Tokyo Babylon reread: Box

#TokyoBabylon 7 Box
Karaoke time 🎤

I just like this

Not that anyone doubts it, but these two WOULD kill it at karaoke

Hokuto, calling out Seishirou’s bullshit ❤️

This is what like to call “a loaded conversation”

Again, just compositions I love

Oh, my sweet summer child

“Not by chance” he said 😂

More stunning artwork 🙌🏽

Beware people that smoke Mild Seven 👀

He is so pretty 🥺

“Next time around” just kills me

😍

The one where Sakura gets sick

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In which it rains and Sakura gets sick

Touya INMEDIATELY knows something is wrong when Sakura doesn’t get mad at his teasing 🥺

I love them so much 🥺

Ok, lighthearted Fujitaka isn’t home shennanigans are out of place this episode, but he’ll be gone over a WEEK? And Yukito isn’t coming over this very night and staying until then? WTF?

This episode does such a good job of making you feel the dreariness of a relentless downpour that just does not end.

/Gotye plays in the background

YOU GO TOUYA

But I love these siblings

Touya is so amazing

BUT GUESS WHO’S HERE NOW AND IT’S ALL BETTER

STOP MAKING YUKITO DRAG THINGS OUT OF YOU WITH A SPOON, TOUYA. GOD.

(I really prefer this whole thing in the manga)

Touya, you are so fucking lucky that your boyfriend knows you like the palm of his hand and is not even a little teensy bit jealous. Now stop it and kiss him.

Yukito is too precious and understanding and too good for this world. I love him.

This whole situation cracks me up

#TouyaKnows

Since I assume Touya doesn’t wear eyeliner, the only logical conclusion is he has the thickest eyelashes ever.

Yukito probably stays up at night thinking about Touya’s eyelashes.

TOUYA IS TALLER THAN HIS FATHER

He really has no secrets from his dad, does he?

Yeah, ok, and Fujitaka is leaving again the next night.
Can we have cute Touya/Yuki sleepovers now?

Strawberries

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STRAWBERRY EPISODE 🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓

(I actually have no idea what happens, I just remember I liked it and Touya/Yuki stuff happened)

Yamazaki time 🤣❤️

How providential!

(And Yukito just “tags along” on Touya’s part time jobs now)

Best boyfriends ❤️

“Enough playing with the children, let’s go make out behind that shed”

Aww, having their break together

Thing is, in the manga, Touya told Yuki about Kaho right after she showed up (we see Yukito thanking him Touya for telling him). Here, it’s been over half a year. So yeah, Touya doing the not communicating thing. Although he does say he’ll tell Yukito soon, so there’s that.

I do prefer the manga, though, I like Touya being open with Yukito, especially about difficult subjects.

Worried older brother!

❤️

Right. THIS is why I like this episode so much.

WHAT WERE YOU GOING TO SAY, TOUYA???!
I love this, right down to the pregnant pause. ❤️

So obviously as a shipper I know what I want it to be. As a logical person, either he IS going to talk about the Kaho thing (also significant moment of opening up), OR he’s already trying to tell Yukito what he knows about him.

It’s probably too soon for the last one, though? And maybe he was going to talk about Kaho, and he hadn’t before because he wasn’t ready to follow through on what she’d said, and how he’s in love with Yukito now, but he wanted to, now, and then chickened out.

Or maybe, alternate interpretation to conventional wisdom that I subscribe to aside, they ARE together, and he WAS just trying to tell Yukito what he knew. And then all the tension inthe Sakura Card arc is for nothing, as far as “NOW KISS”, because they already do. 🤡

Aziraphale and Crowley, toasting at the Ritz.

Good Omens fic recs

In the past year I’ve maybe read two or three books, because I’ve been too busy reading Good Omens fanfiction. This is what I’m reading this week.

Also, this may become a regular thing. It will always be Ineffable Husbands, because this is one case where it really is a “One True Pairing”.

The Grindr Logo Doesn’t Even Have a ‘G’ In It

By indieninja92. Ongoing, author says it’s all written.

Post-canon. Things have progressed but not enough. Crowley got Aziraphale a smartphone two years before and loaded it with apps. Aziraphale is now on Grindr, and starts sexting with a mysterious stranger, who is of course Crowley. Neither realize who they’re texting with.

My favorite thing about this is the scenes when Crowley and Aziraphale hang out during the day (and which leave both with an itch to scratch at night).

The Demons Have the Phonebox

By theplatinthehat.

The Doctor has disappeared in the Tardis. Aziraphale has disappeared from the bookshop. Crowley and Donna Noble team up to find them. Donna is absolutely magnificent.

Single-Use Lives

By hanap / @ineffableomens. Ongoing, updates on Monday. Just started.

AU. Crowley and Aziraphale misinterpret Agnes Nutter’s prophecy and are turned human but lose their memories. They keep living the same days, but in completely different lives and always find each other. I think it’s a glitch and not the intended punishment.

Anyway, I love timey wimey shenanigans!

Rand, Min and Semirage

Expectation and dread, or “The Wheel of Time” is going to be a tv series

So The Wheel of Time is going to be a TV series.

There is no other story that I have as much history with. I started reading it over 25 years ago, when I was 13. It was my Harry Potter. I read it through all of high school and university and then, like many people, I took an extended break at around book 9, before coming back two years ago, rereading the whole thing, and going on to finish it. More than that, The Wheel of Time was my introduction to online fandom, back at the old WoTism boards. In a way, I might not be quite who or what I am today if not for The Wheel of Time.

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So, just to set things up

…because it’s been A LONG time since I’ve kept a blog.

Current series I’m watching actively right now:

  • The 100: I am completely obsessed with this. I am also a bit behind the currently airing episodes, although I do know about that huge SPOILER that was all over the internet while ago (you might say it was all the talk about the show because of it that sparked my interest). I think the first two seasons were absolutely amazing.
  • Legends of Tomorrow: love the dysfunctional dynamics, and how basically it’s a show about the many ways the ragtag team of would-be heroes find to fuck up whatever mission they’re on. Leonard Snart is the absolute best part of it, but let’s not undersell the awesomeness of SpyDaddy as Martin Stein. Surprisingly, given my love for Rory Pond, I often want to punch Rip Hunter in the face.
  • Nashville: surprising, for me, but I kind of really enjoy it.
  • The Good Wife: have followed it for years, now I’m along for its swan song.
  • Survivor and The Amazing Race: because I have for years.
  • I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to watch this season of Game of Thrones. A particular plot point in last night’s premiere made me want to flip a table.
  • Silicon Valley: because it’s hilarious. Also, Aviato.
  • I am also rewatching and introducing some friends to The Genius. Which is better than Survivor. And Sangmin is GOD.