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

■ GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP

This product is available for preorder at the GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP. Preorders will be open from 30th July 2017 (Sun) from 16:00JST until the 8th August 2017 (Tue) at 12:00JST.

    EX-041

figma Archer/Altria Pendragon

"The water police has arrived!"

From the popular smartphone game 'Fate/Grand Order' comes a figma of Altria Pendragon in her Archer class!

The smooth yet posable figma joints allow you to act out a variety of different scenes.

A flexible plastic is used in specific areas, allowing proportions to be kept without compromising posability.

She comes with three face plates including a cheerful smile, a pained expression and a worried, blushing expression.

Her water gun as well as her holy sword Excalibur are both included as accessories.

An articulated figma stand is included, which allows various poses to be taken.

Product Details

Product Name

   figma Archer/Altria Pendragon

Series

   Fate/Grand Order

Manufacturer

   Max Factory

Category

   figma

Price

   ¥5,093 (Before Tax)

Release Date

   2017/07

Specifications

   Painted ABS&PVC non-scale articulated figure with stand included. Approximately 140mm in height

Sculptor

   Max Factory (Shinji Koshinuma, Taizou)

Cooperation

   Masaki Apsy

Released by

   Max Factory

Distributed by

   Good Smile Company

Summer Wonder Festival 2017 Product

Where to Purchase

■ Wonder Festival 2017 Summer (2017.07.30)

WONDERFUL HOBBY LIFE FOR YOU!! 26 Booth (Event Details)  Number Available: 2000  *Max 2 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

■ GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP

This product is available for preorder at the GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP. Preorders will be open from 30th July 2017 (Sun) from 16:00JST until the 8th August 2017 (Tue) at 12:00JST.

    750

Nendoroid Kirito & Asuna: O.S Ver.

"This is just a game. Or so I thought..."

From 'Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale' comes a set of Nendoroids of the main characters Kirito and Asuna in their new outfits from the movie! The AR-type information terminal "Augma" that plays an important role in the movie is included on both of them, and Kirito's sword and Asuna's rapier are also included. Enjoy their close bond and powerful combination in Nendoroid size!

*This product will only be available at events. It will not be on sale at the GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP. *Standard sales of these products as individual characters are planned in the future, but the specifications will differ to this set version.

Product Details

Product Name

   Nendoroid Kirito & Asuna: O.S Ver.

Series

   Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale

Manufacturer

   Good Smile Company

Category

   Nendoroid

Price

   ¥5,093 (Before Tax)

Release Date

   2017/07

Specifications

   2x Painted ABS&PVC non-scale articulated figures with stands included. Each approximately 100mm in height.

Sculptor

   Shichibee

Cooperation

   Nendoron

Summer Wonder Festival 2017 Product

Where to Purchase (Japan)

■ Wonder Festival 2017 Summer (2017.07.30)

WONDERFUL HOBBY LIFE FOR YOU!! 26 Booth (Event Details)  Number Available: 500  *Max 2 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment. *This product is currently not planned for sale at the GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP.

Where to Purchase (Overseas)

■ USA: Anime Expo 2017 (2017.07.01 - 2017.07.04)

Anime Expo 2017: Good Smile Company Booth (Event Details)  *Max 1 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

■ France: Japan Expo 2017 (2017.07.06 - 2017.07.09)

Japan Expo 2017: Good Smile Company Booth (Event Details)  *Max 1 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

■ China: CCG EXPO 2017 (2017.07.06 - 2017.07.10)

Good Smile Shanghai Booth (Event Details)  *Max 1 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

■ China: Shanghai ChinaJoy (2017.07.27 - 2017.07.30)

Good Smile Shanghai Booth  *Max 1 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

■ Taiwan: 2017 1th Comic Exhibition (2017.08.10 - 2017.08.14)

Good Smile Company Booth  *Max 1 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

  Nendoroid More: Dress Up Wedding - Elegant Ver.

A new set of wedding outfits to dress-up your Nendoroids for marriage!

'Nendoroid More' is a series of products created to make Nendoroids even more enjoyable, and this second set of wedding outfits to join the Nendoroid More Dress Up series is sure to bring all sorts of happy memories to your Nendoroids!

The set includes four different dresses: Rich Gold and Cheerful Yellow standard wedding dresses, as well as Baroque Green and Gothic Black princess style wedding dresses. There are also Rich Gold, Traditional Navy, Baroque Green & Gothic Black tuxedos for use with male Nendoroids, creating a total of eight different types to collect!

Dress up your favorite Nendoroids as bride and groom and create a day that they will never forget!

*Images shown here are for illustrative purposes only. No Nendoroid head parts are included with this product. (Tiara is included) *May not be compatible with certain Nendoroids depending on the character design.

Product Details

Product Name

   Nendoroid More: Dress Up Wedding - Elegant Ver.

Series

   Nendoroid More

Manufacturer

   Good Smile Company

Category

   Nendoroid More

Price

   ¥833 Each (Before Tax)

Release Date

   2017/07

Specifications

   ABS/PVC Painted non-scale trading figures with stands included with tuxedo types. Each approximately 45mm in height (body only). Total of eight to collect.

Sculptor

   Shichibee, Taketomo

Cooperation

   Nendoron

Summer Wonder Festival 2017 Product

Where to Purchase

■ Wonder Festival 2017 Summer (2017.07.30)

WONDERFUL HOBBY LIFE FOR YOU!! 26 Booth (Event Details)  *Max 16 (2 Boxsets) Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

■ GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP

This product is available for preorder at the GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP. Preorders will be open from 30th July 2017 (Sun) from 16:00JST until the 8th August 2017 (Tue) at 12:00JST.

  700

Nendoroid Reimu Hakurei 2.0

The priestess of Hakurei Shine is back in an upgraded version!

From the popular game series by Team Shanghai Alice, the 'Touhou Project' comes an all-new upgraded Nendoroid of Reimu Hakurei! She comes with three face plates including a cheerful standard expression, a more serious expression for combat scenes as well as a cute, relaxed expression.

Reimu comes complete with her prayer rod and charm cards allowing you to pose her in battle scenes from the series, as well as a cup of tea, a donation box and kneeling parts to display her more relaxed side. Enjoy all sorts of different sides of Reimu in your collection!

Product Details

Product Name

   Nendoroid Reimu Hakurei 2.0

Series

   Touhou Project

Manufacturer

   Good Smile Company

Category

   Nendoroid

Price

   ¥4,630 (Before Tax)

Release Date

   2017/07

Specifications

   Painted ABS&PVC non-scale articulated figure with stand included. Approximately 100mm in height.

Sculptor

   JUN(E.V.)

Cooperation

   Nendoron

Summer Wonder Festival 2017 Product

  Event Sales Bonus

Purchases of Nendoroid Reimu Hakurei 2.0 at events will include a Special Round Base as a bonus!

Where to Purchase (Japan)

■ Wonder Festival 2017 Summer (2017.07.30)

WONDERFUL HOBBY LIFE FOR YOU!! 26 Booth (Event Details)  Number Available: 1,000  *Max 2 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

■ Comic Market 92 (2017.08.11 - 2017.08.13)

Booth 1511: Good Smile Company (West Hall #1) (Event Details)  *Max 2 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Where to Purchase (Overseas)

■ USA: Anime Expo 2017 (2017.07.01 - 2017.07.04)

Anime Expo 2017: Good Smile Company Booth (Event Details)  *Max 1 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

■ France: Japan Expo 2017 (2017.07.06 - 2017.07.09)

Japan Expo 2017: Good Smile Company Booth (Event Details)  *Max 1 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

■ China: CCG EXPO 2017 (2017.07.06 - 2017.07.10)

Good Smile Shanghai Booth (Event Details)  *Max 1 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

■ China: Shanghai ChinaJoy (2017.07.27 - 2017.07.30)

Good Smile Shanghai Booth  *Max 1 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

■ Taiwan: 2017 18th Comic Exhibition (2017.08.10 - 2017.08.14)

Good Smile Company Booth  *Max 2 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Where to Purchase (Other)

■ International Partner Shops

■ GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP

  Nendoroid More: Face Parts Case (Straw Hat Penguin)

A new Penguin Face Parts Case dressed up a little with a stylish hat!!

'Nendoroid More' is a series of products created to make Nendoroids even more enjoyable, and the latest addition to the series is a new face parts case with a penguin theme! The cases allow you to store up to two spare expression parts inside while also having a cute appearance to put on display - which means that even your spare parts will have a place in your collection! The included straw hat can be attached and removed and even placed on other characters!

*Images shown here are for illustrative purposes only. No Nendoroid expression parts are included with this product. *Certain face plates may not fit into the parts case depending on the character design.

Product Details

Product Name

   Nendoroid More: Face Parts Case (Straw Hat Penguin)

Series

   Nendoroid More

Manufacturer

   Good Smile Company

Category

   Nendoroid More

Price

   ¥926 (Before Tax)

Release Date

   2017/07

Specifications

   Painted ABS non-scale product. Approximately 100mm in height.

Sculptor

   Nendoron

Summer Wonder Festival 2017 Product

Where to Purchase

■ Wonder Festival 2017 Summer (2017.07.30)

WONDERFUL HOBBY LIFE FOR YOU!! 26 Booth (Event Details)  *Max 2 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment. *This product is currently not planned for sale at the GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP. 

  PLAMAX MF-EX01 minimum factory Kasumi C2 ver.

The famous Kasumi figure is back as a plastic model kit!

The legendary PVC figure of Kasumi that was released back in 2004 has been brought back as a 1/20 scale plastic model kit with the same beautiful sculpt as before! The model kit makes use of different colored parts and eye decals which allow anyone to put the palm-sized figure together with ease. Build the classic Kasumi figure with your own two hands and enjoy her in your collection!

Product Details

Product Name

   PLAMAX MF-EX01 minimum factory Kasumi C2 ver.

Series

   DEAD OR ALIVE

Manufacturer

   Max Factory

Category

   Plastic Models , PLAMAX

Price

   ¥2,778 (Before Tax)

Release Date

   2017/07

Specifications

   ABS/PS 1/20th scale assemblable plastic model kit. Base included. Eye decals included. Approximately 90mm in height when built.

Sculptor

   Hiroki Katayama

Cooperation

   POLY-TOYS

Released by

   Max Factory

Distributed by

   Good Smile Company

Summer Wonder Festival 2017 Product

Where to Purchase

■ Wonder Festival 2017 Summer (2017.07.30)

WONDERFUL HOBBY LIFE FOR YOU!! 26 Booth (Event Details)  Number Available: 1000  *Max 2 Available Per Person. Stock is limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

■ GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP

This product is available for preorder at the GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP. Preorders will be open from 30th July 2017 (Sun) from 16:00JST until the 8th August 2017 (Tue) at 12:00JST.

[Anime Expo Ticketing Info.] HOW TO PURCHASE AT GOOD SMILE BOOTH #1600 at @AnimeExpo! IMPORTANT INFO: https://t.co/K9tfWhi4qv #AnimeExpo2017 http://pic.twitter.com/waTEiwQgro

— GoodSmile_US (@GoodSmile_US) June 23, 2017

[Anime Expo Ticketing Info.] Please pick up the tickets at the Good Smile Booth #1600!~ Keep in mind that you need a ticket to purchase :)

— GoodSmile_US (@GoodSmile_US) June 23, 2017

[Anime Expo] Cash is king! >:D Cash sales will be prioritized for the line queue so please try to pay with cash if you can :) #AnimeExpo2017

— GoodSmile_US (@GoodSmile_US) June 23, 2017

[Anime Expo Sale's Menu Part 1 of 2] #AnimeExpo2017 Keep in mind that cash is best and that we have a line ticketing system this year!~ :) http://pic.twitter.com/mohT2SNVVW

— GoodSmile_US (@GoodSmile_US) June 26, 2017

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[yiling-who]

Lan Wangji (x Wei Wuxian)

You were the better part Of every bit of beating heart that I had Whatever I had I finally sat alone Pitch black flesh and bone Couldn't believe that you were gone

Well you look like yourself But you're somebody else Only it ain't on the surface Well you talk like yourself No, I hear someone else though Now you're making me nervous

#mypost #cqlsongs #The Untamed #wangxian existing means true love is real #Wei Wuxian #Lan Wangji #I'm thinking about when wwx disappears for three months #what was lwj thinking that whole time? #obviously we got the whole scene of him and jc (and some others) going to nightless #to get their swords and all that (and the iconic 'kneel' scene) #but then wwx comes back and they call each other by their courtesy names #and lwj can tell something is wrong and desperately wants to understand