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Happy Mother’s Day everyone!!!

Fantastic SessRin artworks from Karicchi🎁🎁🎁

Repost with permission 🌈🌈🌈

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✨Her heart & her beloved's danced with the sun-kissed breeze,and whispered secrets to the playful seas.✨

Authorized source from Weibo:漫芯巧克力

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Toraco Day 2023

Today was "Toraco Day" at Koshien Stadium to honor the female fans of Rumiko Takahashi's favorite team, the Hanshin Tigers. In honor of the day, Urusei Yatsura had crossover merchandise available, and Sumire Uesaka threw out the first pitch. The Tigers defeated the Baystars 7-2.

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Towa,Setsuna and Rin-Chan are sooooooooo cute!!!Setsuna is definitely a mama girl!!!🥹🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️

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This was inspired by Lana del Reys Outfit of the Met Gala 2018.

The original assemble had a stunning golden sacred heart chest pice with daggers sticking in it. I tried to draw it over and over again but messed up every time so I left it out completely.

Oleander is an important flower in Christianity.

In the Bible, the plant is referred to as Rose. Most authorities agree that the “Rose of Jericho” refer to the Oleander which grows near water, especially in the Jordan Valley.

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Flower symbolism:

Oleander symbolizes desire and destiny, but it can also mean caution. It is also associated with romance, charm and everlasting love.

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@secretlifeoffangirls​ say no more

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英語ができないのでもう絵で思ったことを叫ぶことにした ワンクッションの置き方がわからなかったのでネタバレごめんね

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William Zabka and Ralph Macchio for Entertainment Weekly.

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who needs shirts, we don’t need shirts

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he’s trying his best, part two | COBRA KAI

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2x10 // 4x08

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SessRin reunite! My first AMV & video on YouTube featuring the highlights of our favourite ship <3 with G.E.M.'s angsty (& beautiful) song, "Light Years Away."

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Sweet Fairytale time❤️

Fantastic SessRin fanart by 연지（@YenJung_YH）🌈

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i forgot how fucking weird november is theres no afternoon its just night after 2pm

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My Analysis on Koikimo & Higehiro

Read the full article here: The Age of Differences: Koikimo and Higehiro by bakasaiga

Both Higehiro and Koikimo depict content that can be rather controversial and unpalatable to viewers. That being said, I just want to acknowledge the difference between fiction and reality. Depiction doesn't necessarily equate to an endorsement. Anime Youtuber Digibro once said: "If you watch something and you're disgusted by it, that's you contextualizing the medium. And if you're excited by it, then you're holding yourself accountable to draw the line between fantasy and reality."

Self-Esteem and Lowering Standards

I think Koikimo and Higehiro depict feelings that almost all teenage girls feel and lessons that they ought to ask themselves, address with themselves, and see normalized on screen. No, those lessons aren't that your 'soul mate' is a salaryman that's 10 years older than you. Rather, that your standards don't need to be automatically lowered because that's the supply of potential partners around you. You shouldn't be shocked and appreciative when someone treats you decently as a stark comparison to how others have previously treated you like shit. You shouldn't have to attribute all your value to your sexuality - just because that has the highest capital in superficiality, doesn't mean that it's sustainable nor acceptable for your developing mind. Double D cup breasts on a 16-year old shouldn't be impressive, your report card should; your activities at school; your cooking skills; your athletic skills; your kindness to others; your ability to make others feel noticed; you get the point. Your multidimensionality as a person and companion. If someone looks at you and doesn't feel the urge, interest, or desire to fuck you, that not only shouldn't make you upset, it shouldn't matter.

Higehiro's first most explicit lesson for not only young women, but the audience, in general, is to have standards for themselves. Don't lower your expectations no matter how shitty they are in your immediate environment. Never settle. Know your worth.

Similar sentiments are mirrored in Koikimo when Ichika starts contemplating if she's "good enough" for Ryo.

She starts doing what all women do - compare herself to other women.

But that's when Rio, her best friend chimes in and brings her back to reality to actually confront these doubts that she's having. There will always be somebody prettier, smarter, faster, anything-er than you. But nobody will be YOU. And that's the person that your lover falls for. Rio daringly asks Ichika, "Did my brother ever say he liked someone like that?" referring to the mature, fashionable imaginary dream woman that Ichika has conjured in her head. Thus, forcing Ichika to re-think her insecurity.

Uncertainty and questioning oneself like that is often-times onesided and a product of overthinking. Throughout the anime, it's obvious that Ryo has never made Ichika feel this way - he's never compared her to his older female colleagues, he's never commented on her youthful naivety, nor made her seem childish. These are conclusions that she comes to herself as a result of adolescent self-esteem issues, native to anyone who's ever been a teenager.

Read the full article here: The Age of Differences: Koikimo and Higehiro by bakasaiga

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*opens the oven after preheating to 400*