‘It’s like the crowning of the world. It’s insane. Very disco. You’d love it.’
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"They painted the world full of shadows and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their lights. Their reasons, their judgements, because in the darkness there be dragons. But it isn’t true. In the dark there are discoveries, there are possibilities, there is freedom in the dark, once someone has illuminated it." --Captain Flint, Black Sails, 2014-2017
i see sayeon “punch me in the face! ah, this feels much better, it distracts from the pain in my chest” lee is roping everyone around her in on calling her by a name linked to one of the most traumatic and guilt/shame-inducing events in her life. Which Could Mean Nothing
I live by the motto, “if you can’t buy what you want, make it.” And this motto came to life recently in the form of a floral mosaic dining table for my back deck.
Our deck table had been showing its age already when the wind caught the umbrella and cracked it. I wanted to replace it with a mosaic table because I’d been enjoying that art form recently. But I couldn’t get one the size I wanted so I got creative.
I spent a few weeks looking for tile and figuring out a very loose design concept. I started by picking a limited set of tile shapes and a color palette.
Once the tiles arrived I had a piece of particle board cut to size for the base and I experimented with different motifs until I settled on a selection of floral shapes that gave me plenty of variety to fill space without locking me into one repeating pattern.
And then I was off! I basically doodled my way around the table, attaching tiles with Weld Bond (I went through 4 full bottles!) and rocking out to the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack.
Once the florals were done it was time for the background…
Over 3,800 1cm glass tiles make up the not-design part of the design. It went pretty quickly though because I just had to fill the space, leaving room for grout.
Once I had the tile done, my husband assisted with disassembly and reassembly. We used the legs off the original table for this one (waste not).
One huge bucket of black grout later…
She is finished.
I enjoyed making it and just looking at it makes me so happy - I can’t wait for all the dinners we’ll have around this table 🌼❤️
the impression i get is that while ryujin is horribly traumatised by her family’s death and carries a lot of guilt and self-blame, she’s aware on some level that the self-blame is unfair, that the whole incident was unfair, that she was a well-meaning child who couldn’t have known how things would turn out and that things would not have turned out that way if other people and systems were less cruel. of course, this doesn’t stop her from feeling the guilt, but i think she has both the guilt and the feeling of unfairness inside her and was offering both up to sayeon, couched in a half-joke, maybe seeking some commiseration and reassurance that yeah, actually, it’s the world that sucks, not you - not just you. which makes it all the more morbidly hilarious when sayeon’s response is [dead serious] Yupppp thats right you’re unforgivable 👍. Yuppp you will never be redeemed 🙂↕️😃
ryujin: haha i was so horrible when i was a lonely naïve child who chose kindness over guardedness just once huh? haha i.m a muderer for being a well-meaning kid right. right
all the responses i got to this were magical girl anime, shounen that have a 10:1 ratio of men to women instead of 50:1, and media that wasn’t even remotely shounen anime.
the only thing that comes close to what i described is hand jumper. please just read hand jumper. it’s shounen but with women but better.
we got mc burnout gifted schoolgirl whose god complex would give light yagami a run for his money. we got spunky butch gangsters with hearts of gold. we got evil scheming femmes in suits. we got pathetic loser girls in every flavor imaginable. and they all beat each other up violently all the time. the visuals are gorgeous and they’re drawn by this incredible talented gay ass artist so the toxic yuri undertones are 100% intentional. please. please read hamd jumper
