#That the themes REVOLVE AROUND

[adhdo5]

Why is it so hard to decide what characters are Actually Doing and why is there no advice on the topic

[ventique18]

Malleus is so sweet and sappy that you can procure only sugar from their dorm

[recurring-polynya]

this is a pretty half-formed thought at the moment but i really appreciate the way in early bleach, ichigo's image at school is something that is very important to him and something he is extremely intentional about maintaining

and rukia

just doesn't

give a shit

and there's some humor in this, of course, and the fact that she is a grim reaper why would she care what some teens think of her etc etc and then a few volumes later we find out that she did. in fact. care very much.

and that in fact, keeping up proper appearances at school (and/or the inability to) is in some ways what drove her apart from her best friend

except that in the long run, it was nothing. it didn't matter. it never mattered. trying to fit in ruined her relationship with renji and for what

anyway bleach is cool because you can read it when you're a teen and then read it again when you're an adult and it will emotionally devastate you, thank you tite kubo

[highdefinitions]

remember when connor said that brandon “doesn’t understand things like social cues and stuff”

[im-still-watching-anime]

you actually shouldn’t get into ace attorney if you aren’t already because i will just be going about my day before randomly being assaulted by the knowledge that a prominent and integral part of blackquill’s design are literal permanent TEAR TRACKS like when i say that i am DEVASTATED—

[marimeeko]

If there is just one main romantic thread in BNHA, I put forth that it is in fact, Katsuki Bakugou falling in love with Izuku Midoriya.

[eosofspades]

okay i meant to make this post forever ago but my personal opinion on why so many people were so dissatisfied with lightfalll (disclaimer: i am not one of these people, i love lightfall SO much), is that lightfall was kind of subjected to a really aggressive marketing campaign.

like, stick with me here, i feel like almost all the lightfall release content (the trailers especially) were so focused on battling the witness, how this battle has been centuries in the making and this is the Second Collapse Finally Finding Us, only for there to be,,, no real resolution. the end was left on such a severe cliffhanger, but not only that, there was NO battle with the witness. the witness didn't even seem to be having a hard time at all with what we WERE throwing at it.

and for narrative reasons *i* am obsessed with this ending; in terms of storytelling i adore practically every creative decision that was made in lightfall, but i think the reason that so many people were so upset about it is because lightfall had such intense marketing and was rooted in the implication that this was the End of Days, only for us to get almost no closure, and instead so many more questions.

(there's also something to be said, i think, about the fact that the people who ARE most upset about this are like, the youtube gamer dudebros who's content is very very often rooted in the aggressive, violence-and-warfare, pvp-centric, no-interest-in-lore approach to destiny, and that the people i've seen primarily ENJOYING the narrative decisions (or at least being understanding about it) are the artists and writers and loremasters of the fandom, but i'm not quite sure,,, how to expand on that point.)

[see-arcane]

Last TMAGP thought—I know the Volunteer Donation Mob was an uncanny valley monster rally, but it’s also so bittersweetly hilarious to picture them legitimately jumping on this situation like,

Volunteer Mob: “You know what? We should take a break from the Horrors and add something to the community. Really lend our plentiful terrible hands to a Good Cause :)”

Volunteer Mob: “Hello, new manager! We are here for the Good Cause. We have brought our eager inhuman spirit and donations :)”

New Manager: “Oh, that’s not necessary—“

Volunteer Mob, dragging in a landfill’s worth of bloodstained refuse and probably cursed mementos: “For you and the Good Cause :)”

Volunteer Mob, mosh pit-sandwiching their manager under the weight of themselves and all their horror-junk: “It’s so nice to help :) <3”

Security Team, already burning the building down : “Not on our watch”

[angelicathedaisy]

I don’t have a type…

Ok I absolutely LOVE any media when there are themes of grief, love, loss, death, mortality, morality, self discovery, etc. When it revolves around family or some sort of family unit and there’s a bit of ✨magic✨ like some sort of supernatural force, a curse, or an ambiguous/ unconfirmed magic source. It gets me hooked EVERY time it is so specific but I live for it.

[individuating]

my #truth:

ep 1 = ep 7 (beatriceless)

ep 2 = ep 6 (furniture)

ep 3 = ep 5 (tools)

ep 4 = ep 8 (ange focus)

[miisfits-toys]

I was lucky to catch a showing of Guillermo Del Toro's Pinnochio! I’ve been looking forward to this film for years, and think it was very much worth the wait :-)!!

[athousandis]

haha remember when the thomas and mitchell storyline was there to show buck that love isn’t found it’s made haha yeah what even was that?

[aroacehanzawa]

i can't stop thinking about this particular feeling of alienation, which i'm sure applies on different levels to anyone who doesn't fit in to society's expectations of straight and monogamous, but i'm speaking specifically from an a-spec perspective - the feeling of alienation from the way that everything seems to revolve around love and partnership and family (and specifically family tied by blood)

like, i'm just a reading a book and because it's a book aimed at adults instead of teenagers, the recurring theme at its core is the connection between parents and children, which i can relate to, except it's specifically from the perspective of the adult who has chosen to form a family and have children with their partner - and suddenly i can no longer relate to it, not because i currently don't have children but could still imagine it and therefore gain something meaningful from the text, but because that is something so completely outside of my world that this entire pillar of society or "humanity" is lost on me

idk what i'm trying to say here other than that the a-spec experience is just so fundamentally alienating from the world, on top of and regardless of the queer experience, because you're constantly faced with these fundamental "philosophies" of society but can't fit in to any of them: even if i had a purely romantic partner of the opposite gender, it would be considered "incomplete" if there was no physical relationship; even if i wanted children and decided to adopt, it would be considered weird or unnatural to not want biological children

anyway i guess my point is that aro/ace exclusionists are wrong because someone could be asexual heteroromantic and they would still not be "straight" in the eyes of society. do you get it