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If more men were like @neil-gaiman, the world would be an astronomically better place. Thank you.

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the thing about good omens 2 is that i have never felt so loved by a piece of media before.

like, ofmd came fairly close, but neil literally knows us, he lives here with us and says hi in the halls and overhears us talking about what matters to us and trading theories and fantasizing about what we’d like to see. and he wrote this for us.

like, this could not more obviously be written for us. for us weird little queers who care so much about these two idiots.

every minute of this was written and crafted and performed to say we love you back. it wasn’t made to be a hip tv show or to impress or entertain anyone except us, and you can see that everyone involved had a blast in the process, because they love these characters too.

it is just so kind, cliffhanger notwithstanding. this show grabbed me by the shoulders, looked me in the eye, and said i see you and i love you too. and that is so fucking extraordinary.

thank you, neil. thank you so much.

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I see Metatron is a honking piece of shit in every universe 

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Goodnight to everyone except Neil Gaiman

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Zelda has traces of goat DNA

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The way I suffered on a tedious, rushed trip to Zora's domain to Sidon after the tutorial only to fucking run into his FIANCEE? Didn't even save the game.

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Idgaf that Kazuki goes out drinking with women or that it may or may not have been a failed attempt from PA Works to beat the gay allegations.

He still out here living with, starting a business with, working with, coming home to, and raising a child in a devoted relationship with another man and you’ll pry his bisexual, queerplatonic ass from my cold, dead fingers.

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there is something SO profoundly beautiful about two people dedicating themselves to one another and a child not tied to them by blood for life.

two people who left behind their jobs, their remaining blood ties, the lives they knew for this child and the partner who'd changed the world for them, who'd opened up a brighter future for this little family of theirs.

rei willingly gave up his dominant arm — his deadliest weapon, leaving himself vulnerable and weak in the eyes of his father but the strongest and bravest man alive to kazuki and miri — when he shot himself, rendering himself permanently disabled (at least from the looks and sound of it), symbolically severing the tie with that wretched suwa blood that has haunted him and paving the way for a safe future for his family.

two people who have made it work for over a decade, who opened up a business together to support their family, who proudly display all of the loving photos they've taken throughout the years in the diner for anyone to see.

the show has always had a queer premise. sure, i know some will be upset that we didn't get a romantic ending, and that one line from miri about kazuki going out with a girl for drinks will definitely rub some the wrong way. i think that, despite everything, despite the fact that they wobbled a bit with the execution, this remains a queer story about two same-sex life partners who raise a child together, even if it wasn't entirely the intent of the writing staff. there is this undeniable love between rei and kazuki that doesn't fit quite right into any labels, and frankly it doesn't need to. they're partners, and they're family. whatever it is they have going on, they're happy, and that's so unbelievably, achingly beautiful.

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props to the animators for being so fucking accurate on the anatomy of rei's injury. in case you have any doubt this man is permanently disabled on his right upper limb from all the nerve damages. just so he could leave the organization and stay with his family. i am feeling so normal about them :)

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This is homosexual behavior. 

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Official art really gonna put a whole ass rainbow in the back, huh?

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Buddy Daddies (2023)

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Regardless of how you feel about the ending (I know I've got some opinions), I'm so glad Buddy Daddies exists. It needed to. It's important. And it'll open a lot of doors for future anime.

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Can I just say

I'm so proud of him.

You did it, buddy.

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Rei's dad really sat at a desk the ENTIRE show. Bro, what is your JOB? 💀

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also I WAS HOWLING at the way that ogino died unable to say any last words

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I find it interesting how Shigeki decided not to kill Rei and seemingly hadn’t sent the organization after the three of them over the years if it’s any indication by the timeskip.

Like I get it, Rei permanently injured himself so he’d be deemed useless to his father, but Shigeki tends to display a lot of callousness and would kill him anyways. Especially after Rei shot him first.

The way he pulls his gun on Rei as he turns his back on his father before lowering it is probably meant to display some sort of regret within him. Maybe, just for a moment, he feels the want to have a family to treasure and recognizes that he blew it when he decided to raise Rei up as a soldier instead of a kid.

He’s trapped in this perpetual nightmare of killing, potentially one he was stuck in since birth similar to his son and the way he constantly talks about the Suwa bloodline. It’s possible there’s a small part of him that’s happy that Rei got out.