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good enough welcome back chappell roan

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Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru Characters: Getou Suguru, Gojo Satoru, Larue (Jujutsu Kaisen) Additional Tags: Time Travel, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Spoilers, Major Character Injury, Gojo Satoru Needs a Hug, Title from an ABBA Song, Getou Suguru is Whipped Summary:

*MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ALL JJK MANGA CHAPTERS*

The dead body firmly shattered his tranquillity before he could even take another step into the room. Gojo Satoru had appeared at the foot of his bed, split in two and staining the tatami beneath him with seemingly endless amounts of blood. - December 24th 2015. Getou Suguru has been running a successful cult and avoiding his ex-best friend for eight years, when Gojo Satoru continues to achieve the impossible and subconsciously invents time travel seconds away from death by Sukuna's hand. Will Suguru be able to patch Satoru up and knock some sense into him or will news of the future destroy Suguru? Find out below!

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jjk manga spoilers:

something something the delayed sense of finality gojo's death had because of how strong the hope he'd come back was paralleling the delayed sense of finality geto's death in jjk0 had because the viewer thinks geto's alive in the main series.

dare i say no one morns the wicked and no good deed goes unpunished.

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i think we forget just how shocking the reveal that present day getou is kenjaku was. and, by extension, just how unprecedented gojo revealing kenjaku to the audience was.

everyone who isn't in the know after the shibuya incident would always refer to kenjaku as getou and it would drive me crazy. i forget that, after jjk0 and hidden inventory, i also fully believed that was getou. hell, mahito and the curses believe he's getou.

and i've only rethought it recently because im watching jjk with a friend who knows nothing about the show or manga. after we watched hidden inventory and jjk0 i was surprised by how unaffected he was by getou's part of the story.

but he doesn't see getou the same as i do because kenjaku's reveal re contextualises getou's whole role. to my friend, getou's the current day villain like he was in jjk0, and he's alive, with jjk being far enough removed from reality that most viewers just assume getou is alive.

but finding out about kenjaku reveals that getou isn't the antagonist of the story, he was dead before it even started. he's not the current day villain, he's a ghost haunting the narrative. and i think that makes jjk0 feel so much more final.

in hidden inventory you're not worried about gojo because you know he's alive in present day, and i think it's a similar situation with getou, the viewer thinks jjk0 is just another chapter, when really it's a failure of everything getou wanted. and ultimately, it's gojo that set the record straight on getou's story, because no one else could have.

update: BAHAH OH WAS MY FRIEND SHOCKED

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just finished bsd and i couldn't stop thinking that a good alternative title would be The ADA vs Fukuzawa's Seven Evil Exes ngl.

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jjk 266 + 267 spoilers:

MY KIDS 😭😭😭😭

i miss my kids :((((

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creatures in heaven 🌸

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What if I convinced George RR Martin that no one should win the game of thrones and the smallfolk must rise up to guillotine all these kings and lords

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the only person i follow on tumblr is @xiranjayzhao and i'm an asoiaf blog, my interests have been met perfectly thank you both 🙏

my evidence:

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idk how much this discourse is present on tumblr because i've not looked, but on the whole "gege saying gojo and geto are best friends means the shippers are wrong": i think, apart from the fact that shipping and canon are separate entities in the first place and none of this matters, this reaction actually says a lot about how straight men in particular view their romantic relationships.

(this can apply to not straight men but it's mainly the dudebro jjk fans i've seen pushing this and they primarily seem to be straight men that don't even know bisexuality exists)

i think often in unhealthy straight relationships (this is second hand knowledge, im a lesbian so feel free to tell me to stfu) the man often seems to view their partner as not one of their friends, but as every other role in their life. women describe feeling like their partner's girlfriend, mother, therapist and more. a lot of men would never treat their best friend the way they treat their girlfriend.

best friends can be just friends, best friends can date, best friends can be friends that secretly love each other and mortal enemies can be best friends even after one kills the other. i just think it's interesting how many people are willing to announce publicly that their best friend and partner could never mean the same thing, when as a queer person i've had a crush on most of my best friends and this conversation seems bonkers to me.

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the great thing about a knight of the seven kingdoms is each short story could comfortably fit into an hour long episode, so as long as they have more than 3 episodes they cannot possibly fuck up with not having enough time (hopefully unlike something else) and if we're lucky we'll get extra dunk and egg nonsense!

(anyway i love akotsk, to anyone who hasn't read it i would recommend it more than any other asoiaf book, do yourself a favour and become obsessed before the show comes out next year 🙏🥺)

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Hey! So I"m very curious if in your opinion there's an option for Gojo to come back?

Like I'm a very anti-gojo comeback but some of the theories I've seen swirling around are so convincing. People pointed out that his ending was too happy for manga that is jjk and they are so right!

Do you think there's a chance?

That would be such a bad thing though, and it will take away from Yuji's and Megumi's growth so much ://///

i'm more in the opposite direction where i wish he would come back but i'm very doubtful he will 😭

i'm a bit confused about what you mean by happy ending and i'm not really sure what part of megumi's growth you mean considering he's currently probably at the lowest point of his life, so i can't speak much on that sorry?

as for yuji's growth i think the flashbacks have shown that yuji's done well to learn from people other than gojo and has grown into himself even whilst gojo was around.

basically i think if he did come back, which seems unlikely after chp 261 imo, i think would be more about working through his own problems, rather than focusing on other people like he normally does.

i'd love to hear more about your thoughts tho! it's interesting how we seem to view points differently.

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thinking about how, if yuji saves megumi, he'll be the only one that understands what it's like to be used by sukuna for terrible things... thinking about how i need them to work through it together, and if one of them dies they'll be alone in that guilt...

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It’s so weird how they’re so obsessed with Dany and the prophecy. Like, she was a great character, but let this narrative exist without her. Let these people be awful and fight for a throne without a motive of needing to save the future world.

Especially since that prophecy means very little in the show universe.

exactly it's taking away a lot of character motivation by having rhaenrya and now daemon and even kind of jace be motivated by... the greater good? instead of any in world politics.

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One thing that annoyed me about this season was that Blood and Cheese had no lasting impact. Everyone seemed to forget about it an episode later.

Even in the finale when Rhaenyra says “A Son for a Son” that would have been the perfect time to mention it but it seems the writers forgot about it too.

yeah i wonder what was up with that? i guess they kind of kept it up with heleana but even alicent didn't seem that bothered by it after a couple of episodes.

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Are you team green or team black?

i'm not really either? i'm a bit anti-targaryen in general, and both sides are targaryens at their core, so i'm not a massive fan of either. don't get me wrong, there are characters i like on both sides, but i of the whole pick a side thing the shows pushing. it just feels weird in the context of a war? i guess i'm team black in the sense that i think rhaenyra's the rightful heir but i don't particularly like anything either team has done.

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I was so disappointed in what they did to Alicent! I really wish we could have gotten cold/mean book Alicent, but if they were determined on changing her I wish they could have just stuck to a plot.

In the show she spent twenty years telling her kids they would be killed if they didn’t take the throne, then she turned around in the finale and betrayed them??

exactly! it's not even just me being a book purist that made the finale annoying, how is any of this consistent with the alicent that literally pulled a knife on rhaenyra in season one? the alicent that orchestrated aegon's coronation in the first place?