#impossible assignments

[madhels-enby-boyfriend]

If I have to read one more academic article I may just drink bleach and be done with it… forcing students to write research papers should be classified as torture. This is inhumane.

[mommyclaws]

Darkstripe is real

[taruruchi]

The similarity is uncanny... Fairy godmother being Azul's grandma is starting to look more and more canon /j

And what if I say I had a secret fem azul ver I mean what. Who said that

Anyway, non-sparkle ver is utc! (Coincidentally, Sparkle from Your Name just started playing)

I bet you didn't expect to see the ver I made last year. But yeah bro when I colored I made them look like ghosts idk 😭😭 The glow up goes crazy, all in the span of 11 months (tbf to past me, I was also lazy and speed ran it)

Taglist: @solxima @angelwishess @scint1llat3 @distant-velleity @twtysevapr @cynthinesia @h0neybane @viperbunnies @linabirb @thehollowwriter @wafflethewitchboy @siphoklansan @jewelulu @skibidibabygirl @gimmeurmoneyagh (ask me if you wanna be added/removed!) Sorry I know y'all probably weren't expecting to be tagged for. whatever this is 😭😭😭

[windienine]

everyone has to be a little less mean to themselves about not reading enough books. letting go of reading as a pride thing is the first step to relearning how to actually enjoy reading for pleasure again. it's totally fine to start with a novella or with a comic or with a field guide or with literature meant for someone younger instead of being mad at yourself for not grokking ulysses in a week. just vary your diet and you'll be good.

i'm a literature scholar, i'm the one who has to be strict with myself about page counts and citations. you all? do what you want, just read and have fun.

[tubbytarchia]

If Gem and Pearl had a lovechild it would be Utena

[meep-meep-richie]

they already approved with Benthan endgame

[sad-leon]

Leo is incredibly excited to be in a comptetion!!! (He thinks he will be fighting, he is going to be incredibly disappointed)

Gali, though, is not a fan of Leo making the dress up in Victorian dresses. She misses her simple outfit and absolutely is changing out of this as soon as she can... and also as soon as she can find Leo

@tmntaucompetition

[nanami-is-nanamean]

Bwehhh...

I need nanami to have piercings so bAAAAADDDD, AEUGHHHHH

God, i can just see him with nipple piercings-- like barbells that he can occasionally swap out for rings and like--aUGH i just googled types of nipple piercings and DUUUUUUDE nipple shield piercings on him would look SO PRETRY IM GONNA START CRYING LIKE-- theres just a small ring of 6 sapphires around and shielding his nipples from gojos fingers-- im DEAD. I can just see gojo being so obsessed with a physical (kind of) permanent claim on nanami on hjs body hfjshcsjfj

And like--not just that, FUCK a tongue piercing would ve so hot as wellllllll HHHHHHH-- i can just see him playing with and teasing gojo with it when they make out or when he blows him or when they generally just exist near each other

I can see ear piercings being his first ones though--like the typical earlobe piercing everyone has at first, and then slowly increasing the amnt of that and then going into the rest of his ear. I can so CLEARLY imagine gojo playing with the studs and rings whenever he leans in close to kiss or to whisper something to him fhskfjdkg

brow piercings as well—JKNFJKNGAS he deffo wouldve had to remove them when he got hired for a job but GOD imagine college nanami with his face full of metal, glare sharper than glass, and strength hidden in those lanky limbs UGH. i bet he was that colleges underrated hearthrob, i SWEAR

but like, when he gets back to jujutsu and gets back all his old piercings?? gojo is deffo gonna try to kiss each and every one of them—also pulling some jokes abt his "emo kouhai finally getting his final form" LMAO

speaking of kisses... i read this nanago fest entry where nanami has DICK PIERCINGS and im. i. i was gagged. much like gojo in said fic JKNFGJKLsN—i can only IMAGINE, with said fics help, how gojo would absolutely SWOON or get so intimidated (horny) by it LIKE—depending on the type of dick piercing as well, its gonna be INTIMIDATING FR. tip only, fucking ribbed, both, other types that i cant think of rn, KLJFNdLGHKsjN—the two will be a VERY happy couple

[gayforgod]

guess who just wrote their final essay on 911 and buddie

[camelspit]

Are there going to be portraits made for the Best Keeper Character competition this year or not I haven't seen any posts made about it yet. :]

yes!

the signups will start on june 24 and go till the 30, and the current plan is for yall to have until august to do them o7

[desi-yearning]

Nothing I hate more than getting out of bed

[itwoodbeprefect]

bisexuality and maybe even polyamory win: the automated thai > english translation has no clue what to do with this gender neutral thai word, so it translates two lines from the same singer to mean that he wants a boyfriend in one sentence and a girlfriend in the immediate next

[hongluboobs]

hey don, nice void dream ego gift you got there

update!! she has fragment of the universe’s too! (little hearts next to the meat lantern lure on her chest)

i also found out the new outis id has bloodbath’s ego gift which is. concerning for several reasons

[xx-j4nu5-c4t5-xx]

i have an english assignment due in like twelve hours and still need to sleep but I think instead I should write pasnerv angst

[carnelianwings]

Since I'm not sure if I'll ever get the chance to properly touch on this in a fic because it's more character analysis than something I can properly include in dialogue/exposition without it being very awkwardly out of place and telling not showing, I figured I'd just dump it here. It's something I think about a lot whenever I write for post-Seed Destiny Athrun in a fic, because in so many ways, this is actually something of a non-magical "Ideal (Fake) Reality" situation that Durandal very nearly succeeded in pulling off, but ultimately failed at because Durandal overplayed his hand and underestimated Athrun's loyalty to his friends Kira, who was pulling triple duty opposing Athrun because Kira himself didn't agree with what Athrun was doing, protecting Cagalli, and supporting Cagalli at a time when she was powerless.

It's a trope I very much love in magical/sci-fi settings because it says a lot about the character and the lengths they'll go to get what they want (the willingness and determination to take the longer, harder path to make the dream reality vs the instant gratification option even if it's fake), and also just gives me so much to work with when I write when it comes to character motivation/dialogue/actions.

I feel like a lot of this gets missed in all the memes that he's (somewhat deservedly) suddenly a part of after Seed Freedom, because while Seed Freedom Athrun is very self-assured and confident in his course of action, he definitely took a long hard road (with more downs than ups, in my opinion) between Seed and Seed Destiny to get there.

(Rest behind the cut because there's a reason Athrun Zala is my favorite Seed character, and not just because he's got a lovely voice - thank you Ishida-san for that - and is easy on the eyes.)

When Athrun re-enlists in ZAFT and "continues" his life again as himself, he's given a choice thanks to Durandal's string-pulling: Resume the life that was planned for him by his parents and PLANT (his "destined" life, if you will), or find his way back to the life that he's chosen for himself (with Cagalli and Orb).

If he chose his "old" life, he would've had it all - the glory of being a decorated war veteran, a post as a FAITH member (resuming the role he'd previously gotten thanks to his father), a "Lacus Clyne" for his fiance, and the honor of being the pilot of the Legend (while being something of a "legend" himself). Durandal saw to it Athrun would've seamlessly resumed that life to all external appearances, even if it would've been an absolute sham behind closed doors. Athrun might be a decorated war veteran, but that came with a lot of trauma and grief - trauma from having to fight and kill at such a young age, grief at being the one to survive when those he'd called friends die around him, plus all the unresolved emotional turmoil and grief of having never been able to properly resolve things with his father and his genocidal ideals (because Patrick Zala, too, was a man who never got over his grief at losing Lenore during the Bloody Valentine Incident, and only became the way he did because of that). He might've had a highly coveted position within FAITH, but that power would ultimately be in service to Durandal (a head of state Athrun alternates between wanting to agree with and being directly at odds against). Durandal needed more capable "Yes men" ace pilots like Shinn Asuka to spread and enforce his plans, not people capable of thinking for themselves like Athrun (at least, Athrun got there after Operation Angel Down). The "Lacus Clyne", is, of course, Meer under the best cosmetic surgery money could buy, but she is nothing like Lacus Athrun knows and cares for as a friend and whose cause he had once lent his power to (and would again at the end of the Second War).

And the Legend? It might fit Athrun in name only (in the sense that he's the "legendary pilot who helped end the first Earth-PLANT War) but the entire suit (even if it had an updated OS for the DRAGOON system) doesn't even play to Athrun's core strengths as a pilot. It's almost comedic how Durandal didn't even bother tailoring the Legend to Athrun - the Saviour is more Athrun's style both as a spiritual successor to the Aegis and weapons load out, yet it's coincidental that it would end up in Athrun's hands. There's no way Durandal could've known and planned for the Saviour to go to Athrun, but Durandal arguably had that time with the Legend. In the episode where both the Destiny and Legend are revealed, Durandal made a point of telling Shinn the Destiny was fine tuned to him, but neglects to tell Athrun much about the Legend beyond the DRAGOON system and the updated OS for it (the closest Athrun arguably ever came to a DRAGOON system was flying right past Kira and Rau's duel in front of Genesis at the end of Seed).

On the flip side of that, there's the life Athrun had chosen for himself after the first Earth-PLANT War. It's not an ideal life, not by any means - the fact he's essentially a powerless civilian with no means to reach for his ultimate goal chafes him to no end, especially when there's the ever-looming threat of Cagalli getting taken away from him due to circumstances neither of them want nor are able to deal with. Cagalli can't get out of the arranged marriage, Athrun as "Alex Dino" has no claim to power and as "Athrun Zala" would only invite larger scale international problems - even if Athrun himself has no political ties to PLANT, his family name says plenty. Athrun is patient, yes, but even his patience has a limit, and seemingly losing Cagalli to someone he doesn't respect and she doesn't love (in a reversal of Athrun's situation with Lacus and Kira) pushes him to action out of desperation. And while it puts him at odds with Kira and Cagalli (including lashing out at both of them when Cagalli finally breaks down and gives in and gets coerced into going through with the arranged marriage), it does also get him to realize that he's not the same person he was before the war - he's no longer capable of living that same life he had before, where he would fight where his country tells him because that's the fastest way to end the war. The easy (destined, if you will) option is no longer an acceptable choice for him, because it's not the one that ultimately leaves him fulfilled and truly happy with the one he loves in the end.

And it's this that ultimately brings him back to Cagalli and the (Infinite) Justice, metaphorically reclaiming his sense of justice (ha ha). He's always going to be looking for a cause to serve, and a just cause by his own terms, because he's dedicated far too much of his life serving in the military to just stop doing that and he's spent too much time around Lacus to just mindlessly follow whatever the higher ups say, anymore. So this leaves the only way forward: serve under a head of state whose ideals he can agree with, with the freedom of choice to act according to his own sense of justice, and to that end, there's only one choice for him - return to Orb and Cagalli.

[raddestrose]

I’m so so SO mad, I want to watch the new Link Click but I can’t since I’m not caught up due to dang schoolwork,

But all this has got me dodging spoilers left and right like its my day job.