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The army really asked "Hey, what do you think would fit the aesthetic of employing vulnerable teenagers to risk their lives over a nefarious goal they don't even know, I'm asking because we want to set up a recruiting event at the Anime Con".

Then some PR lackey was like, "you won't believe it I know the exact show"

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(Part 1? lol)This got more ridiculous than I intended but here we are, a little rujinu aquarium date shenanigan inspired by @galaxyspeaking ‘s great aquarium date concept! I have a part 2 sketched out that’s more romantic and sappy but we’ll see if and when I get to it 🐠

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This is a worker’s reprieve checkpoint. I only want you to engage with this post if you’re shirking your duties on the clock right now. We are going to make it. We are going to text and scroll on company time. We are going to find a corner or bathroom to linger in while something needs doing. Get some!

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the more i think about what the writers did with rumi/jinu the more insane i get because it's SO good

they're not lovers, they're foils for each other, they're two sides of the same coin

jinu was an ordinary boy who made a deal with a demon to become extraordinary, while rumi was extraordinary from birth due to her half human/half demon heritage and her mother's legacy as a hunter

jinu's shame is internal because his patterns were the result of his one desperate choice, while rumi's shame is external and taught to her by celine despite her patterns not being her choice at all

jinu becomes a demon because of his deal with gwi-ma, and it's gwi-ma who constantly reminds him that he'll never escape who he is, while rumi becomes a hunter and member of huntr/x because of celine, and it's celine who constantly reminds her to hide her patterns and who she really is

jinu doesn't see himself as anything other than a demon and wants to be free of his memories of his family, and thus his humanity, while rumi refuses to acknowledge the demon side of her and wants to be free of her patterns, and thus, a fundamental piece of her own heritage

their connection, then, is inevitable

jinu sees rumi, who is free of gwi-ma's voice in her ear, as the version of himself he'd do anything to be, but he also sees her as the living proof that demons are capable of being loved and can feel more than misery

rumi sees jinu, who steals souls and is bound to gwi-ma, as the version of herself that she's terrified to become if the patterns consume her, but she also sees in him the proof that demons aren't evil and mindless like she's been led to believe

with each other, they feel seen for the first time, and they can see the good in each other that they can't see in themselves, and it feels like they might be able to help each other, like they might be able to save each other, but in the end, they can't get past their individual traumas

jinu betrays rumi because he can't let go of his own shame, because he is so afraid of a future where his family's voices continue to echo in his head that he can't even imagine a different future with a girl who makes the voices go quiet

rumi walks right into jinu's trap because she's afraid of being rejected for who she really is, because she can't see the truth through her own fears

they let their worst instincts get the best of them and they failed each other, and despite singing about being free together, they ended up choosing their own familiar fears over the uncertainty that comes with freedom

the theme of freedom is a big part of their relationship - the freedom they feel to be themselves around each other, the freedom they are both trying to achieve by working together - and i see jinu's sacrifice as the culmination of their relationship, not the end of it

because freedom, to jinu, is freedom from his guilt and shame and pain, as well as the freedom to make his own choices

jinu's choice to sacrifice himself, to give his soul to rumi, is the first real choice he makes that isn't driven by desperation or fear but by love, it's the first real choice he makes to run towards something rather than away from something, and in choosing rumi, he is finally able to be free and at peace

rumi is the first person who looks at jinu and sees hope and not just a demon and jinu is the first person who knows the truth about rumi and says she's not a mistake, and they both believed in each other when they couldn't believe in themselves, they were only able to believe in themselves because they did it for each other first

no, they're not lovers, but the love was there

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i wish we got to see how the saja boys got together

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Cutey cutey romantic moment because I need the serotonin. And a hands insert shot because I apparently hate myself.

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you used to be able to go onto a tag after finishing a movie and see all sorts of gifsets. now you have to comb through reader insert fanfiction. we used to be a society

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Top left clockwise: Keith groover, Jordan Simons, Bret Crow, Harry Hansen

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convincing this wandering swordmaster (loser, woman) to keep demonstrating her flawless technique to cleave a man from his life for me because her tits bounce really lewdly whenever she does it and she hasn't noticed yet

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i'm trying to flirt with this noblewoman but she keeps asking me to demonstrate my flawless sword technique and i don't think she realizes how much effort i'm putting in to make my tits bounce while doing so

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we need to be doing everything in our power to acquire and consume tiramisu

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he has the ultimate power

✨ print ✨

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Sympathising with my mother but at the same time

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"We're living through the ongoing fascist collapse of the United States but I still gotta clean the kitchen and go to work tomorrow" sure is the mood right now, huh.

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Goodluck Pikachu

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greta thunberg, liam cunningham, rima hassan, and everyone else on that ship, thank you, and i hope you succeed. i really hope you succeed. you know what you are risking, and i wish for you to come back safely, having done what you set out to do.