#Me in a quiet room:

[completeoveranalysis]

[7]

OH OH OH HERE WE GO IT’S TIME FOR A MOMENT

I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THEM TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION

OHOHOHO OH I SEE HOW IT IS

CLAMP are still playing the long game with this. The glacier slow drip of information around Watanuki’s name is MURDERING ME ONE WORD AT A TIME. 

Because like, this is CLAMP. We’re served this moment with the attention and drama that the mysterious connection it surely deserves, with gorgeous panels and swirling petals to really drive home the fact that it’s a moment that’s important to both THEM and US at the same time. 

BUT - and here’s the interesting part -

Everything they say here is information we already have. 

AND it’s worth noting that Watanuki’s birthday took place ON SCREEN two chapters before this moment in xxxHolic, which really drills down on the repetition of it coming up in the storyline being important. 

So as beautiful as these moments are, I don’t think there’s any particular reason to draw them out so beautifully UNLESS it was a piece of information they wanted us to remember AND dwell on in the upcoming chapters of both manga. 

I don’t think they would have had the characters slowly making the connections between each other themselves now, and so beautifully, unless it was ENTIRELY RELEVANT, if not VITAL, to an upcoming story beat. 

Which makes my head spin. Both because I desperately want to know what it is but also because I can’t pin down what it could BE. 

The fact that all three protagonists share the same birthday is such a cute fun detail on the surface level, but Clamp have been telling us from chapter 1 that coincidence isn’t real and everything is on purpose hitsuzen, so there’s a Serious Reason for their birthdays aligning too. 

And like, I’ve already been dancing around what I think Lava Lamp’s connection to Watanuki is (shh no hints) but what about Sakura? As much as My MYSTERIOUS AND SUBTLE guesses about Watanuki and Syaoran’s connection would absolutely explain why they have the same birthday, it doesn’t make a natural connection with Sakura in any way that I can tell. 

But

BUT 

But the way Sakura so fondly tells the story of how her and Lava Lamp(or Syaoran?) share the same birthday, it almost makes me think… that, like… 

It’s not impossible for someone to be NAMED AFTER a connection like that, is it? 

Which (in relation to Watanuki) would potentially answer one question only to immediately blow up a dozen others. 

The mystery of Watanuki’s name has never looked more complicated and I’m just like 

Like… COULD IT BE THAT?

BUT NO, OF COURSE NOT. None of that would make logical sense. 

BUT… BUT COULD IT??????????

??????????????

#Me in a quiet room: #EVERYONE SHUT UP THIS IS IMPORTANT BUT I DONT KNOW HOW #How does that math work #Theoretically #Even with time travel involved you couldn’t be related to your own clone #… OR COULD YOU?? #AHHHHHH #Not liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #xxxholic 72 #xxxholic #Watanuki #Syaoran #Lava Lamp GUy #Sakura #Same Birthday Squad #Half of me is like Calm Down Bick this is a stretch at best #BUT THE OTHER HALF IS SCREAMING YELLING CRYING #WHAT IF???? #WHAT IF??????? #Long post

[raepliica]

Heartbeat

[image description: A grayscale Trigun comic featuring Vash and Wolfwood.

Against a black background, child Vash floats in Ship 5, curled up and with his thumb pressed to his mouth. Heartbeat noises sound around him, and he looks at peace. The background shifts to white and shows adult Vash, sitting shirtless with his knees pulled up to his chest. The heartbeat sound continues only to be interrupted by knocking. Wolfwood, from outside the bathroom, asks, "Hey blondie! You fell asleep in there?"

The scene expands to reveal Vash sitting curled up in the bathtub, shower spraying on the back of his head. His clothes are left aimlessly on the bathroom counter and floor. From outside the bathroom, Wolfwood, shrugging of his jacket, continues, "… The sand steamer leaves at dawn tomorrow so don't take all night. I'm not waking you up gently if you're late." Vash's eyes continue to look downward, glazed and unfocused. Step sound effects and a yawn sound from outside the bathroom before Wolfwood says, "'m going to bed…". In the tub, Vash sits curled up against a dark background, before eventually lifting his head and unfurling himself as the background grows lighter.

He twists around to turn off the shower and then looks at the floor, going, "Ah." He sits, thinking, before calling out "Wolfwood?". A sleepy Wolfwood replies, "…yeah?" from offscreen. "I forgot my towel!" Vash exclaims. "Ugh, look under your change of clothes… Knew you'd forget so I left it there…" a grouchy Wolfwood replies. "Gee, thanks!" Vash replies, a cartoony doodle of him saying "so reliable!".

Vash, shirtless but with sleep pants on, opens the door, towel draped over his head, to see Wolfwood, reclining on the bed. Wolfwood's smoking and holding his rosary, lit by the light from the bathroom. Vash climbs into bed next to him, towel still around his shoulders, and rests his head on Wolfwood's chest. His eyes close and then open to see Wolfwood watching him. Vash exclaims, "Oh! It's speeding up!, and Wolfwood bonks him on the head before saying, "Get on here since ya wanna be so up close 'n personal!". The two tussle briefly and Vash laughs before Wolfwood tucks the blanket around them. Wolfwood continues to smoke as Vash curls up against his chest and listens to his heartbeat, the background turning black once again as he smiles, content. /end id]

#trigun #trimax #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #vash centric #my art #image described #vash finding comfort in regular and rythmic sounds #vash missing the quietness of the zero-g room and never being able to truly find that same safe space again #at it again with the heart-themed vash comics #its gonna happen again #from the manga we already know vash's little habit of curling in on himself #so i thought i'd give my own little idea to that concept #also sleepy woowoo with his rosary🫶🫶 #<- very important to me #i think he'd use it out of habit to occupy his mind rather than for any religious reasons #thank you sm gnomebud for the ID!! #raepliica_art

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Chu Wanning, kit-tea man. (Part 2)

(for @onionlings)

#chu wanning #Erha #2ha #the husky and his white cat shizun #I do not know what to tag this (there are a lot of variations and I did not realize they were all for the same series...) #I'm going with my gut then #poorly drawn erha #There were a lot of requests for this series so I hope that people are happy even if they didn't necessarily 'win' the raffle draw. #I do not know this man but he looks like he needs a quiet room and a nice cup of tea. #Get it? Kit-tea man. Kitty man. That was all I had. I'll see myself out. #This isn't the last we will see of these characters. I have had this series recommended to me so many times - I'll be back. #First of the raffles done! Thank you all for being extremely patient with me.

[egberts]

fat ass fig

#from when we put the cat tree in the middle of the room the other day #it was great enrichment for them. like whole new furniture #sonboys allowed #fig #cat #kitten #please dont roast me for the music. cat videos are awkwardly silent without it. i try to keep it chill and quiet and vibe appropriate 😭

[onelungmcclung]

- Wasn't my idea. Huglin recommended you. - Then you're both sons of bitches.

#masters of the air #motaedit #hbowaredit #jack kidd #unfortunately for him it seems like he was a good choice #but he should get to fly more! #forever disappointed he wasn't in the final ep #really he should get to copilot a nice quiet aid drop to holland with rosie #(I respect how much he commits to being annoyed at someone #like I don't think he's the type to pick fights but by g-d he will not give an inch) #also surprised to find he wasn't in ep 1 #which is good writing ig. a character intro that doesn't feel like one bc he feels like an established character already #watching it like 'hmm maybe this guy is growing on me' #turns out it was love at first sight. our hard stares met across a crowded room #edit #**

[willowser]

oh there's something so funny about cat hybrid bakugou. even though he's wearing the grumpiest face ever, you give him a kissy on his cheeks and he starts purring. every night when he cuddles up beside you in bed, you can feel his wide hands very lightly kneading your thigh. sometimes when you're touching him too much, he can't help but bite you on the hand.

#he's deep in looking at something and you say his name and he looks up and there's a quiet little 'hrrm?' #LMAOOOO #he's the grumpiest looking guy ever but you look at him across the room and he's giving you slow blinks without even knowing it #akfbriwkqkqk #i've been thinking about it since this morning it's so funny #i know i saw someone talking about cat boy bakugou a few days ago.....but i couldn't find it RIP #listen to me he makes BISCUITS on your LEG that's so funny akfbfuwjqkqk #✿ thoughts: bakugou

[corrodedcoughin]

Mr Clarke coming back in s5 to help and ends up spending his time with one Mr Wayne Munson in an effort to find Eddie because if there’s no body Wayne isn’t giving up.

Hard cut to Eddie being carried back through a portal by Steve and seeing Mr Clarke together, and he whispers to Steve ‘I think Mr Clarke fucked my uncle’ and passes out

#mr Clarke and Wayne munson power couple WHEN?!? #they’d be such monster hunter conspiracy theorists in a quiet way #a room full of radios for tracking everything #but then a casserole in the oven and a box of cookies at the ready for guests #becuase if they have ONE THING it’s hospitality #Eddie actually loves it becuase wayne smiles and tries to hide it but can’t help himself #mr Clarke is always coming up with ideas and listens to Eddie and his friends like no other adult in authority ever has #EDDIES GOT DADS MY FRIENDS #Steve gets adopted in and it’s chaos but in a way that families are #he goes to bed every night thinking he’s finally made it #GIRL HELP THE OLD MEN GOT ME #stranger things #eddie munson #steddie #steve harrington #wayne munson #mr clarke

[coochiekrab]

what is youre favourite thing about hampsters

It has melted and become slime.

#sorry that’s a reference to a hamster phone app i used to play #but my actual favorite thing about hamsters is when they fucking run across open spaces. they look so fucking funny #they just blast across the floor as a flat little fur tube #and when they use their Nuts as a pilow #and female hamsters smell like chicken bouillon. No one else agrees with me though #they’re normally super quiet but my last hamster was so chatty. he would chirp a few times at night #their little human like hands. the way baby syrians have just little fat faces #i haven’t had a hamster since i was like 16 but i want one so bad #i just have no room for one now….

[blithesharem]

OKAY HEAR ME OUT

“Go away.”

Satan doesn’t even glance over his shoulder to see who opened his bedroom door. It doesn’t matter. He’s in the middle of an important chapter and he doesn’t intend to be interrupted. Even so, he continues to listen as he finishes his paragraph: footsteps shuffling, hesitant, the soft click of the door and movement toward his bed. He huffed with annoyance.

“I said-“ he begins, stopping when he feels the body push to press against his back, soft hands slipping around his chest. He squirms instinctively, a proper scowl breaking now as he prepares to shove his lustful brother off his bed.

“Asmo! I told you, I’m not-“

“Satan.”

Satan cuts of his hiss, as the sound of a hitching breath in Asmo’s voice stops him. He stills, listening, before tilting his head to try and catch a glimpse of Asmodeus’s face. He can’t – its pressed too tightly against his shoulder blades, and Satan can only see the edge of Asmo’s shoulders as they give a shudder.

He’s quiet for a moment, thinking. Asmo sniffles, rubbing his nose against Satan’s back.

‘You’re going to get snot all over my shirt,’ he thinks. Aloud he says, “What happened?”

“…nothing…I just…” Asmo swallows, trying to find a way to express what he’s feeling. Nothing happened and everything happened: how does he explain that? Sometimes, the despair just gets too much. Sometimes he feels crushed by the work he does to try and keep everyone together. To keep everyone a family. He hates the thought of anyone seeing his most important acting role slip, certainly he can’t allow anyone to see his face so red and puffy.

“Can I just…stay? Please?” he whispers, too weary to even add a drop of simpering to his request.

Satan stares over his book at his bedroom wall, feeling how tightly Asmo’s hands cling to the front of his shirt. ‘Why me?’ he wonders silently. The newest of the brothers, the most unpredictable, certainly the one least likely to allow such an invasion into his space.

Though, Satan supposed, he was certainly the most familiar with being swept up in one’s emotions.

“Okay,” he finally says simply, shifting to lay over Asmo’s arm more comfortably. He hears Asmo give an exhale and another sniffle, feels him melt with relief. Satan can’t quite relax himself, unused to being so close to another body. It’s alien, the feeling of Asmo’s heart racing against his back.

Alien. But not so bad.

Resting his cheek back on his pillow, Satan returns his gaze back to his book, and starts his paragraph over.

#obey me satan #obey me asmodeus #this is what I was thinking about laying in bed before falling asleep last night #Asmodeus who keeps his emotions clamped down and carefully managed #Satan who can't help the wrath that threatens to spew forth at any moment #the quiet understanding that sometimes you just need someone to take it #now the other side of this is when Satan shows up in Asmo's room and needs to bang his rage out and they...well bang his rage out #astan

[aimseytv]

local guy takes off their noise cancelling headphones when there is still *the noise* [17 FOUND DEAD] [103 INJURED] [NO SURVIVORS]

#there is something about taking off your headphones and expecting quiet and you just here BRERGHGGG or BZZZZZ or CLICKCLVOKCLICK #my brain functions fine until you put me in a room with too much going on then i just want to blast the nitw soundtrack #proximity on loop has saved me so many times #or just pure white noise #nothing like airplane noises to get me through my daily shop

[thechibilitwick]

why does nonsense bungaku fit them so well hurhhghurhughurughur

#milgram #milgram fanart #shidou kirisaki #kazui mukuhara #0507 #kazushidou #they make me go insane /pos #giggles n kicks my feet like teehee! teehee! middle aged men suffering!! #dynamic of just indulging in each other but feeling guilty immediately after while thinking “i don't deserve you but i can't stay away” #anyways go listen to nonsense bungaku btw specifically trickle's eng cover it's so good #i also think charles fits kazui really well (and maybe byoushin wo kamu too) and also quiet room shidou perhaps #i love giving songs to my faves #also ignore the corner i needed to fill the space #chibi's art/rkgk

[lordstormageddidnt]

BBC Sherlock wouldve been 10 times better if John did one of his "me and Sherlock aren't dating" lines and Sherlock just gave him a weird look like "yes we are???? What are you talking about"

#bbc sherlock #johnlock #WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE'RE DATING #i told you about this last week! #jesus christ sherlock you dont just tell people youre dating you have to ask #fine. will you go on a date with me. #HOLD ON WHEN DID YOU TELL ME THIS. WAS THIS WHEN I WAS OUT OF THE ROOM AGAIN #now that you mention it #you were rather quiet #i hate you sometimes sherlock #is that a yes #we've never even done amything REMOTELY romantic #we had a candlelit dinner last week #THAT WASNT A CANDLE YOU LIT THE CURTAINS ON FIRE #We're not dating. i dont even like you #thats false. your pupils dilate when I enter the room #thats because your head is so big that it blocks out the light

[ordinaryberry]

forget-me-not

#persona 3 #persona #shinjiro aragaki #hamuko arisato #kotone shiomi #minako arisato #shinjiham #arahamu #foolmoon #atlus #artists on tumblr #foolmoon is new since i last drew them……. cute…………… #3rd forget me not piece with them lol #listened to quiet room a lot while working on this

[randomminty]

blease gib johto e4 hcs and dynamics chart its the only thing I have I love em sm I need sparks to put immmmm fanficc bc the situation is so dire. (nothing exists in this fandom for my interests, this is one of the only bigger things that get. some attention.)

Absolutely here you go please enjoy. This is insanely self indulgent

#some of them didnt get dynamics bc 1. there was no room 2. idk </3 #will/bruno i imagine is just brains/brawl. will thinks brunos a brute. bruno doesn’t think anything bad abt will tho he thinks hes strong #koga/bruno get along. bros as well #i had to include janine/silver theyre sooo important and integral. the e4’s special little guys #i didn’t realize how insane they make me until i made this wow. something in me has been awakened #a lot of these clearly go deeper than just what i wrote. im trying to seem normal. #it sounds like i think bruno is just a friendly guy but i think as the kanto e4 he was v quiet/intimidating and only opened up w time #like. pokespe brunos personality. everyone here is v inspired by pokespe. ok im done #ask tag

[britcision]

So lemme tell you a secret

Most people you meet in a day are at least a little conflict averse. Most people do not want to make a scene

People who know this and are not averse to making a scene can become fucking unstoppable, and many of them use this power for evil

You can stop them in their goddamn tracks about 55% of the time by doing your best impression of someone who is not conflict averse

If someone comes up to you and you have any feeling they wanna give you a bad time, do not greet them quietly

Greet them loudly, as loudly as they greet you if not a little louder

This tells them they can’t make you back down or give in on the threat of drawing attention; a good chunk of the time, they will not want attention themselves if you’re the one drawing it

You don’t need to be confrontational or aggressive; just turn, greet them as normal, and up the volume just enough to show you’re not hiding or scared of loud noises

(This does not need to be true so long as you fake it well)

Note: this is not a guarantee, but honestly if they were gonna give you a hard time and draw attention they were probably gonna do that anyway

Stay cool, stay polite, and don’t let them intimidate you into whispering to avoid creating a scene. If they wanna make a scene, let them play the villain

#social hacks #conflict avoidance #it solves so much if you just. don’t whisper #makes you seem much more powerful than you might be #ymmv #as always #but it works for me real good #the kind of person who starts an interaction thinking they can step on you tend to shut right up if you aren’t quiet #it’s like fake confidence #i’m like moderate conflict averse (never trouble for the service folks) but all my friends are SUPER conflict averse #so i have been dragooned into it #and yeah this saves a lot of time #just keep in your heart that if they say ‘or what’ or ‘what’ll you do about it’ #the correct answer is a blank look like they’re fucking insane and a gentle ‘judge you along with everyone else in this room’ #even if they misbehave 10/10 you are automatically the adult

[starflungwaddledee]

Ok but what if she went to waddle Dee town in the forgotten land and all the waddle Dee’s just accepted her because they are really nice and not rude and they accept her and she has fun and a good time please I really need this for her

i considered drawing something out to this, and making it a happy ending sort of thing, because i think this is extremely sweet as a concept and i understand the desire for it!

that said, i decided that it would be a disservice to the lore i'm building for her, my biology/magic headcanons, and also the waddle dees as a whole. i might still draw it some day, because i could absolutely perceive a way it would work (ie: all waddle dee signatures messed up by Elfilis's portals, or their magic sensitivity nuked by it.) and i think it would be lovely

but for now, i have too many other things on the backburner to get to this promptly, and i wanted to answer this one sooner rather than leaving it for months

i will say, they're not being rude to her! there might be the odd one or two who is a bit snide, but there are some of those in every society. as a general rule the waddle dees not only understand that she is struggling, they want to accept and help her. many of them even know she's lonely, and feel pretty bad about it. but it's hard, and not just because she makes people uneasy!

i draw parallels with starstruck's gummed up magical signature to autism, as i'm autistic and so by merit (as a sona), so is she. but there are some parts that do not line up with the way autism functions in our world, and one of them is that touching or being around her can be genuinely, literally painful for some of the very sensitive waddle dees.

despite that, her waddle dee doctors actually pushed through it while she was in the castle dedede infirmary. because they were determined to treat her (mostly-surface-seeming) injuries and help her feel better. and they apologised for the reactions that they couldn't control anymore than she could control her signature; the various "sorry"s she parrots in this comic are implied to be from waddle dee doctors.

it's a fine line in alien-storytelling, especially with a real world disability parallel, and i'm trying to tread it as carefully as i can. but i don't intend to villainise the waddle dees at all for their reaction to her; they truly can't help it. many of them even do their best to push through it if she comes into their vicinity, especially because she often arrives with Beloved Celebrity, Captain Bandana Waddle Dee. but like a lot of us, she can tell when she's being tolerated, and so as a rule she just sort of tries to avoid it, one way or another

#also; i'm popping this one in the tags but like... she's frankly A Bit Annoying??? especially early on. #you give her rules but she ignores you. this was kind of evident in the oc secret santa piece i did. over enthusiastic #she can be too loud or too quiet. too much or not enough. extremely bad at reading the room. foot fully in mouth. really clingy. #these aren't necessarily “bad traits” but they're just not for everyone. and that's actually okay! #i simply gave her my personality traits and 'tisms. and *i'm* annoying 😅 so she's annoying too. *shrug* #not to mention that her voice and magic mimicry is straight up Unsettling. imagine seeing someone you don't know with your face!!! #imagine being told by your Beloved King and Number One Celebrity that that was a-okay!! weird as hell!! #it's important to me that she's annoying + weird and strangers don't always give her the time of day but her friends love her. #starstruck dee #asks #ps this is just an aside but i want to warn people off being like... idk. projecting on her too much. i'm glad she's resonating with people #but i don't guarantee that her story is totally happy or light-hearted. i don't want people to be 'personally slighted' or upset #when she inevitably gets turned into strawberry jam. i'm so happy you like her but please please keep this in mind.