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i love you winter i love you grey skies i love you cold weather i love you snow i love you darkness at 5pm
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sports anime is so funny because it's like OH NO THE OTHER TEAM CAN DO A SUPER HOMO DRIBBLE TRICK!!! GUESS I'LL BEAT HIM WITH MY NEAT EYESIGHT!!!!!!!!
Neither “the magic is going away” nor “the magic is just beginning” but “the magic has been around for fifty years and society has only partly adjusted”
Hand signs of love by K.E.N-Digit.
Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care
Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck
Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care
Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck
Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don’t know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?
Like this young person didn’t even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went “aw yiss time to do a theft” and I was like “I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?”
Anyway I’m gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it’s fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.
The Grand Unifying Theory of the 'Forger Family Teacups (TM)'
(The title is a joke. But yes, this will be a long post about cups.)
I often talk about how food is the language of love... in which case, tea and coffee and hot cocoa - and maybe some biscuits and chocolates to go with that - must be the soft melodic notes that go with all that poetry 😊
The Forger Family Teacups are used throughout the series - much more so in the anime than in the manga - as a symbol of the Forgers' domestic bliss. It is warmth, it keeps them going (although Twilight really needs to cut down on the caffeine), it is a shared moment of rest and love at the end of a long day. It is family.
It also sets up a nice contrast to Twilight and Yor's life from before. In the first episode, we see him holding a paper cup filled with some dark brew as he leaves one place to head to another - such is the life of a spy. The cup, like all his lives and identities before, is disposable.
And even when Twilight does get a proper mug at the first Forger residence later... it is a plain white cup, and it sits alone on the coffee table. It does not scream domesticity. More like 'another day at the office'. Which it is, for him.
Then, there's Yor. We are introduced to her in the series as she is making coffee - it seems to be one of her jobs at city hall. But the white serveware and fancy contraptions make coffee for other people. The setting, the sterile color palette, the way Yor's detached reflection shows up on the pot of coffee... this is not home.
We see the Forger Family Teacups finally in Episode 3, when Yor moves into 128 Park Avenue and becomes Anya's mama. All three mugs hold slightly different things - Anya's cocoa, Yor's coffee with milk, and Loid's black coffee - but they are all sitting together, with a plate of food made lovingly by Twilight between them. The three of them may not think of themselves as a unit yet, but the tea cups and cookies don't like - this is the start of the Forger Family.
Notably, we return to a scene like this at the end of the episode. Just as Twilight laments that the operation is hopeless, in walks Yor with their family mugs, full of sweetness and comfort, quite literally. (Yes, this shot has to be deliberate.)
We get to admire the scene of domesticity - Yor smiles watching Anya enjoying her cup of hot cocoa. And Twilight gets to admire it too... and that's when the now-familiar 'teacups' music with the soft piano playing comes in. Because yes - they looked like a wonderful family to the old lady they helped earlier in the day... but they look even more like a wonderful family at home, basking in each other's warmth, sharing tea and cocoa.
We continue to see the Forger Family Teacups through the series, usually when the anime wants to highlight the theme of familial love.
In Episode 4, Yor brings out the tea tray as Twilight worries he's doomed Operation Strix. (Yor providing comfort to her husband - often with tea and coffee - when his brain goes brrrrr is a recurring thing in this series, by the way.) And we see the cups and saucers together... closer than where they were in Episode 3.
In Episode 7, Yor and Twilight talk about parenting and their partnership over their Forger Family Teacups as they wait for Anya to stop sulking over being made to study.
Notably, we get the 'teacups' music theme again, but also, Twilight has an emotional epiphany over his cup of coffee. Being Loid Forger, one cup in a set, has led him to the realization that he owes it to his daughter to be an ideal father. Him, not being Anya's real father? Well, the cup says otherwise. And he knows it too.
The last time we see the teacups prominently in the manga (again, they appear in nearly every episode, just look for them) is in Episode 8 and 9, with Yuri's visit and its aftermath.
Here, the Forger Family Teacups (TM) signify who is family, who is not. As I've pointed out before, Loid is seen wiping clean the good china for guests before Yuri's arrival in the manga and in the anime. It is, as you can see, not the same shape or pattern as the everyday mugs Yor, Anya and Loid use.
Except - and I only just noticed this - Yor actually took out a Forger Family cup first. Look at it. Shape and pattern match. Which makes sense! Yuri's family to Yor Briar, even if he's a weird little dude. But as a Forger... that's different. And Twilight's really not going to let Yuri be part of the Forgers, just yet. He does not get a Family Teacup. This is an anime-only detail. They just hate Yuri that much more. 😂
And just in case we've not entirely got it, the anime also gives us this shot - Yor, Anya and Loid's cups sitting side by side as they have a very serious discussion about how to come up with a coherent lie to sell to Yuri. It is a family discussion. About someone who is not family.
At the end of Episode 9, after the excitement that was Twilight planting a listening device on his wife, him realizing his wife is actually loyal and great, him hating himself for doing all of this, him telling her he's sick of pretending, and her declaring she's thankful she married him - phew, a lot happened in that episode! - husband and wife return home, cake in hand to celebrate their fake anniversary. Whatever crisis Twilight and Yor had imagined that could wreck their marriage and their family - well, those doubts are dead and buried, for now anyway.
The Forger Family Teacups ends the episode. Unlike in prior episodes, they have done away with the formality of saucers. Unlike in prior episodes, they are now sitting right next to each other. They are full, they are warm, they are bitter, they are sweet, they give Twilight stomach aches... They are Forger. 😊
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PS. The second cour's ED 'Color' understands guests at the Forger residence are only allowed to use guest cups, not the Forger set. They get it. *nods approvingly*
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PPS. Yuri eventually gets his Forger Family Teacup in the manga. Because even Twilight begrudgingly admits that the weird little dude is family. The fact that Yuri annoys Twilight but he can't do anything about it because his wife loves her brother, and Loid loves his wife is... Very Family.
PPPS. When Becky comes round to visit, Yor goes all out and uses a super special fancy tea set for the whole family, because Becky is super special and fancy 🙂 This is very cute, especially when you realize...
PPPPS. Yor very pointedly gave Nightfall a guest mug, even as the whole family used their Forger Family Teacups. As we saw with how Yor treated Becky, she could have actually done otherwise. But no, even before she knew how she felt, Yor decided to get territorial via tea cups and show Fiona that the Forgers are A Family, and she's not welcome, thank you very much.
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happy Thursday the 20th
was anyone else 14 on the internet thinking they were a millennial in the mid 2010s. I’d see posts about the housing market and be like so true I can’t afford a house
if shikizumi has a million fans, then i am one of them. if shikizumi has ten fans, then i am one of them. if shikizumi has only one fan then that is me. if shikizumi has no fans, then that means i am no longer on earth. if the world is against shikizumi, then i am against the world.
More human!Remy
Here’s a new and darker version of the story:
Remy’s whole life was pretty crap. His family is a family of thiefs and he understands how it’s only so they can survive since they don’t live a great life. But Remy really doesn’t wanna steal. He wants to become a chef so he just cooks for his family but they don’t believe he’ll ever be an actual chef. One day, he sees through someone’s window a cooking channel and he always goes there just to watch while also trying to get himself a job as a chef.
One day, he talks to the head chef, Skinner about being a chef in the restaurant but he didn’t get the job. After his failed attempts at convincing him to hire him, he gives up. Meanwhile, a garbage boy gets hired and starts messing with the soup on the kitchen. Obviously bothered by this, Remy takes over while the garbage boy trying getting him to stop. Remy realizes the head chef walking over to them so Remy hides. Then the confrontation abt the soup happens, Remy come out of hiding and makes a deal with Skinner that him and Linguini will remake it and if they do good, he has to hire him.
Once Remy and Linguini leave for the night, Remy is about to sleep in an ally way (because he doesn’t wanna go back home) but Linguini, being a nice person let’s him stay at his apartment.
The story is just them cooking, Remy getting mad that Linguini won’t listen to him, Collette being very scary, etc.
Then once Remy sees his dad again on a rainy dark day, his dad takes him somewhere secret. Only to see a few bags. Bags of bodies. Apparently while stealing, Remy wasn’t there to help them get away and the people who were being stole from was about to kill them and here they are. Remy spirals and runs away back to Linguini but since he saw that, he’s getting back to his old stealing habits.
The rest of the story goes as how you expect.
Baroque fantasy
microdosing on listening to music by having the same line from a song playing in my head for days straight
man we really made machines and then made them sing. yes this is about vocaloids but also about the IBM 7094 singing daisy bell over 60 years ago and how proud its programmers must have been... and about how you can now find duets of grandpa IBM singing with its grandchild hatsune miku. something so endearing about these unsentient creations that are still so steeped in emotion; it says more about our own nature, to be moved by the singing machine, than about the machine itself. singing mirrors synthetic feelings etc
Rings of Gas Giants
l Uranus (Chandra) l Neptune, Jupiter (Webb) l Saturn (Cassini)
Mashups that should be illegal
I hate how smeyer keeps trying to paint Rosalie as a bitch just because she's conceited and doesn't want to risk her life (and her family's) to the volturi for some random human her brother is obsessed with, which would put them all in danger. "She's obsessed with her looks and doesn't care about anyone else," she has never been valued past her looks and we haven't been shown anyone significantly caring for her as an individual or valuing her say in things either. No shit she'd be like that. Rosalie didn't get a say in being turned, she was objectified by Carlisle simply expecting her to be Edward's wife once turned, never bothering to consult her opinion on that, of course. She has never tasted human blood yet we never see her praised by the others for her exceptional self-restraint. She doesn't cater to Bella and instantly is vilified for it, despite the fact this would endanger them all, and, eventually, does. As well as Edward and Bella literally only dating for, what, a day? Rosalie doesn't know Bella, they barely met, and her very presence is remarkable given her opposition to even be near Bella earlier that day. "What is she to me?" is not some dismissive remark, she just met the girl and is forced into sacrificing her security and her partner for this random human girl's safety, again, having all her opinions on the matter neglected entirely.
obsessed with stories where the message is that you can’t bring someone back from the dead even if you can bring someone back from the dead
we got the radio interruption announcement
with hatsune miku being canon in enstars now i think this is a good time to bring up that time i suggested to ash the idea that enstars and project sekai were set in the same universe. except it's never mentioned or referenced until one day natsume mentions that he got an invention from "his friend rui" and some outfits for an event "from rui's friend"
12 museums that you can visit online
www.hermitagemuseum.org
britishmuseum.org
www.louvre.fr
www.museodelprado.es
collections.vam.ac.uk
www.moma.org
www.khm.at
www.digitalsculpture.org
www.tnm.jp
artsandculture.google.com
collections.lacma.org
collections.rom.on.ca
I blog for the girls who cry on their birthdays and lose a little bit of themselves during the summer months