Oh gosh, thank you so much! I’m so glad you enjoyed it 😀
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UGH THESE TRAIN REROUTES ARE KILLING ME IM ABOUT TO SCREAM I HATE THE FUCKING MTA UGHHHH
I FEEL YOUR PAIN.
I WAS ALMOST LATE TO WORK TODAY. Though that was less because of the reroute and more because there was just randomly 20+ minutes between trains.
(I’m just happy I remembered they’re going on on the way home, because sometimes I forget until I get where I normally transfer and then I have to go all the way back.)
BUT I HOPE YOU CAN GET EVERYWHERE YOU’RE GOING. And also that the mta gets it shit together.
I saw that bi michiru with Seiya and haruka too and I was just so confused like michiru is so gay
MICHIRU IS LITERALLY THE GAYEST. HOW DO PEOPLE MISS THAT. (jk i know how)
I think it was just a case of “eh, close enough” that just happened to unfortunately fall into standard bs.
Okay but honestly out of all the things I give a fuck about in Star Wars, bury me in Han and Chewie’s friendship.
This is like the ONE reason I might eventually watch the Han Solo movie. (I mean I love Han, but I love my very specific version of Han that I’m certain the movie won’t line up with.)
I’m a sucker for the sort of quiet constant friendships, and that Han and Chewie would follow each other anywhere is just, good shit. One of the many things that gets me emotional about TFA is that like, Chewie left everything behind when Han needed to leave. He cares about Leia, they’re family at this point, he cares about the resistance, but when Han leaves, he’s with him, because that’s how they love each other. They’re each the most important family the other has.
I’M CRYING YOUR PROMPT PARTY FIC IS SO AWESOME THE WHOLE BABY BEAR THING OH MY GOD I CAN’T I CAN’T IT’S SO GOOD also, the last lines of Haruka taking pictures and then crying of joy I FEEL YOU HARUKA
Awww, thank you so much! I was worried I overused the baby bear thing, but that’s how I tend to talk to babies, just taking an offhand comment and running with it. I’m glad it worked.
And I ALSO feel Haruka, I’m on such a baby kick right now.
Minako!
sexuality headcanon: Bi with a preference for women that grows after high school
gender headcanon: I see her as a cis girl, although with or without the disguise pen, I think she’d enjoy rare occasions of cross dressing (especially to prove she’s hot whatever gender people think she is)
a ship I have with said character: Rei/Minako. Also Ami/Minako, if I’m being honest.
a BROTP I have with said character: Haruka&Minako, obviously, and Mako&MIna. I like to think they all hang out together sometimes and Mina jokes that you have to be this tall to be her friend.
a NOTP I have with said character: Minako/Kunzite. I actually really like SilMil Venus/Kunzite as a tension that never gets acted on, since it makes a great divide between Venus and Serenity, but I don’t think it works in the present day
a random headcanon: Minako has about equal amounts of pride in and resentment of being a soldier, but sometimes the resentment wins out And as much as she hates herself for it, a lot of that resentment focuses on Usagi/Serenity. She loves Usagi, more than anything else in some ways, but sometimes she looks at their lives and bitterness curls up next to that love. In a lot of ways, she sees Usagi as getting to have it all. As Sailor Moon, she is the “star,” so to speak, of the senshi. She gets the most media attention, she’s the hero people focus on, the rest of them are slated as her sidekicks. As Usagi, she has the balance Minako never feels. Usagi feels the pain of fighting, she has that sacrifice, but the next morning she’s always the same old Usagi (on the surface, at least). Minako hasn’t been the same old Minako since she first touched her transformation pen. And as Serenity, she is the reason Minako has Venus inside her in the first place. And as much as Venus blames herself for the fall of the Silver Millennium, as much as she blames Endymion and QUeen Serenity and Beryl, there’s a part of her that blames her Princess. She put her love above everything else. And now, in a second life, she gets that love exactly how she wanted it, she gets assurance that it will last a thousand years, she gets it all with almost no consequences. Venus is the goddamn soldier of love, but she can never choose love the way Usagi/Serenity does.
Minako is grateful that the Outers never fully gell with the inner senshi, even after they become friends, because on days when it’s bad she can drag Haruka to a bar and know she won’t have to hear about Usagi at all for a few hours.
general opinion about said character: I don’t always count her as one of my favorite characters, because my love for Mako and Haruka kind of steamrolls over everything else, but if I think about her for more than two seconds, I love her just as much as them.
Just read your entry for “The memory of you emerges from the night around me” and, oh my, I don’t even have words to respond with to reflect all of the feelings that it evoked. Very nicely done. Also, to answer your tag question, I didn’t think the way the little vignettes were ordered made it hard to follow (It just made things more painful – which I think meant it worked?).
Aw, thank you so much!
♥
And thanks for letting me know, too, I haven’t done flashbacks much before and was worried I’d make a mess of it. 🙂
Here’s a good one: Which of your SM/HP house things do you think goes AGAINST the grain?
That IS a good one.
I think my big one is I don’t personally go with Pluto/Setsuna being a Ravenclaw, which I see a lot. She’s smart, definitely, and has such a vast store of knowledge, but I don’t know that she’d really value knowledge for knowledge’s sake the way ‘claws do. I think for me it comes down between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor, because her loyalty and duty and love are the most central things to her, and Gryffindor edges ahead.
The few Ravenclaws in HP canon came off as pretty cerebrally-orientated, and I see Setsuna as being led a lot more by her heart. She could watch the Silver Millenium burn not because there’s calculated thought behind doing so or anything, but because guarding the time gate is the one thing she can do, her last act of love for her queen and the rest of her people. And then, in every canon, which she gets a chance to do more, she loves enough and is brave enough to lay down her life.
So to me, Setsuna’s pretty firmly a Gryffindor.
And the babies, Hotaru x Chibiusa
THE BABY OTP
They’re just so good for one another. Besides Chibiusa being one of Hotaru’s first friends and visa versa, Chibiusa basically goes full Michiru and chooses Hotaru’s life over the world (thinking specifically of the Nehelenia arc). She’s less self aware than Michiru and far less calculating. And Hotaru needs Chibs to do this so much. Again and again Hotaru’s life is posed as disposable— first because she is Saturn, then because Haruka and Michiru get desparate against Galaxia. She needs to hear Chibusa say no, don’t sacrifice your life even though it would save everyone. And Chibs basically dies for that choice. She dies for her love for Hotaru. And that’s beautiful as friendship, but it’s also beautiful as innocent romantic love. It would be really easy, I think, for them to grow up loving each other, and have it evolve into a lifetime partnership. They trust each other so much, and have so many reasons to trust each other. Add in that their personalities compliment each other and that they’re shown again and again to make each other so so happy, and I really think that they’d overcome all time shenanigans and monstrous obstacles to have a long, loving relationship.
Michiru x Rei, for the meme!
BroTP to the moon and back. I think they’d actually have a prickly go of it sometimes, and that makes me really interested in their dynamic. I think post-series, they’d want to explore their connection more, because they have a profound respect and admiration for each other already, but they’d have a hard time getting in past the exteriors they both cultivate. Rei already feels like she’s lost her cool so much in front of Michiru, and I think Michiru has a fear she’d never acknowledge that if she lets her guard down around Rei, Rei will realize there’s nothing worth admiring in her. Rei would have to be the one to really pursue things, and to her credit, I think she would. She loves the Inners dearly, but she recognizes there are parts of her that Michiru might be able to understand that the others can’t. I see their class backgrounds as being similar, and while I think Rei’s relationship with her father and Michiru’s with her parents went wrong for different reasons, I think also that their feelings would be similar enough that they’d find solace in one another, even if they never directly talk about it.
Deep friendship would take a while for them, and it comes down to Rei having the courage to be vulnerable first. Rei has to show Michiru that she’s good enough to not play the same games as everyone else. And once that happens, I think she’s one of the few people in the world besides Haruka that Michiru’s ever truly open with.
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