#filler tag two

[toadkisses]

forgot to say in my journal post the other day that i got high for the first time in 2021, rose and i drove to this really old graveyard we love thats back away from the road in the woods on a summer day and smoked a joint. it didnt hit her too much that time but my reaction has not been replicated since.

i got back in the car and was like “okay want me to drive us to see the geese at [park]” and she was like “um, no, thats fine. lets stay here” so we sat in my backseat. time felt slower. i messaged a friend of ours who is much more knowledgeable about substances and asked it “when do i know its working” then realized it must be working. i demanded it talk to me on the phone because i missed it so bad. so it along with rose were audience to me crying for the next hour or so. not bad crying! good crying.

i got emotional because rose mentioned how we had gone shopping beforehand and said the word “aisle”, and i burst into tears like “i just imagined you walking down the aisleeeeeee”. and i have a habit when i imbibe any substance where i kubrik stare at rose, not even as a joke just i become like enraptured in studying her face and only want to look at her. and so i was staring at her and cried more because the way her hair was styled, “your hair looks like angel wingsssssss!!”

rose told our friend how i had wanted to drive to see geese, and i started crying again because i imagined cars on the road and how theyre like dogs (my favorite animals) and people take care of them and love them just like their pets.

the only part that could have gone badly was when i was staring out at the trees and i started imagining how scary it would be to live somewhere with the potential of encountering a chimpanzee anytime you went in the woods and i was like “i just imagined a monkey in the woods i need to stop looking outside”

i asked like “how do i know when im normal again” and rose joked like “well when you can think about me walking down the aisle and not cry” which made me start up again! funny lady

ive gotten high since then lots of other times but not once, even with the same strain, have i had a reaction like that lol. it was a very funny experience and rose and our friend were really kind and good humored about it.

ive never had a bad experience with pot but once rose got too high and we just laid down together and covered her eyes which apparently helped, and she just told me recently that she didnt want to tell me at the time but part of why she was freaked out was that I LOOKED LIKE THE SUS JERMA PICTURE TO HER aeibfnejnkfjdsjk poor minnow fish

[ofmdee]

keeping his scales clean 🤭

[spotsupstuff]

it's dooooooone it's finally dooooooone,,, seven more Iterators vibe checked with voices!

Song list: - Orion: TheVoicePlay ft. Ebucs - Your Man - Step & Vapor: Kavinsky ft. Lovefoxxx - Nightcall - Disdain: Acapella Onion - My Jolly Sailor Bold - Expiation: Pam Rabbit - Ve Starým Domě [In An Old House]

[jake-is-screaming-in-tune]

[longagoitwastuesday]

I am liking Jujutsu Kaisen, way more than I imagined I would, but I foresee it will let me down and it's keeping me from enjoying this as much as I could haha

I think the characters and dynamics are well set, and I think many of them have an incredibly good and deep potential, but I would be willing to bet they'll not get a proper development, enough for them to really hit. A well assembled set of gears is not enough to make the movement go, you have to wind the clockwork.

I think Gojo and Megumi have a fascinating and very complex dynamic, but I doubt it will be given the time and care that imo it needs to actually work. And it is going well enough for now! One could see the intimacy between them was deeper than the one Gojo had with, say, Yuji and Nobara ever since the very first few episodes despite the fact Fushiguro too was a first year. But the pieces forming what they have are extremely complex, and it just wouldn't be realistic if it doesn't show, even if in a not showing way, or if it doesn't have consequences or implications.

It's one of those dynamics that shape one's life, the way one regards the world, the way one establishes or not relationships with other people. It's one of those dynamics that could be full of fondness, gratitude, resentment, admiration, trust, and that imply intimacy, the good kind or the bad, even if in just the knowledge of someone who's been a constant through your life. It could, and would, imply a myriad of feelings, and probably in such a mix it could imply contradictory feelings too. Even the nothingness would weight, even the nothingness would be significant and meaningful.

Gojo took Megumi and his sister under his wing, the son of a man who murdered him, because of both selfish and selfless reasons. Megumi looks like Toji. What does Gojo feel about this? How does Gojo deal with this? How does Gojo go about taking care of Megumi? Would he walk him to school? Make him breakfast? Celebrate his birthdays making him blow candles? Did he take him to the zoo? Does the relationship between them feel professional or is it something more? Gojo appreciates his students, but is Megumi to him just another student? When Gojo faces Sukuna in Megumi's body, did he see the kid he raised, or does he just see Sukuna in one of his students' body? Did he have one faint wavering instant? And how does Megumi feel about this? Is he resentful of him? Resentful of the situation? Of the selfishness behind his actions? Does he feel like a pawn? Is he grateful? Does he resent feeling grateful? Would he rather not? Does he love Gojo? Does he feel nothing about him other than what he could feel about a teacher that sort of annoys him but knows he's reliable in his strength? Does he think it unfair, cruel or unfeeling that Gojo is close, closer perhaps, with Yuuji or Yuta, considering their story? When Sukuna slices Gojo in two, does the remnants of Megumi's soul tremble?

And not just Megumi and Gojo. Yuuji and Nanami, Gojo and Nanami, Yuuji and Fushiguro, Nobara and the boys, or Nobara and Maki, Todo and Yuuji or Yuta, Gojo and Yuta, Megumi and his sister. Gojo and Geto, even! If the pieces are well set, the dynamics are intriguing, interesting, and have potential to be deep, but then the characters have like two plot relevant scenes that punch you hard, but little more, it's not nearly enough. Especially not nearly enough for the enormity that is shonen dynamics and situations. And the potential existing at all, and then not delivering, makes it all the more frustrating when you're left with something mediocre that could have been so good.

The development of dynamics through not only a few plot relevant gut wrenching moving scenes, but also the smallness of life, is important. The friend who recommended this to me said that those things were just unnecessary filler, but I disagree. I think there's a big difference between a large amount of anime-only filler episodes whose existence is based on the fact they had run out of manga chapters to animate, and moments of quietness. The low stakes character-driven moments of quietness can be so telling and so insightful, and they are so satisfactory when brought back later in higher stakes situations. My friend teased me there was no scene of Gojo making breakfast to Megumi, that it would be an idiotic idea, but it would be so telling. How he makes breakfast, what they eat, if he tries hard or if it's all mechanised, if they have personal bowls or if they use whatever, if he just buys them some pastry on the way to school, if the way they have breakfast changes through the years, or if he doesn't make them breakfast at all! All that would be very insightful on their dynamic and its evolution. All that would give a glimpse on how they regard each other and why, even in the present. All that could become meaningful in tense situations and high stakes scenes.

These moments also let the plot breath; if a lot is happening all the time, if every character is always experiencing trauma after trauma, the entire story is so emotionally draining that at some point you don't even care all that much. Besides, these nothing moments or low stakes plot arcs, besides deepening and developing dynamics, also let some in-world time pass, which would make the intimacy and bond between characters more believable imo; between Yuuji eating Sukuna's finger and their last confrontation in December how much time has passed? A few months? Am I truly to believe these characters are so everything to each other in only a few months?

Without some smallness, some repetition, some daily life, some low stakes not plot-centric development, the dynamics don't hit, they don't truly feel fleshed out, and dynamics as complex as the ones Megumi and Gojo have, or as supposedly meaningful as the one Megumi has with Yuuji or his sister, should be fleshed out if they're going to exist at all. Otherwise they'd risk making the writing feel awkward and fake. Besides, if the dynamics felt well fleshed out and realistic, they would shape the way the characters interact and act, and how they deal with situations, thus being plot relevant.

The shonen genre has so much happening all the time, the stakes are so high, the dynamics are so rooted in big events and the relationships carry enormous weight and implications. Yet they barely get developed, and it feels so stupid, so plain, the absence of something so important noticeable like a constant void, a shapeless nothingness present in every scene. It makes the characters feel like cardboard figures. Jujutsu Kaisen is already getting a better job than many, but I doubt it will do enough for what I've heard, and I fear I am bound to feel let down, and bound to feel unmoved.

After all, if not enough time and care has been given to develop a dynamic, I am not going to feel pressured by the high stakes; if not enough time and care has been given to develop the dynamic between Megumi and Yuuji, as good potential as it has I am bound to feel little for this last confrontation between Sukuna and Itadori, and his effort in getting Megumi back.

[ask-the-6-souls]

This question feels directed to the creator themselves but is there any rules when it comes to ocs/characters interacting with the kids?

OOC: I guess the big one is not to have canon characters- either from UT or UTY- interact with the kids. There's a piece of worldbuilding I want to establish (that has been partially done so but not explicitly yet), but aside from that, I don't think so!

[jackmischief]

shoutout to the Spideypool shipper I briefly met in the wild (read: at BoxLunch) on Tuesday. i was the one in a relevant outfit and got relevant Pop merch. you named-dropped the fabulous @thefuzzyaya and made my day

[indigogirled]

lunch dinner 07.14.24

[pokemonxhyperfixation]

Yeah... that hypothetical fic will soon not be hypothetical...

So like, I'm bout to write the first chapter on a Google doc (since I need to wait a week for the AO3 invite to process so I can make an acount), and I realized I kinda... lack a title.

And before someone comments on how I should write the story before I title it, I have made the executive decision to title any and all fan fics I write with dubiously fitting at best song lyrics. I uh... didn't come up with a song to yoink lyrics to title this fic with, since I decided to comit to this (mostly as character writing practice for my game lol) at like... 12 am last night. So yeah. Consider this an open request for y'all Oil Fire enjoyers to just give me songs you like so I can read the lyrics to pick a title.

[killorbekillian]

coining a new phrase called “the manager maneuver” where your manager tells you to start a big task and they’ll come help you and then they DON’T!!!!!!!! bonus points if they straight up leave for the day.

[ragnar0c]

I can’t actually get over how Hana and Alope become friends bc they don’t really know they’re friends until one of them is sad and the other says something stupid like this.

Or someone asks and they just go “I’m not real sure….”

but they do become friends. They’re shaky at first, but arguably even after chapter 3 you could call them that. They’re just not very good friends until after chapter 15. And even after chapter 15 they have attachment issues so they’d rather just do nice things for each other to prove they are friends rather than claim it.

[mayoiayasep]

shiki trauma reveal🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[passingthetime]

I was tagged by @hoppkorv to post 6 albums I've been listening to lately - thank you!! ☀️

This was really tough, because the only albums I often listen to lately are El Nervio del Volcán and El Silencio... Maaaaybe sometimes Mundo Feliz and El Circo. Anyway,

I tag @parsleyroot, @burn-on-the-flame, @wat-the-cur and @midnineties if you wanna do this!

[hauntingblue]

So in the historical filler episodes zoro wears a red beaded necklace and he is kind of a monk and then there was that monk with wings in saboady too so is the necklace ace wears something similar or it's just in style or something

[you-are-my-neverland]

taking a creative writing intro course this fall and i’m so, so excited!!!!

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

hey genloss is bad.