#OKAY I'M SHUTTING THE FUCK UP NOW

[kqluckity]

how some people can look at Zhongli and Venti's dialogue during this Lantern Rite and interpret it as beefing instead of, you know, flirting truly blows my mind? like it's not just what they're saying, but also the way they're saying it. it's flirting, they're flirting. and even if they aren't flirting, that's obviously an inside joke? look at Venti's face when Zhongli acts like they're strangers, does it look like someone who can't stand the other and isn't willing to play along with the other's dumb idea? please. I don't understand how people can still think they hate each other even tho it's established that they're friends, not only through items lore and their own character stories (I really doubt someone like Zhongli would let a guy he hates forge his sigil, let him destroy his precious vase, let him pour wine on his head, and then yearn for him for 500 years bffr), but also in the first Liyue Archon quest Zhongli talks about "a friend from Mondstadt" who used to bring him wine all the time, and Venti has a "refined gentleman friend from Liyue" he wishes he could spend more time with. a friend he still visits often, so much so that madame Ping commissioned Tubby to make a Mondstadt-inspired house for the teapot with good acoustics so he could play inside with no problem.

[willowser]

i love writing for bakugou. like. i love him. i say this all the time, but i love the facets of his personality and how it can shift when it comes to romance. he is a hard-headed cocky little bastard and also the softest, most shy man that's ever lived. do you know what i mean.

[uss-genderprise]

au where ianto survived coe and teamed up with john to chase after jack and gwen in miracle day and somehow (john's fault) ended up breaking the law in la

i know i'm super late to this meme but a week ago i was chatting with some friends infodumping about these two and explaining why john is a girl to me and then i called ianto "my boy" and one of my friends said "don't you mean your girl?" and i was like "no that's the other one. my boy and my girl" and my friend was like "like barbie and ken" and this image was beamed directly into my brain shutting down all other thought processes and i just had to sit there for a while making noises like a wounded animal so uh. here it is

[gregoftom]

alright nero damn

[dylanconrique]

tim went from not being able to even say aloud that him and lucy would have to kiss when going undercover to not being able to stop kissing her, i'm 😭😭😭😭😭

[sparkly-skies]

@reserved-fruit thank you for the link to this video with Kris' heart ring (goes perfectly with Keep Me Grounded, Keep Me Calm, just saying 👀 do you like friends (Bojan and Kris) comforting each other and jokingly proposing while still being deeply serious about how important their friendship is? Go read this!).

Here's some screenshots to look at with me, why? Because I'm a touchstarved bitch and scream and cry at any sighting of physical affection. Thank you Bojan for providing enrichment in my enclosure.

Also this one. Because I see a mention of friends spending time together because they love each other and love spending time together, I scream and screech in missing my friends noises.

[finexbright]

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[ballisterboldheart]

man, i have wanted to apologize to you so many times. i—i guess i was worried that it would've triggered something, or whatnot? you know, thought maybe it was just best to leave the past where it is.

[radmista]

Sowing seeds of discontent and disharmony by hanging up on my parents birthday phone call the second my mom asked if I gained weight. Hope that sits badly on their minds while they think about how that's the first call I've engaged with them in 2 months and it was for the dogs birthday. Dad scrambling to text me for my mom that she didn't mean it. Like fuck I told her I've been having a rough month and day. She couldn't keep it to herself that badly. Fucks sake

[wowifinallywatched]

Rise of the Guardians deserves more Love

Rise of the Guardians is the definition of a feel good movie

THE SCENE WHERE THE GUARDIANS ARE COLLECTING THE TEETH IS ALL THE EVIDENCE YOU NEED, ALL OF IT.

Along with the scene where all the kids and Guardians come together against Pitch

OKAY LISTEN THE WHOLE MOVIE IS EVIDENCE I COULD GO ON

Hugh Jackman playing the Easter Bunny and pretty much adopting little Sophie? Pretends to not care but will still face his fear and look over the edge of the sled because he's worried for his 'acquaintance'?

Jack Frost realising his core is to help fight the dark with fun? Realising he's found the family he's always longed to have?

Tooth finding the good in everyone? Cherishing everyone and never hiding her passion? Caring for everyone, and I mean EVERYONE

Sandy being the most wholesome being to ever exist AND I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS BUT I STILL TEAR UP EVERYTIME

Santa just BEING HIS INCREDIBLE SELF. THE TATTOOS. THE BELLEH. THE YETIS!!!

This movie is joy. This movie brings joy. This movie is about bringing joy.

I will never stop talking about this movie and how purely wonderful it is.

[krakenshaped]

Alright I've had like 5 hours of sleep but it's fine, let's talk about the parallels between Ryo Marufuji and D.D, the importance of Sho Marufuji to the themes GX tries to convey - whether you wanna admit of not - and as our queen Gaga describes it: The Fame Machine™️

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So. On one hand. Ryo Marufuji. He's truly a specimen. A divisive and fascinating character. He's the embodiment of a downward spiral that only gets more and more dire as the series goes on. On the other, D.D. Edo Phoenix' narcissistic adoptive father. These two shouldn't really have any correlation, after all while Ryo and Edo have their conflict, Ryo has nothing to do with D.D or Edo's character arc during the finale of season 2.

Except that D.D's backstory lines up relatively well with Ryo's descent to Hell Kaiserhood. It's just that D.D went the extra mile. And in the end it says a lot about GX's minor themes - that being an exploration of what it means to be successful, how negative influences in your childhood can affect you and liberating yourself from those negative influences.

Let's dive a little bit more into themes. Because all media have themes and purposes no matter how mundane and pointless those purposes are. While ygo GX's purposes is undoubtedly to sell trading cards to teens, its main theme centres around growing up - something a lot of the shounen's primary demographic will heavily relate to. Yugioh GX is a coming of age story about a schoolboy and his friends as they explore the world and grow and change, their pursuit for success and glory and the grief of losing your naive view on the world but coming out a stronger, better person because of it. A lot of that is explored via character arcs and sub-themes, such as Manjoume's season 1 character arc emphasising how much toxic/abusive family members can change and affect how you present yourself to the world and the liberation that comes with cutting them off. Similarly, D.D contributes to this theme via his treatment of Edo and the role he plays in Edo's story as well as weaving a cautionary tale of what can happen to a person when they become so desperate for fame and success that they change permanently for the worse.

But Ryo also follows this theme. Not to the same extreme or in the exact same way, but he does.

Ryo Marufuji starts the series as a 3rd year high school student - just on the cusp of graduation. He's the top of his class. He has it all. He was handpicked and trained by his mentor and trusted with cards of sacred value - ultimately promised success. And did he work hard for that success. He worked so hard he isolated himself from his family and spent every waking moment in the mountains, training.

And then he graduates. His debut duel is with Edo Phoenix. The cycle begins.

Edo crushes Ryo. As in completely destroys him. Nukes him. Ryo doesn't even have a chance. Humiliates him publicly just because he can. Behaviour he learned from D.D - to crush all threats to your career underfoot because nothing else matters. Ryo goes down a spiral. He flunks so hard from the pro leagues he falls all the way down to where even amateurs mock him. He's become the laughing stock of the dueling industry. He hits the underground dueling ring. He has a truly horrific, traumatising experience where he's almost electrocuted to death on top of being humiliated once more. And he comes out a different person. A person who has abandoned all moral compass and dignity and cares only about one thing.

Success.

The cycle has passed from D.D's narcissistic treatment of Edo, to Edo' learned behaviours, to Ryo's Hell Kaiser transformation. In mere episodes to come, Ryo would carry on this cycle in his treatment of Sho, attempting to humiliate, crush and ultimately severely injure him. Even if this act was in an attempt to scare Sho out the entertainment industry, he has contributed to the cycle of abuse and has attempted to inflict his learned ideals of "nothing but success/victory matters anymore". It's this duel that D.D and Ryo truly become parallels.

Like how D.D goes mad over fame, stole precious cards and begins to manipulate and emotionally abuse Edo, Ryo (through Edo's influence) does the same. He goes mad over fame and power, steals the cyberdarks, and comes back to berate and hurt Sho.

The major difference between D.D and Edo vs Ryo and Sho is that while Edo doesn't break the cycle until the damage has been done, Sho manages to successfully break this cycle from the start. Even if he comes out of it zapped half to death and degraded beyond belief, he refuses to let go of the way of life Ryo taught him before he fell from grace. That respect is of utmost importantance.

And when the time comes when Ryo faces the consequences of his insane new lifestyle, Sho steps up to take care of him despite how vile Ryo was to him. Sho takes that step to try and heal their relationship. The cycle of abuse ended with him. And Ryo begins his own personal healing journey as a result. It shows Sho's inner strength - strength he earned from trial and error through the show. Because it takes a lot to break that cycle - after all. Look at Edo.

Honestly if GX was a seinen instead of a shounen and these themes were dwelled into a little more it could have been so profound. Whether the parallel was there on purpose or not, I think they had a good idea going for it if only they went into a little more detail. I could talk about Ryo and how STRANGE his character arc is for an anime who's demographic is like 13-16 year olds or something with his weird exploration of trauma, being failed by the education system (especially as a character that's autistic coded) and weirdly enough?? Borderline hypersexuality?? (That is its OWN can of worms which will require trigger warnings relating to S/H and im not getting into that here, I've rambled enough)

GX is a fucking drug trip.

[jtownraindancer]

Ace's TURИ for Burn Rewatch: Blade on the Feather

[froggyrights]

are you leaving? sorry for asking :/

Not sure yet :') being in this fandom takes such a huge toll on me when shit hits the fan that i cant really justify to myself staying and being invested in the same capacity as I have been. However I love my mutuals and this community too damn much to just up and leave completely 😭 for now im gonna take a break from tumblr and just give it some time. I could never leave tumblr fully though I fear I'm a yapper at heart so maybe I'll just end up posting about whatever. I really don't know ! I'll figure it out !!

[fadedflora]

i have not listened to hamilton in like a week why is he STILL HERE

read the tags if you want to see me talk about musicals for a little TOO long

[vvanessaives]

death and the devil walk into the office...wait that doesn’t sound like a good start

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

Exploding into a thousand million little pieces because of the newest shortonegaming v3 episode

I Cannot BELIEVE Allison opened up the episode (after taking a break between the two mid trial) theorizing that GONTA did it. holy fuck. I Genuinely can't believe it. I mean, she figured out the truth of the virtual world super quickly and once you know that, you can easily narrow it down to Gonta or Kokichi by alibis alone. But I'm SHOCKED. She doesn't fully know the reasoning for it yet though and for that I'm so, so excited.

But another thing- The thing about v3 trial 4 for me is that there is a cut off where things start getting extremely anxiety inducing for me, and thats just around after Shuichi lies about Kokichi's alibi. guess where they stopped the freaking episode.

I am very excited to see them get to this part, of course, because its AWESOME. But holy fuck I dont know how I'll be able to handle it. I had to scream into a pillow about this. Next episode they're just gonna remote detonate my laptop