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a woman stepping on a man stock photos. @malcolm-f-tucker here you go… sad onegin snaijsiansh
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Placing such a hard time limit using the Calamity was exceptionally good and also inherent to the tragedy of it and im thrilled by it. Don't get me wrong, forced time limits in tragedies and doomsday stories are common for a reason. They work, and they work well. but just, within the context of EXU Calamity, its really getting me.
because its always about not having enough time, right? its about expecting that you'll have more. There's complacency with power, and mistakes, and wealth, but maybe what the Ring of Brass were most indulgent with was time.
(you always think you'll have enough time, more time, another replenishment, another deal, another broadcast, another batch of bright children. youll get another time to hash out an argument with your father. you'll get another time to stay home with your kids and get to know them. you'll get another time to apologize and explain and fix your broken relationship. there's just something else, right here, right now, that should get done first.)
The Ring of Brass were rich, in so many ways. They had power, and wealth, and a million responsibilities, and so maybe they would've argued they had ZERO time, actually, and they just needed to sort everything else out first, and they'd have enough time to figure everything else out later.
but that's the point, right? There's never really a good time for this. for the important stuff, or the end of the world.
(Laerryn was, perhaps, the primary person in the Ring Of Brass operating under a time limit from the get-go, trying desperately to get the Leyline working, because if it wasn't now, it would be never. Because Quay wouldn't live that long. But even she assumed that was the extent of the time limit, that for Everything Else, there would still be time.)
(And is that such a ridiculous expectation? Is that so foolish of her? Of all of them? You never expect the world to end. You don't have infinite time, sure, but- you've got tomorrow, or next week, or- just not now.)
And so it is tragic, but it is also weirdly satisfying, to see the way time got shattered and stretched and sped throughout that last episode. The first second lasted forty minutes. They get maybe two hours at the hands of a damned demon, and its the best blessing they've ever had. Rounds are six seconds. A broadcast is maybe thirty. A healing word, a Wish, a Wall of Force, all buying paltry seconds that make all the difference. The dawn is coming, Avalir is landing, there's so much that has to be done, and that won't get done. We watch them make hard decisions, over and over, and over, and we keep saying "there's not enough time". Because of course there isn't. There could never have been.
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lmao was at a small social event at a colleague's home. conversation turned to video games. i drop the name fire emblem. turns out two guys present know the franchise. one of them has played three houses but only crimson flower, he's firmly on the left but somehow also seems convinced she was the good one for abolishing the nobility (anti-establishment/monarchy/capitalism etc) and fighting 'the monsters' (he has never played another fe game and is unfamiliar with their stories so to him monsters = bad). i disagree with him (in a normal way bc otherwise he's a nice guy). another guy asks for my opinion on her and the writing in general. cue me info dumping abt this game for 15 mins looking generally deranged.
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Okay. Quick thoughts after episode 3
Firstly. Something isn't computing with me. The thing of Dazai already having a plan for a new shin soukoku when he obviously wasn't going to leave the mafia or break up with Chuuya. Whatever you might say about Dazai's predictive genius powers, I do not for a moment believe that he really needed Akutagawa for something other than an unlikely backup, or that he thought he was ever going to leave the mafia, or that he really thought Chuuya was die or leave either. You know. For a suicidal guy, lots of plans sure hinge upon him staying alive, so maybe his little messed up plans and manipulations and contingency plans are just ways to give himself excuses to live even as he tries to kill himself but what do I know?
The reason I think Fukuchi and Fyodor get along so well is that they both have this weird thing where they think they have the right and the destiny to carry out heaven's will upon the earth. Fyodor "I am only doing the will of god" Dostoyevsky and Fukuchi "I wield this sword and want recognition from heavens, who will not let me rest" Ouchi are both living cycles of self-delusion
In my (probably wrong) opinion, Akutagawa telling Atsushi that he had lung disease was probably the hint to tell Atsu that he could trust Aku. "See. I'm telling you something I've never told anyone before. I'm trusting you. So trust me, idiot" Except Atsushi heard Dazai and was like "oh yeah, Akutagawa's not gonna turn me in dead." Oh, well...at least it worked
Fukuchi is basically Yoo Joonghyuk from ORV if Yoo Joonghyuk did actually defeat the end of the world, but only after dying for it several times before winning. And then if he had to witness another end of the world and go through it several times before beating it.
That ending. I am dead and so is Akutagawa. Send help
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