#immaculate truly

[nothatsmi]

You are light...

I'm at the chimera ant arc and every episode my heart crushes a bit more tightly. I suspect it will soon explode.

I really want to do more fanart, hope I will find the time (I wanna draw Kurapika sm). I actually have several complete HxH animatics in my head that I cannot do, it's frustrating af (literally the only free time I have I spend it watching this shit, i'm doomed).

Anyway this anime has occupied my entire brain lately. Or maybe 80%, the 20 other being a random book I'm reading (that I will soon do fanart of hopefully).

[logicalbookthief]

The daytime television?? While folding the laundry on the floor in the living room?? Congrats on making this man a mother

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

saw @chez-cinnamon's absolutely BANGER butterfly!Howdy design and couldn't resist! two fluffy flutterbyes <3 solidarity

[thesherrinfordfacility]

HANG ON-

[ghoulgeists]

she's doing the wenis

[bellamysgriffin]

ULTIMATE SHIPS CHALLENGE - Kisses [8/10] ↳ I'm sorry about before. Before before? When I did that thing in the hallway. It's fine. Totally okay.

[fandom-geek]

so i finally read scum villain yesterday. got to say, i came away with one take-away:

scum villain is still a harem story, but shen qingqiu is too fucking dumb to realise he’s got the harem now.

[b1gwings]

i don't really think about ships between the dndads characters, but discovering some of the ship names has been an absolute treat??? Rock concert for henry and glenn? Lovesong for sparrow and nicky??? a clever little name is a surefire way to get me to be insane about something. absolutely incredible.

[mangosaurus]

no thoughts head empty only ben and darius running side by side in yaz's chalk drawing

[dreamgirledward]

bts for the big group photo with the ofmd cast 💘 ✨ "one, two, three - NIPPLE!" twitter link

[pillowprincessvarric]

Definitely the first couple usages of like "you can't even order your own food" as an insult that got popular were aimed at specifically people who act like real shitheads online only because the Internet has emboldened them to behave in ways they never would irl. Like in the spirit of "come off anon and say that to me then. Yeah that's what I thought". And you know what I actually was/am fine with that! But it very quickly turned into people just being mean to/about people with anxiety symptoms. And now it's mostly just that.

[thealogie]

On the one hand DT's seemingly constant ball-having and hair-downing when it comes to choosing jobs is deeply frustrating for his far more ambitious fans. On the other, it IS a little inspirational to see someone who evades "thinking strategically" his whole life when it comes to work, yet succeeds in career terms as well, more than a lot of poor sods who do think strategically and kill fun for promising opportunities. Of course 50% of that is luck, and the other 50% is consequences resulting in him not becoming Benedict C or Andrew S (in different ways). But it lifts the spirits a bit in people who prefer fun to a career as well, and who sometimes feel guilty about it.

Couldn’t agree more with all of this. Like yeah it would be great if he did more stuff like Des and Broadchurch but at least he is always choosing fun instead of prestige (a lot of times people who chase prestige actually have worse filmographies). Gotta love him for it

[crehador]

bleach: tybw ✧ cour 2 ✧ op fashion

[mossdogs]

good episode

[empress-of-snark]

maybe I’m wrong

won’t you tell me if I’m coming on too strong?

this heart of mine has been hurt before

this time I want to be sure

[96percentdone]

It is deeply frustrating to me that it is a relatively common opinion that Amame murdering Uru was a moral good because it was "justice", and she "stopped Uru." To be clear, they're right that he needed to be stopped. His plan was evil, whether he has the sanity to parse that or not (and he demonstrably does not), but I think that's entirely beyond the point of the claims about the morality of Amame's actions. Whether or not Uru was in the wrong (he was by every possible metric) is not a worthwhile question to ask when it comes to evaluating what justice is.

First, and I cannot emphasize this enough, Amame literally didn't stop him. She just objectively didn't! Yes, he died, but the present day half of the plot plays out fucking anyway because it turns out the genocidal maniac had contingency plans to carry out his scheme! His guys do it for him! He says in his own tapes he planned for this just in case! Is that stopping him? The Nirvana Initiative gets as far as the genocide missile launching before his plan is actually ended. I cannot stress this enough; ya boi straight up almost won at KILLING EVERYONE posthumously. Sorry, but the in universe team "Amame did nothing wrong" is like suffering terminal hindsight bias, which is hilarious, because all of them were literally there when Uru almost killed everyone on the earth from beyond the grave.

Moreover, because Amame (and Gen who is helping her) spend that entire period of time trying to keep the murder a secret, she ends up actively getting in the way of stopping his plan until on the day of the initiative she finally steps forward because she can't take the pressure and the guilt any longer. She keeps critical information about the exact problem they are dealing with--like the fact that the guy they're looking for is fucking dead--a secret on purpose! Whether or not the police would have gotten anywhere faster if he lived is irrelevant; her actions for what actually happened made things worse. And there's a good reason for this! It's the same reason she is utterly ravaged by guilt for her own actions, despite how hard she tries to convince herself and the world she has no regrets: murder is always wrong, and Amame wanted revenge.

Revenge murder really isn't this incredible healing force people can hype it up to be in their heads. Amame says she went because she wanted to hear what he had to say. She wanted closure. Now of course he's severely out of his mind and everything he said in that moment pissed her off, understandable, and she'd have to wait like 100 years for him to maybe parse he was wrong, so okay, but did the revenge work? "I'm going to make you suffer the same pain..." She waits for him to be conscious when she kills him, she is explicitly out to make him hurt, but like...was it actually effective? No, lmao. The funny thing is, that first line we see of that flashback where she kills him is Uru referencing his own torture: "Yes, this world is an imperfect one. I was put through much hardship." At this point, even if he didn't tell her the details, we the players know he was held prisoner in a cell for over two decades and had his organs harvested so frequently anesthetics stopped working on him. We are being deliberately reminded of this fact so that when Amame says her classic one-liner, we'll know it was for nothing.

Revenge isn't justice. You can convince yourself that it will be satisfying, it's what he deserves, it's what you deserve to do, but what's left when it's over? What did you really gain? Amame didn't gain anything. This didn't heal her at all. She still mourns her father the same, only now she has to deal with new, worse problems of her own making. She spends the last of her free days catatonic from fear and guilt, she hates that she betrayed Shouma and Gen and her actions will force her to leave them, because she lost sight of what matters most in the name of punishment. It will never matter that Uru was wrong. Amame killed Uru for the same reasons he killed her father, and Horadori, and Jin; how could she ever be right? The fallout of her actions on her own psyche and on the world at large is the greatest proof of that.

If your definition of justice is just "we destroyed the bad guy most responsible for the problem" your definition of justice is worthless. The world is not meaningfully made better by punishing wrongdoers, but by healing the social and political ills that lead to their creation and that ravage to the victims they left behind.