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Isn’t it funny how kpop artists are not allowed to say imma beat that pussy up but they are almost always peddling sex appeal in some way so we get one thousand metaphors instead and it’s like

girl group lyrics: look at my cookie my cake my strawberry cream sundae because it’s sweet and it’s pink and it’s fresh and it’s hot and if you want it you can taste it but not everyone can taste it but you can touch it and feel it and it feel so good. My sundae my sundae everybody now 1 2 3 shake it shake it

boy group lyrics: come ride on me and around me and on top of me and jump on top of me and we are jumping around and around and we are close to each other because we are driving in the car. And you can drive my car and we can drive the car together and we can drive so hard and so fast. Vroom vroom skrrt skrrt let’s ride let’s go let’s jump up and down I love my car it’s fun.

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reading together 💫

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Hypothetical scenario: you suddenly have a clone. They have all of your memories and your same personality, but they aware that they're not the original. They think of your friends as also their friends, your job as also their job, your partner as also their partner, etc.

"Unshareable" things would include your job, legal identity, romantic partner(s) [excluding certain poly arrangements], personal possessions, etc.

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happy pride to them specifically

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happy pride month to these four specifically

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Every time I look at this illustration I start emotionally chewing glass. Like.

Mochijun has drawn Vanoé back to back and/or with Noé inverted a zillion times, but the strong blue vs red and black vs white color theming in this one really drives home the whole "they're perfect opposites" visual of it all. The contrasting duo of all time.

Vanitas and Noé are chained together, or at least they're both wrapped up in the same chain. And it's the chain from The Book of Vanitas—the initial connection that first binds them together when they meet.

Vanitas and Noé each both have one chess piece behind them that is fully broken rather than just a bit cracked. Vanitas and Noé are also both, as people, deeply haunted by one particular death from their backstory.

Vanitas lost both of his biological parents by his mid teens, and he thought he'd lost Misha as well until recently, but he's always been first and foremost defined by the death of Luna. Luna is his namesake, the source of his powers, and the motivating force behind his self-destructive revenge. There would be no "Vanitas" at all if not for the ways the events around Luna's death broke and defined him. And the shattered chess piece behind Vanitas is a queen piece: a broken matriarch to represent the death of his mother figure.

Noé lost his human grandparents as a small child, and he's been separated from his Archiviste family by death and/or distance, but he is first and foremost defined by the death of Louis. Louis is the one great loss that poured gas on the fire of Noé's savior complex, to the point he even references his failure to save Louis as a reason he has to save Domi in the Amusement Park. Louis is the dead friend he still dreams of years later in Paris. He is the one great specter of grief that even Noé cannot romanticize into something painless. And the shattered chess piece behind Noé is a bishop: the piece best suited to represent a boy who was less noble than a knight but more important than a pawn. (Not to mention, of course, that Louis died in a ruined church).

Vanitas and Noé each have a king piece in the other's color. Noé is biting the blue king piece, and Vanitas is holding the magenta king up to his lips in a way that very much looks kisslike. That would be a loaded piece of imagery in any context, but given that the broken background pieces already establish the use of chess pieces to represent people in this illustration, and given that we know Noé wants to bite Vanitas, it's. Well it's certainly evocative.

This illustration is from right at the very beginning of the series! And it's such a fun teaser of everything we've learned about Vanitas and Noé since. It's got the way they're eternally in contrast yet bound together. It's got subtle references to the deaths that haunt them both. It's got implied sexual tension. It's got foreshadowing.

Truly one of the VnC prints of all time.

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Fuck it we bawl (starts sobbing uncontrollably)

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Sunday I didn't get to finish tehe

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Growing up with intellectual freedom from a parent but not freedom of movement was so weird. Yes of course you can read any political theory you want honey no you can’t walk home from school until you’re sixteen

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we were cosmically destined to be tumblr mutuals

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trying to divvy out kinks to your ocs is lowkey embarrassing but also feels like this

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my OCs are sooo cool you guys don't know what you're missing. if you could see the show i'm watching in my head rn you'd go so crazy i'm telling u

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again and again (speedpaint)

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trees are very 🥺 because sometimes i’ll stand under the shade of a tree and look up at it and it’ll sway its branches about in the wind and i’m like oh my God i’m alive and YOU’RE alive. we are alive together and made up of the same starry stuff and standing right next to each other in this moment on this earth. do u feel it when i reach out and press my hand to your trunk? can you hear me? i think you’re so neat. and then the sunlight filters through its leaves just so and that lovely green color leaves me dazzled. it’s just very nice to be an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing