I don't know how to explain it, but this is the exact moment that Bradley Bradshaw falls irrevocably in love with Jake Seresin. It's probably the smallest moment — Jake isn't even laughing because of something Bradley said. He's laughing at Bob or Coyote being ridiculous, and Bradley glances over, and Jake's eyes are closed as he laughs, and he cannot. look. away. He's not even looking at his chest (although he has been all day, whatever) — he's just looking at the open, relaxed set of his face, and he wants Jake to look this way always.
He wants to make Jake feel this way, always.
(They kiss for the first time later that night, and okay, maybe Jake wants him to feel that same way, too.)
there is a demon on my shoulder and it’s telling me to drop everything and outright full color animate (i can barely draw) a whole 30 seconds of an original fan song (i can barely compose) I wrote for a far future chapter of my silly little AU fic (i actually Can write, and should be doing THAT instead)
tbh, at least in fanart, i NEED to see more flustered geto representation. there’s plenty flustered gojo which i do love, but where is the same energy for geto??? WHERE IS IT??
(screenshotting the replies and posting because i feel weird replying from my main <\3 hope you don't mind the ping @startledpixel )
i never even thought about it happening that way... haha... excuse me while i go scream in a corner for a couple of minutes
it ties in really well to the sort of recurring motif i see through his life that the only time he's allowed to be truly happy with himself and his place in the world is after his "death" and recovery. kazama is a very complicated character to think about when it comes to his motivations and his relationships with the people he's close with - i don't think he's very good at prioritising his emotional investments (nishiki being the obvious example, but also the way he doesn't send any letters to kiryu in jail until the last day before his parole), so to add an extra layer of tragedy to the whole thing i like to think that he hadn't been making as much time for kashiwagi towards the end than he maybe could have been. not in a premeditated disloyalty sense, of course, but he's got his hands more than full with the whole embezzling 10 billion yen from the tojo coffers gambit... kashiwagi being the way he is though would be all the more desperate for reconciliation, and to then not get it before kazama kicks it would be the icing on the shit cake
but yeah KNOWING adachi was in the building with everyone else must have been like reliving his second-worst nightmare... meeting this man he thought he'd be able to settle down with for the first time in sixty odd years but still constantly having to worry after him. i still adore no idling as an exploration of those feelings after the fact & i find myself coming back to it an awful lot as someone who doesn't generally read fiction more than once or twice unless i'm trying to find something specific (if you may allow me my nerd moment)
it's something i would love to explore more myself, but i don't really feel i have the means to do it in a way in which i'd enjoy the end product... but i suppose that's what commissions are for!
ANYWAY, apparently, everyone kiryu meets in his side story gives him some kind of reward, and i'm having A Time thinking about what he might get from kashiwagi. i'm trying not to set myself up to be disappointed by what happens, but there's a big part of me that hopes kashiwagi pulls "suzuki" to the side and leaves whoever else on the bar for a while so they get a chance to actually catch up. i think at this point both of them really need something like that, because i doubt there's any way kashiwagi didn't get the news that kiryu "died" in 2016
the other big thing that's got me physically shaking is the idea they might finally namedrop him. and uuhhh if they still let us karaoke at survive then i hope judgement gets its own cinematic. : )
Having an “am I being lightly ribbed, outright ridiculed, or being met with cold disapproval?” moment with someone on my local hobby shop’s discord whose tone I cannot seem to parse.