#including us

[platonicfrendswithsocrates]

[chaoticdelinqueerwithglitter]

I don't think I will ever be able of doing a proper coment on today's episode, so... Here we go, some images and a lot of crying 😭😭

Paradise lost

(like our happiness after watching this)

MANGA SPOILERS!

S62 reacting... I feel you, I knew it was coming but I wasn't less horrified 🥲 (the found family would be orphan since now on)

This moment... Izana's va nailed (all of them in general), his sad voice when he was calling at his "mom". He sounded like a broken kid 🙃

(I didn't pictured that broken voice reading the manga so this was a lot for me)

I loved how they kept showing us that Kakucho was always there. This scene wqs also devastating (Shin looks like a lost cat)

"I'm beyond saving... Right, Emma?" (No, you aren't Izana, I swear you are going to be save! 😭)

His last words never fail to make me ugly sobbing, yey 🥺

Their smiles broke me in thousand more pieces. "Our era". "You're the only one I have." "I'll follow you soon" (no you will not, you will just be depressed until you can die on a war)

Look how happy and cute. Can they still like this forever, please?

This scene was so bittersweet 😖

This parallel was even more painful animated... Beautiful, but painful.

Ran proving to us that they actually cared about Izana. That Izana wasn't alone, they were friends. They were family 😭

This was it, because I refuse to put images of Kisaki next to this. This about the death of a kingz sorry not sorry 😔

Also, where do you all think is going to be the end of the season? I'm absolutely biased because I want at least a few seconds of Bonten, but at the same time... If they don't show us Bonten the season is going to end in a hopeful way! I don't believe liden films would do it like this, they were going for the pain all season 🤔

My bet is that we will have the "Where is Mikey?" and a few seconds of Bonten (THAT scene with the traitors would be gold and a good way of showing to anime onlys shit is still going down! But yeah, completly biased bc I need pink hair Sanzu 🙈) But at least I think we will see Bonten Mikey. Maybe just a few seconds, but he would be there for putting the last nails in our coffin 😣 (it's gonna be so painful even if we have a sneakpeak of all Bonten... No one is happy there, have you seen them? 🤦🏻)

My brain is just a mix of pain and shock, so this is all for today. We can keep coping together, yey!

[sheikahwarriork]

fire emblem rotted my brain in many ways but lately the most concerning one is when i play baldur's gate 3 and i see someone disapproved my decision/reply my first thought is "i need to have tea with them to make up for the lost support points"

[you-can-certainly-try]

*minor villain during an interrogation describes every member of the household, including a tressym*

Cleric: What’s a tressym?

Wizard: It’s like a cat with wings.

Cleric: *face lights ip*

Rogue: We are not keeping it.

Cleric: What does it eat?

Villain:….beg pardon?

Cleric: WHAT DOES IT EAT??

Villain: *squeak* I don’t know! Meat??

Rogue and Paladin: We are not keeping the cat!

Cleric: *already pulling out rations*

[chewchuck]

dungeon meshi // abbey - mitski

[gendernewtral]

gilbert baker designed his flag with the express purpose of it including every single queer person. baker was so dedicated to making sure his flag was inclusive that he added another stripe in 2017, lavender, to represent diversity. the concept that it’s for white gay men came around later and needs to be changed.

can we please go back to associating the original flag, and ideally the modern rainbow flag, with inherent inclusion of every single queer person? instead of deciding that the original wasn’t good enough? personalized flags are important for representing those who have typically been excluded from the queer community, but reclaiming the original flag as a symbol of inclusion is important too.

[renthony]

Your personal triggers and squicks do not get to determine what kind of art other people make.

People make shit. It's what we do. We make shit to explore, to inspire, to explain, to understand, but also to cope, to process, to educate, to warn, to go, "hey, wouldn't that be fucked up? Wild, right?"

Yes, sure, there are things that should be handled with care if they are used at all. But plenty more things are subjective. Some things are just not going to be to your tastes. So go find something that is to your tastes and stop worrying so much about what other people are doing and trying to dictate universal moral precepts about art based on your personal triggers and squicks.

I find possession stories super fucking triggering if I encounter them without warning, especially if they function as a sexual abuse metaphor. I'm not over here campaigning for every horror artist to stop writing possession stories because they make me feel shaky and dissociated. I just check Does The Dog Die before watching certain genres, and I have my husband or roommate preview anything I think might upset me so they can give me more detail. And if I genuinely don't think I can't handle it, I don't watch it. It's that simple.

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

I remember discussing Tintin casting choices with a friend from Germany and remarked how it was odd he often has an English accent in adaptations rather than a Belgian one, and my friend just replied "that's because Tintin gives incredibly strong English boy energy (derogatory)"

Here in the UK there's a lot of weird classism tied into accents. Today accent diversity and representation in broadcasting is actively pursued but in Tintin's time there certainly was a preferred accent to have.

imagine this exchange happens between pages 28-29 in The Crab with the Golden Claws

[madohomurat]

trans women are everywhere and are so eager to be seen and heard but only if they feel safe around you. if you hardly ever have trans women interacting with you, especially online, then consider there might be a reason for that and you should address it

[inkskinned]

probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.

[cat-in-a-mech-suit]

“If men had periods/got pregnant, the world would be so different” actually nothing would change because they already do and the world still hates and oppresses us for it, but thanks for letting me know that you not only don’t care about our struggles, but see our bodies as divine punishment for our male identity! How progressive of you.

[soracities]

Audre Lorde, from "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism" (1981)

[freepassbound]

That's one of the most beautiful, most remarkable things, isn't it? The stubbornness, the sheer cussedness, of life. Popping up everywhere, even in the most horrific conditions - and not only happening, but persisting. Struggling for another inch, another second... saying "I will exist here as long as I possibly can, and it will take the full power of the fucking universe itself to stop me." It's truly awesome.

[hinamie]

long way home

[wu-does-art]

thinking about Nico adjusting to letting himself miss and long for the people he loves. based on these bits from the sun and the star:

" As Nico and Will followed the trogs, he thought about how much he missed Hazel. He was learning to make peace with that feeling. It was okay for him to miss people because that meant he wanted them around in his life. That idea was *very* new for him- he was used to either pushing people away or watching them recoil from his presence." *

" That was the most surreal thing of all... Was he happy? Nico wasn't very familiar with the sensation, but he couldn't deny that he felt wonderful in Will's presence. He even longed for the son of Apollo when they were apart. A funny thing had happened as the two grew closer: Nico suddenly understood all those cheesy, sappy love songs he'd always hated."

[trans-axolotl]

nothing makes me more insane than the phrase "selling your body" btw. like was i not also selling my body at every other job i've had where i had to be on my feet all day, lifting boxes, working in a warehouse, etc. why is it that sex work is uniquely labeled as "selling your body" while every other job is sorted into another category, no matter how much that job might have a physical impact on your body. lmao.