Chasing Catharsis

This romione sketch is a loveletter to everything I've been missing since trying out a new painterly style: dark lines, my pale pink overlay highlights, and scratchy details

sliding the metal cover on floppy disks

the slight resistance of inserting cassette and video tapes

ripping off the strips of holed paper off of dot matrix printer paper 

Unkinking the curly cord of a telephone while you talked

The -peww sound and slowly fading image of a crt monitor turning off, and then running your finger through the static on the dusty glass

The crunch of opening or closing a plastic Disney vhs cover

The sound effects in kidpix

COMING SOON TO OWN ON VID- jfc where’s the volume button?!?!

Screwing around with the degauss button to make the screen go all wiggly

ahhh thank you so much, anon!

i will ride out to war for romione without the slightest provocation at all, so actually having an excuse to talk about them is delightful.

my top romione moment will - of course - always be...

ron using the sight of her empty chair to convince him to face aragog

But Lockhart’s disgusting cheeriness, his hints that he had always thought Hagrid was no good, his confidence that the whole business was now at an end, irritated Harry so much that he yearned to throw Gadding with Ghouls right in Lockhart’s stupid face. Instead he contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let’s do it tonight. Ron read the message, swallowed hard, and looked sideways at the empty seat usually filled by Hermione. The sight seemed to stiffen his resolve, and he nodded.

i just love this! he's facing his greatest fear for her!

It’s mother has most likely used the fake deer as cover for the fawn to sleep near. I’ve personally witnessed a doe direct a fawn to lay in a patch of tall weeds and go lay on a hill where she could see me and the tall patch of weeds. That’s what they do, find something bigger than the fawn to sleep near so they’re hidden while they sleep.

Harry hesitated, but after all, Ron had been honest with him, so he told Ron the truth…

him: I really hate-

me, shoving breadsticks into my purse: uh sorry I gotta blast something urgent just came up-

him: the movies’ inaccurate depiction of him as a lazy, untalented jerk who’s sole purpose is to serve as cheap comic relief

roonil wazlib and roonil wazlib 

(Requested by @ii-thiscat-ii, who wanted a breakdown of the quote from Roger on this page.)

Oh, this is a FUN one to break down. The first bit is pretty simple- これらは止めることのできないものだ/korera wa tomerukoto no dekinai mono da pretty straightforwardly means “These are things that cannot be stopped.”

Then there’s the three things he lists, which, in Japanese at least, all have pretty direct reference to events in the story. The first is 受け継がれる意志/uketsugareru ishi. Uketsugareru is ‘to be inherited’ and 意志/ishi is ‘will’- and that’s the same word as used when mentioning the Will of D (Dの意志/D no ishi). 

Then the second item, 人の夢/hito no yume, means ‘the dreams of people’ or ‘people’s dreams,’ and is the exact same phrasing used by Blackbeard when he meets Luffy at Jaya and says 人の夢は終わらない/hito no yume wa owaranai (’people’s dreams are unending’). 

The third thing is 時代のうねり/jidai no uneri. Jidai is ‘age’ or ‘era,’ and it shows up allll over the place in One Piece- the story is set in the 大海賊時代/daikaizoku jidai, the Great Pirate Age, and both Whitebeard and Blackbeard talk about it at Marineford. And uneri means like ‘meandering’ or ‘undulation.’ I like ‘ebb and flow’ as a translation of this word, actually, but I feel like here specifically something like ‘winding progress’ would be better, since it gives clearer vibes of forward movement/progress.

Next is 人が自由の答えを求める限り/hito ga jiyuu no kotae wo motomeru kagiri. Kagiri means ‘limit,’ and here is like ‘so long as/until…’ Motomeru here is ‘to wish for’ or ‘to seek,’ and jiyuu no kotae is like… “freedom’s answer/response”? It’s a bit weird in English so I think it’s probably fine to just translate that part as ‘freedom,’ but the inclusion of 答え/kotae (’answer’) in the Japanese does call forward a bit to something Dragon himself says later in this chapter, about the world awaiting their answer. 

And then it ends with それらは決して止まらない/sorera wa kesshite tomaranai, which is… not translated well here. Tomaru is ‘to stop’ and kesshite is like ‘never/by no means,’ so it should be “These things will never stop.”