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Are you sure about that?

Are you sure you’re sure?

(I imagine it’s probably concept art for a design they decided not to go with. Alas, bc as y’all probably know by now I love long hair, but oh well. I was so fucking psyched when her hair came back with the transformation, oh my god)

oh my god, headcanon accepted

...or, if we want to get really depressing up in here, they’re her mother’s clothes that were left to her when she died

oof. I’m not surprised that happened but genuinely surprised it was animated, given that unless I’m really missing something there was no blood at all in the series. Even full on impalement didn’t draw a drop.

Oh, neat, I didn’t know there was a manga version of the movie! And yeah, people have told me both sides of the story re: Saito’s work and statements, so I’m probably going to read the manga but not blog it? I might make a big text post with My Thoughts afterwards or something but no promises.

...hmm. The only one of these that I see is that Anthy’s bindi is more noticeable in the movie. I’ve been clicking back and forth between series and movie screencaps of the same characters, and the only difference I can really see is that Utena’s sometimes a little pinker in the series? But that much seems to depend a lot on lighting, and on the overall palette of the movie. All these characters came off definitely Japanese to me in the series, though admittedly that’s affected by them all having very Japanese names. I’m also curious about the lighter skin tone being “more stereotypically Indian” to you-- I’m curious where you’re from, anon! I’m from California in the US, and if I were to try to imagine a Stereotypical Indian Person I would imagine a skin tone closer to series!Anthy’s, probably.

I am not the be-all and end-all of this, and I’m genuinely bad at this kind of thing a lot of the time-- when I was a kid I thought Summer Glau was Chinese because she played River Tam-- so I’m by no means trying to tell you that you’re wrong. I’m just not seeing the same things you’re seeing, which is intriguing. I’m always open to listen and learn, and I’d love to hear more from you or anyone else who noticed things I might not have about character design changes like this.

...damn.

I’m never sure how canon you can count things that didn’t make their way into a story-- is it still canon if it’s a deleted scene? If it’s word of god? Gotta take it on a case-by-case basis, I think-- but I can see it. That’s... painful. I guess it explains how he learnt to be a manipulator, as sad as that is, and having badly needed a rescue of some kind can also feed into that desire to pose oneself as the rescuer. It’s genuinely pretty horrifying.

My issue with her is that her character was defined almost solely around her infatuation with him... and that she kind of blamed him for not loving her back, not 'seeing' her when he doesn't owe her a relationship? Her irritation at being a replacement goldfish is justified but the rest of it? Ehh... I mean how can you go through time and space and still be hung up on that? A bit of unrequited love is a short price to pay imho. But it's not her fault, just the writing.

asdfasdfasdfsadf ok let me begin by saying that i respond to this in good faith because i’m gonna disagree but like we’re all friends right. this is friendly debate, not like, angry yelling. anyway i gotta disagree that martha’s character revolves around her feelings with the doctor because she does have other things going on: 

martha is a doctor and that’s important to her, that she’s training to be a doctor comes up in basically every episode and in the end part of her decision to leave the doctor is because she did all that training and she wants to finish it and do some good in the world

martha’s family is important to her and those relationships are real and complicated, her relationship to her mum in 42 is real and heartbreaking and funny, her relationship to her sister in the lazarus experiment is real and meaningful, and again in the end part of her decision to leave the doctor is because of all the pain and terror they endured under the master 

she forms relationships and attachments to people other than the doctor - flirts and almost makes out with shakespeare, connects to and even forms a romantic connection to the guy in 42 that she’s stuck in an escape pod with, has a solid friendship with jenny in the family episodes, has such an attachment to tom milligan during the lost year that she literally goes off and finds him again after leaving the doctor and ends up engaged to him 

also i don’t think she’s ever ‘blaming’ the doctor for not returning her feelings; she doesn’t bring it up to him unless she has to and when she has to bring it up to him she’s upfront/realistic about it and tries to undercut it where possible (”i would’ve said anything to get you to snap out of it” to explain her confession in family of blood) - just because she tells the audience things like “course you had to fall in love with a human...and it wasn’t me” is meant to inform us as to how painful unrequited love is, not him, that’s just internal monologue which is fair, and it is painful that it’s still true even when he’s wiped rose from his mind. it’s not “the doctor is doing me a disservice by not falling in love with me,” it’s “oh it’s not that he’s in love with someone else, it’s just that he’s not in love with me.” and when it does have to come out in the end, when she decides to be honest with him about why she’s leaving, she commits to remaining a friend to him, to not letting her feelings get in the way of their relationship, and then she commits to moving on. she’s the only companion who commits to moving on??? she’s the only companion that looks at her life and goes you know what? it’s not enough. all of time and space is not enough. not compared to a career and a family and a chance at falling in love. she in fact deliberately chooses not to revolve around her infatuation with him. it’s huge and important and she’s the only companion imo who does it. 

if anything, the doctor’s character fails in a big way with martha as a companion because his relationship with her is so defined by rose. you only get one trip is a rule defined by rose, and martha has to get him to open up and trust her past that. his inability to address martha’s feelings for him and his repeated decisions to pretend like they aren’t there are things that are defined by his loss of rose. he takes martha to new new york because of rose. the daleks in manhattan taunt him about rose. jack harkness comes back and they repeatedly have to talk about rose and what happened at canary wharf and on station five, john smith falls in love with nurse redfern but continues drawing rose and, as martha points out, blondes - even without rose in his memories there’s a part of him that is still focused on rose. none of that is martha’s fault and the doctor’s inability to get past rose and see martha as her own fully fledged person while also refusing to look directly at it for like the first half of the season is, ya know, in character for him sure, but still a huge disservice to martha because it renders her completely unable to get any closure on those feelings until she decides to leave because of it. 

That's my headcanon as well. Aziraphale hopes that Heaven isn't going to be so out of touch that they're willing to destroy the world, he's disappointed and saddened to find he's wrong, but he switches gears very quickly. There's no indoctrination there. Heaven is a distant parent rather than an abusive one.

Oho! An interesting suggestion! A distinct faerie land was not mentioned in The Secret of Kells as far as I remember, but that doesn’t rule it out as a possible refuge in an AU, o’course. (Perhaps Aisling can’t return to it, or doesn’t want to?)

I totally do hc them as ace most of the time!!! I think I accidentally made the full fic for this au a lil too sexy with Aziraphale being kinda handsy, and I think people interpreted their relationship as sexual (both fictional viewers and irl readers). I don’t really mind how people viewed that irl, and perhaps it was my fault for having it be suggestive (I am not ace, and I admit that I do not have the best understanding of the sexuality atm), but I will usually make them ace in all of my works. Regardless, all headcanons for their sexualities in this au are welcome! 

When I wrote “I want you” I totally meant for it to be read as sexual but in reality, they’re just doing some cuddles. Crowley “wants” Aziraphale in the sense that he wants Aziraphale’s company and his love. He wants to have Aziraphale’s attention. Everything that makes up Aziraphale--all his quirks and habits--is so beautiful to Crowley that he just wants some time to be as close as possible. 

haha thanks :D