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Since I know I'm going to need this for myself as well, here's a Masterpost of different things for Lost in Translation.
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The prefect was lucky not to end up propelled into the air...
Another meme dump (remember to salute our troops this finals season)
Caaaateeerrhrufu hghshhahahhsshshhsh
(We'll start with Yuuta in the bottom left and go clockwise. Click on the image for better detail bc Tumblr image compression.)
Yuuta, the sweet summer child that he is, is absolutely delighted to be hosting a gift exchange. The box of homemade macaroons from Frederic was already perfect (and delicious) but the adorably goofy shrimp keychain was just the cherry on top.
For his part, Frederic has ascended in pure joy. While it might be a tad stereotypical to give an entire wheel of cheese and a few baguettes to a French person, Yumimi's gifting instincts seem to be spot on. She has easily shot to the top of the list of Frederic's favorite people at NRC.
Yair is just plain cozy. You can never go wrong with a handmade scarf, especially one with such a cute little design on it. Its a bit nostalgic actually. Yuu(pawn) is surprisingly good at knitting such tiny details.
No one is sure who may or may not have been the one to sneak in a few cat toys just to mess with Grim, but Yair certainly has no problem using one.
Yuu(pawn) is just vibing. The super squishy teddy bear from Yair was a nice surprise and Yumimi sharing her gift was an even nicer one. Honestly, they're just glad to have a chance to relax and breathe before they get swamped in the inevitable chaos of NRC again.
Yumimi is also just vibing. A box of assorted gift chocolates with flavors from various different countries in Twisted Wonderland was a surprisingly considerate gift from Yuu(snow). It is quite a lot of chocolate though, so she's happy to share some with Yuu(pawn) and is saving some for a certain green-haired croc boi.
Yuu(snow) is....sliiiiiightly concerned about Obi's mental health. Giving a bottle of blot is certainly an, uh, unique gift and one that's rare/difficult to get, but is also just a teensy bit alarming. They're...not exactly sure what they're supposed to do with this, but they'll find a use for it somehow? Is someone whispering something?
Obi is absolutely jazzed to be here. No contest, happiest he's ever been. Yuuta was nice enough to offer a homemade Japanese meal, treating the food prep like Gordan Ramsey himself was judging, and Obi jumped on that opportunity as fast as possible. Seriously, can Yuuta make Obi's meals from now on? Please??
Genuinely thought I already uploaded this one ages ago, whoops! So...uh...here you go, I guess? For the final(?) body-swap, I decided that the staff get to join the fun this time around! Except Crowley. No fun for him. Birdman must suffer.
so uh i have no excuse for this i just
listen i just
@broken-synchronicity posted a lil preview of the costume Kal will be wearing for the Halloween arc and i just kind of went a little feral??? because the image in my head just WOULD NOT LEAVE until it was on paper so a hour later had an extremely scribbley costume idea with barely legible notes???
Aaaaaanyway i cleaned it up and added some color so here
just
just take this nonsense
i need sleep
Once again I have woken up to BEING GIFTED BEAUTIFUL ART I'M FUCKING CRYINGGGGGG
SEMPAAAAAIIIII I LOVE YOOOOOOUUUUUUU I DON'T DESERVE YOUUUUUUUU
what the fuck did I just download
Context: I downloaded what's called simply "Encyclopedia of Religion" by Lindsay Jones because I found some articles online and they seemed well written in the style I like. I was like, okay, it must be one of those thick reference books, like, 500 pages long.
No. Apparently it's a 15-volume masterwork made by what I think are a hundred experts covering everything from Muslim Sufism to the Hindu Vedas to Slavic gods to the beliefs of the peoples of the Chaco to recent Afro-American religious movments to the structure of the papacy to Selkam religion and back. There are even individual articles on animals like bears and cats. It's honestly scary.
God must be in there, somewhere.
Bro just the preface + list of contents + list of contributors is 100 pages. I still haven't reached the index.
There's a Japanese dude who wrote articles about foxes, toads and frogs, hedgehogs, cocks (direct quote..). There's also articles about.., just reading titles: scholasticism, a lot of Muslim terms I'm not familiar with, theriantropism, that weird Japanese cult who did those sarin attacks, ancient canaaite religion, humor and islam, Jenovah's Witnesses, Gender in Celtic religions, an overview of prehistoric religion, and a lot of things I have never heard about. This is all from different collaborators listed on the same page.
This is just the table of contents. The encyclopedia starts in page 152.
This is scary. Did God write this.
If you want a link, you can find it on Anna's Archive by searching Encyclopedia of Religion, apparently by the Macmillan Library Reference.
It's 170mbs. I am not responsible if your PC crashes.
The thing is that every single article, even if it's half a page short (and they're all well written) has annotated bibliography and primary sources on it. You could seriously get lost forever here.
⭐️star⭐️
(From here)
OK SO
On Kal's multiple confrontations with Riddle:
I have been saving this since last year. Happy Earth Day everyone.
literally has been in my queue for an entire year. you just can’t miss reblogging.
gotta queue this for next year too
Hi Broken_Synchronicity
Remember Yuu the scientific phenomenon? Well, I haven't made any progress on the next chapter because I don't know how to continue the plot. I'm admitting this now because I've realized it's been over a year since the last chapter. I really want to finish it, but I still need to figure it out. I just thought you deserved to know.
Hey! That's perfectly fine, it's your fic after all and sometimes these things happen and we end up not being able to finish a fic. Lord knows I haven't finished a long fic... ever. So there's no shame in saying you just can't continue for one reason or another. I'm just glad that that whole mess had inspired you at all! Maybe one day you can go back to it, but the fact you tried at all is pretty incredible!
And you can always pop in just to theory craft and drop funny ideas and such at any time! I'm always up to talk about whatever even if it might take me a bit to reply
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