The Prefect after flipping off literal death for the nth time this month.
Ace: We are gathered here today to remember Life of the Ramshackle Prefect, Yuu, whose life was taken too soon... Fighting yet another Overblot.
*Yuu on the nurse's bed, wrapped up in bandages for the nth time*: Stop talking about me in front of other people as if I'm dead, Ace.
*All of the are first years outside the Nurse room, door wide open.*
Epel: *sniff* Sometimes, I can still hear his voice.
Yuu: Man, fuck y'all!
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An aspect of Hilda the series that I feel isn’t talked about enough is the colonizer’s guilt and how it affects the main character.
What made me write this was watching the third episode of the new season, but honestly, it’s something we see throughout the whole series. Starting out with the elves in the northern counties, and moving on to trolls and now giants. Every season that came out gave us a chance to see Hilda deal with the feelings that arise from living in a society she knows is built on the occupation of another people’s native land and the oppression of those inhabitants.
She knows it’s not her fault, she knows she’s not the colonizer, but she’s well aware that she’s in the privileged side of her society. Seeing her grapple with the fact that her very existence in these spaces is only possible because someone else is getting the short end of the stick, to me at least, makes her that much more interesting of a character.
Because it’s not a matter of fixing what she’s done, but the privilege is still there and not even well hidden when she sees the day to day life of the people whose land has been occupied by humans/trolbergians. So whenever we see her rush to aid them, her borderline desperation to fix what’s been broken, it’s even more captivating because it’s not just the usual “I love helping people and having adventures” gist, there’s always this undertone of guilt for something she hasn’t personally done but still knows has to be held accountable for.
Hilda knows the type of oppression that people like her get away with. And she wants no part in it.
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heterophobic nanami real
[ID: two screenshots from 'revolutionary girl utena' of nanami and touga standing in the rose garden. nanami imploringly clings to touga, who stands stiffly with his face obscured from the audience. in the first screenshot, nanami says: 'i know i have to accept that you go out with girls.'
in the second screenshot, nanami continues: 'but don't go out with a girl like her!' /end ID]
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those missing pit babe hours? not a phase.
the laptop is on, the doc is open and thoughts are being thunk. it's finally time to write my tribute piece to the scene between alan and dean in episode 10 because it's been months and i'm still not over the way that made me feel.
what's the gist? a bit of a character study of alan having doubts and feelings and a bad time. how long will it be? at most, 3-4k. idk how it takes a village made it to 32k but that was a fluke!
but behold! a sneak peek!
Life in the X-Hunter garage had never really been normal, Alan supposes, but there had once been a well-oiled routine. He would come to work early, the sun not yet touching the sky outside. His fingers would find the light switch and the garage would flicker into being; blue-wrapped cars elevated on scissor lifts, North’s tools strewn across his station, Dean’s gleaming helmet abandoned after a hasty polish at the end of the day. Fucking kids.
These tiny reminders of his team kept Alan company until the garage slowly filled with the early-morning grumbles of gruff mechanics and an even gruffer Babe. Alan would smile, because despite his hatred of the hours prior to ten am, the young racer insisted on being the first to show up, the first to take his car on the track, the first to start training. Babe’s constant presence, his drive to improve, to succeed – it made Alan strive to do right by him, by Way, by all of X-Hunter. His team was his own driving force, and it kept him coming in, even when he was tired or frustrated or ill.
It wasn’t just the morning routine though, that pulled Alan through each day. On any given day, Alan would be treated to a symphony of Dean’s enthusiastic questions, Way’s answering laughter and Sonic and North’s frequent antics and non-existent hazard perception.
More recently, the day-to-day chaos had grown to include Charlie’s vibrant energy as he threw his all into racing, or curled himself around Babe’s body like the rambunctious puppy he was. And, of course, there was Jeff.
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missing you
I wish I could run
Into the grip of your arms
Once over again
But that night was my last chance
Of ever seeing you
And those wonderful eyes
Ever again
But there’s a star in the sky
On this hopeless night
And I’d like to think it’s you
Watching over me
While my eyes fill with tears
I guess I can still feel your love
In places it wouldn’t normally be
- Grey Augustus
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