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New Year's resolution

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“Suuguruuuuuu,” Satoru cries—

Suguru turns and shoves the lollipop into his mouth. Satoru cuts off abruptly, eyebrows jumping up as he closes his mouth automatically. His glasses are a centimeter away from sliding off his face, and Suguru pushes them back up without thinking about it.

“You’re disgusting,” Shoko gags, suddenly turning away like she’s been physically struck. “I’m going to bed. I hate you two. I’m killing you both in the morning.”

Suguru can’t help but laugh as she stalks away in the direction of her room.

Satoru unwinds himself from his arm, and there’s a faint smattering of red across his face as he takes the lollipop out of his mouth. “Where’s this from?”

Suguru shrugs. “I saw it when I was out today.”

“Oh,” Satoru replies, and his eyes seem a little dazed as he stares. The red doesn’t go away. “Thank you.”

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4 times geto makes gojo blush, + 1 (or more than 1) times gojo makes geto blush

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my art for bonus to 3rd TGCF book ❤️

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Illustration for tgcf book 3

Art by: ___anteiku

Illustration for book 1

Illustration for book 2

Book covers (1-3)

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i know the color red followed hua cheng all his life because of his eye but i’m also kinda obsessed with the idea that it also represents blood, and more specifically xie lian’s blood from the night in the crown prince’s temple. that night changed something in both of them, and it is a pivotal moment in hua cheng’s existence: it’s the worst thing he went through, (despite all his previous trauma,) and it’s when he gains enough strength/resentment/desire to protect to gain a corporeal form.

he formed and immediately kneeled below the altar, which was most likely covered in and dripping with blood. crimson everywhere. probably even pooling beneath him. hua cheng’s ghost body was born in a pool of his god’s blood and suffering after seeing him being split open and being unable to do anything about it.

i know he’s dressed as wuming right after but i can’t help but love the imagery of the blood staining his soul so much that it must physically appear in the form of clothes. as if he was still constantly reliving that moment of kneeling in xie lian’s blood. to always remember and never forget the cruelty of the people and how much his god suffered.

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Hualian - Love Like You

spent the last few weeks painting this!! (there are spoilers throughout the books, watch only if you’ve finished tgcf) 

thank you hualian for inventing love !!

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dianxia and fafa studies!! 

i love these two…(lies down) ….so much 

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“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. [...] When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”  🩸

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.” 🌻

Two souls, reunited.

(quotes from Madelline Miller's The Song Of Achilles)

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richard siken sentence starters.

quotes are all taken from various poems out of richard siken’s poetry book crush.  feel free to change pronouns/etc if needed.

❝  tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.  ❞

❝  tell me we’ll never get used to it.  ❞

❝  there are so many things i’m not allowed to tell you.  ❞

❝  i swallow your heart and it crawls right out of my mouth.  ❞

❝  i want it back now, baby. i want it back.  ❞

❝  i’m sorry. we know how it works. the world is no longer mysterious.  ❞

❝  that’s a nice touch.  ❞

❝  i like him and i want to be like him.  ❞

❝  i’m sure you remember, i was on the phone with you, sweetheart.  ❞

❝  history repeats itself.  ❞

❝  there are many names in history, but none of them are ours.  ❞

❝  you could drown in those eyes.  ❞

❝  but damn if there isn’t anything sexier than a slender boy with a handgun, a fast car, a bottle of pills.  ❞

❝  sorry about the blood in your mouth. i wish it was mine.  ❞

❝  i couldn’t get the boy to kill me, but i wore his jacket for the longest time.  ❞

❝  you wanted happiness, i can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.  ❞

❝  there is no way to make this story interesting.  ❞

❝  i want to tell you this story without having to confess anything, without having to say that i ran out into the street to prove something.  ❞

❝  tell me we’re dead and i’ll love you even more.  ❞

❝  you will be alone always and then you will die.  ❞

❝  i’m sorry i came to your party and seduced you and left you bruised and ruined, you poor sad thing.  ❞

❝  who am i? i’m just a writer. i write things down.  ❞

❝  i take it back.  ❞

❝  here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.  ❞

❝  you still get to be the hero.  ❞

❝  what more do you want?  ❞

❝  love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. it’s like a religion. it’s terrifying.  ❞

❝  no one will ever want to sleep with you.  ❞

❝  you know that recently we have had our difficulties and there are many things i want to ask you.  ❞

❝  you had not expected this.  ❞

❝  walk a mile in my shoes.  ❞

❝  a man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river but then he’s still left with the river.  ❞

❝  you are weak and hollow and it doesn’t matter anymore.  ❞

❝  hush, my sweet. these tornadoes are for you.  ❞

❝  that sounds overly valorous.  ❞

❝  do you love yourself?  ❞

❝  i don’t have to answer that.  ❞

❝  you wanted more.  ❞

❝  i had a dream about you.  ❞

❝  there’s nowhere to go. there’s nowhere to go.  ❞

❝  in these dreams it’s always you: the boy in the sweatshirt, the boy on the bridge, the boy who always keeps me from jumping off the bridge.  ❞

❝  will you love me even more when i’m dead?  ❞

❝  you didn’t show up. i kept waiting.  ❞

❝  i swallowed crushed ice pretending it was glass and you’re dead.  ❞

❝  i don’t really blame you for being dead but you can’t have your sweater back.  ❞

❝  you can sleep now, you said. you can sleep now. you said that. i had a dream where you said that. thanks for saying that. you weren’t supposed to.  ❞

❝  hello darling, welcome home.  ❞

❝  please keep him safe.  ❞

❝  i just don’t want to die anymore.  ❞

❝  you want to die for love, you always have.  ❞

❝  you didn’t think you’d feel this way.  ❞

❝  you saved my life. i owe you, i owe you everything.  ❞

❝  please, just for one night, will you lie down next to me, we can leave our clothes on, we can stay all buttoned up.  ❞

❝  you’re all i ever wanted and worth dying for, too.  ❞

❝  drive into that tree, drive off the embankment. ______, make something happen.  ❞

❝  we are not dirty.  ❞

❝  you keep singing along to that song i hate. stop singing.  ❞

❝  here is the sink to wash away the blood.  ❞

❝  this is not harmless. you are not breathing.  ❞

❝  i will come back from the dead for you.  ❞

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donnie sc redraws >:o) full version below!!

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(bolts upright in bed)

Ed’s sudden growth spurt at the end was a sign that his connection to Al’s body was failing and Al was getting dragged back to the gate.

Like I knew this, but it just dawned on me that Ed getting taller in the last part of the series is not just a visual representation of his character growth and his maturing as things creep towards the finale, but it’s LITERALLY the most obvious sign that Al’s time in the armor is running out.

The context of why Ed is shorter than average and his connection with Al’s body and soul manages to make Ed getting taller - and finally getting taller than Winry, something he’s wanted for the whole series, something that should seem like a victory for him after all the teasing people have done - almost bittersweet. Maybe even ominous if you think too hard about it.

And maybe that’s why there’s never a moment where people point it out, why it’s never played for a joke, why there’s never a moment of victory for Ed when he realizes it. I’d always attributed the lack of reaction to Ed finally getting taller to the rising tension and the foreboding tone of the last part of the story. No one comments on Ed’s height, because things are THAT BAD. Ed doesn’t notice because he’s THAT WORRIED about the Promised Day.

But it’s not just that things are Serious with a capital S and most of the running gags have been abandoned at this point, it’s also that Ed getting SIGNIFICANTLY taller very quickly is a very bad sign for Al and the state of his soul.

The turning point is Ed’s injury in Baschool - either because nearly dying weakened the connection or because Ed used his own life force and tapping into his own soul/life messed with the connection, or because his body just needed all the energy and nutrients possible to survive, which meant less to give to Al’s body, is unclear, but Al lasted for 4/5 years in the amor with no problem, and then Ed almost dies, and suddenly Al starts getting dragged back to the gate and immediately afterwards Ed gains like a foot of height in like six months.

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facing Truth

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alright i can get possessed my homie said it was chill

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don’t forget!