#brothers forever and ever

[luminiciant]

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[marypsue]

Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.

All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.

[sad-leon]

So some of y'all need to go touch some grass and learn that brotherly affection can include forhead and cheek kisses without it being gross

I like to imagine Leo is very affectionate, but when his brothers show him affection, he freezes up. Especially after the invasion, he fucking cries when his brothers show him affection wihtout him needing to "earn it" or anything like that

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Parallel Lines and Brothers.

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[redrobin-detective]

Continuing my incredibly sporadic and incredibly all over the place Adventure Time watch, it's really hitting me how Finn and Jake really are at completely different stages in life.

Jake had this whole other life going on before Finn became aware. Dogs in this world mature faster, age faster and don't live as long as humans. Jake went through multiple different phases, phases where he was cruel and reckless and even criminal. I had gotten used to Jake being this calm and wise center of the series that it has been eye opening to see that it was a multiyear long struggle to get to that point. And then Finn began coming into his own and wanted to be a hero and Jake changed again for him.

People have commented on the nature of Finn and Jake's relationship and it really does feel like a sibling pair in which there's a sizable gap between the elder and the younger. Jake does at times take on an almost parental role in guiding Finn. As Finn is growing up and really figuring out who he is, Jake is solidly in doggie middle age. While Finn is roaring with restless, reckless energy and trying to figure out who he is, Jake has mostly settled himself and is now making peace with his past and his future.

Jake's death is made out to be tragic but I bet he passed nice and easily of old age without want or regret. A peaceful death. But I believe the real tragedy was not in how Jake died but the fact that he didn't adequately prepare Finn for it. Jake had been the main pillar over the course of Finn's entire life. He has lost people and suffered a lot as teen/young adult, he couldn't imagine a life without Jake even though Finn would live long after Jake had met his natural end. I wonder if the two of them even realized how incongruous their lifespans were. Surely Simon or even the Islanders could have explained it to them. I wonder if it would have even mattered.

Finn did everything with his entire body and being, including love. He had decided early on that Jake was going to be his partner, best friend, brother forever and maybe nothing Jake or anyone said could have convinced him to move on.

[justarandombrit]

Owen "Spent four years pretending to be dead, whilst secretly concocting an elaborate plot to take revenge on his ex boyfriend by gradually dismantling every principal he has ever believed in, thus making his entire life purpose obsolete" Carvour: Here's some advice, Curt. It's called moving on.

[supersonic1994]

I don’t think I ever got over this actually.

[spicyvampire]

Girl I was sitting next to the funniest haitian mom during Black Panther premiere and when they revealed that T'challa's kid name was also T'Challa she immediately went "oh shit he is junior"

[kairithemang0]

Man, I don't care about enemies to lovers or idiots in love or any of those silly tropes

No no my favorite relationship trope is one is a caveman and the other invented fire

[infizero]

already seeing a lot of ppl saying that the finale leaned too much into the more unhealthy aspects of simon and betty's relationship and like people are entitled to their opinion but. i dont really get that?? the whole point is that before this series THOSE ASPECTS HAD REALLY NEVER BEEN EXPLORED. aside from that one time in temple of mars, their past relationship had honestly been extremely romanticized and glamorized, and i for one am glad that they acknowledged their relationship was not perfect even back then.

but i highly disagree with anyone claiming that the finale tried to paint their relationship as having been bad or it being good that its over. i dont think it was saying that at all! they make it very clear that they loved each other and their relationship was great!! but it was not PERFECT and i think for the purpose of simon being able to move on it was important for him to realize that. thinking of the past as being flawless only leads to an inability to move on from it.

i definitely understand wishing that they had a happier ending, but personally i think them getting closure with each other and being able to live on separately is good. its been established there is seemingly no way to bring betty back to her regular self, and i think it would've just felt deus ex machina-y if they pulled a way out of their asses at the last second. plus it probably would've just reinforced their reliance on each other. betty basically lived for simon and simon lived for her, then marceline, then fionna and cake. now, they're able to live for themselves.

it's not the happiest ending they could've had, but it felt satisfying to me. like betty said, they made their choices. and clearly now that she's part of golb she's been able to reflect and realize her sacrificing everything for simon was unhealthy, which i think is good! she doesn't seem to be too unhappy as part of golb. hell knowing her she probably thinks its awesome she gets to be part of a monstrous chaos god. and she clearly is still watching over simon :') but that distance is a good thing, i think.

anyways this is just my opinion, and you're totally entitled to not like their ending, but i will say definitively that the finale was not in any way portraying their relationship overall as unhealthy or bad. it was merely pointing out an aspect of it that was unhealthy. but it very much asserts that what they had was wonderful and good despite that.

[faewaren]

Handy infographics for wangxian feat. whoever you want to put in there. Rubbing my polyamorous hands all over them.

I THINK this must be the three most common ones. Who else do people put in there?

I am not a photoshop professional. This is obvious. However I must spread my agendas.

[saetoshi]

happy birthday you little shit

[mispatchedgreens]

pride of my countrymen, my little brother will be born again

[metaphorthejesterdraws]

i had this idea about sans walking alone in the rain because Sad™️ but papyrus having NONE of that and yeeting an umbrella over him but sans aint happy about that because papyrus doesn't have shelter from the rain now. so they resolve this by papyrus letting sans sit on his shoulders so they can efficiently share the umbrella's shelter.

...honestly made more sense in my head but ey at least it resulted in some art

p.s. my favorite part about this is them smiling but my second favorite part is the motion blurred papyrus chasing after sans

[thepalestrose]

I went into this volume looking for gods, and I've convinced myself that I've found them.

Why do there have to be more gods in the first place?

The number four appears everywhere in RWBY. Four kingdoms housing four academies containing four vaults safeguarding four relics opened by four maidens. Teams are four members each, and go through four years of academy training together.

But created by just two gods...?

The four relics represent each of the four ideas around which humanity was based. Creation, destruction, knowledge, and choice.

The brothers are creation (Light) and destruction (Darkness). But what about knowledge and choice? Neither of them really embody either. Superficially, Light gives Ozma the choice of reincarnation, but that's shallow.

Okay, but why these two?

The Curious Cat is knowledge. They have an insatiable appetite for information, and are the one most knowledgeable about the Ever After, and clearly play more of a role in it's functioning than a normal Ever Afterian. Purpose is intrinsically linked to life, so much so that life ends (and ascension begins) when purpose is lost.

What else is a being that can change someones purpose on a whim other than a god?

The Blacksmith is choice, specifically, the choice of identity for oneself. They are the heart of the tree, the one that reaches out when those in the Ever After lose their way. The one who reshapes them when they ascend.

To Ruby, she appears as a blacksmith, forging weapons because those weapons ARE her identity. Her weapon is who she is. So the Blacksmith offers Ruby a choice, in the form of the weapons on her wall. Each is a new identity for Ruby.

All she would have to do to ascend... is pick one up.

What role will these gods play for the rest of the volume? Will they leave the Ever After behind, and inhabit Remnant? The Curious Cat wanted to go to Remnant with Alyx, after all.

I can't wait to find out.

[vanmec]

Happy Halloween!

Copia dreams of Terzo sometimes.. unfortunately they’re not always pleasant.

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