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he loves me not

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i'm rewatching princess tutu and ohhhh my god ahiru swooning because of rue??? ohhh my god. i adore them

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princess tutu art from a decade ago

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rues i've drawn over the years

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pas de deux

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Big update, Alice getting near to get finished.

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It's insane how casually the calls to end a genocide, not just the students in Columbia University but pro Palestinian views in general, are labelled as terrorists. The audacity to still publicly support Israel's actions even after the horrific bombings these last months and then turn around to say that the ones who oppose it are violent anti semites is just baffling

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old, messy sketches

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WELL WE'RE QUICKLY SPEEDING FROM BAD TO WORSE, but in the meantime we sure can try to accurately count just how many worlds they really did go to.

It is... very up in the air.

But still! Huge thank you to everyone reading this shorter chapter with me, and extra thank you to my supporters over on patreon! They help me keep this going and it's always greatly appreciated!

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Until next time HELP ME COUNT TO 14 PLEASE IT'S SO DIFFICULT.

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$50,000 immediately dropped into my bank account wouldn't improve EVERYTHING but boy it sure would be a grand, sexy little start to a good, happy life path, don't you think

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I turned the page thinking there was one more to go, but it looks like this is actually split across a double page spread. But since I've seen it let's talk about it anyway!

It's all the worlds we've seen! And in the most CLAMP way possible we see them overflowing and overlapping but THROUGH the frame that Sakura's Wings makes of them. They HAVE the memories of these worlds inside them, and here they visually show us the mess of them all colliding and ripping apart.

And it's gorgeous! Is this all of them? Let's see, if we start in the top left and go counter clockwise we see Acid Tokyo (1), with I think Koryo beneath it (2), and what I am going to assume is the library from Recourt (3). We have a clear Piffle (4), followed by the Land of Fog (5) (justice for the mini-arcs!), and then Infinity (6) which is hilariously just a picture of Eagle Vision since we didn't see much of the world itself outside of his illegal fighting ring. Next is Nihon I think (7), followed by Hanshin (8), and the flower fun district in Shara (9). Above that is Yukito and Toya in Clow (10), going sideways is The Country Which Had Tornado-chan in it (11), and crossing behind both of those is the ferris wheel I think has to be Edonis/Outo (12), above that is Jade (13), Yuuko's store (which I didn't count as a separate world but sure, 14), and Shura - which I technically count as the same as Shara, but sure, let's make that 15 visible worlds.

You could argue that Clow and Acid Tokyo are the same world, which would bring it down to 14, but you could also say that about Shara and Shura, which would do the same. If you did it for BOTH that would bring it down to 13, which means one is missing. Oh, Seresu? Does Seresu not count because it doesn't exist anymore?

Either way! The numbers are murky and the math doesn't really matter but I like that it's close enough and entertaining enough that I stared at a jpg for twenty minutes straight! So that's a win!

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I turned the page thinking there was one more to go, but it looks like this is actually split across a double page spread. But since I've seen it let's talk about it anyway!

It's all the worlds we've seen! And in the most CLAMP way possible we see them overflowing and overlapping but THROUGH the frame that Sakura's Wings makes of them. They HAVE the memories of these worlds inside them, and here they visually show us the mess of them all colliding and ripping apart.

And it's gorgeous! Is this all of them? Let's see, if we start in the top left and go counter clockwise we see Acid Tokyo (1), with I think Koryo beneath it (2), and what I am going to assume is the library from Recourt (3). We have a clear Piffle (4), followed by the Land of Fog (5) (justice for the mini-arcs!), and then Infinity (6) which is hilariously just a picture of Eagle Vision since we didn't see much of the world itself outside of his illegal fighting ring. Next is Nihon I think (7), followed by Hanshin (8), and the flower fun district in Shara (9). Above that is Yukito and Toya in Clow (10), going sideways is The Country Which Had Tornado-chan in it (11), and crossing behind both of those is the ferris wheel I think has to be Edonis/Outo (12), above that is Jade (13), Yuuko's store (which I didn't count as a separate world but sure, 14), and Shura - which I technically count as the same as Shara, but sure, let's make that 15 visible worlds.

You could argue that Clow and Acid Tokyo are the same world, which would bring it down to 14, but you could also say that about Shara and Shura, which would do the same. If you did it for BOTH that would bring it down to 13, which means one is missing. Oh, Seresu? Does Seresu not count because it doesn't exist anymore?

Either way! The numbers are murky and the math doesn't really matter but I like that it's close enough and entertaining enough that I stared at a jpg for twenty minutes straight! So that's a win!

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You're right, that does sound bad.

Absolutely fascinating that the powers of the feathers collecting together is making Sakura glow like that, like she's evolving or transforming. Except she's not even in there really, which is still awful.

OHO HERE WE GO.

Honestly the tension behind all this is pulled off REALLY well. They really make it LOOK like there IS enough power built up here in Sakura to pull that off. Especially when it essentially comes down to a power that relies upon the cumulative experiences of everything the readers have gone through to get to this point, which is a lot, and means that it's the reader's memories themselves that make this all the more powerful of a moment.

IT'S NEAT.

AND ALSO - ELDRITCH HORROR SAKURA? THE WINGS UNFOLDING WITH SO MUCH POWER THAT SAKURA IS A FORCE WITH ENOUGH SHEER POWER TO RIP APART THE FABRIC OF THE UNIVERSE?

PEAK.

And all in the service of wanting to bring people back to life.

Which, in hindsight, makes it really really funny that the Beetrain anime did their own plot so badly that it broke the purpose of the entire story to begin with, but oh well!

ALSO I'M HAVING A MOMENT OF SUDDEN CLARITY. In the cover for Chapitre 212 I was talking about how there were 14 little water droplets causing ripples that we could see, and how that was kind of the same number of worlds we visited. I never thought about it before but SAKURA'S WINGS ALSO HAVE 14 STRANDS IN THEM.

AND LIKE it's not about the number of physical feathers, because there were a bunch more of those, but Evil Wolverine's plan hinges on travelling to a number of Worlds specifically - and we went to 14 of them. And there are 14 parts to Sakura's wings. So it was always 14! They showed it to us all along! It was a concrete plan!

At least from a planning perspective anyway! I don't think it's a solid RULE that there were only 14 worlds they went to, since it's left pretty open for them to have visited other worlds inbetween and off screen and even some of the canonical worlds we went to were 2 worlds in one, but still! I just think it's neat! 14 clear arcs, 14 main worlds, and 14 pieces of the wings that will destroy the universe as we know it.

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WOOPS there it goes! Now featuring: side explanation that Evil Wolverine has frozen Fai and Kurogane in place. Which is honestly just rude of him at this point.

OOPS that was the last one he needed?

I suppose this last one must have been a BIG boost to cross the finish line, since it has the experience of hundreds and/or thousands of years behind it. The way Evil Wolverine describes it makes it sound like this may have ended up being the strongest feather of all. Which I'll just let him have, since the feathers can do what they like, really.

But also! Syaoran must have known something, because he said to let this happen too, didn't he? There must still be an opening to turn this around after this.

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WE LOVE AND SUPPORT MOKONA GIVING PASSIONATE SPEECHES ABOUT SAKURA!

MOKONA SO EMOTIONAL ABOUT THIS THAT SHE'S YELLING, SO LOUD THAT FAI AND KUROGANE CAN HEAR HER ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE PORTAL AS THEY STARE DOWN EVIL WOLVERINE

I mean the Reservoir may just have great acoustics but I also think one of Mokona's secret techniques might be Amazing Vocal Amplification. I'm so proud of her.

YES GO OFF MOKONA!

Mokona knowing that the WATER ITSELF knew that a piece of Sakura was protecting it all this time, and that it genuinely cared for her in return. I LOVE THIS. I LOVE THAT THE WATER IS ITS OWN THING.

Also go Lava Lamp go! YOU'RE SO CLOSE.

I know I've said it before but let Mokona say fuck.

She deserves it.

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I LOVE the shot of Mokona looking over the reservoir from above. It really brings back the same vibe of everyone watching the drama unfold from above the Reservoir back when we were in the Acid Tokyo Bad Times, back when it was Sakura herself trapped in a container in the water.

But now the feather is rising back to the surface after WHO KNOWS HOW LONG? Centuries? Thousands of years?

VERY hitsuzen that, back then, it felt like a Huge Break in the pattern to leave this feather behind. It was a huge sacrifice, but one made happily and with a lot of strength and determination to save people to spite Evil Wolverine. AND YET, Hitsuzen is mean and apparently this also works exactly to Evil Wolverine's plan and none of this even would have happened if she hadn't left it behind WOOPS.

Hitsuzen really could be a bit nicer.

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SO HERE WE ARE, Chapitre 213: Unparalleled Power

There's no cover art but Evil Wolverine is kind enough to confirm for Lava Lamp that Yes This Is In Fact Acid Tokyo. The Acid Tokyo With The Reservoir. The Reservoir From The Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles.

And we even have some little flashbacks just to remind the reader of the feather in the Reservoir WHICH IS FAIR since these chapters would have been published like 3 years apart? For me it was... uh... oh, gosh, six years.

Ignore that, we're ignoring that. We are reading this at a steady pace don't pay attention to the calendar that's lying to you let's keep going.