#towards adulthood

[zodiac-monkey]

[laser-tripwires]

so he DID cheat. multiple times. and somehow eight years after going no contact he still tried to blame her for the relationship ending because he didn't want to think about his own culpability.

eliot is my favourite character in anything ever, complex characters are the best, and SUCK IT i was right.

[tirfpikachu]

fuck skillshare holy shit... they charged me over $200 a few days ago after a free trial and the fuckers REFUSE to refund me even though they gave me zero warnings/reminders that i would be charged and the free trial started three months ago. should i have put an alarm myself or smth? yes. obviously. but my fucking god it's insane that they charge you the YEARLY FEE instead of a monthly fee after the free trial. it's so scummy. and now i have to fight them to get that money back bc i'm literally over $200 in the negatives even after i'll get paid by my boss the $100 i made in training!!! yay!!!!! i fucking love capitalism and exploitative methods!!!!!! kms

[hellonerf]

unusual face post where i don't bring up caname marriage. all of their gangstalia childhood photos have been shown! i've been very captivated by their answers

the question is virtually the same for each of them with different wordings. here lord and owner have a goal for their future. between a distinguished admirable grown up and a welcoming hotel runner. meanwhile hero and parrain's answer are like. so vague. [(i?) can be anything] and [(be?) me] makes me laugh. what are these kids even saying? such blatant different personality dynamics. i actually don't have any coherent words i just point at a difference and go wowwww coool(keys jingling in front of me). but really. how sweet!!! the different similar answers

[wileycap]

zuko: must regain honor

iroh: be a good person

zuko:but...? honor!!!

[fernacular]

Sometimes I wonder if the people who get extremely up in arms about kid shows and hyper critical of things that are easily explained by them being shows intended for children have, perhaps, themselves outgrown kids shows and are just unwilling to admit it.

[heavenlydreamangelflyhigh]

despite my best efforts, i am a vindictive person

holding such hateful, bitter grudges against the woman who birthed me as a grown adult feels tedious and embarrassing

[noperopesaredope]

Me at 14: Okay, from now on, I will no longer be interested in MLP. I’m going into high school, so I need to grow out of it.

4 years later, in college:

My brain, out of nowhere: poni

[dairyfreenugget]

A little funfact

I headcanon PK as an introvert (I mean. Duh. Being a recluse is like one of the few things we know about him) and Flower as extrovert/ambivert with severe anxiety

🤝 socially awkward brothers in arms

[goldentigerfestival]

unrelated to the interview I posted in that it mentions Yuri's age bc this has been on my mind anyway, but one of my favorite things about Yuri is the fact that he's 21-22 but like... between his tone of voice (don't get me started on that voice I cannot describe bc I am lacking the words for it, but it's! there! and he does it! a LOT!!!) and his attitude/behavior, he acts very childish. the only time this generally halts is during arc 2 when he starts going down his slippery slope, but he gets it back. he also has a very... childlike curiosity sometimes imo?

most of the main Tales leads are just below modern day adult age with only a few at it or above it, though the JP adult age used to be 20, so it depends which one you're going by, (for instance, it makes the difference for someone like Stahn as to whether he's an adult or not). Yuri is a definite adult no matter which age it is, and generally speaking, he plays the mama bear role of the group and is looked at the "adult" of the group for a large chunk of arc 1.

but he's also. like. by far the most childish. I love it because it's this idea of like... you don't have to act "mature" or "grown up" because you're 18/20 or older. I'd argue Raven's "immaturity" is largely faked, and Estelle is naïve but she doesn't come across to me as childish. Karol is easily frightened, but I wouldn't call him childish. Yuri is just silly and wholesome and doesn't act in the way an adult "should" by, you know, standards. it's not a bad thing or treated like a bad thing. it's just how he is.

I do think his habit of not taking things seriously and acting a bit silly in arc 1 was frustrating for Flynn in an already frustrating situation, but I think that's also a good thing? his behavior isn't narratively treated as bad, but you can see where that behavior has its flaws (bc he's just generally like that and that's how he handles things, for better or worse). I think this shows a lot in how he says "yari" (basically means "I did it"/is indication of "having done it/something") in this extremely goofy, gleeful tone at his wanted poster increasing the gald on it (of course, I suspect his goofiness in the case of being a wanted criminal is largely deflection of not liking that fact, but that's a whole other topic lol. just, his childish demeanor presents itself in numerous ways and that's just one of them). in Flynn's perspective, it looks like Yuri is really not taking this seriously despite the accusations, which Flynn at the time didn't know were false.

overall Yuri is just very energetic and full of childlike energy (his victory quote with the backflip with the "hoooo!" very much screams energetic kiddo) and it's very special as far as adult characters go - I'd say in media in general really. even for Tales as a whole though, not many adult characters act like that. I think Yuri gets the added bonus of being a very young adult though, so he's not an "older adult", etc etc.

but I just really love that his childlike behavior isn't ever treated as a negative quality. it's just a part of him. he also very much knows when to be serious when it's about other people, and knows when to tone it down. he often will not do this for himself (again, such as the wanted poster), but in any other serious enough case, he will.

he's just so fun and cheerful in a way that adults "aren't allowed" to be. he defies expectations of "being an adult" in a lot of ways imo, and it's unique to him (Stahn is childish in a... very different way LOL. but even for Stahn, it's mostly treated as a positive quality with flaws).

[circumstantialsimultaneity]

how it feels to be a “homestuck is about how the existence of the societal classes of child and adult is dependent on the latter’s subjugation of the former” believer when all the other analysts just wanna talk about what it has to say about the nature of art and fandom…

[clockworksheep2]

ultimate dream would be to be able to live in a house where i could have friends stay w me to help them get out of shitty situations and up onto their feet. like if i can get out of here alive and stay alive somehow then i want to help other ppl do that too fhdkdl

[no-pasaran-99]

parentified eldest child to fundamentally unreasonable and hypocritical impatience w/ fellow man.... pipeline

[maletofujoshi]

one time in art club last year we got to make whatever with some leftover clay and cookie cutters, and like. me and a friend made ducks but like Just a duck would be boring so we decided to make one duck beheaded and one a mutant with two heads

the friend with the beheaded duck died badly so now this object has like. magnified importance to me as. essentially a memento. maybe the beheaded duck was cursed? in turn an extra head probably means more life. which is nice for me.

[metanarrates]

hi! a while ago you mentioned that hisoka has interesting parallels with ging - do you mind explaining what you mean? I can't really think of any, it seems like they approach gon in very different ways. they're both motivated by fun, maybe?

oh, I meant largely in the sense of how gon relates to adults in his life! one of the biggest things I was thinking about while rewatching this time is how gon is a child in a world of adults, and how he is affected by the adults around him, both in positive and negative ways.

ive said before that hisoka is interesting not so much as a character but as this almost inhuman warping force of nature that emphasizes the conditions of the world and people around him. his actual motives don't interest me in the slightest, but put shortly - if there's a situation that allows an unabashedly destructive person like him to thrive, then that says something about that situation. if people are reacting in certain ways to him, then that tends to say a lot about who they are as people.

gon's most formative relationship, the one that serves as a driving force for the vast majority of hxh, is his relationship with ging. to him, ging is this elusive, almost untouchable figure. gon may be able to catch up to him someday, but to do so, he has to become stronger, and specifically he has to submit himself to ging testing his strength via greed island and kite. there is a certain threshold of danger and risk associated in catching ging, but that's something that gon considers exciting. necessary, even. if you're going to approach a powerful figure, it is going to involve bodily harm, and gon is much more okay with that than he should be.

hisoka is another adult that gon feels compelled to prove himself to. part of this is hisoka's machinations, but I do think it's important to point out that both ging and hisoka are motivated to make gon stronger by putting him through mortal peril. and gon himself is excited by this prospect, though he is also afraid of hisoka. a big part of his desire to challenge hisoka in heaven's arena is him viewing hisoka as this unattainable figure who he wants to acknowledge his strength, despite how scary it is. I wouldn't exactly say he sees ging in hisoka, but I will say that his viewpoint of ging is something of a blueprint for how he interprets adults who are stronger than him. he ends up wanting to be acknowledged by them, despite the clear warning signs that they don't really care about him.

[astro-b-o-y-d]

Me aiming the transmasc gun at a handful of the female characters in Gravity Falls: Hold still