#I have to admit

[666lola666]

they look so cute together i cannot- 🥺

also look at Evil Morty here

guys, i'm melting😭

[alienatedbug]

I saw your request post and i’d like to request my beloved rarepair wadagawa pretty please :3 my big doe eyed losers in love they mean so much to me-

My purely self indulgent punkRock!Hasegawa X coquette(kinda)!Wada AU poorly disguised as an art rq

The sage continues (ref to this)

vers with a whole lotta filters

[the-amazing-animated-circus]

I am going to kill the next person I see make a Bendy reference 🙏

[oyeixcher]

Every SandRay Scene (81 ¦ ??)

S: "Have you seen the movie "Begin Again"?" R: "No. But I heard the original soundtrack, Lost Star. I like it so much. Keira Knightley is pretty. And cute." S: "I like her too. You know what? My life is like her story in the movie. There's one scene from the movie I wanna do with someone I like." R: "Kiss scene?" S: "No, you jackass. It's the scene where they walk around the city and listen to music together. Would you like to take a walk and listen to music with me?" R: "Let's do it. I'll be your Keira Knightley." S: "Oh, please. You think you're that pretty? Should I call you Pretty Rich Boy Ray from now on?" R: "Of course."

[dxckgrxsonx]

hey bestie hope you're doing well!! i spent all night reading the dickpic!jason series and when i tell you i'm obssesseddddd, if you could bless us with a liiitle crumble of the next chapter we'd be forever grateful🙏🙏

hey!! of course. it’s still not finished but im almost there. i reworked it almost completely from what i had in mind previously and im glad because i like it better now than i did before.

also. when i went back re-reading through the series i almost had to put my phone down at the part where jason jerks off using readers underwear. fucking hell what was i on when i wrote that?!?! my brain was doing goddamn backflips.

anyway!! here’s a very little snippet:

[ghostcreaturetypething]

“Dude, could you be more gay?”

DEAN

“Don’t answer that.”

DEAN

[5m1ling-3yes]

yeah so I just finished chapter 5 of Theseus' Guide to Ruining a Perfectly Good Boat

um

excuse me??

what the fuck??

[cookieshapedrat]

I know Mr. Horikoshi intended for Toga to be read as bisexual—am not here to say otherwise—however I would like to propose an additional read to the concept of loving someone so much that you want to become them…

Clears my throat before closing in on the mic.

Pangender Himiko Toga, my voice echoes out of the speakers.

[randomnumbers751650]

Saying that No Game, No Life is wasted potential isn’t a particularly new take, but still, I can’t help but to think about it. When I first watched it, I honestly didn’t notice how weird it is, how shock-full of invasive fanservice it was, just that it was colorful and had an engaging plot – I only learned of that when rewatching clips and I honestly can’t understand how I just not noticed those things at all and that makes me wonder how much of it is the editor’s demands or the author decided to put there (because, in order to sell, there needs to be a bit or a lot of otaku pandering).

In hindsight, Sora and Shiro were really different from other isekai protagonists. Most of them were really “normal people” given powers, reflecting the average audience of these works, with varying degrees of success. Sora does seem like the standard isekai protagonists at first: people who feel they don’t fit on Earth and would be glad to turn their virtual escapism into a real one.

But, the more you watch, the more you realize there’s nothing normal about these two: they’re both batshit insane. They don’t concoct crazy plans because the situation demands them to, but rather they’re the ones pushing forward those crazy plans, they’re the ones betting everything on the table in order to win a game. And, above all, they want to have fun doing it.

Tet didn’t just bring them to the new world, but he spirited them away. Before the term “isekai’d” was popularized in anime fandoms, the term was “spirited away” (just like the movie) when a god or entity decided to take someone from their world into a new one; there are hundreds of stories like that in many cultures before isekais. Tet saw them as perfect for his plans and thus he didn’t give them a lot of say.

And it makes me wonder what made Sora and Shiro reject their world so deeply, before being spirited away. They are in their own room playing games and criticizing real life for being such a crappy game. They probably were into e-sports or something (which, given their ability, wouldn’t be a big problem), and that would explain how they could afford all that stuff and why they are so attached to their stuff, that's all they have besides each other. I remember there was a flashback with their parents or guardians just walking past them and I think that’s a great example of minimalism – it teases you into thinking what actually happened, but that’s the only it’s needed to explain their perspective: no one really likes them in Earth. Maybe they tried to make friends and couldn’t, maybe everyone looked at them for being different. This makes plausible why they just stop working when they’re separate (something the anime never had time to explore, but I’m sure it would play a role in the later game).

Also, one thing that attracted most was that the author (Yuu Kamiya, or Thiago Furukawa Lucas) was born and lived in Brazil for most of his early years, before moving to Japan. As a Brazilian, I always thought that to be amazing, because I can see some “Brazilianity” in NGNL. I mean, I hope I’m not seeing things that aren’t there, but an author adds the flavor they grew up with consciously or not. Sora’s “I love humanity” shirt reminds me of the catchphrase “Sou brasileiro e não desisto nunca” (I’m Brazilian and never give up) and even the Brazilian method of resourcefulness (called “jeitinho”, check r/ItHadToBeBrazil and you’ll get it), which might be a component on how Sora and Shiro act in their crazy plans. It makes me want to try to read isekai not as an escapist fantasy, but rather as a metaphor for immigration.

The series also has a degree of deconstruction: Tet rewrote the rules of the world to avoid that catastrophic war and centuries later it feels like the inhabitants of Disboard learned nothing, there’s still racism and high demands for war, and humans are an endangered species. So, he needs Sora and Shiro to break through this probably teach a lesson, so that they can unite all the peoples of Disboard in the best game ever against Tet.

But I don’t think we’ll ever see that. The jeitinho has a dark side, represented by the saying “Pra Deus, até faço gol de mão” (I’ll even score a goal with my hand for God), and a Brazilian can understand how it applies here. Kamiya got involved in a plagiarism case and I’m not sure if his reputation rebounded or not. Either way, I have to admit I haven’t followed the light novel’s updates since a bit later after the anime ending, but the fact no one talks about it means that I guess we can only expect the worse.

Either way, it’s been over 10 years since I watched NGNL and it was something that really let a mark on me. I honestly think isekai opens the possibility to explore so many questions and scenarios. Even if NGNL recycled certain very very questionable tropes and pandering, I do believe it did try to do something different and fun with it.

[presumenothing]

请我不改 | BRAVE HEART

from zhou shen’s second album 《反深代词》 | listen on spotify

lyrics by: 尹约 / yin yue [T/N: title is more literally "may i stay unchanged", as in a wish to self]

是谁在我 耳边念白 who is that narrating / right by my ear 说我不配 我不够好 我必失败 that i'm unworthy / i'm not good enough / i'll surely fail 是谁将我 双眼遮盖 who is that covering / both of my eyes 惩罚我坠入百无一用的黑暗 punishing me with the fall to a useless black

是谁不断 日夜合围 向我追来 who is that chasing / unstoppable, both / day and night 痛击我最脆弱短板 striking pain to my worst weaknesses 是谁模糊 我的未来 who is that blurring / my very future 恐惧淹没了期待 drowning hope in floods of fear

绝望已经大军压境 i am surrounded; despair is here 回身却没半个人影 yet when i turn – there's no one there 才看清追兵与逃兵 only then my eyes clear to see 竟都是我自己 pursuer and pursued: it's all just me

请我不改 我的姿态 may i stay true / my form ne'er skew 我的爱我的痛都与生俱来 my love my pain all as i once gained 请我看开 我的存在 may i see through / all that is due 我的明我的暗都不必躲开 my light my darks all stay on their marks

我原谅我自己 捡起遗憾拥抱无奈 i forgive myself / gather regret, embrace this choiceless pain 我允许我放手 让我勇敢活在现在 i let myself let go / live this present, let bravery reign 我不等待 我不徘徊 i do not wait / i do not pace 我的笑我的泪都不再苍白 放肆盛开 my laughs my tears no longer fade pale / bloom as they like

(Brave heart)

[REPEAT BRIDGE + CHORUS]

(Brave heart)

暗无天日辗转痛楚 in sunless days / through turns of pain 蚌壳终于吐出明珠 this clamshell at last gives out its pearl 微弱光点汇成光束 flickers once faint / condense to light 我向日出更近一步 a step closer, i come / to the sunrise

[REPEAT CHORUS]

[l3onart]

🥀

[voormaligskischansspringer]

World Cup in Sapporo (7/15)

18.01.2025 Alexandria Loutitt 19.01.2025 Eirin Maria Kvandal

[weebatron9000]

Im shit at keeping up with the Manga, so if there’s important stuff I missed, my bad lmao.

Anyway, I just saw a post about Lucy being dismayed after Yukino unlocks star dress so fast-

AND THE AUDACITY?!?

My thoughts have always been pretty neutral towards Yukino, if at times sympathetic because of her Games treatment. I like her, she’s cool, she’s a solid character.

But I’ve always felt like her character exists to just (in part) constantly One-Up Lucy?

For instance, everyone’s so proud of Lucy, she trained and in a short amount of time, managed to grow enough to unlock three golden gates and fight by their side. We’re real proud! We love her! BUT THEN? Yukino arrives and she’s got the MYSTERIOUS LEGEND KEY that I quite honestly believe has no reason to exist. (I’m trying to remember what was said about Her but it didn’t seem that important) (I’m probably gonna Google this after to find out)

There’s a few more little bits, but my main reason for this post is the StarDress nonsense.

Like ALL we hear from everyone, friend and foe alike, is how amazed and proud they are of Lucy for getting this strong, for unlocking her Star Dresses over all this time and training hard. They’re all acknowledging her improvement and it’s great to see! And then Yukino just…gets…hers? Just? Poof, done, there, let’s go.

I get that it could be for comedic affect or maybe to speed up the plot but would it have been so bad to give Yukino a bit of dialogue where it says she’s trained for this? I mean Yukino’s been an active Mage for longer, and while probably not having the same chaotic character building experiences as Lucy, she still must have been training for years? So wouldn’t it make more sense for her to unlock her StarDress because she also trained for it? No just because she suddenly decided to give it a go?.

Like it really got to me? How it was as if everything Lucy did hadn’t mattered? She’d trained for a year and now it’s as if that wasn’t significant? She’d gone through all that, and now what? Can any old Celestial Mage get a golden key and just unlock this power?.

And Yeah this seems a bit Anti-Yukino, but I’m not happy for her either. She went through a lot, with her sister, her guild, ect. And it’s like they reduce her character’s potential when Lucy’s involved. Like there can’t be two Powerful Celestial mages that trained hard to get here, they have to build one up and knock the other down in some way?.

I mean, they managed it with Sorano? Despite her less than stellar (ha) treatment of her spirits, she was skilled, and smart. She even knew information about them to use against whoever Lucy summoned, more than Lucy herself even knew about the spirit that had been with her since she was born?.

Makes me rage. I mean I’ve been a Lucy fan from day one because that’s my girl, so I did make this with her in mind, but I’m not oblivious to Yukino’s achievements and development (like when she MMA’D THAT DUDE!?) even if I find a lot of it…very Mirror Lucy-ish?. If that makes sense.

Anyway, I went on a rant, and I didn’t even mean to make it this long. I swear I’m not that heated about this, I just get swept away with my thoughts. I’m gonna go pretend I’m mentally healthy. Byeeeee~

[chronicsyd]

Caitlyn, sweetheart, i love you... but that whole "i brought her here" scene will never Not give me second hand embarrassment Every time it comes up

[forthesanityofstorytellers]

Have some animal blorbo fanart of @bloodlessheirbyjacques's Petra! I had so much fun making this piece. I hope you enjoy! 😁😁😁

[thegoodmorningman]

Ain't no one paying you to harsh my mellow. Good Morning.