#idk how else to phrase it

[serialunaliver]

straight marriage tiktok is terrifying. why are you bragging that you take care of your husband like he's a toddler? it's so dark in here . hello?

[butthatsnotwhereminelives]

ive got my money on things going badly … girl you have no idea

[maddie-w-draws]

tfw ur an angry little dog and ur human is in distress but it’s not funny this time because u didn’t cause it >:(

[polarfarina]

Either my aim is getting worse or Tumblr has shrunk the hit boxes for the buttons

[senshibignaturalz]

Has anyone made a film list for recommendations "after goncharov" because now I'm in the mood for films

[atthebell]

"i gave my chat R$5000 to buy items for my new setup for 2024 and this was the result"

"WHERE IS THE NAGITO DOLL"

"I PUT SOMETHING ON TOP OF HIM WITHOUT THINKING but i bought him here's a photo to prove it"

"you literally hate me ."

"why am i imagining them talking on twitter side by side LMAO"

[photo of cellbit on his phone, clearly right next to lore]

[khaopybara]

Don't judge a book by its cover. An essay by Mew Pt. 2

Mew in his revenge era went shopping and thought, "you know what screams I'm gonna fuck you up, maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't? Floral/patterned shirts," and proceeded to buy a bunch of those.

BOOK KASIDET as MEW WITSARUT ( ONLY FRIENDS EPS. 7-12 )

Correction: I missed one outfit in ep. 6 and instead of remaking that set, I'll just post it below because it's actually the hottest Mew has looked, so I'm not even upset.

[prince-liest]

This one's for half moon anon, who inadvertently helped me figure out exactly how I wanted to write this scene.

[oceanwithouthermoon]

saiki being an oblivious harem protagonist is the funniest concept ever to me... its so fitting with the normal tdlosk shenanigans too...

like imagine, maybe hes wearing his ring, is out of town, or doesnt have his powers in the exact moments someone realizes theyre in love with him.. so he doesnt have the benefit of immediately hearing the words "im in love with saiki" so he'll have to figure it out with context clues and yk. emotional intelligence.

WHICH HE SUCKS AT AND DOESNT HAVE.

notice how the only people we know had a crush on him in the show are people who very explicitly thought "i have such a huge crush on saiki.." "i think im falling in love with saiki!" "saiki youre my soulmate, kiss me!" but anyone else could have and he just didnt know... what about people who are more subtle with their feelings, people who havent even realized their own feelings yet, or even people who are actually pretty obvious but saiki just doesnt get it !

(also i wrote this out a while ago and then read this volume a bit later and im adding this cuz it reminded me of it lol)

[shikai-the-storyteller]

I'm not a huge fan of the Tazercraft mental link headcanon (it's just not my cup of tea personally), HOWEVER—

I can't stop thinking about Pac in Alcatraz with his back to the wall as Cell approaches him with a cold smile on his face and a bloody knife in one hand, and Pac completely blocking Mike out because he knows something terrible is about to happen, and if he can't save himself then maybe he can at least spare Mike the graphic gory details.

And even when he’s lying on the cold concrete floor in a pool of his own blood, Pac is still trying to block everything out so he doesn't project his pain to Mike through their mental link. But ultimately, that's what scares Mike the most — the sharp flash of Pac's terror for an instant, and then silence.

[chocoenvy]

Mentions of execution!! “Your Grace!” Slowly, you regained your consciousness from a slumber you do not know how long lasted, not only that but so did the aching parts of your body. You wonder how you managed to gain such blows when a call from someone beside you did you slowly remember the events of that day. Why were you covered in the softest blankets when before, you were always in the brink of meeting death with cold eyes glaring down at your form, eyes that belonged to the characters you once adored? Why were you all of a sudden treated like royalty when before, you were accused as an imposter of a god you don’t ever recall in the game? There was so much more. But most importantly, why did they finally decide to spare you when you had finally accepted your fate? That time you had finally given up running away, you can’t live like this forever. Not with all your favourite characters chasing you down for your blood. Yet they had the audacity to kneel down in front of you, asking for punishment in exchange for what irreversible wounds they have done. “If its a punishment that you want.” They look up at you eager, it’s disgusting. “Maybe an execution would suffice.” Taking someone’s life was never something you would consider, of course. “And your punishment is to finish what you have started.” They look at you agape, it was slowly dawning to them what you meant by that, with your tired eyes that had already long given up hope. The execution was never meant for them. “End me, and that would be your punishment.” It was for you. Panicked claims and sobs filled the room, they tried to reason with you, that they couldn’t so such a thing (funny to think they’d say that when the other day they never had a second thought to ending your life before they saw the droplet of gold drip down the weapon they used to impale you) but this was a direct order from you after all, what else can they do? Even if you had recovered from this, even if you slowly got along with them. You can never recover from what they have done to you. Never. You could no longer see them the same again. — UHHHH i had this in my mind for a while AND WANTED TO SHARE i wanted to share it to you as an idea form BUT I WANTED TO TRY WRITING FOR THE FIRST TIME- well not first time but i wanted to try using this as a practice- PLUS this is my first sagau that ive written AND I WANTED TO SEE WHAT YOUR TAKE ON IT WOULD BE LIKE BECAUSE I LOVE YOUR WRITINF (if ur okay with it ofc) summary basically: mc gives up and wants everything to end but at that moment did the characters realize they are the god and seeks for the punishment and tbat punishment is to finish what they started and kill mc in fromt of the whole teyvat to see hahahahahahah-

AAA SKFJSALFKASJF NO BC THIS IDEA <333 (for some reason i just never saw this ask dkfjdksfjsdfs but dear lord the idea is immaculate <333)

I did a little blurb based on this bc this idea is <333 so good love the angst <3

warnings: suicide ideation, cult behaviors, reader is very mentally unstable

The rapid switch from disgust to fear and respect on their faces repulsed you. But your expression remained the same, dull and tired.

"Any punishment you see fit," Their voices were shaky as they knelt, "We'll accept in stride."

Your eyes looked down on them without a shred of satisfaction or even relief. In fact, a frown tugged down at your lips, "So now you say that... Why is that? That you only take it back now."

Excuses bubbled up to their lips, lame and poorly thought out. Nothing that would hold any weight in your heart so you never let them start.

"I don't want anything you weren't willing to give me before," You hung your head, tired and dull eyes meeting those of the kneeling archons, "So kill me. Finish what you've started and kill me like you would have killed me if I were human. Show us how cruel you are."

The archons eyes were fear-stricken and wild, protests escaping their mouth without a second thought, begging you for a shred of kindness.

"We could never do something like that to you-" The title was on the tip of the archer's tongue. His anemo-infused arrow had struck your body a plethora of times, always leaving you with a numb limb. He, in fact, had been the reason you were caught today. He had managed to get strikes in both of your legs, causing you to be immobile for a bit.

"But you could." Your voice was quiet but sharp, cold but so very tired, "You were about to. There's nothing different now, so come on." Annoyance edged its way into your tone, you had to grit your teeth to stop the tears from blurring your vision, "Kill me like you were just about to. Kill me like you've been longing to for the past few months."

The archons had no words, only anguish as their bodies shook. They could never kill you, their god, but they had been so close to doing so. The true reality of what they almost did sunk in, and they were sure this was the worst point in their entire lives.

But you weren't done, you were serious in your claims for execution, and you weren't going to stop until you were dead by the archons' hands.

Just as they had wanted it.

[fischiee]

rvb dnd game where wash is the dm and just gets increasingly angry as the game goes on bc every time church meets one of his npcs he just says “i cast brain damage” and then the whole table yells that it’s a valid spell and wash just screams internally

[pickastitch]

LET AIMSEY AND PEARL DO LORE TOGETHER !!

[everythingsinred]

Family and the Institution of Alice Academy

Was thinking about this ever since someone (I forgot specifically who, sorry) posed a question like this in the GA discord, asking about (I think) Natsume's extended family or something like that. It was a really interesting concept that I've been thinking a lot about since it was brought up, so here are the thoughts I've accumulated. I'll try to be concise but I have a LOT of thoughts and my brain is messy.

My general opinion at the end of all this thinking I did is that I don't think Academy students typically have very close familial ties after graduating.

I think the most apparent reason for that would be that students are expected to graduate when they are twenty years old. Our main four are exceptions to the rule, coming to the Academy pretty late in life. Most children are taken early, as toddlers or even babies. Natsume, Ruka, and Hotaru's families did all they could to avoid Academy scouting. Mikan was entirely accidental--if she had never met Hotaru, she might have never even found out she was an Alice to begin with. That being said, most kids were separated from their families at a very young age, only to be allowed to reunite with them once they're already adults. For many students, they've been away from their parents for close to two decades.

On top of that, the Academy doesn't allow visitations or phone calls and severely restricts letter communications. Only one child from each class is allowed to return home for one week each year, and that one week does not do much to make up for all the time spent at school.

My point is that by the time students are allowed to see their families again, that familial bond has already been severed, for all intents and purposes. That feeling of closeness and protection no longer exists. Students will feel more closeness and connection to their classmates and even to their teachers than to their parents or siblings, and as a result, I can imagine many graduates not even bothering to visit their families.

While I was pondering this, I made the connection between Academy students and the real life example of a similar situation with Janissaries from the Ottoman Empire. Basically, Janissaries were children stolen from the subjugated people under Ottoman rule. They were taken for the purpose of a "child levy", also known as a "blood tax." Some children were even willingly given by their families due to the possibility of socially advancing, and because the children were promised first class status (sound familiar?). Essentially the children were taken, forced to comply with Ottoman standards and traditions (including forced conversions and circumcisions), and then trained for military service. These soldiers would actually end up being incredibly loyal and efficient, despite likely never seeing their families again.

(Edit: forced circumcisions are particularly heinous when you consider that the children were typically at least 10 years old at the time they were taken.... so.... uh.... not pleasant.... But also interesting that the Janissaries were typically much older than the Alice children at the time of being taken.)

That level of separation doesn't endear ties; it severs them. These Janissaries--very often forcefully taken from their families--ended up growing up with very little connection to their parents or siblings. The feeling of belonging to their previous communities was gone. Absence does not always make the heart grow fonder. This was done as a means of creating a strong military force but also to disillusion subjugated communities and tear away their hope. Their children could always be taken; their communities could always be crushed, even without the use of physical force. It's a very effective tool to oppress a group of people.

(There's actually a lot of similarities between Academy children and Janissaries beside the separation of children from their families. They were also paid for their service and were high ranking; the Academy students are given an allowance and many of them, despite being stolen from their families, have a sense of superiority over non-Alices. They feel like they are treasures, and are of higher value and rank. Additionally, Academy students, especially in the DA class, are highly trained and efficient child soldiers, much like the Janissaries. Janissaries are actually a super interesting historical topic and are worth looking into!)

We can even see the effect of this distance when Yuka escapes the Academy and runs away to her family. Yuka was essentially sold to the Academy, with her parents trading her in exchange for money and status. She was very young, far too young to really understand that her parents had abandoned her. As a result, she romanticized her bond with them, and the longer she was separated from them, the more that bond became fantastical. She made many attempts to escape the school to reunite with her parents and she fantasized about seeing them again. When she finally is able to, it's nothing like she imagined. They're cold, and unfamiliar. They don't recognize her. She doesn't know her brothers. They're related, but there's no real connection.

"I shouldn't have come here."

Yuka's is an extreme example, but I'm sure she's not an exception. For most Academy students, the almost 20 years of separation from their parents would be too much to ignore. They would not recognize each other, or be close. I'm sure many parents did not sell their children like Yuka's family did, but the bond between child and family had not been nurtured the way it should have been, resulting in coldness and distance.

Because of that, I doubt most students even bother seeking their families out, or even if they do, it's to visit a few times before starting a new life with a career. That familial bond, now broken, is difficult to repair. The connections people often feel with their families or hometowns is something Academy students instead feel with each other. They are all Alices, all in the same boat together. That feeling of superiority that many kids feel means they view each other as on the same level, and I'm sure that could interfere with family connection as well.

Thus, I don't think there's many multigenerational Alice families out there with close bonds. I don't think families like Natsume's have strong ties with grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. Even the sibling bonds at the Academy are stunted, with the Imai and Shouda siblings being the prime examples of that.

The Imai siblings have a significant age difference, yes, but additionally the Imai parents had a very different approach to Hotaru after seeing what happened with Subaru. They refused to hand her over as easily, wanting to show her important things in life and build happy memories for as long as they could. Even when Hotaru does enter the school, it's more than six months before she even comes across her brother, since the high school and elementary school are not integrated with each other and they do not belong to the same ability class. Similarly, the Shouda siblings are in different ability classes but they have a much smaller age gap. Despite this, Sumire refers to her brother very respectfully, indicating that there isn't a particular closeness.

The Imais fight against this divide, and put in genuine effort into rebuilding their relationship, but it's a difficult process, and one they struggle to admit to for a long time and for various reasons. Familial closeness is not encouraged, not even within the Academy.

(Though Natsume's bond with Aoi is exploited and the school does rely on him caring for her to take advantage of him, but ultimately he is kept from seeing her. Thus, that bond is also severed despite being exploited.)

Additionally, it would make sense to me if many Alice graduates decided to, upon having children, avoid scouting, like Natsume's parents did, and thus ended up moving around a lot to escape Academy notice. Moving around like that and laying low means that you're not going to be hosting huge family reunions or inviting relatives over often, even if all the other points were moot.

Finally, I think all this creates further obstacles for Yuka's wish to "have a family." At some point she says that, for normal people, the desire to settle down with someone and start a family is a pretty modest goal, but for Alices it's almost impossible. Escaping from the school, or even graduating, is a struggle. And you can have a kid, but it's likely that child will be taken from you, just as you were taken, and by the time the child graduates, they will have no connection with you. Wanting to be a potential grandparent, for example, might seem like a definite impossibility, since being a real parent is impossible.

It's even more proof that the Academy exists as an institution to subjugate and undermine Alices, as children and then as parents. Ultimately, an Alice never has control, not as a child and not even as an adult. The pain doesn't end once you've graduated; in fact, it never does.

[milomumbles]

Thoughts on people cosplay your persona (like you pfp)?

will not lie i havent really seen this but id ask you to not please lol. my icon is not a "persona" it is literally just me and as much as i appreciate that you like my content enough to want to do that i just cant really handle that kind of stuff.

kinda on topic; ive wanted to address this too but i havent known how to bc i dont want to step on any toes but if you like... kin me or something? please keep that to urself. i cannot explain the feeling esp when you already deal w identity issues and derealization to see someone acting out some kind of idea of you that theyve crafted and are now actively "being". plz just keep it out of my sight thank u