#*story

[jakeperalta]

people who only listen to audiobooks at 2x speed or higher have a fundamentally different approach to reading than me I think

[pocket-ghostie]

Both of Luelle's outfits don't feel like her. Neither of them are exactly... Luelle. Would you believe me if I said that was on purpose?

Ramblings bellow!!

Luelle has never really been herself. She doesn't even know who she really is until pretty late in the story.

When she serves as a knight for the kingdom I still have to name, she doesn't have any room to express herself. Her only role is to follow orders, and do them well. Which she does. She doesn't think about it, just just carries out any orders given to her without question.

When she surrenders to Maeve, she, again, just follows orders. At the point where she surrenders, she realizes that she's lost her sense of self, but she has no idea how to get it back. So she does what she always has done. Follows orders.

It's only after she and Maeve fall in love, and Luelle finally feels safe enough to be herself, does she start discovering more things about herself, and who she is as a person.

So neither of the outfits I've designed for her, have been For Her. They have just been to put her in the role that she serves.

There is a scene wayy later on in the story where Luelle asks Maeve if she can make a new outfit for herself. Maeve obviously agrees, and Luelle finally gets to express herself outwardly.

Still have to figure out... what she likes to wear. But I'll get there eventually.

[3584-tropical-fish]

rahh i need to get back into reading house of leaves¹, i got real into it before falling by the wayside² when classes started giving more work. gotta get out the sticky notes and shit and dive back into it.³

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¹Danielewski, Mark Z., Zampanò, and Johnny, Truant. 2000. Pantheon Books.

²shouldnt this be like "it fell by the wayside?" pretty sure the thing falls by the wayside not the person.⁴

³something about women that goes on for three pages

⁴To fall by the wayside can mean to fail to finish an activity. –Ed.

The only reason why I didn't fall by the wayside¹ was because my sibling told me to get it back to them², shoutout to my sibling

Best of luck diving back in! o7³

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¹I somehow managed to read all of house of leaves in ten days, I was locked the fuck in⁴

²Personal communication with [illegible], May 14, 2025.⁵

³anecdote also undoubtedly about women and possibly about a series of events that gets progressively more confusing until you're convinced it never actually happened, but everything is weird enough already that there might be some amount of truth to it. Or maybe there never was any truth in any of this. Maybe I need to not shut myself in my room all day reading and get out of the house. Do some gardening.

⁴To "lock in" was defined by an Urban Dictionary user as "to be extra extra focused on your dream." As with most slang, it most likely stems from AAVE (see knowyourmeme.com). –Ed.

⁵Since the copy I read was one I borrowed from my sibling, they also told me I couldn't annotate it as I would have wished (again, personal communication with [illegible], May 14, 2025). Probably should've gotten some sticky notes like you did, that would've been fun.

[nero-neptune]

wild wild country is such a crazy documentary, like it made me feel genuinely conflicted about both sides of the situation (bc it's about a cult). but as many episodes into this series as i am, idk. it'll be a cold day in hell before i ever defend the state of oregon.

[sudaca-swag]

TSC will be sold together with a gun so you can kill yourself after you finish it

[words-after-midnight]

gonna have a concept art moment on the balcony when i get home i think

[p5anotherstory]

ARC 1 ;; THE GALANT FOOL  & THE WARLORD OF WRATH  // Sent to Shibuya to live with his aunt Futaba due to his parents crippling debt does Sojiro enroll into Shujin academy where he’s immediately met with one of the biggest problems many of the students seem to be having; one that’s unknown to the teachers even. The track coach Ryuji Sakamoto, known for being a delinquent in his past is overworking his team to their limits to make sure they succeed and come out on top. Sojiro learns about this from both his classmate Sadyo Kawakami, and volleyball star, Suguru Kamoshida. It seems like both of them have their own past with him; Sadyo even being Sakamoto’s main target along side Toranosuke Yoshida, another classmate of Sojiro’s.  Both Sojiro and Suguru are mysteriously transported to what appears to be a warship, a whole new world where they’re met with mysterious creatures that cause Sojiro’s rebellious nature to come out and awaken to his his persona LUGH. Meanwhile, while investigating the warship after successfully escaping from being captured by Sakamoto’s men do they run into another person who seems to have the same powers as Sojiro himself.

He helps the two escape the palace, mainly due to the fact that the two of them mention that they didn’t mean to come into this strange world. Through out their escape does the masked boy teach Sojiro the minimal ropes alongside his own Persona BALOR from the looks of it. Suguru does stand off to the side watching them fight, seeing as he’s unable to fight without a Persona- but absolutely tries to help somewhat with trying to spike his volleyball he always has on hand at these shadows - surprisingly enough, it works. It’s not long before the end of their escape where they’re stopped once more by Sakamoto’s guards before they can get to their escape route. Here does Suguru’s rebellious nature come out, awakening him to his own Persona CHAQUEN before the three can successfully route an escape from the palace.

Eventually as the two arrive back in the real world do they meet up with the mysterious boy who had helped lead them through the palace to properly escape. He is introduced as Masayoshi Shido, a third year. He does not elaborate or explain why he has these powers aswell. That night does Sojiro have a dream where he wakes up in a strange empty mansion, outside the windows show that it’s right on the cliffside near a beach. The weather outside is hazy, almost unable to make out anything else. Here he’s introduced to this world he’s in between dreams and reality known as The Velvet Room. Unlike Persona 5, he is met by Igor rather than a devious God that has taken over the man’s body. His assistant is none other than Lavenza, still in her true form and not split into two.  The next day arrives and Suguru insists on investigating more in what they saw, the two second years soon learn that the track team truly is being overworked to their absolute limit and that something has to be done. When telling Masayoshi about this he of course knows exactly what to do, already having much experience in the metaverse himself. It’s then set in stone that the three of them will go back to the palace to take down Sakomoto and steal his treasure. Masayoshi ensures the two that he’ll fight along side them, but also act as a navigator since he dosen’t want the two to waste their time running around getting lost in the palace. Back in the Metaverse are they instructed to start going by codenames, especially with the fact that they’re dealing with someone from their school. Thus Sojiro goes by the codename of BOSS, Suguru as CAPTIAN, and Masayoshi as JACKAL. The infiltration of the warship begins, starting their first heist as thieves. Soon to their surprise do they see that they have another familiar face amongst them unknown to having been transported to this world. Sadyo Kawakami is found to be captured much like Sojiro and Suguru were, and while she’s being restentlessly taunted by the track coach who gives her grief day in and day out does something snap inside of her despite all her initial weak feelings that cloud her thoughts. Sojiro yells to her that she needs to fight back - and fight back she does. MADAME is born along side her Persona VENUS.  When questioned how she got into the metaverse does Saydo explain that she had heard the three of them talking about Sakamoto, and might have been eavesdropping on them to see what they were up to...in the end she got sucked into this world. All of that aside do the four continue their heist, never once stopping at their true goal to stop the WARLORD OF WRATH and have him ATONE for his SINS.