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[wexhappyxfew]

CHAPTER 15 - RISING IN THE RANKS

March 12th, 1943 - 0300 Camp Mackall, North Carolina, United States War Correspondent Esther Armstrong

OCS had proven to be both a welcome challenge and a goal once I had stepped foot into training. Not only did it improve upon my character, my capability to lead, and my communication skills, but it taught me a lot about the onset of war and what we were doing. Why we were fighting and continuing to bear grievance to the enemy. After my time in OCS and obtaining the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, I was immediately reconnected with Easy Company in Camp Mackall. With the rank of Lieutenant and a new wealth of knowledge, it seemed cliche to say, but I made Camp Mackall my oyster. I almost suspected by the time I arrived that we'd be shipped out sooner than we all thought to war. Or that maybe there was a set plan in place in case we needed to jump earlier. Everyone carried themselves with a different grace and stoicism than they had previously it felt. And that's when people seemed to notice some cracks here and there. Specifically in Captain Sobel's leadership. It became the pinnacle of Camp Mackall. - Esther Armstrong, on OCS, in her book, Stroke of Luck

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[tanyafreemont]

i was watching the new quinton reviews video and this computer immediately stuck out to me because ??? so i stuck it into MS paint and i've discovered that the computers of mid-late icarly are on a whole other level & i want whatever this OS has going on. it is a gender to me

[quietly-sleeping]

Do you ever think that Qi Qingqi mistook Wei Qingwei as a lesbian and flirted with him only to be hit with a Wan Jian disciple calling him shixiong?

[spiderbirdo]

stupid insane petty reasons why i dropped fics (danmei edition)

chinese streamer from CHINA used twitch to stream instead of bilibili

Chinese character saying "i wish i took a foreign language" while looking at a CHINESE MENU IN A CHINESE RESTAURANT because they cant read mandarin

used japanese sounding names for background characters/ocs

used words that does not exist in the chinese language as character names (e.g. cho chang)

used singular word character to refer to character (e.g. calling Shen Yuan just Yuan) the entire fic

perfect therapy speak in ancient china

too much casual use of family terms when it is OOC and inappropriate for the characters to do so (using gegedidi when the characters adhere to strict decorum)

used the WRONG titles (character refers to their superior/elder as 'gongzi')

strict traditional uncle-in-law is accepting of steaming as a career from the get go

overuse of A'(name), especially if the characters using it arent even close to the person in the first place

character casually telling other people they were getting a hair cut IN ANCIENT CHINA

"Aiya, Wo Zhe Ge Ren (This person I am)… How can I have such a Hou Lian Pi (Thick-face) ah?"

mentions of officials in court dancing together at a banquet THIS IS AN BANQUET IN ANCIENT CHINA NOT A DEBUTANTE BALL

character used the term 'still life' IN ANCIENT CHINA

'european royalty au' where every single character is chinese, even the background characters

[butterscotch-101]

GAHHH… inaccurate height chart jumpscare!! Earlier this week I partook in a reblog regarding Magnus and the Assassin's height, in which I used a screenshot to compare Nathan, Magnus, and MMA's height.

But my friend and I pointed out the next morning that the characters from the official height charts aren't properly aligned at the heels. So I decided to take matters into my hands and create my own height chart!

Chart and incoming yapping below the cut!!

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Throughout the whole week, I've been looking at the official height charts, fixing them to be properly aligned, and looking at many, many screenshots from the show, musical, and movie. This took about 5.5 hours in total.

Now, of course, this isn't accurate! I went off by estimation through many observations. The main problem with finding a height is the inconsistency! Every shot of them standing side by side is different every time and varies based off perspective as well. And this what I could gather as a result:

•Nathan and Skwisgaar are averaged to be the same height due to the inconsistency. In one scene, Nathan might be a little taller, but in the next, it's Skwisgaar. Sometimes, they're even the same!

•The same can be applied to Toki and Murderface, who are also averaged to be the same height.

•Despite Pickles' height, according to an official chart showing him to be around 6 ft, I went off Nathan's official height (which I fixed) and screenshots between the two to find a better average of 5'9".

•MMA has his own height chart as well, but he also has the same problem: misalignment and inconsistency. Each sprite from his turnaround sheet are at different heights but all come down to an average of 6'10". He's difficult to compare to everyone else but his sheet was the most helpful.

•Magnus is seen to be taller than the rest of band based off screenshots from S4 and the musical; however, the height between him and MMA are still unclear and remain an estimation based on his height compared to the band.

•Charles and Knubbler were the most difficult for me to compare heights but I tried my best to find their average. They might be the most inaccurate out of the rest.

•Abigail is possibly the only one in the show to have an established height of 5'8", which made her the easiest alongside MMA.

I tried my best. Go crazy with this guys! :D

[mechalot]

ITS UNSTANGLE FUCKING DAY!!!

[pitlanepeach]

Hi!!! I saw you mentioning being a reader and omg I must (but like gently you're not obliged of course!!) to know some of your fav books / comfort read heheh also 👀👀 you mentioned dark romance....any rec or trope you particularly like heheh im a big dark romance fan 💅🏻😬

Eeeeek okay here’s Peach’s top 5 adult romance recommendations!

1. Little Dove by Layla Frost (my all time favourite book)

2. Rock Chick Series by Kristen Ashley (they’re all incredible. every single book in the series.)

3. His Tesoro by Emilia Rossi (chefs kiss)

4. Perfectly Imperfect Series by Neva Altaj (no notes. perfect)

5. Elora + Plaything by Beanie Harper (I CANT TELL U HOW MUCH I ADORE THESE BOOKS)

[hestzhyen]

An Extremely Subjective HakuHiro Romantic Trope Breakdown

Greetings, void. This arc is rough and the brainworms won't let me write my own hurt/comfort fan fiction- they demand half-baked analysis instead of lovemaking. So have the closest thing that passes for fluff from yours truly.

In essence, this is just a list of the explicitly romantic tropes I love applying to HakuHiro with varying degrees of gushing ship babble as justification. Some are definitely skewed hard towards headcanon but there's always at least a tenuous connection to something that's demonstrated in the work itself. Proceed if this kind of brain rot sounds like your jam! Otherwise just please let me die from cringe in peace.

Battle Couple

Offense and support working in perfect harmony.

So this is just one of my personal favourites, but Chihiro and Hakuri definitely have strong vibes for this trope. They fought together in an absolutely stunning display of mutual trust and understanding in the Rakuzaichi Arc. Seriously, these guys pulled off some truly spine-tingly good moves to take down Kyora despite Hakuri only just awakening to his powers the very same day.

They demonstrated this again in the train fight protecting Uruha- Hakuri and Chihiro only need the bare minimum of communication between them to fight in style. I look forward to more chances for them to show off their teamwork! If they end up fighting back-to-back in canon I'll probably just straight up ascend to fudanshi heaven on the spot. I LOVE BATTLE COUPLES.

Love at First Sight/Rescue Romance

"This is the kind of man I need in my life."

Love at First Sight is pretty self-explanatory: person A sees person B and immediately falls head over heels. It's easy to slap that on Hakuri in his introduction chapter- he's only missing an invitation to get to know each other over some coffee when they finally meet up, really. Unless asking someone to help you kill your family is the Kagurabachi universe's equivalent...?

As for Rescue Romance, it's another very simple scenario: person A is saved by person B, which causes them to fall in love. Chihiro saves Hakuri with the other random people at the site of Sojo's massacre attempt, and Hakuri... yeah. You get it.

I think there's a better trope to associate to this later on in the list, but Love at First Sight and Rescue Romance are still apt and very funny tropes to apply towards Hakuri's first impression of Chihiro. The way he waxed poetic over the mystery samurai who saved and inspired him had me in stitches. Seriously, my oldest notes on Hakuri from that chapter are mostly just laughing about him being really passionate about Chihiro for someone who's not intended to be a love interest! Go get 'im, Hakuri. He needs you in his life just as much as you need him in yours.

There's also something to be said from Chihro's side, though...

You bet your sweet Bippy Chihiro's solution to this also ties into his feelings about Hakuri.

Chihiro has expressed that Hakuri saved him twice so far (as of chapter 64). He's guilty as hell over it but he's putting those feelings to good use to become stronger. He's going to become the person Hakuri said he needed, and who he already thinks Chihiro is- but more on that later. Still, improving yourself to meet the measure someone else has of you is pretty romantic, isn't it? Especially so they stop getting hurt for your sake!

Mindlink Mates

Don't need to hear each other at all if you just "get" them.

This is something I like to apply as a Fanon concept based on what happens in canon. Hakuri and Chihiro aren't literally linked mind-to-mind via telepathy, but both of them have a deep understanding of what the other's thinking and feeling at any given moment. I really like the concept that they understand everything about each other on an instinctual level. It's mostly fueled by the Aun concepts that have been associated to them, which I'll get into during a later section. But yeah. Hakuri and Chihiro being borderline telepathic in how they can sense the other's status. That's crack cocaine to me and it's not too far removed from canon so I'm running with it.

I also really like the idea of their strong emotions and desires bouncing off of and amplifying each other's, but I don't know if there's a specific trope for that, so it gets placed here at the end of this tangentially related section. Also not something far removed from canon given how they both fuel each other's self-destructive savior tendencies because they feel the same way!

Moe Couplet

They're so cuuuuuuuuuuuuuute

A Moe Couplet is essentially a pair of characters that enhance each other's cute traits. Separate, they are perfectly fine individuals with their own appeal. Together, they are adorable and capable of some tooth-rottingly sweet moments. This trope isn't typically associated with romantic duos in stuff aimed at general audiences, but it's common in BL as the basis for "fluff" works and wholesome pairings.

This is probably the biggest stretch to apply towards canon on the list, honestly. We haven't seen that much moe moe action from Hakuri and Chihiro- they're kind of busy fighting for their lives or hurting themselves to save others most of the time. But the few moments we get send me straight into cuteness agression-induced brain rot every time I think of them.

Most of this trope label for HakuHiro comes from little details. Like Chihiro often being shown reassuring Hakuri, and Hakuri getting some of the sweetest smiles out of him in return. Hakuri brings out Chihiro's soft side when Char's not around to do so and Chihiro helps Hakuri be his absolute silliest. These guys are are so good to each other! They melt the ice around my cold, dead heart into a slurry of hnnngh and incoherent shipper screeching.

What's it actually based on though? Well, I thought I was just doing normal delusional fudanshi things by thinking Hakuri is extra cute when he's around Chihiro and vice versa. But then Hokazono-sensei threw me a bone in an interview by saying he intended for Hakuri to "bring out Chihiro's personality and add some cuteness". And I. Just. I exploded into confetti on the spot. MOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

One True Love

This ship is not merely an OTP to me, if you haven't noticed.

Note: "ai" is not inherently romantic despite it being the end-goal of pretty much every romance novel out there. It's for deep, profound affection felt for someone- friends, family, even pets. It's rare and not commonly said aloud outside of the climax of a love story is all!

This is mostly tied to Hakuri's experience with love growing up and how he can find out what 愛 [ai, purest and deepest love], really means.

Hakuri probably has no fucking clue what love of any kind is really supposed to look or feel like, much less the ultimate form of it. His father threw ai around as something to manipulate his children into serving the family tradition. Soya used it as an excuse to torture him. This was deliberately done to contrast with the love that Chihiro knew growing up- true ai between father and son, which was cruelly ripped away from him.

So let Chihiro teach Hakuri, and Hakuri provide in return. They're already each other's perfect partners anyway so just put a romantic spin on it!

Hakuri finding unconditional love he doesn't fear in Chihiro and Chihiro finding the same in Hakuri once more. Neither of them ever needing to fall in love again because they slot together so perfectly to fill the gaps in each other's hearts. Oh I'm gonna die...

Opposites Attract

If not meant to be canon, why colour coded as opposite compliments? :thonk:

This is the trope that activates a primitive part of my brain that overrides all thoughts with eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee noises when it comes to HakuHiro. Hakuri and Chihiro are true opposites that are perfectly balanced to contrast and compliment each other, resulting in a duo greater than the sum of it's parts.

Hokazono-sensei made his intentions about Hakuri and Chihiro extremely clear by going so far as to colour code them for us. This is the protagonist and his foil/deuteragonist guy who is Important as Fuck. The level of detail in designing and writing them reads like he took this trope extremely seriously and said "let's save the Hero + Lancer coding for Hiyuki instead". 'Cause as much as I love her, Hiyuki's got nothing on Hakuri when it comes to this trope. Her thing is closer to being the same person as Chihiro with the opposite frame of mind and mode of expression- it's Hakuri and Chihiro who are the true manifestation of Opposites Attract down to the tiniest details. I'm ready to die on this hill so come at me and put me out of my misery.

I mean just look at these guys:

Chihiro: black and red, stoic, reserved, serious and polite, slim and straight profile.

Hakuri: white and blue, emotive, outgoing, silly and casual, loose and boxy profile.

They invert the same ways under pressure; Chihiro stresses and falters while Hakuri focuses and buckles down. Their fucking backstories are in on it too: they both lost their father's love but under distinctly opposite circumstances. Even the love they received was contrasted since Kunishige was a perfectly wholesome dad while Kyoura used love in an abusively manipulative way! And that laid the foundation for the premise of the Rakuzaichi arc- Hakuri wants to destroy his family's legacy while Chihiro still wants to do right by his. It would take a whole 'nother post to list everything between them because every single detail about one is carefully crafted to be present in the other in order to complete their characters. It's absolutely insane and it's what really sold me on the ship.

The level of care put into writing Hakuri and Chihiro as opposites who complete each other is out of this fucking world. I'll feel sorry for whatever girl gets assigned to be a mandatory heterosexual love interest for either of them because there's just no way to compete when two people are written to be so thoroughly intertwined with each other.

(To clarify just in case: I don't think Chiyuki is a bad ship. I'm not trying to trash it and say HakuHiro's better or more legitimate somehow. I just have an issue with shounen romance in general because the girls don't get nearly as much narrative effort to make them compelling companions to the MC compared to the "best friends" and Kagurabachi is doing nothing new in that regard so far. Hokazono-sensei can actually make a bigger impact by refusing to tease Chihiro and Hiyuki at all instead of going down the tired old path of obligated sub-par heterosexual ship tease/romance IMO.)

The Power of Love

Nice Heroic Second Wind you got after thinking about Chihiro there, Hakuri.

So this is definitely skewed towards pure delusion on my part, but that's what we're all here for anyway. Power of Friendship? Never heard of it.

Basically, person A uses their love for person B to power up and overcome the hardship they're facing. In this case, I'm interpreting Hakuri's tendency to think of Chihiro when he's in dire straits as romantic!

Hakuri comes in clutch a lot and his feelings abut Chihiro are the reason he can do it. The memory of his samurai refusing to yield gives Hakuri the strength to keep standing and finally put Soya down in chapter 36. He does it again in a sadder way in Chapter 58 when he thinks of Chihiro and musters the last of his strength to summon him too late to save Uruha. I have no doubt that he'll have more of these moments as the series goes on, too. Chihiro is kind of hope incarnate to Hakuri.

Chihiro's drawn strength from his feelings for Hakuri too, but not in a pinch kind of way like the Power of Love trope typically implies. I'm just waiting for the day when it's his turn to use memories of Hakuri to keep standing (never gonna happen)!

Chapter 64 update- Chihiro had his own moment! And oh boy is it amazing.

"That's you!!"

He thinks back to Hakuri saying he needs a Samurai in his life, and combined with the guilt he feels over Hakuri's current bed-ridden status, powers up so he can be the person Hakuri said he needed. Chihiro wants to get stronger so Hakuri doesn't have to risk his life and health for him ever again. He's going to become Hakuri's samurai. Holy shit. This is canon! Let all the doubts surrounding how Chihiro feels about Hakuri be dispelled- he cares a hell of a lot.

Ship Tease

Putting this here for lack of a better term, but there's a running gag about Hakuri and Chihiro's relationship that's been escalating in intensity since the early parts of the Rakuzaichi arc. It only comes across in bits and pieces in English compared to Japanese, sadly, but I'll do my best to explain it.

Basically, I'm interpreting the jokes about Hakuri acting like a dog as deliberate ship tease for the lols from the author.

"Paw. Shake. Good boy."

It starts in chapter 28 with Hakuri dropping everything he's doing to run over to Chihiro when his name is called. It's really cute and funny and not something that can get lost in translation- Chihiro calls, and Hakuri comes. Just like a loyal dog to it's master.

It's set aside for a while until the Sword Bearer Assassination Arc starts up and Hiyuki drops this banger during the trial in chapter 46:

"But where he [Hakuri] stands is a big pain in the butt. He's not the one calling the shots." - official TL

Of note is the term Hiyuki used to say that Chihiro's the one in charge: 舵取り [kajitori]. The normal meaning for it is "steering a boat" or "helmsman" with the secondary being leader/director, so it's not like the English TL messed up. Same meaning different wording. What's lost is the subtext: 舵取り as Hiyuki's using it can also imply that Chihiro's in charge of Hakuri like the owner of a dangerous guard dog would be lmao. Hakuri kind of earned that jab after threatening to leave her in the storehouse to die if she hurt Chihiro, though.

And then there's this completely unnecessary scene from Ch. 50...

"Who's this? This little squirt smells like Chihiro, but he's not Chihiro."- official TL

The TL again isn't bad here but it really downplays just how fucking weird Samura is (which downgrades the rocket propellant to mere ship fuel). Samura's phrasing about Hakuri smelling like Chihiro was so batshit insane in Japanese that fellow JP shippers felt compelled to reach out to the rest of us in English to let us know, which is almost completely unheard of.

Basically, Samura wasn't saying that Hakuri merely smelled like Chihiro. He actually said that Hakuri was wearing Chihiro's scent by using 纏う, conjugated and written as まとって (matotte)- completely enveloped in it to the point of smelling identical to him. A native JP reader (in the link above) said that in their interpretation, the phrase "香りをまとって [kaori o matotte], wrapped up in/wearing a scent" isn't really used for friends smelling like each other, but more for lovers, family members, or dogs and their owners in the sense that being so physically close all the time causes their scents to rub off on each other. Hmm.

It's not a normal term used to describe smelling like someone in the first place. When Samura meets younger Chihiro in the flashback and says he "reeks of Rokuhira", he just emphasizes the typical word for "smell/scent" (香り [kaori]) in quotation marks in the Japanese version: [六平の"香り"濃い...ッ!!] and uses 濃い [koi, concentrated/thick] like someone normally would to describe it as "reeking". So for some reason we just had to know that Hakuri smelled like Chihiro in the way dog or a lover would, huh... so much so that Samura thought he actually was Chihiro... (I can't get over this, it sends my sides into orbit every fucking time).

So yeah. That's some top-tier ship tease if I do say so myself. What that dog doin'? What did they get up to on the train before meeting with Uruha? That's for us to decide!

Soulmates

It's not exactly hard to see that Hakuri and Chihiro have a bit more going on between them than standard friendship or brotherhood, even for a shounen series. Even some dudebros acknowledged this before the fandom gave over to homophobic trash anyway.

It all stems from Hakuri invoking one of the most potent romantic tropes there is as soon as they meet:

"That day, a samurai lit my helpless existence on fire."

Jesus Christ Hakuri, that's some passion!

I think the "soulmates" trope is the most fitting description of what's going on between Hakuri and Chihiro from the very first time they meet. I'll even go so far to say that it actually has a pretty damn good case for being canon in a platonic sense!

For the uninitiated (like I was), the soulmates trope is invoked when two characters feel a strong and immediate connection upon first meeting each other. It can be one-sided or even completely rejected by both at the start, but they will always find their way to each other since they are fated to be. The whole world falls into kilter when they get together even if they were perfectly functional people on their own before. HakuHiro is this trope to a fucking T in my mind. Absolutely flawless execution, 10/10 no notes.

Hakuri's part is obvious- he sees Chihiro and decides he must have this amazing person in his life no matter what. He feels the pull of destiny and answers the call with an overabundance of enthusiasm.

Chihiro's part is more subtle. He does the one-sided rejection thing at the start by running away, but fate pulls them together via circumstance and he takes Hakuri back with him. And somehow, for some reason, Hakuri is the first person he opens up about his genuine feelings to in a surprisingly raw way:

"If I don't do something, and a sacred blade takes the lives of innocent people... I wouldn't be able to bear that..."

He met the guy minutes ago, tried to run away from him, then decided to bear his heart to him in the elevator. Chihiro's a natural stoic who doesn't show much of what he's feeling and generally keeps thoughts like this to himself. But Hakuri brings out this softer, more vulnerable side to him that no other character has before. Then as the arc progresses, Chihiro comes to rely on Hakuri more and more until it's crazy to think that he ever ran away in the first place. It's like they were always meant to find and save each other.

I'm not looking too hard at this with shipping goggles strapped to my face. We get confirmation that this is what's going on with them via The Word of God Himself:

From the Volume 4 description: 一方、兄からの愛と暴力によって地に伏した伯理。今際の際に脳裏を過ったのは、ある少女との日々だった。極限の中、二人の少年の魂が呼応する。

"Meanwhile, Hakuri is struck down by his brother's love and violence. On the brink of death, he remembers the days he spent with a certain girl. In the midst of this extreme tension, the souls of both boys resonate with each other."

The last sentence is basically more total harmony/Aun imagery for Hakuri and Chihiro. 呼 (ko) means to call and 応 (ou) means to respond. Together, 呼応 means to act in concert. So Hakuri and Chihiro's souls call out and respond to each other in perfect sync when they're in dire straits. It's canon!

If that's not enough, then there's also the Aun imagery. It was left out of the EN Chapter 38 colour page as usual (never gonna forgive the EN version for removing the text), but basically the author used deliberate religious imagery to tell us that Chihiro and Hakuri have an inherently harmonious relationship. A and Un, in perfect sync- whatever one starts, the other will finish. The beginning and end of all things. A perfect pair.

They demonstrate this lethal effectiveness by working in tandem during the storehouse fight, with Chihiro only needing to yell Hakuri's name for Hakuri to perfectly interpret everything he's thinking and execute on it flawlessly. It's absolutely insane stuff even if we disregard Hakuri only woke up to his power less than an hour ago in-universe isn't it?! And they repeated the stunt the next day while protecting Uruha, so it wasn't just a one-off for a cool moment. It's core to their dynamic for their souls to resonate in total harmony!

And just to top it off, we got a funny little gag of Chihiro and Hakuri passing out and waking up at the same time side-by-side after the auction, totally in sync.

All of this within a week of meeting each other.

Some actual romantic soulmate couples don't get this much effort put into coding their relationship, just saying. I also don't think people would be so quick to jump on the sibling interpretation after Shiba's "What are ya, twins?" joke if Hakuri and Chihiro were a heterosexual ship option, just sayin'.

Unknowingly in Love

No sad pictures of dead Kunishige in this post!

This is another one that's far closer to fanon than canon. It banks on the fact that both of them grew up isolated and, quite frankly, probably poorly socialized compared to the rest of the world.

Chihiro lived with just his dad in a remote mountain home and only occasionally visited the town nearby with Shiba. No friends, no school even. Hakuri lived on the secluded Sazanami estate surrounded by his family and saw some of the outside world, but likely only the criminal elements of it. Plus there's the whole growing up only knowing love as something abusive and manipulative thing; even his parent's marriage was strongly implied to be arranged and joyless. Neither of these guys have anything decent in their personal lives to reference from!

So in my mind, while Hakuri and Chihiro have certainly heard of romantic love and thought about it themselves, they wouldn't really have an idea of what it feels or looks like to them. Couple that with being each other's first friends ever and you've got some extremely potent fluff (or angst) about them being unaware that what they're feeling isn't platonic.

You Are Worth Hell

I will follow you into the dark.

And to round things off, one of my favourite romance tropes ever! But it's not canon at all- YET.

You see, Hakuri and Chihiro are constantly pulling each other forward. When one stumbles, the other's there with a helping hand. But what happens when one descends into hell like Chihiro says he's doing this very arc? Will the other try to throw them a lifeline and hope for the best?

Nay! The other will stay by their side out of love.

This trope can veer too close to toxic situationship scenarios for comfort, it's true. Characters staying to "save" someone or letting themself get dragged down at their own expense is not healthy at all. But the core sentiment of this trope is that anything is bearable if you're with the one you love. The emphasis isn't on the mutual suffering but rather the comfort of being together despite it all.

My personal interpretation of the relationship between Hakuri and Chihiro is that one was born in hell (Hakuri) and the other has condemned himself to it (Chihiro). Hakuri's trying to rise up while Chihiro has consigned himself to sink further into the darkness. They met at at a crossroads on their respective journeys and are walking together for a while. And when Chihiro takes a turn to keep going further down, I think Hakuri will stop him from going too far. Hakuri will be the light in the gloom until the mission's over. Then they'll figure out if they can make it back up or not. And if they can't? Well, he was already at rock bottom before Chihiro came into his life. It's worth it to stay in hell at his side and face everything together.

So I think this can apply very well to HakuHiro as the current arc progresses. Hakuri choosing to stay as a partner to provide support rather than trying to save Chihiro at his own expense would be huge character growth for him. And Chihiro accepting Hakuri's gesture would be growth for him too- he doesn't have to do this alone. There's no truly Bad End for their stories if they are walking side-by-side to face the hardships together until the end.

That's it. If you got through all this, thanks. Yap at me about tropes I missed! I love hearing the myriad ways other people interpret this ship. Unless you think fixed left-right boring seme/uke stereotype ChiHaku is the only valid interpretation, in which case we can never be friends. Sorry not sorry.

[lunarle-old]

Okay wait, your view on the Saious is nice, i very luch agree and even some points are very similar to my views, and you wrote it well so I must hear your view about Saihara's bisexual boyfailing-ness

So we can all agree Shuichi is to some degree bisexual right??

my phone doesnt have enough battery to look for any more examples but these felt kinda gay to me. idk

In that last post I was kind of more referring to,, how Shuichi interacts with romance? It's really hard to explain and goes mostly based off of my own hcs and interpretations. but youve read my fics you've probably caught on by now. autistic shuichi, adhd kokichi, theyre in my head get them out please let me be free

Anyways I'll try to keep this as clear as i can,, Shuichi has never expressed interest in somebody who didnt express interest in him first. He clung to Kaede since she was the first one he met there, he literally had to ASK FOR HER HELP to talk to Miu. and when she died, it was Kaito who approached him first, encouraging him to come out of his shell. Between Kaito and Kaede's wish, he started building more social confidence, hence our access to the FTEs and his trial growth

So I think that Shuichi struggles to differentiate romantic and platonic feelings. He found someone who liked him as a person, willingly spent time with him and enjoyed it, supported him and treated him kindly and as an equal (which we all know he struggles with his self worth). He finally got a friend for the first time, and mistook really liking somebody to actually being in love with them. dont worry it took me a while to figure it out too @_@;

A lot of the stuff thats harder to explain kinda goes into my fics. I'd like to think im getting better at writing romance ^.^ so I hope it's a little more obvious there. He's very slow to realize the difference between being in love with someone and what he thought he was experiencing. And when he does realize it, hes a little more hesitant to express it, because... hes never done that before, yknow?

and uh 10 minutes later i realized i had this post and forgot what i was talking about . Post cancelled everyone go home

[fiftyshadesofmetal]

im trying to find a jar big enough to put my MDLX sideswipe in

[clumsypuppy]

started stardew valley for the first time. born to remember villager likes and dislikes forced to immediately forget it the moment i take my eyes off thw wiki

[agaricus-bitorquis]

Seawatt X Evbo Yuri save me... Save me Seawatt X Evbo Yuri...... I feel like for such a big seabo yuri fan I don't talk or draw them nearly enough as I actually think about them. Sighhh always on my mind but I can't actually write anything right now...... curses!!! (Referance underneath)

[lamentfulwarbler]

Jiang Yanli is so fun to draw actually— I feel like I’ve reached enlightenment— WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME SHE WAS SO FUN TO DRAW??? T0T

Edit: Link to reblog with the full wip bc i am a weak, weak man who enjoys sharing and yapping about his interests on tumblr dot com

Edit 2: Made a comic-thingy as well. Why am I like this.

[borealiszero]

One sunny day somewhere from before

[losver07]

"nAmE FiVe SoNgS—" darling, i could recite to you the entirety of your existence, your miserably thin line of insignificant life events, all in a single minute. i could compose verses and fill novels with the knowledge you lack, i could enrich a ten foot canvas with the beauty of the world you have yet to see. i am not a human but a god sent to you with the sole purpose of testing your heart, and all that i have learnt is that you lack said organ. all that you think makes you superior is but a lie you have wrapped yourself in, a blanket of fallacies and hatred and petroleum and clay. inside of your fragile shell you are nothing but a tiny, vulnerable, useless being who feeds off of others' tears and sweat because you cannot produce your own, you are not capable of emotion, motion, notion. you open stab wounds on others' backs to distract your brain from the fact that your soul died many, many years ago. you cannot even feel the art you so pridefully protect beating on your chest, because you chiseled out your body from a giant block of cold, dead quartz. so perfect and pure, you cannot even breathe, you have never known humanity. so who is the poser now?

aight, so my faves are—

[maggotmessiah0]

I was tryna diy a spiked wristcuff because I dont wanna go out and buy one thats too much work and I was making the spikes out of cans BUT I forgot to take into account my stupidity and it turned out BAD so I freaked out and slapped a bunch of random stuff onto it instead

the rubber band cardboard plastic thing i shoved under the cardboard and green thing I found those on the floor and went oh yeah jackpot