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李ｘ瓜（plum x melon） Rambles from arrogant mania. unpaid promo for: ichi / tbhx / gl

[starthaw]

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repurposed side blog for chatting. i like a lot of things. lately I've been really into: where winds meet (video game)

other stuff I like in no particular order incl. some super niche stories:

haikyuu

csm + other fujimoto works

kagurabachi

ichi the witch (anything by shiro usazaki tbh)

girl meets rock/bocchi the rock/girls band cry (girl bands specifically ig)

m!ik (incl. 魔フィア au)

frieren

skip to loafer

apothecary diaries

jshk even though i haven't read it since 2020

blue period

dead account

i don't want this kind of hero/cheese in the trap/a bunch of translated webtoon manhwa from way back in the day

inso's law

no home

misc. other manhwa (horror/rofan/whatever)

orv (webnovel ver.)

qzgs will always be special to me. my first real donghua and exploration of Cool Chinese Media

feirenzai but you'll never see me mention it

tamen de gushi

my mom's a superstar and other works by 时一二

jwqs

tgcf/svsss, mdzs is ight

link click

to be hero x

nezha films trilogy

blossom in adversity (cdrama ver.)

misc. other cn webnovels/cdramas/c-ent/etc. it's the chinese century what can i say

arcane s1 (I refuse to engage with league outside of this show)

hi3 (didn't play)/genshin (stopped playing)/hsr (barely play). truly unfortunate

other stuff i like that isn't east asian media (huge variety, i like many things):

collecting... stuff???

life changing soul resetting soup

food around the world basically

im a sucker for this 4$ pizza slice larger than my torso. should go back for it except they're never open and I'm fairly certain it's a front for money laundering

linguistics, languages, literature

learning/educational content in general

freedom + accessibility of information

honestly bad at math

genetics, in theory

i complain a lot but it's ok if i get shit done

[starthaw]

hi im back temporarily i need a place to store info abt ocs again. this account is dumping site im not great with using tumblr tbh

[shion82]

In memory of Ssamba - Fluttering Feelings

[starthaw]

rewatched the first trailer + main pv in jp dub:

all the girls use 私... not surprised, but I do kind of wish queen was a 僕 girl

X, ghostblade, and dragon boy all use 俺 (dragon boy sounds more arrogant as expected lol, would be cool if he used オレ too. for ghostblade and X they just sounds older)

e-soul uses 僕, nice might also use this? I can't tell if the voiceline at 1:38 is nice or e-soul...

unsure for: ahu, the johnnies

will edit this idk it's for future reference

[kcgyatt]

Queen; no.2.

ugghgughg her PV brrooro.. I didn't bother to post something about PV despite having so much stuff 🥀🥀From the old man in the OP, the guy with the glasses and brown hair from the 3rd PV.. man there's alot of thoughts I could've shared. maybe I'll post my thoughts along with Hero X if there's some connections to it? lets just pray LOLL

[starthaw]

TBHX OC 梅林 (Maylin)

只关心里之所向的远方。

Concern yourself only with the distance following the direction of your heart.

Contracted under DOS.

Birthday: 03/07

Horoscope: Pisces

Height: 155cm

Interests/Skills: Gardening, sunbathing on lazy mornings

Superpower: ???

More character notes below.

梅林 (meilin) means plum grove; it is used as a transliteration of Merlin. I have opted to transliterate as Maylin since I feel this is more appropriate for my OC; Maylin is typically the romanization of 美琳 (meilin), beautiful jade (and 琳 is made from the combination of 王 from 王女/Queen + 林). 美琳 is somewhat of a homophone of 梅林 as they only differ in tones.

The numbers in 03/07 (March 7th) are a reference to how in Daoism, 3 is a number associated with yang, and 7 is likewise for yin. I'm reaching hard here.

Pisces is two fish; this horoscope has favorable compatibility with Queen's Libra, balanced against her scales.

I like height difference, so she's 25cm shorter than Queen (180cm). For easy visualization:

Will post the drawing in a month or two, I am exceptionally busy at work and in my free time is eaten up by my social life. And I draw really slow. So. Please bear with me. Here's some ideas though:

Her design was made with the intention of complementing Queen: short VS long hair, red and purple VS white and gold, a hairpin contrasting a crown, and cloth in place of armor.

In combination, these features are meant to highlight her lack of martial prowess - she's not a fighter the same way other heroes are, but that's not a problem. There's more than one way to be someone's hero.

For her clothes, I drew inspiration from modern hanfu designs (AKA scrolled Taobao for a few hours).

[starthaw]

dw queen my wife i gotchu

darling... it's ok... let's drink some fresh warm soup together. you've had a long day. I'm here for u. today we are defeated. tomorrow you shall be victorious. you can only rise higher if there's a height to climb so let's keep climbing girl!!

[starthaw]

WE GOT THE ANNOUNCEMENT, TBHX BEGINS AIRING APRIL 6TH!

[starthaw]

im making a self insert oc to ship myself with queen btw. just so everyone knows. we're canon in my heart

[starthaw]

im making a self insert oc to ship myself with queen btw. just so everyone knows. we're canon in my heart

[starthaw]

like i figured she was a young hero but had that been her goal since graduation omfg babe let's go back to our apartment after a long day at work and make something tasty like sour cream noddles and soup and pickled onions. sunny side up egg for u too :(

[starthaw]

the opening song is called inertia, which feels a little funny to me especially bc inertia (in physics) refers to an object's ability to stay at rest or in continuous motion iff there is no additional force acting upon said object - newton's first law.

but the translated song lyrics (specifically the line "I'm feeling my inertia") refer to inertia as 感受我心中的那份执着 which translates to "I'm feeling that persistence in my heart" (执着 is more like persistence than perseverance imo)

so in this case, inertia is meant to be taken as the quality or state of being unwavering, unchanging. "I'm feeling my inertia" takes on an air of stubbornness, which transitions well into the next line: 固执地我相信 lit. "stubbornly, I will believe"

(crossposted from twt with corrections, inertia is such a wack title sorry I can only associate it with physics stuff)

[starthaw]

“我只相信自己！和我定下的规则！”—女王

I only believe in myself! And the rules I set!

there are some crazy implications here, she's definitely alone what the fuck. "I only believe in myself"??? honey... what... I'm here for you :(

[starthaw]

hey im back to ramble about girl meets rock! found this in my drafts from last year, here's some (incomplete-ish) thoughts on rin.

for a few months now i thought something was up with rin, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it with this panel (ch34):

but recently we've been given more leeway into her character (especially with these panels from ch46):

it's a copy to how rin used to act, sitting next to someone she must admire. but things are different - here, she smiles, while by comparison she seems rather unhappy in her childhood.

rin experienced a drastic change between middle school and her experiences with hatano. she had cut her hair (likely before high school ended) as a way to offset this change. rin acts upfront to manipulate the strings in the background - which is just fine with her, if hatano, god herself can be given all the room to shine.

i think it's more likely that she's generally not confident enough to stand on the foreground. she is, at heart, a very reserved girl; upon closer inspection with a reread, she has a tendency to backseat in conversations that aren't one-on-one/initiated by her. her praise for hatano is both sword and shield, protecting her from being the center of attention while hatano is pushed forward.

we don't see her thoughts very often unless they're centered around hatano, and she's yet to get her own sort of character arc like momo and ayame have. the closest to this has been the recent chapters exploring the dynamics of the light music club, but that's less focused on rin and more so on exploring the relationships between seniors and other members of the club.

I really hope she gets her own arc soon, it's been hinted at for a while now...

stray thought, not related: when the fuck did takami and hatano get close enough for takami to start calling her by her nickname (hatocchi, ch15). takami has had like five convos max with her. bro is PLAYING? coming from other girls, it makes more sense; they're friendly to each other, there's not the same sense of distance that hatano and takami have. like, maybe it's just normal for them, but it does baffle me a little.

[starthaw]

hero x seems to have some kind of limit on his ability "bending space and time" (assuming the continued relevance of the original PV), as seen in this image.

his fingers have grown transparent from snapping consecutively one too many times... wonder what's up with that? and he's actively checking up on this too.

not sure if there's much of a difference between left hand VS right hand snaps either. if there is one, I haven't noticed it yet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

crossposted from twitter. im absolutely shameless enough to self-promo but tbh i get the impression most of ygs dgaf about anything that isn't tbhx so maybe don't follow me there im practically a retweet bot

[starthaw]

it's banger after banger characters every week how do they keep getting away with this

[stcharls-st]

wip