#detective

Truly Devious | Maureen Johnson | 4 stars

I requested this book for my birthday (I always give my mom a small list to choose from: that way she knows she is getting me something I want, and I still don’t know which one(s) I’m getting). This year, she asked me if she was getting the correct book, because she had read the description and it seemed a little  out of character for me. That’s true, I usually give her fantasy titles. I rarely…

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Tientsin Mystic Whump List (2017)

24 Episodes - Watch on: Dramacool

Whumpee: De-you played by Li Xian

De-you (left) works with his friend to investigate crimes. He seems somewhat psychic and sees clues in his mind that are not visible in regular life, he uses smoke to trigger this. It is part of his character that he is very sensitive to certain things which is why smoke has such a strong effect on him. List also refers to the other male lead (right). They both work with the police.

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Episode 1: (39:00) Purposely inhales smoke, goes in his head, collapses, found on the ground unconscious.

Episode 2: (7:00) Wakes up. (other male lead gets knocked out briefly)

Episode 4: (5:00) Smokes again to trigger going into his head. (27:00) Stupidly kicks something then his foot hurts. (maybe I’m just a wimp but at the end of the episode tw an excessive amount of dead bodies. It’s just too many)

Episode 5: (TW continues up until 9 minutes into the episode.) No whump

Episode 6:(13:00) Smoke cloud triggers him, in his head, snaps out of it coughing then faints. Friend does CPR on him, he wakes up startled, breathing heavily.

Episode 7:(13:00) Enters opium den which does not take long to mess him up, he gets dizzy and disoriented, coughing, he sits down as soon as possible. Is unresponsive for a minute. Forced to run away when he can barely stand, friends help him walk. Out of it. This continues until after they’ve left the opium den.

Episode 8: (23:00) Other male lead is drugged and falls asleep.

Episode 12: (22:00) In an explosion, blocked by rubble. His friend gets stabbed, under a lot of pressure to save him. Breathes in smoke to hallucinate, dizzy.

Episode 15: (3:00) Other male lead gets strangely affected by some flowers. All the characters hallucinate.

Episode 20: (9:00) Attacked, strangled.

Episode 21: (34:00) Other male lead hypnotizes himself, hallucinates, and falls asleep.

**Episode 22: Missing

Episode 23: (3:00) In a trance, almost drowns. Seeing things in his head, wakes up and fights to save himself and his friend. (20:00) Emotional argument with friend.

Episode 24: (24:00) Attacked, waterboarded, saved by friend. (other male lead gets hurt periodically in episode) More fighting. Ending unclear.

I’ve watched the fourth episode of “Banana Fish”. (Spoilers!) Eiji, the doctor and his assistant are trapped by Arthur and mafia and threatened, so Eiji has to tell them about the drug, but then Shorter saves them, but then Griff (Ash’s older brother) recognized a doctor who came with the mafia and said something like: “You! Bana fish!”, and then this doctor shot him and he died in the hospital. Eiji feels very guilty because he feels responsible for Ash. Ash, in his turn, has more problems in prison, Max decided to move to another cell, so Ash had a new cellmate and Ash almost killed him, because this man tried to rape him (we see again how good can Ash fight, even with an opponent which exceeds him in physical strength). Then Ash has to fight mafia (three people at the same time) and again almost killed one of them. Then Max, who found the fighting scene, tells Ash about his brother and Ash, being very angry, attacks Max too, but they are both alright at the end. At the very end, they even reconcile, drink together and mourn Griffin, after all, they both loved him.

I’ve watched the third episode of “Banana Fish”. (Spoilers!) Ash is in prison, Max – a friend of the reporter – is to take care of him, but it doesn’t work out as intended. Ash is too young and pretty not to have problems in prison. The very first day he gets involved in a fight, is put in solitary confinement and beaten (not too badly) the next day. Because of that – he spends the night in the hospital, asks the doctor for a painkiller – specifically for a capsule. Sneaks it away and the next day, when the reporters, including Eiji, come to meet him he passes the capsule secretly… There was a non-consensual kiss and I thought – here we go, the “hint of the slash” becomes problematic, but then we find out it was needed for the “good deed” – that was a way to pass the capsule with a secret massage to Eiji so that he finds Shorter (second in command in Ash’s gang) or the doctor (who researches the drug), but Eiji gets caught by Arthur. While in prison with Max Ash finds out that his roommate also investigated “banana fish” and the drug and that we saw him and Ash’s brother at the very beginning of the first episode – when a soldier somewhere goes mad, starts shooting his comrades and the other soldier, who managed to hide, shoots him in the legs. The mad soldier is Ash’s brother and the one who shot him was Max. Now Ash says that when he gets out of jail, he’s going to kill Max because now his brother can neither walk, nor recognize anybody. Max (as a reporter) also tried to find any information about this mysterious “fish”, but only finds another reporter, who spent a lot of time somewhere in Asia and knew that “banana fish” was either a person or a group of people. Well, this reporter is dead now, we saw his death in the first episode. That’s all so tangled together!

Layer by layer breakdown of the commission I drew recently

OfMortality,Morality,and Magic… ✨

More of the #KaishinGenshinAU I made for Secret Santa!

Shinichi:“I no longer beg for forgiveness, for I now know that others would find it unnecessary to grant me their pardon when they see no fault in my slaughter. Yet, I can’t help but see in me a monster.”

KID:“As a master of many faces, I often wonder… Did I lose myself between all those masks? And if so, would anyone have recognized the difference when even I can no longer keep my true face in sight?”

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-Bubbly

The heart has its own memory…

My cross stitch mystery wall - as featured in X stitch magazine