#it’s pomegranate juice

[amadeusposting]

OC DRAWING ALERT

I love drawing evil women <3

She doesn’t have a name yet (but I like Cora). I’m thinking about making her a part of the main cast of “Maroon Stained Thread” :]

[beatrixblog]

I did the annoying pigeon meme..but with cookies….aaaaa

[daz4i]

hsr as @screenshotsofdespair ✨ hope everyone's having a good and enriching day 🫡

[canisalbus]

For some reason I had a dream last night where you were paid by some juice company to do art for the labels. There was a matching machete and vasco ones, so I bought one of each... idk why this was a dream but wanted to let you know your art is loved in my subconscious <3

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[iceeericeee]

please reblog for a larger sample size

[dragonoligy1]

Proposal for the AHIT fandom: Watercolor your favorite loading screen

Or just redraw in general

[calitsnow]

[Memory]

[All Alone]

To celebrate the release of one piece red globally! Congratulations !

And also while waiting to see Uta again in the manga...

[fruitblr]

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia "The Gang Goes to Hell"

[skitskatdacat63]

2010 Bahrain Grand Prix - Fernando Alonso

[sorathecookie]

List of Cookies who deserve a Magic Candy

-Milky Way Cookie

-Black Lemonade Cookie

-Creme Brulee Cookie

-Linzer Cookie

-Pomegranate Cookie

-Macaron Cookie

-Poison Mushroom Cookie

-Prune Juice Cookie

-Eclair Cookie

-Matcha Cookie

-Butter Roll Cookie

[doki-doki-imagines]

"You want to go out for a walk? To relax a bit." You ask Kenshi, who nods at your proposal.

That's why you now find yourself walking through the forest of Wu Shi Academy on your free day. The orange uniforms left at home replaced by your more comfortable clothes.

You feel at ease with Kenshi, a sense of comfort you couldn't find with Liu Kang, as his god status never let you fully relax around him, nor with Raiden and Kung Lao, nice guys but with minds too concentrated on themselves, for a reason or another.

The sun shines bright in the sky, but summer will soon leave his place to autumn, and its rays aren't as powerful as the previous months. You walk ahead Kenshi, more used to these paths forgotten by men where nature is overtaking the grey path made before.

"Look! It's pomegranates." You point toward a tree to your left, big red fruits hanging from the branches.

"You want to eat one?" Kenshi asks, now next to you.

"No, I like them, but it will be a pain to get them. They are so high." You say, still looking up at them.

Kenshi looks at you, but you don't notice it, then he walks towards the tree and you finally see him now climbing the plant.

"Wait, Kenshi! You'll get dirty." You shout at him, but it is too late, the black-haired guy already plucked the fruit from the tree and jumped on the ground.

"Let's sit down there." He tells you, head nods toward the staircase at the end of the abandoned path, pink flowers at the side and between the cement.

"Okay, but look! Now you are all dirty. I'm so s-"

"I don't mind it." Kenshi tells you, brushing away your hands that were trying to clean the dust and dirt from his sky-blue shirt. "I'll wash it when we go back to the temple."

You sit next to him, not too near, not too far; a comfortable space where you hope Kenshi finds ease too. Your eyes land on his hands, tattoos, a bit faded by time, color his hands, his thumb digging into the apex of the fruit, fingers strong enough to break the thick red skin of the pomegranate.

Kenshi winces when the red sticky juice covers his hand, for a moment you guess ugly memories of his past may have resurfaced, but then you finally understand, thanks to an event of a few days before.

----

"Come on Kenshi! Peel the orange yourself if you want it so much." Johnny whines, before peeling the fruit anyway, giving the black-haired guy a slice of it. "I hate to get my hands dirty. Even more, if they also get sticky."

Johnny blabbers about being "sure you don't always mind having your hands sticky" but your attention gets caught by something else and you didn't listen to them.

----

"Here, take some." Kenshi says, voice low and calm. "Thank you." You reply, right hand forming a cup to take some of the seeds. "I'm sorry for not breaking the fruit. At least I would have been useful." You chuckle, eyes now low on the ground under your feet.

"I don't mind." Kenshi replies, spitting the white seed on the ground, head turned not to show you the gesture.

You know he minds, you can even see it by the twitch of his fingers, desperately trying to brush off the sticky juice.

But for you he doesn't. The urge to tap your feet like a happy kid is intense, but you keep yourself together, enjoying once again the sound of nature.

This time sitting slightly closer to him.

[academic-vampire]

I’m so glad that blood looks similar to pomegranate juice. Whenever someone asks what I’m drinking, I have a good cover story.

[morethansalad]

Mocktail Vegan Jus d’Orange & Grenade / Vegan Orange Juice & Pomegranate Mocktail

[lovesitcomsandgaystuffs]

Takahashi and the symbolism of pomegranates

In chapter 103 Akira is strongly linked to pomegranates so I wanted to talk about the symbolism of them.

Pomegranates are very paradoxical and dualistic fruits in terms of their meaning and symbolism.

Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism all turned the pomegranate into a symbol of mediation between life and death.

They have also been renowned throughout history for representing the medical field, fertility, and success. It makes perfect sense that Akira's character is depicted with pomegranates.

Now this is the most interesting part for me.

In chapter 103 we see him cutting and eating a pomegranate in a very creepy way, clearly the pomegranates are not what he really wants to cut and examine but are a replacement.

Even Kurai is afraid of what his brother might do (rightly so).

Which brings us to the story of why Takahashi became a doctor.

He himself admits that if he had not become a doctor on someone's advice he would probably be a serial killer by now.

So just like the legend between Hariti and Budha where he teaches her to sublimate her forbidden desires with pomegranate s, thus turning her from a devourer of children to a protector of children, the person who told Takahashi to become a doctor (Haru probably lmao) to satisfy his need to know (because what Takahashi wants is to know, to know what they all are made of, how they work, what they are like inside, whether that ends up hurting them is a side effect not the goal) by becoming a doctor and helping people/youkais instead of hurting them has turned him from a potential killer to someone who saves lives.