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[libidomechanica]

Untitled (“The lady passe in gloom, haughty, though the book”)

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[toestiest]

JJK ch. 236 SPOILERS!

Pov: texting actor!bf Gojo Satoru after watching the latest episode of the final season

pairing: Gojo x F!reader

I lied about not making Gojo content anymore— I need to cope, WE need to cope. Im still devastated, so here's some fluff for the mean time. Count your days, Gege.

Reqs are open ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

[staruie]

SPOILERS for jjk 236

the afterlife section was insane n almost reads like it was written by a doujin author

i think this is the first time we ever see some semblance of regret from geto’s perspective and it makes it so much more bittersweet when considering that it’s almost certainly just an illusion or a figment of gojo’s imagination as he lays dying.

the FIRST thing he thinks about in his last breath is to imagine a geto who was regretful, while in canon he never showed that at all…saying “no matter what, i hate monkeys” and “in a world like this, i cant laugh from my heart” to his best friend AS HE BLEEDS OUT..at least say something nice damn

geto was so afraid of regretting his decision that he made sure there was no chance he could ever go back to his old life again, cutting ties with the home he once found in jujutsu society to create a new home for himself

in that way, i think geto is very future-oriented compared to gojo being constantly stuck in the past; geto was 100% dedicated to his revolution which was (as with most revolutions) all about seeking a new future because the state of the present was unacceptable

gojo on the other hand stuck with the existing system, and we’re shown over and over again how he cannot help but linger on the past. gojo’s present tense “My best friend, the only one I have” to geto’s future tense “He was my best friend.” gojo who didnt dispose of the body. gojo who made that face when seeing kenjaku. gojo who teleported immediately to kenjaku after being unboxed... his narrative has been very focused on his lingering attachment to the past and his refusal to let go; even his choice in becoming a teacher was influenced by his wish of preventing the past from happening again

back to the recent chapter, gojo imagining a life where geto is there to cheer him on and saying that’s the only way he could be completely satisfied??? hello 😭😭😭 the fact that geto is in his gojokesa and not a teacher uniform makes me rip my skin off he really thought abt how things could’ve been with geto and regretted how things turned out so much ahhhhh

imagining geto crying too, the “…….ha ha” I FEEL HOMICIDAL . gojo (presumably) one sidedly wanted geto to feel regret while geto continued to push forward

well its still likely that geto was regretful in some way, hes very repressive about his emotions and never fully expressed how he feels to other characters (which is what led to his downward spiral in the first place) so perhaps he did carry regret that he refuses to think about. but one thing for sure is that he absolutely valued principle and acting with “meaning” over the bond he forged with gojo, and i think he felt so cornered by the system that gojo too became a threat to him. while for gojo, his bond with geto was everything to him and completely changed the course of his life. if he never met gojo, he would be more similar to the child gojo, someone emotionless and brutal who followed his old morality

gojo’s perspective on everything is just… my head hurts aggh…..

[risequotes]

Daily Rise Quotes: DAY 236

Splinter: Bring on the cake!

(Rise of the TMNT: Issue #2)

[raamitsu]

damn… satoru gojo was really the princess diana, michael jackson and park jimin (of bts) of today’s generation cuz i doubt everyone will ever stop talking about him anytime soon.

if this ever pissed that little one-eyed pussycat off, then so be it 🤷🏻‍♀️ we don’t make the rules.

[transgendervelma]

HEEEEELP

[jeffersonhairpie]

Spoilers up to chap 336 of Jujutsu Kaisen

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Sorry gotta get this out of my system

A slightly unhinged list of reasons that I'm Not A Fan of this Gojo death that I sincereley hope will make me look like an overreactive weirdo in a few weeks time:

He died offscreen. I know we see the body but we don't actually see the finishing blow. Bizzare for a character of his prowess and significance at this point in the story

Gojo in the 'afterlife' immediately talking about how much stronger Sukuna was than him hits really strange for a character defined by his casual arrogance. Gojo is fast as fuck so it's pretty clear that Sukuna could only get him with the Mahoraga-aided slashes if he caught Gojo off guard. Nothing we have seen in the Gojo vs Sukuna fight indicates that Sukuna is all that much stronger than Gojo and they're mostly pretty evenly matched. Nothing about this ending for Gojo looks to me like 'dying without regrets'.

Sticking Gojo in a box for 3 years real time (19 days in universe time) and freeing him just so the rest of the story can screech to a halt while all the other characters watch him die is fucking stupid. It's bad storytelling.

There are a few different things you could view as Gojo's character arc - whether it be the question he's asked of whether he's the strongest because he's himself or himself because he's the strongest, whether it's laying Geto to rest, whether it's learning that being the strongest is not all there is to being a complete person, whether its shedding his loneliness by learning that Geto is not the only person who he could be emotionally close to. Whatever you see it as, his arc has not reached its conclusion. Gojo is incomplete and him dying now makes his whole character feel like a waste. He didn't even really learn to value the people left alive bc how is he in the afterlife all smiling and happy knowing that Sukuna is about to rampage through the lot of them?

Gojo dying has always been so damn obvious. This is entirely personal preference, but I would have sooooo much rather seen him have his powers neutered so he was forced to understand tha value of an individual life than just wiped off the board. Also I think the universe could benefit from the notion that getting stronger and dying are not the only two things that can happen to a sorcerer.

I know they're not even on the same scale of plot significance, but I can't help comparing how Nanami's death was painful but felt well foreshadowed and entirely justified in the story to this death which very much doesn't (my thoughts on Nobara's death are more complicated). Nanami's death hurt because it felt true to the character, but Gojo's death has just annoyed me.

I never expected the final fight to be Gojo vs Kenjaku and I knew that something was going to have to happen to him in order to justify him not being part of the final showdown. Yuji as the MC and as Kenjaku's kid in this story about how the sins of the past shape the present is 100% the right choice for the story. Much as I thought it was taking the easy route, I hadn't discounted the possibility that Gojo would die, I had just expected him to, ya know, learn something and complete his character arc before he did.

This death just feels really cheap to me, in a way that I don't think even makes for a good fakeout. Maybe the fact that characters have already come back from the dead means that there was no way to have a fakeout feel entirely shocking, but I don't think I should be left thinking 'was that REALLY it?' after the fakout death.

BUT maybe hope doesn't have to be lost

Things I am holding on to hoping that this will be some kind of fakeout (copium is real and I am huffing it):

Gojo wasn't hit in the head, and in his fight with Toji he is able to come back from basically being dead because his head was undamaged

There is still one of the ten shadows that we haven't seen and given that it can't possibly be a stronger combatant than Mahoraga I'm betting on it having a healing ability, which would presumably be incredibly strong given that it's the last to be unveiled. The same healing could save Gojo and Nobara

When Yuji was presumed dead by his classmates and training with Gojo, Gojo comments that Yuji's body will eventually be scarred by Sukuna's cursed technique and he'll be able to use it as his own. Sukuna has the ability to bring people back from the dead so if Yuji can access those powers he can save Gojo (and probably Nobara).

Maki and Mai have something of an 'afterlife' conversation that is real but it doesn't stop Maki from returning to the land of the living.

Depending on exactly how you want to count 'coming back from the dead' several characters have done it at this point lol

In the afterlife Nanami has that random ass line about how curses and sorcerers can bring people back from the dead that doesn't seem to fit in with everything else being said. This could be foreshadowing.

Speaking of foreshadowing, maybe Gojo's line about not wanting to have two death anniversaries was an indication that he intended this to happen and has some sort of pre-established plan for how to win.

Shoko reveresed technique bass boosted by Utahime can heal anything #IBelieve

[rebisrot]

(jjk ch. 236 spoilers) really hope they sell a figure pair and the first one is the legs and the second is the rest of him.

[siriuslynephilim]

if i found the manga pdfs i could get them printed right that would be super cheap

[randomprose]

congrats to all the fanfics and fanarts of "satosugu meet in the afterlife but gojo doesn't stay" y'll are now canon

[libidomechanica]

Untitled # 11670

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[toestiest]

JJK ch. 236 SPOILERS!

Pt. 2 of actor!bf Gojo Satoru since ya'll loved the first one. (cope what cope we will make our own reality.) read pt. 1 here

pairing: Gojo x F!reader

dw babes, toesty for the healies :)

reqs r open :3

[staruie]

The afterlife section is probably not an illusion because Gojo should have no way of knowing things like Nanami seeing Haibara before dying.

honestly ur probably right.. i wrote that other post without thinking much n didnt expect anyone to actually be reading it LOL

if it was not an illusion, i think it may connect to sukuna's CE/CT which iirc targets/slices through cursed energy itself (CE being created by cycles of suffering). he also got to gojo by slicing through the world itself, and disturbed the fabric of existence

this afterlife thing reminds me of what happened before with jogo whose situation was uncannily similar to gojo:

the third image is the form that dagon died in, but jogo is talking to his pre-evolution form...a reflection of the past, similar to gojo speaking to everyone as their teenage selves

as well, jogo seems to be dying a "death without regrets". he talks to sukuna in his dying breath, who says this:

but like, is that really sukuna??? in the very next panel, he appears to have a 180 in attitude and personality. the real sukuna doesnt seem impressed at all; and now with the context of gojo's battle, i dont believe jogo was even remotely close to gaining sukuna's approval.

i think its jogo's manifestation of his own desires, presented in sukuna's form. he was a character focused around strength and he died gaining the acknowledgement of the strongest.

again this is similar to gojo, who consistently desires companionship and an escape from the loneliness of being the strongest. he dies surrounded by everyone he loved and lost, at the happiest time of his life where he was't the sole bearer of being "the strongest". (i personally still feel like this is a rather static end for gojo's character...maybe ill write another post about that cuz this chapter is making me go actually insane lol)

theres also some previous panels that may relate to the state of gojo's afterlife scenes

i really really wonder what the implications of all this is, honestly i got into jjk for satosugu lol so im probably missing half of the story here. i never cared much or paid attention to sukuna, but this chapter makes me want to reread and get a better gist of his character too. especially the theme of love and connections that seem quite prevalent in sukuna vs gojo

sorry for rambling anon this got off topic really quick 💀

[hearts1ckness]

i’m going to refrain on speaking on jjk 236 so i don’t rip my hair out and commit unspeakable acts of violence

[raamitsu]

satoru has unofficially left a million of widows around the globe..... yeah. i am one of them.

[jesuis-snips]

me, the moment I see geto's face on the first panel OH MY GOD NO I CAN'T DO THIS I CAN'T READ IT. PLEASE GOD SPARE ME FROM THIS PAIN. NO GETO MY BABY. THIS IS NOT A GOOD SIGN NO OH GOD. WAIT PLEASE WAIT NO!