Latest Posts by teaandgemstones - Page 2

The beautiful arch, another amazing B-Dubs build. Can't wait for the whole thing to be done so I can marvel at his architecture

(bad british accent) please sir he only needs twenty double chests of diorite

funny headcanon: since humans are hard-wired to be afraid of large cats, of the misfit class, Iruma was afraid of Allocer for the longest

Trying to get back into drawing backgrounds

YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! BALAM ARC LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I was talking computer and mic setups with one of my friends which led us to the hermits' weird playstyle animatic and then an hour later I had made this :3

Happy March 8th to Queen Jellie <3

I could fix so many lives by having people that complain about “manga” (but they are actually complaining about shonen) and “anime” (but they are actually complaining about shonen) and “Japan” (their sole exposure to the culture of the country is shonen) listen to me and read some good Anything Other Than Shonen Instead, such as Seinen, Josei, or Anything That’s Not Shonen.

MaoMao’s small smile when she thinks how Jinshi’s “childish tendencies” come out more around her and that’s part of his true personality, her noticing his nervous tic and how he’s trying to hide it, tell me she’s paying more attention to him without telling me she’s paying more attention to him ☺️

Bee and Puppycat + Night 🌃🩵

rewatched lazy in space recently

Bee + her hairstyles 🎀⭐️

The Main six Baldur's Gate Companions

There Are No Children Here

The Glass Castle

I straight up do not trust you if you did not enjoy a single book you had to read for English class. I know they assigned some real stuffy stinkers and the curriculum varies across districts but not one? Not The Outsiders? Not The Picture of Dorian Gray? Not Fahrenheit 451? Not even Frankenstein? Damn. That’s crazy.

It’s incredibly important to me that the anime decided to include this scene that wasn’t in the manga. In the manga, Maomao does pass out in Jinshi’s lap after saving him from what was obviously an assassination attempt.

HOWEVER, the manga cuts off at this point, keeping strictly in Maomao’s perspective, and cuts straight to when she regains consciousness in bed after being treated for her injuries. The manga doesn’t show how she got back. They SAY how, and she briefly mentions, “wow that must have been embarrassing; he carried me back,” but we don’t SEE it. We don’t get to feel the true impact of what that means. But the anime DID show us, and holy shit.

They SHOW us how taboo this is. They show Jinshi carrying her out of the temple, after a public attempt on his life.

They show us the shock and horror on Lakan’s face as Jinshi silently walks past him. Horror at the state his daughter is in, horror at another man—a man with a status he could never dare to question—staking such a public claim over his child, horror at the fact that he could never have this level of closeness with her (as Maomao would never allow it).

Everyone hides their gazes, as is their custom when someone of his rank passes by, but the air is different this time. Jinshi is furious, he’s terrified, and he could not give a single shit about how inappropriate it looks to these palace officials.

The shot that slowly follows her trail of blood—even though it’s a small detail—that in particular leaves such a intense impression of how poignant this is for him.

Maomao talked about this scene in the manga like it was nothing to her. She did what she set out to do: she saved the person who was targeted by the attack. She didn’t even know the target would be someone she knew. But she has no idea that this happened afterwards as a result of her bravery. To her, it likely wasn’t even an act of bravery at all. She acted on impulse; she did what she knew was the right thing to do.

The anime didn’t need to include this, because the manga didn’t show it. But damn, I’m so glad they did.