#title meta

[floralmotif]

Stuck in the middle with “You”

*Takes her glasses off and rubs her eyes* Sweet muffins, I’ve been busy recently.

Before I start here, know that I’m still destiel positive. I still think the reading of Cas’ “I love you” as romantic is intended and valid. However, I also think the platonic reading is intended. I think they’re still trying to play both sides. That doesn’t mean I think they’ll do that forever though. I can see the signs of shore here. Seagulls and sandbars. It feels like a matter of time before we reach land but I can’t know of course.

The title of 12.12 can be read as a cheeky acknowledgement of this.

“Stuck in the middle” as in “between things”, an ambiguous phrasing in itself since it doesn’t specify where the things are or what they’re between on its own. The (With you) implies another party of either a person or persons. Again ambiguous and where they are in relation to being stuck is also ambiguous but the acknowledgement of some other party involved is drawn attention to.

The phrasing makes it sound like either someone is stuck in the middle of a group of people or between a two entities or they’re relationship with someone is “stuck in the middle” and ambiguous.  Dean and Cas are stuck in the middle of the interpretation of their relationship between familial and romantic, between singular and plural with the meaning of “you”... at least in general English. But not just that... to me it sounds like they’re drawing attention to the nature of the ambiguity of the phrasing in the episode and how their relationship is handled textually. The episode/writing is stuck in the middle with how to interpret the word “you”. I’ll flail at more unambiguously positive things later. There are definitely plenty of things to flail at.

[partialtothedoomed]

random Civil War thought

I've read several pieces of meta on Civil War the movie that say it's more Avengers 2.5 than Captain America. Which is certainly a point, because it's much more of an ensemble piece than just focused on Steve Rogers (to its credit as far as I'm concerned). But really considering T'Challa, Zemo, and Tony through the movie, it should logically have been titled The Revengers.

[cupidford]

Oh my god the titles!!! You know when Sherlock climbs up Magnessun's office stairs it directly cuts to John and it's all in pink. It's lovely because Sherlock had to climb up the stair case of his mind palace to reach John oh my god even the titles are meta I love this show

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[chinekousa]

seems the title is 手 as in te = hand. But it seems rehand is not a word, so

Rite = another word for ritual [source]

Rete =  An interwoven network of nerves, blood vessels or passageways. [source]

Pick your choice or add more or correct me if I made a mistake (again).

[chinekousa]

It seems the original title for chapter 49 is 「パルス」 as in pulse.

Of course, a repulse. Fitting

Edit: Please see this correction by Michi. The actual title is  脈打つ信号 (myakuutsu shingou)

[chinekousa]

Chapter 48 Title 「N.T.」

1. Probably read as “enu-ti” as in the normal English way of reading. Add “re-” and read it fast, sounds like “reunity”. At least it is for me. But wait, reunity is not an actual word. The correct word for re-unity is reunite even though some people keep using the word “reunity” as in “Re-Unity” (to make an unity again).

2. There’s this old storage device named “NT Cassette”. First introduced by Sony in 1992, sometimes marketed as “Scoopman”.  It’s already out of market today, but ja.wiki write that this thing manage to survive the market until 1999 and finally went out of production in 2011. It was also said to be the first tape to be mass-produced. The thing is, it seems NT Cassette is also called “NT Tape” in Japan (officially Digital Micro Cassette). If NT actually refer to this, then it could be “retape” as in the act to re-record something with a tape (equivalent to “retake” a scene) or re-applying a tape. While my auto-correct still not agreeing with the word, as far as I know retape is more commonly used than reunity.

3. One of the interesting thing is, the term of “New Testament” come out while I’m searching about NT. We all know that Eto like to talk about Old Testament.

4. Other NT that has nothing to do but may add to reference. New Type from Gundam, which is also an anime monthly magazine title. Windows NT. People who can’t deal with news. Nice Try. NT Cutter (a brand of Cutter from Japan).

Source: [dic.nicovideo] [en.wiki] [ja.wiki] [en.wikitionary]

Please do add more. I’m lost.

[chinekousa]

Chapter 46 Title 「°C」

As in “degree Celsius”. Degree is read as “do” in Japanese, so the first part is almost clearly refer to “redo”.

Celsius sometimes read “Sesshi” (摂氏) or “Seshi” (セ氏) instead of simply “Celsius”. The “shi” part is usually used as honorific for stranger in a more formal way than -san.

Tbh I don’t have any clue on how the Celcius part can fit with the “add title with re-”, but the degree part is pretty much “redo”

Feel free to add or correct.

[chinekousa]

Chapter 45 Title 「計画t」

Read as “Keikaku t” translated as “Plan t”. It won’t mean anything even if added with :re by itself, but when translated it will become “Replant”