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[teex]

some of my favorite jamie+trevor moments from their first season on the Flyers together | 25-26 Season

[20dollarlolita]

OKAY. SO.

A) We're talking about weaving looms, not loom knitting. Clarification of terms: weft is the horizontal yarn that you weave over and under the warp threads. Warp is both a noun, the vertical threads that the loom holds so the weft can be woven through it, and a verb, the process of putting the warp threads on the loom. "Two harness weave" is a fast way of making a plain weave that just goes up and down one thread at a time.

B) MANY different kinds of looms are basically just carefully selected sticks, combined with the know-how of using them to make fabric. Go on etsy and look up backstrap looms, because they're just just seven sticks. So, we are not going to deduct points from the Kliot loom just because it's only a bunch of sticks. We have plenty of other stuff to discredit the Kliot loom for. We don't need to throw in things that are arguably fine.

Part 1) You can buy the Lacis Kliot loom at places that do not normally sell weaving supplies, but you cannot buy it from places that do sell weaving supplies.

Is it on Overstock.com? Yes. Is it on OrientalTrading.com? Yes. Is it the only weaving loom on Joann.com? Yes. Can you get it on The Woolery? No. Can you get it on Paradise Fibers? No.

This loom is intentionally marketed at people who do not know how to weave, and is not available from places where the shoppers do know how to weave. We need to remember this, because it's an indication that Lacis believes that their product should require no weaving knowledge to use. The manufacturer does have a lot to do with where the product is sold, so we can say this is specifically a Lacis decision.

Part 2) Their Amazon reviews used to be faked and they still seem to be manipulated.

The way they did that was to list five items on one listing, under the claim that they were different colors of the same item. On Amazon, if you're selling bottles of paint, it's normal to have all the bottles of paint from one brand on one listing, and then allow people to select a color. All those different bottles of paint then get reviewed as a single product.

What Lacis used to have was this loom on the same listing as several stamp pads that they distributed but did not manufacture. The pads were, I believe, made by Clover, and were a quality product. The other item that was available on this listing was the loom. This meant that, when someone bought the brown stamp pad and gave it 5/5 stars, that 5/5 rating would also apply to the Kliot loom. This is blatantly against Amazon's listing rules, BTW. If you looked at those reviews, the percentage of 1- and 2- star reviews that were about the loom and not the stamp pads was much higher than the positive reviews.

I think there is STILL some manipulation going on in their listings, because when you start looking at the ratings, almost 100% of negative reviews left text comments, and about 50% of positive reviews rated without leaving a comment. I don't have any proof on that, but it's my suspicion.

I'm not saying that these are fake reviews but I'm going to say that there's absolutely nothing indicating that any of these people have actually used the product.

Part 3) Even the positive Amazon reviews say negative things about this product.

Check out the positive reviews. You will see some major trends showing up. Many positive reviews still say it was not for beginners, that it was missing pieces, that it was difficult to set up, or that the instructions were terrible.

A quick reminder that Lacis sells this loom on sites that do not sell other weaving supplies. Lacis believes that people who do not know how to weave should buy their product to learn how to weave on it. "Not for beginners" is a negative as it works against their selling scheme.

Part 4) Many of the reviews are made by people who have never completed a project on this loom.

I have combed the entire internet (note: not actually the entire internet) looking for any projects completed on this loom, that were following the instructions. I've completed a "project" on it by aggressively ignoring the instructions and the creative usage of blue painter's tape.

Most reviews complain about difficulty warping the loom, and I can't blame them for that, but warping any loom except a basic frame loom is a bitch. My real loom lets me warp it like this, which I find easier, but it's still a huge pain in the ass to set up. This project used size 1 thread, so doing the entire warp took me a couple of hours. We're not going to deduct points for the fact that it needs to be warped and warping can be annoying.

However, in my experience with the Lacis Kliot loom, the actual weaving steps are also much more difficult than you'd experience on other kinds of looms, and no one is talking about that part.

Part 5) They sell it as being good for more things than just tapestry.

So, this is sold as a tapestry loom, and tapestry weaving is different from 2-harness weaving or generally weaving cloth. This video shows exactly how much stress tapestry weaving puts on the warp and the loom. All things considered, it's not a lot of stress, especially when compared to weaving on a backstrap loom where you slam the warp into place with a thing that's literally called a machete.

However, in their instructions, on their box, and on the single video on the internet they have about how to set it up, they say that it's also capable of plainweaves and "other 2-harness weaves". Reminder that they market this to people new to weaving, who are going to read that it can do plainweaves and buy it for that, because they don't know how to tell if a loom can do that just by looking at it.

I personally was not able at all to do a good plain weave on this when following their instructions, due to shifting grain. When I complained about this, I got, "Well, what do you expect, it's a tapestry loom." I'd been sold a loom that should do a plain weave. I've actually woven pretty good plain weave on other tapestry looms. But again, they advertised it as being for a use that it does not deliver, and then its defenders blame people who could not use it for that purpose by claiming that it never was for that purpose.

Part 6) It doesn't actually come with everything you need.

I had to drop another $30 on the wooden pieces that you need to weave and that it didn't come with. This does put a big damper on the affordability price. It's not unusual for a loom to require you to DIY all the parts that are made out of string--and a lot of parts can be made out of string--but generally they do come with all the wooden parts. Again, I want to reiterate that this loom is sold primarily on sites that do not sell other weaving supplies. Where are we getting our damn stick shuttles from, Lacis?

It's also worth mentioning that as part of the set up process, you need to tie about 70 little string loops. That's not outrageous in terms of looms but a lot of quality tapestry looms come with pre-done texolve heddles so that you don't need to do that.

Part 7) The instructions mention many techniques for which there is no way whatsoever for you to expand your knowledge and learn what they mean.

"Longer warps are possible using advanced techniques," so tell me what those are, my man!!! You can't get credit for your loom being capable of something when there's no explanation for how to do that technique. I mean, even if it was only available in a separate purchase of a tutorial, at least the information would exist. Remember that a loom without instructions is 9 sticks and some string. If you're referencing that it's capable of something, you should have a resource to explain how to do that. This is true with a lot of things but it's especially true with looms.

In addition, the method of warping the loom that they show cannot make a warp wide enough to fit the whole weaving width of the loom. To make a full width, you have to do multiple passes on the warping board, and they most certainly do not tell you how to do that.

Part 8) There are some major problems with the functions of this as a loom.

So here's an important thing: the warp thread is under constant tension. It's not always a lot of tension, but it needs to not be flopping around.

In addition, the warp has to support the weft yarn and hold it stable. If the weft yarn is not stable, it will make a twisted grain, which is bad. The weft has to be packed down so that it all sits together, which puts stress onto the warp threads. They must be held stably so that the warp threads can be tamped down.

Conveniently, your loom is a frame of wood, so the warp is held steady by the bars of the loom and it doesn't shift!

Oh wait.

That's what this would do if it made sense.

So, one of the things that many looms do is that they're able to hold warp threads that are longer than the loom itself. That's why my picture of me warping the loom up there has me measuring out thread that's 6x the length of my actual loom. That's where many tapestry looms are lacking; with a simple frame loom, you're limited to the size of the frame. If you can move the warp, because it's longer than the loom, you can keep the weaving area closer to your body and you don't need to reach your arms out uncomfortably.

The Kliot loom is set up in such a way that it can weave at almost twice the actual length of the frame. Cool, right? Well, bad news, the method that they have to do this fucking sucks.

The warp on this is called a continuous warp, which is how a lot of tapestries are woven. The thread is looped back and forth between two sticks in a figure eight pattern.

Here's a side view of the loom. The two blue sticks are then wrapped around the red frame of the loom, with the pink warp thread on them. To put tension on the warp and hold it in place, a piece of string is then used to tie the two sticks together (not pictured).

This has one huge, major flaw: there is absolutely nothing forcing those sticks to stay perpendicular to the sides of the frame. Nothing whatsoever. If you put pressure on the warp on one side, they will shift down onto that side, twisting the grain on your piece. If you're lucky, the lashing won't get distorted and fall off and destroy your entire piece, but it is a possibility with this set up. Also, a shorter warp will require more distance between the two sticks, which can make the problem worse.

Now, for a two-harness weave, this is absolutely useless. With a two-harness weave, you beat the entire warp down in one go, which stresses the entire warp at the same time, making it incredibly likely to shift. However, we're going to play the but it's a tapestry loom it says tapestry on the box it's only for tapestry game for a hot second. You cannot actually beat this down like a tapestry, with a tapestry beater or a tapestry bobbin or a tapestry needle or anything without shifting the warp!! The only way to make this work is to grab the bars from underneath when you beat, which requires you to have three or more hands.

If you look up the rare tapestry loom that is built for longer warp than the frame, you'll notice that the bars holding the warp have a way of being fixed to the frame while you weave. Example.

There is also no way of keeping the warp properly spaced. Most looms have a beater of some kind to keep the warp from all sliding together. Most tapestry looms don't have an attached beater and use little springs or notches in the wood to keep the warp from attracting itself to itself. The little thread chain that Lacis recommends doesn't actually work, and you can't remove it like they say in the instructions. Instead, you have to be constantly re-tying it to the frame, or else your warp will become one with itself. Very frustrating.

The project that I "completed" on this loom I did by taping the warp rod directly to the top bar and then winding it around the bar for tension.

Part 9) Why is it so over-designed?

When you look at other tapestry looms, you're going to notice that this thing has a bunch of parts that normal tapestry weavers don't use. Their funky little heddle set up in the middle works okay, but there's not actually a good reason to use two heddle rods for something like this. The easiest way is to accomplish a two-harness setup is with one rod like this and then just get a fucking stick. Like get yourself a 18"x1" ruler and you just stick it in the back and then turn it on its side. Most tapestry looms don't even do that, because you're not putting thread all the way through the tapestry and it's just as easy to go one thread at a time when you're doing precision work.

The reason why I think it's so over-designed is because they want it to look like a loom you weave cloth with, not just a tapestry loom. Again, no proof there, but I think that's why.

Part 10) Why aren't there reviews by people who have finished projects??

The answer is because this thing is really unpleasant to use and doesn't make good-looking projects. I initially assumed that it was some kind of conspiracy there, but it's just not enjoyable to set up.

But I want to get into weaving.

Okay, let's look at options.

Okay, so for starters, since we've played the "it's a tapestry loom, not a cloth loom!! don't judge it on the other stuff they say it can dooo, it says TA-PES-TRY" game, let's talk about if you want to get into tapestry weaving.

The good news is you can make a basic tapestry loom very easily and cheaply. Go to a thrift store and get yourself a sturdy wooden picture frame, and then get a pack of finishing nails from your hardware store. Hammer them into the frame evenly, and wind some string between them across the front of the loom. Bam, you have a loom. This probably isn't going to be your tapestry loom for the rest of your life, but most people find out if they're a tapestry weaving fan about 1.5" into their first tapestry. If you like making tapestries in this loom, you can check out better looms. Look for ones where the positive reviewers don't say a lot of negative things about it and where people have actually completed projects on the loom.

If you want to get into basic fabric weaving, I'm a fan of rigid heddle looms. They're easy to warp, versatile, and they work pretty fast. Experimenting with different yarn combinations is one of my favorite things about rigid heddle weaving, since both the warp and weft show. The Harrisville Easy Weaver and the Ashford 10" SampleIt loom are both under $200. I know the Kliot says it can weave up to 24" but that's with their magical know-how of making the warp not slide together. In my not-small experimentation period, that's not possible.

You can also try some more inexpensive techniques, like pin looms or peg looms. Blankets on a pin loom are super fun, because you weave little squares and piece them together. This makes it really portable and allows you to use multiple cool kinds of yarn. Peg looms are really good at weaving big chunks of fabric, and you can use various yarns or non-yarns like sliver or plastic.

There's a lot of ways to get into weaving without buying the Kliot loom. In fact, I'm going to argue that there's lots of ways to get into weaving despite buying the Kliot loom. Anyhow, that's the loom story, why a product that's so blatantly bad keeps selling.

[sexualsportswear]

BYE 

[pervocracy]

One opinion about almost every episode of Doctor Who that I’ve watched

spoilers, although they’re mostly from like 2005

An Unearthly Child: Whoa, they nailed the theme song right from the get-go!

Rose: The Doctor’s speech about feeling the Earth turning under his feet was chilling, and I think about it a lot in moments later in the series when he’s being goofy and casual.

The End of the World: They spent a lot of money on this one--costumes, effects, even licensed music--to prove to everyone that This Ain’t Your Daddy’s Doctor Who.

The Unquiet Dead: I realize saying “every myth is actually aliens” is kind of the Brand, but this one came off particularly strongly “we wrote a Victorian ghost story but then the boss said it had to be aliens so okay, fine, they’re fuckin’... alien ghosts.”

Aliens of London: “Being the Doctor’s companion will completely destroy your life” is a surprisingly grim running theme in the series.  Every companion eventually brings grief to their friends and families, in one way or another.

World War Three: Rose returning to the TARDIS as a conscious decision, bags packed and ready for adventure, is adorable.  The show implies that certain people are just made to be companions to the Doctor, and Rose is one of them.

Dalek: It was an interesting choice to introduce the Dalek as sympathetic and pitiful, and at the same time one of the most brutal killers on the show.  And at the same time, it’s still a ridiculous-looking thing with a toilet plunger for an arm.

The Long Game: Hey! That’s Simon Pegg!  He looks weird with blond hair!  Hi Simon Pegg!  I’m waving at the TV!

Father’s Day: I only watched this one once.  Couldn’t deal with the feelings.

The Empty Child: Stephen Moffat was so good when he wasn’t allowed to take over the whole show so he actually had to write stories with endings!

The Doctor Dances: And what a glorious ending it is!  Everybody lives, Rose!  Just this once, EVERYBODY LIVES!

Boom Town: The Doctor’s dinner with the Slitheen, and their cold deconstruction of each other’s brutality, is one hell of a scene considering the silliness of the setup.

Bad Wolf: Today on Shit You Did Not Expect: a... The Weakest Link crossover?  Really?  Really.  They play The Weakest Link with a penis-headed robot who blasts people with her laser eyes.  And then they’re on Big Brother!  Hey!  My dad worked on that!  I don’t think he was actually part of this episode though.

The Parting of the Ways: Rose doesn’t look or act like she’d make a fearsome demigod.  Which makes it much more powerful when she does.

The Christmas Invasion: “Who is this weird new guy?  I’ll never get used to him being the Doctor!” -me, for about 5 seconds before falling completely and permanently in love with Ten

New Earth: This one is so much fun! Rose and the Doctor are so adorably playful with each other, and then they get to do some incredibly goofy bodyswap acting, and then even Cassandra gets to have a sweet, humanity-affirming ending.

Tooth and Claw: So you’ve got a Scottish actor who normally fakes an English accent, pretending to be faking a Scottish accent, then pretending to forget to fake a Scottish accent and “slipping” into an English accent again.  Meanwhile I can’t even speak with a Massachusetts accent and I was born here.

School Reunion: “I couldn’t bear to watch you grow old and die” is a bullshit excuse for ditching a companion, coming from a guy whose entire personality essentially-dies every time he has a contract dispute or “creative differences.”

The Girl in the Fireplace: “Every time I travel through the time portals, several years pass for Reinette.  Too bad I have no pattern recognition abilities!”

Rise of the Cybermen: I’m glad Mickey finally gets an episode where he’s not just a barely-wanted tagalong.  He was on the verge of becoming the Xander Harris of this show.

The Age of Steel: Noel Clarke’s “I’m two people” acting is so good!  You can see whether he’s Mickey or Ricky in each shot with a glance, just from his facial expression.

The Idiot’s Lantern: ahahaha look at their hair in this episode

The Impossible Planet: I’m glad they came back to the Ood later, because it’s rather unpleasant how the Doctor in this one kinda shrugs off “so these people are keeping slaves, what’re you gonna do, cultural differences and all that.”

The Satan Pit: Making literal Satan the bad guy here is adorable.  It’s like something you’d see on 60s Star Trek, but no, it’s happening in our modern CGI-enhanced post-irony Golden Age Of TV world.  A man in a spacesuit is yelling at a giant red devil that just growls back at him and it’s all very serious drama.  I love this show.

Love & Monsters: This is the one where a girl gets turned into a paving slab but then her boyfriend announces that it’s okay because they’re still having sex.  Yeah.  That happened.

Fear Her: I think this one’s mostly filler

Army of Ghosts: There’s just way too much going on here.  We’ve got ghosts and Cybermen and Torchwood and Daleks and a parallel universe and... anyway I think the concept of using those flimsy paper 3D glasses as a magical item is kind of adorable.

Doomsday: ROSE!  ROSE NO!  COME BACK!  ROOOSE!!!

The Runaway Bride: Catherine Tate is so good!  I’m so glad they brought her back!

Smith and Jones: I love that Martha immediately distinguishes herself as a potential companion by being excited instead of terrified that they’ve been teleported to the moon.  She doesn’t even know how they have air, but she’s already like “sweet! an Adventure!”

The Shakespeare Code: By theater nerds, for theater nerds, probably insufferable to everyone else, but theater nerds have long been comfortable with that.

Gridlock: It feels a little too Socially Responsible how the Doctor and Martha are immediately and violently anti-drug.  This world has patches that bring you magical joy with no apparent side effects, and instead of being curious about it the way they usually are about future technology, they just go straight to “SAY NOPE TO DOPE, KIDS!!!”

Daleks in Manhattan: Having Daleks use the old-school pepperpot design and robot-screamy-voices in the modern series is like putting nipples and a codpiece on the Batsuit in The Dark Knight.  Which is to say, it’s brilliant and I love it.

Evolution of the Daleks: too much plot, I’m sleepy

The Lazarus Experiment: I cannot believe multiple adults saw the wig Mark Gatiss wears in this episode and agreed that would be okay.

42: I really like these self-contained episodes that don’t set up any big arcs or prophesies or personal dramas.  There’s just a ticking clock, a mystery, a spaceship, and a whole lot of running up and down hallways whilst shouting.

Human Nature: Hey, it’s Jojen Reed as an uncanny psychic child!  And Viserys Targaryen as a sadistic upper-class brat!

The Family of Blood: Man, the Doctor really dicked Martha over with this one.  “You’re going to be a domestic servant, because you’re black!  And I’m going to turn myself into an old-timey racist who doesn’t know who you are!  And yet somehow you’re supposed to be in charge of making sure I carry out all my plans!”

Blink: This is a perfect episode of television.

Utopia:💖😍🥰😘 jack harkness i love you 😘🥰😍💖

The Sound of Drums: “Menacing goofiness” is a strange place for an actor to aim, but damn if John Simm doesn’t hit it.

Last of the Time Lords: “I’ve been traveling around the world, fomenting resistance and spreading hope... in the idea that the Doctor is magic and can fix everything by himself.  That’s what resistance to fascism is, right?  Just throwing all your resources in with a different all-powerful authority-father-savior figure?”

Voyage of the Damned: Giving the Doctor a one-off temporary companion, and expecting people to care about her as much as Rose or Martha, doesn’t really work.  “Oh no, she’s dying.  Not whatserface. Oh no.”

Partners in Crime: I love that they’re giving the Doctor a companion who doesn’t have any kind of psychosexuromantic entanglement with him, but is really just a friend.  I love that they’re giving the Doctor a companion who’s (by actors’ ages, at least) older than him.  ...Oh shit, is it bad that these are the same one?

The Fires of Pompeii: “I wish we could save the people of Pompeii, but I am powerless to change this part of history... oh wait, no, I’ll save this one random family on a whim.  Guess I could change history after all!  Sorry, other 20,000 people who are still getting volcanoed to death!”

Planet of the Ood: “The companion is the Doctor’s conscience” is always true, but Donna really owns it.  She spares no time for pretending that “oh but what if the Ood are supposed to be slaves” is an interesting argument.

The Sontaren Strategem: Another one of those “too much plot for me” episodes.  I’m a simple man; just give me a monster and a hallway to run down.

The Poison Sky: ditto

The Doctor’s Daughter: It’s weird that they got married in real life.  Like, their actual age difference is within the half-plus-seven rule, and she wasn’t even really his daughter daughter on the show, but, like, it’s still a little tiny bit weird.

The Unicorn and the Wasp: I guess if I read Agatha Christie books I would understand some of these references?

Silence in the Library: Holy shit, this one is scary.  I don’t hide behind the couch often watching Doctor Who, but... “Hey, who turned out the lights?”

Forest of the Dead: River’s speech about “when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives” is self-indulgent Stephen Moffat hooey and a blatant repeat from “The Doctor Dances” but I’ve got goosebumps anyway.

Midnight: Wow.  You don’t really expect to be using the phrase “a gut-punch of an episode” about the same series that was just playing Detective Funtimes With Agatha Christie, but this was a gut-punch of an episode.

Turn Left: I’ve rewatched a lot of these, but I couldn’t watch this one more than once because I felt so sad about Wilfred. Something in his performance is just wrenching.

The Stolen Earth: I couldn’t watch this one more than once because it’s hard to summon up the energy to follow the “let’s throw everything that’s ever happened onto the show into this stew” plotline.

Journey’s End: HOW DARE YOU DO DONNA LIKE THAT.  HOW DARE YOU.

The Next Doctor: Hey!  That’s not Matt Smith!  I thought it was gonna be Matt Smith.

Planet of the Dead: The Doctor without a permanent companion is always an uncomfortable dynamic.  Both because he needs a conscience/foil/audience-surrogate, and because otherwise we have to go through the “the Doctor is the perfect boyfriend who always breaks your heart” narrative all over again every damn episode.

The Waters of Mars: I like when the Doctor isn’t a good person.  When he gets all arrogant and inhuman and at moments even sinister, that’s far more interesting than when he’s a straightforward hero.

The End of Time: Look, I loved David Tennant’s run on this show.  He’s my favorite Doctor and my imaginary boyfriend.  If there’s anyone I don’t mind watching get a bit self-indulgent, it’s Ten.  But even from this perspective, I think it was not a good idea to let him spend a half hour dying while crying piteously and also somehow touring his entire history on the show.  It really was not.

The Eleventh Hour:  This feels like the first episode of an entirely new show.  There’s very little in characters or plotlines (or writers or producers) connecting it to anything that happened before.  The sense of a fresh start is nice, but this literally is not the same show I enjoyed before.

The Beast Below: Oh.  It’s a space whale.  That’s cool I guess.  This show is okay and everything, but there’s no way I would have really gotten into it if I’d started watching here.

Victory of the Daleks: Upon reading the Wikipedia summary of this episode, I realized that I had, in fact, watched it.

The Time of Angels: “Blink” was, as I said, perfect.  But not because the Angels are the greatest enemy ever devised; they’re creepy and all, but most of the fun in “Blink” comes from the meticulously satisfying construction of the time loops.  Taking that element out, and just making the Angels into generic boogeymen, was a terrible idea.

Flesh and Stone: Oh god, there’s so many mediocre Eleven episodes.  Don’t get me wrong, Matt Smith is great.  I don’t blame him.  But I’m just not feeling the energy to go through every one of these damn things anymore.

[...]

Let’s Kill Hitler: This is the one that finally defeated me.  I wasn’t really offended, just... tired.  Things had gotten so wrapped up in complicated portentous chosen-savior-of-everything plots and we couldn’t have even one episode anymore that was just a normal time travel adventure.  I think about halfway through here, I gave up on Doctor Who.

Oh well.  There’s still time to come back to it if I want.  And we’ll always have “Blink.”

[seastarved]

 SO LIKE BRACE YOURSELVES BECAUSE THIS IS FUCKING LONG AND I WOULD APOLOGISE BUT MY OTP IS ONLY GETTING MARRIED ONCE SO FUCK IT RIGHT?

OK FIRST OF ALL HELLA TRANSITION AND SECOND OF ALL I LOVE WHAT HE’S WEARING AND THIRD OF ALL HE WORE THE FUCKING EARRING OF MY DEMISE I HATE HIM

AND HIS STUPID PERFECT EYES AND HIS STUPID PERFECT JAWLINE AND HIS STUPID PERFECT EVERYTHING

GOD I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT WE GET TO SEE THIS RELATIONSHIP AND LOOK HOW FAR THEY’VE COME. STEP FATHER AND BEST MAN LIKE SO MANY FUCKING TEARS ALREADY

YOU KNOW HE’S SEEN HER. LOOK AT HIS DAMNED FACE. AND SHE’S FUCKING STUNNNINGGGG IN HER DRESS SO I DON’T BLAME HIM AT ALL FOR THIS REACTION LOL

AND THEN FUCKING LOOK AT THIS RIGHT? SNOW IS TAKING DEEP BREATHS, CHARMING IS JUST HAPPY AF AND EMMA FUCKING SWAN IS LOOKING AT KILLIAN JONES AND SHE CAN’T TAKE HER EYES OFF HIM

ANYMORE THAN HE CAN TAKE HIS EYES OFF HER

LOOK AT THIS LOVE DAMNIT I CANNOT BELIEVE WE’RE GETTING TO SEE THIS FUCK

LOOK AT THIS DUMB LITTLE FAMILY AND HOW FAR THEY’VE COME. I LOVE THAT THEY’RE BOTH WALKING HER DOWN THE AISLE AND BOTH HOLDING HER AS SHE GOES AND I’M JUST SO DAMN HAPPY

LOOK AT THIS. FUCKING WHAT IS THIS WITH THE SMILING AND THE KISSING THE CHEEKS

WHAT IS THIS WHO AUTHORISED THIS? TAKE IT AWAY IMMEDIATELY

AND THIS FUCKING HANDSHAKE?! REMEMBER WHEN HE WAS ALL YOU CAN’T EVER DATE MY DAUGHTER EVERRRRR EVER EVER EVER AND NOW FUCKING LOOK. THEY’RE BROS. SUCH BROS. THIS IS RIDICULOUS HOW MANY EMOTIONS I HAVE RN

OMFG LOOK HOW HAPPY HE IS THAT HE’S GOT HER HAND IN HIS. THAT DAMN SMILE THAT WON’T QUIT

AND OK WHEN ARCHIE SAYS THAT THEY SHOULD RECITE THEIR VOWS KILLIAN LOOKS AT WHO I’M ASSUMING IS CHARMING OR HENRY, OR PERHAPS THE WHOLE FAMILY, JUST GIVING THEM A SMILE AND IT KILLS ME BECAUSE NOT ONLY DID EMMA SWAN FIND A FAMILY, KILLIAN JONES DID TOOOO

LOOK AT THEM DAMNIT, LOOK AT HOW FUCKING HAPPY ARE OMFGGG

AND THE VOWS, THE DAMNED FUCKING VOWS OMFG THE WAY HE FUCKING LOOKS AT HER

AND THE WAY SHE FUCKING LOOKS AT HIM

AND THE FUCKING AWE IN HIS FACE WHEN HE’S LIKE YOU TAUGHT ME THAT A HEART FULL OF LOVE WAS MORE PRECIOUS THAN ANY TREASURE LIKE HE NEVER THOUGHT IN HIS WILDEST DREAMS THAT THIS COULD EVER FUCKING HAPPEN FOR HIM

AND NOW THAT HE HAS IT, HE WILL NEVER FUCKING LET IT GO AND I AM DEAD AND GONE, A SPIRIT IS TYPING THIS RN

AND FUCK LOOK AT HIM TELLING HER HIS HEART IS HERS

LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFUL THEY ARE OMG I AM SO EMOTIONAL *THROWS THINGS* *THROWS ALLL THE FUCKING THINGS*

I AM GONNA THROW MY COUCH AT SOMEONE NOW BECAUSE DID YOU HEAR HOW SHE SAYS KILLIAN? ALL SOFT AND TENDER AND LIKE SHE LOVES HIM.

AND OMG HENRY FOUND HER AND THE WAY SHE LOOKS AT HENRY TOO. THERE’S JUST SO MUCH LOVE IN THIS ROOM THAT I AM IN PAIN AND FUCKING LOOK AT THE SOFT WAY THAT KILLIAN LOOKS AT HENRY TOO LIKE WHAT THE FUCK

AND HENRY GOD HENRYYY I AM SO PROUD OF HIM AND I LOVE HIM SO MUCH AND HE JUST BELIEVED AND LOOK HOW FAR THEY’VE ALL COME FUCK ME

AND SHE FOUND THE REST OF HER FAMILY TOO BECAUSE OF HENRY

AND THEY’RE HERE ON HER FUCKING WEDDING DAY TO HER FUCKING TRUE LOVE OMFG I AM OVERWHELMED

AND SHE LOOKS AT HIM RIGHT AND SHE’S TELLING HIM THESE THINGS ABOUT TRUE LOVE AND FAMILIES

AND FUCK ME IF KILLIAN JONES ISN’T COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY IN AWE OF THE WOMAN IN FRONT OF HIM. I AM OF THE OPINION THAT KILLIAN JONES THINKS THAT EMMA SWAN IS MAGIC AND HE IS BESOTTED WITH HER ANEW EVERY SECOND THAT HE LOOKS AT HER

AND THIS MOMENT AND EMMA’S VOWS AND OMFG JUST BECAUSE YOU LEARN THAT YOU COME FROM TRUE LOVE DOESN’T MEAN THAT YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU WILL FIND IT

AND YET HERE HE IS AND HERE SHE IS AND IT TOOK CENTURIES AND CURSES AND ADVENTURES THROUGH TIME AND REALMS AND FUCKING

NOW THEY STAND HERE AND SHE SMILES AT HIM THIS WAY 

AND HE SMILES BACK AND THEY HAVE PEOPLE WHO KNOW THEM YOU KNOW? ALL YOU EVER REALLY WANT IS FOR SOMEONE TO KNOW YOU, TO SEE YOU, TO KNOW YOUR STRENGTHS AND YOUR WEAKNESSES, YOUR FAILURES, YOUR SUCCESSES AND TO LOVE YOU ANYWAY. 

AND THEY HAVE THAT AND THEY’RE PROMISING TO NEVER LEAVE

AND GODDDDAMN EVERYTHING HELLLLP BECAUSE HONESTLY WHAT THE FUCK MY EMOTIONS ARE SO CRAZY RIGHT NOW I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO WITH MYSELF I LOVE THEM SO FUCKING MUCH

AND OK SHE’S PUTTING THE DAMN RING ON AND HE CAN’T STOP STARING AT HER. LIKE HE JUST KEEPS LOOKING AT HER AND SHE IS FUCKING STUNNING, I DON’T BLAME HIM

HANDSSS HANDS ARE THE REASON FOR MY BEING A PUDDLE ON THE FLOOR

HANDS AND THE WAY THEY’RE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER

AND THE WAY HE SAYS I DO, HIS EYES UNWAVERING FROM HERS

AND THE WAY SHE DOES THE FUCKING SAME *SLAMS KEYBOARD* WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS NONSENSE

LOOK AT THIS SMILE, IT WON’T FUCKING STOP LIKE OMFGGGGGG 

ARCHIE IS ME HERE. HE GETS ME. HE TOO IS MARVELLING AT THE PERFECTION THAT IS THE JOY OF CAPTAIN SWAN.

HUSBAND. AND. WIFE. THE. FUCK. WHAT. HOW. I. CANNOT. BELIEVE

THIS FUCKING PERFECTION I CANNOT DAMN BELIEVE DAMN FUCK

AND I THOUGHT I HAD DIED ENOUGH BUT NO, THERE WAS A FUCKING DIP, HIS HAND CLEAR FUCKING AROUND HER WAIST AND COMING BACK AROUND AND THEN FUCKING

YOU GOT YOUR HAPPY ENDING SWAN LIKE KILLIAN FUCKING JONES AND FUCKING EARRING

AND THEN OK, LEAVING ALONE THE DEVASTATING SMILES AND THE CONTENTMENT RADIATING OFF THEM

AND THE ARMS AROUND EACH OTHER AND THE FUCKING FUCKING EARRING

LEAVING ALONE ALL THIS, YOU HIT ME WITH A HAPPY BEGINNING?! THIS IS UNFAIR AND I AM IN TEARS AND I LOVE THEM SO FUCKING MUCH. I DON’T HAVE THE WORDS

*FALLS OVER*

someone gimme a hug pls

[extraneousdominomask]

AU where Sly, Bentley, Murray, Carmelita, Dimitri, Judy, Nick, Clawhauser, Bogo, Finnick, Neyla, Penelope, Gary, Larry, Fru Fru, Undyne, Papyrus, Toriel, O'Donnell, Scar, Tai Lung, Mrs. Wilde, Judy's heretofore unmentioned elder sister Victoria Hopps, and the team van are all in a polyamorous relationship.

god damn itmy mind’s telling me no but i can’t resist

[Interior. Living room. Carmelita, Nick and Judy are trying to do their paperwork under the watchful eye of Chief Bogo as Neyla files her claws and Bentley types at his computer and Penelope whacks her RC car with a wrench and Dimitri practices guitar (badly) and Murray fixes the van’s engine and Mrs Wilde and Toriel chat over tea and Undyne and Tai Lung spar as Papyrus hollers excitedly and Scar watches from the floor while Wolf O’Donnell cleans his gun next to Victoria reading a magazine with Fru-Fru on her shoulder reading along as Clawhauser plays on his phone and Finnick shuffles an old deck of cards and Gary and Larry, fuckin, play Mario Kart or something.][The door opens, just about, and in staggers Sly, almost completely obscured by a monstrous pile of shopping bags.]

Sly: Ugh... hfff... wurgh... [He lets the bags cascade off his shaking body.] Back. Hi.

Judy: Hiya!!

Carmelita: Hi, sweetie.

Nick: Hey.

Bentley: Good evening.

Murray: Hi, buddy!

Penelope: Heya!

Neyla: Mmh.

Dimitri: Salutations, brosciutto.

Toriel: Greetings!

Bogo: Hello.

Clawhauser: Hey there!

Finnick: Yo.

PAPYRUS: HOWDY-DOWDY!!!!

Undyne: Hiya, punk!

Gary: Hello Sly!!

Larry: Yeah, hi.

Wolf: Howdy, kid.

Fru-Fru: Hellooooo!

Tai Lung: Ah. Hello there.

Scar: Well, well! Slytunkhamen, good of you to join us.

Mrs Wilde: Hello, dear.

Judy’s-h-u-e-s-Victoria Hopps: Sup?

VAN: HONNNNNNK

Sly: Everybody had a good day, right? Crimes prevented, crimes committed, murders caused, murders avenged, delicious pies baked. Cool, great. Full disclosure: I am too exhausted to talk to all of you right now so I’m just gonna close my eyes and lean forward and I’d like very much for whoever catches me to just carry me to bed.

[Sly closes his eyes and leans forward and is caught by

the powerful arms of Wolf O’Donnell.]

Sly: Yeah, sure, you’ll do.

Wolf: owo

[gumdrop-crossings]

This was a wild ride. Also shout out to that flea that was on Julian the whole time. 

[purgatoryandme]

Berserk and Amon

Since :Re began (and even earlier, really), it feels like Ishida is making intentional references to the manga “Berserk” within Amon’s story arc. The most obvious evidence of all actually begins with Seidou... 

Now, this gross meat pile isn’t only a meat pile. It looks really similar to the Behelit from Berserk.

Though Ishida could’ve simply been going for a horror element here, the meat that Amon was originally given to eat had no faces. It was just a pile of human meat that was successfully presented as horrifying without further visual impact. Furthermore, the Crimson Behelit offers the chance for one of Berserk’s main characters to leave his humanity behind in exchange for his flesh, blood, and family...and Seidou changed after consuming the meat he was given (implied to be the meat of his family members). The Behelit is active when its eyes are open, too, so it seems like this reference was probably intentional.  Of course, just one reference isn’t enough to build a theory off of. Fortunately, there are more! The gross meat pile makes its return in the latest chapter...

Though it no longer has the characteristic egg-shape. It is however, something that haunts Amon. It also looks like something that haunts Guts, a character with a lot of eery similarities to Amon.

The disgusting demon baby that follows Guts and Caska around is representative of his trauma, his guilt, and his fears. It isn’t harmful by itself and, at times, is actually helpful. This is well in-line with what human meat represents to Amon. The demon baby is eventually consumed by a Behelit and is used to “change the world”, as per the wish of an (explicitly reference to be) empty man. Considering the context this image was brought up in, and keeping in mind Amon’s desire to change the world, it seems that this reference is intentional.  Still, more evidence is required before people can really start drawing parallels between Guts’ arc in Berserk and Amon’s in Tokyo Ghoul. Luckily for me, people have been speculating about their similarities for quite some time and so panels are easy to find. 

1.  Both characters wield a frankly ridiculously huge weapon that they inherited from a friend. The weapon requires a massive amount of strength to use and is unique to them. 

2.  They both lost an arm. 

3.  The Arata armour looks almost exactly like Guts’ armour. Both sets of armour are taxing for their user to operate, but were necessary to fight enemies much stronger than themselves.

4.  They both wind up having the aesthetic of a “Dark Knight”. As a “knight”, they wind up saving young girls who later return the favour and help bring them down from a monstrous take-over by their armour without killing them. 

(Amon rescues Saiko in full armour, ffs) 5. Suffered a massive betrayal at the hands of a father figure. Killed many people for said father-figure (as children!!!!) and developed an obsession with perpetuating this cycle. Also: both orphans.

6.  A cross to bear ie. Amon’s cross and Guts’ mark (both on their necks, both meant to never let them escape from their past, both with massive religious connotations) 

7.  Their whole look. The entire thing. Half-ghoul Amon looks so much like Guts.

There’s also the “near constant state of hatred towards a world they perceive as wrong” thing and the “fail to learn from their mistakes” thing and the “is basically no longer human” thing alongside the “awkward beautiful man who doesn’t know how to deal with women” thing.  TLDR: Guts and Amon share a lot of characteristics and this latest chapter brought it up again so I couldn’t help but make a compilation post.