Shinjiham is cute when it’s romantic but tbh I think i vastly prefer the idea of them being best friends instead. Like, neither of them really saw it coming and weren’t really looking to get another best friend (Shinji has Akihiko, Kotone has Junpei and Yukari respectively) but it happens anyway. Kotone takes a liking to Shinji much faster than she does anyone else and I’d say a big reason is just the fact that he’s so reserved that it allows Kotone to do most of the talking while he just listens and they love this arrangement cuz Kotone doesn’t get to talk about her own interests very much. Though I think some of her needs to talk to Shinji stems from this insecurity that he isn’t happy in the group and she has this people pleasing problem and wants everyone to be happy so she makes a much bigger effort to talk to Shinji. And it’s very unfortunate because Shinji intentionally acts cold and distant because he doesn’t want to form any attachments because he wants to die soon, but aaaaaaaagh dammit this girl just keeps talking to him and being sweet and encouraging him to engage in his interests and share them with the others and he just can’t seem to say no when she’s got those damn puppy eyes. And Kotone is just able to get him out of his shell by being persistent but not in an overwhelming way, she’s very cheerful and supportive of him. And Shinji is able to offer her support by encouraging her to talk about herself and by making sure she’s taking care of herself. They just click really well and make such a positive dent in each other’s lives and it’s all about basic acts of kindness going a long way you know?
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nothing more devastating than seeing really cool art about a fic and the artist raving about how much they loved it so you check it out and theres no paragraph breaks
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WAIT NO IM THINKING ABOUT IT MORE WAIT PLEASE.
CASEY AND SAGA ARE CLEARLY BASED OFF MAX AND WINTERSON FROM MAX PAYNE 2 RIGHT LIKE THEY'RE KINDA ECHOES OF THAT EVEN IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE THAT GOOD OF FRIENDSHIP THEY WERE STILL PARTNERS. AND MAX'S NAME IS IN RELATION TO HIM YKNOW EXPERIENCING MAX PAIN AND THAT'S THE SAME WITH CASEY ITS A JOKE/RELATION TO HIM BEING A DETECTIVE. PLUS THE NAME VALERIE WINTERSON SOUNDS SIMILAR TO SAGA ANDERSON THEY LITERALLY BOTH END IN "SON".
IN MAX PAYNE 2 IT WAS IMPLIED THAT WINTERSON HAD A CRUSH ON MAX, BUT HE HAD NO CLUE AND HE WAS SO CERTAIN THAT HE WOULDN'T FIND LOVE AGAIN THAT SHE HAD GIVEN UP AND WAS NOW WITH VLAD. BUT SHE STILL CARED ABOUT MAX AND WAS HURT THAT HE CHOSE TO SIDE WITH MONA INSTEAD OF HER AND THAT SHE HAD TO GET RID OF HIM TO HELP VLAD.
AND SAGA HAS LIKE THREE MEMENTOS TO REMIND HER OF CASEY AND TWO TO REMIND HER OF LOGAN BUT THERES NOTHING FOR HER HUSBAND, EVEN THOUGH SHE'S CLEARLY SAID SHE LOVES HIM AND SHE VERY DEARLY CARES ABOUT FAMILY AND SAID SHE WAS DETERMINED TO NOT HAVE ANYMORE BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS AFTER WHAT HAPPENED WITH TOR AND HER MOM AND HER DAD BUT THERE'S NOTHING TO REMIND HER OF DAVID, NOT EVEN A FUCKING WEDDING PHOTO. AND SHE SAYS SHE WISHES ALAN HAD WRITTEN A ROMANCE STORY EVEN THOUGH HER HUSBAND IS ALL THE WAY BACK IN VIRGINIA.
SAM. SAM PLEASE WHAT DOES THIS FUCKING MEAN CAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN HANDLE WHAT IT IS THAT I THINK IT MEANS.
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I'm sooo tired and I want to go to bed sooo bad but my cat Pumpkin is fast fast asleep on my lap - he's twitching and snoring and he's so comfy and warm and now I can't kick him off :(
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It is always so funny to me when I rewatch HOTD that Viserys just never considers that marriage as an institution is going to be different for Rhaenyra than it is for him. There are (life-threatening) risks and restraints for Rhaenyra that don't exist for him. And he just will not acknowledge it. I think just a bare-bones acknowledgement of that would have gone a long way to get Rhaenyra to the Sept. But Viserys also flat out does not know how to communicate with her.
REAL…. i think he just genuinely Does Not Understand how its different for women vs him as a man. even though he saw firsthand (and participated) in how the marriage/childbirth institution ruins the lives of the women around him (alysanne, alyssa, aemma, ect) he still views it as just the womens Duty. he sucked it up and did his duty, so the women must to theirs. even when he does acknowledge the part he played a part in aemmas death, he blames it on his *obsession*. not that aemma was a child married off to (what was considered) a man, or even the risks of pregnancy and childbirth itself. its not the system that was wrong, it was him personally. it doesnt help that rhaenyra is the first woman hes experianced to actively fight against that idea.
viserys almost comes close to Understanding why rhaenyra is so opposed to marriage (“were i born a man i could …” “thats true, but you were born a woman.”) but he just cant make that final leap. or even if he does understand how its different for the two of them, he falls back on the ‘but its your duty’ mindset. in order to fully understand rhaenyras position viserys would have to acknowledge her trauma around marriage and childbirth and that would also involve acknowledging his own trauma and, other than dredging up a bunch of unpleasant memories hes already shoved deep inside the bottom of a bottle, would mean having to accept that his upbringing and the way the women around him were treated *wasnt* Normal. it would mean having to accept that the reason his wife and mother and all his aunts died wasnt just a bunch of unconnected individual circumstances, but something indicative of a deeper societal rot. and thats just a leap in logic viserys cant make, or cant accept.
i think thats part of why viserys struggles to communicate with rhaenyra. cause i agree, if viserys had even just said ‘its unfair. i know. im sorry. ill do whatever i can to help you’ it WOULD have probably gone a long way to help rhaenyra accept marriage. but that would mean also having to acknowledge what happened to aemma, his mother, ect, was also unfair and thats just all too much for him to handle. this is not a *society* problem its a *rhaenyra* problem
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ok but imagine. lime goes up against the witch king and he fails!!! for one of the first times in his life he fails at something!!!!! but then mochi is able to defeat the witch king and for a sec lime is relieved and he’s so proud of her. he loves her so much. but then he sees a bright light and mochi falls. hes panicking slightly and calls her name quietly then louder as he runs over. the whole battlefield is so quiet bc everyone is like “was that…? did she —“ and once lime reaches her he pulls her body into his lap and takes one look at her face and just SCREAMS. the girl he loves is gone. her eyes are vacant. maybe if he were a little bit stronger he could’ve at the very least helped her defeat him. maybe land the final blow so she’d still be alive and she’d be smiling at him. maybe he’d get to tell her he loved her. but he has to settle for sobbing those words into her hair as he holds her to his chest — to feel her warmth one final time before its gone for good.
btw can totally imagine lime looking up and seeing sulluvan looming over him and lime has a full meltdown saying he won’t let him take mochi
PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
especially since that was the optimum plan.....let lime or taffy kill the witch king so they dont have to worry about if the wrath of the stars is even real or not
imagine if no one even realizes or registers what happened until they hear lime screaming and THEN it starts to settle in that oh god, please no, not mochi, are you fucking kidding me.,..
and as for sulluvan.......100% lime would lash out at him. get the fuck away from her. but i think the way sulluvan operates is a bit two-fold in the sense that he has a presence in the land of the living and the land of the dead at the same time. so yes hes standing near them, watching lime sob and cry and scream and beg over mochis corpse, but he is ALSO in the land of the dead watching mochi (or her soul anyway) doubled over and crying, not ready to face him, and not ready to leave yet,..
sulluvan calls out to her spirit and she says she knows. she knows she has to go. and asks him just give her a few moments before she has to leave
(anyway all that to say that lime couldnt stop sulluvan from taking her soul if he tried. its already happening)
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not watching the super bowl because there is nothing that could make me voluntarily watch football, but i hope chiefs win because i don't want taylor to feel any negative emotions
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