#I’m working on it thou

[neongulls]

Some Frontiers themed drawings!! ✨

[mocamoca1]

a redraw of a very specific image that I saw feat. quickly drawn leech bros

[yumedoca]

On today’s episode of ‘Yuca Analyzes Silly Things (For No Reason)’, I will be talking about Ataru and how he views his love for Lum.

Ataru’s relationship with Lum is complicated, he loves her but he doesn’t want to act like a couple with her, much to Lum’s disappointment. To answer why this is the case, we’ll have to first look at how he initially viewed Lum.

Ataru’s first impression of Lum was that of a sexy alien princess and was instantly drooling over her when he saw her. But later on, him being unable to catch Lum’s horns has caused him to feel annoyance towards her since everyone kept blaming him for failing. This annoyance grew into hatred when she answered his “marriage proposal” causing Shinobu to break up with him (they do resolve the tension by chapter 2, but Lum returning in chapter 3 made things worse for them). Ever since then Ataru has hated Lum, constantly asking her to get out, saying he doesn’t love her, admitting she’s a nuisance, taking away her powers and feeling no guilt for that, etc. But from Kurama’s introduction, we learn that he does love her the most… just like every other woman. The first thing we can tell for sure Ataru’s ‘Love (The romantic kind)’ can be divided into two categories, Lust and True Love. Even tho his eyes did wander from woman to woman, What he initially felt for Shinobu was a milder version of his True Love, he protected her from the imp demon after all and stopped Lum from trying to kill her off. But, once Lum slowly starts taking over his life, he realizes that he can’t be with Shinobu anymore and the desperation to be with her turned his mild true love into lust (as of chapter 10, which is the first time he acts like a proper pervert around Shinobu as well as put her in the same place as Lum). So from Oyuki’s introduction,his love for every woman was basically lust… up until the Otoko Kumino chapter.

The Otoko Kumino chapter is a great chapter and personally my favorite Lum chapter, because it’s the first time we see her genuinely care about Ataru. This isn’t something just the readers can see, but it’s something obvious to Ataru as well because for the first time in his life, something she has done for him doesn’t end up backfiring on him, but instead actually saves him, which has him thinking that Lum might not be so bad after all (or in his words “Is it just me, or was Lum always this cute?”). After that he holds hands and walks with her which is basically an open act of love which is something Ataru doesn’t like to willingly do, so we can conclude that he hasn’t realized that he’s falling for her, yet. He only realizes that he genuinely loves her in the chapter where she leaves him to renew her passport causing him to breakdown or to be specific in the scene where she’s back and when Ataru couldn’t help but start smiling, but immediately turns his face away from her in realization that he loves her, but she shouldn’t know or else he’ll have to be committed to her which isn’t something he can do easily (habits are difficult to break after all). And from there their relationship starts growing.

Now why does he love her? At first it was because he was touched about her act of kindness of helping him as Otoko Kumino, but by the time she leaves him in “Since Your Parting”, it’s very much alluded in the first scene in the classroom (the remake plays this up with the extra scenes with Ataru’s family and stuff) that it’s because she’s genuinely loves him despite his flaws and even if he does stupid things, she chooses to still stays with him and by his side no matter what, which is something no woman has ever done for him (Shinobu did to an extent as well but she eventually ended up breaking up with him once she realized that he wasn’t the man of her destiny). (Also, I want to point out that this reasoning was also kind of said out loud by Ataru in the ‘Only You’ movie which is surprising considering the OG anime wasn’t really strong in character writing.)

Now if he does love her, then why doesn’t he agree to do couple stuff (here I mean stuff like kissing, flirting, saying “I love you”, etc.) with her? That’s because he does all those things with other woman to the point they have lost that specialness. It may still be special to her, but not to him because Lum isn’t any woman, he’s the only one he actually cares about and he doesn’t want to give her the same treatment he gives other women. Not only that, he’s also quite respectful to Lum in that sense, like with unlike other woman, he makes sure he has her consent if he wants to take things up a notch. This can be noted in the chapter where they were alone at home and he thinks she wanted to have sex with him, he was reluctant at first, but eventually agrees, although quite embarrassed (it has to be noted that he wasn’t embarrassed when he was with Kurama and Oyuki [even tho nothing happened], showing how differently he feels about her) and of course, in the end nothing happens. But it’s nice to see that Ataru has a gentleman attitude towards Lum (even if he doesn’t listen to her).

Of course as time goes on he realizes he can’t hide his love for her forever, especially when he’s put in difficult situations. He does try giving ambiguous answers midway through his relationship with her and by the time of the ‘BOY meets GIRL’, he’s able to say how he actually feels, just indirectly. Speaking of ‘BOY meets GIRL’, let’s talk about that arc.

Ataru’s romantic conflict in this arc is trying to figure out and understand Lum and to make sure she understands him as well. Lum is pretty straightforward in her thoughts and actions, but for the first time she gets paranoid, because of the whole mushroom clone misunderstanding. From Ataru’s POV, she (actually the mushroom clone) wanted to stay with Rupa, not him, which hurts him. The next time he sees her, she’s (the real one) with him and wants his help, which confuses him and that confusion causes him to decline, hurting Lum, making her wonder whether he actually loves her or not. That causes the finale’s game of tag in which Lum want’s to hear him say “I love you”. I have previously explained why he won’t say it, but if he doesn’t say it, he’ll forget her. He wants her to understand that he does love her, but he doesn’t want it to be like this because if he says it in this situation, she’ll never know if it’s the truth or not. This doesn’t mean much to Lum (for the time being), but it means a lot to Ataru, because to him, his love for her means a lot more than just some stupid, forced confession. He doesn’t want to forget her either, since he holds on to horns believing if he does, he wouldn’t have to forget her, which she eventually realizes when he yells “How could I ever forget?!” and then accidentally dropping her horns confirming his feelings. The final scene and his final dialogue shows him no longer denying his love or giving ambiguous answers, but instead promising to eventually say “I love you” on his deathbed. I like to personally believe that their relationship even though still chaotic, is a lot smoother and that they understand each other better after those events.

Thank you for taking some time to read this analysis ♥️. I still have tons of things I want to talk about this boy, but I’ll save it for another time. I also want to eventually do a relationship analysis for Lum as well, but I’ll save that for another time as well. Hope you have nice day! X3

[idontknowijuststartedsomething]

I love all the post agit stuff of Danny and Dan and Dani hanging out, but I raise you…

Danny doesn’t want to see Dan like ever again. Even if Danny acknowledges that Dan like “better” now or whatever, he’s like I just can’t talk with you or see you. (Now I wanna think about what would happen if they have to get together to like take down some threat like oh shit what would happen now I wanna write it.)

Maybe Danny feels like how Steven feels when interacting with white in SU Future (may or may not contain Danny trying to like attempted murder/dream control Dan)

[hopecomesbacktolife]

I’m not going to reblog the post itself because I don’t want that behavior on my blog, but oh my god I just saw a post about “looking for fics about your favorite character on ao3” and good lord the amount of bad takes both in that post and in the notes?? I have to just ramble about this for a moment because oh my god. it was ludicrous.

people were complaining that, and get this, unfinished fics exist. and that if you read an unfinished fic you’ll have to, get this, wait to read more until it’s published next. they were allll up in arms that there’s fics for a character that don’t cater to their specific interests. that they involve other characters and either do/don’t put them in a romantic relationship when they want the opposite for the character.

like at this point, most of you people in the notes on that post are 1) just being mean and condescending about FREE WORKS you can, may I remind you, READ FOR FREE and EXIT at ANY time! if you don’t like it!, don’t read it!, it’s so simple!, and 2) straight up do not know how ao3 works lmao

like I saw soooo many people in the notes complaining about a certain ship, dynamic, tag, etc, and like… y’all know you can filter by romantic vs platonic pairings, by ratings, by excluding certain tags or other qualifiers, etc etc etc… you know about ao3’s actually incredibly usable filtering and searching system… right… right??

at this point I’m just convinced a lot of these people are spoiled by large fandoms with 100k+ works for their characters and have decided to just be mean and condescending for no reason on main, about literally free fan works you can read for free any time that people spend hours and hours pouring their free time into out of sheer love for their craft. cuckoo bananas behavior if you ask me 🫠

I was legit so close to commenting that maybe they should try shipping two characters with <10 fics, with 0 fics, try liking a rare pair, try hyperfocusing on a character or niche type of fandom with a tiny but lovely circle of fans, and stop treating fan works and fic as Content TM that they deserve to have handed to them that caters to exactly what they want for free and maybe they’ll calm down lmao

like y’all aren’t cool you’re just being mean. we fundamentally approach fic in wildly different ways and honestly the way you do sounds exhausting. literally could not be me, I’m to busy finding joy in shared love for characters and not flipping the table in a rage because there’s one (1) element of the fic that isn’t specifically catered to me, maybe try that and you’ll feel better, hmm?

and yeah I’m aware that last sentence is me being condescending towards them, but frankly it’s warranted when so many people are being that mean and haughty for no reason lmao but truly those takes were horrific. fellow fic writers and even fellow fic readers I interact with, am mutuals with, authors whose works I read, readers who comment and interact with my works, fans of niche fandom subsets that run in the same circles as me— I hope you know this is so wildly not how I approach fics, I love just finding fics for my characters and forming these lil communities where we share our interests and love for them and hype each other up. I love what we have in these fandom niches and I hope you know I would never dream of being so mean and condescending towards y’all. fic writers and readers and fan communities are so special and I cherish it even if clearly there’s people in the notes on that other post who don’t know how to do that lmao. I love your unfinished WIPs, I love your fics that may only partially be what I’m looking for, I love when you write characters in a way I wouldn’t expect but shows your love for your particular headcanon, I love the variety and diversity and variance in fic. I love us. genuinely. fic writer moots I am hugging all of you and I frequently reread your works, even the unfinished ones. ♡

[buttertrait]

when my legacy posts suddenly start getting a few notes again: besties, i have bad news for you

[unpopularly-opinionated]

Every time multiple mass tragedies happen, I swear we go through the same exact timeline of events.

Timeline of events:

*Mass tragedy A happens.*

Person A posts: “Omg this is so sad, I stand with the people of Tragedy A :(“

*Mass tragedy B happens.*

Person B responds to Person A’s post: “This is so tone deaf, what about the people of Tragedy B? Honestly, this is so disappointing of you to just ignore them. I can’t believe you’re not giving your support of the people of Tragedy B. Unfollowing. Blocked. Kill yourself. Etc. Etc.”

And what’s fucking annoying about it is that it’s not as if these posts aren’t timestamped, wherever they’re posted to. So you going back in time to the post they made BEFORE MASS TRAGEDY B EVEN HAPPENED just to bitch at them for not commenting on an event that hadn’t even occurred yet makes you look fucking dumb. They’re the type of people who’d show up to a funeral and scream: “BUT WHAT ABOUT THIS DEAD GUY, HUH!?”

And also, like this is my greater problem overall with making these sort of affirmation posts in the first place. Every time something really bad happens, you don’t need to jump online and reaffirm the greater world that you are “anti-bad things happening”. Most people will just assume that you don’t support people dying en masse, unless of course you’re famous, in which case all of the world’s worst idiots will come out and demand your stance on every little thing that they honest to god have no business talking about in the first place.

Anyways, yeah this is a vague blog about THEM but I made it generic because it is something I’ve seen in the past. I’m just bitter over all of the inane comments I’ve seen recently on videos of Jewish people lamenting the loss of other Jewish people in “Mass Tragedy A”, and yet these clowns act like they’re the good guys who are really doing something special when they tell you how disappointed they are that you… *checks notes* …don’t like others like you dying. Heinous, I know.

[emcads]

ship tag drop.

[loveofastarvingdog]

radfems and terfs are often people who go to extremes when hating on christianity and talking about the abuses that christians have committed, and use that as reason to believe what they do. but living through being raised a queer christian who experienced all the bigotry that came with that (while still being closeted) and the subsequent lack of community i’ve experienced so acutely was actually the reason i ended up rejecting the radfem/exclusionist mindset

[latinokaeya-moving]

i watched a vid the other day of this person reviewing the ‘im glad my mom died’ memoir and they talked a lot abt the like. stylistic/writing choices made by the author that worked really well and i enjoyed that approach to a book review bc i like hearing abt what Works when writing you know so i watched another of their vids for a different celebrity’s memoir and this one was a lot more critical (they very obviously didn’t like this person but idk how much that rlly impacted the review itself) and while i appreciated the examples given of like. how Not to write/stuff that sometimes doesn’t work or doesn’t flow as well they started bringing out really technical rules of grammar/writing on talked abt how it was All Wrong and how the memoir was in desperate need of editing bc how could anyone have let this be published

and it just got me thinking bc like. i’m not gonna say i’m an expert on the english language or anything like this person very obviously is more educated on that then me but idk. i feel like i’m generally a decent judge on whether a sentence flows well/sounds right and i think im able to make a distinction between something being technically grammatically incorrect but still sounding good and having an obvious reason for being written that way vs something being wrong technically And that affecting it’s readability or impact of what it’s meant to Do stylistically. like idk ig that’s just the way that person reviews books but it just felt so extremely limited and constrained bc i know i regularly Choose to sometimes write in a style that isn’t wholly correct or ‘proper’ english but it’s not bc im like being deliberately obtuse or don���t know the rules. sometimes i just think the rules are a little dumb n that my writing will sound n flow better the way i do it.

and idk i just think it was a little annoying to watch in their example bc i listened to all the lines they critiqued n Why/How they were Totally Wrong and i couldn’t help but be like okay… but they sound fine to me. like you obviously got what was being said and it read well so…? although i guess whether it sounds good or flows well is more objective so like they were entitled to their own opinion and all i just didn’t like the way they positioned writing as something that must follows these arbitrary rules as if not following them means anything or has any moral value you know…

[kellerybird]

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[sinwrote]

add me on discord if you want to plot or cry about our muses ! 𝐫𝐚𝐲#3785

[elvislefilm]

Shall I compare thee to a döner kebab?

[hagravenholm]

All I want to do is play totk and disco elysium but alas … I’m 2 weeks behind on 2 classes

[commander0fmyheart]

so sleepy. so tired. so sleepy tired

[just-jammin]

in case anyone might get worried abt the vtuber shit, i avoid their cursed wizard game streams and clips like the plague