#the-flow-er

[astralzeraphias]

Your little series of drawing of megs, star and op being overgrown with greenery is so pretty and honestly such a cool concept 😩🫶 makes me want to draw something similar to my own au with pharma :0!

Have you ever thought of doing a dtiys?

Keep up the great and beautiful work ♥️✨

thank you!!! i would love to see more people draw robots overgrown with plants <3 it’s one of my favorite types (???) of drawings !

& no i’ve never thought of doing a dtiys before! i don’t even know how i’d go about doing that lol

[heavyheavycream]

feedist kinktober 27 : boozy belly

this was one of the first things i wrote about em. i'm not the best at writing dialogues so i hope it's not to clunky, enjoy!

[iliveunderarock]

over flow(er)

[daydreamingoncloud9]

Nagi Seishiro: A Divergent Path

Spoilers for Chapters 1, 2, 117, 147, 254, 280, 281, 295, 298, 299 & 300 of Blue Lock and Chapters 2, 3 & 4 of Blue Lock: Episode Nagi.

Similar to my last post on Nagi & Reo, this post is also not necessarily a shipping post, but because I do ship nagireo, it might colour my analysis on them, so fair warning. »»————- ⳮⷤ ── ⲇ ── ⳮⷤ ————-««

With the release of the new chapters, I wanted to bring up an interesting parallel I noticed that helps strengthen the theory that Nagi and Reo's journey together will not end here. In fact, I think this parallel just helps to cement that they will continue to diverge from the rest, even with this recent failure.

To start, I think it is beneficial to establish that Nagi and Isagi are meant to be foils in the story and they often have scenes that parallel each other in key ways.

Many others have already pointed these parallels out before, but for argument's sake, I will list some of them down regardless.

Isagi's ego flaring after he shoots on his own vs Nagi's ego flaring after he sees Reo

2. Isagi being the first to enter Blue Lock vs Nagi (& Reo) being the last

3. isagi scoring the final goal of the U-20 match vs Nagi scoring the first goal

4. Isagi being classified as a "world-style" talented learner vs Nagi who is classified as a "self-style" genius

5. And most recently, Isagi who was at the top of the winners' bracket vs Nagi who was at the top of the losers' bracket

Even their designs are meant to be foils of each other wherein Isagi is short (relatively), has a weaker physical build and a darker colour palette vs Nagi's who's tall, has a stronger physical build and a lighter colour palette.

There are surely plenty more parallels you can find throughout the series, but with this, I hope that I manage to successfully establish that there is a pattern going on and this makes the next parallel I'm going to draw up quite interesting.

So!

Going back to the Blue Lock Entrance Test, I want to zoom in on what Ego considers to be "the egotism of a striker".

The idea that in this instance, a striker is someone who "tries to defeat someone stronger than themselves", "goes after the strongest one" and has an "obsession with their own victory which can't be swayed by others' common sense" is fascinating because it describes both Bachira and Isagi, yes, but it also describes someone who ended up losing despite following that doctrine: Nameoka Ryo.

In these few pages alone, we can see that Nameoka fulfills all the criteria of the "striker" that Ego is looking for. Not only is he purposefully going after the people who he perceives as the strongest, he is doing so despite it being seen as rather illogical because of the risk that he is willingly undertaking by focusing on no one else but Nagi and Reo.

Now you can argue that this definition of a striker's "egoism" is rather shallow because the idea has evolved and expanded over the course of the story, and yes I agree. But in the context of these specific scenes, we are being told that this way of playing is the "correct" way because of how it aligns with Ego's words (whose words are often law). Therefore, Nameoka, in these scenes, is considered the "ideal striker".

So what does it mean when the "ideal striker" loses?

In my opinion, having Nameoka lose, and making it so that Nagi is the one that causes him to lose is a purposeful narrative decision to help support the idea that ultimately, despite being in opposition to Isagi's route and therefore against Ego's ideals, Nagi's (and Reo's) path is valid.

Even the fact that Reo was saved by Nagi here is relevant because of how it supports the validity of their divergent path.

Circling back to Kira's elimination for a second, we see that Ego condemns Kira because when the ball hit him, he "gave up and accepted his defeat" and in his eyes, this is what it means to "run away" from the egotism of a striker and that is why he lost.

And what is interesting here is Kira's acceptance of defeat parallels Reo's acceptance of defeat. Notice that just like Kira, Reo was prematurely thinking about his defeat under the hands of another player (Zantetsu) and was blind to the options that he had after being hit.

This is why the "5 seconds" timer was placed behind Reo as it illustrates how he had turned his back on other options except defeat even though there was plenty of time for him to think of a back-up plan, especially considering how Reo had significantly more time than Kira did (1 second vs 5 seconds).

If we were to follow the original scenario, this would have been the end of Reo and consequently, the end of Nagi and Reo's joint path, but Nagi literally interrupts this narrative and denies its unfolding.

And not only does he deny it, he also manuevers The Egoist's plot device (the ball) to eliminate Ego's "ideal striker", cementing the fact that their path, while divergent from Ego's, is a valid path to take because it succeeds.

I think we have to question why Kaneshiro-sensei and Nomura-sensei felt that it was important for Nameoka (again, the "ideal striker) to be eliminated after Nagi reaffirms his determination to stay with Reo (and therefore reaffirming their partnership) and after Reo is shown to have run away from a striker's egoism.

I truly believe it is to showcase that Nagi and Reo's partnership and joint path, despite all the ups and downs, will prevail and even succeed in usurping the "ideal" egoists in the end.

It's just a matter of looking at all the options and not admitting defeat.

[taintandviolent]

just to hold myself accountable.......... and to show y'all that i am actually writing.... here are the current request wips

[dr-sunshinelives]

🌻 <- for you! :]

thank you :333

[pinkalliums]

cool! yeah

they are hanging out....thank u...

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

4, 8, 12?

4. A song you’d put on a playlist for a character you love

Goodbye to a World by Porter Robinson makes me think fondly of Brain 😌

8. A song from a soundtrack

I looove soundtracks!!! It was hard to choose one, but Time Flows Ever Onward by Evan Call (from Frieren) is a recent new fav of mine

12. A song from the 90s

I Want It That Way (TELL ME WHY!!!) by Backstreet Boys

[deus-ex-mona]

mona’s self liner notes for beautiful!

Could this be this mona’s first true dance music track?! The 4/4 beat and the low tones of the bass drum are cool, right?

I want to rock out with tons of lasers when I’m singing this song at a concert. I’m counting on you, concert staff.

I revealed that I can figure skate in the MV too. It surprised you guys, right?

[luckycloverfieldsartblog]

Guy

[the-manderville-mambo]

You can have this back when you understand what it means

[readysetjo]

I promise to not be too annoying about the unrealistic things in the Pitt

[galli-halli]

Meinst du weil JK dann die anderen Gäste zu sehr ausblenden oder warum bist du da skeptisch? Ich finde JK alleine und JK mit Anderen haben immer eine ganz andere Dynamik und es funktioniert eigentlich immer gut, das ist immer sehr spannend anzusehen. Aber die Konstellation, dass Klaas Gast ist gab es so ja glaube ich noch gar nicht, oder? Bin gespannt auf die Analyse von Dir! *hust Hauptsache Joko behält seine top energy bei WSMDS hust*

P.S. das neue Kapitel ist wundervoll <3

Hi Anon!

Ich hatte immer viele Gedanken zu Klaas bei WSMDS. Hätte man mich heute morgen dazu gefragt, hätte ich gesagt, es ist noch zu früh. Wenn Klaas im Panel, dann erst in ein paar Jahren.

Heute Abend sehe ich das ein bisschen weniger skeptisch. Ich habe nie daran gezweifelt, dass es super unterhaltsam und sehr besonders wird, sie in dieser Show gemeinsam zu sehen. Aber einerseits ist der Punkt des „untergehens“ neben JK ein sehr valider. Die AZ Berichte von heute sind da ja zum Glück sehr positiv; scheinbar hat sich Klaas auch große Mühe gegeben, nicht zu viel Aufmerksamkeit auf sich zu ziehen.

Generell finde ich die Panel-Konstellation total spannend und kann mir gut vorstellen, dass sie da eine gute Chemie finden. Der Fokus wird nur ganz klar für viele von uns auf JK liegen und da hatte ich in der Vergangenheit immer ein bisschen Sorge, dass dadurch das Panel, aber auch die ganze Show in den Hintergrund rückt. Wenn JK in ihrer Bubble verschwinden, hat oft nichts und niemand eine Chance.

Inzwischen ist WSMDS und auch Joko in der Show aber total angekommen und auf eigenen Beinen stehend. Wird es sich trotzdem ganz anders anfühlen, Klaas statt Promi xy im Panel zu sitzen zu sehen? Auf jeden Fall.

Aber ich freue mich auf die Aufzeichnungen und bin mir sicher, dass es mir sehr gut gefallen wird, sie in diesem Kontext nochmal ganz neu zu sehen.

Auf was ich mich besonders freue: Klaas‘ Stolz, aber auch seine Aufregung, hoffentlich eine Klaas Show und damit einhereingehend ein Joko vs. Klaas Finale. Das kann nämlich nur fantastisch werden 🖤

PS: Glaube Klaas wird es sehr genießen, seine Aufmerksamkeit fÜR diE SHoW ganz auf Joko richten zu dürfen

PPS: Danke dir! Das freut mich sehr

[bloodsalted]

okee dokee lovely peeps!

// gonna take a rest! i'll be back after work tomorrow. or maybe even during depending on how the day goes! but i'm feeling TONS better and all that pent up muse from the con is coming outttt big time! still got the medicine going and it makes me a lil sleepy now and then. but daaaaaaaaaamn it feels good to finally be able to dig in and get my feels on!

tomorrow is gonna be a vamp!dean focus (so give me a poke here or on messages if you want that dean in ya plots or inboxes or whatever??) as well as a sam and possibly jack day. jack's gotta get some love sometime very soon. cause sunshine boy is best boy. :D

[arjunasearth]

(on the right corner above): 12/12/12

He truly was an alchemist. Electric alchemist-electronic alchemist. Magician for sure.

Nikola Tesla - Map to multiplication.

[zestylotus]

two periods in a month i am so cooked 😭