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god actually baited us into creating the tower of babel so that He could create His most beloved children: autistic linguistics enthusiasts

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when your boyfriend impersonates you and is still someone prettier than you

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Friendly reminder that he can do all this in canon… ,’:3 (also i’m not about to draw muscles then cover it up with a shirt)

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ok i really liked this one it hit hard for inspo

drop some hcs here and i might draw em :)

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A little beach series hehe 🌺🌺🌺

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One of my favorite genres of post

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Your Illumi is so ROUND I am obsessed with him🥺 Especially in the "Sleeping in the dirt" mini comic when he's hanging off Hisoka's shoulder looking up ahhhhh he's soooooo cute I am gnawing at the bars of my enclosure if not cuddly WHY CUDDLY SHAPED WHY DOES ONLY HISOKA GET TO CUDDLE HIM I WANT RIGHTS TOOOOOOO😭😭😭😭😭

TRUUEEE he's the squishiest most huggable boy ever! I mean look at him! He's such a marshmallow (⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠³⁠˘⁠)⁠♥

Made to be cuddled!!!!!

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Always a good time to burn down yet another village!

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From August 22nd to 24th, you’re invited to celebrate the ultimate Hunter x Hunter murder husbands ship: Hisoka x Illumi! 🃏📍

We’ll have daily prompts and a whole lot of Hisoillu feelings. The event has three theme categories to guide your inspiration:

White Aura for lighter, more heartwarming content 

Purple Aura for thematic works

Black Aura for darker, angst-heavy prompts

Feel free to choose whichever theme speaks to you and interpret it your way, mix and match them, or change the tone - if you’d rather turn a White Aura prompt into something angsty, or soften a Black Aura one, go for it! 

To see the prompts and rules/guidelines, check out the graphics here. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask here or on our other blogs: Shent / Bisky

We’re looking forward to seeing you and celebrating the ultimate murderous duo together. We can’t wait to see what you create! 💛

#hisoillu weekend #hisoillu weekend2025

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100 year old Galapagos tortoise with a few weeks old Galapagos baby posing for a new family photo, and its own baby photo from 100 years ago.

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Having friends again.

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Reference; Introspection by Frank Somma

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@guyinmink I accidentally deleted your ask, sorry! Here it is with my response:

"I wanted to ask a question about illumi, specifically how you said he's not as emotionless as he seems to be and in fact very much wants power. But what does he want that power for? He's already rich, more powerful then about 90% of hunters (who are themselves the top 5% of society), and (believes) he's loved by his family in return. If he wanted to take over the world he could just stick a needle in a few high level politicians without having to navigate around the intricacies of nanika powers."

Great question which I, again, have many thoughts about. Here's a few under the cut: TL;DR: he's a Power Hunter

I don't think he particularly cares about political power or even wealth except inasmuch as they permit him to do his work. (It is, however, much more convenient to be rich!)

Nanika can provide many things that pure politics can't, and Illumi has no idea what the limits of her power are. Maybe she can raise the dead. Maybe she can make Killua wantto come back home. I think he wants access to that power on its own merits, but I also think he's curious and wants to probe exactly what the limits are. (He kept sacrificing butlers to her back in the day!)

With Nanika in particular, his choices are to kill her, to control her, or to let her loose. Letting her loose not only risks Killua using her power and thus sacrificing himself and the Zoldyck family to pay the price, but also risks Nanika trying to take revenge. (I'm not sure Illumi is cognizant enough to recognize that risk - he certainly doesn't seem to fear that Killua will do the same - but given that he views Nanika as a monster, I think it's reasonable that he might.) Once the choices are kill vs control, controlling obviously gives access to this tremendous power while killing destroys it. He's willing to kill her, as evidenced by his direct statements to Killua and his commands to Hisoka, but why not use a power if you can?

Once he's set his mind to controlling her, killing her feels like a failure.

Even if he's not aware that Killua doesn't love him, he miiiight be getting the sense that killing Alluka would make Killua unhappy with him.

Fundamentally, Illumi wants enough power to 1) do his work and 2) protect his family. Having access to Nanika means he's got options for dealing with any imaginable threat to the family, including, possibly, internal threats like "Killua doesn't want to be here."

On a broader level - Hunter x Hunter spends a lot of time thinking about what it means to want stuff. To steal a phrase from Media Club Plus, "a Hunter is someone who has a pathological aversion to ever feeling content," and Illumi gets to stand on a shared pedestal with Hisoka as representing the worst outputs of the Hunter worldview. (Notably, he and Killua are the only Hunters of the Zoldycks, and they're both characterized by tremendous desire.) He wants to control Nanika because he wants control on a deep, fundamental level. He gets his kicks from controlling powerful people, like Hisoka gets his kicks from destroying them and Chrollo from stealing from them. His entire being is structured around controlling people; the more powerful they are, the more powerful he gets to feel in turn.

I saw your tags (on this post) wondering if he's trying to control his parents as well. I don't really think so, because I think he's in a pretty satisfactory give-and-take relationship with them - they give him lots of latitude to pursue his projects - but I do think he's planning to rule the next generation (read: Killua) in a much stricter way than his parents ruled him. I think this whole project is more about future-proofing the Zoldycks than it is about direct, current benefit.

So, fundamentally - he wants her because he wants the powers, both broadly and specifically, that she can grant him, but also because he will never be satisfied with the amount of power he controls, as he's structured his entire worldview around acquiring and maintaining increasing levels of power. He could give you pragmatic reasons, but IMO the bigger reason is that he wants it in a more fundamental way than the pragmatic reasons actually describe.

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req'd by @super-magical-wizard

incredibly important groundwork here

text: The 3 pillars of humanity, in no particular order, are Joy, Absurdity, and Sharing