Reiko In Mortal Kombat 1

He says ice puns….bless him

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//i already miss my bf:((

“They met again after years” prompts:

You’re married?

You’re even more beautiful than I’ve remembered.

You’ve waited for me this whole time?

Look at you! You’re so big now.

“You turned out alright.” “Not thanks to you.”

Do you like what you see?

You look just like her.

I have the letters you wrote me.

Do you remember how tangled we got in our feelings?

I still wear the smile you gave me.

I was gonna marry you…

Where have you been all this time?

Why didn’t you call? Even once?

You have a daughter?

You got married?

I missed you.

My oh my, how does time fly.

“I’m stronger now.” “I see.”

Do you like what you’ve become?

I was gonna ask you to marry me.

You left without a word of explanation.

“I’m not a child anymore.” “I can see that.”

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) produced by William Alland and directed by Jack Arnold

listen its about the last unicorn being fundamentally no different from the harpy and feeling more compassion for her than she does the trapped animals or the humans trapped by circumstance. it's about haggard grabbing the unicorn only once she has become human enough for him to drag her down and realise her eyes are empty. it's about schmendrick and the magic that lives in him more than he wields it, it's about "never run from anything immortal, it attracts their attention" while walking slowly from an unspeakable horror devouring an old woman, it's about "how dare you come to me now, when I am this?". it's about the unicorns staying in the water until they can't anymore, until the castle crumbles and the one unicorn who is different from the others now - she lowers her horn and she digs her hooves in and she stands her ground for a dear, dead boy. it's about the trade of immortality between schmendrick and the unicorn, it's about stories needing to be told, it's about lir loving the unicorn enough to know that she cannot stay with him, and to let her would be to do her a disservice.

it's about "your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. i would tear myself to pieces to call you once by your name." it's about regret.

(it's also about little 5 year old me renting the movie from the library whenever i could and watching it on loop for hours. it's about just how much this story has shaped me and my understanding of storytelling.)

Yasunari Ikenaga: '朱い櫛 樹子' red comb and jiko (2013)

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//she's so beautiful i can't-

Kano in Mortal Kombat 11 (2019)

girls and gays, let me introduce you to: the babygirls of mortal kombat