#YOULL PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

[reelaround-deactivated05312024]

and still i persevere in my childlike wonder

[autisticdoomslayer]

white leftists try not to use noble savage trope challenge (impossible)

[qcharlie]

thank god there's always women

[speedy-blue-hermit]

Hot topic wannabe and blue gumball son of a bitch❤️💙

[daily-nicotine]

OOOoOoooohhh u wanna kiss me so bad

[kaytub]

more.. cams... I'm slowly mastering him

[kacchanot-fucking-deal-with-this]

...dropping the fic links here to spread the good word of dabihawks/coldflash solidarity

By Any Other Name by SatelliteBlue (dabihawks)

By Any Other Name by cardinalstar (coldflash)

[artplague]

damn Essek you kiss Caleb with that mouth?

[bonebabbles]

I felt dissatisfied by the ending when I first saw it; and now after lurking in the tags, I really feel like Wolf Children is a fascinating movie if you read it like a tragedy

The story is about Hana, and about her acceptance with life and loss. It's about coming to terms with the loss of her husband, and about her loss of purpose as her children grow up. In this sense, she finds contentedness in the lack of control she has over her life.

She tries her best, alone and mourning, but she is just a human, like @wyvernslovecake says. She isn't capable of teaching them to balance the wolf and human parts of themselves because she's not a wolf. Her idea of supporting her daughter is teaching her the self-soothing chant and creating the dress... and ends up teaching her that her wolf-side IS something to be suppressed and controlled.

Hana ends up enabling Ame's disconnect with human society, and confirming Yuki's budding fears that it (as a whole) will reject her.

And adding the lens of gender over the story provides a whole new layer. Ame is a boy, so he's encouraged to cut himself off in a way that WILL INEVITABLY become extremely destructive to his mental and physical health. Yuki is a girl, so she must learn to deny and suppress the part of her that brings joy, until her male love interest gives her permission to express it privately, to him.

But back to Hana... she did her best. She did what she could. She LOVES her babies and only ever wanted the best for them, her whole life was dedicated to her family. But it wasn't what her kids needed.

I don't have the language for this but I think about it all the time; Someone can fail you but have done nothing wrong. Someone can do everything they're supposed to and it still wasn't right for you. Pain without blame. Love itself isn't always enough.

Hana's story has been told, but her children are ten and eleven at the end of the movie. They should have very long lives after this... if Ame doesn't die horribly like his fox mentor, whose cause of death was "broken leg." Both parts of him are social animals, and if Yuki can't deny her wolf half, Ame absolutely cannot deny his human side.

He WILL need to re-enter society one day, unprepared, unsocialized, and we can only hope that he finds someone who can help him make that jump.

And Yuki... I'm sure her love interest is a fine boy, but it's a terrible situation to be forced to rely on one single person (your implied future husband!) for all of your emotional needs. What if she, y'know, doesn't love him when they both aren't 11? What will happen if she has children and has the same instincts as her dad? Will she always be struck by anxiety when she thinks of how she's "a monster"?

She WILL be hurt by this constant shame and fear, now hateful of a natural part of herself that used to bring her joy. She is in a cage and appointed her love interest as a zookeeper; we can only hope that one day she can step out.

Really hated the ending of Wolf Children, honestly. Not because it’s sad that the little boy left his mom but he’s literally 10. I don’t care he’s “adult when he’s a wolf“ what the hell is he going to do when he INEVITABLY has to re-enter society in, what, 8 years?

There are no wolves in Japan. They’re EXTINCT there for a reason. He can’t form a pack, a thing normal wolves do, so he’s going to need to find friends and family somehow, and the only way to do that for him is to shift back into a human and have all the same problems he did growing up, except this time he’s Jared, 19, and he never learned how to read

[c0pernicus]

i fucking hate that tiktok got its hands on Sigur Ros' Untitled series/The Bracket Album so much because it's been reduced down to just... scary surrealism backrooms ScHiZo music.

[halque]

What are you writing.. 👁️

🤫

A few months prior, Dick had shattered one of the late Martha Wayne’s crystal vases in some mindless acrobatic stunt, and he had gone white and froze with blood dotting his palms and knees, and Alfred had chosen that moment to walk in and drop his tray and exclaim, “Master Richard!” at him. Later that day, while he was delicately dabbing at Dick’s knees with an antiseptic-soaked cotton pad, and Dick’s eyes had overflowed with water and regret and, deep down, a shameful satisfaction and vindication, Alfred had tried to insist that it was okay. It really isn’t something to cry over, Master Dick, really, it was a fairly new vase and Mrs. Wayne wasn’t really too attached over it, and I wasn’t either, to tell you the truth, and—really Master Dick, do stop crying! But the truth was that, once Dick’s knees and hands were all properly bandaged and he was sent (not unkindly) to his room, Dick had peeked back into the hall to see Alfred on his knees cleaning the broken shards of crystal. He’d seen the way Alfred cradled each piece delicately, not just because of the risk of getting cut, and the way that, after he’d gathered up each and every last trace, Alfred had looked back at the crime scene with sad, stormy eyes and a downturned mouth.

[liquid-queer]

my friend who doesnt have tumblr gets to listen to me rant about the fics i read

Well

one time like ages ago i was reading this one fic that had spiritual m-preg (please dont question it i shall not be elaborating), she has Never Once lost an opportunity to torment my poor soul over this. since im currently writing *checks notes* three fics for ao3, she wants me to include it in one of them. But! The one she wants me to put it in is fucking fem slash.

The Woman said it was FEM PREG. so now im attempting to include spiritual fucking pregnancy into my fic, which was SUPPOSED to be about soulmates and wings and silly things, and now my soul has been taken to the underworld and im about to make the poor characters go through more trauma, what is my life. Now we get more ghosts than i was planning i suppose, as it shant be pregnancy but just smth feeding on my other characters energy for a few months, yk, basically a pregnancy

[arom-antix]

@viktuuri-week day 2: Secret

[emmliches]

if you looked up 'soft top' in the dictionary, you'd see emm//rich vol//karin

[clumsypuppy]

omg ur a filipino puppy??? my partner is a filipino puppy too!! whats ur fav filipino food?

i love how this question always gets asked upon learning someone is filipino lmao

[here-to-fangirll]

why yes i do still cry when i listen to What It Sounds Like thank you for asking