#lost to be precise

[rudimentaryflair]

It's so interesting to me that the Blue Lock fandom is more likely to characterize Nagi as being possessive/protective and the type of person to snap in anger, when Reo has been shown to embody these traits in canon. Meanwhile Nagi was so okay with leaving Reo alone and trusting him to forge his own path that he completely failed to communicate this and inadvertently destroyed their friendship during Second Selection as a result

[ywpd-translations]

Ride 814: Naruko, run away!!

Pag 1

1: Beppu city, in the Oita Prefecture, a town located inside of a large bay on the east coast of Kyuushu, surrounded on three sides by mountains

2: Known for hot-springs and sight-seeing areas, it's always been visited by a lot of people since old times

The old springs boasts the largest amount annual volume of water in Japan, and it's one of the highest in the world

3: Hot-springs gush out all over the city

4: The “Hell Tour” around the spring ponds is also famous

5: You can enjoy the magnificent mountain scenery, the volcanoes, the seafood, and a panoramic view of the city from the Tsurumi peak at 1375m of altitude

Pag 2

1: Beppu Port, the opening to the sea, connects to Kansai's and Shikoku's main ports and it's an important route for logistics and tourism

2: Started in Kyuushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, the race went south

3: passed the sprint line and the mountain line, then turned towards the Beppu Ferry Terminal and the Minato Parking lot

4: This is where this year's Inter High's

Pag 3

1: first day finish line is

Pag 4

2: Alright, we're in front of the finish line!!

3: On!!

We're in time!!

4: There's the final gate!!

I see it, on!!

Run!!

Yes!

Ye-yes!!

Pag 5

1: Really, when we had to stop at traffic lights twice on the way I thought we wouldn't make it

Ooon!!

2: Rokudaii!!

3: Kaburagi... Danchiku...!!

4: Miki, what's the situation!?

5: The race entered the coastal highway already!!

6: Naruko-kun is running away alone!!

Kyoto is following with two people

Imaizumi-kun is waiting in the group behind!!

There are

Pag 6

1: 3.5km left!!

3: 3500m left!!

Pag 7

1: They're coming!!

There's only one person in the lead!!

Amazing!

He's running away alone!!

It's Sohoku!!

2: So red!

That guy's incredible!

He stands out so much!!

3: Have I shocked, Hakogaku-san!? Didi you attack, Midosuji!?

4: Since I was running in front of Hotshot until I jumped ahead at the 5km mark, they thought I was the assist!!

Pag 8

1: And because of the situation you were expecting, your decision was several seconds too late!!

Those seconds turn into a wide distance in road racing!!

2: The strategy of not deciding an ace sounds good, but should set just one rule?

3: We'll carefully listen to each other's strategy, and if one of us agrees with the other he'll help

Yeah, I'll do my best. If we agree

4: You'll help me so much!!

I don't really trust you

… you think I do?

Oi

5: Alright, I have one thing too

It's trivial, but everything needs a name

6: A name?

8: We won't choose during the race, but

Pag 9

1: That day, whoever passes the finish line first is the “ace”!!

3: Kakaka, nice, let's do it!! Good!!

4: That was interesting, Hotshot

5: If I keep going like this I'll be the one who'll take it!! And with a large difference!!

In road racing...

Pag 10

1: There are two ways to win flashily!!

The “top goal” at the head of a pack of sprinter

2: And another one, is when a single person attacks and jumps ahead alone when no one expects it

3: and he runs away

4: and runs away and shakes off those behind him who are desperately chasing

5: And takes the finish line alone

It's the “escape goal”!!

6: This will be the most exciting thing for the audience today!! I!!

7: Will be at the Inter High's big stage!!

Pag 11

1: I......

2: seeee....

3: youuuuu

Pag 12

1: Naaruukooo!!

Pag 13

2: I saw you!!

3: As expected.... that presence earlier, it was you, Midosuji!!

4: Kakaka so you chased me?

But that's fine, I just won't let you catch up

Let's do it!!

5: You'll come with me to the finish line!!

That way

6: the audience will be even more excited!!

Pag 14

1: Ru-

2: shaaaaaa

Pag 15

1: Waaa what an incredible speed!

The pack is chasing the three people ahead!!

Waaa incredible!

They're so close!

2: The Hakogaku in the lead has a face like a demon!!

3: Huh, “demon”, you said- now that you mention it, two years ago in this race there was the “Straight-line Demon”

Idiot, don't you know it!?

Huh

4: That demon is his little brother!!

Pag 16

2: Shinkai Yuuto!! He's fast!!

3: He's fast, yon!!

Ah, this is road racing's top speed

Mountain bikes are fast on downhills, but this- woah!!

4: This is another kind of risk!!

5: It's amazing, this impetus!!

Pag 17

1: I'm shaking!!

Sorry, Sonomoto-chan, but I'm going ahead!!

2: With this acceleration of Yuuto

3: many people fell behind!!

Pag 18

1: I was left behind....

What's with that acceleration

You can have that acceleration on paved roads....?

2: I'm sorry.... Higashimura-san....

My.... legs.... can't...

3: I had underestimated road racing a little....

4: Please..... Higashimura-san...

Pag 19

1: Ninoshima!!

You entrusted Hiroshima's fate to me!!

2: The ones who fell behind now are Gunma, Ninoshima, and one more person....

3: It's this acceleration.... clinging to them was hard for me too

It's understandable that they fell behind

4: The guy from the “selected team” too

Pag 20

2: 3km left until the finish line!!

[abd-illustrates]

If it is ok to ask, how much time does your art take in total, more specifically the rendering?

This is gonna sound like a very generic answer lol, but it tends to vary piece to piece!

If it helps though, I try to always show the total time that each individual part of the drawing process (sketch, ink, color) took in real-time in all of my speedpaints, so if you want to know exactly how long the rendering (/colouring) took for any piece on my channel, you should see it written in the bottom-right-corner of the video! (^^)/

[blue-bird1967]

Black out This is what it's like to be the silent ones Break down You don't even hear me when I'm screaming

some close up and another more disturbing version here

[xxplastic-cubexx]

May I offer you a hastily drawn picture to wish you a good get-through-the-week? :3

HELLO ??????? HELLO hot gluing this to my eyes IMMEDIATELY thank you so much i feel myself becoming stronger already

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

I wish that it was seen as more socially acceptable to ask for clarification in communication

Neurodivergent_lou

[saints-who-never-existed]

It's just hit me all over again that it's Crozier who is the very first and one of the only people we see on screen actually touch Little with any kind of positive intent.

That fleeting wee pat on the arm that ends their very first interaction in Episode One.

The idea of Little expressing comfort through physical touch but seldom, if ever, receiving it in that way in return is - as we all know - enough to drive me wild.

But the idea of someone - specifically Crozier - understanding that about him? Noting the way he expresses himself and reciprocating in kind? Well, that's something else entirely and I'll never be over it...

[momochimchim]

Bloodysun everybody.... Angsty and toxic bloodysun........ Also Soul Eater Bloodmoons!! It fits them

[ruvviks]

club bodytalk's latest addition! his name is ulysses and he used to (unwillingly) work for maxtac with reid for many many years but now he's free and on a path of self discovery (figuring out he's bisexual as fuck)

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[quirinah]

eclipse

[mc-critical]

1.06 / 2.09 (33)

[dairine-bonnet]

On the Leviathan:

Darth Malak to amnesiac Revan: Don't you dare look at me as if you don't remember anything about me!

[bulletbilltime]

Girl before vs after making a pact with an eldritch sinkhole

First finished piece with my new tablet! Very happy with the result, and I'm getting used to it surprisingly quickly 😊

[crow-talks-hockey]

well this was objectively the funniest ending to the night and i'm genuinely laughing my ass off at the absurdity

[yellowocaballero]

hi! i've been reading some of your older fics and was wondering if there's any merit in watching buffy for the first time in the year 2024

This may not be obvious, but this is actually an extremely complicated and highly subjective question. I'll try to go on for too long.

As background: my mother loved Buffy and its spin-off Angel growing up. It was our Bible (besides the actual Bible). Not kidding, she was on the forums and fan groups and wrote fanfiction for it and everything (These days, she's really into kdramas and Asian dramas, and calls me about how the Thai seem like big fans of gay people). So I'm quite biased.

BTVS is both a product of its times and ahead of its times. It was a show about feminism and the struggle of living in this world as a woman, when very few shows were doing that. It was the first show to have a long-lasting lesbian couple, and the first show to depict a kiss between them. For better or for worse, it was one of the codifiers of broody vampire boyfriend. It was pretty unafraid to be experimental in a lot of what it did. It had incredibly complex and nuanced character work and growth that I still aspire to. Spike's arc is still matched in quality only by Avatar's Zuko. Angel's long term arc, from Buffy to his spin-off series, still makes him one of the most complex characters on TV. It had the most complex depiction of depression on TV at the time and I still think it's one of the best. I think the show had very high highs.

It also had very low lows. Some of the feminism is problematic in retrospect. The sapphic couple has a rather famous element that was severely problematic. There are, overall, some deeply atrocious arcs that I can appreciate objectively but not in practice. Xander: a whole-ass character aged awfully. On a meta level, the workplace conditions were bad (thanks, Whedon.) There are no people of color. The spoiler's sake I won't go into detail on this, but in general the good stuff was so influential and the bad stuff was just awful.

I think these days people tend to brush off the entire thing because it's Whedon. That is more than fair. But I'd also say that Whedon & Buffy is extremely similar to Brian Michael Bendis & Ultimate Spider-Man. Bendis was fantastic at writing sassy, bouncy, permanently stressed-out teens - issue was, he wrote entirely different serious adult characters the way he wrote these sassy teens. Same with Whedon: the annoyingly constant quips are perfect for Buffy, because that's who the characters are. They're awful in Marvel, because Steve Rogers is not Xander. Kinda similarly, Buffy was genuinely feminist for 90s TV - issue is, Whedon has not grown or developed his views, and now his works feel so sexist (oh my fucking god why did you treat Natasha like that). After a certain point it's egotistical: you're writing like that because you're Joss Whedon and it's how you write, not because it's what's best for the characters and story. But it was really important to me to get the character voices right, and it's freaking difficult to endlessly write dialogue that distinct, full of voice, witty, and clever.

I think BTVS & Angel TV's greatest influence on my writing is how intensely character-driven both of those shows were, and how intricate the characters were. What every character did was something they would do, if that made sense. Even the stuff I hated to watch, that made me uncomfortable, was the culmination of so much (usually). I think I also picked up the constant wit and humor lol. On a personal level, the conversations I would have with my mother where she broke down the character motivations and composition of the story was my first exposure to looking at storytelling from an analytical perspective and a framework of critical analysis, which was an approach I carried into the rest of the media I consumed and that was the primary reason I was able to become a decent writer. Thanks, Mom. Have fun with your kdramas.

TL:DR: There is merit, especially if you care about good character work. There are things about it that may make you want to drop it, which is extremely valid. Season 1 is rough but interesting, Season 2 and 5 are the best, Season 3 is pretty good, Season 4 and 7 skippable, and Season 6 is........epic highs, epic lows......

[lost-inanotherlife]

Okay, if you had to pick a moment where you think Jack and Kate first had a realization of “oh shit, I’m in love with this person…” which one would it be?

Uhm I'm generally never good at picking this kind of moments but, on a guess, I'd say that Jack realized he was in love with Kate when she kissed him. I think part of the reason why he changes the way he acts around her after the kiss is because of this realization. Specifically, in Jack's case, the realization comes with the acknowledgement that he has sexual desires for her in the sense that I don't really think that Jack enjoys that sphere (aka sex) unless it's shared with someone that he really really likes and really really feels comfortable with. So when he realizes he wants more than a kiss it's also the moment he realizes that he wants more because he's in love with that person.

Kate understands the sexual aspect of their relationship well before Jack because she clearly flirts with him for two and a half season and doesn't really get anything back because Jack doesn't actually "get" flirting. But I think that the depth of it all only hits her in "I Do" when she realizes, in horror, that she can't leave without Jack, i.e. that the one thing she always does on an instinctual level becomes impossible because her instinct has now changed and tells her to stay with Jack. It's very beautiful but it's also a dreadful thing to realize that a person has changed you so much you can't go back to your old self...