#and secrets

okay, changing the character bio and bit cause I did lowkey struggle since I was fighting to maker sure I didn't put any spoilers lol so ignore the top one and read the shit I'm putting here.

Alexiss (16) has ben hardened and broken down by a life of trying to survive on the streets hiding from the law of the Enlightned with nothing left from his parents but his name and his gremlin of a little sister.

Alexiss can be seen as cold, protective and closed off by most, his walls almost never truly come down for too long. A notoriously cunning thief to his few friends, he never risks toying or getting in the way of the law because people like him would never be shown mercy and he would die before putting his sister -and his secret- at risk.

I have more and i did my boy dirty with that description (I will improve at writing these, trust) but I'm really trying not to drop toooooo much and stuff but pls ask me in da ask box so I can clear it up and hopefully rewrite this since I hate both the descriptions I wrote. I'll remake this in color or drop his color pallet if yall want and ask me about this, so yeah. K bai<3

For those who don't know, I am reading The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish for the first time and sharing my thoughts!

If you have not read it, there will be spoilers! Consider this a warning.

Also- if you want to follow along, I am aiming to post updates daily. You can find all the posts in the tag Bloopitynoot reads DTBPF. You can also check out the intro post for context on my read BUT if you followed along with my SVSSS read or my TGCF read, the rules and vibe are the same.

God I am so excited for when my schedule is normal again. The highs and lows are far too much for me!

Fish time, was honestly the best time of the day today :'3

No tea because I really need to get more decaffeinated teas- so water tonight!

Let's go chapter 83!

“When the sun dips low over the horizon, all secrets will be revealed. When the sun rises anew in the morning, all lies will fall to ash under the truth-telling day.”

Slate 12 (All-Consuming Truths), Lines 2-3, The Veriquestiona.

Dan shook his head, “I don’t think you know her, but you might have seen her around. Her name is Georgia. We’ve known each other for quite some time since we have had classes together since we started university. I always sort of liked her, but it only evolved into more recently. She had a boyfriend, and I had Sadie on my mind, but now that we’re both available, we sort of automatically navigated towards each other."

"But we’re not rushing into things because we want this to work out. Which is why I hadn’t told anyone about her yet.”

James gave Dan a meaningful look, “Are you now just using a lot of words to say you haven’t slept with her yet?”

Dan turned away, “Oh, shut up.”

“So you are,” James said with a smug grin.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25641607/chapters/62247808

If you don’t wanna that’s okay!

That was a good idea, too bad, nobody ever asks for Riz. Hope things get better for you my gangster.

Chapitre 161 - Smiling Wizardy

The splash text reads “The fates of two worlds ... by the two boys”. 

In which we have Watanuki and Lava Lamp and their MYSTERY CONNECTION taking the sole focus. CLAMP keep dropping hints about these two but without any connecting details that are concrete enough to properly play with, but you better believe the Sakura tree is significant in some way. Am I hoping the connection is more to do with Sakura (who they’ve both met now) than Literally Anyone (who has already technically killed a Syaoran in a Sakura tree already)? YOU BET. Am I certain? NOT AT ALL. 

But that aside, the image presents them almost as two sides of the same coin; two halves of the same image, just as xxxholic and Tsubasa are two halves of the same interconnected story. They get one diagonal half of the image each but they don’t visually overlap with each other - just as they don’t overlap in either manga yet. They haven’t properly met on screen, though their connection is deep enough for Lava Lamp to heavily contribute to Watanuki’s survival and be consistently worried about his well being. He KNOWS things, and here we see him deeply concerned and looking down out of frame. There is a plethora of terrible things he’s dealing with, and really, he’s young enough that it’s a tragedy from start to finish. 

By contrast Watanuki is (perhaps intentionally) ignorant of all these things, and so looks skyward with a more gentle awareness. He could be seeing something (as he has that power) but it’s not as concrete as the truths Lava Lamp is plagued with. He hasn’t figured it out yet, so he’s still visibly calm and much more relaxed than the cramped hand posture Lava Lamp has. I suspect memory shenanigans, but then again maybe it’s also something to do with his “not quite existing” status. Who knows where he came from, or which timeline, or why he ended up here.