#Afterthoughts

[asteriass]

9 R.I.P. | Hibiki route thoughts

❝ Your life, give it all to me. ❞

Personal Rating:

8.75/10

Misa is so right, Hibiki is absolutely adorable!!!!

So emotional (╥﹏╥)

Seiya's interactions with Hibiki and Misa were quite amusing

I really REALLY liked his voice... Shunichi Toki did a great job as Hibiki

His grin and smile, I love it sm

Full Thoughts:

I noticed this before too, but I really like how smoothly the common route flows into the romantic route.

Talking about Hibiki's route itself, I'm gonna be honest, a partial reason for why I probably enjoyed the route as much as I did is because I found myself relating to the characters at times too...

I really liked the way Hibiki and Misa were able to relate to one another in certain aspects. And so because of this, I was really able to enjoy the two's relationship. Hibiki's route is super character-driven. Majority, if not all, conflicts were due to emotional or relationship turmoil between the leads, and honestly, I enjoyed that. It was a bit different from how Kureha's route was set up, but I'm glad that the difference in direction is there. The plot was heavily focused on Misa and Hibiki's personal relationship, and because the two were constantly doing something...it didn't feel draggy. I really adored how both Misa and Hibiki grew throughout the route 🥹

Speaking of emotional turmoil, I really enjoyed the insight into Hibiki's internal conflicts that we got from scenes in his point of view!! It made the angsty scenes even more angsty... Having said that! I do wish the climax got a little bit more room to breathe. In both "Good" endings, he comes to terms with his hatred a little too swiftly? Not to the point that it's nonsensical, it really did make sense in both cases. But... I do wish there was a bit more time between his confrontation with Isao Tsukigami in Hell, and the final flower on Misa's sheet being colored... y'know... just a tiny bit more time for him to digest.

HOWEVER, I loved both of his endings (Heavenly and Godly). It's truly hard to choose a favorite... I loved aspects of both!! Both are bittersweet (and one even more than the other) and made me emotional, but they were great!!

Both in their own ways felt like fitting conclusions to me... very bittersweet though 😭

Hibiki's route is one of those ones that I'm likely to replay. Honestly, depending on my mood, his rating probably gets bumped up to a 9 lol. Hibiki is super adorable, and I wish to protect his genuine smiles... he truly deserves to be happy ❤️‍🩹

[raggedyjoann]

Just finished the second Warriors graphic novel. I was so surprised by how much was covered in this one! I expected it to just be the end of F&I and FoS, so when we got most of RS, I was like- YIPPE

Cried several times though. Have some more Longtails to ease the pain.

Some spoilers below, and additional afterthoughts after finishing the graphic novel:

This entire page was so gut-wrenching

Started sobbing for real. I love Yellowfang so much. </3

Additional afterthoughts:

I'm fine with them cutting most of Cloudpaw 's twolegplace antics. I liked the condensed version of it, as well as the inclusion of Princess. (Although I did miss Ravenpaw's little appearance)

But I was shocked that they completely left out the whole thing with Cinderpelt secretly treating Whitethroat and Littlecloud! I think that's an incredibly important plot point - it shows Cinderpelt's courage and sense of justice as well as being a huge turning point in Littlecloud's life (prompting his decision to become a medicine cat).

As well as... Runningwind is still alive? So I'm really curious how that's gonna pan out in the next book.

I almost wonder if they'll include the Cinderpelt/Littlecloud/Whitethroat plotline and Runningwind's death in the next graphic novel.

[kirkklan2]

398 - "Almost a Stranger"

[noodlepigeon]

Afterthoughts CD.

[aeolianblues]

Also, I know some of you can use flourishes with language well, but you’ve got to stop shrugging and dramatically saying ‘the west will fall’. Who is left? The ‘east’ has fallen too. Authoritarianism in China. India jailed its opposition on false pretexts during the final weeks of the election. Homophobic governments in SE Asia. Stop looking at the world as east and west, we are all in soooo much trouble, might as well band together

[plasmagrrl]

Afterthoughts

[specific90saesthetics]

[andrewbgould]

You Deserve to Be Someone’s Oxygen, Not Their Afterthought.

Let’s just say it out loud:

You’re tired of being the one who always cares more.

The one who sends the “Did you make it home safe?” text. The one who remembers birthdays, little wins, and hard days. The one who keeps showing up — even for people who don’t notice when you’re gone.

And somewhere deep down, you’ve started wondering…

Is this just what love is supposed to feel like? Because if it is, it’s exhausting.

💔 Here’s the truth: You’re not asking for too much. You’re just asking the wrong people.

You’re not “too sensitive,” “too intense,” or “too available.” You’re just offering oxygen to people who treat your presence like background noise.

But you?

You were never meant to be an afterthought.

You’re meant to be a constant. A calm. A breath of fresh air in a world full of chaos.

🔁 What It Feels Like (And Why It Hurts So Much) You don’t want fancy. You want effort. You don’t need a lot. Just someone who:

Texts back like they mean it

Remembers what matters to you

Shows up without needing to be begged

You’re not looking for attention — you’re craving connection. But when you constantly end up on the sidelines of someone else's life… it chips away at you.

You stop trusting your worth. You start questioning your energy. You wonder if maybe you are asking too much.

Let me say this louder:

You are not too much. You’re just not being met.

🫶 Real Love Feels Like Air — Not Anxiety When you find the right people, you won’t have to beg. You won’t have to explain why you need reassurance. You won’t feel like a placeholder.

They’ll make space for you. They’ll protect your peace, not disturb it. They’ll remind you that love isn’t supposed to be confusing or conditional.

To them, you won’t be a "nice-to-have." You’ll be essential.

Like oxygen. Needed. Noticed. Non-negotiable.

🌱 Start With You You can’t make someone see your worth. But you can stop lowering your standards just to be seen.

So here’s your gentle nudge:

Stop shrinking to fit inside someone else’s comfort zone.

Stop loving people in the hope they’ll finally love you back the way you deserve.

Stop being available to people who only remember you when they’re bored or broken.

You are not a backup plan. You are not someone’s second choice.

You are the main character. The light. The lifeline.

Start loving yourself like that’s true. Because it is.

✨ Final Reminder (From Someone Who’s Been There): If someone makes you feel like you’re asking for too much… They’re not your person.

Your person will breathe easier just by being near you. They’ll treat your heart like it matters. They’ll choose you — fully, clearly, loudly.

Not because they have to. Because they can’t imagine not.

[asteriass]

9 R.I.P. | Seiya route thoughts

❝ I'd like you to be my burden. ❞

Personal Rating:

8.5/10

Seiya's banter with Misa was so super amusing (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)

Definitely the most romantic of all the routes so far

Seiya and Misa's occasional imaginary scenarios about one another were entertaining lol

Full Thoughts:

Definitely the route that made me want to squeal the most! Usually in otome games, I'm not super big on heavily flirty characters, but Seiya... he captured my heart (づ>/////<)づ♡

What I particularly liked about him was that totally dramatic way he'd flirt, saying the most heart-throbbing things with the most amusingly serious tones just to tease Misa haha. Truly, the twos back on forth made the whole route pretty fun!

In terms of the plot, it was really nice to see how Seiya's personal background impacted the way he approached other characters--and how this was noticeable even without the game directly mentioning it to our face. For example, even though Hibiki himself didn't show up in Seiya's route, I couldn't help but think about the type of relationship he and Seiya had. We see in other routes how Seiya is sympathetic towards Hibiki, and it's even mentioned how he, in particular, provided Hibiki a lot of emotional support. Seiya said he wouldn't take his eyes off Hibiki until he crosses over, and given Hibiki was damned for similar reasons as Seiya, it really is apparent why Seiya decided to take responsibility over Hibiki, since Seiya is somebody who to an extent would've been able to understand Hibiki. Another instance would be with Misa herself, during Seiya's route. He was able to recognise that Misa's mother still struggled to move on from the death of her husband, and he was able to give appropriate advice based on that, since he too knew the struggle and heartbreak that came with the loss of a loved one.

In terms of endings, I think I prefer Seiya's Godly End slightly more, but honestly, the Heavenly End was really great too!!

All in all, a really lovely route!! Heavy doses of amusing dramatics and romance that made me smile each time. I really love the way they executed his character dynamic as well!! His route truly didn't disappoint 🥹

[poetry-from-the-mimp]

How do I keep moving forward when the only person who I ever felt entirely safe with goes and dismantles that feeling? When they reveal their true colors and it reminds me of my past, where am I supposed to go? He was all I’ve ever known for so long and he took my sense of security in a second. How do I live with that? Am I supposed to pretend like it didn’t affect me? Do I just “forgive but not forget”? Or do I leave, even though I know I haven’t felt that safety anywhere else? He was my support system all this time, so how do I leave when I don’t know how to feel that way anywhere else?

Regardless, I don’t know if I can ever go back to how it was before. I don’t think it ever will.

[exmeanswithout]

Conjugations of Genesis

Beetle tells me God is famously an absent father

and i respond that

Christ was just another bastard son

When the examples we're given of perfection are thus

how can we expect to be even decent

There's been a lesser schism somewhere

In my theosophical musings

I seem to have reached a state where I don't need to compare myself to god.

This doesn't stop me from writing from his perspective.

Don't take any of this as a slight against God(although I do not believe that God would care what I think of him anyway), I only believe he is as flawed as the best of his creations.

And if my ego is disconcerting, remember that i am as God made me

[novelhana]

I ran out of net data yesterday. Got my unplanned Internet detox LOL

[ultravioletrosyln]

Autorejeição Aqui estou, incompleta de mim, não consigo sentir nada substancialmente, apenas existindo com pensamentos bloqueados, me julgando a cada segundo, mas incapaz de sentir vergonha ou ânsia, apenas uma culpa, forçando uma tristeza para sentir algo. Não estou buscando necessariamente que esse vazio seja suprido por alguém, só sinto saudades de mim, odeio estar distante de quem eu sou e não sei como processar isso. Sem mim, não consigo sentir, me alegrar, me interessar ou me relacionar com outras pessoas genuinamente. Não sei o que desencadeou essa apatia, mas suspeito que envolve um misto de frustração e julgamento tanto próprio quanto alheio, findando em um estado de paralisa. As expectativas são esmagadoras se você não tem perspectiva própria e a autorejeição me assombra mais do que tudo. Tenho a esperança de que eventualmente isso vai passar pois confio no meu potencial de superação, apenas queria me encontrar e me sentir livre novamente.

[phantomrose96]

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

[house-rat]

Reminder that the response to “you’ll never be a man/woman” is not to list off all the ways that hrt has profound changes on the human body but to reject completely any sex-based or hormone-based definition of gender.

I get the impulse to justify yourself, I really do, but it is impossible to justify yourself to bigots, and trying to do so leaves behind so many trans and intersex people who don’t fit the acceptable narrative you’re trying to create.